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Robot conference in Beijing

An industrial robot is on display on the first day of the World Robot Conference in Beijing on Aug. 8, 2025. About 200 Chinese and foreign companies exhibited some 1,500 robots for the five-day event.

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Robot conference in Beijing

A humanoid robot is on display on the first day of the World Robot Conference in Beijing on Aug. 8, 2025. About 200 Chinese and foreign companies exhibited some 1,500 robots for the five-day event.

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Robot conference in Beijing

A robot prepares a meal on the first day of the World Robot Conference in Beijing on Aug. 8, 2025. About 200 Chinese and foreign companies exhibited some 1,500 robots for the five-day event.

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Robot conference in Beijing

A robot sorts out packages on the first day of the World Robot Conference in Beijing on Aug. 8, 2025. About 200 Chinese and foreign companies exhibited some 1,500 robots for the five-day event.

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Robot conference in Beijing

A robot sorts out packages on the first day of the World Robot Conference in Beijing on Aug. 8, 2025. About 200 Chinese and foreign companies exhibited some 1,500 robots for the five-day event.

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Robot conference in Beijing

A robot cooks noodles on the first day of the World Robot Conference in Beijing on Aug. 8, 2025. About 200 Chinese and foreign companies exhibited some 1,500 robots for the five-day event.

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Piece of Mars fetches $5.3 million

A woman observes a 54-pound piece of Mars, the largest ever found on Earth, auctioned at Sotheby's in New York on July 8, 2025. The meteorite, named NWA 16788, was sold for about $5.3 million.

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Piece of Mars fetches $5.3 million

Photo shows a 54-pound piece of Mars, the largest ever found on Earth, auctioned at Sotheby's in New York on July 8, 2025. The meteorite, named NWA 16788, was sold for about $5.3 million.

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MLB-hosted baseball clinic in Tokyo

Chicago Cubs pitcher Shota Imanaga teaches baseball to about 150 inexperienced children during an MLB-hosted baseball clinic in Tokyo on Dec. 8, 2024.

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Japanese children wish for peace in Gaza

A child flies a kite in Kamaishi in Iwate Prefecture on Jan. 8, 2024, with a message wishing for peace in Gaza written on it. About 30 children took part in the event in the northeastern Japan city hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, launched after people in Gaza flew kites in 2012 to wish for Japan's early recovery from the disaster.

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Marital ritual to splash grooms with water

Three newly married men get splashed with cold water in an annual ritual, dating back about 400 years, that serves as a prayer for the family's good health and safety, in the city of Iwaki in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Jan. 8, 2024.

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Illumination event in Sendai

The annual Sendai Pageant of Starlight illumination event begins in Sendai, northeastern Japan, on Dec. 8, 2023. Zelkova trees lining a 500-meter street are lit up with about 500,000 LED lights, with about 2.4 million people expected to visit through Dec. 25.

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Flower park illumination in western Japan

A preview of a flower-themed illumination show using about 1 million lights is held at Tottori Hanakairo flower park in Nambu in Tottori Prefecture, western Japan, on Nov. 8, 2023, two days before its official start.

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Flower park illumination in western Japan

A preview of a flower-themed illumination show using about 1 million lights is held at Tottori Hanakairo flower park in Nambu in Tottori Prefecture, western Japan, on Nov. 8, 2023, two days before its official start.

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Baseball: "Kabuto" warrior helmet for Angels home run celebrations

Photo taken on April 8, 2023, in Anaheim, California, shows a samurai warrior helmet, called a "kabuto" in Japanese, used by the Los Angeles Angels starting from the 2023 season for home run celebrations in the dugout. An armor maker based in Japan's Kagoshima Prefecture received a request from the major league club to make the helmet, costing 330,000 yen (about $2,500).

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Baseball: "Kabuto" warrior helmet for Angels home run celebrations

Photo taken on April 8, 2023, in Anaheim, California, shows a samurai warrior helmet, called a "kabuto" in Japanese, used by the Los Angeles Angels starting from the 2023 season for home run celebrations in the dugout. An armor maker based in Japan's Kagoshima Prefecture received a request from the major league club to make the helmet, costing 330,000 yen (about $2,500).

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CORRECTED: 2 U.S. F-16 fighters make emergency landing on Okinawa island

Photo taken on April 8, 2023, at Shimojishima airport on Japan's Shimoji Island in Miyakojima, Okinawa Prefecture, shows two U.S. military F-16 fighter jets that made emergency landings earlier in the day. One of the planes developed an engine problem over waters about 60 kilometers south of Okinawa's Miyako Island, according to Japan's Defense Ministry.

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Total lunar eclipse

SENDAI, Japan - Successive composite photo shows a total lunar eclipse captured over the city of Sendai in northeastern Japan on Oct. 8, 2014. The photos were taken at an interval of about 15 minutes from 5:39 p.m. (L bottom) to 8:54 p.m.

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Solar-wind hybrid power plant completed in Aichi Pref.

TAHARA, Japan - A ceremony is held in Tahara, Aichi Prefecture, on Oct. 8, 2014, to mark the completion of the Tahara Solar/Wind Electricity Generation Plant (back), one of Japan's biggest solar-wind hybrid power plants. The plant on an 800,000-square-meter site consists of a 50-megawatt photovoltaic power generator and a 6-MW wind power generator, covering the power consumption of about 19,000 households.

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Fashion model wears diamond-studded tiara in Osaka

OSAKA, Japan - Fashion model Chinami Suzuki wears a diamond-studded tiara, valued at 15 million yen (about $150,000), in Osaka, western Japan, on July 8, 2014.

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100-year-old locomotive to be preserved in Oita town

FUKUOKA, Japan - An about 100-year-old steam locomotive is pictured on April 8, 2014, in Shime Town in Fukuoka Prefecture. The train was going to be scrapped but Kusu Town in Oita Prefecture decided to preserve the train after train enthusiasts across Japan asked the town to save it.

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Massive tree trunk for pagoda renovation at Yakushiji

NARA, Japan - Hundreds of people take part in a ceremony to transport a 4-ton Japanese cypress log to the East Pagoda at Yakushiji, a Buddhist temple in Nara in western Japan, on April 8, 2014, where it will be used to fill vacuums in the central pillar known as "shimbashira." The pagoda, a national treasure that dates back to the Nara period (710-784), is undergoing major renovation work for the first time in about 110 years.

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Fukuoka preserves 500 Asian films

FUKUOKA, Japan - Photo taken Feb. 8, 2014, shows Yoshiyuki Yahiro, a curator at the Fukuoka City Public Library in Sawara Ward, Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, standing inside the library's film archive which possesses a total of about 1,000 films from around the world.

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Luxury cruise ship makes stop at Osaka

OSAKA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on May 8, 2013, shows the luxury cruise ship Diamond Princess at Osaka port. The 116,000-ton ship carrying about 2,600 passengers made a stop at Osaka that day as requested by the city government and the Osaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry, which are trying to attract foreign visitors.

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Luxury cruise ship makes stop at Osaka

OSAKA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on May 8, 2013, shows the luxury cruise ship Diamond Princess at Osaka port. The 116,000-ton ship carrying about 2,600 passengers made a stop at Osaka that day as requested by the city government and the Osaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry, which are trying to attract foreign visitors.

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N.Y. rally on Japan's nuclear power

NEW YORK, United States - About 40 people, mainly Japanese, hold a demonstration in New York on July 8, 2012, to show solidarity with demonstrations in front of the prime minister's office in Tokyo to protest the recent restart of an reactor at the Oi nuclear power station.

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Syria massacre site

AL-KUBEIR, Syria - Photo shows a bloodstained floor of a house where killings took place, in Al-Kubeir, a village in central Syria, on June 8, 2012. About 80 residents of the Sunni village, including women and children, were killed by a group of unidentified attackers on June 6, with some survivors saying the perpetrators were Alawi militias.

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Syria massacre site

AL-KUBEIR, Syria - Photo shows a house hit by an arson attack in Al-Kubeir, a village in central Syria, on June 8, 2012. About 80 residents of the Sunni village, including women and children, were killed by a group of unidentified attackers on June 6, with some survivors saying the perpetrators were Alawi militias.

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Syria massacre site

AL-KUBEIR, Syria - A man points to a house hit by an arson attack in Al-Kubeir, a village in central Syria, on June 8, 2012. About 80 residents of the Sunni village, including women and children, were killed by a group of unidentified attackers on June 6, with some survivors saying the perpetrators were Alawi militias.

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Syria massacre site

AL-KUBEIR, Syria - A man shows a bloodstained cloth in Al-Kubeir, a village in central Syria, on June 8, 2012. About 80 residents of the Sunni village, including women and children, were killed by a group of unidentified attackers on June 6, with some survivors saying the perpetrators were Alawi militias.

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Syria massacre site

HAMA, Syria - Photo shows the ransacked inside of a house where killings took place, in Al-Kubeir, a village in central Syria, on June 8, 2012. About 80 residents of the Sunni village, including women and children, were killed by a group of unidentified attackers on June 6, with some survivors saying the perpetrators were Alawi militias.

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Olympus to cut 2,700 jobs

TOKYO, Japan - Olympus Corp. President Hiroyuki Sasa speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on June 8, 2012. Olympus announced a five-year business plan to cut around 2,700 jobs by March 2014 and scrap about 40 percent of its 30 plants worldwide by March 2015 to improve its financial standing following the revelation of its investment loss coverup.

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Thai premier in Japan

SENDAI, Japan - Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra (L) visits Sendai Nikon Corp.'s camera plant in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 8, 2012. About 40 Thai employees are temporarily working at the plant after flooding destroyed the camera maker's plant in Thailand the previous year. (Pool photo)

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S. Korean Army's water crossing exercise

SEOUL, South Korea - The South Korean Army conducts a large-scale water crossing exercise in North Chungcheong Province, South Korea, on Feb. 8, 2012. Around 1,000 soldiers and about 120 tanks and vehicles took part in the exercise, according to the army.

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S. Korean Army's water crossing exercise

SEOUL, South Korea - The South Korean Army conducts a large-scale water crossing exercise in North Chungcheong Province, South Korea, on Feb. 8, 2012. Around 1,000 soldiers and about 120 tanks and vehicles took part in the exercise, according to the army.

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Anti-TPP rally in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Participants at a rally against Japan joining talks on a U.S.-led free trade pact, called the Trans-Pacific Partnership, raise their fists and chant a slogan in unison at Tokyo's Ryogoku Kokugikan hall on Nov. 8, 2011. About 6,000 people took part in the rally organized by farming and fishing groups and consumers' organizations.

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Palestinians rally for statehood

RAMALLAH, West Bank - About 100 people demonstrate in Ramallah, the West Bank, on Sept. 8, 2011, in support of a move to have the Palestinian territories recognized as a full-time member of the United Nations.

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Drifted fishing gears from Miyagi Pref.

MITO, Japan - An official of the Oarai town office in Ibaraki Prefecture organizes buoys for aquafarming on Sept. 8, 2011, which were retrieved from waters off Oarai in July 2011, before shipping them back the following day to the Miyagi prefectural fishery cooperative, which owns the gear. About 120 buoys had drifted there from Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, some 300 kilometers away, after the March 11 tsunami.

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Palestinians rally for statehood

RAMALLAH, West Bank - About 100 people demonstrate in Ramallah, the West Bank, on Sept. 8, 2011, in support of a move to have the Palestinian territories recognized as a full-time member of the United Nations.

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S. Sudan after independence

JUBA, Southern Sudan - Vehicles line up at a gas station in the Southern Sudan capital Juba on Aug. 8, 2011, as the country suffers a fuel shortage about a month after independence from Sudan.

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U.N. chief Ban visits Fukushima

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon (R) talks with one of the evacuees at a gymnasium where about 300 people are taking refuge due to the March 11 earthquake and tsunami and subsequent nuclear crisis, in the city of Fukushima on Aug. 8, 2011.

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U.N. chief Ban visits Fukushima

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon (L) talks with some of the evacuees at a gymnasium where about 300 people are taking refuge due to the March 11 earthquake and tsunami and subsequent nuclear crisis, in the city of Fukushima on Aug. 8, 2011.

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U.N. chief Ban visits Fukushima

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon (R) talks with one of the evacuees at a gymnasium where about 300 people are taking refuge due to the March 11 earthquake and tsunami and subsequent nuclear crisis, in the city of Fukushima on Aug. 8, 2011.

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Refurbishing Himeji Castle

HIMEJI, Japan - A ''shachihoko'' statue is brought down to the ground from the top of the castle keep of Himeji Castle, a World Cultural Heritage site in Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture, on June 8, 2011, for the first time in about 50 years during a refurbishment.

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Chinese petitioner on Beijing street

BEIJING, China - A man from China's Shaanxi Province cooks on a street in Beijing on March 8, 2011. About 200 people have been living on the streets in Beijing while waiting for their petitions about the conduct of local authorities and other issues to be addressed by the Chinese government.

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Gigantic billboard for chocolate bar contends for world record

OSAKA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Feb. 8, 2011, shows a big billboard -- about 166 meters in width and 28 m in height -- in the form of a chocolate bar in Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture. Confectionery maker Meiji Seika Kaisha Ltd. set up the billboard along the outer surface of its factory ahead of Valentine's Day on Feb. 14 when it is customary in Japan for women to give chocolates to men. The company has applied to Guinness World Records for the billboard to be registered as the world's biggest advertising board made of plastic.

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Beijing protest at Japan over island row

BEIJING, China - About 40 demonstrators march in protest in front of the Japanese Embassy in Beijing on Sept. 8, 2010, after a Japan Coast Guard patrol boat detained a Chinese trawler near the disputed Senkaku Islands, called Diaoyu Island in China, in the East China Sea the previous day.

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Whale festival at Ayukawa port in Miyagi Pref.

SENDAI, Japan - People look at a Baird's beaked whale, around 10 meters long and weighing about 10 tons, during a whale festival at Ayukawa port in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on Aug. 8, 2010. Free grilled whale meat was served later at the festival.

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Swimmers cross between Kinmen and Xiamen islands

KINMEN, Taiwan - Chinese and Taiwanese swimmers dash into the sea at Taiwan's Kinmen island on Aug. 8, 2010, aiming to reach China's Xiamen Island, a swim of about a 7 kilometers.

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New dinosaur species

FUKUI, Japan - Fossils of a new dinosaur species, named Fukuititan nipponensis, are placed at the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum in Katsuyama, Fukui Prefecture. The museum announced June 8, 2010, the fossils unearthed since 2007 from a Lower Cretaceous Period (about 120 million years ago) layer in Katsuyama are of a new sauropod species of about 10 meters long.