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ASSOCIATED PRESS Joseph Calleja, performing as Egardo during a dress rehearsal of Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor" this year, and Anna Netrebko decided just days before a scheduled Metropolitan Opera tour of Japan that they would not make the trip, citing safety concerns.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Soprano Anna Netrebko, who said she had friends who died of cancer after the Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster in 1986, has dropped out of the Metropolitan Opera tour of Japan that begins June 4. Tenor Joseph Calleja (below) also cited concerns about radiation from the stricken nuclear power station north of Tokyo for not making the trip.
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Sony Corp., Japan's largest exporter of consumer electronics, has felt the effects of the recent earthquake and tsunami. The company reported a $3.2 billion loss for the year that ended March 31 the company's biggest net loss in 16 years. (Associated Press)
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President Obama meets with Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan at the G-8 summit in Deauville, France, on Thursday, May 26, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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This photo from May 6, 2011, shows the reactor buildings of Unit 1 (left) and 2 at the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. (Associated Press/Tokyo Electric Power Co.)
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Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan has started winning public support while trying to guide the nation through its post-tsunami crisis. (Associated Press)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS/KYODO NEWS A villager pats a stray dog that came into her house during a brief visit to her house located near the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, in Kawauchi, Fukushima prefecture, northern Japan, last Tuesday.
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A Japanese woman pats a stray dog that came into her house during a brief visit — her first since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami — to her home in Kawauchi, Fukushima prefecture, Japan, near the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, on Tuesday, May 10, 2011. About 100 evacuees were allowed into the exclusion zone around the troubled nuclear plant for an hour's visit to gather belongings.
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Takayuki Kato, performing as Sanyutei Kyoraku, entertains during a fundraiser for survivors of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami at Culture Hall in Ichinoseki in northeastern Japan. (Associated Press)
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A villager is helped to wear protective gloves at a gymnasium for a brief visit to their houses located near the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, for the first time since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, in Kawauchi, Fukushima prefecture, northern Japan, Tuesday, May 10, 2011. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
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In this May 3 photo, people wearing rubber boots walk through a flooded street at high tide after helping residents clean up debris in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. The area in this part of the city sunk nearly 2 feet 7 inches following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. (Associated Press)
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This April 10 image taken by T-Hawk drone aircraft and released by Tokyo Electric Power Co., shows the damaged reactor building of Unit 1 of the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. Japan's nuclear safety agency said workers entered the reactor building of Unit 1 at the nuclear complex for the first time Thursday after the March 11 earthquake. (Associated Press/Tokyo Electric Power Co.)
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** FILE ** Mail carrier Kenjiro Ishimori rides a motorcycle after delivering mails at an area devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, Saturday, April 30, 2011. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)
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CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON/SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES Debris sit atop what's left of a three-story building surrounded by rubble in the obliterated city of Minami-Sanriku, Japan. Reconstruction officials are calling for settlements to be built on high ground.
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Reporters surround National Police Agency Chief Takaharu Ando (center) for news on the search effort in Futaba, a town now almost deserted near the radiation-spewing Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in northeastern Japan. Soldiers joined the effort Monday to find the remains of some of the 11,900 people still missing since the tsunami hit March 11. (Kyodo News via Associated Press)
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Sumi Abe, 80, is rescued from her tsunami-destroyed home in Ishinomaki, Japan, on March 20. Likely the most famous of the tsunami survivors, Mrs. Abe has come to personify the enduring spirit that many believe will help Japan overcome its worst crisis since World War II. (Asahi Shimbun via Associated Press)
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A radio-controlled PakBot robot opens a door inside the reactor building of Unit 2 at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant as the robot is monitored by another Pakbot from behind during inspection of the tsunami-damaged facilities on Monday, April 18, 2011, in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. (AP Photo/Tokyo Electric Power Co.)
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Angry residents forced from their homes near Japan's tsunami-stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant take a seat as they meet officials of Tokyo Electric Power Co., the plant's operator, at its headquarters in Tokyo Wednesday, April 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Yuri Kageyama)
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A statue of Buddha is seen in the city cemetery in the area devastated by the Match 11 earthquake and tsunami in the town of Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, on April 14, 2011. (Associated Press)
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Residents of Iitate village listen Wednesday to their mayor explain a government plan to evacuate residents from the village that is about 24 miles from the radiation-spewing Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in northeastern Japan. (Kyodo News via Associated Press)
