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Huge carp streamer in eastern Japan

KAZO, Japan, May 3 Kyodo - Video taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a carp streamer, about 100 meters long and weighing around 330 kilograms, flying over the Tone River in the Saitama Prefecture city of Kazo, eastern Japan, on May 3, 2026, ahead of Children's Day on May 5. (Kyodo)

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Huge carp streamer in eastern Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a carp streamer, about 100 meters long and weighing around 330 kilograms, flying over the Tone River in the Saitama Prefecture city of Kazo, eastern Japan, on May 3, 2026, ahead of Children's Day on May 5.

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Huge carp streamer in eastern Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a carp streamer, about 100 meters long and weighing around 330 kilograms, flying over the Tone River in the Saitama Prefecture city of Kazo, eastern Japan, on May 3, 2026, ahead of Children's Day on May 5.

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Huge carp streamer in eastern Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a carp streamer, about 100 meters long and weighing around 330 kilograms, flying over the Tone River in the Saitama Prefecture city of Kazo, eastern Japan, on May 3, 2026, ahead of Children's Day on May 5.

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Japan's new farm minister Koizumi

TOKYO, Japan, May 26 Kyodo - Japan's new Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Shinjiro Koizumi holds a press conference at his ministry on May 26, 2025, as Japan began sales of government rice stockpiles via direct contracts, aiming to slash soaring prices after he pledged to bring them down to about 2,000 yen ($14) per 5 kilograms by early June. (Kyodo)

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CORRECTED: Japan's new farm minister Koizumi

Japan's new Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Shinjiro Koizumi speaks to ministry officials on May 26, 2025, as Japan began sales of government rice stockpiles via direct contracts, aiming to slash soaring prices after he pledged to bring them down to about 2,000 yen ($14) per 5 kilograms by early June.

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Japan's new farm minister Koizumi

Japan's new Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Shinjiro Koizumi holds a press conference at his ministry on May 26, 2025, as Japan began sales of government rice stockpiles via direct contracts, aiming to slash soaring prices after he pledged to bring them down to about 2,000 yen ($14) per 5 kilograms by early June.

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CORRECTED: Japan's new farm minister Koizumi

Japan's new Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Shinjiro Koizumi speaks to ministry officials on May 26, 2025, as Japan began sales of government rice stockpiles via direct contracts, aiming to slash soaring prices after he pledged to bring them down to about 2,000 yen ($14) per 5 kilograms by early June.

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Japan's new farm minister Koizumi

Japan's new Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Shinjiro Koizumi holds a press conference at his ministry on May 26, 2025, as Japan began sales of government rice stockpiles via direct contracts, aiming to slash soaring prices after he pledged to bring them down to about 2,000 yen ($14) per 5 kilograms by early June.

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CORRECTED: Japan's new farm minister Koizumi

Japan's new Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Shinjiro Koizumi speaks to ministry officials on May 26, 2025, as Japan began sales of government rice stockpiles via direct contracts, aiming to slash soaring prices after he pledged to bring them down to about 2,000 yen ($14) per 5 kilograms by early June.

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CORRECTED: Japan's new farm minister Koizumi

Japan's new Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Shinjiro Koizumi speaks to ministry officials on May 26, 2025, as Japan began sales of government rice stockpiles via direct contracts, aiming to slash soaring prices after he pledged to bring them down to about 2,000 yen ($14) per 5 kilograms by early June.

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Cambodian villagers celebrate traditional fishing festival in cultural province

STORY: Cambodian villagers celebrate traditional fishing festival in cultural province SHOOTING TIME: Feb. 11, 2024 DATELINE: Feb. 13, 2024 LENGTH: 0:01:08 LOCATION: Phnom Penh CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of traditional fishing festival in Cambodia STORYLINE: Wading in thigh-deep muddy waters in a big lake in Cambodia's cultural province of Siem Reap, hundreds of villagers on Sunday used traditional fishing tools to catch fish in an annual fishing festival. Wearing palm leaf hats and traditional scarves to protect themselves from the scorching sun, villagers netted freshwater snakehead fish, catfish and climbing perch fish in a protected lake in Bangkoang village, Prasat Bakong district, about 300 kilometers from the capital Phnom Penh. Fish is a major source of protein for the population in the Southeast Asian country. According to the ministry of agriculture, forestry and fisheries, Cambodians eat an average of 52.4 kilograms of fish per person a year. Xinhua News Agency corresponden

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Huge carp streamer in eastern Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a carp streamer, about 100 meters long and weighing around 330 kilograms, flying over the Tone River in the Saitama Prefecture city of Kazo, eastern Japan, on May 3, 2023, ahead of Children's Day on May 5.

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Huge carp streamer in eastern Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a carp streamer, about 100 meters long and weighing around 330 kilograms, flying over the Tone River in the Saitama Prefecture city of Kazo, eastern Japan, on May 3, 2023, ahead of Children's Day on May 5.

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Test flight of flying vehicle

A flying vehicle carries a rice bag weighing about 80 kilograms during a test flight in Amagasaki, western Japan, on Nov. 24, 2023, ahead of the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka when the vehicle will be flown to the expo venue.

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Test flight of flying vehicle

A flying vehicle carries a rice bag weighing about 80 kilograms during a test flight in Amagasaki, western Japan, on Nov. 24, 2023, ahead of the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka when the vehicle will be flown to the expo venue.

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Russia launches Progress MS-24 cargo spaceship into orbit

STORY: Russia launches Progress MS-24 cargo spaceship into orbit DATELINE: Aug. 23, 2023 LENGTH: 0:00:31 LOCATION: VLADIVOSTOK, Russia CATEGORY: TECHNOLOGY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the launch of the Progress MS-24 cargo spaceship (Source: Roscosmos) STORYLINE: A Soyuz-2.1a rocket carrying the Progress MS-24 cargo spacecraft blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, sending it into orbit. The rocket lifted off at 4:08 a.m. Moscow time (0108 GMT) and sent the spacecraft into orbit nine minutes later, Russia's state space corporation Roscosmos said. Progress MS-24 will perform a two-day autonomous flight to the International Space Station (ISS), where it is expected to dock with the Zvezda service module of the space outpost on Friday at 6:50 a.m. Moscow time (0350 GMT). The cargo spaceship will deliver about 2.5 tons of supplies to the ISS, including more than 1.5 tons of various equipment and materials, half a ton of fuel to refuel the station, 420 kilograms of drinking

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Life-saving Robots

ANQING, CHINA - JULY 16, 2023 - Police officers practice using water life-saving robots on the Yangtze River in Anqing city, Anhui province, China, July 16, 2023. The robot is a conspicuous orange, U-shaped, weighing about 30 kilograms, sailing speed of 7 meters/second, can bear 300 kilograms.

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Life-saving Robots

ANQING, CHINA - JULY 16, 2023 - Police officers practice using water life-saving robots on the Yangtze River in Anqing city, Anhui province, China, July 16, 2023. The robot is a conspicuous orange, U-shaped, weighing about 30 kilograms, sailing speed of 7 meters/second, can bear 300 kilograms.

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Life-saving Robots

ANQING, CHINA - JULY 16, 2023 - Police officers practice using water life-saving robots on the Yangtze River in Anqing city, Anhui province, China, July 16, 2023. The robot is a conspicuous orange, U-shaped, weighing about 30 kilograms, sailing speed of 7 meters/second, can bear 300 kilograms.

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Life-saving Robots

ANQING, CHINA - JULY 16, 2023 - A police officer inspects a life-saving robot before it is launched in Anqing city, Anhui province, China, July 16, 2023. The robot is a conspicuous orange, U-shaped, weighing about 30 kilograms, sailing speed of 7 meters/second, can bear 300 kilograms.

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Life-saving Robots

ANQING, CHINA - JULY 16, 2023 - Police officers practice using water life-saving robots on the Yangtze River in Anqing city, Anhui province, China, July 16, 2023. The robot is a conspicuous orange, U-shaped, weighing about 30 kilograms, sailing speed of 7 meters/second, can bear 300 kilograms.

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Life-saving Robots

ANQING, CHINA - JULY 16, 2023 - Police officers practice using water life-saving robots on the Yangtze River in Anqing city, Anhui province, China, July 16, 2023. The robot is a conspicuous orange, U-shaped, weighing about 30 kilograms, sailing speed of 7 meters/second, can bear 300 kilograms.

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Overweight elephant in Japan zoo

Photo taken on June 2, 2023, shows overweight female African elephant Mao at Morioka Zoo in Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan. Mao, who has been put on a weight-loss plan, weighs about 3,800 kilograms.

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Overweight elephant in Japan zoo

Photo taken on June 1, 2023, shows overweight female African elephant Mao getting ready to play with tree limbs at Morioka Zoo in Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan. Mao, who has been put on a weight-loss plan, weighs about 3,800 kilograms.

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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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Huge carp streamer in eastern Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a carp streamer, about 100 meters long and weighing around 330 kilograms, flying over the Tone River in the Saitama Prefecture city of Kazo, eastern Japan, on May 3, 2023, ahead of Children's Day on May 5.

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Huge carp streamer in eastern Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a carp streamer, about 100 meters long and weighing around 330 kilograms, flying over the Tone River in the Saitama Prefecture city of Kazo, eastern Japan, on May 3, 2023, ahead of Children's Day on May 5.

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Gazan women make cakes for needy families ahead of Eid al-Fitr

STORY: Gazan women make cakes for needy families ahead of Eid al-Fitr DATELINE: April 17, 2023 LENGTH: 00:03:29 LOCATION: GAZA, Palestine CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Gazan women making cakes 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Arabic): IYAD AL-MASRI, Executive director of the Al-Amal Institute for Orphans 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Arabic): WISSAM AWWAD, Local volunteer 4. SOUNDBITE 3 (Arabic): IMAN SHANINO, Local volunteer STORYLINE: As Eid al-Fitr, a festivity marking the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan is approaching, a group of Gazan women is busy making cakes for needy families in the coastal enclave. Cakes are one of the main dessert dishes on Palestinian tables on Eid al-Fitr. However, many families in Gaza cannot afford to make or buy them. Under the sponsorship of Al-Amal (Hope) Institute for Orphans, the charitable initiative aims to make about 500 kilograms of cakes and distribute them free of charge. SOUNDBITE 1 (Arabic): IYAD AL-MASRI, Executive director of the Al-Amal Institute for Orphans "We l

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CHINA-JILIN-YANJI-ECONOMY-COFFEE SHOP(CN)

(230405) -- YANBIAN, April 5, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Jiang Jingtai poses for a photo in Yanji, Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, northeast China's Jilin Province, April 4, 2023. Jiang Jingtai, coffee roaster of a food processing company in Yanji, has been engaging in the coffee industry for 9 years. Considering the continuous development of coffee consumption market in Yanji and the increasing demand for roasted coffee beans, Jiang Jingtai decided to change his career from a barista to a coffee roaster. The coffee bean processing factory, which Jiang Jingtai works for, roasts about 500 kilograms of coffee beans every day, covering the supplies of dozens of cafes in Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture. The northeastern border city of Yanji in Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture has witnessed a spark of coffee trend as over 540 coffee shops are registered in the 680,000 dwellers city in recent years. According to the data from Meituan Waimai, a major food delivery platform in China, Yanji ranked first in coffee

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Stranded whale rescued in S China

STORY: Stranded whale rescued in S China DATELINE: Feb. 16, 2023 LENGTH: 00:00:34 LOCATION: SANYA, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of rescue operations 2. various of the whale being treated STORYLINE: A whale was found stranded on Wednesday afternoon in Sanya City, south China's Hainan Province. Marine experts said it's a dwarf sperm whale, a second-class nationally protected animal. It is over 3 meters long and weighs about 150 kilograms. Rescuers later took the wounded whale to a professional rescue center. It will be released back to the sea after recovery. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Sanya, China. (XHTV)

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Firm suspected of selling fishing-bait oysters from China as food

NARITA, Japan - Oysters (photo) imported from China as fishing bait were sold in Japan as food for human consumption, police say. The police sent papers to prosecutors on the food trading company, Ichiban Boeki in Yokohama, and the company's president Tomohiro Tanaka for allegedly selling the imported oysters as food without state permission. Ichiban Boeki allegedly imported about 400 kilograms of raw oysters by air from China for use as fishing bait on Nov. 6, 2007.

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Giant squid displayed at Sapporo zoo

SAPPORO, Japan - A specimen of a giant squid, measuring around 4 meters in length and about 163 kilograms in weight, is displayed outdoors at Sapporo Maruyama Zoo in Sapporo on Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido on Jan. 5, 2015.

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Farmer from Chiba Pref. wins giant pumpkin competition

TAKAMATSU, Japan - Yoji Miyamoto poses with his giant pumpkin on Shodo Island in Kagawa Prefecture on Sept. 21, 2014, after the pumpkin weighing 458.1 kilograms won the giant pumpkin competition. Miyamto started growing giant pumpkins in Kamogawa, Chiba Prefecture, about eight years ago.

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Coal sold on streets in Mongolian capital

BEIJING, China - Bags of coal are sold in the streets of Mongolia's Ulan Bator on Jan. 26, 2014, for use in stoves inside ger tents. A bag with 10 kilograms of coal costs about 120 yen and three bags a day are needed to keep a ger warm.

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New Year tea ceremony

NARA, Japan - Worshipers at Saidai-ji, a temple in Nara, Nara Prefecture, enjoy green tea served in cups with a diameter of 30-40 centimeters and weighing about 5 kilograms, at an annual New Year tea ceremony on Jan. 15, 2014.

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New Year tea ceremony

NARA, Japan - Worshipers at Saidai-ji, a temple in Nara, Nara Prefecture, enjoy green tea served in cups with a diameter of 30-40 centimeters and weighing about 5 kilograms, at an annual New Year tea ceremony on Jan. 15, 2014.

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World's longest pearl necklace

OSAKA, Japan - A 222-meter-long pearl necklace, recognized by Guinness World Records as the world's longest, is displayed at Hanshin Department Store in Osaka on April 11, 2013. The necklace of around 28,000 pearls weighs about 20 kilograms.

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4-kg police dog

KUMAMOTO, Japan - Mieko Shinkubo holds her 3-year-old female miniature dachshund Becky at the Kumamoto prefectural police headquarters in the city of Kumamoto on April 3, 2013. Becky, about 40 centimeters long and weighing about 4 kilograms, was granted a certificate the same day to work as a police dog.

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Chocolate cherry blossom

TOKYO, Japan - A cherry blossom artwork made of chocolate is unveiled to the media in Tokyo on Dec. 19, 2012. Students from the University of Tokyo and Tokyo University of the Arts as well as an artist took part in the project to make the work, about 1.20 meters in diameter and weighing around 85 kilograms, using KitKat, a chocolate product made by Nestle Japan Ltd., to encourage students preparing for entrance examinations. The work will be exhibited at Cafe Nescafe Harajuku in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward from Dec. 20 through Jan. 8.

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Gold Christmas tree

TOKYO, Japan - Tanaka Kikinzoku Jewelry K.K. displays a Christmas tree made with about 40 kilograms of pure gold at its Ginza outlet in Tokyo on Nov. 21, 2012. The 2.4-meter-tall tree is priced at 350 million yen.

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Gold Christmas tree

TOKYO, Japan - Tanaka Kikinzoku Jewelry K.K. displays a Christmas tree made with about 40 kilograms of pure gold at its Ginza outlet in Tokyo on Nov. 21, 2012. The 2.4-meter-tall tree is priced at 350 million yen.

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Pet pig walking

KOCHI, Japan - Pet pig Katsuo walks along the Kagami River in the city of Kochi, western Japan, on Oct. 25, 2012. The male pig that was bought from a breeder about two years ago and has grown to around 100 kilograms is taken to walk several times a day.

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ChubuSat-1 satellite developed by Japanese consortium

NAGOYA, Japan - Hiroyasu Tajima, professor at the Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory at Nagoya University, gives a briefing about a prototype of the ChubuSat-1 satellite in Nagoya on May 16, 2012. A consortium of universities and aerospace companies in the Chubu region of central Japan that jointly developed the satellite, with sides measuring 50 centimeters and weighing 50 kilograms, said the same day it will be launched into space on a Russian rocket in December.

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World's 1st laptop made by Toshiba

KAWASAKI, Japan - A model shows a computer that Toshiba Corp. released in 1985 as the world's first mass market laptop at Toshiba Science Museum in Kawasaki on Dec. 18, 2010. The Japanese electronics maker began a special exhibition the same day marking the 25th anniversary of the laptop, which weighed about 4 kilograms and cost some 520,000 yen at the time of its release.

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'Gohan-shiki' ceremony at Rinnoji temple in Nikko

UTSUNOMIYA, Japan - Participants receive big bowls piled high with about 5 kilograms of rice from priests during a ceremony of ''Gohhan-shiki (compulsory rice eating)'' inside the Sanbutsu-do hall at the Rinnoji temple in Nikko, Tochigi Prefecture, on April 2, 2010. It is believed that receiving the rice brings good luck and health.

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Huge New Year's bowl tea ceremony held in Nara

NARA, Japan - A woman is helped by another next to her to drink ''maccha'' green tea from a huge tea bowl in the year's first gathering of the traditional ''Ochamori'' tea ceremony, believed to date back to the 13th century, at Saidaiji Temple in Nara, Nara Prefecture, Jan. 15. Several bowls measuring 30 to 40 centimeters in diameter and weighing 5 to 7 kilograms were used in the ceremony about 20 people took part in.

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Japan exports watermelons to UAE for 1st time

TOTTORI, Japan - A woman poses with a watermelon, which will be exported to the United Arab Emirates, at a watermelon market in the town of Hokuei, Tottori Prefecture, on June 13. The cargo of 54 watermelons, each weighing more than 12 kilograms and measuring about 30 centimeters in diameter, will be shipped from Narita airport on June 14 to the UAE.

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Tanaka Kikinzoku Jewelry unveils gold pony to fete royal birth

TOKYO, Japan - Tanaka Kikinzoku Jewelry K.K. on Sept. 20 unveils to the public a pony made with about 30 kilograms of pure gold to commemorate the birth of Prince Hisahito, who was born Sept. 6 to Princess Kiko and Prince Akishino, the second son of Emperor Akihito. The pony, whose market price is worth 150 million yen, will be sold if there is an order after being displayed at the company's main store in the Ginza shopping district in Tokyo, and outlets in Nagoya, Fukuoka and Osaka.

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Robot capable of holding up humans developed

NAGOYA, Japan - RIKEN shows off a robot capable of holding up humans at a press preview in Nagoya on March 13. The robot, measuring 158 centimeters high and weighing about 100 kilograms, has five touch sensors as well as optic and auditory sensors. RIKEN said it will enhance the robot for use in nursing in the future.