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Cabbage prices surging in Japan

Photo taken on Feb. 21, 2025, shows cabbage on sale at a vegetable store in Tokyo. Consumer price data the government released the same day showed cabbage prices jumped threefold in January from a year earlier.

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Rice prices surging in Japan

Photo taken on Feb. 21, 2025, shows bags of rice on sale at a vegetable store in Tokyo. Consumer price data the government released the same day showed rice prices surged over 70 percent in January from a year earlier.

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Mandarin prices surging in Japan

Photo taken on Feb. 21, 2025, shows mandarins on sale at a vegetable store in Tokyo. Consumer price data the government released the same day showed the price of mandarins soared 37 percent in January from a year earlier.

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Impeached S. Korean president attends court hearing

Supporters of impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol stage a rally near the Constitutional Court in Seoul, where the impeachment trial is being held, on January 21, 2025.

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Meeting in quake-hit Kobe to reconstruct war-torn Ukrainian regions

Ukrainian Ambassador to Japan Sergiy Korsunsky makes a speech during a meeting hosted by Hyogo Prefecture in its capital Kobe on April 21, 2023, to discuss how to reconstruct Ukrainian regions damaged by the war based on the western Japan city's experience of the January 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake.

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Switzerland's top envoy to U.N.

Swiss Ambassador to the United Nations Pascale Baeriswyl gives an interview in New York on Dec. 21, 2022, as her country is set to serve as a new nonpermanent Security Council member from January.

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Switzerland's top envoy to U.N.

Swiss Ambassador to the United Nations Pascale Baeriswyl gives an interview in New York on Dec. 21, 2022, as her country is set to serve as a new nonpermanent Security Council member from January.

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'Ekiben' railway box lunch corner proves popular

FUKUOKA, Japan - An "ekiben" railway box lunch corner set up at Kyushu Railway's Hakata Station in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, is crowded with shoppers on Oct. 21, 2014, as 32 of the 50 types of box lunch involved in the "Kyushu Ekiben Grand Prix" competition are on sale there through next January.

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China's economic growth slows to 7.3% in July-Sept.

BEIJING, China - Sheng Laiyun, a spokesman for the National Bureau of Statistics of China, tells a press conference in Beijing on Oct. 21, 2014, the country's gross domestic product slowed to 7.3% growth in the July-September quarter on a year-on-year basis, the slowest since a 6.6% rise in the January-March quarter of 2009.

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Singer Kitajima to retire from stage play as troupe head

TOKYO, Japan - Veteran "enka" Japanese ballad singer Saburo Kitajima poses at a press conference at a hotel in Tokyo on April 21, 2014, making a pitch for what will be his final series of stage performances as the leader of his theatrical company ending next January.

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Baruto falls to 2nd loss

OSAKA, Japan - Estonian ozeki Baruto (L) is defeated by Bulgarian ozeki Kotooshu at Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium on March 21, 2012, the 11th day of the Spring Grand Sumo Tournament. It was the second loss in the tournament for Baruto, who is seeking promotion to yokozuna after winning the New Year meet in January.

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Baruto falls to 2nd loss

OSAKA, Japan - Estonian ozeki Baruto is seen after being defeated by Bulgarian ozeki Kotooshu at Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium on March 21, 2012, the 11th day of the Spring Grand Sumo Tournament. It was the second loss in the tournament for Baruto, who is seeking promotion to yokozuna after winning the New Year meet in January.

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Rankings for January sumo meet

MATSUDO, Japan - Kisenosato indicates his promotion to ozeki in a list of sumo rankings in Matsudo, Chiba Prefecture, on Dec. 21, 2011. The Japan Sumo Association released the new rankings the same day for the New Year Grand Sumo Tournament in Tokyo in January.

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'Third Stage' troupe to be disbanded

TOKYO, Japan - Leader of the ''Third Stage'' troupe Shoji Kokami speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on July 21, 2011. He said the troupe would be disbanded after its last performance in January 2012.

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Vancouver officially opens Olympic Line Streetcar

VANCOUVER, Canada - Streetcars on the Olympic Line run through Vancouver on Jan. 21, 2010, as the city starts operating the 1.8-kilometer line between the Olympic Village Canada Line Station to Granville Island. The line, which is expected to reduce traffic jams, will provide free rides from January 21 to March 21.

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Vancouver officially opens Olympic Line Streetcar

VANCOUVER, Canada - People get off an Olympic Line streetcar in Vancouver, Canada, on Jan. 21, 2010, as the city starts operating the 1.8-kilometer line between the Olympic Village Canada Line Station to Granville Island. The line, which is expected to reduce traffic jams, will provide free rides from January 21 to March 21.

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Vancouver officially opens Olympic Line Streetcar

VANCOUVER, Canada - People ride an Olympic Line streetcar in Vancouver on Jan. 21, 2010, as the city starts operating the 1.8-kilometer line between the Olympic Village Canada Line Station to Granville Island. The line, which is expected to reduce traffic jams, will provide free rides from January 21 to March 21.

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Vancouver officially opens Olympic Line Streetcar

VANCOUVER, Canada - People board an Olympic Line streetcar in Vancouver on Jan. 21, 2010, as the city starts operating the 1.8-kilometer line between the Olympic Village Canada Line Station to Granville Island. The line, which is expected to reduce traffic jams, will provide free rides from January 21 to March 21.

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Hotel trainee's hope is to work and live in U.S.

HONOLULU, United States - Keiko Sugai (left) chats with her friend in Honolulu, Hawaii, on January 21, 2006.