England's soccer legend Bobby Charlton shows off OFC champion, Sydney FC during the tournament's official draw at a Tokyo hotel, 30 July 2005. Six...
England's club team Liverpool FC captain and midfielder Steven Gerrard hits a goal during the semi-final match against Costa Rican club team...
S new child-care robots, "PaPeRo", line up during their press preview in Tokyo, 16 March 2005. The 38.5cm-tall child-care robot developed to be...
England's Liverpool FC midfielder and captain Steven Gerrard watches heads the ball during their training session at the Todoroki stadium in...
Honda Racing F1 team drivers, Rubens Barrichello of Brazil and Jenson Button of Great Britain pose with Super Aguri F1 team drivers, Takuma Sato of...
Norweigean rally driver Petter Solberg and his co-driver Phil Mills of Great Britain power through rough terrain in their Subaru Impreza WRC 2005 in...
Japan's defender Keisuke Tsuboi and Scotland's forward Kris Boyd battle for a ball during the second half of their Kirin Cup soccer match in Saitama,...
Workers assemble Fairlady Z sports car at Nissan's Tochigi factory in Utsunomiya city, about 100 kilometres north of Tokyo, 03 December 2004....
Film director Oliver Stone smiles while chatting with Irish actor Colin Farrell during a press conference to promote their latest movie, "Alexander"...
Shih Tzu dog comes face-to-face with a spiderman-like robot dog during a performance of an art competition at the Marunouchi shopping district, named...
An airport officer rides on a moving stairway at the passenger terminal of the Central Japan International airport called "Centrair" on its official...
Canada's Dean van Camp runs to score the team's second try during their four-nation rugby union Super Cup final against Japan at Prince Chichibu...
Deborah Gravenstijin of the Netherlands sticks out her tongue to celebrate her victory over Italian Cinzia Cavazzuti during their first round women's...
An employee of Japanese toy maker Takara shows off the company's latest robot toy, "Transformer BinalTec BT-08 Mazda RX-8" during its press preview...
World Boxing Council straw weight champion Den Junlaphan of Thailand celebrates his victory against Japanese challenger Ken Nakajima in their title...
Japanese Prime Minister and ruling Liberal Democratic Party leader Junichiro Koizumi delivers a speech during his stumping tour to support...
Chinese vice Premier Wu Yi smiles while delivering her speech during the official ceremony for China's national day celebration at the 2005 Aichi...
World Boxing Association minimum-weight champion Yutaka Niida of Japan punches challenger, Heriberto Gijon of the Philippines during their title bout...
Carmelo Anthony lays up during their semi-finals match against Greece in the World Basketball Championship in Saitama, 01 September 2006. Greece...
Johnny Weir of US performs in the Men free skating in the NHK Trophy in Nagoya, 07 November 2004. Weir won the Men's singles with a total score of...
Sony's campaign girls show off the company's new PSP handheld game consoles during the Tokyo Game Show 2004 in Makuhari, some 30 kilometres west of...
Honda's passenger vehicles are loaded onto the cargo ship Celestial Wing for export at a pier of the Chiba port in Narashino city, Chiba prefecture,...
Spanish-born Hollywood actress Penelope Cruz poses for photographers with her younger sister Monica during a press preview of their creations, bags...
Nissan Motor president and CEO, Carlos Ghosn, answers a question during the company's financial result announcement at a hotel in Tokyo, 25 April...
Pakistani captain and forward Muhammad Essa fights for the ball with Japanese forward Robert Cullen during their Asian Games Round 2 Group F match at...
Kyocera Founder and Chairman Emeritus, Kazuo Inamori attends a dialogue on "The Conditions that Drive Lasting Expansion" during the 6th Nikkei Global...
China's Wang Zhizhi pushes Puerto Rico's Antonio Latimer during their Group D preliminary round match of the World Basketball Championship in...
Judoka Rhadi Ferguson carries Yhya Hasaba of Syria to throw him during their second round match of men's judo under 100kgs category at the 2004...
Colombian football Club Once Caldas' defender Jhon Edwin Garcia dribbles past FC Porto forward Derlei during their Intercontinental Cup football...
Siemens AG president and CEO Klaus Kleinfeld delivers his speech on "Setting a Course for Sustainable Development and Growth - The Linchpin of...
Model shows off Sanyo Electric's new digital camcorders, "Xacti," DMX-CG6 during their press preview at the company's Tokyo headquarters, 25...
Chinese point guard Zhang Qingpeng dribbles the ball during an official training session for the Group D preliminary round of the World Basketball...
Akira Sasaki of Japan skies down the slalom course in his first run during the 9th Men's Slalom competition at Shiga Kogen, Nagano prefecture, 10...
Toyota motors president Fujio Cho stands beside the company's barrier-free concept vehicle, "Welcab Concept" during the 38th Tokyo Motor Show 2004 in...
Helped by a Sony's engineer a schoolgirl dismantles a Sony handy comcorder during a workshop on electronics products at Sony's science museum in...
Lioubov Shashkova pushes a ball over China's Zhou Suhong during their Pool B match against China in the 2006 volleyball women's World Championships...
With a support of fishing boat, protesters stage their daily sit-in protest on an offshore steel-pipe rig erected to probe the seabed at Henoko, a...
Portable shrine is carried by local residents in the morning sunrise during the annual Hamaori 'going down to the beach', festival in Chigasaki,...
Czech President Vaclav Klaus receives an honorary degree in Doctor of Laws and Academic Hood from Waseda University's President Katsuhiko Shirai in...
Italian Grand Prix rider Loris Capirossi negotiates a curb during the second free practice session of the MotoGP class in the Japanese Grand Prix at...
Dalian Shide's midfielder Zhao Xu Ri fights for the ball with Gamba Osaka midfielder Hideo Hashimoto during their A3 Champions Cup 2006 match in...
Mexican female judoka Vanessa Martina Zambotti celebrates after beating Tsvetana Bozhilova of Bulgaria during their first round women's judo over...
Mitsuoka Motors Chairman Susumu Mitsuoka and President Akio Mitsuoka pose in a photo session with the company's latest fashonable super car,...
S Los Angeles Lakers' star shooting guard Kobe Bryant poses with junior basketball players during his basketball clinic, "Kobe81 Asia Tour Summer...
Japanese forward Naohiro Takahara celebrates after scoring the 0-2 against Germany during their friendly match in Leverkusen, 30 May 2006. Japan and...
Visiting French irst lady Bernadette Chirac purchases three of her books, "Conversation" in Japanese language at cash desk of a book store in central...
Japanese head coach Zico of Brazil instructs his players while midfielder Hidetoshi Nakata walks by during a training session in Bonn 01 June 2006...
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi chats with Japanese freestyle mogul skier Aiko Kamimura during the cherry blossom viewing party hosted by...
Year-old Miss Thailand Sunisa Pasuk presents her national costume while she and other Miss International Beauty Pageant contestants attend the Miss...
Spectators awaits for the Live 8 Japan concert in Makuhari, 02 July 2005. Japan kicked off the biggest music show on Earth, the same-day series of...
Visitors watch from the open deck the first flight taking off from the Kobe airport Marine Air in Kobe city, Hyogo prefecture, some 600 kilometre...
Japanese young girls splash cold water to purify their bodies and souls as a part of an endurance show at the Kanda shrine in central Tokyo, 16...
Japanese Prime Minister and ruling Liberal Democratic Party President Junichiro Koizumi watches confetti falling with other party officials at the...
Egyptian football club team Al Ahly forward Emad Motab dribbles past Sydney FC goalkeeper Clint Bolton to score a goal during their 5th place match...
Ferrari Formula One team driver Felipe Massa of Brazil stretches during the wet-conditioned free practice session of the Formula One Japanese Grand...
Girl recieves a pack of candy at a manned vending machine in Tokyo, 16 September 2006. J apanese candy maker Tohato and magazine publisher INFAS...
Nissan's Intelligent Transportation System warns of an approaching vehicle on its navigation system display during a test drive in its press preview...
Frederic Dambier of France performs during the men short program in the NHK Trophy in Nagoya, 06 November 2004. Dambier scored 66.85 to clinch the...
Japanese Emperor Akihito chats with Moroccan King Mohamed VI during a welcoming ceremony at the Akasaka guesthouse in Tokyo, 28 November 2005. The...
Pedestrian walks past a Gucci shop in Tokyo's Champs-Elysees, Omotesando, 15 September 2004. Gucci is going to build a whole new building for itself...