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Volcano eruption in southwestern Japan

Photo taken on the morning of Aug. 28, 2025, from an unmanned fixed-point camera in Kirishima in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, shows the Shinmoedake volcano erupting. The height of its eruption column reached 5,500 meters earlier in the day, the Kagoshima Meteorological Office said.

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Volcano eruption in southwestern Japan

Photo taken on the morning of Aug. 28, 2025, from an unmanned fixed-point camera in Kirishima in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, shows the Shinmoedake volcano erupting. The height of its eruption column reached 5,500 meters earlier in the day, the Kagoshima Meteorological Office said.

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Protest against collective self-defense policy

TOKYO, Japan - An estimated 5,500 people march in Tokyo on Sept. 4, 2014, in protest against Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's administration over its approval of the exercise of the right to collective self-defense.

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Protest against collective self-defense policy

TOKYO, Japan - An estimated 5,500 people gather at Hibiya Park in Tokyo on Sept. 4, 2014, in protest against Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's administration over its approval of the exercise of the right to collective self-defense.

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Protesters seek elimination of nuclear power in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese astronaut Toyohiro Akiyama (front R) and novelist Kenzaburo Oe (front 2nd from R) join a march calling for the elimination of nuclear power generation in Japan on March 15, 2014 in Tokyo. About 5,500 people gathered at Hibiya Park in Tokyo before the march.

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Toyota to compete in 2014 Dakar Rally

NAGOYA, Japan - Members of Toyota Auto Body Co.'s Dakar Rally team pose with two Toyota Land Cruiser 200 sports utility vehicles in the city of Toyota, Aichi Prefecture, on Dec. 11. 2013. The Toyota Motor Corp. subsidiary will take part in the roughly 5,500-kilometer off-road race that runs through Argentina, Bolivia and Chile from Jan. 4-18.

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Events held to commemorate 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake

KOBE, Japan - People lit candles in about 7,000 memorial lanterns during an event held at Higashi Yuenchi Park in Kobe's Chuo Ward, Hyogo Prefecture, before daylight on Jan. 17 to commemorate the 6,434 people who died in the Great Hanshin Earthquake in 1995. At 5:46 a.m., the time the magnitude 7.3 quake originating in the northern part of the prefecture's Awaji Island in the Seto Inland Sea hit the western Japan area 14 years ago, about 5,500 people offered silent prayers in the event.

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Events held to commemorate 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake

KOBE, Japan - Three female junior high school students pray for the 6,434 people who died in the Great Hanshin Earthquake in 1995, during a memorial event held at Higashi Yuenchi Park in Kobe's Chuo Ward, Hyogo Prefecture, before daylight on Jan. 17. At 5:46 a.m., the time the magnitude 7.3 quake originating in the northern part of the prefecture's Awaji Island in the Seto Inland Sea hit the western Japan area 14 years ago, about 5,500 people offered silent prayers in the event at the park, where candles in about 7,000 memorial lanterns were lit.

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Japan marks 13th anniversary of subway sarin gas attacks

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo subway workers offer silent prayers at Kasumigaseki Station on March 20 as Japan marked the 13th anniversary the same day of the deadly 1995 sarin nerve gas attacks on the Tokyo subway system. Top members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult, now known as Aleph, released sarin at five stations on three central Tokyo subway lines. The attack took the lives of 12 people, including two subway workers at Kasumigaseki Station, and left over 5,500 sickened.

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Japan to pull ground troops from Iraq, expand airlift aid to Baghdad

TOKYO, Japan - Defense Agency Director General Fukushiro Nukaga speaks at a press conference at his agency on June 19 following a Cabinet decision to pull Japan's ground troops from southern Iraq. He said, ''I am very glad that over the past two-and-a-half years, a total of 5,500 GSDF members were able to carry out safe and sound their mission to help reconstruct Iraq.''

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Over 5,500 suspected fake coins found, man on wanted list

TOKYO, Japan - Kumamoto prefectural police on Feb. 3 show a suspected counterfeit coin (below), which was discovered at an automated teller machine at the Kumamoto Central Post Office in the city of Kumamoto on Jan. 22. A man in his 40s allegedly used 14 fake coins Jan. 22. The 500-yen coin above is genuine. Over 5,500 suspected counterfeit coins have been found in Fukuoka prefecture, Tokyo as well as Kumamoto.

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New Zealand team wins 2003 Osaka Cup yacht race

OSAKA, Japan - New Zealand's Brian Petersen (L) and John Bankart shake hands on their yacht Marverick II at a yacht harbor at Osaka-Kita port on April 15 after winning the 2003 Osaka Cup, the world's longest race for double-handed yachts. They left Melbourne on March 15 and sailed some 5,500 nautical miles (10,190 kilometers) to Osaka with the time of 29 days, 16 hours, 57 minutes and 59 seconds.

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NS Solutions makes disappointing debut on TSE

TOKYO, Japan - Yasuro Tanahashi, president of NS Solutions Corp., an information system developer affiliated with the Nippon Steel Corp. group, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Oct. 11 after his company made a disappointing debut on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) partly due to the bad luck of having to list its shares when the market was extremely feeble. The opening price of NS Solutions, listed on the TSE's First Section, was 4,400 yen, down sharply from its initial offering price of 5,500 yen.

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Sales of Universal Studios tickets kick off

OSAKA, Japan - A woman holds up a coupon ticket as opening tickets for Universal Studios Japan, a U.S. movie theme park set to open in Osaka on March 31, went on sale nationwide Feb. 7. The tickets for entry to the park between the opening day and April 14 were sold in the form of coupons, exchangeable for a one-day pass, at major travel agencies and major convenience store chain Lawson Inc. The tickets are priced at 5,500 yen for an adult, 3,700 yen for a child and 4,800 yen for those aged 65 or older.

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Snow Brand to cut 1,300 jobs

TOKYO, Japan - Kohei Nishi, president of Snow Brand Milk Products Co., involved in a massive food poisoning scandal, meets the press at the Tokyo Stock Exchange building in Tokyo on Sept. 26. He unveiled a restructuring plan that includes cutting the company's workforce by 1,300 to 5,500 by the end of fiscal 2002.

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Nagasaki mourns death of 5,500 school A-bomb victims

NAGASAKI, Japan - Nagasaki citizens mourn the death of about 5,500 pupils and teachers in the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of the city in an annual ceremony at the city's Peace Hall on Aug. 1. Mourners offered a silent prayer at 11:02 a.m., the time the bomb exploded over the city on Aug. 9, 1945.

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New hair loss treatment on market-replace

Taisho Pharmaceutical Co. puts long-awaited new hair loss treatment on sale June 3 throughout the nation. Newly developed ''RiUP'' is similar to popular ''Rogaine'' of Pharmacia & Upjohn Inc., containing minoxidil for the first time in Japan. A 60-milliliter bottle costs 5,500.

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U.S. carrier Kitty Hawk enters Yokosuka port

The U.S. aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk enters the U.S. Yokosuka Naval Base in Kanagawa Prefecture on Aug. 11, replacing the flattop Independence. The 81,123-ton, 325-meter-long Kitty Hawk, which arrived from San Diego, Calif., has a crew of about 5,500 and is scheduled to be stationed in Yokosuka until around 2007. The 80,643-ton Independence left the base in July to be retired.