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2025 Shandong Clean Energy Industry Expo in Yantai

YANTAI, CHINA - SEPTEMBER 15, 2025 - The audience learned about a 100 kilogram hydrogen powered drone model at the 2025 Shandong Clean Energy Industry Expo in Yantai, Shandong Province, China on September 15, 2025.

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World's 1st wooden satellite

Takao Doi, a Japanese astronaut and a program-specific professor at Kyoto University, speaks about the world's first-ever wooden satellite "LignoSat" during an interview in Kyoto, western Japan, on May 28, 2024. Scientists at Kyoto University and Tokyo-based wood products company Sumitomo Forestry Co. developed the spacecraft, a cube with 10-centimeter sides and weighing 1 kilogram.(Kyodo)

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World's 1st wooden satellite

Takao Doi, a Japanese astronaut and a program-specific professor at Kyoto University, speaks about the world's first-ever wooden satellite "LignoSat" during an interview in Kyoto, western Japan, on May 28, 2024. Scientists at Kyoto University and Tokyo-based wood products company Sumitomo Forestry Co. developed the spacecraft, a cube with 10-centimeter sides and weighing 1 kilogram.

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World's 1st wooden satellite

Takao Doi, a Japanese astronaut and a program-specific professor at Kyoto University, speaks about the world's first-ever wooden satellite "LignoSat" during an interview in Kyoto, western Japan, on May 28, 2024. Scientists at Kyoto University and Tokyo-based wood products company Sumitomo Forestry Co. developed the spacecraft, a cube with 10-centimeter sides and weighing 1 kilogram.

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Journey into China's tea culture: Hengzhou Jasmine tea

STORY: Journey into China's tea culture: Hengzhou Jasmine tea SHOOTING DATE: Recent footage DATELINE: May 27, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:02 LOCATION: NANNING, China CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of jasmine and tea plants STORYLINE: Jasmine tea is tea scented with the aroma of jasmine blossoms and typically has green tea as its base. When the fresh jasmine flowers are harvested, they are blended with layers of tea leaves. Workers stir the tea leaves and flowers overnight, allowing the leaves to absorb the aromatic scent of the jasmine blossoms. The hot and humid climate and the sandy soil in Hengzhou City of south China's Guangxi provide favorable conditions for jasmine and tea plants to thrive. Hengzhou's jasmine planting area reached 131,000 mu (about 8,733 hectares) in 2023, with a fresh flower yield of 103,000 tonnes. The average price of fresh flowers reached 34 yuan (about 4.7 U.S. dollars) per kilogram, benefiting 340,000 jasmine farmers. The city has over 130 jasmine tea enterprises, generatin

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Rose plantation promises rosy future for farmers in China's Xinjiang

STORY: Rose plantation promises rosy future for farmers in China's Xinjiang DATELINE: May 24, 2023 LENGTH: 0:01:35 LOCATION: YUTIAN, China CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of villagers picking roses in the rose farm 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Uygur): ZORHEGULI YAKUF, Villager 3. various of rose-related products 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): YAN YONGJUN, Chairman of Xinjiang Yutian Guimi Biological Technology Co., Ltd. STORYLINE: Diverse varieties of roses have become a source of vitality for the local economy in Yutian County, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Located on the southern edge of China's largest desert, the Taklamakan, Yutian County in Hotan Prefecture has a long rose planting history. SOUNDBITE 1 (Uygur): ZORHEGULI YAKUF, Villager "Every May, when the roses bloom, I come here to pick them. Picking one kilogram of roses can earn me 3 yuan (about 0.42 U.S. dollars). I pick over 40 kilograms a day, and that'll make me nearly 150 yuan (about 21.23 U.S. dollars). My folks, friends, and f

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Türkiye's indigenous light combat aircraft Hurjet makes maiden flight

STORY: Türkiye's indigenous light combat aircraft Hurjet makes maiden flight DATELINE: April 26, 2023 LENGTH: 00:00:35 LOCATION: Ankara CATEGORY: MILITARY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Türkiye's light combat aircraft Hurjet STORYLINE: Türkiye's locally-produced light combat aircraft Hurjet completed its maiden flight on Tuesday, the state-run TRT broadcaster reported. Developed by Turkish Aerospace Industries (TUSAS), Türkiye's jet trainer and light attack aircraft Hurjet made its first engine start test in February. The Hurjet project was initiated to be included in the Turkish Air Force inventory, replacing the T-38 aircraft for training and the F-5 aircraft for acro team demonstrations. The aircraft's maximum altitude is set at 45,000 feet (about 13,716 meters), along with its 3,000-kilogram payload, and will be able to use nine different kinds of ammunition, the TRT reported. Türkiye will start the mass production of the single-engine Hurjet in 2025, with a planned capacity of two aircraft per month and

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JAPAN-TOKYO-BLUEFIN TUNA-AUCTION

(230105) -- TOKYO, Jan. 5, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A chef shows freshly cut bluefin tuna in a shop in Tokyo, Japan, Jan. 5, 2023. A 212-kilogram bluefin tuna caught off the northern Japan town of Oma, Aomori Prefecture, fetched 36.04 million yen (about 271,500 U.S. dollars) in the first auction of 2023 at Toyosu market early on Thursday. (Xinhua/Zhang Xiaoyu)

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JAPAN-TOKYO-BLUEFIN TUNA-AUCTION

(230105) -- TOKYO, Jan. 5, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Chefs carve up a bluefin tuna in a shop in Tokyo, Japan, Jan. 5, 2023. A 212-kilogram bluefin tuna caught off the northern Japan town of Oma, Aomori Prefecture, fetched 36.04 million yen (about 271,500 U.S. dollars) in the first auction of 2023 at Toyosu market early on Thursday. (Xinhua/Zhang Xiaoyu)

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JAPAN-TOKYO-BLUEFIN TUNA-AUCTION

(230105) -- TOKYO, Jan. 5, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A chef shows freshly cut bluefin tuna in a shop in Tokyo, Japan, Jan. 5, 2023. A 212-kilogram bluefin tuna caught off the northern Japan town of Oma, Aomori Prefecture, fetched 36.04 million yen (about 271,500 U.S. dollars) in the first auction of 2023 at Toyosu market early on Thursday. (Xinhua/Zhang Xiaoyu)

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JAPAN-TOKYO-BLUEFIN TUNA-AUCTION

(230105) -- TOKYO, Jan. 5, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A chef looks at a bluefin tuna in a shop in Tokyo, Japan, Jan. 5, 2023. A 212-kilogram bluefin tuna caught off the northern Japan town of Oma, Aomori Prefecture, fetched 36.04 million yen (about 271,500 U.S. dollars) in the first auction of 2023 at Toyosu market early on Thursday. (Xinhua/Zhang Xiaoyu)

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JAPAN-TOKYO-BLUEFIN TUNA-AUCTION

(230105) -- TOKYO, Jan. 5, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A chef shows a piece of bluefin tuna meat in a shop in Tokyo, Japan, Jan. 5, 2023. A 212-kilogram bluefin tuna caught off the northern Japan town of Oma, Aomori Prefecture, fetched 36.04 million yen (about 271,500 U.S. dollars) in the first auction of 2023 at Toyosu market early on Thursday. (Xinhua/Zhang Xiaoyu)

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JAPAN-TOKYO-BLUEFIN TUNA-AUCTION

(230105) -- TOKYO, Jan. 5, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A chef cleans a bluefin tuna in a shop in Tokyo, Japan, Jan. 5, 2023. A 212-kilogram bluefin tuna caught off the northern Japan town of Oma, Aomori Prefecture, fetched 36.04 million yen (about 271,500 U.S. dollars) in the first auction of 2023 at Toyosu market early on Thursday. (Xinhua/Zhang Xiaoyu)

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Giant isopod not eating

TOBA, Japan - Photo taken Jan. 2, 2014, at Toba Aquarium in Toba, Mie Prefecture, shows a giant isopod, a creature often called a "scavenger of the deep." The crustacean from Mexico, measuring about 29 centimeters and weighing about 1 kilogram, was near bait (L), but did not eat. According to the aquarium, it has not eating anything since it ate fish in January 2009.

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Tuna sold at record 155.4 mil. yen

TOKYO, Japan - Kiyoshi Kimura, president of sushi restaurant chain operator Kiyomura Co., shows a 222-kilogram bluefin tuna at the Metropolitan Central Wholesale Market in Tokyo's Tsukiji district on Jan. 5, 2013. The company made a successful bid for the tuna for an all-time high of 155.4 million yen (about $1.3 million), or 700,000 yen per kg, during the year's first auction at the market.

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Tuna sold at record 155.4 mil. yen

TOKYO, Japan - Kiyoshi Kimura, president of sushi restaurant chain operator Kiyomura Co., shows a 222-kilogram bluefin tuna at the Metropolitan Central Wholesale Market in Tokyo's Tsukiji district on Jan. 5, 2013. The company made a successful bid for the tuna for an all-time high of 155.4 million yen (about $1.3 million), or 700,000 yen per kg, during the year's first auction at the market.

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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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Two-time Olympic champion Ueno calls it quits

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese judoka Masae Ueno, who won the women's 70-kilogram gold medals at the 2004 and 2008 Olympic Games, speaks about her retirement from competition at a news conference in Tokyo on March 16.

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Gold 'hina dolls' displayed in Nagoya

NAGOYA, Japan - A woman looks at a pair of ''hina dolls'' made of pure gold worth 10 million yen at a branch of precious metal dealer GINZA TANAKA in Nagoya on Feb. 19. The dolls, which are about 10 centimeters high and weigh one kilogram, are being displayed ahead of the Japanese Doll Festival for girls, or Hina Matsuri, on March 3.

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Olympic champ Ishii unclear on pro martial artist switch

TOKYO, Japan - Satoshi Ishii, who won the gold medal in the men's over 100-kilogram judo event at the Beijing Olympics, speaks to reporters at his school's dormitory at Kokushikan University in Tokyo on Oct. 7. Ishii was vague about his intentions to quit the sport and become a professional mixed martial artist.

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Seized drugs on display at Tokyo Metropolitan Police

TOKYO, Japan - Hemp and other illegal drugs along with other material evidence seized by police from New Zealander Hossein Rahmati, Rahmati's Japanese wife and three of their foreign associates in Tokyo on display at Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department on Dec. 14. Tokyo police say 1 kilogram of hemp and cocaine and 90 tablets of MDMA drugs, worth about 30 million yen on the streets, have been seized.

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Hitachi develops portable gene-analyzing germ detector

TOKYO, Japan - Hitachi Ltd. has developed a portable germ detector (in photo) which can detect germs such as E. coli bacteria within an extremely short period of time through gene analysis and will start selling it next spring, the company said at a press conference on Oct. 12. The device, which consists of a 4.5-kilogram collector and a 23-kg analytical instrument, can detect such germs in about 40 minutes to 2 hours, compared to the current times of about one week by incubation and half a day by gene analysis, Hitachi said.

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Inoue says chest injury to sideline him until summer

HIRATSUKA, Japan - Kosei Inoue, who won the gold in the men's 100-kilogram class at the Sydney Olympics, tells reporters in Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Jan. 25 that the chest injury he suffered earlier this month is more serious than initially thought and will force him out of judo action for about half a year.

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(3)Japan's judo team to world championships meets the press

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's ace judoka Kosei Inoue speaks about his competition at the world judo championships in Osaka in September at a news conference at a Tokyo hotel on May 1. Inoue won the 100-kilogram gold medal at the Sydney Olympics.

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Giant 370-kg pumpkin judged heaviest in Japan

TAKAMATSU, Japan - Takao Hoshijima shows off the 369.5-kilogram pumpkin, grown by him, which was judged Japan's heaviest in a 15th national weight competition in Shodoshima Island, Kagawa Prefecture, on Sept. 30. The pumpkin, which is about 398 centimeters around and 81 cm high, will be entered in an international weight competition to be held in San Francisco on Oct. 20.

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Egypt enters mango harvest peak

STORY: Egypt enters mango harvest peak DATELINE: Aug. 2, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:09 LOCATION: Cairo CATEGORY: AGRICULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of mangoes STORYLINE: Egypt has entered the peak of mango harvest as the temperature rises in July and August. According to Egypt's Farmer Union, the mango season this year is better than the last one in terms of production quantities, as the season is not exposed to any external factors. The prices of mangoes range from 10 to 30 Egyptian pounds (about 0.5-1.5 U.S. dollars) per kilogram. The most well-known mango varieties are "Alfs," "Al-Owais," "Sukari" and "Butterfly." Mango gardens and farms in Egypt have exceeded 300,000 acres, with Ismailia alone taking up 120,000 acres of them. According to a statement from the Egyptian Ministry of Agriculture, mango exports this year reached 694 tons, from the beginning of the season to the peak harvest. The mango picking season in the country will last until the end of the year. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting

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Inoue says chest injury to sideline him until summer

HIRATSUKA, Japan - Kosei Inoue, who won the gold in the men's 100-kilogram class at the Sydney Olympics, tells reporters in Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Jan. 25 that the chest injury he suffered earlier this month is more serious than initially thought and will force him out of judo action for about half a year. (Kyodo)

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Olympic champ Ishii unclear on pro martial artist switch

TOKYO, Japan - Satoshi Ishii, who won the gold medal in the men's over 100-kilogram judo event at the Beijing Olympics, speaks to reporters at his school's dormitory at Kokushikan University in Tokyo on Oct. 7. Ishii was vague about his intentions to quit the sport and become a professional mixed martial artist. (Kyodo)

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Two-time Olympic champion Ueno calls it quits

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese judoka Masae Ueno, who won the women's 70-kilogram gold medals at the 2004 and 2008 Olympic Games, speaks about her retirement from competition at a news conference in Tokyo on March 16. (Kyodo)

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(3)Japan's judo team to world championships meets the press

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's ace judoka Kosei Inoue speaks about his competition at the world judo championships in Osaka in September at a news conference at a Tokyo hotel on May 1. Inoue won the 100-kilogram gold medal at the Sydney Olympics. (Kyodo)

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Gold 'hina dolls' displayed in Nagoya

NAGOYA, Japan - A woman looks at a pair of ''hina dolls'' made of pure gold worth 10 million yen at a branch of precious metal dealer GINZA TANAKA in Nagoya on Feb. 19. The dolls, which are about 10 centimeters high and weigh one kilogram, are being displayed ahead of the Japanese Doll Festival for girls, or Hina Matsuri, on March 3. (Kyodo)

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Seized drugs on display at Tokyo Metropolitan Police

TOKYO, Japan - Hemp and other illegal drugs along with other material evidence seized by police from New Zealander Hossein Rahmati, Rahmati's Japanese wife and three of their foreign associates in Tokyo on display at Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department on Dec. 14. Tokyo police say 1 kilogram of hemp and cocaine and 90 tablets of MDMA drugs, worth about 30 million yen on the streets, have been seized. (Kyodo)

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Hitachi develops portable gene-analyzing germ detector

TOKYO, Japan - Hitachi Ltd. has developed a portable germ detector (in photo) which can detect germs such as E. coli bacteria within an extremely short period of time through gene analysis and will start selling it next spring, the company said at a press conference on Oct. 12. The device, which consists of a 4.5-kilogram collector and a 23-kg analytical instrument, can detect such germs in about 40 minutes to 2 hours, compared to the current times of about one week by incubation and half a day by gene analysis, Hitachi said. (Kyodo)

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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. (Kyodo)

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Global standard for kilogram

Photo taken on Nov. 2, 2018, at Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Ibaraki Prefecture shows a copy of the metal cylinder that has served as the global standard for the kilogram. The media were given a rare chance to see the copy, heavily guarded in a double-glass case and being held in a safe with five layers of security doors. It was made from the international prototype of the kilogram that was made about 130 years ago and has been held in France under tight security. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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South Koreans arrested for smuggling gold into Japan

Photo taken June 1, 2017, shows gold seized by the Nagoya Customs' Chubu Centrair International Airport branch in the central Japan city of Tokoname, Aichi Prefecture, after four South Korean and one Japanese woman were found to have concealed the wafers under their clothing. The women, who have been arrested for smuggling about 30 kilograms of gold into Japan, allegedly told police that they were paid about 10,000 yen ($90) per kilogram of gold they carried by a woman who fled to South Korea. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Silver medalist Yoshida makes condolence visit to Kokonoe stable

Saori Yoshida, the Rio de Janeiro Olympic silver medalist in the women's 53-kilogram freestyle wrestling event, speaks to reporters about her memories of the late former yokozuna Chiyonofuji alongside his bronze statue on a condolence visit to his stable in Tokyo on Aug. 31, 2016. Yoshida was a friend of the legendary sumo wrestler who died of pancreatic cancer one month earlier at 61. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Giant 370-kg pumpkin judged heaviest in Japan

TAKAMATSU, Japan - Takao Hoshijima shows off the 369.5-kilogram pumpkin, grown by him, which was judged Japan's heaviest in a 15th national weight competition in Shodoshima Island, Kagawa Prefecture, on Sept. 30. The pumpkin, which is about 398 centimeters around and 81 cm high, will be entered in an international weight competition to be held in San Francisco on Oct. 20.