Nadeshiko Japan – Women’s Soccer Team reaches the FIFA World Cup Final.  They will play against world no. 1, the USA on Sunday 17th July. (Photo by Maurizio Borsari/AFLO).

Jacques Rogge, president of the International Olympic Committee, speaks during a news conference at the Foreign Correspondents Club in Japan in Tokyo on Thursday, July 14, 2011. The IOC chief was in town to participate in the 100th anniversary celebrations of the Japanese Olympic Committee as well as in events to cheer up victims of [...]

Takashi Usami waves goodbye to Gamba Osaka fans after his last match before his transfer to Bayern Munich in Germany. (Photo by Akihiro Sugimoto/AFLO SPORT)

Women’s 4x100m Relay Final at Kobe Sports Park Stadium, Hyogo, Japan. (Photo by Jun Tsukida/AFLO SPORT).

Visitors try various types of digital devices to read e-books during the 15th e-Book Expo Tokyo 2011, the worlds largest trade show for e-book device, contents, and technology, concurrently held with Tokyo International Book Fair in Tokyo on Thursday, July 7, 2011. With exploding demand for e-books and content digitalization, Japanese book publishers and electronic [...]

Using a panel, Nobuteru Ishihara, secretary-general of the opposition Liberal Democratic Party, asks questions to Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan as the stalled Diet session resumes deliberation in the lower house in Tokyo on Wednesday, July 06, 2011. Kan said he is responsible for having appointed Ryu Matsumoto to the new ministerial post in charge [...]

Yotaro Hatamura, a professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo and an expert in the mechanism of failures, speaks during a news conference at the foreign press club in Tokyo on Monday, July 4, 2011. Hatamura chairs the Investigation and Verification Committee for the accident at Fukushima No. 1 power plant operated by the Tokyo [...]

Lights are dimmed down and a fewer electric boards is operational than usual at Tokyo Stock Exchange on Friday, July 1, 2011. The Japanese government started imposing power restrictions on companies, emporiums and other major electricity users to cope with the energy crunch following the country’s nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power [...]

July 1st, 2011, The Dinosaur Expo 2011 is held at the National Science Museum in Ueno, Japan. The main attractions of the event are showpieces of Tyrannosaurus rex and triceratops fossils, which are facing each other as if they are fighting. The exhibition will be held from July 2 to October 2, 2011. (Photos by [...]

June 29th, 2011, Tokyo, Japan – Hanako Showa 2, a robotic dental patient, shows realistic reactions and movements. It was developed by Showa University, Waseda University and Kogakuin Univeristy. They are corabolating with Japanese robot maker tmsuk. The robot is used for training dentists with her unique ability to follow verbal instructions from dentists. She [...]

Amid ongoing protest against the operations of nuclear power plants, shareholders make their way to the general meeting of Tokyo Electric Power Co. in Tokyo on Tuesday, June 28, 2011. It was the first time the operator of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant faces stockholders since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that [...]

Nissan Chief Executive Carlos Ghosn unveils the automakers latest six-year business plan, dubbed Nissan Power 88, during a news conference at its head office in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, on Monday, June 27, 2011. The plan calls for achieving an 8% operating profit margin in a bid to close the gap with rival Toyota Motor [...]