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Santa Claus charity parade in Tokyo

People dressing as Santa Claus take part in a 2.5-kilometer charity parade in central Tokyo on Nov. 16, 2025. Participation fees collected from about 2,600 people will finance purchases of Christmas gifts for children with illnesses.

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Santa Claus charity parade in Tokyo

People dressing as Santa Claus take part in a 2.5-kilometer charity parade in central Tokyo on Nov. 16, 2025. Participation fees collected from about 2,600 people will finance purchases of Christmas gifts for children with illnesses.

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Santa Claus charity parade in Tokyo

People dressing as Santa Claus take part in a 2.5-kilometer charity parade in central Tokyo on Nov. 16, 2025. Participation fees collected from about 2,600 people will finance purchases of Christmas gifts for children with illnesses.

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Japanese food fair in Singapore

A food fair promoting Japanese food is held in Singapore on Oct. 16, 2025, with about 150 companies and organizations from 35 Japanese prefectures taking part.

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Charnel house of A-bomb mound in Hiroshima shown to press

The charnel house beneath the Atomic Bomb Memorial Mound in Hiroshima is shown to the press on July 16, 2025, ahead of the 80th anniversary of the bombing of the western Japan city on Aug. 6, 1945. The vault stores the ashes of about 70,000 atomic bomb victims, with many of them unclaimed.

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Charnel house of A-bomb mound in Hiroshima shown to press

The charnel house beneath the Atomic Bomb Memorial Mound in Hiroshima is shown to the press on July 16, 2025, ahead of the 80th anniversary of the bombing of the western Japan city on Aug. 6, 1945. The vault stores the ashes of about 70,000 atomic bomb victims, with many of them unclaimed.

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Charnel house of A-bomb mound in Hiroshima shown to press

The charnel house beneath the Atomic Bomb Memorial Mound in Hiroshima is shown to the press on July 16, 2025, ahead of the 80th anniversary of the bombing of the western Japan city on Aug. 6, 1945. The vault stores the ashes of about 70,000 atomic bomb victims, with many of them unclaimed.

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Charnel house of A-bomb mound in Hiroshima shown to press

The charnel house beneath the Atomic Bomb Memorial Mound in Hiroshima is shown to the press on July 16, 2025, ahead of the 80th anniversary of the bombing of the western Japan city on Aug. 6, 1945. The vault stores the ashes of about 70,000 atomic bomb victims, with many of them unclaimed.

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Search continues in 2011 quake area

A Coast Guard diver holds a sneaker found underwater as the search continues for those still unaccounted for in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on March 16, 2023, 12 years after the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster that left more than 15,000 dead and about 2,500 still missing nationwide.

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Search continues in 2011 quake area

A Coast Guard diver jumps into the water as the search continues for those still unaccounted for in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on March 16, 2023, 12 years after the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster that left more than 15,000 dead and about 2,500 still missing nationwide.

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Search continues in 2011 quake area

A team continues the search for those still unaccounted for in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on March 16, 2023, 12 years after the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster that left more than 15,000 dead and about 2,500 still missing nationwide.

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Fukushima Daini nuke plant fate depends on gov't policy

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Yoshiyuki Ishizaki, head of Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima office, speaks during an interview with Kyodo News on Dec. 16, 2014, in Fukushima, northeastern Japan. Ishizaki said whether the four reactors at the Fukushima Daini nuclear power plant, about 12 kilometers south of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi plant, will be decommissioned as called for by the Fukushima prefectural government will depend on the central government's decision on the country's nuclear energy policy.

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PanaHome eyes $233 mil. sales in Southeast Asia in FY2018

OSAKA, Japan - PanaHome Corp. President Yasuteru Fujii speaks in an interview in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Oct. 16, 2014. He said the company aims to boost annual sales in Southeast Asia to 25 billion yen (about $233 million) in fiscal 2018 from the current level of some 1 billion yen.

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Ebola outbreak leaves over 3,700 orphans in W. Africa

TOKYO, Japan - Edward Chaiban, UNICEF's director of emergency programs, speaks in an interview in Tokyo on Oct. 16, 2014. He said there are about 3,700 orphans in the West African countries of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone who lost their parents to the Ebola epidemic.

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1,000 women dance in Kumamoto festival

KUMAMOTO, Japan - About 1,000 women clad in cotton summer kimono with paper lanterns on their heads dance at the traditional "Sennin Toro Odori" in Yamaga, Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Aug. 16, 2014.

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About 100 people hold anti-China demonstration in Hanoi

HANOI, Vietnam - About 100 people hold an anti-China demonstration in central Hanoi on Feb. 16, 2014, in memory of people killed in the 1979 Sino-Vietnamese war and to protest against Chinese territorial claims in the South China Sea.

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About 100 people hold anti-China demonstration in Hanoi

HANOI, Vietnam - About 100 people shout anti-China slogans during a demonstration in Hanoi on Feb. 16, 2014. The demonstration was held in memory of people killed in the 1979 Sino-Vietnamese war and to protest against Chinese territorial claims in the South China Sea.

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Bikini Atoll radiation survivor continues antinuclear fight

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows officials measuring radiation levels of a tuna landed at the Tsukiji Market in Tokyo from the Fukuryu Maru No. 5 on March 16, 1954. The tuna fishing boat was exposed to nuclear fallout from a U.S. hydrogen bomb test on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands on March 1 that year, while fishing about 160 kilometers east of the atoll.

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National Opera of Ukraine in Japan

Ballet dancers of the National Opera of Ukraine rehearse a performance in Yokohama, eastern Japan, on Dec. 16, 2022. About 200 dancers will perform in 13 prefectures for about one month from Dec. 17.

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National Opera of Ukraine in Japan

Ballet dancers of the National Opera of Ukraine rehearse a performance in Yokohama, eastern Japan, on Dec. 16, 2022. About 200 dancers will perform in 13 prefectures for about one month from Dec. 17.

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National Opera of Ukraine in Japan

Ballet dancers of the National Opera of Ukraine rehearse a performance in Yokohama, eastern Japan, on Dec. 16, 2022. About 200 dancers will perform in 13 prefectures for about one month from Dec. 17.

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Fire on freighter

WAKKANAI, Japan - Photo shows the 497-ton Taigan, a Cambodia-registered freighter docked at Wakkanai port in Hokkaido on May 16, 2013. Bodies believed to be those of six missing Russian crew members were found inside the ship after it took about 11 hours to put out a fire that broke out early in the morning.

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TEPCO transfers radioactive water to reliable container

OKUMA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on April 16, 2013, shows work at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, to transfer radioactive water stored in one of the leaky underground tanks to a more reliable container above ground. By the end of June, TEPCO plans to empty four underground tanks that currently hold a total of about 23,000 tons of heavily radiation-contaminated water to prevent more liquid from leaking out and seeping into the soil.

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Meteor strikes Russia

CHELYABINSK, Russia - Photo taken Feb. 16, 2013, shows a hole about 8 meters in diameter on the ice of Chebarkul Lake in the Russian region of Chelyabinsk, with news crews making reports. The hole is believed to have been made by one of the meteor fragments that fell on the region the previous day, which left around 1,200 people injured.

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Meteor strikes Russia

CHELYABINSK, Russia - Photo taken Feb. 16, 2013, shows a hole about 8 meters in diameter on the ice of Chebarkul Lake in the Russian region of Chelyabinsk. The hole is believed to have been made by one of the meteor fragments that fell on the region the previous day, which left around 1,200 people injured.

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Pro-Syria rally in Jordan

AMMAN, Jordan - About 200 Syrians stage a pro-Syrian government demonstration in front of the Syrian Embassy in Amman, Jordan, on March 16, 2012.

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Pro-Syria rally in Jordan

AMMAN, Jordan - About 200 Syrians stage a pro-Syrian government demonstration in front of the Syrian Embassy in Amman, Jordan, on March 16, 2012.

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Adventurer gives up solo trek to North Pole

TOKYO, Japan - Undated file photo shows Yasunaga Ogita, a Japanese adventurer. He gave up his solo and unassisted trek on foot across about 800 kilometers of Arctic ice to the North Pole due to worsening weather conditions, his support office said March 16, 2012.

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Building Taliban took control of in U.S. Embassy attack

KABUL, Afghanistan - A man points to the direction of the U.S. Embassy on Sept. 16, 2011, from a partially finished building with bullet holes in Kabul where Taliban insurgents launch their attack on the area of the embassy and the headquarters of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force in the Afghan capital. About 16 people including three children were killed in the attack.

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Building Taliban took control of in U.S. Embassy attack

KABUL, Afghanistan - Photo taken on Sept. 16, 2011, in Kabul shows a building under construction in which Taliban insurgents took positions for about 20 hours while attacking an area in the Afghan capital where the U.S. Embassy and the headquarters of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force are located. About 16 people including three children were killed in the attack.

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Barneys New York opens Fukuoka outlet

FUKUOKA, Japan - Customers enter Barneys New York Inc.'s fifth outlet in Japan that opened on Sept. 16, 2011, in the city of Fukuoka. About 300 people lined up at the U.S. upscale department store's first outlet in the southwestern Japanese main island of Kyushu.

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Barneys New York opens Fukuoka outlet

FUKUOKA, Japan - Crowds of customers browse in Barneys New York Inc.'s fifth outlet in Japan that opened on Sept. 16, 2011, in the city of Fukuoka. About 300 people lined up at the U.S. upscale department store's first outlet in the southwestern Japanese main island of Kyushu.

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Antarctic penguin treated in New Zealand

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - Photo taken on Aug. 16, 2011 shows an emperor penguin at Wellington Zoo in Wellington, New Zealand. Named Happy Feet, the male, about 3 and half years old, was found after drifting ashore in the country from the Antarctic in late June and is being treated at the zoo.

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N. Korea opens int'l trade fair

PYONGYANG, North Korea - The 14th Pyongyang Spring International Trade Fair begins in Pyongyang on May 16, 2011. About 280 companies from North Korea and abroad are participating in the four-day event.

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N. Korea opens int'l trade fair

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Visitors view exhibits at the 14th Pyongyang Spring International Trade Fair as the event kicks off in Pyongyang on May 16, 2011. About 280 companies from North Korea and abroad are participating in the four-day event.

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Astronauts in Moscow

MOSCOW, Russia - (From L) U.S. astronaut Michael Fossum, Russian cosmonaut Sergey Volkov and Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa shake hands at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in the suburbs of Moscow on May 16, 2011. The three will lift off in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on June 8 to stay at the International Space Station for about five and a half months, with Furukawa serving as a flight engineer on his first space mission.

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Large ship offered as shelter for evacuees

SENDAI, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the 14,500-ton Techno Super Liner cargo-passenger ship docking at Ishinomaki Port in Miyagi Prefecture on May 16, 2011. About 2,400 people affected by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in the city are expected to stay on the ship for free from the following day through May 31, 2011.

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Sushi served at evacuation center

KAMAISHI, Japan - A sushi chef slices a 25-kilogram tuna caught off Kochi Prefecture at an evacuation center in quake-hit Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, on April 16, 2011. About 20 chefs served sushi to evacuees at the shelter on the day.

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Dog rescued from Osaka Castle moat

OSAKA, Japan - A dog is rescued by firefighters on a boat from the moat at Osaka Castle in Osaka on Feb. 16, 2011. The one-year-old male dog was rescued about an hour after jumping into the water during a walk with his owner.

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Bird flu case confirmed in Mie Pref.

KIHO, Japan - Prefectural government workers enter a poultry farm in Kiho, Mie Prefecture, on Feb. 16, 2011, after a bird flu infection case was confirmed. About 67,000 birds at the farm will be culled.

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Radiation rose at Niigata plant

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in May 2009 shows the No. 7 reactor of Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture. Radiation at about 2,100 times the normal level was detected in gaseous waste at the reactor on Sept. 16, 2010.

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17,000 people encircle Futemma base in 'human chain'

GINOWAN, Japan - People join hands amid heavy rain to form a ''human chain'' encircling the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, on May 16, 2010. About 17,000 people took part in the demonstration to call for an early return of the base and opposing plans to relocate its functions within the prefecture.

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17,000 people encircle Futemma base in 'human chain'

GINOWAN, Japan - People form a ''human chain'' encircling the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station in Ginowan (back), Okinawa Prefecture, amid rain on May 16, 2010, About 17,000 people took part in the demonstration to call for an early return of the base and opposing plans to relocate its functions within the prefecture.

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17,000 people encircle Futemma base in 'human chain'

GINOWAN, Japan - People join hands amid heavy rain to form a ''human chain'' encircling the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, on May 16, 2010. About 17,000 people took part in the demonstration to call for an early return of the base and opposing plans to relocate its functions within the prefecture.

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17,000 people encircle Futemma base in 'human chain'

GINOWAN, Japan - People join hands amid heavy rain to form a ''human chain'' encircling the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, on May 16, 2010. About 17,000 people took part in the demonstration to call for an early return of the base and opposing plans to relocate its functions within the prefecture.

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17,000 people encircle Futemma base in 'human chain'

NAHA, Japan - Ginowan Mayor Yoichi Iha (R) and Nago Mayor Susumu Inamine (C) join a ''human chain'' encircling the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, on May 16, 2010. About 17,000 people took part in the demonstration to call for an early return of the base and opposing plans to relocate its functions within the prefecture.

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17,000 people encircle Futemma base in 'human chain'

GINOWAN, Japan - People join hands amid heavy rain to form a ''human chain'' encircling the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, on May 16, 2010. About 17,000 people took part in the demonstration to call for an early return of the base and opposing plans to relocate its functions within the prefecture.

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17,000 people encircle Futemma base in 'human chain'

GINOWAN, Japan - People form a ''human chain'' encircling the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, amid rain on May 16, 2010, About 17,000 people took part in the demonstration to call for an early return of the base and opposing plans to relocate its functions within the prefecture.

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Japan's emergency medical team leaves for quake-hit Haiti

NARITA, Japan - Japan's emergency medical team, consisting of four doctors, seven nurses and 14 other officials, leaves Narita International Airport, east of Tokyo, on Jan. 16, 2006 for Haiti. The team will stay in Haiti for about two weeks.

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N. Korea announces 2008 census report

PYONGYANG, North Korea - People attend a governmental meeting on a census report in Pyongyang on Dec. 16, 2009. The North Korean government announced its population was about 24 million as of Oct. 1, 2008.