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Nikkei stock index tops 47,000 for 1st time

A financial monitor at a foreign exchange trading company in Tokyo shows the Nikkei Stock Average on Oct. 6, 2025, rising above the 48,000 line for the first time, having gained more than 2,300 points.

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Tokyo stocks surge

A financial data screen in Tokyo shows the 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average surging more than 3,400 points in morning trading on Aug. 6, 2024, after it ended with a record 4,451.28 point decline the previous day.

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Australia returns Ainu remains to Japan after 80 years

Masaru Okawa, head of the Ainu Association of Hokkaido, signs a document during a ceremony held in Melbourne, Australia, on May 6, 2023, as the remains of four indigenous Ainu were returned to Japan more than 80 years since they were sent to the Pacific nation for research purposes.

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Australia returns Ainu remains to Japan after 80 years

Masaru Okawa, head of the Ainu Association of Hokkaido, speaks during a ceremony held in Melbourne, Australia, on May 6, 2023, as the remains of four indigenous Ainu were returned to Japan more than 80 years since they were sent to the Pacific nation for research purposes.

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Australia returns Ainu remains to Japan after 80 years

Masaru Okawa, head of the Ainu Association of Hokkaido, signs a document during a ceremony held in Melbourne, Australia, on May 6, 2023, as the remains of four indigenous Ainu were returned to Japan more than 80 years since they were sent to the Pacific nation for research purposes.

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Australia returns Ainu remains to Japan after 80 years

Masaru Okawa, head of the Ainu Association of Hokkaido, speaks during a ceremony held in Melbourne, Australia, on May 6, 2023, as the remains of four indigenous Ainu were returned to Japan more than 80 years since they were sent to the Pacific nation for research purposes.

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Sendai Tanabata Festival takes place

SENDAI, Japan - People walk under colorful streamers at a shopping street in Sendai, northern Japan, on Aug. 6, 2014, as the annual Sendai Tanabata Festival (Sendai Star Festival) begins for a three-day run. The event, one of the largest and most famous tanabata celebrations in Japan, is expected to attract more than 2 million people.

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Sendai Tanabata Festival takes place

SENDAI, Japan - People walk under colorful streamers at a shopping arcade in Sendai, northern Japan, on Aug. 6, 2014, as the annual Sendai Tanabata Festival (Sendai Star Festival) begins for a three-day run. The event, one of the largest and most famous tanabata celebrations in Japan, is expected to attract more than 2 million people.

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Sendai Tanabata Festival takes place

SENDAI, Japan - People walk under colorful streamers at a shopping arcade in Sendai, northern Japan, on Aug. 6, 2014, as the annual Sendai Tanabata Festival (Sendai Star Festival) begins for a three-day run. The event, one of the largest and most famous tanabata celebrations in Japan, is expected to attract more than 2 million people.

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Crimea crisis

SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine - More than 100 men in camouflage outfits, including Cossacks from Russia, surround the republic assembly hall in Simferopol, the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, southern Ukraine, on March 6, 2014.

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Mt. Fuji eruption may force 470,000 people to evacuate

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in April 2013 shows Mt. Fuji as seen from around the border of the cities of Fuji and Fujinomiya in Shizuoka Prefecture. A panel set up by Shizuoka and two other prefectures around the 3,776-meter volcano worked out a regional evacuation plan on Feb. 6, 2014, projecting that a violent eruption could force around 470,000 people in the prefectures to evacuate if more than 30 centimeters of ash accumulates on the ground.

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H.K. marches to commemorate Tiananmen crackdown

HONG KONG, China - A demonstration is held in Hong Kong on May 26, 2013, in which more than 1,000 people marched to commemorate the protesters killed in the Tiananmen Square military crackdown in Beijing on June 6, 1989.

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Giant isopod stays alive for 4 years despite not eating

TSU, Japan - Photo taken Feb. 6, 2013, at Toba Aquarium in Toba, Mie Prefecture, shows a giant isopod, a creature often called a "scavenger of the deep." According to the aquarium, the crustacean, measuring 29 centimeters and weighing one kilogram, has remained healthy despite not eating anything for more than four years.

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Happy photo of Obamas

WASHINGTON, United States - This photo taken from Twitter shows U.S. President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle hugging in August 2012. The photo was posted on the micro-blogging site on Nov. 6, 2012, by an official account run by Obama's campaign staff to celebrate his reelection with a note saying "Four more years." It was "retweeted," or shared by Twitter users, more than 670,000 times by the following morning.

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S. Korean says tortured in China

SEOUL, South Korea - Kim Yong Hwan, a South Korean activist expelled from China in July 2012, holds a press conference in Seoul on Aug. 6, 2012. Kim said Chinese security agents tortured him to extract information about organizations helping North Koreans flee to China, by keeping him awake for six straight days and subjecting him to more than five hours of electric shocks. China has denied that Kim was tortured while in detention, South Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade has said.

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S. Korea welcomes Japan's return of archives

SEOUL, South Korea - A wooden container holding ancient Korean archives is loaded onto a truck bound for Seoul upon its arrival at Incheon International Airport on Dec. 6, 2011. South Korea took possession from Japan in a ceremony at the airport the same day of more than 1,200 volumes of ancient Korean archives that were seized and removed to Japan during Japanese rule of the Korean Peninsula.

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S. Korea welcomes Japan's return of archives

SEOUL, South Korea - A ceremony is held at Incheon International Airport, west of Seoul, on Dec. 6, 2011, to hand over to South Korea from Japan more than 1,200 volumes of ancient Korean archives. The documents were seized and removed to Japan during Japanese rule of the Korean Peninsula.

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S. Korea welcomes Japan's return of archives

SEOUL, South Korea - Photo taken Dec. 6, 2011, shows a container holding ancient Korean archives at Incheon International Airport, west of Seoul, on Dec. 6, 2011. South Korea took possession from Japan in a ceremony at the airport the same day of more than 1,200 volumes of ancient Korean archives that were seized and removed to Japan during Japanese rule of the Korean Peninsula.

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S. Korea welcomes Japan's return of archives

SEOUL, South Korea - Ceremony participants applaud at a ceremony at Incheon International Airport, west of Seoul, on Dec. 6, 2011, to hand over to South Korea from Japan more than 1,200 volumes of ancient Korean archives. The documents were seized and removed to Japan during Japanese rule of the Korean Peninsula.

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S. Korea welcomes Japan's return of archives

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean First Vice Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Park Suk Hwan (R) and Japanese Ambassador to South Korea Masatoshi Muto shake hands at a ceremony at Incheon International Airport, west of Seoul, on Dec. 6, 2011, to hand over to South Korea from Japan more than 1,200 volumes of ancient Korean archives. The documents were seized and removed to Japan during Japanese rule of the Korean Peninsula.

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Job fair for college students

TOKYO, Japan - College students who will graduate in 2012 head to Tokyo Big Sight as some 500 companies held a job fair on Nov. 6, 2010. More than 50,000 students gathered for the event.

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Job fair for college students

TOKYO, Japan - More than 50,000 college students who will graduate in 2012 gather at Tokyo Big Sight as some 500 companies held a job fair on Nov. 6, 2010.

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Freed journalist home

OSAKA, Japan - Freelance journalist Kosuke Tsuneoka arrives at Kansai International Airport near Osaka on Sept. 6, 2010, after being held captive in Afghanistan for more than five months.

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Freed journalist home

OSAKA, Japan - Freelance journalist Kosuke Tsuneoka arrives at Kansai International Airport near Osaka on Sept. 6, 2010, after being held captive in Afghanistan for more than five months.

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Freed journalist home

OSAKA, Japan - Freelance journalist Kosuke Tsuneoka arrives at Kansai International Airport near Osaka on Sept. 6, 2010, after being held captive in Afghanistan for more than five months.

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Annual morning-glory market begins

TOKYO, Japan - A vendor hands a flowerpot of morning glory to a customer as the annual Iriya Morning Glory Festival begins at Shingenji Temple, commonly known as Iriya Kishibojin, in Tokyo's Taito Ward on July 6, 2010. More than 100 morning glory vendors crowd the temple's precincts and its vicinity, with some 300,000-400,000 people expected to visit the event during a three-day run.

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Monju nuclear reactor restarts after 14-yr hiatus

TSURUGA, Japan - Toshio Okazaki (L), chief of the Japan Atomic Energy Agency, and Kazuo Mukai, head of the agency's Monju fast-breeder nuclear reactor, shake hands wrapping up a press conference in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture, on May 6, 2010. The reactor resumed operations the same day after more than 14 years of suspension.

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Tokyo shares fall sharply on mounting Greece debt worries

TOKYO, Japan - An electronic board in Tokyo's Yaesu district shows stock prices falling across global markets, including the key Nikkei Stock Average at the Tokyo Stock Exchange (top, center), on May 6, 2010. The Nikkei stock index fell more than 3 percent to a two-month closing low due to concern that Greece's debt problems could spill over to other European countries.

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Monju nuclear reactor restarts after 14-yr hiatus

TSURUGA, Japan - Workers check the control system of the Monju fast-breeder nuclear reactor in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture, on May 6, 2010. The reactor resumed operations the same day after more than 14 years of suspension. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Monju nuclear reactor restarts after 14-yr hiatus

TSURUGA, Japan - Workers check the control system of the Monju fast-breeder nuclear reactor in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture, on May 6, 2010. The reactor resumed operations the same day after more than 14 years of suspension. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Monju nuclear reactor restarts after 14-yr hiatus

TSURUGA, Japan - Workers check the control system of the Monju fast-breeder nuclear reactor in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture, on May 6, 2010. The reactor resumed operations the same day after more than 14 years of suspension. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Athenians run as city readies for 2004 Olympics

ATHENS, Greece - More than 5,000 people take part in the annual 5-kilometer ''Athens Run'' on April 6 as the city gears up for the Olympic Games in 2004. Men and women of all ages, including those with disabilities, participated in the event to commemorate the inaugural modern Olympics held in Athens on April 6, 1896.