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Cherry blossom viewing in Osaka

People stroll at the Japan Mint head office in Osaka on April 9, 2026, as its 560-meter-long, tree-lined path opens to the public for annual cherry blossom viewing through April 15. More than 300,000 visitors are expected for the event, which began in 1883.

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Fishing boat Zuisho Maru freed 7 months after seizure by Russia

KUSHIRO, Japan - The Japanese fishing boat Zuisho Maru No. 38, seized by Russian authorities in January for illegal fishing, berthed at Rausu, Hokkaido after it was released by Russia and towed back to Rausu on Aug. 14. The captain Takashi Kawabata and five other crew members of the 19-ton vessel had been released by the end of May. Russian authorities accused Kawabata of illegal fishing and imposed a 300,000 ruble (1.4 million yen) fine.

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Blackout in Tokyo suburbs

TOKYO, Japan - A police officer controls traffic at an intersection in Hachioji in suburban Tokyo on the night of April 27, 2014, where traffic signals were cut off by a power outage. Around 300,000 homes in suburban Tokyo lost power in the outage.

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Murakami's new short story collection

TOKYO, Japan - Copies of Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami's latest work, a collection of short stories entitled "Onna no Inai Otokotachi" -- which can be translated as "Men Without Women" -- are displayed at Sanseido bookstore in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward after going on sale on the morning of April 18, 2014. Publisher Bungeishunju Ltd. said 300,000 copies have already been printed due partly to the strength of pre-orders.

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Murakami's new short story collection

TOKYO, Japan - Copies of Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami's latest work, a collection of short stories entitled "Onna no Inai Otokotachi" -- which can be translated as "Men Without Women" -- are piled up at Sanseido bookstore in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward soon after going on sale on the morning of April 18, 2014. Publisher Bungeishunju Ltd. said 300,000 copies have already been printed due partly to the strength of pre-orders.

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Murakami's new short story collection

TOKYO, Japan - A man holds a copy of Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami's latest work, a collection of short stories entitled "Onna no Inai Otokotachi" -- which can be translated as "Men Without Women" -- at Sanseido bookstore in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward soon after going on sale on the morning of April 18, 2014. Publisher Bungeishunju Ltd. said 300,000 copies have already been printed due partly to the strength of pre-orders.

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Murakami's new short story collection

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a copy of Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami's latest work, a collection of short stories entitled "Onna no Inai Otokotachi" -- which can be translated as "Men Without Women" -- at the Kinokuniya bookstore in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward in the early hours of April 18, 2014, soon after its release at midnight. Publisher Bungeishunju Ltd. said 300,000 copies have already been printed due partly to the strength of pre-orders.

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Murakami's new short story collection

TOKYO, Japan - Women hold copies of Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami's latest work, a collection of short stories entitled "Onna no Inai Otokotachi" -- which can be translated as "Men Without Women" -- at the Kinokuniya bookstore in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward in the early hours of April 18, 2014, soon after its release at midnight. Publisher Bungeishunju Ltd. said 300,000 copies have already been printed due partly to the strength of pre-orders.

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Murakami's new short story collection

TOKYO, Japan - Women hold copies of Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami's latest work, a collection of short stories entitled "Onna no Inai Otokotachi" -- which can be translated as "Men Without Women" -- at the Kinokuniya bookstore in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward in the early hours of April 18, 2014, soon after its release at midnight. Publisher Bungeishunju Ltd. said 300,000 copies have already been printed due partly to the strength of pre-orders.

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Miyazaki mangoes

MIYAZAKI, Japan - The year's first auction of mangoes under the brand of "Taiyo no Tamago" (Egg of the Sun) is held at the local central wholesale market in the city of Miyazaki, southwestern Japan, on April 10, 2014. A pair of mangoes under the brand from Miyazaki Prefecture fetched 300,000 yen at the market the same day, marking a record high.

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Miyazaki mangoes

MIYAZAKI, Japan - The year's first auction of mangoes under the brand of "Taiyo no Tamago" (Egg of the Sun) is held at the local central wholesale market in the city of Miyazaki, southwestern Japan, on April 10, 2014. A pair of mangoes under the brand from Miyazaki Prefecture fetched 300,000 yen at the market the same day, marking a record high.

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Monkey 'Bentsu' was Oita park's major attraction

OITA, Japan - Photo taken in late October 2013 shows then alpha male monkey "Bentsu" at the Takasakiyama Natural Zoological Garden in southwestern Japan. The monkey, which was declared dead in January after his disappearance, apparently helped the zoo attract more than 300,000 visitors in fiscal 2013 for the first time in six years.

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Panoramic photo shows evacuees of Great Kanto Earthquake

TOKYO, Japan - A 4.6-meter-long panoramic photo panel, showing around 300,000 evacuees who gathered at the plaza in front of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo following the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, is on display Aug. 17, 2013, at the Great Kanto Earthquake Memorial Museum in Tokyo's Sumida Ward ahead of the 90th anniversary of the disaster Sept. 1.

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Watermelon fetches 300,000 yen

ASAHIKAWA, Japan - Photo shows a black-rind watermelon grown in Hokkaido that fetched a winning bid price of 300,000 yen June 17, 2013, in the year's first auction of the fruit at a produce market in Asahikawa. Densuke watermelons are a signature product of the town of Toma.

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Russian website offers meteor sale

CHELYABINSK, Russia - Photo taken Feb. 18, 2013, shows a Russian Internet site offering sale of what it claims to be a fragment of the meteor that struck the Chelyabinsk area for 100,000 rubles, more than three times the average monthly income of 300,000 rubles for the country's middle-class. Russian police have called on the public not to buy anything that has yet to be certified as a fragment of the meteor, which fell on the region Feb. 15 and left around 1,500 people injured.

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Fuji Heavy president

TOKYO, Japan - Yasuyuki Yoshinaga, president of Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd., is interviewed by Kyodo News in Tokyo on Nov. 21, 2012. Yoshinaga said the Japanese automaker is planning to boost vehicle output in the United States by 130,000 units to around 300,000 as early as the business year starting April 2016.

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Nissan begins China plant construction

DALIAN, China - Nissan Motor Co. holds a groundbreaking ceremony for a new plant in Dalian, China, on June 25, 2012. Nissan's Chinese joint venture has begun constructing of plant to start operating in 2014 with an initial output capacity of 150,000 vehicles, eventually doubling to 300,000.

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Ruling against SDF intelligence unit

SENDAI, Japan - Lawyers hold banners outside the Sendai District Court in Miyagi Prefecture on March 26, 2012, stating they have won a suit against the Self-Defense Forces' Intelligence Security Command. The court ordered the state to pay a total of 300,000 yen in damages to five people, finding that the command violated their personal rights in its monitoring of civic rallies against the dispatch of SDF personnel to Iraq.

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Kawamura defends Nanjing Massacre remarks

NAGOYA, Japan - Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura speaks at a press conference at the city hall on Feb. 27, 2012. Kawamura defended his controversial remarks on Feb. 20 about the 1937 Nanjing Massacre, saying, ''I believe it is not factual that as many as 300,000 unarmed civilians were massacred.''

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Black-rind watermelon sold for 250,000 yen

ASAHIKAWA, Japan - Auctioneers examine a black-rind watermelon that was priced at 250,000 yen for the year's first auction at a fresh produce market in Asahikawa, Hokkaido, on June 13, 2011. The year's first auctions for the fancy fruit from the Hokkaido town of Toma were held in Asahikawa and Sapporo, with a melon fetching 300,000 yen in Sapporo, the highest price that day.

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Honda aims to double minicar sales

TOKYO, Japan - Honda Motor Co. President Takanobu Ito speaks during an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo on Feb. 24, 2011. Ito said the automaker aims to almost double its minivehicle sales to 300,000 units in the next five years.

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Annual morning-glory market begins

TOKYO, Japan - A vendor hands a flowerpot of morning glory to a customer as the annual Iriya Morning Glory Festival begins at Shingenji Temple, commonly known as Iriya Kishibojin, in Tokyo's Taito Ward on July 6, 2010. More than 100 morning glory vendors crowd the temple's precincts and its vicinity, with some 300,000-400,000 people expected to visit the event during a three-day run.

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Inedible pure gold soft-serve ice-cream

TOKYO, Japan - Convenience store operator Ministop Co. said May 11, 2010, it will give away ''soft-serve ice cream'' ornaments made of pure gold by lot to three applicants who send in pictures of themselves with soft-serve ice-cream by May 30. The prized ornament is 10 centimeters tall, 90 grams in weight and worth about 300,000 yen.

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Huge tank under construction shown to press

CHITA, Japan - A huge underground liguefied natural gas tank, now under construction at a Toho Gas Co. plant in Chita, Aichi Prefecture, is shown to the press on Feb. 25. The tank, 74 meters in diameter and 47 meters in depth, is claimed to be one of the largest of its kind in the world and can provide 300,000 houses with the gas for a year.

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Kamakura Festival to be held in Akita

YOKOTE, Japan - Children roast rice cakes inside igloo-like snow huts called ''kamakura'' in Yokote, Akita Prefecture, on Feb. 14, one day before the two-day Kamakura Festival begins. Children will chat and play around braziers inside the more than 100 huts during the festival which is expected to draw over 300,000 visitors.

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Sogo store displays crystal-covered Mercedes

OSAKA, Japan - Shoppers look at a Mercedes-Benz covered with crystals at Sogo Co.'s flagship department store in Osaka's Chuo Ward on Oct. 28. The car decked out with 300,000 pieces of Swarovski crystal, both inside and outside, will be on display until Nov. 3 as a Christmas decoration.

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Japanese wooden barrel recognized as world's biggest

OITA, Japan - A wooden barrel, measuring nine meters in both height and diameter, is displayed in Usuki, Oita Prefecture, on June 15 after being recognized as the world's largest brewing barrel by Guinness World Records in April. The barrel, made by a soy sauce association in the prefecture in 2002, can produce about 300,000 1.8-liter bottles of soy sauce at one time.

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Matsushita to check 3 million home electric products free of charge

OSAKA, Japan - Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. said on May 30 it will inspect and repair free of charge some 3 million units of various home electric applainces, saying they may emit smoke or catch fire. Subject to the program are 1.93 million microwaves (C), 300,000 refrigerators (L) and 780,000 clothes dryers (R), the company said.

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Daiei begins sales of ad-added eggs

TOKYO, Japan - Eggs with advertisement stickers are sold at an outlet of Supermarket chain operator Daiei Inc. in Urayasu, Chiba Prefecture on Feb. 1. Daiei began selling those eggs at about 200 Daiei and group outlets, with an aim of selling 300,000 packages of the eggs with advertisements each month.

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Matsushita to sell world's 1st Blu-ray DVD recorder-player

TOKYO, Japan - Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. will market the world's first Blu-ray DVD recorders with replay functions on Nov. 15 in Japan, the company said on Sept. 20. The DMR-BW 200 and DMR-BR 100 will have a suggested retail price of about 300,000 yen and 240,000 yen, respectively.

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Kamakura Festival to be held in Akita

YOKOTE, Japan - More than 100 igloo-like snow huts called ''kamakura'' are built in Yokote, Akita Prefecture, with candles shining inside on Feb. 14, one day before the two-day Kamakura Festival begins. Children will chat and play around braziers in the huts during the festival which is expected to draw more than 300,000 visitors.

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Secom unveils security robot to scare away intruders

TOKYO, Japan - Security service provider Secom Co. on July 22 unveiled a security robot (L) that can run as fast as humans and scare away intruders by spraying white smoke. The Secom Robot X is designed for use at spacious places such as airports and factories and will be leased for 300,000 yen per month, starting next fiscal year, Secom said. The four-wheeled robot is about one meter long and high and weighs 120 kilograms.

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U.S. Zen priest calls to prepare 300,000 Jizos for A-bomb victims

NAGASAKI, Japan - Jan Chozen Bays (R) an American Zen priest, speaks at a news conference in Nagasaki on May 13. Bays is seeking to gather about 300,000 handmade images and statues of Jizo, one of the most beloved divinities in Japan, by summer 2005 in memory of every victim of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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DoCoMo handset photos match quality of digital camera's

TOKYO, Japan - Women hold up NTT DoCoMo Inc.'s new Internet-capable mobile phone handsets at a hotel in Tokyo on April 8. The new ''505i'' series of handsets, which will hit the market in early May, can take pictures consisting of up to 1.3 megapixels, more than four times the 300,000 pixels that can be taken with conventional camera-equipped handsets.

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'Summer Jumbo' lottery tickets put on sale nationwide

TOKYO, Japan - People queue up in front of lottery booths in Tokyo's Ginza district to buy ''Summer Jumbo Lottery'' tickets on July 22, the first day the tickets, whose maximum prize is 300,000,000 yen, were put on sale nationwide.

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Komiyama joins New York Mets spring training

PORT ST. LUCIE, United States - Japanese right-hander Satoru Komiyama practices pitching at the New York Mets' spring training in Port St. Lucie, Florida, on Feb. 16. Komiyama signed with the Mets for the minimum major-league salary of $200,000 for the 2002 season in addition to a $300,000 signing bonus and performance incentives of up to $500,000. (MLB)

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Tokyo man arrested for allegedly selling rare macaws

NAGOYA, Japan - Photo shows macaws at Higashiyama Zoo in Nagoya after police arrested a 47-year-old self-employed Tokyo man on Jan. 9 for allegedly selling them. The macaws are protected by the Washington Convention on endangered species. The man allegedly sold eight macaws for a total of 300,000 yen.

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Sapporo department store buys 2 melons for 300,000 yen

SAPPORO, Japan - Photo shows two brand-name Yubari melons bought by a department store in Sapporo, Hokkaido, for 300,000 yen at a local wholesale food market on May 16. The department store plans to auction the fruit to its customers, with the proceeds from the sale to be donated to welfare projects of the Sapporo city government.