Gold prices top 20,000 yen per gram

Gold prices top 20,000 yen per gram

Photo taken on Sept. 29, 2025, shows gold necklaces at secondhand jewelry dealer Komehyo Co. in Tokyo's Ginza shopping area. The benchmark retail gold price topped 20,000 yen per gram the same day for the first time.

Gold price surge

Gold price surge

An electronic board at a retail shop of Tanaka Precious Metal Technologies Co. in Tokyo's Ginza district shows the benchmark retail gold price set by the Tokyo company topping 20,000 yen per gram for the first time on Sept. 29, 2025.

How a resignation support service works

How a resignation support service works

User of the service:The user of the service asks a resignation support agency, via smartphone, to expedite his resignation from his company. The service costs 20,000 yen ($140) to 50,000 yen.Resignation support agency:The resignation support agency approaches the company and offers his resignation on behalf of him.Company:(Kyodo)

How a resignation support service works

How a resignation support service works

User of the service:The user of the service asks a resignation support agency, via smartphone, to expedite his resignation from his company. The service costs 20,000 yen ($140) to 50,000 yen.Resignation support agency:The resignation support agency approaches the company and offers his resignation on behalf of him.Company(Kyodo)

Nissan unveils drastic streamlining plan

Nissan unveils drastic streamlining plan

Nissan Motor Co. CEO Ivan Espinosa attends a press conference in Yokohama on May 13, 2025, announcing a drastic restructuring package including closure of seven vehicle plants and a cut of 20,000 jobs globally as the company logged a massive net loss for fiscal 2024.

Nissan unveils drastic streamlining plan

Nissan unveils drastic streamlining plan

Nissan Motor Co. CEO Ivan Espinosa attends a press conference in Yokohama on May 13, 2025, announcing a drastic restructuring package including closure of seven vehicle plants and a cut of 20,000 jobs globally as the company logged a massive net loss for fiscal 2024.

Nissan unveils drastic streamlining plan

Nissan unveils drastic streamlining plan

Nissan Motor Co. CEO Ivan Espinosa attends a press conference in Yokohama on May 13, 2025, announcing a drastic restructuring package including closure of seven vehicle plants and a cut of 20,000 jobs globally as the company logged a massive net loss for fiscal 2024.

Nissan unveils drastic streamlining plan

Nissan unveils drastic streamlining plan

Nissan Motor Co. CEO Ivan Espinosa attends a press conference in Yokohama on May 13, 2025, announcing a drastic restructuring package including closure of seven vehicle plants and a cut of 20,000 jobs globally as the company logged a massive net loss for fiscal 2024.

Nissan unveils drastic streamlining plan

Nissan unveils drastic streamlining plan

Nissan Motor Co. CEO Ivan Espinosa attends a press conference in Yokohama on May 13, 2025, announcing a drastic restructuring package including closure of seven vehicle plants and a cut of 20,000 jobs globally as the company logged a massive net loss for fiscal 2024.

Nissan unveils drastic streamlining plan

Nissan unveils drastic streamlining plan

Nissan Motor Co. CEO Ivan Espinosa attends a press conference in Yokohama on May 13, 2025, announcing a drastic restructuring package including closure of seven vehicle plants and a cut of 20,000 jobs globally as the company logged a massive net loss for fiscal 2024.

Nissan unveils drastic streamlining plan

Nissan unveils drastic streamlining plan

Nissan Motor Co. CEO Ivan Espinosa attends a press conference in Yokohama on May 13, 2025, announcing a drastic restructuring package including closure of seven vehicle plants and a cut of 20,000 jobs globally as the company logged a massive net loss for fiscal 2024.

Nissan unveils drastic streamlining plan

Nissan unveils drastic streamlining plan

Nissan Motor Co. CEO Ivan Espinosa attends a press conference in Yokohama on May 13, 2025, announcing a drastic restructuring package including closure of seven vehicle plants and a cut of 20,000 jobs globally as the company logged a massive net loss for fiscal 2024.

Nissan unveils drastic streamlining plan

Nissan unveils drastic streamlining plan

Nissan Motor Co. CEO Ivan Espinosa attends a press conference in Yokohama on May 13, 2025, announcing a drastic restructuring package including closure of seven vehicle plants and a cut of 20,000 jobs globally as the company logged a massive net loss for fiscal 2024.

Kobe Marathon

Kobe Marathon

Runners start in the Kobe Marathon in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, on Nov. 17, 2024. About 20,000 people took part in the event, held under the theme "thanks and friendship" as the western Japan city soon marks the 30th anniversary of the January 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake.

Kobe Marathon

Kobe Marathon

Runners start in the Kobe Marathon in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, on Nov. 17, 2024. About 20,000 people took part in the event, held under the theme "thanks and friendship" as the western Japan city soon marks the 30th anniversary of the January 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake.

Baseball: Ohtani donates gloves to Japanese schools

Baseball: Ohtani donates gloves to Japanese schools

Photo taken on Dec. 22, 2023, shows a baseball glove that Shohei Ohtani donated to his alma mater Anetai Elementary School in Oshu in the northeastern Japan prefecture of Iwate, with a message reading "Let's play baseball!." The two-way baseball star is donating three gloves to each of Japan's 20,000 elementary schools and deliveries are expected to be completed by next March.

Kobe Marathon

Kobe Marathon

Some 20,000 runners cross the start line for the Kobe Marathon, an event celebrating the recovery of the western Japan city from the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake, on Nov. 19, 2023.

Kim Il Sung flower exhibition starts in Pyongyang

Kim Il Sung flower exhibition starts in Pyongyang

PYONGYANG, North Korea - An exhibition of Kimilsungia orchids started in Pyongyang on April 13 commemorating the 97th anniversary of the April 15 birth of the late North Korean founder Kim Il Sung. State entities, the military and North Korea-linked foreign organizations provided some 20,000 pots of the Indonesia-originated flower for the event.

Grape-picking in season at Kyoho grape farms in Wakayama

Grape-picking in season at Kyoho grape farms in Wakayama

KAINAN, Japan - Grape-picking is now in season at Arida Kyoho Village, a farming co-operative in Aridagawa, Wakayama Prefecture organized by 28 grape farmers who grow mostly Kyoho grapes on 20 hectares of hilly grape farms. The grape-picking season for tourists begins on Aug. 19 and lasts through late September. According to Arida co-op officials, good weather this year has made Kyoho grapes sweeter. About 20,000 people visit the grape farms each year to pick Kyoho grapes.

Sea urchins return to Sea of Japan coastal waters

Sea urchins return to Sea of Japan coastal waters

FUKUI, Japan - A diver is all smiles with a bagful of sea urchins she gathered after three hours of work on Aug. 6, the last day of the urchin-gathering season off the coast of Fukui Prefecture. Fishermen in the area say the volume of sea urchins caught off the Fukui coast have more or less returned to normal 10 years after the Russian oil tanker Nakhodka carrying 20,000 kiloliters of fuel oil broke up in stormy weather in the Sea of Japan and up to 6,200 kiloliters of oil washed up in the coasts of 10 prefectures. At one point, the volume of sea urchins gathered by a local fishermen's cooperative in Fukui dropped to 19 kilograms, compared with an annual average of 300 kg before the spill, fishermen say.

Italian motorcyclists begin journey to Hiroshima via Belarus

Italian motorcyclists begin journey to Hiroshima via Belarus

VENICE, Italy - The Marco Polo Team of three Italian motorcyclists, led by lawyer Michele Orlando (R), shows paper cranes made by Italian children at Plaza San Marco in Venice on Aug. 3 before leaving the city on a 20,000-kilometer trans-Eurasian journey to Hiroshima via Belarus to campaign against radiation tragedies. The motorbikers will deliver paper cranes to a monument dedicated to a Japanese girl who died at age 12 as a result of the wartime atomic bombing of the city on Aug. 6, 1945.

Nikkei tops 20,000 for 1st time since December 2015

Nikkei tops 20,000 for 1st time since December 2015

TOKYO, Japan, June 2 Kyodo - A stock price monitor in Tokyo shows the Nikkei Stock Average topping the 20,000 mark for the first time since December 2015, on June 2, 2017.

JSDF plane heads for W. Africa with 20,000 sets of Ebola gear

JSDF plane heads for W. Africa with 20,000 sets of Ebola gear

NAGOYA, Japan - A Japan Air Self-Defense Force transport plane carrying 20,000 sets of anti-Ebola protective gear leaves from the ASDF's Komaki Air Base in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, for West Africa on Dec. 6, 2014.

JSDF plane heads for W. Africa with 20,000 sets of Ebola gear

JSDF plane heads for W. Africa with 20,000 sets of Ebola gear

NAGOYA, Japan - Containers with 20,000 sets of anti-Ebola protective gear are loaded onto a Japan Air Self-Defense Force transport plane before its departure from the ASDF's Komaki Air Base in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, for West Africa on Dec. 6, 2014.

JSDF plane heads for W. Africa with 20,000 sets of Ebola gear

JSDF plane heads for W. Africa with 20,000 sets of Ebola gear

NAGOYA, Japan - Containers with 20,000 sets of anti-Ebola protective gear are loaded onto a Japan Air Self-Defense Force transport plane before its departure from the ASDF's Komaki Air Base in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, for West Africa on Dec. 6, 2014.

Japan to use SDF aircraft in fight against Ebola

Japan to use SDF aircraft in fight against Ebola

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on Nov. 28, 2014, shows a man wearing a set of personal protective equipment at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo. Japan will fly Air Self-Defense Force transport aircraft to Ghana to supply Ebola-hit West Africa with 20,000 sets of the equipment, the government said the same day.

Japanese community papers in fierce battle in U.S.

Japanese community papers in fierce battle in U.S.

NEW YORK, United States - Ryoichi Miura, publisher of the Shukan New York Seikatsu, a New York City-based Japanese community paper with a weekly circulation of around 20,000 copies, holds a copy of the paper in New York on Oct. 20, 2014.

N. Koreans enjoy 2nd day of pro wrestling exhibition

N. Koreans enjoy 2nd day of pro wrestling exhibition

PYONGYANG, North Korea - A crowd of nearly 20,000 North Koreans gather at a gymnasium in Pyongyang on Aug. 31, 2014, to attend the final day of a pro wrestling event co-organized by Japanese Diet member Antonio Inoki.

Sumida River fireworks festival in Tokyo

Sumida River fireworks festival in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Fireworks explode over the Sumida River in Tokyo on July 26, 2014, at the annual fireworks festival. Organizers said about 965,000 people enjoyed the event, in which some 20,000 fireworks were set off. At right is the lit-up 634-meter tall Tokyo Skytree.

Sumida River fireworks festival in Tokyo

Sumida River fireworks festival in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Fireworks explode over the Sumida River in Tokyo on July 26, 2014, at the annual fireworks festival. Organizers said about 965,000 people enjoyed the event, in which some 20,000 fireworks were set off. At right is the lit-up 634-meter tall Tokyo Skytree.

Urban Animal Album

Urban Animal Album

KOBE, Japan - Surprised by the sound of a camera shutter, a raccoon stands on its hind legs in a side ditch near a shrine in the city of Kobe, western Japan, on June 26, 2014. The animal, native to North America, became feral in Japan after some raccoons escaped from zoos or were abandoned by people who kept them as pets. As a result, more than 20,000 raccoons are captured across the country every year because of the damage they cause to crops.

New Year sales

New Year sales

TOKYO, Japan - Shoppers buy "lucky bags" filled with discount goods at the Seibu department store in Ikebukuro, Tokyo, on Jan. 1, 2013. Some 20,000 people lined up for New Year sales at the store.

New Year sales

New Year sales

TOKYO, Japan - Shoppers crowd the Seibu department store in Ikebukuro, Tokyo, on Jan. 1, 2013. Some 20,000 people lined up for New Year sales at the store.

IMF, World Bank begin annual meetings in Tokyo

IMF, World Bank begin annual meetings in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Olivier Blanchard (L), director of the Research Department at the International Monetary Fund, holds a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 9, 2012 on the outlook for the world economy. The IMF and World Bank started their joint annual meetings in Tokyo the same day, with nearly 20,000 government and private-sector officials and central bankers expected to gather to discuss issues ranging from the eurozone crisis and the slowing global economy to measures to support developing nations.

IMF, World Bank begin annual meetings in Tokyo

IMF, World Bank begin annual meetings in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - International Monetary Fund officials hold a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 9, 2012 on the outlook for the world economy. The IMF and World Bank started their joint annual meetings in Tokyo the same day, with nearly 20,000 government and private-sector officials and central bankers expected to gather to discuss issues ranging from the eurozone crisis and the slowing global economy to measures to support developing nations.

IMF, World Bank begin annual meetings in Tokyo

IMF, World Bank begin annual meetings in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Olivier Blanchard, director of the Research Department at the International Monetary Fund, holds a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 9, 2012 on the outlook for the world economy. The IMF and World Bank started their joint annual meetings in Tokyo the same day, with nearly 20,000 government and private-sector officials and central bankers expected to gather to discuss issues ranging from the eurozone crisis and the slowing global economy to measures to support developing nations.

Mt. Fuji draws 246,616 climbers

Mt. Fuji draws 246,616 climbers

KOFU, Japan - Photo shows climbers on Mt. Fuji in July 2012. A municipal government in Yamanashi said on Sept. 1, 2012, that the mountain drew 246,616 climbers during July and August, up about 20,000 from the previous year due mainly to fine weather.

Candles lit for people of Fukushima

Candles lit for people of Fukushima

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Parents and children enjoy the beauty of candle light at Fukushima Race Course in the city of Fukushima on Aug. 25, 2012. About 20,000 candles were lit, with messages of encouragement written on their holders by people from throughout Japan, during an event to encourage the people of Fukushima Prefecture, who are still suffering from the damage wrecked by the nuclear crisis following the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

Candles lit for people of Fukushima

Candles lit for people of Fukushima

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Children enjoy the beauty of candle light at Fukushima Race Course in the city of Fukushima on Aug. 25, 2012. About 20,000 candles were lit, with messages of encouragement written on their holders by people from throughout Japan, during an event to encourage the people of Fukushima Prefecture, who are still suffering from the damage wrecked by the nuclear crisis following the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

Commemorating war dead on Iwoto Island

Commemorating war dead on Iwoto Island

TOKYO, Japan - Kin of soldiers who perished in World War II look down at the landscape of Iwoto Island from Mt. Suribachi on Jan. 25, 2012. About 50 people attended an annual ceremony held the same day by the Tokyo metropolitan government on the island to commemorate the war dead. About 20,000 Japanese soldiers died in the WWII battle on the Pacific island about 1,200 kilometers south of central Tokyo. (Pool photo)

Anti-nuclear power rally in Germany

Anti-nuclear power rally in Germany

DANNENBERG, Germany - About 20,000 people gather at an anti-nuclear power rally in Dannenberg, northern Germany, on Nov. 26, 2011. The demonstrators are against the transportation of nuclear waste from France to a facility in Gorleben, near Dannenberg.

Singapore to jail British author Alan Shadrake

Singapore to jail British author Alan Shadrake

SINGAPORE, Singapore - British author Alan Shadrake (L) speaks to reporters after emerging from a court in Singapore on May 27, 2011. He lost his appeal against the country's High Court decision sentencing him to six weeks in prison and fining him S$20,000 for having written defamatory passages in his book ''Once a Jolly Hangman: Singapore Justice in the Dock'' about the death penalty in the country.

Protests, celebrations mark H.K. handover anniversary

Protests, celebrations mark H.K. handover anniversary

HONG KONG, Hong Kong - People march through Hong Kong on July 1, 2010, to mark the 13th anniversary of Hong Kong's handover to China. About 52,000 people -- a figure the police put at 20,000 -- took part in the annual march to call for democracy and a series of social measures.

'Chocolate Wonderland' to be opened in Beijing

'Chocolate Wonderland' to be opened in Beijing

BEIJING, China - Terracotta Warriors made of chocolate line up at the Chocolate Wonderland in Beijing on Jan. 18, 2010. The chocolate theme park with a total floor area of 20,000 square meters will exhibit creations such as Terracotta Warriors and the Great Wall. The park will be opened to the public on Jan. 29.

Hazama has cancer but continues run-and-sail trip around globe

Hazama has cancer but continues run-and-sail trip around globe

TOKYO, Japan - Comedian Kampei Hazama (file photo), now on a run-and-sail trip around the world, has prostate cancer, organizers for the trip said on Jan. 14. But the 60-year-old comedian will continue his Earth Marathon, covering 20,000 kilometers on land and 16,000 km at sea, while undergoing treatment.

Comedian Hazama enters Asia on run-and-sail Earth Marathon

Comedian Hazama enters Asia on run-and-sail Earth Marathon

ISTANBUL, Turkey - Japanese comedian Kampei Hazama (C), now on a run-and-sail trip around the world, poses with some Japanese people living in Turkey after entering the Asian part of Istanbul from the European side by crossing the Bosphorus Bridge on Dec. 14, 2009. The 60-year-old comedian left Osaka in western Japan on Dec. 17, 2008, for his Earth Marathon covering 20,000 kilometers on land and 16,000 km at sea.

Comedian Hazama enters Asia on run-and-sail Earth Marathon

Comedian Hazama enters Asia on run-and-sail Earth Marathon

ISTANBUL, Turkey - Japanese comedian Kampei Hazama, now on a run-and-sail trip around the world, celebrates after entering the Asian part of Istanbul from the European side by crossing the Bosphorus Bridge on Dec. 14, 2009. The 60-year-old comedian left Osaka in western Japan on Dec. 17, 2008, for his Earth Marathon covering 20,000 kilometers on land and 16,000 km at sea.

Solar roof panels in Japan's Gunma Prefecture

Solar roof panels in Japan's Gunma Prefecture

TOKYO, Japan - This photo shows houses equipped with solar roof panels in Ota, Gunma Prefecture, on Sept. 6, 2009. Demand for solar cells has been growing rapidly in Japan with a private-sector survey showing that approximately 20,000 households installed solar power generation systems between April and June 2009.

Japanese comedian arrives at N.Y. on run-and-sail Earth Marathon

Japanese comedian arrives at N.Y. on run-and-sail Earth Marathon

NEW YORK, United States - Japanese comedian Kampei Hazama, who is running and sailing around the world, arrives in New York's Manhattan on July 8, after finishing nearly half of his Earth Marathon covering 20,000 kilometers on land and 16,000 km at sea over a period of two and a half years.

Bill to offer relief to Minamata patients passes lower house

Bill to offer relief to Minamata patients passes lower house

TOKYO, Japan - Environment Minister Tetsuo Saito bows after a plenary session of the House of Representatives passed a bill on June 3 to offer financial relief to as many as 20,000 people suffering from the Minamata mercury poisoning of the 1950s and 1960s under eased standards of recognition. The bill is expected to clear the House of Councillors and become law next week.