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Asia-Pacific exercise

CHIANG MAI, Thailand - Officials from participating countries join hands during a ceremony in Chiang Mai, northern Thailand, on Feb. 11, 2013, to mark the opening of a large-scale military training exercise, code-named Cobra Gold 2013, involving 13,000 personnel from the United States and six Asian countries -- Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and the host nation Thailand.

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Runners start at 2014 Honolulu Marathon

HONOLULU, United States - Runners dressed in various costumes start at the Honolulu Marathon in Hawaii on Dec. 14, 2014. Some 30,000 runners took part, including about 13,000 Japanese.

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Thousands of H.K. students boycott classes for democracy

HONG KONG, China - Thousands of students in Hong Kong attend a rally at the Chinese University of Hong Kong on Sept. 22, 2014, to kick-start a weeklong boycott of classes in the fight for democracy. According to the Federation of Students, about 13,000 students from 25 tertiary education institutions, including eight major universities, skipped classes to attend the rally in what is said to be the biggest school boycott in Hong Kong history.

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Hanagasa Festival starts in Yamagata

YAMAGATA, Japan - People dance in the main street of the northeastern Japanese city of Yamagata on Aug. 5, 2014, as the Hanagasa Festival started there. Around 13,000 people from 150 groups will take part in the dancing during the three-day festival.

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Hanagasa Festival starts in Yamagata

YAMAGATA, Japan - People dance in the main street of the northeastern Japanese city of Yamagata on Aug. 5, 2014, as the Hanagasa Festival started there. Around 13,000 people from 150 groups will take part in the dancing during the three-day festival.

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Nikkei tops 13,000

TOKYO, Japan - An electronic signboard in central Tokyo's Yaesu district shows Japan's key Nikkei stock index trading above the 13,000 mark, up more than 400 points from the previous day, in the morning of April 5, 2013. The index rose to its highest level since August 2008, buoyed by the Bank of Japan's decision the previous day to conduct a set of bolder-than-expected monetary easing.

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S. Korean students write to Japanese children

SEOUL, South Korea - Chae Pa Da (L), a poet from Cheju Island in South Korea, hands some of the 13,000 encouraging letters from primary and secondary school students on the island addressed to children affected by the March 11 quake and tsunami in Japan to Japanese Ambassador to South Korea Masatoshi Muto during a ceremony in Seoul on April 13, 2011. The letter writing drive was started by Chae's call and carried out by a local education bureau.

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Kenwood's high definition navigation system

TOKYO, Japan - Photo show Kenwood Corp.'s new car navigation system ''Avenue'', which can display high definition images and maps. The company said Jan. 11, 2011, it will release Avenue MDV-727DT and MDV-626DT in February at nominal prices of 15,000 yen and 13,000 yen, respectively.

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DPJ-led ruling bloc gets key child benefits law enacted

TOKYO, Japan - Health, Labor and Welfare Minister Akira Nagatsuma bows in appreciation after a bill to offer monthly benefits to families with children is passed at a plenary session of the House of Councillors in Tokyo on March 26, 2010. The bill will provide 13,000 yen a month to households for every child of junior high school age or younger from April 1.

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Shipments of square watermelons begin in Kagawa Pref.

TAKAMATSU, Japan - Workers at an agricultural cooperative in Zentsuji, Kagawa Prefecture, check square-shaped watermelons on June 18 before shipment. The cooperative will ship about 600 of the watermelons, mainly for use in display, with a price tag ranging from 13,000 to 14,000 yen.

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Tokyo stocks rise on eased credit fears, Nikkei retakes 13,000

TOKYO, Japan - A stock board of a securities company in Tokyo's Chuo Ward shows the key Nikkei index surpassing the 13,000 mark in the morning April 2. The index surpassed the 13,000 mark for the first time in three weeks on Wall Street gains and a weaker yen amid easing credit fears.

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Nikkei falls below 13,000 for 1st time since Oct. 2005

TOKYO, Japan - A man walks past a stock index board at a securities company in Tokyo's Nihombashi district on Jan. 22. The board shows the key Nikkei stock index falling below the 13,000 line for the first time since October 2005 during the morning session on panic over global repercussions of the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis.

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Record crowd watches Japan team training

NARAHA, Japan - Japan midfielder Hidetoshi Nakata (C) practices with teammates May 20 as a record 13,000 people packed the J-Village facilities in Naraha to watch the Japanese national team train before leaving for Germany.

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Nikkei stock index finishes above 13,000 for 1st time in more than 4 yrs

TOKYO, Japan - An electronic board in Tokyo's Nihonbashi district shows the key Nikkei stock index rising above the 13,000 line on the morning of Sept. 20. The index finished the day above 13,000 for the first time in more than four years on continuing optimism over the Japanese economy.

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Sony unveils new Walkman that 'evolves' to suit users' taste

TOKYO, Japan - Sony Corp. said Sept. 8 it will release five new palm-size digital Walkman models that ''evolves'' in accordance with listeners' preference of music. The new Walkman A series, to be put on the Japanese market Nov. 19, is equipped with functions to learn users' taste in music. The five new models, including a 20-gigabyte one capable of storing up to 13,000 songs, are expected to be available for 30,000 to 35,000 yen.

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Dollar surges to 8-month high against yen in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - An electric board in Tokyo shows the dollar soaring above the 112.40 yen level and Nikkei Stock Average plunging below the 13,000 level on the morning of May 10.

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3 Chinese held over fake beer coupons from China

TOKYO, Japn - Put on display for the media at the Tokyo Customs Office on May 7 are some 13,000 fake beer coupons of Kirin Brewery Co. which police and customs officials say were imported from China by three Chinese students at vocational schools in the Tokyo area. They suspect the counterfeit coupons were produced in China and some of them have already been circulated in Japan.

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Japan reopens Nazi-era Berlin embassy in Berlin

BERLIN, Germany - Photo shows the official residence of the Japanese ambassador to Germany in Berlin. On March 5, Japan reopened the residence building and its embassy administrative building, both of which date from the Nazi era. The buildings resumed service for the first time in 56 years, following the mission's relocation from Bonn in 1999. They were built in 1942 and are located on a 13,000-square-meter lot in the in the heart of the city.

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Snow Brand chief apologizes to Osaka city over poisoning

OSAKA, Japan - Kohei Nishi (L), president of Snow Brand Milk Products Co., bows his head deeply to Junichi Seki (R), deputy mayor of Osaka, at the Osaka city hall on Dec. 28. Nishi apologized for the food-poisoning outbreak caused by his company's products that affected more than 13,000 people in western Japan in June and July.

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The harbinger of winter seen in Hokkaido

BIBAI, Japan - Photo shows white-fronted geese, the harbinger of winter, flying in flocks from the swamp of Miyajima in the city of Bibai, Hokkaido, northernmost Japan, on the morning of Oct. 17. About 13,000 geese will soon head for the swamp of Izu in northern Miyagi Prefecture at a speed of around 80 kilometers to pass this winter there.