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Gold price tops 30,000 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 (lower L) topping 30,000 yen ($196) per gram for the first time on Jan. 29, 2026.

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Taro soup festival in northeastern Japan

Taro and meat soup is prepared for some 30,000 people in a 6.5-meter-diameter pot during a taro-eating festival on a dry riverbed in the northeastern Japan city of Yamagata on Sept. 15, 2024.

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Flower art depicts Shohei Ohtani

Photo taken on May 2, 2024, shows an image of Los Angeles Dodgers two-way star Shohei Ohtani swinging a bat made from about 30,000 flowers at a flower garden in Sera in Hiroshima Prefecture, western Japan.

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Flower art depicts Shohei Ohtani

Photo taken on May 2, 2024, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows an image of Los Angeles Dodgers two-way star Shohei Ohtani swinging a bat made from about 30,000 flowers at a flower garden in Sera in Hiroshima Prefecture, western Japan.

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Flower art depicts Shohei Ohtani

Photo taken on May 2, 2024, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows an image of Los Angeles Dodgers two-way star Shohei Ohtani swinging a bat made from about 30,000 flowers at a flower garden in Sera in Hiroshima Prefecture, western Japan.

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Mounted archery rite "Yabusame" at Kyoto shrine

An archer shoots an arrow while riding a horse during the "Yabusame Shinji" rite at Shimogamo Shrine in Kyoto on May 3, 2023. About 30,000 people watched the annual event.

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Mounted archery rite "Yabusame" at Kyoto shrine

An archer shoots an arrow while riding a horse during the "Yabusame Shinji" rite at Shimogamo Shrine in Kyoto on May 3, 2023. About 30,000 people watched the annual event.

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Mounted archery rite "Yabusame" at Kyoto shrine

An archer shoots an arrow while riding a horse during the "Yabusame Shinji" rite at Shimogamo Shrine in Kyoto on May 3, 2023. About 30,000 people watched the annual event.

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Taro soup festival in northeastern Japan

Taro and meat soup is prepared for some 30,000 people in a 6.5-meter-diameter pot during a taro-eating festival in the northeastern Japan city of Yamagata on Sept. 17, 2023.

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Mounted archery rite "Yabusame" at Kyoto shrine

An archer shoots an arrow while riding a horse during the "Yabusame Shinji" rite at Shimogamo Shrine in Kyoto on May 3, 2023. About 30,000 people watched the annual event.

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Mounted archery rite "Yabusame" at Kyoto shrine

An archer shoots an arrow while riding a horse during the "Yabusame Shinji" rite at Shimogamo Shrine in Kyoto on May 3, 2023. About 30,000 people watched the annual event.

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Mounted archery rite "Yabusame" at Kyoto shrine

An archer shoots an arrow while riding a horse during the "Yabusame Shinji" rite at Shimogamo Shrine in Kyoto on May 3, 2023. About 30,000 people watched the annual event.

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Japan sends posters to Ukraine calling for fair election

TOKYO, Japan - This poster featuring ''maneki neko (beckoning cat believed to bring luck)'' will be put up at over 30,000 polling stations during the upcoming presidential election in Ukraine. It reads: ''I support a fair election. And you?'' The Japanese Foreign Ministry said on Dec. 22 that it is donating 4.5 million yen to a Ukrainian nongovernmental organization to help finance the campaign.

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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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Taro soup in giant pot served at northern Japan festa

YAMAGATA, Japan - Members of staff at an annual event to make taro and meat soup in a gigantic pot, 6 meters across, stir the soup with loading shovels in Yamagata, northeastern Japan, on Sept. 14, 2014. Approximately 30,000 bowls were served.

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Taro soup in giant pot served at northern Japan festa

YAMAGATA, Japan - Members of staff at an annual event to make taro and meat soup in a gigantic pot, 6 meters across, stir the soup with loading shovels in Yamagata, northeastern Japan, on Sept. 14, 2014. Approximately 30,000 bowls were served.

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Solar power plant

OITA, Japan - Marubeni Corp. President Fumiya Kokubu speaks during the opening ceremony for Japan's largest solar power plant in Oita city, southwestern Japan, on April 23, 2014. The plant run by the trading house's wholly owned subsidiary Oita Solar Power Corp. is capable of generating 82.02 megawatts of electricity, enough to cover demand from 30,000 households.

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Solar power plant

OITA, Japan - Photo shows Japan's largest solar power plant in Oita city, southwestern Japan, on April 23, 2014. The plant run by trading house Marubeni Corp.'s wholly owned subsidiary Oita Solar Power Corp. is capable of generating 82.02 megawatts of electricity, enough to cover demand from 30,000 households.

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'Hina' doll festival in Tokushima, Japan

TOKUSHIMA, Japan - Children from a nursery carry a miniature "mikoshi" portable shrine in front of a tiered platform of some 30,000 dolls on display ahead of a "hina" doll festival in Katsuura, Tokushima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Feb. 23, 2014. The event, a precursor to the March 3 Girls' Day festival, will run through April 6.

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Anti-Putin rally

MOSCOW, Russia - An estimated 30,000 people gather for a rally against the administration of Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on May 6, 2013.

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Anti-Putin rally

MOSCOW, Russia - An estimated 30,000 people gather for a rally against the administration of Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on May 6, 2013.

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Mazda in Russia

MOSCOW, Russia - Mazda Motor Corp. President Takashi Yamanouchi (R) unveils the automaker's remodeled Mazda6 sedan at a motor show in Moscow on Aug. 29, 2012. Yamanouchi said Mazda will initially produce 30,000 vehicles a year at its factory in Vladivostok, in the Russian Far East, scheduled to start operating in September 2012.

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AirAsia X offers bargain prices

OSAKA, Japan - Azran Osman-Rani (far L), chief executive officer of Malaysian low-cost carrier AirAsia X, unveils a bargain price of 30,000 yen for premium-class seats on one-way trips between Osaka and Kuala Lumpur during a press conference in Osaka, western Japan, on Dec. 1, 2011. The bargain price compares with normal prices ranging from 50,000 yen to 92,000 yen.

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Rally against FTA in Seoul

SEOUL, South Korea - People hold signs against South Korea's plan to ratify a S. Korea-U.S. free trade agreement and other policies during a rally in Seoul on Nov. 13, 2011. Organizers said roughly 30,000 people took part.

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Costume-clad runners in Osaka Marathon

OSAKA, Japan - Combined photo shows participants in the inaugural Osaka Marathon running in their chosen attire in the city of Osaka in western Japan on Oct. 30, 2011. About 30,000 people took part in the event.

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Public library reopens in disaster-hit Minamisanriku

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - People visit a makeshift public library in the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on the opening day on Oct. 5, 2011. The town-run library lost almost all of its 30,000 books due to the March 11 earthquake and tsunami but reopened with 3,000 of some 10,000 donated books.

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Sharp's new multifunction tablets

TOKYO, Japan - Presenters show Sharp Corp.'s new multifunction touch-screen tablet computers, dubbed GALAPAGOS, in Tokyo on Sept. 27, 2010, which are scheduled to hit the market in December. Available in two models, the tablets will allow users to subscribe to newspapers and magazines, and purchase electronic books, with a total of 30,000 titles available at launch, the Japanese electronics company said.

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Taro simmering festival in Yamagata

YAMAGATA, Japan - Cranes are used to prepare simmered taro in a jumbo steel cauldron measuring six meters in diameter at an annual festival in Yamagata, northern Japan, on Sept. 5, 2010. Around 30,000 servings were prepared for visitors who enjoyed eating the dish despite the heat wave.

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People celebrate 20th anniversary of emperor's enthronement

TOKYO, Japan - Actress Mitsuko Mori delivers a congratulatory speech during a ceremony marking the 20th anniversary of Emperor Akihito's enthronement at the Imperial Palace Plaza in Tokyo on Nov. 12, 2009. Around 30,000 people attended the ceremony hosted by business organizations and a group of lawmakers.

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Tourists given 'kochia' red carpet treatment

MITO, Japan - Tourists walk through some of the 30,000 kochia plants, most of which turn red, on a slope of Hitachi Seaside Park in Hitachinaka, Ibaraki Prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, on Oct. 13, 2009. ''The ball-like shape of this plant is adorable. I feel as if I was in a picture book,'' said Chizuko Gemma, one of the visitors.

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Tsunami drill in Sagami Bay draws 30,000 participants

TOKYO, Japan - A Kanagawa police helicopter takes part in a tsunami drill in the Sagami Bay on July 31. The drill is based on the scenario that a magnitude 7.9 earthquake has hit the coastal areas of Sagami Bay, triggering towering tidal waves in the coastal areas of Shonan and the Miura peninsula. About 30,000 people, including swimmers, took part in the exercise, which involved eight cities and six townships along the Sagami Bay coast.

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Dress, swimsuit made of pure gold thread unveiled

TOKYO, Japan - Models wearing a dress and a swimsuit made of pure gold thread pose during a presentation by Tanaka Kikinzoku Jewelry K.K. at a hotel in Tokyo on July 4. The dress has a price tag of 30,000,000 yen and the swimsuit, which is not for sale, would be priced at 10,000,000 yen, the jeweler said.

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Endoscope operation robot with disposable arm developed

OSAKA, Japan - Atsushi Nishikawa, an associate professor at Osaka University, holding a robotic device with disposable arms for use in endoscope operations. Developed by a research team led by Nishikawa, the disposable arms will cost less than 30,000 yen each, while the main parts will be priced at about 3 million yen each, compared with existing robots that cost more than 10 million yen each, Nishikawa says.

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Luxury paid public toilet at Akihabara draws crowds

TOKYO, Japan - A luxury paid public toilet built at the new Akihabara shopping district in Tokyo is doing good business, drawing more than 30,000 customers in just half a year. The toilet, which has 160 square meters of floor space and features changing rooms and a computer corner with access to the Internet , is said to be popular with both tourists and trendy youths. Officials of Chiyoda Ward, which built the toilet adjacent to the JR Akihabara Station, say the changing rooms inside the toilet are particularly popular with ''costume play'' teenage girls who use the facility to change into maid uniforms or other trendy costumes for play. The fee is 100 yen per person, and free of charge for people with physical disabilities and pre-high school students.

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Some 30,000 people join Tokyo Marathon

TOKYO, Japan - Some 30,000 people from Japan and around the world alongside invited world-class competitive marathon runners begin the Tokyo Marathon, the Japanese capital's first large-scale event of its kind, at the Tokyo governmental building in rainy weather on Feb. 18. Modeled on other international races such as the New York Marathon, the Tokyo Marathon replaced its forerunner, the Tokyo International Marathon.

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Cherry blossoms in full bloom at Mt. Yoshino

OSAKA, Japan - Cherry blossoms at Mt. Yoshino in Nara Prefecture, western Japan, are in full bloom on April 15. Mt. Yoshino is covered with some 30,000 cherry trees.

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Cherry blossoms in full bloom at Mt. Yoshino

OSAKA, Japan - Cherry blossoms at Mt. Yoshino in Nara Prefecture, western Japan, are in full bloom on April 15. Mt. Yoshino is covered with some 30,000 cherry trees.

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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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(2)Court rejects suit over Koizumi, Ishihara visits to Yasukuni

TOKYO, Japan - Two South Korean women shout their protest outside the Tokyo District Court on April 26 after the court rejected their damages suit in which they said visits to the war-related Yasukuni Shrine by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara were unconstitutional. About 1,000 plaintiffs, including the Korean women, had demanded that Koizumi, Ishihara and the national and Tokyo metropolitan governments pay 30,000 yen to each claimant in compensation for damage caused by the visits.

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30,000 protest U.S. chopper crash in Okinawa

GINOWAN, Japan - About 30,000 people gather in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, Sept. 12 to protest the Aug. 13 crash of a U.S. military helicopter at the campus of Okinawa International University there and demand that the nearby U.S. Marine Corps Futemma Air Station be closed and returned. The crash injured three crew members and heavily damaged a building.

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2 Nagasaki teens deliver antinuclear petition to U.N.

GENEVA, Switzerland - Ayaka Ogawa (L) and Mayuko Tsuda (R), two Japanese high school students from Nagasaki, observe a meeting of the Conference of Disarmament in Geneva on Aug. 19. They handed a petition containing more than 30,000 signatures calling for nuclear disarmament to an official of the Conference of Disarmament.

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(1)Search operations called off in quake-hit Bam

BAM, Iran - An injured Iranian man (L) listens to an explanation on his medicine from a Japanese doctor (R) through an interpreter (C) on Dec. 31 at a makeshift clinic set up in the ancient city of Bam following the devastating earthquake that killed at least 30,000 people. Provincial authorities have called off search operations for people missing in the earthquake.

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Citizen Watch devises smallest PDA

TOKYO, Oct. 27 Kyodo - Photo shows what Citizen Watch Co. says is ''the world's smallest, thinnest and lightest personal digital assistant (PDA).'' The PDA is 90 by 60 millimeters with advanced e-mail functions targeting business users, Citizen Watch said. Although no bigger than a business card, the new device has a screen twice as large as a mobile phone display. The major watchmaker will release the new PDA for 20,000 to 30,000 yen early in 2004.

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Matsushita unveils electronic book

TOKYO, Japan - Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. on July 2 unveils an electronic book device (photo) that can store text and images from printed books and show them in black and white on two built-in liquid crystal displays. The Sigma Book weighs roughly 550 grams and is about the size of A4 paper when opened. Matsushita plans to put the e-book on the market as early as this fall with a price at the 30,000 yen level.

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Daihatsu to double output of commodity engines

RYUO, Japan - Daihatsu Motor Co. said June 18 it plans to turn out some 30,000 commodity engines at its newly built plant (in photo) in Ryuo, Shiga Prefecture, in fiscal 2005, double the automaker's output in fiscal 2002. The plan reflects brisk sales of lawn mowers and multi-purpose four-wheeled vehicles equipped with the engines in the United States.

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NTT DoCoMo develops wristwatch-style PHS mobile phone

TOKYO, Japan - NTT DoCoMo Inc. said March 26 it has developed the world's first wristwatch-style personal handy-phone system (PHS) mobile phone (top). The WRISTOMO, whose name is a fusion of wrist and mobile, fits the user's wrist when folded and looks like a regular digital watch. When two buttons above and below the watch face are pressed, it opens up into a PHS handset (bottom L and R). The company will market the phone on the Internet, possibly in April for between 30,000 yen and 40,000 yen.

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Christmas tree lit up at Rockfeller Center

NEW YORK, United States - A huge Christmas tree at New York's Rockfeller Center is illuminated with some 30,000 electric bulbs Dec. 4.

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NTT DoCoMo to sell phone that acts as TV remote control

TOKYO, Japan - NTT DoCoMo Inc. said on Nov. 20 it will introduce the Mova N504iS mobile phone handset (photo) that can act as a remote control for TV sets and videocassette players, and photograph phone numbers, e-mail addresses and other data for storage in its memory chip with a built-in camera. The handset, manufactured by NEC Corp., will be priced at around 30,000 yen.

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Taro-eating festival held in Yamagata

YAMAGATA, Japan - An annual taro-eating festival is held Sept. 1 alongside the Mamigasaki River in Yamagata Prefecture, heralding the arrival of autumn. Meals for 30,000 people were prepared in a huge pot weighing 3 tons and measuring 6 meters in diameter.

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Tourists enjoy traditional horse race

HARA, Japan - About 30,000 tourists enjoy the celebrated ''Soma-noma-oi'' horse race at the Hibarigahara field in the town of Hara, Fukushima Prefecture, on July 24. The annual event dates from the days of medieval warrior Taira no Masakado (?-940), the ruler of the Kanto region in eastern Japan, who encouraged his men to chase wide horses for routine training.