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US: Airport Fire Expands In Southern California, Destroys Homes 3

Airport Fire burning in Orange and Riverside Counties, Southern California has grown to more than 23,000 acres as of Wednesday morning, September 11. The fire injured at least seven people and destroyed homes.

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High-grade cherries

Photo taken on June 18, 2024, shows high-grade Aomori Heartbeat cherries, which fetched 500,000 yen ($3,170) for a box of 15 at the season's first auction the same day at a wholesale market in Hachinohe in Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan.

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High-grade cherries

Photo taken on June 18, 2024, shows high-grade Aomori Heartbeat cherries, which fetched 500,000 yen ($3,170) for a box of 15 at the season's first auction the same day at a wholesale market in Hachinohe in Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan.

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High-grade cherries in northeastern Japan

Photo taken on June 20, 2023, shows high-grade Aomori Heartbeat cherries, which fetched 500,000 yen ($3,530) for a box of 15 at the season's first auction the same day at a wholesale market in Hachinohe in Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan.

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High-grade cherries in northeastern Japan

Photo taken on June 20, 2023, shows high-grade Aomori Heartbeat cherries (front), which fetched 500,000 yen ($3,530) for a box of 15 at the season's first auction the same day at a wholesale market in Hachinohe in Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan.

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Jojima sees big money in Hawks' new deal, now 4th richest

FUKUOKA, Japan - Kenji Jojima, a catcher for the Pacific League baseball club Softbank Hawks, smiles during a press conference in Fukuoka on Dec. 28 after signing a new single-year contract worth 500 million yen with the team.

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(2)Jojima sees big money in Hawks' new deal, now 4th richest

FUKUOKA, Japan - Softbank Hawks catcher Kenji Jojima smiles as he gets into his car after signing a new single-year contract worth 500 million yen with the Pacific League club on Dec. 28. He became the fourth-highest-paid Japanese player in national baseball history.

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Sony to introduce 15 new LCD TVs

TOKYO, Japan - Sony Corp. said Aug. 29 it will soon introduce 15 new Bravia liquid crystal display televisions including a 70-inch one, the largest LCD TV for consumers in Japan. Of the 15 new TVs, 11 will be put on sale on Sept. 20, including the popular 46-inch model that is expected to sell for 400,000 to 500,000 yen.

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Nikkei surges on Wall St. rally, weaker yen

TOKYO, March 1 Kyodo - An electric board in Tokyo shows the Nikkei Stock Average gaining more than 500 points, or 3 percent, on March 2, 2016, as U.S. stocks rallied overnight and a weaker yen lifted shares of Japanese exporters.

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Tokyo stocks plunge in early trading on China fears, strong yen

TOKYO, July 9 Kyodo - An electronic board in Tokyo shows the Nikkei stock index plunging more than 500 points in the morning of July 9, 2015, as risk sentiment remained bowed by pessimism over China's economy and as the yen held firm against the U.S. dollar. The Nikkei lost as many as 622 points, or 3.1 percent, earlier.

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'Green owner' program plaintiffs meet press

OSAKA, Japan - Plaintiffs meet the press in Osaka on Oct. 9, 2014, after the Osaka District Court ordered the government to pay 85 people a combined 91 million yen in damages for failing to sufficiently warn them of the risks of investment in state-owned forests. The plaintiffs in the lawsuit over the "green owner" program had sought about 500 million yen in compensation.

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Jelly in shape of ancient burial mound

MATSUE, Japan - Photo taken Sept. 3, 2014, shows a jelly in the shape of an ancient Japanese burial mound, with a gummy bear inside, provided at the cafe of the Shimane Museum of Ancient Izumo, in Izumo, Shimane Prefecture. The green-tea-flavored dessert is being offered for 500 yen until Sept. 15 in commemoration of a special exhibit at the museum.

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Jelly in shape of ancient burial mound

MATSUE, Japan - Photo taken Sept. 3, 2014, shows a jelly in the shape of an ancient Japanese burial mound, provided at the cafe of the Shimane Museum of Ancient Izumo, in Izumo, Shimane Prefecture. The green-tea-flavored dessert is being offered for 500 yen until Sept. 15 in commemoration of a special exhibit at the museum.

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Dai-ichi Life poised to buy U.S. insurer Protective

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in 2011 shows the headquarters of Dai-ichi Life Insurance Co. in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward. Dai-ichi Life is poised to acquire Protective Life Corp. of the United States for about 500 billion yen ($4.9 billion), sources familiar with the matter said June 2, 2014.

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Acquitted ex-Credit Suisse employee

TOKYO, Japan - Takashi Hatta, a former employee of Credit Suisse Securities (Japan) Ltd., holds a press conference in Tokyo on May 16, 2014. He filed a 500 million yen damages suit against the Japanese government following his acquittal for tax evasion earlier in the year.

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Tokyo Disney Resort to refurbish facilities over decade

TOKYO, Japan - Oriental Land Co., operator of the Disney theme parks in Japan, is set to invest 500 billion yen over the next 10 years to refurbish amusement and related operations. This file photo taken in November 2013 shows Mickey Mouse and other characters in a special Christmas event at Tokyo Disneyland in Urayasu, Chiba Prefecture.

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Hot spring inns' proprietresses-to-be promote Japanese sake

YONAGO, Japan - Two young women undergoing training to become owners of Japanese inns in the Kaike hot spring area in Yonago, Tottori Prefecture, western Japan, pose with bottles of locally made Japanese sake on Feb. 27, 2014. Each 500-milliliter bottle of the "Kamidai" brand sake sells for 2,100 yen.

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Year-end "jumbo" lottery

TOKYO, Japan - The winning numbers for the nationwide year-end "jumbo" lottery, with a top prize of 500 million yen and the maximum prize of 700 million yen, are announced in Tokyo on Dec. 31, 2013.

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Tokyo Gov. Inose in scandal

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Gov. Naoki Inose holds a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 22, 2013. The governor said he borrowed 50 million yen ($500,000) from a hospital organization, which is at the center of an illegal campaigning scandal, but later returned the funds.

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Pure gold Christmas tree

TOKYO, Japan - A 2.4-meter-tall pure gold Christmas tree featuring Disney characters is displayed at a shop of Tanaka Kikinzoku Jewelry K.K. in Tokyo's Ginza district on Nov. 18, 2013. The company is selling the item, made of some 43 kilograms of pure gold, for 500 million yen ($5 million).

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Erroneous article

BERLIN, Germany - Photo shows the July 11, 2013, edition of the German tabloid Bild, which erroneously reported that Japanese comedian Sugi-chan had won 500 million yen in a lottery.

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Nikkei ends above 14,000

TOKYO, Japan - An electronic signboard in central Tokyo's Yaesu district shows Japan's key Nikkei Stock Average above 14,000, up more than 500 points from May 2, the preceding business day, on the afternoon of May 7, 2013. The index finished at 14,180.24, its highest close since June 18, 2008, as sentiment was buoyed following robust U.S. jobs data for April and the yen's weak tone against the U.S. dollar.

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Tickets for record lottery on sale

TOKYO, Japan - People line up at a lottery booth in Tokyo's Ginza district on Feb. 14, 2012. Tickets for a public lottery, the revenue from which will be partially used to fund reconstruction from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, went on sale the same day, with the top prize and the two prizes for adjacent numbers together worth a record 500 million yen.

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Court rejects suit against Yasukuni enshrinement

NAHA, Japan - One of the plaintiffs (front) of a suit against their relatives' enshrinement at the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo makes an appeal in front of the Naha branch of the Fukuoka High Court in Okinawa Prefecture before the ruling on Sept. 6, 2011. The branch upheld the same day a lower court decision to reject the suit by five Okinawa Prefecture citizens, who asked the central government and the Shinto shrine to delist their 10 deceased relatives' enshrinement at the shrine and to pay a total of 500,000 yen in damages for mental pain they claim to have suffered from the enshrinement.

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BOJ Governor Shirakawa

TOKYO, Japan - Bank of Japan Governor Masaaki Shirakawa speaks during a press conference at the BOJ head office in Tokyo on June 14, 2011. The Japanese central bank stepped up its efforts to boost the country's economy, which has been flagging since the earthquake and tsunami in March, introducing a 500 billion yen cheap loan program to support smaller companies with growth potential.

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Memorial coins for 3 prefectures

OSAKA, Japan - Photo shows three pairs of memorial coins depicting (from top) Toyama, Tottori and Kumamoto prefectures -- 1,000 yen (L) and 500 yen (R) -- which are scheduled to be sold from late May 2011, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the implementation of the local autonomy law. Japan Mint held a commencement ceremony at its head office in Osaka on May 16, 2011, as the agency began producing the coins the same day.

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Darvish highest paid baseball player in Japan

SAPPORO, Japan - Yu Darvish, ace pitcher of the Nippon Ham Fighters, attends a press conference at the club's head office in Sapporo on Jan. 6, 2011. Darvish became the highest paid player in Japanese baseball when he re-signed with the club for 500 million yen the same day.

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Darvish highest paid baseball player in Japan

SAPPORO, Japan - Yu Darvish, ace pitcher of the Nippon Ham Fighters, attends a press conference at the club's head office in Sapporo on Jan. 6, 2011. Darvish became the highest paid player in Japanese baseball when he re-signed with the club for 500 million yen the same day.

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Darvish highest paid baseball player in Japan

SAPPORO, Japan - Yu Darvish, ace pitcher of the Nippon Ham Fighters, attends a press conference at the club's head office in Sapporo on Jan. 6, 2011. Darvish became the highest paid player in Japanese baseball when he re-signed with the club for 500 million yen the same day.

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Mitsubishi Corp. targets 500 bil. yen net profit in FY 2012

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi Corp. President Ken Kobayashi speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on July 16, 2010. The company announced that it is targeting consolidated net profit of 500 billion yen in fiscal 2012.

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Coins marking 20th anniversary of Emperor's enthronement

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a 10,000-yen gold coin that Japan will issue later this year to mark the 20th anniversary of Emperor Akihito's enthronement. The front side of the pure-gold coin (top) depicts a phoenix and the Imperial Palace's ''Nijubashi'' double-arched bridge and the reverse side (bottom) depicts the chrysanthemum seal. A 500-yen nickel-brass coins will also be issued.

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Pair of Yubari melons sold for 500,000 yen

SAPPORO, Japan - A pair of Yubari melons, a premium orange-fleshed variety of cantaloupe from Hokkaido, are displayed in a souvenir shop in Sapporo on May 15 after being sold for 500,000 yen in the first auction of this year's harvest season at Sapporo City Central Wholesale Markets. They sold for one-fifth of last year's price of 2.5 million yen per pair.

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Police officer, girlfriend nabbed for fraud of 500,000 yen

NAGOYA, Japan - Hiroshi Saito, director of police administration at the Aichi Prefectural Police Department, bows in apology at a news conference in Nagoya on March 11 after an Aichi assistant police inspector and his girlfriend were arrested on suspicion of swindling a woman in Nagoya out of 500,000 yen under the guise of solving her personal troubles last year.

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Fish-cake cooking oil converted to bio-diesel fuel in Miyagi

SENDAI, Japan - The city of Shiogama, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan's largest fish-cake processing base, has been producing bio-diesel from cooking oil disposed by fish-cake makers in the city, selling the product at 105 yen per liter, substantially cheaper than ordinary diesel sold at gas filling stations. Each year, fish-cake makers in Shiogama dispose of more than 500,000 liters of used cooking oil, which had been sold to outside dealers for use as fat in pet food or as ink solvent. The city started converting used cooking oil to bio-diesel in November 2006 with subsidies from the Ministry of Environment. The photo shows an employee at the bio-diesel fuel station in Shiogama filling up a diesel truck.

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Higher taxi fares in Nagoya

NAGOYA, Japan - A taxi company employee puts a new fare sticker on the side window of a taxi in Nagoya, where the starting fare went up to 500 yen on Oct. 19 for the initial ride of up to 1.3 kilometers, the first effective fare increase in 11 years. On the same day, the government announced a 7.2 percent hike in Tokyo taxi fares from Dec. 3, raising the starting fare for the first 2 km from 660 yen to 710 yen.

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Securities watchdog seeks 500 mil. yen fine on Nikko

TOKYO, Japan - Nikko Cordial group Vice President Hiroaki Sugioka speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on Dec. 18 as Japan's securities authorities the same day recommended a largest-ever fine of 500 million yen against Nikko Cordial Corp. for falsifying its group's financial statement for fiscal 2004.

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Russian court imposes fine on Japanese fishing boat skipper

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Noboru Sakashita, the captain of the crab fishing boat Kisshin Maru No. 31, attends a hearing at the South Kuril District Court in Yuzhno-Kurilsk on the Russian-held Kunashiri Island on Sept. 21. The Russian court ordered him to pay about 500,000 rubles ($12,700, or 2.2 million yen) in fines and damages for intruding into and poaching in Russian-claimed territorial waters just off Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido in mid-August.

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Financier Murakami released on bail of 500 million yen

TOKYO, Japan - A car carrying Yoshiaki Murakami, the founder of Japan's best-known investment fund, who has been indicted on insider-trading charges, leaves the Tokyo Detention House on June 26. Murakami was released on a bail of 500 million yen.

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Toyota releases all-new, higher-end minivan hybrid

NAGOYA, Japan - Toyota Motor Corp. on June 12 marketed in Japan a completely redesigned, higher-end minivan hybrid (in photo), whose mileage has improved to 20 kilometers per liter of gasoline, a fuel economy comparable to that of a compact car, thanks to use of a smaller motor and battery. The seven-seater, four-wheel-drive Estima G with a 2.4-liter engine also boasts better acceleration and sells for 4.41 million yen, about 500,000 yen more expensive than comparable gasoline-powered vehicles, Toyota Motor said.

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Tanigaki unveils two 50th anniversary coins

TOKYO, Japan - Finance Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki unveils the designs of two commemorative coins on April 28 -- a 500-yen coin (left) marking the 50th anniversary of Japan's Antarctic expedition and a 1,000-yen coin (right) marking the 50th anniversary of Japan's accession to the United Nations.

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Renewed museum of New York Yankees Matsui to open in Ishikawa Pref.

NOMI, Japan - A museum devoted to New York Yankees outfielder Hideki Matsui is reopened to the media after renovations on Dec. 5 in Nomi, Ishikawa Prefecture, where he is from. The Hideki Matsui baseball museum, established in 1994, was remodeled and moved to a place closer to his parent's home at a cost of about 500 million yen. It opens to the public on Dec. 8.

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(1)Nagashima items popular at Giants' charity event

MIYAZAKI, Japan - A cap from popular former Yomiuri Giants manager Shigeo Nagashima fetches 500,000 yen in a charity auction aimed to help reconstruct earthquake-hit areas, at the site of the Giants' spring training in Miyazaki, southwestern Japan, on Feb. 19. The cap features ''3'' handwritten by the 68-year-old Nagashima.

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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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Over 5,500 suspected fake coins found in 3 prefectures

TOKYO, Japan - Pictured on Feb. 3 is one of fake 500-yen coins which have been found in the prefectures of Fukuoka, Kumamoto and Tokyo. A total of 5,583 counterfeit 500-yen coins have been discovered in the prefectures, the Finance Ministry said.

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Sasaki inks with Yokohama for 500 mil. yen

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Yokohama BayStars closer Kazuhiro Sasaki confirms at a press conference in Yokohama on Dec. 8 a deal worth 500 million yen plus performance-related incentives in his final year of a two-year contract signed last off-season. ''Next year will be a crucial year in my baseball career. I'll train all over again and put on the best performance ever,'' the 36-year-old Sasaki said.

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Elpida starts construction of world's DRAM plant

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Yukio Sakamoto, president of Elpida Memory Inc., briefs reporters at the Hiroshima Prefectural government office on construction of a dynamic random access memory chip plant which he claims has the world's largest production capacity. Elpidia, a joint venture between NEC Corp. and Hitachi Ltd., will invest some 450-500 billion yen in construction of the plant in Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture.

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Mitsubishi Heavy to launch anti-virus mask in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. said Feb. 6 it will launch on Feb. 14 in Japan a mask (worn by a model) that it believes can inactivate 80% of viruses, including SARS and bird flu virus, with its special enzyme-woven fabric. Mitsubishi Heavy, one of Japan's largest aviation and defense equipment makers, said the Beaver Mask to be sold at drugstores across the nation will carry a suggested retail price of 500 yen.

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Kintetsu's Nakamura re-signs for 500 mil. yen

OSAKA, Japan - Kintetsu Buffaloes slugger Norihiro Nakamura speaks to reporters at the Pacific League baseball club's office in Osaka on Dec. 22 after re-signing with the team for an unchanged annual salary of 500 million yen plus performance-related incentives.

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S. Korean slugger Lee introduced at Lotte press conference

CHIBA, Japan - South Korean superstar Lee Seung Yeop (L) has his cap put on by his wife at a press conference at a Chiba hotel on Dec. 16 after joining the Lotte Marines on a two-year, 500 million yen deal.

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Humble sardines now more expensive than sea breams

TOKYO, Japan - The stock of Japanese sardines, the fish long associated with the popular Japanese palate, appears to be undergoing an inexplicable change in recent years. A single sardine now fetches nearly 500 yen at times, exceeding upmarket fish like farmed yellowtails and sea breams.