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Luxury mushrooms from Noto fetch record price at auction

Luxury "Nototemari" shiitake mushrooms fetch a record price of 350,000 yen ($2,200) per bowl of six at this year's first auction in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, central Japan, on Jan. 9, 2025. The Noto region, where the mushrooms are produced, experienced a powerful earthquake in January 2024 and record torrential rains in September.

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Luxury mushrooms from Noto fetch record price at auction

Luxury "Nototemari" shiitake mushrooms are displayed after fetching a record price of 350,000 yen ($2,200) per bowl of six at this year's first auction in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, central Japan, on Jan. 9, 2025. The Noto region, where the mushrooms are produced, experienced a powerful earthquake in January 2024 and record torrential rains in September.

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20th anniversary of Chuetsu Earthquake

About 2,200 lights are lit in Nagaoka, Niigata Prefecture, northwest of Tokyo, on Oct. 23, 2024, to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the massive earthquake that killed 68 people.

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20th anniversary of Chuetsu Earthquake

About 2,200 lights are lit in Nagaoka, Niigata Prefecture, northwest of Tokyo, on Oct. 23, 2024, to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the massive earthquake that killed 68 people.

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Tokyo stocks tumble

TOKYO, Japan, Aug. 2 Kyodo - Financial monitors at a currency trading company in Tokyo show on Aug. 2, 2024, the Nikkei Stock Average ending over 2,200 points lower from the previous day's close to post its second-largest point drop in history. (Kyodo)

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Tokyo stocks tumble

Financial monitors at a currency trading company in Tokyo show on Aug. 2, 2024, the Nikkei Stock Average ending over 2,200 points lower from the previous day's close to post its second-largest point drop in history.

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Alphorn festival held in Swiss village

NENDAZ, Switzerland - Over 100 alphorn players give a traditional joint "concert" at the international Alphorn Festival in tandem with a Swiss national flag-waving "director" by a lake at an altitude of about 2,200 meters in Nendaz, southern Switzerland.

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Orfevre wins Takarazuka Kinen

TAKARAZUKA, Japan - Jockey Kenichi Ikezoe strokes Orfevre after the horse won the 53rd Takarazuka Kinen at Hanshin Racecourse in Takarazuka, Hyogo Prefecture, on June 24, 2012. Orfevre went off as the favorite and ran home the winner in a time of 2 minutes, 10.9 seconds over the 2,200 meters for his fifth G1 title.

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Orfevre wins Takarazuka Kinen

TAKARAZUKA, Japan - Orfevre (front) gallops to victory in the 53rd Takarazuka Kinen at Hanshin Racecourse in Takarazuka, Hyogo Prefecture, on June 24, 2012. Orfevre went off as the favorite and ran home the winner in a time of 2 minutes, 10.9 seconds over the 2,200 meters for his fifth G1 title. Second choice Rulership is seen in the back.

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Toray breaks ground for factory in S. Korea

GUMI, South Korea - A ground-breaking ceremony is held at a carbon fiber factory in Gumi in North Gyeongsang Province on June 28, 2011. Toray Advanced Materials Korea Inc., a South Korean arm of Japanese textile maker Toray Inc., envisions the factory will have an annual production capacity of 2,200 tons.

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Alico Japan says credit card fraud inquiries expand to 2,700

TOKYO, Japan - Executives of insurer Alico Japan apologize during a news conference in Tokyo on July 30. The company said the number of credit card fraud inquiries had increased to some 2,700 as of July 29 from an earlier reported level of 2,200 in connection with the suspected leakage of credit card data of some Alico Japan customers.

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Museum curator breaks 2,200-year-old glass accessory

OTSU, Japan - Officials at a museum in Shiga Prefecture show a broken antique glass accessory estimated to be 2,200 years old. A museum curator accidentally dropped and broke the item, designated by the government as an important cultural asset that was unearthed in 1989 at the Yoshinogari Remains in Saga Prefecture.

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Museum curator breaks 2,200-year-old glass accessory

OTSU, Japan - This photo shows a broken antique glass accessory estimated to be 2,200 years old, with pieces of fractured glass (front). A museum curator accidentally dropped and broke the item, designated by the government as an important cultural asset and believed to date back to the mid-Yayoi period.

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Kochi, Sapporo courts reject war orphans' damages claims

SAPPORO, Japan - Miyoko Ito, a plaintiff in a lawsuit filed by a group of war-displaced Japanese from China, weeps outside the Sapporo District Court on June 15 after the court rejected their claim for state compensation over their plight in Japan. The banner on Ito's left calls the ruling ''unfair.'' The Kochi District Court also delivered a similar ruling on the same day. A total of 2,200 war-displaced Japanese have filed 15 damages suits at various district courts in Japan since 2001. The courts have issued eight rulings, all against them.

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Biggest Uniqlo clothing shop in Asia opens in Shanghai

SHANGHAI, China - Shoppers crowd a Uniqlo brand shop which major Japanese casual clothing retail chain Fast Retailing Co. opened in Shanghai on Dec. 9. With a floor space of 2,200 square meters, it is the company's biggest outlet in Asia.

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Tokyo's Ueno zoo celebrates 120th anniversary

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara (L) addresses a ceremony to celebrate the 120th anniversary of Ueno Zoological Gardens on March 30, with Prince Akishino (2nd from R) and Princess Kiko (R) looking on. Ueno zoo, Japan's oldest zoological park, is home to more than 2,200 animals and about 430 species.

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Mejiro Dober wins 2nd straight Queen Elizabeth Cup

KYOTO, Japan - Second favorite Mejiro Dober (C) darts from the middle of the pack entering the stretch and held off a surging Fusaichi Aredale on Nov. 14 to win her second straight Queen Elizabeth Cup race for fillies and mares. The 5-year-old Mejiro Dober covered the 2,200-meter turf at Kyoto Racecourse in 2 minutes, 13.5 seconds to win by three quarters of a length, giving jockey Yutaka Yoshida and trainer Yokichi Okubo their second Queen Elizabeth Cup each.