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Premium melons from Hokkaido

A pair of premium melons, produced in Yubari in Hokkaido, fetches 1 million yen ($7,000) at the first auction of the year in Sapporo, the capital of the northern Japan prefecture, on May 26, 2025.

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Memorial ceremony on Iwoto Island

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (front) visits Iwoto Island, previously known as Iwojima, on March 29, 2025, to attend a Japan-U.S. joint memorial service to commemorate the war dead on the Pacific Ocean island. Japan and the United States fought an intense battle there during World War II, resulting in the death of about 21,900 Japanese and 7,000 U.S. soldiers. (Pool photo)

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Memorial ceremony on Iwoto Island

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (C) offers flowers during a Japan-U.S. joint memorial service held on March 29, 2025, to commemorate the war dead on Iwoto Island, previously known as Iwojima, in the Pacific Ocean. Japan and the United States fought an intense battle there during World War II, resulting in the death of about 21,900 Japanese and 7,000 U.S. soldiers. (Pool photo)

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Memorial ceremony on Iwoto Island

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a Japan-U.S. joint memorial service on March 29, 2025, to commemorate the war dead on Iwoto Island, previously known as Iwojima, in the Pacific Ocean. Japan and the United States fought an intense battle there during World War II, resulting in the death of about 21,900 Japanese and 7,000 U.S. soldiers. (Pool photo)

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Farewell service held for Japan wrestling icon

Photo taken on March 7, 2023, shows Japanese professional wrestler Tatsumi Fujinami attending a service to bid farewell to Japanese professional wrestler-turned-lawmaker Antonio Inoki, held at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo with about 7,000 people in attendance. Inoki, who took on world boxing champion Muhammad Ali in 1976, was inducted into the World Wrestling Entertainment Hall of Fame in 2010.

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Farewell service held for Japan wrestling icon

Photo taken on March 7, 2023, shows former Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori attending a service to bid farewell to Japanese professional wrestler-turned-lawmaker Antonio Inoki, held at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo with about 7,000 people in attendance. Inoki, who took on world boxing champion Muhammad Ali in 1976, was inducted into the World Wrestling Entertainment Hall of Fame in 2010.

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Farewell service for Japan wrestling icon

About 7,000 people attend a farewell service at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo on March 7, 2023, for Japanese professional wrestler-turned-lawmaker Antonio Inoki, who died on Oct. 1, 2022, aged 79. Inoki, who took on world boxing champion Muhammad Ali in 1976, was inducted into the World Wrestling Entertainment Hall of Fame in 2010.

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Farewell service for Japan wrestling icon

About 7,000 people attend a farewell service at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo on March 7, 2023, for Japanese professional wrestler-turned-lawmaker Antonio Inoki, who died on Oct. 1, 2022, aged 79. Inoki, who took on world boxing champion Muhammad Ali in 1976, was inducted into the World Wrestling Entertainment Hall of Fame in 2010. (Kyodo)

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Protests in Okinawa

NAHA, Japan - Photo taken Dec. 27, 2011, shows cardboard boxes containing some 7,000 pages of a key environmental impact assessment report for relocating the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station within the southern Japanese prefecture of Okinawa, carried by a delivery company van after it arrives at the prefectural government office in Naha. The van turned back without delivering the document to the office after it was surrounded by people opposed to the relocation plan.

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Special Olympics flame ignited in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - The Special Olympics flame is ignited in Tokyo in a ceremony held in front of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Office on Aug. 22. The flame, ignited in Athens June 29, was carried to Tokyo via Seoul. The Special Olympics will be held in Shanghai Oct. 2-11 with about 7,000 people from 169 countries and regions participating.

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Yamaha raises yearly sales target of 3-wheel bike

NAGOYA, Japan - Yamaha motor Co. President Hiroyuki Yanagi says in a media interview in Iwata, Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, on Aug. 21, 2014, the company will revise upward its annual sales target of Tricity MW125, a three-wheel motorcycle to be launched in Japan on Sept. 10, from the initial plan of 7,000 units. Total orders received for the new model have already reached 5,000 units since the announcement of the release in July, according to Yanagi.

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Hitachi Zosen unveils world's biggest shield tunneling machine

OSAKA, Japan - Hitachi Zosen Corp. shows to the press on Dec. 25, 2012, what it claims to be the world's largest shield tunneling machine at its Sakai plant in Osaka Prefecture. The 110-meter-long machine with a diameter of 17.45 meters and weighing some 7,000 tons will be used to drill a 2,800-meter tunnel in Seattle in the U.S. state of Washington to replace an aging elevated highway, the company said.

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New Panasonic president

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuhiro Tsuga, newly appointed president of Panasonic Corp., holds a press conference in Tokyo on June 28, 2012. The electronics company will streamline its headquarters by reducing the 7,000 employees working there and take other steps to turn its business around after posting its largest-ever loss the previous year, said Tsuga, who was named president of the company the previous day.

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Panasonic mulls cutting half of 7,000 HQ personnel

OSAKA, Japan - File photo taken in January 2009 shows the headquarters of Panasonic Corp. in Kadoma, Osaka Prefecture. Panasonic is considering cutting 3,000 to 4,000 of the 7,000 personnel who work at its headquarters within the current financial year through internal transfers and early retirement, in an effort to reduce costs and streamline the organization, sources familiar with the matter said May 29, 2012.

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NEC to cut 10,000 jobs worldwide

TOKYO, Japan - NEC Corp. President Nobuhiro Endo holds a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 26, 2012. Endo said the company will cut 10,000 jobs worldwide -- 7,000 domestic and 3,000 overseas -- in the first half of fiscal 2012. The measure is part of NEC's restructuring as its earnings have deteriorated due to the effects of the massive flooding in Thailand and sluggish mobile phone business.

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Red queen crabs at season's 1st auction in Japan

YONAGO, Japan - Red queen crabs are on display at the first auction for them this year at a port in Sakaiminato City, Tottori Prefecture, on the Sea of Japan coast on Sept. 5, 2009. The crabs sold for 7,000 to 7,900 yen per 30 kilograms.

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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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Events held to commemorate 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake

KOBE, Japan - Mitsuru Takeba, who lost his 1-year-old daughter in the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake, talks to his 2-year-old daughter Mii about the quake in front of candles in about 7,000 bamboo lanterns lit to commemorate the 6,434 victims at a memorial service held in Kobe on Jan. 17 to mark the 14th anniversary of the quake.

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Nikkei ends 6% higher

TOKYO, Japan - An electronic board at a securities company in Tokyo's Nihonbashi district on Oct. 28 shows the 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average up 459.02 points from Oct. 27 to 7,621.92 after reversing earlier losses that sent the key Nikkei index falling below the 7,000 line for the first time in 26 years.

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Nikkei briefly falls below 7,000 line

TOKYO, Japan - A stock board at a securities company in Tokyo's Marunouchi district shows the Nikkei Stock Average at the Tokyo Stock Exchange briefly falling below the 7,000 line for the first time since October 1982 during morning trading on Oct. 28.

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Beijing home-owners who refuse to sell land live in isolation

BEIJING, China - Owners of these houses in the Fengdai area in southern Beijing refuse to sell their land to housing developers, who have razed the land around their houses to three, four meters deep, forcing the residents to use ladders to enter or leave their homes. Local residents say the developers have offered to buy their land at 3,500 yuan (about 57,000 yen) per square meter while apartment houses nearby are selling for 7,000 yuan per square meter. About 100 families have sold their land to the developers but 12 have refused. Residents say the developers have cut off water and power supply to the stand-alone houses and they were attacked by stick-wielding gangsters last month.

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7,000 evacuated in Tokyo suburb while wartime dud shell removed

NISHITOKYO, Japan - A Ground Self-Defense Force unit disposed of an unexploded bomb, believed dropped by the U.S. military during World War II, in the city of Nishitokyo, western Tokyo, on July 10. About 7,000 residents were evacuated.

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(2)Koizumi attends memorial service in Iwojima

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi lays flowers at the monument to the U.S. soldiers on Iwojima Island on June 19. More than 20,000 Japanese and 7,000 U.S. soldiers died in the Battle of Iwojima in 1945. The island is located some 1,200 kilometers south of Tokyo. (Pool photo)

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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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Voting begins in Indonesia amid skepticism over change

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesian voters fill in newspaper-sized ballots at a polling station in central Jakarta on April 5 to vote in parliamentary elections. Over 7,000 candidates from 24 political parties are contesting for seats in legislative bodies at the national, provincial and regent levels.

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U.S. Marines conduct earthquake drills

IWAKUNI, Japan - U.S. Marines in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture, perform drills against earthquakes and other natural disasters at their base in an event open to the media. About 7,000 Marines, family members and Japanese base employees took part in the drills.

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Winter cherry blossoms in full bloom

ONISHI, Japan - Tourists trek under winter cherry blossoms at the Sakurayama Park in the town of Onishi in Gunma Prefecture, north of Tokyo, on Nov. 15. Unlike an ordinary cherry, the winter cherry blooms between November and December each year. Sakurayama Park has about 7,000 winter cherry trees, which have been designated by the state as a ''natural monument.''

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Fuji Heavy receives hefty orders for new Legacy models

TOKYO, Japan - Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. said June 3 it has received more than 7,000 orders for its new Legacy models in the first 10 days, already topping its monthly target of 6,000. Orders for the Legacy Touring Wagon (in handout photo), which went on sale May 23, accounted for 81.4% of the total and those for the B4 sedan, due to be launched June 23, made up the rest, the automaker said.

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Damaged neutrino detector 'Super Kamiokande' restored

GIFU, Japan - A large neutrino detector operated by the University of Tokyo's Institute for Cosmic Ray Research (ICRR) in Gifu Prefecture is shown off to the media Sept. 24 after it was repaired following severe damage sustained in an accident in November 2001. About 7,000 or 60% of the 11,000 photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) attached to the neutrino detector in the town of Kamioka in the central Japanese prefecture were found broken last Nov. 12 due to a chain reaction, but it is now repaired to a level that experiments can resume, ICRR officials said.

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Thai premier outlines rural products campaign

BANGKOK, Thailand - Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra (C) introduces local products to Morihiko Hiramatsu (L), governor of Oita prefecture in southwestern Japan, at the prime minister's office in Bangkok on April 30. Thaksin held a seminar on the ''One Tambon, One Product'' campaign, which encourages about 7,000 Thai ''Tambon'' (subdistricts) across the country to each create products for global and domestic markets. Hiramatsu was invited to the seminar.

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Kansai airport jammed with vacationers

OSAKA, Japan - Vacationers heading abroad queue up Aug. 12 at check-in counters in Kansai International Airport near Osaka. An estimated 22,300 passengers were scheduled to depart the airport during the day to spend their summer holidays overseas. The figure is about 7,000 higher than usual.

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Okinawans rally over alleged crimes by U.S. servicemen

NAHA, Japan - More than 7,000 residents of Okinawa took part in a rally on July 15 in the southern Okinawa Island city of Ginowan to protest two criminal cases allegedly committed by U.S. servicemen earlier this month and to call for a smaller U.S. military presence in the island prefecture. It is the largest gathering in the southernmost prefecture to protest the U.S. military since some 85,000 locals attended a similar rally in the wake of the September 1995 rape of a 12-year-old girl in the prefecture by three U.S. servicemen.

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7,000 sickened by Snow Brand milk, recall going slowly

OSAKA, Japan - Photo shows cartons of low-fat milk that have been recalled by Snow Brand Milk Products Co. Over 7,000 people have been sickened by the milk since Friday. Only 15% of the milk subject to recall has been retrieved.

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Residents set up 7,000 plastic-bottle pinwheels

NAKABARU, Japan - People in the town of Nakabaru, Saga Prefecture, southwestern Japan, set up some 7,000 pinwheels made from plastic bottles over the Shozu River. The town began the annual event last year as a publicity campaign for its seasonal ''wind festival.''

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7,000 mark Okinawa return anniversary with rally.

Thousands of people attend a peace rally at the Kaihin Koen park in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture May 15 to mark the 27th anniversary of the return of Okinawa to Japan after 27 years of U.S. rule. Police estimate the turnout at 7,000.

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Asian Games closing ceremony

A gigantic flower pattern adorns the ground of the Rajamangala National Stadium as the curtain came down on Dec. 20, on the 13th Asian Games. Nearly 7,000 athletes from 41 countries vied for 377 gold medals in 36 sports in the largest-ever regional version of the summer Olympics.