Cube-shaped watermelons in western Japan

Cube-shaped watermelons in western Japan

A worker prepares for the season's first shipment of cube-shaped watermelons in Zentsuji in Kagawa Prefecture, western Japan, on July 3, 2023. The ornamental watermelons, grown in square plastic containers, carry a wholesale price of around 10,000 yen ($69) each. (Kyodo)

Cube-shaped watermelons in western Japan

Cube-shaped watermelons in western Japan

Cube-shaped watermelons are packed in boxes for the season's first shipment in Zentsuji in Kagawa Prefecture, western Japan, on July 3, 2023. The ornamental watermelons, grown in square plastic containers, carry a wholesale price of around 10,000 yen ($69) each.

Cube-shaped watermelons in western Japan

Cube-shaped watermelons in western Japan

Cube-shaped watermelons are lined up for the season's first shipment in Zentsuji in Kagawa Prefecture, western Japan, on July 3, 2023. The ornamental watermelons, grown in square plastic containers, carry a wholesale price of around 10,000 yen ($69) each.

Huge rally in Pyongyang

Huge rally in Pyongyang

PYONGYANG, North Korea - North Korea holds a huge morale-boosting rally in Pyongyang's Kim Il Sung Square on Jan. 3, 2012, aimed at achieving national goals. Around 100,000 people participated.

Huge rally in Pyongyang

Huge rally in Pyongyang

PYONGYANG, North Korea - North Korea holds a huge morale-boosting rally in Pyongyang's Kim Il Sung Square on Jan. 3, 2012, aimed at achieving national goals. Around 100,000 people participated.

Huge rally in Pyongyang

Huge rally in Pyongyang

PYONGYANG, North Korea - North Korea holds a huge morale-boosting rally in Pyongyang's Kim Il Sung Square on Jan. 3, 2012, aimed at achieving national goals. Around 100,000 people participated.

Huge rally in Pyongyang

Huge rally in Pyongyang

PYONGYANG, North Korea - North Korea holds a huge morale-boosting rally in Pyongyang's Kim Il Sung Square on Jan. 3, 2012, aimed at achieving national goals. Around 100,000 people participated.

Huge rally in Pyongyang

Huge rally in Pyongyang

PYONGYANG, North Korea - North Korea holds a huge morale-boosting rally in Pyongyang's Kim Il Sung Square on Jan. 3, 2012, aimed at achieving national goals. Around 100,000 people participated.

Street at Imperial Palace opened to public

Street at Imperial Palace opened to public

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on Dec. 3, 2014, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows crowds of people walking along a street at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo under colorful autumn leaves, as it was opened for five days to the public to commemorate Emperor Akihito's 80th birthday in December 2013. Around 6,000 people made a line before the opening, the second since the spring, the season of cherry blossoms.

Street at Imperial Palace opened to public

Street at Imperial Palace opened to public

TOKYO, Japan - A crowd observes colorful autumn leaves along a street at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Dec. 3, 2014, as it was opened for five days to the public to commemorate Emperor Akihito's 80th birthday in December 2013. Around 6,000 people made a line before the opening, the second since the spring, the season of cherry blossoms.

Osprey in Okinawa

Osprey in Okinawa

NAHA, Japan - U.S. Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft is shown to a news crew at the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, on March 3, 2013, prior to the U.S. forces showing the aircraft to Okinawa residents. The U.S. forces invited around 300 residents to the air base to see the aircraft.

Toshiba to release glasses-free big 3-D TV, thin tablet

Toshiba to release glasses-free big 3-D TV, thin tablet

TOKYO, Japan - Toshiba Corp. announced on Oct. 3, 2011, it will release a 55-inch glasses-free 3-D television with high display resolution and the world's thinnest, lightest tablet, both in mid-December in Japan. The REGZA 55X3 television with a price tag of around 900,000 yen, comes with the so-called quad full high-definition panel that boasts display images four times finer than high-definition resolution

Cattle farmers protest against Tokyo Electric

Cattle farmers protest against Tokyo Electric

TOKYO, Japan - Around 350 beef cattle farmers from many areas of Japan stage a demonstration against Tokyo Electric Power Co. in front of the utility's head office in Tokyo on Aug. 3, 2011. The farmers demanded that TEPCO pay compensation in connection with the contamination of beef with radioactive cesium amid the nuclear crisis at the company's Fukushima Daiichi power plant.

Cattle farmers protest against Tokyo Electric

Cattle farmers protest against Tokyo Electric

TOKYO, Japan - Farmers bring beef cattle to a protest rally against Tokyo Electric Power Co. near the utility's head office in Tokyo on Aug. 3, 2011. Around 350 cattle farmers from many areas of Japan demanded that TEPCO pay compensation in connection with the contamination of beef with radioactive cesium amid the nuclear crisis at the company's Fukushima Daiichi power plant.

Mass relocation of evacuees in Miyagi Pref.

Mass relocation of evacuees in Miyagi Pref.

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - Evacuees wave to a bus carrying people relocating from the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, to other facilities on April 3, 2011. Around 1,100 residents of the tsunami-hit town have started to move to other municipalities in the prefecture as part of a collective evacuation, but some residents have declined the offer of relocation as it did not meet their requirements.

Dubai opens world's tallest tower

Dubai opens world's tallest tower

CAIRO, Egypt - This photo, taken Jan. 3, 2010, shows the Burj Dubai Tower, the world's tallest skyscraper in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. The tower, begun in September 2004 and costing around $1.5 billion, opened Jan. 4.

Tsunami striking at Fukushima Daiichi nuke plant

Tsunami striking at Fukushima Daiichi nuke plant

TOKYO, Japan - Handout combination photo shows tsunami, triggered by a powerful earthquake, approaching and inundating the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, operated by Tokyo Electric Power Co., in Fukushima Prefecture, on March 11, 2011. The four photos in the combination photo were taken from the fourth floor of the plant's waste disposal building (from top to bottom) from around 3:42 p.m. to 3:44 p.m. (Photos provided by Tokyo Electric Power Co.) (Kyodo)