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Food fair in Shanghai

Photo taken on May 19, 2025, shows a Japan External Trade Organization area in a just-opened international food fair in Shanghai, China. About 5,000 companies from over 110 countries and regions are taking part.

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Goldfish festival in Tokyo

Goldfish swim in water tanks during a goldfish festival at Art Aquarium Museum Ginza in Tokyo on July 13, 2024. About 150 fish tanks containing a total of 5,000 goldfish are on display at the special summer event that runs through Sept. 25.

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Goldfish festival in Tokyo

Goldfish swim in a water tank during a goldfish festival at Art Aquarium Museum Ginza in Tokyo on July 13, 2024. About 150 fish tanks containing a total of 5,000 goldfish are on display at the special summer event that runs through Sept. 25.

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Goldfish festival in Tokyo

Goldfish swim in a water tank during a goldfish festival at Art Aquarium Museum Ginza in Tokyo on July 13, 2024. About 150 fish tanks containing a total of 5,000 goldfish are on display at the special summer event that runs through Sept. 25.

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"Densukesuika" watermelon

ASAHIKAWA, Japan, June 14 Kyodo - Photo taken June 14, 2018, in the northern Japan city of Asahikawa shows a "Densukesuika" watermelon (L) that fetched the highest price of 550,000 yen (about $5,000) at the season's first auction the same day.

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Artistic fishbowl exhibition at Kyoto castle

KYOTO, Japan - Some 1,000 goldfish swim in a large fishbowl lit up in the seven rainbow colors at the World Heritage site of Nijo Castle in Kyoto, western Japan, on Oct. 23, 2014, on the eve of an art exhibition of some 80 aquariums containing about 5,000 fish.

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Children collecting garbage

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Children are among those gathering garbage at Bantar Gebang waste disposal site in Bekasi Regency near Jakarta, Indonesia, in June 2012. About 5,000 people make a living from cans, bottles, plastic containers and other materials picked up at the site.

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Children collecting garbage

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Children are among those gathering garbage at Bantar Gebang waste disposal site in Bekasi Regency near Jakarta, Indonesia, in June 2012. About 5,000 people make a living from cans, bottles, plastic containers and other materials picked up at the site.

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Children collecting garbage

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Children are among those gathering garbage at Bantar Gebang waste disposal site in Bekasi Regency near Jakarta, Indonesia, in June 2012. About 5,000 people make a living from cans, bottles, plastic containers and other materials picked up at the site.

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Countdown to Asian Games in Guangzhou

GUANGZHOU, China - About 5,000 people attend a ceremony marking 100 days before the opening of the 16th Asian Games at a gymnasium in the host city of Guangzhou in China's Guangdong Province on Aug. 4, 2010.

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Marathon at Lake Toya, venue of this summer's G-8 summit

TOYAKO, Japan - Runners participate in the Toyako Marathon on May 25, an annual race held around Lake Toya, Hokkaido, the venue of this summer's Group of Eight summit. About 5,000 runners took part in the event, which features a full marathon as well as 2 km, 5 km and 10 km races.

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Shoppers jostle for New Year 'lucky bags' at department stores

TOKYO, Japan - Shoppers jostle for New Year ''lucky bags'' on sale on the first business day of the year at a department store in Tokyo's Nihombashi district on Jan. 2. About 5,000 people lined up at the Mitsukoshi Nihombashi store, which offered heavily-discounted ''lucky bags'' for 10,500 yen, while about 20,000 people waited outside the Ikebukuro main store of Seibu Department Stores before it opened for business. The New Year ''lucky bags'' usually contain merchandise sold normally at a much higher price.

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Fire contained at Bridgestone tire plant

UTSUNOMIYA, Japan - A fire at a Bridgestone Corp. tire plant in Kuroiso, Tochigi Prefecture, was contained Sept. 9 after burning for about 24 hours. More than 5,000 residents returned home after the evacuation order was lifted.

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Osaka group tries for world record with giant pancake

OSAKA, Japan - A local group cooks a gigantic Japanese pancake Nov. 3 in Osaka city, attempting to set a new record for the largest ''okonomiyaki'' in the Guinness Book of Records. The pancake was about 8 meters wide and 3 centimeters thick, weighing about 1.6 tons. It was large enough to serve 5,000 people, the group said. The okonomiyaki pancake was made with 400 cabbages, about 4,300 eggs and nearly 90 kilograms of pork.

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Omron to sell lifelike cat robots

OSAKA, Japan - A model shows off cat robots, made by Omron Corp., that will go on the market from Nov. 20. The robots, called ''Necoro,'' can stretch their backs, lie down and purr. They are the same size as real cats and each weigh 1.6 kilograms. The robots contain various sensors which among other things allow them to memorize the frequency of human voices, so that they will face their owners when the owners call out the pet robots' names. Omron plans to sell 5,000 Necoro robots for about 185,000 yen each.

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Large amount of stimulants, cannabis smuggled from Germany

FUKUOKA, Japan - Fukuoka police display May 28 a large amount of stimulants and cannabis smuggled from Germany. Yutaka Handa, a 45-year-old unemployed man from Fukuoka Prefecture, is suspected of mailing about 5,000 ecstasy pills and roughly 880 grams of cannabis from Germany on April 2 to his home in Kurume.

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Okinawa commemorates 55th anniversary of battle

ITOMAN, Japan - A ceremony is held in Itoman, Okinawa Prefecture, on June 23, to commemorate the 55th anniversary of the end of fierce fighting in Okinawa between U.S. and Japanese forces toward the end of World War II. The memorial service, which began at noon at the Peace Memorial Park in the city, was attended by about 5,000 people, including Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, Okinawa Gov. Keiichi Inamine, and the relatives of more than 200,000 people, mostly civilians, who were killed in the 1945 Battle of Okinawa.

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5,000 people attend mass for St. Francis Xavier

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - About 5,000 people, mostly Japanese Catholics, attend Mass on Oct. 11 in Kagoshima to celebrate the 450th anniversary of the arrival of Basque Jesuit missionary St. Francis Xavier in the southwestern Japan prefecture.

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De-mining efforts in Ukraine's Kherson

Photo taken in Ukraine's Kherson region on Nov. 16, 2022, shows a land mines warning sign tied to a roadside barrier. Ukrainian Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Mary Hakobyan said about 5,000 explosive devices have been removed in Kherson.