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Illumination event in Tokyo

A tree-lined street in Tokyo's Shibuya area is illuminated with about 600,000 blue LED lights on Dec. 22, 2024.

Premium watermelon in northern Japan

Photo shows a premium "Densuke" black watermelon grown in Toma, Hokkaido, northern Japan, which fetched 600,000 yen ($4,250) at the season's first auction in Sapporo, Hokkaido, on June 15, 2023.

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Riken to ask Obokata to return 600,000 yen paper submission fee

TOKYO, March 20 Kyodo - Undated photo shows Haruko Obokata, who resigned from the Riken research institute in December 2014 in the wake of a scandal over her misconduct in a so-called STAP stem-cell study. Riken announced on March 20, 2015, it plans to demand that Obokata return about 600,000 yen in research paper submission fees.

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Abe Cabinet OKs stimulus package

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe holds a press conference at his office in Tokyo on Jan. 11, 2013, announcing a stimulus package worth 20.2 trillion yen. Abe's Cabinet endorsed a stimulus package earlier in the day entailing the biggest government spending since fiscal 2009 in an attempt to add around 2 percentage points to Japan's gross domestic product growth in real terms and create at least 600,000 jobs.

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Abe Cabinet OKs stimulus package

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (2nd from L) attends a meeting of a government panel on reviving the Japanese economy, at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Jan. 11, 2013. Abe's Cabinet endorsed a stimulus package the same day entailing the biggest government spending since fiscal 2009 in an attempt to add around 2 percentage points to Japan's gross domestic product growth in real terms and create at least 600,000 jobs.

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Abe Cabinet OKs stimulus package

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (L) shakes hands with Finance Minister Taro Aso (C) after a press conference at his office in Tokyo on Jan. 11, 2013, to announce a stimulus package worth 20.2 trillion yen. Abe's Cabinet endorsed a stimulus package earlier in the day entailing the biggest government spending since fiscal 2009 in an attempt to add around 2 percentage points to Japan's gross domestic product growth in real terms and create at least 600,000 jobs. To the right is economic revival minister Akira Amari.

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Abe Cabinet OKs stimulus package

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe holds a press conference at his office in Tokyo on Jan. 11, 2013, announcing a stimulus package worth 20.2 trillion yen. Abe's Cabinet endorsed a stimulus package earlier in the day entailing the biggest government spending since fiscal 2009 in an attempt to add around 2 percentage points to Japan's gross domestic product growth in real terms and create at least 600,000 jobs.

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Rush of holiday travelers peaks in Japan

NARITA, Japan - The departure lobby is crowded with passengers at Narita international airport near Tokyo on Dec. 29, 2012. Some 44,000 people were expected to leave the country from the airport the same day to spend their New Year holidays abroad. The number of travelers departing from the airport between Dec. 21 and Jan. 6 is estimated to reach around 600,000, up 7 percent from the previous year.

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Damages suit against Google over Street View service nixed

FUKUOKA, Japan - File photo shows a camera on a vehicle believed to be taking images for Google Inc.'s Street View service in Tokyo's Minato Ward in 2009. The Fukuoka High Court on July 13, 2012, upheld a lower court decision that turned down a Japanese woman's 600,000 yen damages suit against the Japan subsidiary of the U.S. search engine operator for allegedly infringing on her privacy through photo shots and their release on the Street View service.

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Damages suit against Google over Street View service nixed

FUKUOKA, Japan - File photo shows a vehicle believed to be taking images for Google Inc.'s Street View service in Tokyo's Minato Ward in 2009. The license plate is made obscure. The Fukuoka High Court on July 13, 2012, upheld a lower court decision that turned down a Japanese woman's 600,000 yen damages suit against the Japanese subsidiary of the U.S. search engine operator for allegedly infringing on her privacy through photo shots and their release on the Street View service.

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Bruce Lee's coat auctioned off

HONG KONG, China - Greg Manning (R), a memorabilia trader from the United States, poses for photos with his wife in Hong Kong on Aug. 6, 2011, shortly after successfully bidding for a fur-lined blue costume coat (worn by his wife) that belonged to kung fu legend Bruce Lee for HK$600,000. Manning said the price was a lot less than he had expected to pay.

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Annual Hozuki Fair begins in Tokyo's Asakusa

TOKYO, Japan - The two-day annual ''Hozuki (Chinese lantern plant) Fair,'' which heralds the arrival of summer, begins at Sensoji Temple in Tokyo on July 9, with some 180 vendors taking part. About 600,000 people are expected to come to the event.

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Annual Hozuki Fair begins in Tokyo's Asakusa

TOKYO, Japan - The two-day annual ''Hozuki (Chinese lantern plant) Fair,'' which heralds the arrival of summer, begins at Sensoji Temple in Tokyo on July 9, with some 180 vendors taking part. About 600,000 people are expected to come to the event.

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Number of visitors to Railway Museum reaches 1 million

SAITAMA, Japan - The number of visitors to the Railway Museum opened last October in Saitama, north of Tokyo, reached 1 million March 31, far exceeding the 600,000 visitors who had been expected by the end of March, the museum said.

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Freed Japanese in Paraguay meet press

ASUNCION, Paraguay - Hirokazu Ota (R), a Japanese businessman based in Paraguay, and his secretary Sawako Yamaguchi (L) speak to the press at the Japanese Embassy in Asuncion on April 21, on the ordeal they faced after they were kidnapped and detained for almost 20 days. Ota, 62, was released April 20 after a $138,000 ransom was paid to the kidnappers. Yamaguchi, 37, had been released earlier. Ota and Yamaguchi are members of the Unification Church, which owns over 600,000 hectares of land in Paraguay.

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Kagoshima man wronged by police demands dismissal of 3 officers

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - Sachio Kawabata (L), 61, a hotel operator in Shibushi, Kagoshima Prefecture, arrives at the Kagoshima prefectural police headquarters on Feb. 20 with a petition signed by 6,100 people calling for the dismissal of three police officers who trampled on a piece of paper containing the names of Kawabata's relatives during a police investigation on vote buying at the 2003 Kagoshima prefectural assembly election. The Kagoshima District Court, ruling on a lawsuit filed by Kawabata, called the trampling illegal and ordered the prefecture to pay Kawabata 600,000 yen in compensation. The ruling became final as the prefecture decided not to appeal.

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Ground cherry fair begins at Sensoji Temple in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - An annual ground cherry fair, a summer feature of downtown Tokyo, begins in the precincts of Sensoji Temple in Tokyo's Taito Ward on July 9, with some 200 vendors taking part. Some 600,000 people are expected to visit the two-day event.

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Ground cherry fair begins at Tokyo's Asakusa

TOKYO, Japan - An annual ground cherry fair begins at Sensoji Temple in Tokyo's Taito Ward on July 9, with some 250 vendors taking part. About 600,000 visitors are expected to come to the two-day event.

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Shinjo, Mets agree on 1-yr deal

NEW YORK, United States - Tsuyoshi Shinjo will return to Shea Stadium after the Japanese outfielder and the New York Mets agreed Jan. 11 on a one-year deal worth $600,000 (about 72 million yen). (MLB)

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Record-high Beaujolais Nouveau imports expected in Japan

OSAKA, Japan - Customs officials examine bottles of Beaujolais Nouveau at Kansai International Airport near Osaka on Nov. 15. The first shipment of the wine arrived at Kansai and Narita airports for sale Nov. 21. Imports this year are expected to reach a record-high 600,000 cases of 12 750-milliliter bottles.

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Annual morning-glory market begins

TOKYO, Japan - Shopgirls check the flowerpots before the annual ''Asagaoichi'' (morning glory market) opens in Iriya, downtown Tokyo, on July 6. Organizers expect about 600,000 visitors will come to the market where 120,000 pots will be put for sale by 120 florists during its three-day session. A standard pot with morning glories of four different colors carries a price tag of 2,000 yen.

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Sendai citizens enjoy illuminated trees

SENDAI, Japan - Citizens and tourists enjoy the annual Christmas and yearend illuminations in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on Dec. 12 as 600,000 electric bulbs put to 190 zelkova trees along the city's thoroughfares are turned on by Mayor Hajimu Fujii.

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600,000 construction workers to lose jobs within 3 years

TOKYO, Japan - Senior government officials hold their first meeting to deal with the worsening job situation at the Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry in Tokyo on Aug. 31. At the meeting, Keiji Furuya, vice minister of the economy ministry, said as many as 600,000 workers in the construction industry alone could lose their jobs within the next three years as the government carries out its economic and fiscal reform programs.

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Sony Bank to kick off service June 11

TOKYO, Japan - Shigeru Ishii, president of Sony Bank, an Internet bank owned 80% by Sony Corp., speaks on his bank's business operations at a news briefing May 10. Sony Bank, due to start business on June 11, aims to attract 600,000 Web accounts and to collect deposits of 1 trillion yen within five years.

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Archaeologist admits burying 'oldest' stoneware pieces

SENDAI, Japan - Shinichi Fujimura (R), 50, a senior director at the Tohoku Paleolithic Institute, admits at a news conference held at the Miyagi prefetural government building in Sendai on Nov. 5 that he fabricated the discovery in the prefecture of stoneware at first believed to be more than 600,000 years old by burying the objects himself.

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Morning glory fair gets under way

TOKYO, Japan - An unidentified vendor hawks pots of morning glories to her customers July 6 as the annual Morning Glory Fair opens at Iriya in downtown Tokyo. Fair organizers expect the three-day event to draw about 600,000 visitors.

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U.S., N. Korea strike a deal

North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye Gwan (L) and Charles Kartman, U.S. Special Envoy for Korean peace talks, shake hands at a news conference in New York on March 16 after striking a deal to allow U.S. access to a suspected underground nuclear facility in the North. North Korea agreed to a multiple site visits in return for food aid of up to 600,000 tons.