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Baseball: Hall of Famer Ichiro Suzuki's career highlights

File photo shows Miami Marlins outfielder Ichiro Suzuki (C) receiving a commemorative gift in Miami on April 30, 2017, during a ceremony to celebrate his reaching the career milestone of 3,000 hits in the Major League Baseball in August 2016. The gift was a large panel which shows the number 3,000 formed by pictures of each of his 3,000 hits. Ichiro became the first Asian player inducted to the U.S. National Baseball Hall of Fame on July 27, 2025.

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Thailand holds national senate election

STORY: Thailand holds national senate election SHOOTING TIME: June 26, 2024 DATELINE: June 27, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:45 LOCATION: Bangkok CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the voting STORYLINE: Thailand held the final round of voting for the Senate election in the capital Bangkok on Wednesday, after the five-year term of outgoing senators ended in May. Previously competing at the district and provincial levels across the Southeast Asian country, 2,989 successful candidates advanced to the national Senate election, where they cast votes among themselves to elect the 200-member parliament's upper house, according to the Thai Election Commission (EC). Representing 20 categories of social and professional groups, 10 candidates who receive the most votes from each group will be elected as senators. The vote counting continued until late Wednesday and the EC is expected to announce the official results by July 2. Under the kingdom's 2017 constitution, the new set of senators will no longer

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Land-sea trade corridor helps promote export of auto parts in S China

STORY: Land-sea trade corridor helps promote export of auto parts in S China DATELINE: July 27, 2023 LENGTH: 00:00:59 LOCATION: LIUZHOU, China CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of transportation of automobiles STORYLINE: Liuzhou of south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region has seen a surge in the exports of auto parts in the first half of this year thanks to the continuous development of the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor. Launched in 2017, the new corridor is a trade and logistics passage jointly built by provincial-level regions in western China and ASEAN members. The rail-sea intermodal service has expanded to cover 61 cities in 17 provincial-level areas in China. From January to June, Liuzhou sent 4,106 20-foot equivalent units (TEU) of export auto parts through the corridor, an increase of 40.04 percent from the same period last year. The rail-sea intermodal service has helped the city expand its market to over 40 countries and regions in Southeast Asia, Central and South Ameri

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A South Korean soldier

TOKYO, Japan, Jan. 4 Kyodo - A South Korean soldier (front) stands face-to-face with a North Korean soldier on July 27, 2017 at the border village of Panmunjeom, located in the demilitarized zone that divides the two Koreas. A North Korean soldier was shot and wounded by fellow soldiers on Nov. 13, 2017 while defecting to South Korea at the border village.

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Heat-not-burn tobacco

TOKYO, Japan, Jan. 31 Kyodo - Photo taken on July 27, 2017, in Tokyo shows British American Tobacco p.l.c.'s heat-not-burn tobacco product glo (R).

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KENYA-MOMBASA-NAIROBI-RAILWAY-NEW JOBS-5TH ANNIVERSARY

(220807) -- NAIROBI, Aug. 7, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Signal workers Daniel Kibe (L) and Patrick Mburu check signal equipments at Mombas Terminus Station in Mombasa, Kenya, July 27, 2022. Launched on May 31, 2017, the 480 km Mombasa-Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway (SGR), financed mainly by China and constructed by China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC), has fostered job creation for local people. Afristar, the company operating the SGR, has employed Kenyans in 123 railway professions which fall under 5 railway departments, including railway transportation, locomotive, track, signal, and rolling stock. As of July 31, there are currently 1,359 employees working at Afristar, among them 1,049 are Kenyan employees. (Xinhua/Dong Jianghui)

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KENYA-MOMBASA-NAIROBI-RAILWAY-NEW JOBS-5TH ANNIVERSARY

(220807) -- NAIROBI, Aug. 7, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Station attendant Peter Mwadime works at Mombasa Terminus Station in Mombasa, Kenya, July 27, 2022. Launched on May 31, 2017, the 480 km Mombasa-Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway (SGR), financed mainly by China and constructed by China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC), has fostered job creation for local people. Afristar, the company operating the SGR, has employed Kenyans in 123 railway professions which fall under 5 railway departments, including railway transportation, locomotive, track, signal, and rolling stock. As of July 31, there are currently 1,359 employees working at Afristar, among them 1,049 are Kenyan employees. (Xinhua/Dong Jianghui)

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KENYA-MOMBASA-NAIROBI-RAILWAY-NEW JOBS-5TH ANNIVERSARY

(220807) -- NAIROBI, Aug. 7, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Announcer David Mwangi Ndungu works at Mombasa Terminus Station in Mombasa, Kenya, July 27, 2022. Launched on May 31, 2017, the 480 km Mombasa-Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway (SGR), financed mainly by China and constructed by China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC), has fostered job creation for local people. Afristar, the company operating the SGR, has employed Kenyans in 123 railway professions which fall under 5 railway departments, including railway transportation, locomotive, track, signal, and rolling stock. As of July 31, there are currently 1,359 employees working at Afristar, among them 1,049 are Kenyan employees. (Xinhua/Dong Jianghui)

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KENYA-MOMBASA-NAIROBI-RAILWAY-NEW JOBS-5TH ANNIVERSARY

(220807) -- NAIROBI, Aug. 7, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Mombasa Terminus station master Cosmas Makewa (R) and passenger transportation director Peterson Njeru Gitonga work in an office in Mombasa, Kenya, July 27, 2022. Launched on May 31, 2017, the 480 km Mombasa-Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway (SGR), financed mainly by China and constructed by China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC), has fostered job creation for local people. Afristar, the company operating the SGR, has employed Kenyans in 123 railway professions which fall under 5 railway departments, including railway transportation, locomotive, track, signal, and rolling stock. As of July 31, there are currently 1,359 employees working at Afristar, among them 1,049 are Kenyan employees. (Xinhua/Dong Jianghui)

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KENYA-MOMBASA-NAIROBI-RAILWAY-NEW JOBS-5TH ANNIVERSARY

(220807) -- NAIROBI, Aug. 7, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Ticketing clerk Agnes sells tickets at Mombasa Terminus Station in Mombasa, Kenya, July 27, 2022. Launched on May 31, 2017, the 480 km Mombasa-Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway (SGR), financed mainly by China and constructed by China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC), has fostered job creation for local people. Afristar, the company operating the SGR, has employed Kenyans in 123 railway professions which fall under 5 railway departments, including railway transportation, locomotive, track, signal, and rolling stock. As of July 31, there are currently 1,359 employees working at Afristar, among them 1,049 are Kenyan employees. (Xinhua/Dong Jianghui)

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KENYA-MOMBASA-NAIROBI-RAILWAY-NEW JOBS-5TH ANNIVERSARY

(220807) -- NAIROBI, Aug. 7, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Mombasa Terminus station master Cosmas Makewa (R) talks to security inspectors at the station in Mombasa, Kenya, July 27, 2022. Launched on May 31, 2017, the 480 km Mombasa-Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway (SGR), financed mainly by China and constructed by China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC), has fostered job creation for local people. Afristar, the company operating the SGR, has employed Kenyans in 123 railway professions which fall under 5 railway departments, including railway transportation, locomotive, track, signal, and rolling stock. As of July 31, there are currently 1,359 employees working at Afristar, among them 1,049 are Kenyan employees. (Xinhua/Dong Jianghui)

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KENYA-MOMBASA-NAIROBI-RAILWAY-NEW JOBS-5TH ANNIVERSARY

(220807) -- NAIROBI, Aug. 7, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Passenger attendant Monicah Chepkemboi guides a passenger to take the elevator at Mombasa Terminus Station in Mombasa, Kenya, July 27, 2022. Launched on May 31, 2017, the 480 km Mombasa-Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway (SGR), financed mainly by China and constructed by China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC), has fostered job creation for local people. Afristar, the company operating the SGR, has employed Kenyans in 123 railway professions which fall under 5 railway departments, including railway transportation, locomotive, track, signal, and rolling stock. As of July 31, there are currently 1,359 employees working at Afristar, among them 1,049 are Kenyan employees. (Xinhua/Dong Jianghui)

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BELGIUM-BRUSSELS-EU-ENERGY-MEETING

(220727) -- BRUSSELS, July 27, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Germany's Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action Robert Habeck (C) attends an exceptional European Union (EU) Council meeting on energy in Brussels, Belgium, July 26, 2022. EU member states have reached a political agreement on a 15 percent voluntary reduction of natural gas demand from the average of 2017-2021, officials announced on Tuesday. (Xinhua/Zheng Huansong)

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BELGIUM-BRUSSELS-EU-ENERGY-MEETING

(220727) -- BRUSSELS, July 27, 2022 (Xinhua) -- An exceptional European Union (EU) Council meeting on energy is held in Brussels, Belgium, July 26, 2022. EU member states have reached a political agreement on a 15 percent voluntary reduction of natural gas demand from the average of 2017-2021, officials announced on Tuesday. (Xinhua/Zheng Huansong)

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BELGIUM-BRUSSELS-EU-ENERGY-MEETING

(220727) -- BRUSSELS, July 27, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Germany's Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action Robert Habeck (R) talks with Spain's Minister for Ecological Transition Teresa Ribera ahead of an exceptional European Union (EU) Council meeting on energy in Brussels, Belgium, July 26, 2022. EU member states have reached a political agreement on a 15 percent voluntary reduction of natural gas demand from the average of 2017-2021, officials announced on Tuesday. (Xinhua/Zheng Huansong)

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CHINA-XINJIANG-TAKLIMAKAN DESERT-NEW HIGHWAY (CN)

(220630) -- YULI, June 30, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Combo photo shows one section of a new highway traversing the Taklimakan Desert under construction on July 5, 2018 (top, photo taken by Hu Huhu) and the same section after construction on June 27, 2022 (photo taken by Gu Yu), in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Located in south Xinjiang's Bayingolin Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture, the highway, connecting Yuli County and Qiemo County, was put into operation on Thursday. The highway is the third one across the Taklimakan Desert, the world's second-largest shifting-sand desert. With a designed speed of 60 or 80 km per hour for different sections, the highway has a total length of 334 km, with 307 km passing through the desert. So far, China has more than 1,200 km of highways across the Taklimakan Desert. The highway has been built with an estimated total investment of about 1.75 billion yuan (about 261.5 million U.S. dollars) and its construction started in October 2017. (Xinhua)

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Advisers on Japan publicity centers overseas hold 1st meeting

Actor Tetsuya Bessho (L) speaks about the importance of Japan's publicity efforts at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on July 27, 2015. He and 16 other people, including astronaut Mamoru Mohri (R), held the first meeting of a panel of advisers on the ministry's plan to open "Japan House" centers in London, Los Angeles and Sao Paulo in 2017 as one-stop locations to learn about culture and other aspects of Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Heat-not-burn tobacco

Photo taken on July 27, 2017, in Tokyo shows British American Tobacco p.l.c.'s heat-not-burn tobacco product glo (R). (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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A South Korean soldier

A South Korean soldier (front) stands face-to-face with a North Korean soldier on July 27, 2017 at the border village of Panmunjeom, located in the demilitarized zone that divides the two Koreas. A North Korean soldier was shot and wounded by fellow soldiers on Nov. 13, 2017 while defecting to South Korea at the border village. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Baseball: Former closer Takeda to leave Fighters

Hisashi Takeda of the Nippon Ham Fighters pitches in the ninth inning against the Seibu Lions in Tokorozawa, north of Tokyo, on July 27, 2016. Takeda will part with the Fighters in hopes of signing with another team, the club said on Oct. 5, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Meditation truck offers NYC a taste of Buddhism-inspired calm

Kristin Westbrook, founder and CEO of Calm City, the first mobile meditation studio in New York, offers 10-minute meditation sessions in Manhattan on July 27, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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CORRECTED: Ex-head of scandal-hit school operator to be questioned

Yasunori Kagoike (3rd from L), a former chief of the school operator Moritomo Gakuen, arrives at the Osaka District Public Prosecutors Office on July 27, 2017, to be questioned over allegations that the operator fraudulently received subsidies. The nationalist school operator is at the center of a land-deal controversy linked to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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CORRECTED: Ex-head of scandal-hit school operator to be questioned

Yasunori Kagoike, a former chief of the school operator Moritomo Gakuen, meets with reporters in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, on July 27, 2017, before being questioned by prosecutors over allegations that the operator fraudulently received subsidies. The nationalist school operator is at the center of a land-deal controversy linked to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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CORRECTED: Ex-head of scandal-hit school operator to be questioned

Yasunori Kagoike, a former chief of the school operator Moritomo Gakuen, arrives at the Osaka District Public Prosecutors Office on July 27, 2017, to be questioned over allegations that the operator fraudulently received subsidies. The nationalist school operator is at the center of a land-deal controversy linked to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-head of scandal-hit school operator to be questioned

Yasunori Kagoike, a former chief of the school operator Moritomo Gakuen, leaves his home in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, to be questioned by prosecutors on July 27, 2017, over allegations that he and his wife fraudulently received subsidies. The nationalist school operator is at the center of a land-deal controversy linked to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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CORRECTED: Ex-head of scandal-hit school operator to be questioned

Yasunori Kagoike, a former chief of the school operator Moritomo Gakuen, meets with reporters in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, on July 27, 2017, before being questioned by prosecutors over allegations that the operator fraudulently received subsidies. The nationalist school operator is at the center of a land-deal controversy linked to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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CORRECTED: Ex-head of scandal-hit school operator to be questioned

Yasunori Kagoike, a former chief of the school operator Moritomo Gakuen, meets with reporters in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, on July 27, 2017, before being questioned by prosecutors over allegations that the operator fraudulently received subsidies. The nationalist school operator is at the center of a land-deal controversy linked to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-head of scandal-hit school operator to be questioned

Yasunori Kagoike, a former chief of the school operator Moritomo Gakuen, meets with reporters in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, on July 27, 2017, before being questioned by prosecutors over allegations that he and his wife fraudulently received subsidies. The nationalist school operator is at the center of a land-deal controversy linked to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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CORRECTED: Ex-head of scandal-hit school operator to be questioned

Yasunori Kagoike, a former chief of the school operator Moritomo Gakuen, leaves his home in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, to be questioned by prosecutors on July 27, 2017, over allegations that the operator fraudulently received subsidies. The nationalist school operator is at the center of a land-deal controversy linked to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-head of scandal-hit school operator to be questioned

Yasunori Kagoike, a former chief of the school operator Moritomo Gakuen, meets with reporters in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, on July 27, 2017, before being questioned by prosecutors over allegations that he and his wife fraudulently received subsidies. The nationalist school operator is at the center of a land-deal controversy linked to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-head of scandal-hit school operator to be questioned

Yasunori Kagoike, a former chief of the school operator Moritomo Gakuen, leaves his home in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, to be questioned by prosecutors on July 27, 2017, over allegations that he and his wife fraudulently received subsidies. The nationalist school operator is at the center of a land-deal controversy linked to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Rugby: Sunwolves lock Wykes set to join Super Rugby centurion club

Sunwolves lock Sam Wykes scores a try during the second half of a 47-7 loss to the Cheetahs in a Super Rugby match in Tokyo on May 27, 2017. The Australian is set to win his 100th Super Rugby cap on July 2 when the Sunwolves take on the Lions. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Renho announces resignation as main opposition Democratic Party leader

Democratic Party leader Renho announces her intention to step down during a news conference at the Diet building in Tokyo on July 27, 2017. Renho, 49, became the first female leader of Japan's largest opposition party when she won a leadership election in September 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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JR Kyushu president

Photo taken July 27, 2017, shows Kyushu Railway Co. President Toshihiko Aoyagi delivering a speech at a ceremony in Bangkok to celebrate the opening of its office in the Thai capital. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ikata nuclear plant

File photo taken on July 27, 2017, shows (from R) the Nos. 2, 1 and 3 reactors at the Ikata nuclear power plant in Ehime Prefecture, western Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's privately developed rocket

Takafumi Horie (R), founder of rocket developer Interstellar Technologies Inc., and its CEO Takahiro Inagawa pose for photos next to a MOMO2 rocket in Hokkaido's Taiki on March 27, 2018. The company aims to launch the MOMO2 on April 28, after a failed launch in July 2017 of a preceding model. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's privately developed rocket

Photo taken on March 27, 2018, in Taiki, Hokkaido, shows a MOMO2 rocket developed by Interstellar Technologies Inc. The rocket developer, whose launch of a preceding model failed in July 2017, plans to launch the MOMO2 on April 28. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan Display

Photo taken on July 27, 2017, shows the Japan Display Inc. logo at the company's head office in Tokyo. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Former Kobe assembly member indicted

Photo taken on July 27, 2017, shows Ken Hashimoto, a former city assembly member of Kobe, western Japan. He was indicted by Kobe prosecutors on Feb. 19 for allegedly defrauding the local assembly of public funds for political activities. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Bombed Cairo church

Photo taken on July 27, 2017, shows the damage to the interior of Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Cairo, where Mahmoud Shafiq carried out a suicide bombing terrorist attack in December 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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N. Korean soldier shot while defecting to S. Korea at border village

A South Korean soldier (front) stands face-to-face with a North Korean soldier on July 27, 2017 at the border village of Panmunjeom, located in the demilitarized zone that divides the two Koreas. A North Korean soldier was shot and wounded by fellow soldiers on Nov. 13, 2017 while defecting to South Korea at the border village. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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N. Korean soldier shot while defecting to S. Korea at border village

A South Korean soldier (front) stands face-to-face with North Korean troops on July 27, 2017 at the border village of Panmunjeom, located in the demilitarized zone that divides the two Koreas. A North Korean solider was shot and wounded by fellow soldiers on Nov. 13, 2017 while defecting to South Korea at the border village. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Emperor, empress visit rain disaster victims

Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko wave on Oct. 27 2017, in the southwestern city of Asakura to those affected by torrential rain in July. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nikkei tops 22,000 for 1st time in over 20 years

A stock board in Tokyo shows the Nikkei index on Oct. 27, 2017. The Nikkei Stock Average climbed 268.67 points to 22,008.45, its highest close since July 1996. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan Emperor, Empress travel to Fukuoka

Japanese Emperor Akihito (L) and Empress Michiko wave to the crowd as they leave Fukuoka Airport on Oct. 27, 2017, to visit parts of the southwestern Japan prefecture hit hard by torrential rain in July. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan Emperor, Empress travel to Fukuoka

Japanese Emperor Akihito (L) and Empress Michiko wave to the crowd at Fukuoka Airport on Oct. 27, 2017, before heading to areas in the southwestern Japan prefecture hit hard by torrential rain in July. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan emperor to visit Fukuoka to console people affected by heavy rain

Japanese Emperor Akihito (C) and Empress Michiko (R) are pictured at Tokyo's Haneda airport on Oct. 27, 2017, before leaving for Fukuoka to console people affected by torrential rain that hit the southwestern Japan prefecture and its vicinity in July. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Top court rules vote gap in 2016 upper house poll constitutional

A group of lawyers, led by Kuniaki Yamaguchi (2nd from L), enters the Japanese Supreme Court in Tokyo on Sept. 27, 2017, to hear a ruling on a disparity in the weight of votes in the July 2016 upper house election. The court ruled the vote disparity to be constitutional, following more than a dozen conflicting rulings from lower courts. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Top court rules vote gap in 2016 upper house poll constitutional

A group of lawyers, led by Hidetoshi Masunaga (2nd from R in front row), heads to the Japanese Supreme Court in Tokyo on Sept. 27, 2017, to hear a ruling on a disparity in the weight of votes in the July 2016 upper house election. The court ruled the vote disparity to be constitutional, following more than a dozen conflicting rulings from lower courts. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Police arrest 6 suspects over unauthorized therapy using cord blood

Photo taken Aug. 27, 2017, shows Tokyo's Omotesando Shuto Clinic, run by Shinsuke Shuto, who is among six people arrested the same day on suspicion of involvement in unauthorized stem cell therapies using blood collected from umbilical cords and placenta after childbirth. Shuto allegedly administered cord blood to patients between July 2016 and April 2017 without reporting the treatment to the government. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo