Timeline for September 2014

Prime Minister Abe and Prime Minister Modi meet at Akasaka Palace, Tokyo. © Jiji.

Takahashi Masayo, Riken project leader (left), and Kurimoto Yasuo of the Institute of Biomedical Research and Innovation Hospital (right) at a press conference after the world’s first operation using iPS cells. © Jiji.

A photograph from a rescue helicopter of Mount Ontake erupting, taken at around four o’clock on the afternoon of September 27. Photograph courtesy of Chūbu Regional Development Bureau, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport, and Tourism (via Jiji).