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Suzuki Motor to raise output capacity in India

Photo taken on March 18, 2026, shows vehicles under shipment at a plant operated by Japan's Suzuki Motor Corp. in Hansalpur, western India. Suzuki will raise annual automobile production capacity at the plant by 250,000 units to 1 million units with the addition of a new line dedicated to electric vehicles now under construction.

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Suzuki Motor to raise output capacity in India

Photo taken on March 18, 2026, shows an assembly line operated by Japan's Suzuki Motor Corp. in Hansalpur, western India. Suzuki will raise annual automobile production capacity at the plant by 250,000 units to 1 million units with the addition of a new line dedicated to electric vehicles now under construction.

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Cobalt blue Biwa trout

Photo taken on May 4, 2024, shows cobalt blue Biwa trout at a fish-raising farm in Maibara in Shiga Prefecture, western Japan. Only this trout, one of about 250,000 trout fry hatched in the fall of 2022, is cobalt blue-colored.

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Cobalt blue Biwa trout

Photo taken on May 4, 2024, shows cobalt blue Biwa trout at a fish-raising farm in Maibara in Shiga Prefecture, western Japan. Only this trout, one of about 250,000 trout fry hatched in the fall of 2022, is cobalt blue-colored.

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Giant Tug-of-War in Okinawa's Naha

NAHA, Japan - People gather to watch an annual Naha Giant Tug-of-War event on a main road in the central part of Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, on Oct. 19, 2014. The giant rope used for the event measures 200 meters in length and 1.56 meters in diameter, and weighs 43 tons. Around 17,000 people take part in the event by pulling the side ropes attached to the giant rope, with more than 250,000 people looking on.

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Giant Tug-of-War in Okinawa's Naha

NAHA, Japan - People gather to watch an annual Naha Giant Tug-of-War event on a main road in the central part of Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, on Oct. 19, 2014. The giant rope used for the event measures 200 meters in length and 1.56 meters in diameter, and weighs 43 tons. Around 17,000 people take part in the event by pulling the side ropes attached to the giant rope, with more than 250,000 people looking on.

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Restoring historic buildings

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in August 2012 shows an outlet of sake brewery Otokoyama Honten Co., which was damaged by the March 2011 tsunami, in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan. The World Monuments Fund in New York said on March 7, 2013, that it will give $250,000 to rebuild seven historic buildings in Kesennuma, including the Okotoyama Honten store.

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Slot next to Evita's at Recoleta Cemetery on sale

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Tourists take pictures of the tomb of Maria Eva Duarte de Peron (1919-1952), popular former first lady of Argentina best known as Evita, at Recoleta Cemetery in Buenos Aires on Oct. 25, 2011. The burial space (R) next to Evita's has been on sale for $250,000.

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Fukushima city launches solar power plant

SOMA, Japan - Hidekiyo Tachiya (R), mayor of the city of Soma in Fukushima Prefecture, and U.S. entrepreneur Elon Musk shake hands in front of a solar power panel in Soma on July 29, 2011. The city began work on a solar power plant the same day using a $250,000 donation from a U.S. foundation led by Musk, the founder of the online settlement service PayPal. The city is about 40 kilometers north of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

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Black-rind watermelon sold for 250,000 yen

ASAHIKAWA, Japan - Auctioneers examine a black-rind watermelon that was priced at 250,000 yen for the year's first auction at a fresh produce market in Asahikawa, Hokkaido, on June 13, 2011. The year's first auctions for the fancy fruit from the Hokkaido town of Toma were held in Asahikawa and Sapporo, with a melon fetching 300,000 yen in Sapporo, the highest price that day.

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Int'l athletic chief on Japan quake

TOKYO, Japan - Lamine Diack, president of the International Association of Athletics Federations, speaks during an interview in Japan on March 14, 2011. Diack said the IAAF had prepared about $250,000 for Japan's track and field facilities which were damaged by the historic earthquake and tsunami disasters.

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Coastal whaling season opens in Taiji

TAIJI, Japan - Coastal whalers chase a school of short-fin pilot whales off the coast of Taiji, a whaling town in Wakayama Prefecture, on Sept. 1, the opening day of the pilot whale hunting season. Ten pilot whales were caught, according to the local fishery cooperative. One pilot whale is expected to fetch around 250,000 yen at the local auction market.

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250,000 people visit U.S. Iwakuni base on friendship day

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - Visitors to the U.S. marine base in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture watch as a U.S. fighter takes off as part of Japan-U.S. Friendship Day events at the base on May 5. About 250,000 people visited the base on the day, according to U.S. military officials.

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19 plaintiffs recognized as A-bomb radiation disease sufferers

KUMAMOTO, Japan - The plaintiffs and their supporters celebrate outside the Kumamoto District Court on July 30 after the court repealed most of the state decision not to recognize 21 people in Kumamoto Prefecture who suffered in the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as radiation casualties. The court recognized 19 of 21 plaintiffs as radiation disease sufferers. Of 250,000 people certified under Japanese law as atomic bomb victims as of March 31, only 2,242 have been recognized as suffering from illnesses caused by radiation from the atomic bombings, according to Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry data.

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Emperor, empress in Estonia

Tallinn, Estonia - Japanese Emperor Akihito (L) and Empress Michiko (R) visit the Tallinn Song Festival Grounds on May 24 to attend a concert by youth choirs. In 1988, more than 250,000 people gathered at the grounds to sing the then banned national anthem demanding democratization and independence from Soviet rule. (Pool photo)

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Matsushita to launch digital single-lens reflex camera in July

TOKYO, Japan - Held by a publicity assistant at a press conference in Tokyo on June 21 is the Lumix L1 digital single-lens reflex camera which Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. will launch in Japan on July 22. The product, which Matsushita has developed in cooperation with camera maker Olympus Corp., is expected to sell for about 250,000 yen.

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Tens of thousands march in Hong Kong for full democracy

HONG KONG, Hong Kong - Tens of thousands of people swamp the streets of Hong Kong on Dec. 4 to demand a timetable and road map for universal suffrage in electing the leader and legislators of the former British colony. Police said around 40,000 people gathered at the starting point in Victoria Park. Thousands subsequently joined the march along the way and organizers estimated at least 250,000 took part.

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Couple weds at World Cup stadium

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Atsushi Takeda, a soccer enthusiast, and his wife Kumiko gets congratulations from friends at their wedding ceremony held Dec. 22 at International Stadium Yokohama, the venue of the 2002 FIFA World Cup final between Brazil and German. They are the first couple to wed at the stadium, which has begun hosting wedding ceremonies twice a month for a basic fee of 250,000 yen.