Tokyo, Japan – Japanese model Nanao appears at a press conference for the film “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” at Tokyo International Forum on January 30, 2012. The film will be released from February 10th in Japan. (Photo by Yumeto Yamazaki/AFLO) Tokyo, Japan – Actress Rooney Mara attends the Japan premiere for the film [...]

(Click on the image above to view the full gallery) February 3, 2012, Tokyo, Japan – Fumio Otsubo, President of Panasonic Corporation speaks during a press conference at its head office in downtown Tokyo. Panasonic expects its worst-ever net loss of 780 billion yen (approximately $10.2 billion US dollars) compared to the previous forecast of [...]

(Click on the image above to view the full gallery) Tokyo, Japan – Models show Docomo’s new smartphone F-08D and P-05D during a news conference in Tokyo, February 1, 2012. NTT Docomo and Walt Disney have jointly announces they will introduce new smartphone the ‘Disney Mobile on docomo’. The smartphone offers exclusive benefits, services and [...]

Tokyo, Japan – (L to R) Sara Takanashi (JPN), Sumire Kikuchi (JPN), JOC President Tsunekazu Takeda, Hirofumi Hirano Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology during a visit to the Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Ministry after returning Innsbruck 2012 Winter Youth Olympic Games, January 24, 2011 (Photo by Jun Tsukida/AFLO SPORT) Tokyo, [...]

(Click on the image above to view the full gallery) January 25, 2012, Tokyo, Japan – Foreign tourists are seen in Akihabara, the world-renown wholesale district of electric and electronics appliances, on Wednesday, January 25, 2012. Tourism has picked up in the latter half of 2011 despite the dramatic drop Japan saw after the unprecedented [...]

(Click on the image above to view the full gallery) (Click on the image above to view the full gallery) Tokyo, Japan – Katsuyuki Haranaka, left, and Akira Banzai, heads of Japan’s two major organizations opposing the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement, voice their concerns during a news conference at Tokyo’s Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan [...]

(Click on the image above to view the full gallery) (Click on the image above to view the full gallery) Tokyo, Japan – Emperor Akihito formally declares the opening of the ordinary session of Japan’s parliament in its upper chamber in Tokyo on Tuesday, January 24, 2012. The 150-day regular session kicked off with Prime [...]

(Click on the image above to view the full gallery) Tokorozawa, Japan – Residents walk their dogs in a snow-covered park in Tokorozawa, Tokyo’s western bedtown suburb, on Tuesday, January 24, 2012. Snow fell in the Metropolitan Tokyo area from Monday night through early Tuesday morning, causing disruption of transportation services and people to slip [...]

(Click on the image above to view the full gallery) Tokyo, Japan – Tatsuo Hirano, Japan’s state minister for Reconstruction in response to the Great East Japan Earthquake, talks to foreign media during a news conference at Tokyo’s Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan on January 19, 2012. Hirano will head the new government agency that [...]

(Click on the image above to view the full gallery) Tokyo, Japan – President Shuichi Takayama of scandal-tinted Olympus bows deeply at the end of a news conference on January 18, 2012. Takayama told the news conference that the current leadership, including Takayama himself, would remain in office for another three months as the camera [...]

Tokyo, Japan – A group of Japanese men wearing only head bands and loincloths pray for good health in a traditional ice-water bath to celebrate the New Year at a Shinto shrine in downtown Tokyo, January 8, 2012. It is an occasion to prove one’s manhood by enduring frigid temperatures in the freezing ice water. [...]

(Click on the image above to view the full gallery) January 8, 2012, Tokyo, Japan – Japanese National Team Members: (L to R) Masashi Eriguchi (JPN), Saori Yoshida (JPN), Kohei Uchimura (JPN), Yukari Kinga (JPN), Naoki Tsukahara (JPN), Satoko Urata (JPN) pose for photographers during a press conference for the 30th Olympic Summer Games London [...]