(From R to L) Japanese teenage golfer Ryo Ishikawa, American golfer Rickie Fowler, and Hollywood actors Lucas Black and Chris O'Donnell take on the celebrity challenge event at the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am golf tournament at Monterey Peninsula Country Club in Pebble Beach, California, on Feb. 11, 2010. Ishikawa paired up with Lucas for the event. (Kyodo)

Japanese teenage golfer Ryo Ishikawa (L) and American actor Lucas Black, paired up for the celebrity challenge event at the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am golf tournament, walk together at Monterey Peninsula Country Club in Pebble Beach, California, on Feb. 11, 2010. Ishikawa, whose goal is to give interviews in English without an interpreter, said he has experienced some difficulty in communicating in the language. (Kyodo)

Toshikazu Sugaya, who was jailed for 17 years until last June over the 1990 murder of a 4-year-old girl before a fresh DNA test proved his innocence, speaks during a news conference at the Tochigi prefectural government building in Utsunomiya on Feb. 12, 2010, after the sixth session of his retrial at the Utsunomiya District Court. Prosecutors apologized in court for making Sugaya serve time in prison. (Kyodo)

Evgeni Plushenko of Russia practices at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver on Feb. 11 2010, a day before the opening of the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games. The 27-year-old, who won gold at the Turin Olympics, will try to become the first male figure skater in more than 50 years to win the gold in two consecutive Olympic competitions. (Kyodo)

Main opposition Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Kaoru Yosano speaks during a session of the House of Representatives Budget Committee in Tokyo on Feb. 12, 2010. The former finance minister called Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama the ''king of tax evasion,'' criticizing him for insisting that he was not aware that his mother had provided 1.2 billion yen to his office over a seven-year period. (Kyodo)