Newly elected director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Yukiya Amano of Japan, arrives at the headquarters of the UN atomic watchdog in Vienna on July 3, 2009. Japan welcomed the choice of Yukiya Amano as the next head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, stressing that he comes from the only country to have been attacked by atom bombs. Getty Images logo Getty Images 32 months ago

Newly elected director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Yukiya Amano of Japan, arrives at the headquarters of the UN atomic watchdog in Vienna on July 3, 2009. Japan welcomed the choice of Yukiya Amano as the next head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, stressing that he comes from the only country to have been attacked by atom bombs.