Stained glass-made armor in Japan

Stained glass-made armor in Japan

A stained glass Japanese suit of armor is displayed at the Nagoya Marriott Associa Hotel in Nagoya, central Japan, on Jan. 7, 2026. The 2-meter tall artwork, created by Japanese artist Yoji Uchiyama, was recognized by Guinness World Records in April 2025 as "the largest stained glass sculpture of a samurai armor."

Stained glass-made armor in Japan

Stained glass-made armor in Japan

A stained glass Japanese suit of armor is displayed at the Nagoya Marriott Associa Hotel in Nagoya, central Japan, on Jan. 7, 2026. The 2-meter tall artwork, created by Japanese artist Yoji Uchiyama, was recognized by Guinness World Records in April 2025 as "the largest stained glass sculpture of a samurai armor."

Stained glass-made armor in Japan

Stained glass-made armor in Japan

A stained glass Japanese suit of armor is displayed at the Nagoya Marriott Associa Hotel in Nagoya, central Japan, on Jan. 7, 2026. The 2-meter tall artwork, created by Japanese artist Yoji Uchiyama, was recognized by Guinness World Records in April 2025 as "the largest stained glass sculpture of a samurai armor."

Sun Wukong Promotes For Merchants

Sun Wukong Promotes For Merchants

YICHANG, CHINA - SEPTEMBER 7, 2024 - A 2-meter-tall Sun Wukong attracts children to play with him as he promotes the opening of a business in Yichang, Hubei province, China, September 7, 2024.

Sun Wukong Promotes For Merchants

Sun Wukong Promotes For Merchants

YICHANG, CHINA - SEPTEMBER 7, 2024 - A 2-meter-tall Sun Wukong attracts children to play with him as he promotes the opening of a business in Yichang, Hubei province, China, September 7, 2024.

Sun Wukong Promotes For Merchants

Sun Wukong Promotes For Merchants

YICHANG, CHINA - SEPTEMBER 7, 2024 - A 2-meter-tall Sun Wukong attracts children to play with him as he promotes the opening of a business in Yichang, Hubei province, China, September 7, 2024.

Sun Wukong Promotes For Merchants

Sun Wukong Promotes For Merchants

YICHANG, CHINA - SEPTEMBER 7, 2024 - A 2-meter-tall Sun Wukong attracts children to play with him as he promotes the opening of a business in Yichang, Hubei province, China, September 7, 2024.

Sun Wukong Promotes For Merchants

Sun Wukong Promotes For Merchants

YICHANG, CHINA - SEPTEMBER 7, 2024 - A 2-meter-tall Sun Wukong attracts children to play with him as he promotes the opening of a business in Yichang, Hubei province, China, September 7, 2024.

Annual equestrian event at Mie shrine

Annual equestrian event at Mie shrine

A horse and its rider attempt to get over a 2-meter-high mud wall at Tado Taisha, a Shinto shrine in Kuwana, Mie Prefecture, on May 4, 2023, during a festival to pray for good harvests. The festival is said to date back to the 14th century, and it is believed the greater the number of times the horse makes it over the wall, the larger the crop yield in the region.

Annual wall-climbing event at Mie shrine

Annual wall-climbing event at Mie shrine

A horse and its rider attempt to get over a 2-meter-high mud wall at Tado Taisha, a Shinto shrine in Kuwana, Mie Prefecture, on May 4, 2023, during a festival to pray for good harvests. The festival is said to date back to the 14th century, and it is believed the greater the number of times the horse makes it over the wall, the larger the crop yield in the region.

China's Guangxi sees bumper harvest of 2-meter-high giant hybrid rice

STORY: China's Guangxi sees bumper harvest of 2-meter-high giant hybrid rice DATELINE: Aug. 18, 2023 LENGTH: 0:00:50 LOCATION: NANNING, China CATEGORY: AGRICULTURE SHOTLIST: 1 various of paddy field 2 SOUNDBITE (Chinese): LU XIWAN, Farmer 3 various of paddy field STORYLINE: Farmers in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region have reaped a bumper harvest of 2-meter-high "giant rice," a new hybrid rice variety developed by Chinese agricultural experts. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): LU XIWAN, Farmer "This year we have planted more than 200 mu (about 13.3 hectares) of giant hybrid rice. The yield increases by 150-200 kg per mu compared with previous years, which is quite a high yield. We plan to expand the paddy field by 100-200 mu next year, hoping to reap another bumper harvest." China has completely independent intellectual property rights of giant hybrid rice. Its height doubles that of ordinary rice. The giant hybrid rice is high-yielding, drought-tolerant, and resistant to diseases and waterlogging. Xi

Annual equestrian event at Mie shrine

Annual equestrian event at Mie shrine

A horse and its rider attempt to get over a 2-meter-high mud wall at Tado Taisha, a Shinto shrine in Kuwana, Mie Prefecture, on May 4, 2023, during a festival to pray for good harvests. The festival is said to date back to the 14th century, and it is believed the greater the number of times the horse makes it over the wall, the larger the crop yield in the region.

Annual wall-climbing event at Mie shrine

Annual wall-climbing event at Mie shrine

A horse and its rider attempt to get over a 2-meter-high mud wall at Tado Taisha, a Shinto shrine in Kuwana, Mie Prefecture, on May 4, 2023, during a festival to pray for good harvests. The festival is said to date back to the 14th century, and it is believed the greater the number of times the horse makes it over the wall, the larger the crop yield in the region.

Annual wall-climbing event at Mie shrine

Annual wall-climbing event at Mie shrine

KUWANA, Japan - A horse and rider climb up a 2-meter steep mud wall at Tado Taisha, a Shinto shrine in Kuwana, Mie Prefecture, on May 4, 2014, during a festival to pray for good harvests.

100-meter-long rainbow flag on 8th-month tsunami anniv.

100-meter-long rainbow flag on 8th-month tsunami anniv.

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - People hold up a rainbow-colored flag stretching over 100 meters in the Utatsu district in the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, in northeastern Japan on Nov. 11, 2011, marking eight months since a massive earthquake and tsunami struck the region. The flag was created by putting together some 50 2-meter by 2-meter flags bearing messages expressing hope for reconstruction of the area, written by people in Japan and abroad, in an act of continued support organized by a volunteer group.

100-meter-long rainbow flag on 8th-month tsunami anniv.

100-meter-long rainbow flag on 8th-month tsunami anniv.

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - People hold a rainbow-colored flag stretching over 100 meters in the Utatsu district in the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, in northeastern Japan on Nov. 11, 2011, marking eight months since a massive earthquake and tsunami struck the region. The flag was created by putting together some 50 2-meter by 2-meter flags bearing messages expressing hope for reconstruction of the area, written by people in Japan and abroad, in an act of continued support organized by a volunteer group.

100-meter-long rainbow flag on 8th-month tsunami anniv.

100-meter-long rainbow flag on 8th-month tsunami anniv.

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - A rainbow-colored flag stretching over 100 meters is laid on the ground in the Utatsu district in the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, in northeastern Japan on Nov. 11, 2011, marking eight months since a massive earthquake and tsunami struck the region. The flag was created by putting together some 50 2-meter by 2-meter flags bearing messages expressing hope for reconstruction of the area, written by people in Japan and abroad, in an act of continued support organized by a volunteer group.

Japanese manager of submerged Thai plant retrieves hard-disk drives

Japanese manager of submerged Thai plant retrieves hard-disk drives

AYUTTHAYA, Thailand - Takaharu Shinohara, a factory manager of ECF Precision Co., holds hard-disk drives he retrieved from under water at his submerged plant in Rojana Industrial Park in Thailand's Ayutthaya Province on Nov. 5, 2011. Shinohara waded into 2-meter-deep water to retrieve the drives that are crucial to his automotive fastener business.

Japanese manager of submerged Thai plant retrieves hard-disk drives

Japanese manager of submerged Thai plant retrieves hard-disk drives

AYUTTHAYA, Thailand - Takaharu Shinohara (front), a factory manager of ECF Precision Co., tows a boat carrying computers he retrieved from under water at his submerged plant in Rojana Industrial Park in Thailand's Ayutthaya Province on Nov. 5, 2011. Shinohara waded into 2-meter-deep water to retrieve hard-disk drives crucial to his automotive fastener business.

Hachune Miku goes to Tottori

Hachune Miku goes to Tottori

YONAGO, Japan - A 2-meter-tall papier-mache version of Hachune Miku (R), a popular ''vocaloid'' character with origins in a voice synthesizer software product, is transported to Yonago, Tottori Prefecture, on Oct. 12, 2010, to promote local leeks as she typically waves leeks held in her hand. On the left are Yonago City's leek character Yonegizu.

Wooden sidewalk drawing attention as tool to cool down Tokyo

Wooden sidewalk drawing attention as tool to cool down Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - People walk on a wooden section (L) of a sidewalk in Tokyo's Nihombashi district in early March. The 24-meter-long, 2-meter-wide section made of thinned wood is drawing attention as a means to help curb high temperatures and humidity during summertime.

Shinoda Plasma to build 2-meter-by-3-meter display panels

Shinoda Plasma to build 2-meter-by-3-meter display panels

KOBE, Japan - An 86-inch plasma panel measuring 1 meter by 2 meters developed by Shinoda Plasma Co., Ltd. is on display in Kobe on Oct. 26. Shinoda Plasma, a Kobe-based venture spun from Fujitsu Ltd., says it is developing 150-inch panels measuring 2 meters by 3 meters by putting the basic 86-inch panels together. It plans to sell these giant panels by the fall of 2008. Built with plasma tubes 1 meter long and 1 mm in diameter, the panels can be bent into various shapes for use at public arenas such as railway stations and airports, the company says.

Leap-over-the-wall event held at Mie shrine

Leap-over-the-wall event held at Mie shrine

KUWANA, Japan - A leap-over-the-wall event is held at Dado Shrine in Kuwana, Mie Prefecture, on May 4 to augur this year's harvest and business trend. Photo shows a young man mounted on a horse trying to leap over the 2-meter earthen wall. Six male participants made two attempts each and this time four out of the six youths successfully got over the wall for a total of six times altogether, indicating good business for the year.

M5.4 quake jolts central Japan

M5.4 quake jolts central Japan

KAMEYAMA, Japan - A strong earthquake hit Mie Prefecture and vicinity in central and western Japan, causing a 2-meter wide, 6-meter high part of the stone wall of Kameyama Castle in the prefecture to fall.

(2)ASDF opens Kuwait base to Japanese media

(2)ASDF opens Kuwait base to Japanese media

KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait - A warehouse at the Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait being used by Japan's Air Self-Defense Force sustained a 2-meter hole after being hit by a U.S. missile during the 1991 Gulf War. The ASDF on Dec. 10 opened its base for airlifting supplies and troops in and around Iraq to Kyodo News and other Japanese news organizations for the first time since being deployed to the country in March.

A-bombed statue of Virgin Mary shown at culture festival

A-bombed statue of Virgin Mary shown at culture festival

NAGOYA, Japan - A charred statute of the Virgin Mary is on display at a cultural festival at Nanzan High School in Nagoya on Sept. 28. The 2-meter-high Italian-made wooden statute was installed at Urakami Chatholic Church in Nagasaki in 1929, and was damaged during the U.S. atomic bombing of the city on Aug. 9, 1945. The remaining head section is usually kept at the church.

Iran to display World Cup Persian carpet in Seoul, Yokohama

Iran to display World Cup Persian carpet in Seoul, Yokohama

TEHRAN, Iran - A woman stands by a newly woven 2.3-meter by 2-meter silk Persian carpet at Raja Travel and Tours, an Iranian travel agency, in Tehran on May 21. The agency hopes to display the carpet in Seoul, the venue of the World Cup opening match May 31, and in Yokohama, the venue for the World Cup championship match June 30. The carpet, 90% silk and 10% wool, is dominated by a huge stadium in the center, with the stadiums in Yokohama and Seoul featured below the center stadium.

Chocolate Venus de Milo attracts customers

Chocolate Venus de Milo attracts customers

OSAKA, Japan - A Venus de Milo sculpted of white chocolate is shown at an Osaka department store Feb. 8 ahead of St. Valentine's Day. The 2-meter tall sculpture weighs about 70 kilograms.

Icebreaker crew take open-air New Year bath in Antarctica

Icebreaker crew take open-air New Year bath in Antarctica

ABOARD THE SHIRASE, Antarctic Ocean - Sailors aboard the Japanese icebreaker Shirase take a New Year's bath Jan. 6 in an open-air deck tub with a magnificent view of icebergs in the distance. Members of an expedition to Japan's Showa Base in Antarctica also bathed in the 2-meter-square tub built with scrap wood from the hold of the 11,600-ton Maritime Self-Defense Force ship. The temperature at noon was minus 2 C.

Crane sculpture symbolizes victims of radiation, violence

Crane sculpture symbolizes victims of radiation, violence

WASHINGTON, United States - This 2-meter-high sculpture of a crane symbolizing the victims of radiation, militarism and violence was unveiled Aug. 8 at the Josephine Butler Community Center in Washington to commemorate the 55th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. The ''Peace Crane'' is made with objects that are taken for granted, including electric cord, a lampshade, chicken wire and wooden spoons, just like the people who were taken for granted when the bomb was dropped, according to the work's creator, Marjorie Kouns.

Lecture from space: Drinking juice with super-long straw

STORY: Lecture from space: Drinking juice with super-long straw DATELINE: Oct. 12, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:01 LOCATION: Beijing CATEGORY: SCIENCE SHOTLIST: 1. various of the experiment in the Wentian lab module 2. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): LIU YANG, China's Shenzhou-14 astronaut STORYLINE: Is it possible to suck juice through a 2-meter-long drinking straw? Chinese astronauts show you the experiment from China's space station. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): LIU YANG, China's Shenzhou-14 astronaut "Today I'm going to use a 2-meter-long drinking straw to drink. I've sucked my mango juice. It's pretty easy. Due to the gravity on the ground, the longer the straw is, the more effort it takes to suck. But the space station is a microgravity environment. Just sucking gently, I can easily drink from the drinking bag two meters away." The third live class from China's space station was held Wednesday afternoon, delivered by Shenzhou-14 crew members Chen Dong, Liu Yang and Cai Xuzhe to students on Earth. Xinhua News Agency correspond

2-meter-long pet python on loose in western Japan

2-meter-long pet python on loose in western Japan

A police officer searches for a 2-meter-long pet ball python in Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture, on April 18, 2022, after the snake escaped from the owner's car at a parking lot in the western Japan city on April 15.

2-meter-long pet python on loose in western Japan

2-meter-long pet python on loose in western Japan

A police officer searches for a 2-meter-long pet ball python in Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture, on April 18, 2022, after the snake escaped from the owner's car at a parking lot in the western Japan city on April 15.

Icebreaker crew take open-air New Year bath in Antarctica

Icebreaker crew take open-air New Year bath in Antarctica

ABOARD THE SHIRASE, Antarctic Ocean - Sailors aboard the Japanese icebreaker Shirase take a New Year's bath Jan. 6 in an open-air deck tub with a magnificent view of icebergs in the distance. Members of an expedition to Japan's Showa Base in Antarctica also bathed in the 2-meter-square tub built with scrap wood from the hold of the 11,600-ton Maritime Self-Defense Force ship. The temperature at noon was minus 2 C.

Capsule released by satellite lands in sea on target

Capsule released by satellite lands in sea on target

TOKYO, Japan - An experimental capsule released by an unmanned Japanese satellite is retrieved after it landed on target east of the Ogasawara Islands on May 30. Officials at the Institute for Unmanned Space Experiment Free Flyer (USFF) said the 2-meter-long, bell-shaped capsule contains superconductive materials produced in space. Photo was provided by USFF. (Kyodo)

(2)ASDF opens Kuwait base to Japanese media

(2)ASDF opens Kuwait base to Japanese media

KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait - A warehouse at the Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait being used by Japan's Air Self-Defense Force sustained a 2-meter hole after being hit by a U.S. missile during the 1991 Gulf War. The ASDF on Dec. 10 opened its base for airlifting supplies and troops in and around Iraq to Kyodo News and other Japanese news organizations for the first time since being deployed to the country in March. (Kyodo)

World's largest flower blossoms at Tokyo park

World's largest flower blossoms at Tokyo park

Photo taken July 22, 2015, at Jindai botanical park in the city of Chofu, Tokyo, shows Amorphophallus titanium, which is said to be the largest flower in the world. The 2-meter-high flower blossomed on the day for its first bloom in five years. As the best time to see it was short, the park opened at 8:30 a.m., one hour earlier than usual. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

World's largest flower blossoms at Tokyo park

World's largest flower blossoms at Tokyo park

Photo taken July 22, 2015, at Jindai botanical park in the city of Chofu, Tokyo, shows Amorphophallus titanium, which is said to be the largest flower in the world. The 2-meter-high flower blossomed on the day for its first bloom in five years. As the best time to see it was short, the park opened at 8:30 a.m., one hour earlier than usual. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

World's largest flower blossoms at Tokyo park

World's largest flower blossoms at Tokyo park

Photo taken July 22, 2015, at Jindai botanical park in the city of Chofu, Tokyo, shows Amorphophallus titanium, which is said to be the largest flower in the world. The 2-meter-high flower blossomed on the day for its first bloom in five years. As the best time to see it was short, the park opened at 8:30 a.m., one hour earlier than usual. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Japanese golfer Matsuyama awaits par putt on 18th in 2nd round of Masters

Japanese golfer Matsuyama awaits par putt on 18th in 2nd round of Masters

Hideki Matsuyama of Japan ponders on the 18th-hole green in the second round of the Masters tournament on April 10, 2015, at the Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia. He sank a 2-meter putt for par to end the round with a 70 for a 12th-place tie. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Equestrian festival in Japan

Equestrian festival in Japan

A young man rides a horse over a 2-meter-high clay wall in a festival at Tado Taisha, a Shinto shrine in Kuwana in Mie Prefecture, central Japan, on May 4, 2018. In the festival said to date back to the 14th century, it is believed that the greater the number of times horses successfully make it over the wall, the better the crop in the region. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Iran to display World Cup Persian carpet in Seoul, Yokohama

Iran to display World Cup Persian carpet in Seoul, Yokohama

TEHRAN, Iran - A woman stands by a newly woven 2.3-meter by 2-meter silk Persian carpet at Raja Travel and Tours, an Iranian travel agency, in Tehran on May 21. The agency hopes to display the carpet in Seoul, the venue of the World Cup opening match May 31, and in Yokohama, the venue for the World Cup championship match June 30. The carpet, 90% silk and 10% wool, is dominated by a huge stadium in the center, with the stadiums in Yokohama and Seoul featured below the center stadium.

Leap-over-the-wall event held at Mie shrine

Leap-over-the-wall event held at Mie shrine

KUWANA, Japan - A leap-over-the-wall event is held at Dado Shrine in Kuwana, Mie Prefecture, on May 4 to augur this year's harvest and business trend. Photo shows a young man mounted on a horse trying to leap over the 2-meter earthen wall. Six male participants made two attempts each and this time four out of the six youths successfully got over the wall for a total of six times altogether, indicating good business for the year. (Kyodo)

M5.4 quake jolts central Japan

M5.4 quake jolts central Japan

KAMEYAMA, Japan - A strong earthquake hit Mie Prefecture and vicinity in central and western Japan, causing a 2-meter wide, 6-meter high part of the stone wall of Kameyama Castle in the prefecture to fall. (Kyodo)

Wooden sidewalk drawing attention as tool to cool down Tokyo

Wooden sidewalk drawing attention as tool to cool down Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - People walk on a wooden section (L) of a sidewalk in Tokyo's Nihombashi district in early March. The 24-meter-long, 2-meter-wide section made of thinned wood is drawing attention as a means to help curb high temperatures and humidity during summertime. (Kyodo)

Shinoda Plasma to build 2-meter-by-3-meter display panels

Shinoda Plasma to build 2-meter-by-3-meter display panels

KOBE, Japan - An 86-inch plasma panel measuring 1 meter by 2 meters developed by Shinoda Plasma Co., Ltd. is on display in Kobe on Oct. 26. Shinoda Plasma, a Kobe-based venture spun from Fujitsu Ltd., says it is developing 150-inch panels measuring 2 meters by 3 meters by putting the basic 86-inch panels together. It plans to sell these giant panels by the fall of 2008. Built with plasma tubes 1 meter long and 1 mm in diameter, the panels can be bent into various shapes for use at public arenas such as railway stations and airports, the company says. (Kyodo)

Hachune Miku goes to Tottori

Hachune Miku goes to Tottori

YONAGO, Japan - A 2-meter-tall papier-mache version of Hachune Miku (R), a popular ''vocaloid'' character with origins in a voice synthesizer software product, is transported to Yonago, Tottori Prefecture, on Oct. 12, 2010, to promote local leeks as she typically waves leeks held in her hand. On the left are Yonago City's leek character Yonegizu. (Kyodo)

Chocolate Venus de Milo attracts customers

Chocolate Venus de Milo attracts customers

OSAKA, Japan - A Venus de Milo sculpted of white chocolate is shown at an Osaka department store Feb. 8 ahead of St. Valentine's Day. The 2-meter tall sculpture weighs about 70 kilograms.

Japanese manager of submerged Thai plant retrieves hard-disk driv

Japanese manager of submerged Thai plant retrieves hard-disk driv

AYUTTHAYA, Thailand - Takaharu Shinohara (front), a factory manager of ECF Precision Co., tows a boat carrying computers he retrieved from under water at his submerged plant in Rojana Industrial Park in Thailand's Ayutthaya Province on Nov. 5, 2011. Shinohara waded into 2-meter-deep water to retrieve hard-disk drives crucial to his automotive fastener business. (Kyodo)

Japanese manager of submerged Thai plant retrieves hard-disk driv

Japanese manager of submerged Thai plant retrieves hard-disk driv

AYUTTHAYA, Thailand - Takaharu Shinohara, a factory manager of ECF Precision Co., holds hard-disk drives he retrieved from under water at his submerged plant in Rojana Industrial Park in Thailand's Ayutthaya Province on Nov. 5, 2011. Shinohara waded into 2-meter-deep water to retrieve the drives that are crucial to his automotive fastener business. (Kyodo)