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Edward Saylor, 92, is among the five remaining men of the 79 who flew with then-Lt. Col. James H. "Jimmy" Doolittle on his historic bombing mission over Japan on April 19, 1942. (Andrew S. Geraci/The Washington Times)
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Thomas Griffin, 95, is among the five remaining men of the 79 who flew with then-Lt. Col. James H. "Jimmy" Doolittle on his historic bombing mission over Japan on April 19, 1942. (Andrew S. Geraci/The Washington Times)
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Rescue workers carry an injured person after a car went amok April 12, 2012, in the Gion district of Kyoto, Japan, which was crowded with tourists and cherry blossom viewers. More than a dozen pedestrians were injured, some critically. (Associated Press)
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Japan Self-Defense Force members work April 11, 2011, on a unit of Japan Air Self-Defense Force's PAC-3 surface to air missile deployed in Ishigaki, Japan's southern most prefecture of Okinawa. Japan is on alert for North Korea's rocket which is expected to launch between April 12-16. (Associated Press/Kyodo News)
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Patriot anti-missile batteries are set up in Okinawa, Japan, on Monday. The nation is preparing its reaction to a multistage rocket that North Korea plans to launch. (Kyodo News via Associated Press)
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Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba speaks at the sixth Trilateral Foreign Ministers Meeting, comprising Japan, China and South Korea, in the eastern Chinese city of Ningbo on Sunday, April 8, 2012. (AP Photo/Peter Parks, Pool)
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A police boat patrols near one of Japan's PAC-3 Patriot missiles, part of its ballistic-missile shield, in Okinawa this week in preparation for North Korea's rocket launch later this month. (Kyodo News via Associated Press)
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Television cameramen on April 3, 2012, film mobile Patriot missile launchers being transported to a Japan Air Self-Defense Force base from a port after arrival aboard a Japan maritime self-defense force transport ship on Miyakojima island in Okinawa Prefecture, southwestern Japan, in preparation for North Korea's rocket launch, expected to take place sometime between April 12-16. (Associated Press)
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Mobile Patriot missile launchers are unloaded off Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force's 8,900-ton transport ship Osumi on April 3, 2012, after its arrival in Miyakojima island in Okinawa Prefecture in southwestern Japan. (Associated Press/Kyodo News)
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In "Einhander," released in Japan in 1997 and North America in 1998 for PlayStation, the player must help save Earth from vicious assaults by the moon. (Photograph provided by the Smithsonian American Art Museum)
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Cate Summers of Arlington takes a break from her bike ride to read at the Tidal Basin as others stroll through and photograph the cherry blossoms, in full bloom in time for the festival celebrating the 100th anniversary of Japan's gift of the trees. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Children light candles during a memorial service for the victims of the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami, near the site of Heijo Palace in Nara, central Japan, Sunday, March 11, 2012. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
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A girl waits her turn to release a lantern into the waters of Tokyo Bay to mark the anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami which devastated northeast Japan, in Tokyo, Sunday, March 11, 2012. (AP Photo/Greg Baker)
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Three lights are projected in the evening sky during a "Light from 311 Japan" event in the earthquake and tsunami-devastated city of Kesennuma, Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, Sunday, March 11 2012. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
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People light candles in the shape of "Kizuna," which means "the inseparable bond between people", during a memorial service for the victims of the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami, near the site of Heijo Palace in Nara, central Japan, Sunday, March 11, 2012. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
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Former Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan bows to the altar during the national memorial service for the victims of the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami in Tokyo, Japan on Sunday, March 11, 2012. (AP Photo/Japan POOL)
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Pedestrians offer prayers at 2:46 p.m., the moment the magnitude-9.0 quake struck a year ago, for the disasters' victims, at Ginza district in Tokyo, Japan, on Sunday, March 11, 2012. The massive earthquake and tsunami that struck the nation a year ago, killed just over 19,000 people and unleashing the world's worst nuclear crisis in a quarter century. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
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Masayuki Horii, left, accompanied by his father, Tadashi, right, and Megumi Kumagai, center, pray for Masayuki's late wife who was killed by the March 11, 2011, tsunami, in Kesennuma, Iwate prefecture, northeastern Japan, Sunday, March 11 2012. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
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With the back drop of the 330 ton fishing vessel Kyotoku Maru No. 18 which was flung 800 meters (0.5 mile) inland from Kesennuma port by the March 11, 2011, tsunami, the Kikuta family observe a moment of silence at a site where their house once stood at 2:46 PM, the time the earthquake hit one year ago, in Kesennuma, Iwate prefecture, northeastern Japan, Sunday, March 11 2012. T (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
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Toshio Nishizawa, president of TEPCO, the operator of the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, observes a moment of silence with his workers for the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami victims at the nuclear plant in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, Sunday, March 11, 2012. (AP Photo/ (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
