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Tokyo stocks surge

A financial data monitor in Tokyo shows the 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average soaring more than 1,200 points to recover to the 41,000 level during morning trading on July 23, 2025, after U.S. President Donald Trump said he had struck a trade deal with Japan.

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Tokyo stocks tumble

A financial data monitor in Tokyo shows the 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average falling more than 1,200 points during morning trading on April 9, 2025.

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Tokyo stocks plunge

A pedestrian passes by a stock monitor in Tokyo on July 25, 2024, showing the Nikkei Stock Average ending more than 1,200 points down from the previous day's close.

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Nikkei stock index plunge

A screen at a foreign exchange trading company in Tokyo shows the 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average plunging more than 1,200 points during morning trading on April 19, 2024, amid concerns over the escalating conflict in the Middle East and weakness in chip issues.

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Takashimaya apologizes over Christmas cake chaos

Kazuhisa Yokoyama, senior managing director of Japanese department store operator Takashimaya Co., attends a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 27, 2023, over 1,200 complaints from customers that the cakes they bought online for Christmas arrived damaged.

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Takashimaya apologizes over Christmas cake chaos

Kazuhisa Yokoyama, senior managing director of Japanese department store operator Takashimaya Co., attends a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 27, 2023, over 1,200 complaints from customers that the cakes they bought online for Christmas arrived damaged.

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Takashimaya apologizes over Christmas cake chaos

Kazuhisa Yokoyama, senior managing director of Japanese department store operator Takashimaya Co., attends a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 27, 2023, over 1,200 complaints from customers that the cakes they bought online for Christmas arrived damaged.

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Takashimaya apologizes over Christmas cake chaos

Kazuhisa Yokoyama, senior managing director of Japanese department store operator Takashimaya Co., bows in apology at a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 27, 2023, over 1,200 complaints from customers that the cakes they bought online for Christmas arrived damaged.

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Shinkansen business seats

Photo taken in an unknown location on Oct. 6, 2023, shows shinkansen bullet train seats that Central Japan Railway Co. will introduce from Oct. 20 in its Nozomi, Hikari and Kodama cars, running on the Tokaido and Sanyo shinkansen lines for those seeking to work comfortably. Making taking notes and using PCs easier, the more spacious S WorkP Seats cost an additional 1,200 yen (about $8).

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Japanese professor petitions on behalf of Chinese human rights lawyer

Photo taken on July 8, 2021, shows Tomoko Ako, a Japanese professor at a graduate school of the University of Tokyo, depositing a petition signed by 1,200 people into the mailbox of the Chinese Embassy in Tokyo requesting its government allow Chinese human rights lawyer Tang Jitian, who is banned from leaving the country, be permitted to visit his ill 25-year-old daughter in the Japanese capital.

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Russian Pres. Putin speaks at annual year-end news conference

MOSCOW, Russia - Russian President Vladimir Putin holds an annual year-end news conference before over 1,200 journalists in Moscow, Russia, on Dec. 18, 2014.

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Japan's Straight Girl 3rd in H.K. Sprint horse race

HONG KONG, China - Japan's 5-year-old mare Straight Girl (13), ridden by Yasunari Iwata, finishes third in the Hong Kong Sprint G1 race on the 1,200-meter turf at the Sha Tin racecourse in Hong Kong on Dec. 14, 2014. The race is one of four major races held on the Hong Kong International Race Day.

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High school students join boycott in H.K.

HONG KONG, China - About 1,200 students from Hong Kong secondary schools boycott classes on Sept. 26, 2014, to participate in sit-in protests against Beijing's restrictive political reform blueprint for the territory's leadership election.

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Urban Animal Album

OSAKA, Japan - A horse gallops with a trick rider at an event at Fujimori Shrine in Kyoto dating back more than 1,200 years on May 5, 2014.

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Manjusri image at Chikurin-ji temple unveiled for 1st time in 50 years

KOCHI, Japan - "Monju Bosatsu, " an image of Manjusri, sitting atop a roaring lion, which symbolizes the powerful voice of Buddhist Law and the power of Buddhism to overcome all obstacles, goes on display to the public on April 25, 2014 for the first time in 50 years at Chikurin-ji, a Shingon temple in Kochi, Kochi Prefecture, western Japan. The temple is number 31 on the Shikoku 88 temple pilgrimage said to be launched by Kukai, a renowned monk also known as Kobo Daishi, 1,200 years ago. The display is open to the public through May 25. (Pool photo by Kochi Shimbun).

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Heavy snow in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Feb. 17, 2014, shows an area in the town of Hayakawa, Yamanashi Prefecture. The entire town, with a population of around 1,200, remains cut off after heavy snow blocked roads.

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Heavy snow in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Feb. 17, 2014, shows people removing snow in the town of Hayakawa, Yamanashi Prefecture. The entire town, with a population of around 1,200, remains cut off after heavy snow blocked roads.

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Coming-of-Age ceremony

URAYASU, Japan - More than 1,200 people who turn 20 years old by the end of the current fiscal year in March attended a Coming-of-Age ceremony on Jan. 13, 2014, a national holiday, at Tokyo Disneyland in Urayasu, Chiba Prefecture.

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Coming-of-Age ceremony

URAYASU, Japan - Some young women among the more than 1,200 people who turn 20 years old by the end of the current fiscal year in March attend a Coming-of-Age ceremony on Jan. 13, 2014, a national holiday, at Tokyo Disneyland in Urayasu, Chiba Prefecture.

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Coming-of-Age ceremony

URAYASU, Japan - More than 1,200 people who turn 20 years old by the end of the current fiscal year in March attended a Coming-of-Age ceremony on Jan. 13, 2014, a national holiday, at Tokyo Disneyland in Urayasu, Chiba Prefecture.

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Meteor strikes Russia

CHELYABINSK, Russia - Photo taken Feb. 16, 2013, shows a hole about 8 meters in diameter on the ice of Chebarkul Lake in the Russian region of Chelyabinsk, with news crews making reports. The hole is believed to have been made by one of the meteor fragments that fell on the region the previous day, which left around 1,200 people injured.

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H.K. horseracing

HONG KONG, China - Lord Kanaloa (2nd from R) from Japan wins the 1,200-meter Hong Kong Sprint Group One horserace at Shatin racetrack in Hong Kong on Dec. 9, 2012.

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Lord Kanaloa wins Sprinters Stakes

FUNABASHI, Japan - Lord Kanaloa (front) gallops to victory in the 46th Sprinters Stakes at Nakayama Racecourse in Funabashi, Chiba Prefecture, near Tokyo, on Sept. 30, 2012, followed by top favorite Curren Chan. Second choice Lord Kanaloa crossed the line in a record time of 1 minute, 6.7 seconds at the 1,200-meters to claim his first Grade One title.

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75% of whale meat offered for auction remains unsold

TOKYO, Japan - Whale meat is sold at an Osaka department store in January 2011. Three-quarters of more than 1,200 tons of meat from whales caught during Japan's self-described "research whaling" activities in the Northwest Pacific remains unsold, although the whaling organizer began inviting bids for the meat in 2011, according to the Iruka & Kujira (Dolphin & Whale) Action Network, a Japanese anti-whaling group. The Tokyo-based Institute of Cetacean Research has organized 13 rounds of public auctions since October, but 908.8 tons, or 75.0 percent of the 1,211.9 tons offered, remain unsold, according to a report compiled by freelance journalist Junko Sakuma and released by the group.

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75% of whale meat offered for auction remains unsold

TOKYO, Japan - A minke whale, catch during Japan's self-described "research whaling" activities, is landed at Kushiro port, Hokkaido, in September 2010. Three-quarters of more than 1,200 tons of meat from whales caught during such activities in the Northwest Pacific remains unsold, although the whaling organizer began inviting bids for the meat in 2011, according to the Iruka & Kujira (Dolphin & Whale) Action Network, a Japanese anti-whaling group. The Tokyo-based Institute of Cetacean Research has organized 13 rounds of public auctions since October, but 908.8 tons, or 75.0 percent of the 1,211.9 tons offered, remain unsold, according to a report compiled by freelance journalist Junko Sakuma and released by the group.

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U.S. studied babies of A-bomb survivors

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Photo shows a room where materials on survivors of U.S. atomic bombings and their babies are kept at Hiroshima University in Hiroshima on April 20, 2012. The United States has returned the materials after research. Internal documents of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, or AFIP show that organ samples and medical records of more than 1,200 babies of Japanese survivors of atomic bombings, born dead or who died shortly after birth, were sent to the United States for radiation research.

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Commemorating war dead on Iwoto Island

TOKYO, Japan - Participants of a ceremony including kin of Japanese soldiers who perished in the World War II battle on Iwoto Island offer flowers to commemorate them on the island on Jan. 25, 2012. The annual ceremony by the Tokyo metropolitan government is usually held in spring or summer but the fiscal 2011 ceremony was postponed due to a water shortage on the Pacific island, about 1,200 kilometers south of central Tokyo, and the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. (Pool photo)

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Returned Korean archives on display in Seoul

SEOUL, South Korea - Ancient royal Korean archives handed over by Japan are displayed to the public on Dec. 27, 2011, the first day of an exhibition at the National Palace Museum of Korea in Seoul. Over 1,200 volumes of the archives that Japan seized and removed during its colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula were transferred to South Korea in 2011.

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Returned Korean archives on display in Seoul

SEOUL, South Korea - Ancient royal Korean archives handed over by Japan are displayed to the public on Dec. 27, 2011, the first day of an exhibition at the National Palace Museum of Korea in Seoul. Over 1,200 volumes of the archives that Japan seized and removed during its colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula were transferred to South Korea in 2011.

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S. Korea welcomes Japan's return of archives

SEOUL, South Korea - A wooden container holding ancient Korean archives is loaded onto a truck bound for Seoul upon its arrival at Incheon International Airport on Dec. 6, 2011. South Korea took possession from Japan in a ceremony at the airport the same day of more than 1,200 volumes of ancient Korean archives that were seized and removed to Japan during Japanese rule of the Korean Peninsula.

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S. Korea welcomes Japan's return of archives

SEOUL, South Korea - A ceremony is held at Incheon International Airport, west of Seoul, on Dec. 6, 2011, to hand over to South Korea from Japan more than 1,200 volumes of ancient Korean archives. The documents were seized and removed to Japan during Japanese rule of the Korean Peninsula.

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S. Korea welcomes Japan's return of archives

SEOUL, South Korea - Photo taken Dec. 6, 2011, shows a container holding ancient Korean archives at Incheon International Airport, west of Seoul, on Dec. 6, 2011. South Korea took possession from Japan in a ceremony at the airport the same day of more than 1,200 volumes of ancient Korean archives that were seized and removed to Japan during Japanese rule of the Korean Peninsula.

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S. Korea welcomes Japan's return of archives

SEOUL, South Korea - Ceremony participants applaud at a ceremony at Incheon International Airport, west of Seoul, on Dec. 6, 2011, to hand over to South Korea from Japan more than 1,200 volumes of ancient Korean archives. The documents were seized and removed to Japan during Japanese rule of the Korean Peninsula.

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S. Korea welcomes Japan's return of archives

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean First Vice Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Park Suk Hwan (R) and Japanese Ambassador to South Korea Masatoshi Muto shake hands at a ceremony at Incheon International Airport, west of Seoul, on Dec. 6, 2011, to hand over to South Korea from Japan more than 1,200 volumes of ancient Korean archives. The documents were seized and removed to Japan during Japanese rule of the Korean Peninsula.

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Toshiba to deliver water treatment system to Fukushima plant

TOKYO, Japan - Toshiba Corp. employees build a water treatment system in Yokohama on July 14, 2011. The company is set to deliver the system to the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant to help decontamination efforts amid a series of problems with existing devices. The new system, which can treat 1,200 tons of water a day, will start operation from early August to help plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. deal with the crisis triggered by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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Mudslides in Nagano Pref.

MATSUMOTO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a national road covered by mudslides in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, on June 24, 2011. About 1,200 people have been stranded in the area since the previous day due to the mudslides.

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Baby deer in Nara Park

NARA, Japan - A female baby deer is unveiled to the press at Nara Park in western Japan on May 12, 2011. The 50-centimeter-tall, 3.1-kilogram baby deer, discovered in the park earlier in the day, is the first baby deer born so far this year at the park known for some 1,200 wild deer.

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S. Korea police gear up for G-20 summit

SEOUL, South Korea - A South Korean police officer smashes a line of beer bottles in a demonstration during a security drill ahead of an upcoming Group of 20 financial summit in Seoul on Oct. 4, 2010. A total of 1,200 police personnel were mobilized for the demonstration.

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S. Korea police gear up for G-20 summit

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean police officers take part in a security drill ahead of an upcoming Group of 20 financial summit in Seoul on Oct. 4, 2010. A total of 1,200 police personnel were mobilized for the demonstration.

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S. Korea police gear up for G-20 summit

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean police officers take part in a security drill ahead of an upcoming Group of 20 financial summit in Seoul on Oct. 4, 2010. A total of 1,200 police personnel were mobilized for the demonstration.

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Okinawa outraged

NAGO, Japan - Nago Mayor Susumu Inamine speaks at a gathering of around 1,200 people in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, on May 28, 2010, to protest against a new agreement reached by Japan and the United States on moving the U.S. Marines' Futenma Air Station within the prefecture. Locals condemned Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama for breaking his promise to move the base out of the prefecture.

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Apple's iPad goes on sale in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Takechiyo Nakayama, a 19-year-old part-time worker, holds up an Apple iPad at an Apple store in Tokyo's Ginza shopping district on May 28, 2010, the first day of sales of the product in Japan. Nakayama, who had been waiting in front of the store for two days, is the first customer to buy it among 1,200 people who lined up before sales.

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'World's No. 1' coffee to be offered in Japan

MITO, Japan - This Nov. 25, 2009 photo shows Panama's Esmeralda Especial coffee beans, said to be the world's most expensive coffee, which Japanese cafe chain operator Saza Coffee Co., based in Ibaraki Prefecture, plans to offer for 1,200 yen per cup starting Dec. 2. Saza, which has paid $117.50 per pound for the coffee, 100 times the cost of average coffee beans, became the first company in Japan to buy the high-quality beans through an auction.

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Total solar eclipse in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows the process of a total solar eclipse in the Pacific Ocean off Kitaiwojima Island some 1,200 kilometers south of Tokyo at 11:27 a.m. on July 22, 2009 (Japan time). Photo shows a diamond ring observed at the beginning of the solar eclipse at 11:26 a.m. (L), a total solar eclipse at 11:27 a.m. (C), a diamond ring seen at the end of the eclipse at 11:33 a.m. (R) on July 22, 2009 (Japan time).

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Total solar eclipse in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - A diamond ring is observed at the beginning of a total solar eclipse in the Pacific Ocean off Kitaiwojima Island some 1,200 kilometers south of Tokyo at 11:26 a.m. on July 22, 2009 (Japan time).

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Total solar eclipse in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - A diamond ring is observed at the end of a total solar eclipse in the Pacific Ocean off Kitaiwojima Island some 1,200 kilometers south of Tokyo at 11:33 a.m. on July 22, 2009 (Japan time).

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Total solar eclipse in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - A total solar eclipse is observed in the Pacific Ocean off Kitaiwojima Island some 1,200 kilometers south of Tokyo at 11:27 a.m., July 22, 2009 (Japan time).

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Sanyo announces 1,200 job cuts

OSAKA, Japan - Sanyo Electric Co. Executive Director Koichi Maeda announces at a press conference in Osaka on Jan. 15 that the company will cut about 1,200 jobs as sales have fallen sharply amid a deepening global economic slump.

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Police conduct antiterrorist training ahead of G-8 summit

SAPPORO, Japan - Japanese police officers conduct antiterrorist training in Sapporo on June 26 ahead of the July 7-9 Group of Eight summit in Hokkaido. A total of 1,200 police officers from across Japan took part in the exercise.

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Taiwan launches torch relay to promote bid for U.N. entry

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian (C) kicks off an 11-day, 1,200-kilometer torch relay near the Presidential Palace in Taipei on Oct. 24 to promote the island's bid to gain entry into the United Nations.