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11,000 Santa Clauses gather in Osaka

OSAKA, Japan - About 11,000 people dressed like Santa Clause gather at a charity event at Osaka Castle Park in Osaka, western Japan, on Nov. 30, 2014. The event was held to collect money to buy Christmas presents for children suffering from intractable diseases.

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World's largest blanket created in disaster-hit Japan city

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Bernd Kestler, a German knitting artist from Yokohama, southwest of Tokyo, and people affected by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake complete in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on Sept. 20, 2014, a giant blanket connecting more than 11,000 granny squares donated by knitters all over the world. Kestler is set to seek the listing of the 476-square-meter blanket as a new Guinness World Record for a crocheted blanket exceeding the current record of about 306 square meters.

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Japanese man starts walk across Africa with 2-wheeled cart

ALEXANDRIA, Egypt - Masahito Yoshida, a 33-year-old Japanese man, begins walking across Africa with a two-wheeled cart, leaving Alexandria, northern Egypt, on Sept. 7, 2014. Yoshida, who completed a cart-pulling walk through three continents in 2013, embarked on an 11,000-kilometer walk to the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa, pulling up to 100 kilograms of luggage including water, food, cooking utensils and a tent in his cart.

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Philippine Muslim rebel leader

MANILA, Philippines - Al Haj Murad Ebrahim, chairman of the 11,000-strong Moro Islamic Liberation Front, the Philippines' largest Muslim rebel group, speaks at a press conference at the group's main camp in Maguindanao province on the southern island of Mindanao, the Philippines, on Sept. 5, 2011.

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Nikkei drops below 11,000 level for 1st time since May 2005

TOKYO, Japan - A pedestrian walks past an electric board in Tokyo's Nihombashi area that shows the key Nikkei Stock Average at the Tokyo Stock Exchange having plunged below the 11,000 level during the morning session Oct. 3.

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Abe invites around 11,000 people to cherry-viewing gathering

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (3rd from L) poses for photos during a cherry-viewing gathering at Tokyo's Shinjuku Gyoen park on April 14. Abe invited around 11,000 people from the political, business, sports and entertainment sectors to the gathering, including Olympic marathon medalist Yuko Arimori (L), TV personality Monta Mino and sumo master Takanohana (R).

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World's biggest container ship arrives in Kobe port

KOBE, Japan - The Emma Maersk, the world's largest container ship, arrives at Kobe port on Oct. 8, visiting Japan for the first time since its launch in August. The 170,794-ton state-of-the-art container ship, owned by A.P. Moller-Maersk Group of Denmark, can carry 11,000 20-foot shipping containers.

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Tokyo stocks rise for 3rd day, Nikkei briefly above 11,000

TOKYO, Japan - A pedestrian walks by the price board at a brokerage house in Tokyo's Yurakucho district on Sept. 17. Tokyo stocks ended higher for the third straight session, with the key Nikkei index ending at a 15-month high after briefly topping 11,000 on buying prompted by gains in U.S. shares overnight.

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Damaged neutrino detector 'Super Kamiokande' restored

GIFU, Japan - A large neutrino detector operated by the University of Tokyo's Institute for Cosmic Ray Research (ICRR) in Gifu Prefecture is shown off to the media Sept. 24 after it was repaired following severe damage sustained in an accident in November 2001. About 7,000 or 60% of the 11,000 photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) attached to the neutrino detector in the town of Kamioka in the central Japanese prefecture were found broken last Nov. 12 due to a chain reaction, but it is now repaired to a level that experiments can resume, ICRR officials said.

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OSE lists 1st venture fund on its new market

OSAKA, Japan - A fund created by Sumisei Global Investment Trust Management Co. becomes the first listed investment trust on a new market for venture funds set up by the Osaka Securities Exchange (OSE) in December. The fund by Sumisei Global Investment Trust opened at a price of 11,000 yen on Jan. 15, higher than the standard price of 10,520 yen set before its listing.

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Tokyo Univ. continuing probes into neutrino research accident

TOKYO, Japan - Motohiko Yoshimura (R), director at the University of Tokyo's Institute for Cosmic Ray Research (ICRR),speaks at a news conference at the university Nov. 13, 2001 on an accident the previous day at its cosmic ray research body in Gifu Prefecture where more than half of the 11,000 photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) attached to a large neutrino detector were found broken.

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Tokyo stocks plunge, Nikkei nears 11,000

TOKYO, Japan - People pass by the price board outside a stock brokerage house at Yurakucho, Tokyo, on Aug. 29. Tokyo stocks plunged in the morning on an overnight tumble in U.S. stocks, with the Nikkei Stock Average sliding below its post-bubble closing low and threatening to break the 11,000 threshold.

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Snow Brand pres. offers to quit over food poisoning

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Tetsuro Ishikawa, president of Snow Brand Milk Products Co., who announced July 6 he will resign to take responsibility for a recent outbreak of food poisoning caused by the company's milk products. More than 11,000 people in eight prefectures in western Japan have fallen ill in the past week after consuming low-fat and calcium-enriched milk produced by the leading dairy products maker at its Osaka plant.

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NTT to cut 21,000 jobs

TOKYO, Japan - Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (NTT) President Junichiro Miyazu (L) and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone East Corp. (NTT East) President Hidekazu Inoue (R) speak on the group's restructuring program at a news conference in Tokyo on Nov. 17. NTT will slash 21,000 jobs by 2003 -- 10,000 at NTT East and 11,000 at Nippon Telegraph and Telephone West Corp. (NTT West).

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Damages suit by Allied POWs turned down

Seven former prisoners of war from four Allied powers walk down into the Tokyo District Court on Thursday Nov. 26 to hear a ruling on their $154,000 damages suit filed against the Japanese government for their sufferings during World War II internment in Japanese-occupied Southeast Asia. The court turned down the suit, filed on behalf of some 11,000 former POWs in Britain, the United States, Australia and New Zealand.