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Gold price tops 25,000 yen

An electronic board at the flagship shop of Tanaka Precious Metal Technologies Co. in Tokyo's Ginza district shows the benchmark retail gold price set by the Tokyo company (upper L) topping 25,000 yen per gram for the first time on Dec. 24, 2025.

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Yosakoi Soran dance festival in Sapporo

The Hiragishi Tenjin troupe performs on June 9, 2024, the final day of the Yosakoi Soran Festival, a five-day competitive folk dance event in Sapporo in Hokkaido, northern Japan. The troupe won the top prize at the event in which around 255 teams and 25,000 people from home and abroad participated.

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Yosakoi Soran dance festival in Sapporo

Dancers fill a street in downtown Sapporo in Hokkaido, northern Japan, on June 9, 2024, the final day of the Yosakoi Soran Festival, a five-day competitive folk dance event in which around 255 teams and 25,000 people from home and abroad participated.

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Yosakoi Soran dance festival in Sapporo

The Hiragishi Tenjin troupe performs on June 9, 2024, the final day of the Yosakoi Soran Festival, a five-day competitive folk dance event in Sapporo in Hokkaido, northern Japan. The troupe won the top prize at the event in which around 255 teams and 25,000 people from home and abroad participated.

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Yosakoi Soran dance festival in Sapporo

Dancers fill a street in downtown Sapporo in Hokkaido, northern Japan, on June 9, 2024, the final day of the Yosakoi Soran Festival, a five-day competitive folk dance event in which around 255 teams and 25,000 people from home and abroad participated.

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Yosakoi Soran dance festival in Sapporo

Dancers fill a street in downtown Sapporo in Hokkaido, northern Japan, on June 9, 2024, the final day of the Yosakoi Soran Festival, a five-day competitive folk dance event in which around 255 teams and 25,000 people from home and abroad participated.

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Yosakoi Soran dance festival in Sapporo

Dancers fill a street in downtown Sapporo in Hokkaido, northern Japan, on June 9, 2024, the final day of the Yosakoi Soran Festival, a five-day competitive folk dance event in which around 255 teams and 25,000 people from home and abroad participated.

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Premium melons from Hokkaido

A pair of premium melons, produced in Yubari in Hokkaido, fetch 3.5 million yen ($25,000) in the first auction of the year in Sapporo, the capital of the northern Japan prefecture, on May 25, 2023, securing the event's second-highest bid on record.

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Bluefin tuna fetches 4.5 mil. yen at Tokyo auction

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a 180-kg bluefin tuna that fetched 4.51 million yen, or 25,000 yen per kilogram, in the first tuna auction of 2015 at the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo on Jan. 5, 2015.

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Bluefin tuna fetches 4.5 mil. yen at Tokyo auction

TOKYO, Japan - The first auction of 2015 of bluefin tuna is held at the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo on Jan. 5, 2015. Tokyo-based sushi restaurant chain operator Kiyomura Co. made a successful bid for a 180-kg tuna for 4.51 million yen, or 25,000 yen per kilogram.

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Bluefin tuna fetches 4.5 mil. yen at Tokyo auction

TOKYO, Japan - The first auction of 2015 of bluefin tuna is held at the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo on Jan. 5, 2015. Tokyo-based sushi restaurant chain operator Kiyomura Co. made a successful bid for a 180-kg tuna for 4.51 million yen, or 25,000 yen per kilogram.

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Bluefin tuna fetches 4.5 mil. yen at Tokyo auction

TOKYO, Japan - The first auction of 2015 of bluefin tuna is held at the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo on Jan. 5, 2015. Tokyo-based sushi restaurant chain operator Kiyomura Co. made a successful bid for a 180-kg tuna for 4.51 million yen, or 25,000 yen per kilogram.

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Bluefin tuna fetches 4.5 mil. yen at Tokyo auction

TOKYO, Japan - Kiyoshi Kimura, president of Tokyo-based sushi restaurant chain operator Kiyomura Co., poses for photos with a 180-kg bluefin tuna for which he made a successful bid for 4.51 million yen, or 25,000 yen per kilogram, in the first tuna auction of 2015 at the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo on Jan. 5, 2015.

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Bluefin tuna fetches 4.5 mil. yen at Tokyo auction

TOKYO, Japan - Kiyoshi Kimura, president of Tokyo-based sushi restaurant chain operator Kiyomura Co., poses for photos with a 180-kg bluefin tuna for which he made a successful bid for 4.51 million yen, or 25,000 yen per kilogram, in the first tuna auction of 2015 at the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo on Jan. 5, 2015.

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Political turmoil in Thailand

BANGKOK, Thailand - Antigovernment demonstrators face off against police officers in a street near Government House in central Bangkok on Feb. 18, 2014. Four people, including a police officer, were killed in street clashes in Bangkok the same day as around 25,000 Thai police attempted to clear five sites occupied by antigovernment protesters.

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Japan eyes to accept more ethnic Karen refugees

UM-PIAM, Thailand - Ethnic Karen refugees are briefed by a Japanese government official on Japan's resettlement program for the Karen refugees, in Um-piam camp, which houses more than 25,000 refugees along the border Thailand shares with Myanmar, on May 3, 2012. Junji Ito, first secretary for political affairs at the Japanese Embassy in Bangkok, said Japan will extend the program to accept more Karen refugees.

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Japanese join Dresden memorial

DRESDEN, Germany - Haruyo Nihei (3rd from R), a survivor of a 1945 U.S. air raid on Tokyo, joins a human chain after a memorial service in Dresden, Germany, on Feb. 13, 2012. A total of 14 survivors of U.S. raids on Japanese cities during World War II joined events marking the 67th anniversary of Allied air raids on Dresden to mourn the around 25,000 victims.

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EU support for Japan quake

TOKYO, Japan - European Union commissioner Kristalina Georgieva speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on March 25, 2011. A total of 220 tons of aid supplies from Europe arrived at Narita airport near Tokyo the same day -- 70 tons from the European Commission including 25,000 blankets, 2,000 mattresses and 300 sleeping bags, and 150 tons from France.

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Nintendo 3DS unveiled

CHIBA, Japan - Children play with Nintendo 3DS devices during an event held at Makuhari Messe in Chiba on Jan. 8, 2011. Nintendo Co. plans to begin its sales of the 3-D gaming device on Feb. 26 at the price of 25,000 yen in Japan.

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Shelters in S. Korea

SEOUL, South Korea - People walk past a sign on the wall (L, orange) indicating the location of a shelter in the Myongdong district in downtown Seoul on Dec. 4, 2010. South Korea has more than 25,000 shelters nationwide to be used in a possible air strike as well as a disaster.

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Shelters in S. Korea

YANGJU, South Korea - Photo shows the entrance of an underground shelter against nuclear attack in the building of the Yangju city office Dec. 1, 2010. South Korea has more than 25,000 shelters nationwide to be used in a possible air strike as well as a disaster.

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Shelters in S. Korea

YEONPYEONG ISLAND, South Korea - Photo shows the entrance of a shelter on Yeonpyeong Island on Dec. 4, 2010, which came under an artillery attack by North Korea. South Korea has more than 25,000 shelters nationwide to be used in a possible air strike as well as a disaster.

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15-m tall Christmas tree lights up Tokyo department store

TOKYO, Japan - A lighting ceremony for a 15-meter tall Christmas tree, about the size of a five-story building and one of the largest in Japan, is held at the Mitsukoshi department store in the plush Nihonbashi shopping area in Tokyo on Nov. 2, 2009. The eco-friendly tree made of metal for repeated use and decorated with 25,000 light-emitting diode bulbs that require less power will be set up at the store's central hall until Dec. 25, store officials said.

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15-m tall Christmas tree lights up Tokyo department store

TOKYO, Japan - A mother and her baby pose for a commemorative photograph in front of a 15-meter tall Christmas tree, one of the largest in Japan, at the Mitsukoshi department store in the plush Nihonbashi shopping area in Tokyo on Nov. 2, 2009, with a ''Green Santa Claus,'' an environmental goodwill ambassador from Denmark. The eco-friendly tree made of metal for repeated use and decorated with 25,000 light-emitting diode bulbs that require less power will be set up at the store's central hall until Dec. 25, store officials said.

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Demio voted Car of the Year by auto researchers, journalists

TOKYO, Japan - Mazda Motor Corp.'s Demio subcompact (photo) was voted Car of the Year by members of the Automobile Researchers and Journalists Conference of Japan on Nov. 13. Mazda released the new Demio, the first complete model change in five years, in July and had sold 25,000 units by Oct. 31.

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Shipments of square watermelons begin in Kagawa Pref.

TAKAMATSU, Japan - Workers at an agricultural cooperative in the city of Zentsuji, Kagawa Prefecture, prepare for the shipment of square watermelons on June 25. The cooperative will ship about 800 of the watermelons through mid-July with a price tag ranging from 17,000 to 25,000 yen.

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Tanker carrying gasoline for export to U.S. leaves Sendai port

SENDAI, Japan - The Hong Kong-registered 44,400-ton Maritime Vanessa, loaded with 25,000 kiloliters of gasoline to be exported to the hurricane-hit United States by Japan's oil wholesalers is about to leave Sendai port in Miyagi Prefecture on Sept. 20.

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Ibaraki begins culling chickens at bird flu-hit farm

MITSUKAIDO, Japan - Workers cover a poultry farm with sheet on June 27 in Mitsukaido, Ibaraki Prefecture, where chickens were found infected by the H5N2 virus, a weak strain of avian influenza. The Ibaraki prefectural government began culling the entire stock of about 25,000 chickens at the farm.

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Ibaraki begins culling chickens at bird flu-hit farm

MITSUKAIDO, Japan - A health official from the Ibaraki prefectural government disposes of culled chickens at a farm in Mitsukaido, Ibaraki Prefecture, on June 27. The prefectural government culled the entire stock of about 25,000 chickens at the farm, where chickens had been found infected by the H5N2 virus, a weak strain of avian influenza.

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Japan's largest freshwater fish aquarium opens in Gifu

GIFU, Japan - Visitors watch freshwater fish at the Aqua Toto Gifu in the town of Kawashima, Gifu Prefecture, on July 14, the opening day of Japan's largest aquarium specializing in freshwater fish. The aquarium has about 25,000 rare and common fish and amphibians collected from all around the world.

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Toyota's Passo sees triple expected orders at 25,000

OSAKA, Japan - Executives of Toyota Motor Corp. and its affiliate Daihatsu Motor Co. pose in front of the new Passo compact car, the result of their first joint development project, in Osaka on July 8. Toyota said it has received about 25,000 orders for the car since its introduction in the domestic market a month ago, nearly 3.6 times the initial monthly sales target of 7,000.

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(1)DaimlerChrysler signs contract to make Mercedes cars in China

BEIJING, China - Representatives of German automaker DaimlerChrysler AG and Beijing Automotive Industry Holding Co. sign an agreement in Beijing on Sept. 8 to make 25,000 Mercedes-Benz cars within the next few years in the Chinese capital.

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(2)DaimlerChrysler signs contract to make Mercedes cars in China

BEIJING, China - German automaker DaimlerChrysler AG Chairman Juergen Schrempp addresses a ceremony in Beijing on Sept. 8 held to sign an agreement with Beijing Automotive Industry Holding Co. to make 25,000 Mercedes-Benz cars within the next few years in the Chinese capital.

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Preparations for Sapporo Snow Festival go into full swing

SAPPORO, Japan - Trucks of the Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) unload snow at Odori Park in Sapporo, Hokkaido, on Jan. 9 to prepare for the 53rd Sapporo Snow Festival on Feb. 5 to 11. Some 7,000 trucks will be mobilized until Jan. 16 to deliver snow from outside Sapporo which will be used by about 25,000 volunteers from civic groups and GDSF personnel to build 312 sculptures made from snow and ice.

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Nintendo puts GameCube on Japanese market

TOKYO, Japan - People rush to an electric appliance store in Tokyo's Higashi-Ikebukuro district on Sept. 14 to buy Nintendo Co.'s GameCube video game console. Nintendo put GameCube, priced at 25,000 yen, on the market the same day to compete with Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.'s PlayStation2.

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Season's first snow crab catch auctioned

YONAGO, Japan - The season's first haul of snow crabs is put up for auction at Sakaiminato port, Tottori Prefecture, on the Japan Sea on Sept. 5. One case containing 30 kilograms fetched prices ranging from 53,000 yen to 25,000 yen, little changed from last year. Local fishermen said the snow crab haul at the port has been on the constant decline. Last year's catch totaled 12,330 tons, way down from the peak level of more than 30,000 tons.

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Camouflaged GSDF troops do drills in Ginza

TOKYO, Japan - Camouflaged Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) troops participate in Tokyo's largest disaster-relief drills on Sept. 3 in Ginza, a posh shopping district in the center of the capital. An unprecedented 25,000 people, including some 7,100 Self-Defense Forces personnel, took part in the annual drills in 10 locations in the Tokyo metropolitan area.