Cobalt blue Biwa trout

Cobalt blue Biwa trout

Photo taken on May 4, 2024, shows cobalt blue Biwa trout at a fish-raising farm in Maibara in Shiga Prefecture, western Japan. Only this trout, one of about 250,000 trout fry hatched in the fall of 2022, is cobalt blue-colored.

Cobalt blue Biwa trout

Cobalt blue Biwa trout

Photo taken on May 4, 2024, shows cobalt blue Biwa trout at a fish-raising farm in Maibara in Shiga Prefecture, western Japan. Only this trout, one of about 250,000 trout fry hatched in the fall of 2022, is cobalt blue-colored.

Fukushima city launches solar power plant

Fukushima city launches solar power plant

SOMA, Japan - Hidekiyo Tachiya (R), mayor of the city of Soma in Fukushima Prefecture, and U.S. entrepreneur Elon Musk shake hands in front of a solar power panel in Soma on July 29, 2011. The city began work on a solar power plant the same day using a $250,000 donation from a U.S. foundation led by Musk, the founder of the online settlement service PayPal. The city is about 40 kilometers north of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

Int'l athletic chief on Japan quake

Int'l athletic chief on Japan quake

TOKYO, Japan - Lamine Diack, president of the International Association of Athletics Federations, speaks during an interview in Japan on March 14, 2011. Diack said the IAAF had prepared about $250,000 for Japan's track and field facilities which were damaged by the historic earthquake and tsunami disasters.

250,000 people visit U.S. Iwakuni base on friendship day

250,000 people visit U.S. Iwakuni base on friendship day

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - Visitors to the U.S. marine base in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture watch as a U.S. fighter takes off as part of Japan-U.S. Friendship Day events at the base on May 5. About 250,000 people visited the base on the day, according to U.S. military officials.

Matsushita to launch digital single-lens reflex camera in July

Matsushita to launch digital single-lens reflex camera in July

TOKYO, Japan - Held by a publicity assistant at a press conference in Tokyo on June 21 is the Lumix L1 digital single-lens reflex camera which Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. will launch in Japan on July 22. The product, which Matsushita has developed in cooperation with camera maker Olympus Corp., is expected to sell for about 250,000 yen.