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US: Airport Fire Expands In Southern California, Destroys Homes 3

Airport Fire burning in Orange and Riverside Counties, Southern California has grown to more than 23,000 acres as of Wednesday morning, September 11. The fire injured at least seven people and destroyed homes.

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10 mil. yen gold bowl stolen from Tokyo department store

Photo taken on April 11, 2024, shows Takashimaya department store's Nihombashi outlet in Tokyo's Chuo Ward. A pure gold bowl priced at over 10 million yen ($65,000) was stolen from an exhibition held at the store the same day, with police seeking a man caught on camera taking the item.

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10 mil. yen gold bowl stolen from Tokyo department store

Photo taken on April 11, 2024, shows Takashimaya department store's Nihombashi outlet in Tokyo's Chuo Ward. A pure gold bowl priced at over 10 million yen ($65,000) was stolen from an exhibition held at the store the same day, with police seeking a man caught on camera taking the item.

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Japan's corporate bankruptcies up 35 pct in 2023

STORY: Japan's corporate bankruptcies up 35 pct in 2023 SHOOTING TIME: Earlier footage DATELINE: Jan. 17, 2024 LENGTH: 0:01:31 LOCATION: Tokyo CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of cities in Japan STORYLINE: The number of company bankruptcies in Japan increased by 35 percent in 2023 compared to the previous year due to rising prices and labor costs, a local credit research company has reported. According to a survey conducted by Tokyo Shoko Research Ltd., the number of bankrupt companies in Japan with debts exceeding 10 million yen (about 68,189 U.S. dollars) reached 8,690 in 2023. The total debt of bankrupt companies exceeded 24.026 trillion yen. Small and medium-sized enterprises with fewer employees constitute the majority of bankruptcies, according to the report, noting that the number of companies with debts below 100 million yen accounted for 74.7 percent of the total number of bankruptcies. Companies with debts exceeding 1 billion yen increased by 24 percent compared to the previous

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[Breaking News]Japan top spokesman accused of not reporting 10 mil. yen in income

TOKYO, Dec. 8 Kyodo - Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno, Japan's top government spokesman, is accused of failing to report more than 10 million yen ($70,000) in income raised through events hosted by his party faction, a source close to the matter said Friday.(Kyodo)

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Top spokesman accused of not reporting 10 mil. yen in income

Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno speaks at an upper house committee session in Tokyo on Dec. 8, 2023, having been accused of failing to report more than 10 million yen ($70,000) in income raised through events hosted by his party faction.

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Top spokesman accused of not reporting 10 mil. yen in income

Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno is surrounded by reporters at the premier's office in Tokyo on Dec. 8, 2023, having been accused of failing to report more than 10 million yen ($70,000) in income raised through events hosted by his party faction.

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Unification Church to allocate up to 10 bil. yen for compensation

The Unification Church's Japan branch said Tuesday it plans to allocate up to 10 billion yen ($67 million) to the Japanese government to cover possible compensation for former believers and their families over forced donations amid concerns that it would transfer its assets overseas.

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Japan books 16.6 bln USD current account surplus in February

STORY: Japan books 16.6 bln USD current account surplus in February DATELINE: April 10, 2023 LENGTH: 0:00:47 LOCATION: Tokyo CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of street views of Tokyo 2. various of port STORYLINE: Japan logged a current account surplus of 2.2 trillion yen (16.6 billion U.S. dollars) in February, the government said in a report on Monday, back to the black following a deficit in January. According to the Finance Ministry's preliminary information, the figure was 2.3 percent lower than in the same period last year. According to the ministry, the country had a goods trade deficit of 604.1 billion yen (4.56 billion U.S. dollars) and a services trade deficit of 220.4 billion yen (1.66 million U.S. dollars), among key components in the recording period. Imports and exports expanded 9.8 percent and 4.5 percent year on year, respectively, the preliminary data showed. The report also showed that the primary income, which reflects returns on overseas investments, booked a surplus o

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Baseball: Lotte's Sasaki gets pay raise

Lotte Marines pitcher Roki Sasaki speaks at a press conference at Zozo Marine Stadium in Chiba, near Tokyo, on Dec. 24, 2022, after signing for the next season for an estimated 80 million yen ($608,000), up 50 million yen from 2022. He became the youngest pitcher in Japanese baseball history at 20 years and five months to throw a perfect game on April 10, 2022.

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Baseball: Lotte's Sasaki gets pay raise

Lotte Marines pitcher Roki Sasaki poses with a Christmas tree at a press conference at Zozo Marine Stadium in Chiba, near Tokyo, on Dec. 24, 2022, after signing for the next season for an estimated 80 million yen ($608,000), up 50 million yen. He became the youngest pitcher in Japanese baseball history at 20 years and five months to throw a perfect game on April 10, 2022.

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Baseball: Lotte's Sasaki gets pay raise

Lotte Marines pitcher Roki Sasaki speaks at a press conference at Zozo Marine Stadium in Chiba, near Tokyo, on Dec. 24, 2022, after signing for the next season for an estimated 80 million yen ($608,000), up 50 million yen from 2022. He became the youngest pitcher in Japanese baseball history at 20 years and five months to throw a perfect game on April 10, 2022.

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Unnamed donor sends gold ingots to Miyagi fish market

SENDAI, Japan - Kunio Suno, president of a fish market in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, holds two gold ingots worth around 10 million yen in total, on Feb. 14, 2013. The ingots were sent to the fish market in the disaster-hit city by an unnamed donor in Nagano.

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Unnamed donor sends gold ingots to Miyagi fish market

SENDAI, Japan - Photo taken Feb. 14, 2013, in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, shows two gold ingots worth around 10 million yen in total that were sent to a fish market in the disaster-hit city by an unnamed donor in Nagano.

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N. Korea-linked group's head office impounded

TOKYO, Japan - The Tokyo metropolitan government has impounded the head office (file photo) of the pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon) over its failure to pay 75 million yen in a real estate acquisition tax, metropolitan government officials said Aug. 10.

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Otani signs 100-mil.-yen contract with Fighters

SAPPORO, Japan - Shohei Otani of the Nippon Ham Fighters poses in Sapporo, Hokkaido, on Dec. 5, 2014, after signing for an annual salary of 100 million yen with the Japanese professional baseball club. Otani recorded a team-leading 11 wins as a pitcher while also recording a batting average of .274, 10 home runs, and 31 RBIs as a designated hitter.

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Foreign tourists swarm Tokyo discount store

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign tourists, mostly from China, buy souvenirs at discount store chain Don Quijote Co.'s Ginza outlet in Tokyo on Nov. 20, 2014. The number of foreign visitors to Japan topped 11 million in the first 10 months of 2014 in a record-setting pace backed chiefly by eased visa requirements for Asian nations, a weaker yen and tax exemption for a wider scope of consumer goods.

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20 bil. yen fine imposed on Japanese auto parts firms

BEIJING, China - A woman walks past a Nissan dealer's office in Beijing on Aug. 20, 2014, amid news of fines totaling some 20 billion yen ($190 million) being imposed recently by China's antimonopoly authorities on 10 Japanese auto parts suppliers for alleged price-fixing practices. Some European companies are also likely to be fined on similar grounds.

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"1 million-yen bill" used in swindle in Osaka

OSAKA, Japan - A fake note that looks like a 10,000 yen note but says "one million yen" is shown in this undated photo. Similar fake notes were used in a fraud in Osaka, western Japan.

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Gold statue of Kumamon

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a pure gold statue of Kumamon, the popular black bear mascot of Japan's southwestern prefecture of Kumamoto, unveiled by Tanaka Kikinzoku Jewelry K.K., and the real mascot, at the company's flagship store in Tokyo's Ginza district on May 1, 2014. The statue, with a price tag of 100 million yen, weighs roughly 10 kilograms and stands around 17 centimeters tall.

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Gold statue of Kumamon

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a pure gold statue of Kumamon, the popular black bear mascot of Japan's southwestern prefecture of Kumamoto, unveiled by Tanaka Kikinzoku Jewelry K.K. at its flagship store in Tokyo's Ginza district on May 1, 2014. The statue, with a price tag of 100 million yen, weighs roughly 10 kilograms and stands around 17 centimeters tall.

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Gold statue of Kumamon

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a pure gold statue of Kumamon, the popular black bear mascot of Japan's southwestern prefecture of Kumamoto, unveiled by Tanaka Kikinzoku Jewelry K.K., and the real mascot, at the company's flagship store in Tokyo's Ginza district on May 1, 2014. The statue, with a price tag of 100 million yen, weighs roughly 10 kilograms and stands around 17 centimeters tall.

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New Tiffany branch in Kobe

KOBE, Japan - Actress Saki Aibu appears at a ceremony to mark the opening of a new branch of U.S. luxury jeweler Tiffany & Co. at the Sogo Department Store in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, on March 10, 2014, wearing some of its jewelry priced at about 530 million yen in total.

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New Tiffany branch in Kobe

KOBE, Japan - Actress Saki Aibu appears at a ceremony to mark the opening of a new branch of U.S. luxury jeweler Tiffany & Co. at the Sogo Department Store in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, on March 10, 2014, wearing some of its jewelry priced at about 530 million yen in total.

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Miyazaki Pref. eyes 10 bil. yen beluga market

KOBAYASHI, Japan - Beluga sushi is one of the Beluga products being promoted by the Miyazaki prefectural government, which expects the market for the fish to grow into a 10 billion yen ($97 million) business in the future.

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Miyazaki Pref. eyes 10 bil. yen beluga market

KOBAYASHI, Japan - The Miyazaki prefectural government hopes cultured beluga will develop into a 10 billion yen ($97 million) market for products such as sashimi, eaten in a citrus-based sauce, as well as caviar.

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10 kg gold calendar

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a calendar made of 10 kilograms of gold in Tokyo's Ginza shopping district on Dec. 3, 2013, which Tanaka Kikinzoku Jewelry K.K. began selling priced at 100 million yen the same day.

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Expensive watch

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Evolution 3-1, a Franck Muller wrist watch that is on sale for 157.5 million yen ($1.6 million) at the Mitsukoshi Department Store in Nihonbashi in Tokyo's Chuo Ward on July 10, 2013.

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Maehara's Tokyo "office" comes under suspicion

TOKYO, Japan - National Policy Minister Seiji Maehara meets the press in Tokyo on Oct. 29, 2012. The home of Maehara's secretary, registered as the main office of his support group in Tokyo, booked over 10 million yen in costs between 2005 and 2010 in political funds reports, though it is not clear whether substantive work was performed there, people familiar with the matter said the same day.

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Maehara's Tokyo "office" comes under suspicion

TOKYO, Japan - National Policy Minister Seiji Maehara (C) meets the press in Tokyo on Oct. 29, 2012. The home of Maehara's secretary, registered as the main office of his support group in Tokyo, booked over 10 million yen in costs between 2005 and 2010 in political funds reports, though it is not clear whether substantive work was performed there, people familiar with the matter said the same day.

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Audi's convertible

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken March 22, 2012 in Tokyo shows the Audi R8 GT Spyder, a convertible to be sold in Japan from late April by Audi Japan K.K. The Japanese unit of the German automaker said only 333 such cars will be produced for sale worldwide, of which 10 vehicles will be offered for sale in Japan at a price of 30.64 million yen.

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Lion's Nakajima in press conference

TOKOROZAWA, Japan - Seibu Lions captain Hiroyuki Nakajima gives a press conference at Seibu Dome in Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture, on Jan. 10, 2012, after re-signing with the Lions for an estimated 280 million yen plus incentives. Nakajima said he plans to take another shot at playing in the majors in the following offseason as a free agent.

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Swarovski crystal toilet at Lixil's showroom

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a glittering toilet covered with some 70,000 pieces of crystal from Swarovski AG of Austria at a Tokyo showroom of housing and building material maker Lixil Corp. on Dec. 12, 2011. The toilet is not for sale but its estimated price would be 10 million yen.

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Journalist Tahara outside of court

KOBE, Japan - Journalist Soichiro Tahara speaks to reporters outside the Kobe District Court in Hyogo Prefecture on June 3, 2011, after a hearing on a damages suit against him over remarks he made on a TV talk show about two Japanese women abducted by North Korea. The parents of Keiko Arimoto, one of the abduction victims, are seeking 10 million yen in compensation over his remarks on the TV Asahi talk show that Arimoto must already be dead and the Japanese Foreign Ministry was aware of that.

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Parents of abductee to N. Korea

KOBE, Japan - Kayoko (L) and Akihiro Arimoto, the mother and father of Keiko Arimoto who is a victim of North Korea's abductions, speak at a press conference in Kobe on June 3, 2011, after a hearing on a damages suit they filed against journalist Soichiro Tahara over remarks he made. The Arimotos are seeking 10 million yen in compensation over his remarks made on a TV Asahi talk show that their daughter must already be dead and the Japanese Foreign Ministry was aware of that.

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Ishikawa finishes 20th at Masters

AUGUSTA, United States - Japan's Ryo Ishikawa finishes the final round of the Masters golf tournament at the Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia with the score of 285 total, 3-under, tied for 20th, which was his best finish in a major tournament outside Japan, on April 10, 2011. Ishikawa, who announced he would donate all prize money this season to quake relief, earned $93,200, or about 7.9 million yen, at the tournament.

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Jackie Chan pledges support for Japan quake victims

BEIJING, China - Actor Jackie Chan (2nd from L) opens a sake barrel with others at an outlet of high-end Japanese restaurant Nobu in Beijing on April 7, 2011, during the restaurant's opening ceremony. Chan, who is the restaurant's part owner, said he will donate 10 million yen to the victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan and that the restaurant will donate one-third of charges it gets for a special menu item priced at 1,500 yuan ($229). Chan also said April 1 in Hong Kong he will donate 33 million yen to the cause.

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Incubator Bank fails

TOKYO, Japan - Reporters surround a woman who visited the head office of the Incubator Bank of Japan in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward to cancel her deposit after the bank filed for bankruptcy on Sept. 10, 2010. Deposit protection covers up to 10 million yen.

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Association to pay Asa 120 mil. yen in retirement settlement

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Sumo Association Chairman Musashigawa leaves a meeting of JSA directors at Tokyo's Ryogoku Kokugikan on Feb. 10, 2010, after the meeting decided to pay an undisclosed retirement settlement to former yokozuna Asashoryu of Mongolia, who last week quit the sport following allegations he attacked a man outside a Tokyo nightclub in a drunken rage. According to a source close to the JSA, it is believed Asashoryu will receive 120 million yen in retirement benefits.

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Postage stamps featuring teenage golfer Ishikawa to be sold in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - This photo shows sample stamps featuring Japanese teenage golfer Ryo Ishikawa, who became the youngest money title winner in Japanese tour history at 18 with 183 million yen in 2009. Japan Post Network Co. said Jan. 7, 2010, that it will issue a 3,980 yen set consisting of 10 50-yen stamps, six special postcards and a stamp holder.

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Brain expert Mogi fails to report 400 mil. yen in taxable income

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows portrait of TV anchor and brain expert Kenichiro Mogi. Mogi failed to declare some 400 million yen in taxable income for three years through 2008, sources familiar with the matter said Nov. 10, 2009.

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Swallows' Aoki named MVP in All-Star

SAPPORO, Japan - Yakult Swallows outfielder Norichika Aoki acknowledges the crowd after being named MVP with a 3 million yen award for his go-ahead homer in Game 1 of the All-Star series at Sapporo Dome on July 24, steering the Central League to a 10-8 victory over the Pacific League.

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Gold 'hina dolls' displayed in Nagoya

NAGOYA, Japan - A woman looks at a pair of ''hina dolls'' made of pure gold worth 10 million yen at a branch of precious metal dealer GINZA TANAKA in Nagoya on Feb. 19. The dolls, which are about 10 centimeters high and weigh one kilogram, are being displayed ahead of the Japanese Doll Festival for girls, or Hina Matsuri, on March 3.

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Golden hawk worth 10 mil. yen stolen

OSAKA, Japan - Photo shows an exquisite golden hawk that was stolen by three robbers wearing balaclavas from the Tomiya Gold precious metals shop in the city of Okayama on Jan. 29. Tomiya Corp., which runs the shop, said around 850 grams of gold was used to make the 28-centimeter-high hawk worth 10 million yen. The robbers and another man who drove the getaway vehicle are still at large. (Photo taken from the company's website)

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HSBC opens 2 private banking offices in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - HSBC Holdings plc on Jan. 31 entered the private banking business in Japan by opening two dedicated offices in Tokyo's upscale districts of Akasaka and Hiroo to serve investment needs of wealthy individuals with financial assets of at least 10 million yen. Photo shows Stuart Milne (C), Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corp.'s country manager for Japan, attending the opening ceremony at Akasaka.

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Gov't orders Kojima to observe home appliance recycling law

TOKYO, Japan - Maki Mori (R), a senior executive of home electrics discount retailer Kojima Co., receives a ''recommendation'' order for the company to abide by the Home Appliance Recycling Law from officials of the Environment Ministry and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry at the Environment Ministry in Tokyo on Oct. 16. Kojima failed to return about 3,000 old electric appliance products to manufacturers as required by the recycling law even though it had charged customers who turned in the old products 10 million yen in recycling fees.

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Endoscope operation robot with disposable arm developed

OSAKA, Japan - Atsushi Nishikawa, an associate professor at Osaka University, holding a robotic device with disposable arms for use in endoscope operations. Developed by a research team led by Nishikawa, the disposable arms will cost less than 30,000 yen each, while the main parts will be priced at about 3 million yen each, compared with existing robots that cost more than 10 million yen each, Nishikawa says.

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JAL ordered to pay damages to flight attendants with children

TOKYO, Japan - Plaintiffs and their supporters hold a press conference after the Tokyo District Court ordered Japan Airlines International Co. on March 26 to pay about 15 million yen in damages to flight attendants with children who sued the airline for illegally reducing their daytime work to one to two days a month and thus their salary. The plaintiffs -- four female cabin crew members aged between 42 and 50 with more than 20 years of employment -- argued that it was illegal for their employer to reduce their daytime duties when they were exempted from working late at night under the childcare law, which regulates work after 10 p.m. for those raising preschoolers.

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Matsushita to construct world's largest plasma panel plant

AMAGASAKI, Japan - Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. will invest about 280 billion yen to construct the world's largest plasma display panel plant with an annual production capacity of about 10 million units in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture. Photo taken on Jan. 10 shows the company's No. 1 Amagasaki plant (left) and No. 2 Amagasaki plant, which is to begin operations in the summer of 2007. The new third plant, to be built near No. 2 plant, will come on stream in the summer of 2008.

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Bush signs bill to preserve WWII Japanese-American internment camps

MANZANAR, United States - Photo shows a memorial hall opened in April 2004 in Manzanar, California, where about 10,000 people of Japanese descent had been forcefully kept during World War II. President George W. Bush signed into law on Dec. 21 a $38 million (about 4.5 billion yen) funding program to preserve such internment camps at 10 sites in Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Idaho, Utah and Wyoming.