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Fujifilm to launch new Cheki series instant camera

A woman takes a selfie with Fujifilm Corp.'s latest model of the Cheki instant camera series, "instax mini LiPlay+," in Tokyo on Oct. 21, 2025, ahead of its official launch on Nov. 7. The front-facing camera, equipped with a rear monitor for easier selfies, is priced at around 28,600 yen ($190), with the series' cumulative sales surpassing 100 million units since its debut in 1998.

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Fujifilm to launch new Cheki series instant camera

A woman takes a selfie with Fujifilm Corp.'s latest model of the Cheki instant camera series, "instax mini LiPlay+," in Tokyo on Oct. 21, 2025, ahead of its official launch on Nov. 7. The front-facing camera, equipped with a rear monitor for easier selfies, is priced at around 28,600 yen ($190), with the series' cumulative sales surpassing 100 million units since its debut in 1998.

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Fujifilm to launch new Cheki series instant camera

A woman holds Fujifilm Corp.'s latest model of the Cheki instant camera series, "instax mini LiPlay+," in Tokyo on Oct. 21, 2025, ahead of its launch on Nov. 7. The front-facing camera, equipped with a rear monitor for easier selfies, is priced at around 28,600 yen ($190), with the series' cumulative sales having surpassed 100 million units since its debut in 1998.

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US: Airport Fire Expands In Southern California, Destroys Homes 3

Airport Fire burning in Orange and Riverside Counties, Southern California has grown to more than 23,000 acres as of Wednesday morning, September 11. The fire injured at least seven people and destroyed homes.

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Unnamed donor sends gold ingots to Miyagi fish market

SENDAI, Japan - Kunio Suno, president of a fish market in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, holds two gold ingots worth around 10 million yen in total, on Feb. 14, 2013. The ingots were sent to the fish market in the disaster-hit city by an unnamed donor in Nagano.

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Unnamed donor sends gold ingots to Miyagi fish market

SENDAI, Japan - Photo taken Feb. 14, 2013, in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, shows two gold ingots worth around 10 million yen in total that were sent to a fish market in the disaster-hit city by an unnamed donor in Nagano.

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Sharp 60-inch LCD

OSAKA, Japan - Sharp Corp. unveils its new 60-inch liquid crystal display which allows users to write directly on it like a whiteboard in Osaka on Aug. 18, 2010. The product will hit store shelves on Aug. 31 at the price of around 1 million yen.

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Welfare ministry official gets cars, cash from group overseen

SAITAMA, Japan - Masaru Matsushima, who has just left the welfare ministry, speaks to reporters at his home in Saitama on Aug. 30. He admitted having received three used cars and several million yen in cash from the chief of a social welfare organization under the ministry's supervision from around 1992 until November 2005.

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Welfare ministry official gets cars, cash from group overseen

SAITAMA, Japan - The photo shows one of the three cars Masaru Matsushima, a welfare ministry official who has just left the ministry, received along with several million yen in cash from the chief of a social welfare organization under the ministry's supervision from around 1992 until November 2005.

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Cryptocurrency hack in Japan

TOKYO, Japan, Jan. 28 Kyodo - Koichiro Wada (L), president of cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck, and Yusuke Otsuka, the company's chief operating officer, bow in apology at a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 26, 2018, after around 58 billion yen ($534 million) of the NEM cryptocurrency disappeared due to hacking.

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Pure gold Ebisu statuette displayed at Osaka jewelry shop

OSAKA, Japan - A 130-million-yen pure gold statuette of Ebisu, a Japanese deity known as the guardian of commerce, measuring around 40 centimeters in height and 32 centimeters in width, is displayed on Dec. 26, 2014, at jewelry shop Ginza Tanaka in Osaka's Shinsaibashi shopping district, western Japan. The display started the same day and will run until Jan. 12, 2015.

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Pure gold Ebisu statuette displayed at Osaka jewelry shop

OSAKA, Japan - A 130-million-yen pure gold statuette of Ebisu, a Japanese deity known as the guardian of commerce, measuring around 40 centimeters in height and 32 centimeters in width, is displayed on Dec. 26, 2014, at jewelry shop Ginza Tanaka in Osaka's Shinsaibashi shopping district, western Japan. The display started the same day and will run until Jan. 12, 2015.

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Filipino woman sues nursing care provider for unpaid wages

OSAKA, Japan - Chona Ishihara, a Filipino woman who used to work for a nursing care provider in western Japan, attends a press conference in Osaka, Japan, on Nov. 28, 2014, after filing a lawsuit to demand unpaid wages from her former employer. She said Juju Corp. imposed an excessive workload and she is seeking around 5.8 million yen in compensation.

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300 mil. yen Christmas tree featuring "Frozen" unveiled

TOKYO, Japan - A 300 million yen Christmas tree featuring characters from the Disney animation film "Frozen" is unveiled on Nov. 19, 2014, at a jewelry shop, Ginza Tanaka, in Tokyo's Ginza shopping district. The 2.6-meter tree contains around 31 kilograms of pure platinum.

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300 mil. yen Christmas tree featuring "Frozen" unveiled

TOKYO, Japan - A 300 million yen Christmas tree featuring characters from the Disney animation film "Frozen" is unveiled on Nov. 19, 2014, at a jewelry shop, Ginza Tanaka, in Tokyo's Ginza shopping district. The 2.6-meter tree contains around 31 kilograms of pure platinum.

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Japan's environment minister unveils incorrect funding report entry

TOKYO, Japan - Environment Minister Yoshio Mochizuki attends a press conference at his ministry in Tokyo past midnight on Oct. 27, 2014, to unveil that his support group incorrectly recorded expenditures totaling around 6.6 million yen in its funding report as spending for New Year's events in 2008 and 2009 that were not sponsored by the group. Mochizuki said he does not think the incorrect entry constitutes a legal violation and indicated he has no plan to resign over the issue.

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Japan's environment minister unveils incorrect funding report entry

TOKYO, Japan - Environment Minister Yoshio Mochizuki (R) checks a document during a press conference at his ministry in Tokyo past midnight on Oct. 27, 2014, held to unveil that his support group incorrectly recorded expenditures totaling around 6.6 million yen in its funding report as spending for New Year's events in 2008 and 2009 that were not sponsored by the group. Mochizuki said he does not think the incorrect entry constitutes a legal violation and indicated he has no plan to resign over the issue.

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Japan's environment minister unveils incorrect funding report entry

TOKYO, Japan - Environment Minister Yoshio Mochizuki attends a press conference at his ministry in Tokyo past midnight on Oct. 27, 2014, to unveil that his support group incorrectly recorded expenditures totaling around 6.6 million yen in its funding report as spending for New Year's events in 2008 and 2009 that were not sponsored by the group. Mochizuki said he does not think the incorrect entry constitutes a legal violation and indicated he has no plan to resign over the issue.

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Hyogo assembly member cries during press conference

KOBE, Japan - Ryutaro Nonomura, a member of the Hyogo prefectural assembly, cries during a press conference in Kobe, western Japan, on July 1, 2014. Nonomura admitted to spending around 3 million yen without any receipts for 195 one-day business trips in fiscal 2013 through March.

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Hyogo assembly member cries during press conference

KOBE, Japan - Ryutaro Nonomura, a member of the Hyogo prefectural assembly, cries during a press conference in Kobe, western Japan, on July 1, 2014. Nonomura admitted to spending around 3 million yen without any receipts for 195 one-day business trips in fiscal 2013 through March.

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Toyota to launch hydrogen fuel cell vehicle in Japan by March 2015

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsuhisa Kato, executive vice president of Toyota Motor Corp., briefs reporters on the company's sedan-style hydrogen fuel cell vehicle at a press conference in Tokyo on June 25, 2014. Kato said Toyota will begin selling the fuel car in Japan by March 2015 with a retail price of around 7 million yen.

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Toyota to launch hydrogen fuel cell vehicle in Japan by March 2015

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a prototype of Toyota Motor Corp.'s sedan-style hydrogen fuel cell vehicle. Toyota said on June 25, 2014, that it will begin selling the hydrogen fuel cell car in Japan by March 2015 with a retail price of around 7 million yen.

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Toyota to launch hydrogen fuel cell vehicle in Japan by March 2015

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsuhisa Kato, executive vice president of Toyota Motor Corp., stands by a prototype of the company's sedan-style hydrogen fuel cell vehicle during a press conference in Tokyo on June 25, 2014. Kato said Toyota will begin selling the fuel car in Japan by March 2015 with a retail price of around 7 million yen.

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Gold statue of Kumamon

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a pure gold statue of Kumamon, the popular black bear mascot of Japan's southwestern prefecture of Kumamoto, unveiled by Tanaka Kikinzoku Jewelry K.K., and the real mascot, at the company's flagship store in Tokyo's Ginza district on May 1, 2014. The statue, with a price tag of 100 million yen, weighs roughly 10 kilograms and stands around 17 centimeters tall.

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Gold statue of Kumamon

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a pure gold statue of Kumamon, the popular black bear mascot of Japan's southwestern prefecture of Kumamoto, unveiled by Tanaka Kikinzoku Jewelry K.K. at its flagship store in Tokyo's Ginza district on May 1, 2014. The statue, with a price tag of 100 million yen, weighs roughly 10 kilograms and stands around 17 centimeters tall.

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Gold statue of Kumamon

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a pure gold statue of Kumamon, the popular black bear mascot of Japan's southwestern prefecture of Kumamoto, unveiled by Tanaka Kikinzoku Jewelry K.K., and the real mascot, at the company's flagship store in Tokyo's Ginza district on May 1, 2014. The statue, with a price tag of 100 million yen, weighs roughly 10 kilograms and stands around 17 centimeters tall.

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China's seizure of Japanese ship

BEIJING, China - Photo taken April 23, 2014, shows the Shanghai Maritime Court in Shanghai, China. On April 24, the court decided to release the Baosteel Emotion, an iron-ore carrier owned by Japanese shipping firm Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd., after the Japanese firm paid around 4 billion yen ($39 million) in connection with a wartime compensation dispute that had led to the seizure of the ship.

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China's seizure of Japanese ship

BEIJING, China - Photo taken April 22, 2014, shows the Baosteel Emotion, an iron-ore carrier owned by Japanese shipping firm Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd., berthed at Majishan Port in Shengsi, Zhejiang Province, China. On April 24, a Shanghai court decided to release the carrier after the Japanese firm paid around 4 billion yen ($39 million) in connection with a wartime compensation dispute that had led to the seizure of the ship.

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Japan to aid Pakistan expand girls' education

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Japanese Ambassador to Pakistan Hiroshi Inomata (R) shakes hands with a Pakistani official after the two sides signed an agreement on Feb. 11, 2014, in Islamabad. Japan decided to provide some 800 million yen in grant aid to help build new classrooms for girls at around 30 schools in the rural areas in southern Sindh Province.

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Kagawa inks sponsorship deal with Audi

IZUMISANO, Japan - Manchester United midfielder Shinji Kagawa is pictured with an Audi car in Izumisano, Osaka Prefecture, on Feb. 7, 2013, as he inked a three-year sponsorship deal with Audi Japan that will give him use of a red Audi, valued at around 20 million yen, in Britain.

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Sharp 90-inch display

OSAKA, Japan - Photo shows Sharp Corp.'s 90-inch liquid crystal display for digital signage. Sharp said on Nov. 22, 2012, it will release the display that is capable of showing a person at full height. The display, measuring 2 meters by 1.2 meters, is the first of its kind for use mainly by businesses and will go on sale on Jan. 28, 2013, for a price of around 2.6 million yen.

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NTT East employee held in bribery case

TOKYO, Japan - Police investigators enter the headquarters of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone East Corp. in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward on March 2, 2012. A 36-year-old employee of the company was arrested the same day on suspicion of receiving around 1.3 million yen in kickbacks from a telecom-related company in connection with the regional telephone operator's Flet's TV business, police said.

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French winemakers assn makes donation for disaster-hit Japan

PARIS, France - Michel Issaly (R), head of the Vigneron Independant winemakers association, and a member of the French Red Cross (L) hold a check for 33,600 euros, around 3.5 million yen, raised at wine fairs in France for quake- and tsunami-hit Japan, in Paris on Nov. 28, 2011.

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Redress for acquitted man

UTSUNOMIYA, Japan - Toshikazu Sugaya (C), who was acquitted in a retrial for a 1990 murder, walks into the Utsunomiya District Court in Tochigi Prefecture on Jan. 13, 2011. The court told him the same day that he will receive around 80 million yen in compensation for his wrongful conviction, the amount that he had requested.

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Luxurious bathtub for 8 mil. yen

TOKYO, Japan - INAX Corp. unveils a luxurious bathtub with a price tag of around 8 million yen in Tokyo on Aug. 24, 2010.

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Sharp to launch solar-powered cell phones in China in February

OSAKA, Japan - This photo shows a solar-powered cellphone which Sharp Corp. said on Jan. 27, 2010, it will launch in China next month with the goal of boosting its annual overall handset shipments in the country fivefold to 5 million units. The solar-powered cellphones are expected to retail for around 3,400 yuan, or about 45,000 yen.

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Bankers count money offered at shrine

OSAKA, Japan - Female bank staffers wearing traditional Japanese happi coats count money given as offerings during the annual ''Toka Ebisu'' festival at Imamiya Ebisu Shrine in Osaka, on Jan. 12, 2010. During the festival that took place Jan. 9 through 11, some 1 million people visited the shrine, about 70,000 more than last year due to the three-day weekend, and gave offerings totaling around 45 million yen, about the same amount as last year.

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Bankers count money offered at shrine

OSAKA, Japan - Female bank staffers wearing traditional Japanese happi coats count money given as offerings during the annual ''Toka Ebisu'' festival at Imamiya Ebisu Shrine in Osaka, on Jan. 12, 2010. During the festival that took place Jan. 9 through 11, some 1 million people visited the shrine, about 70,000 more than last year due to the three-day weekend, and gave offerings totaling around 45 million yen, about the same amount as last year.

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Tuna sold for 16.3 million yen at 1st auction in Tokyo fish

TOKYO, Japan - Buyers check the quality of tuna, flown from around the world, prior to the start of the year's first auction at Tokyo's Tsukiji fish market on Jan. 5, 2010. A 232.6-kilogram bluefin tuna caught off Aomori Prefecture, northern Japan, sold for a nine-year high of 16.28 million yen.

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Tuna sold for 16.3 million yen at 1st auction in Tokyo fish

TOKYO, Japan - Tuna, flown from around the world, is sold at this year's first auction at Tokyo's Tsukiji fish market on Jan. 5, 2010. A 232.6-kilogram bluefin tuna caught off Aomori Prefecture, northern Japan, sold for a nine-year high of 16.28 million yen.

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Watches worth 300 mil. yen stolen from store in Tokyo's Ginza

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Tenshodo, a watch and jewelry store in Tokyo's Ginza district, on Jan. 2, 2010. Around 200 high-end watches worth about 300 million yen were discovered the same day to have been stolen from the store.

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Watches worth 300 mil. yen stolen from store in Tokyo's Ginza

TOKYO, Japan - A hole (R, below) can be seen in the wall of Tenshodo, a watch and jewelry store in Tokyo's Ginza district, on Jan. 2, 2010. Around 200 high-end watches worth about 300 million yen were discovered the same day to have been stolen from the store.

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Cabinet Secretariat got 1.2 bil. yen annually in secret funds

TOKYO, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirfumi Hirano speaks about so-called secret funds received by the Cabinet Secretariat during a news conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Nov. 20, 2009. Hirano said the secretariat received around 100 million yen in such funds each month from April 2004 through last month.

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Canon to acquire biggest European printer maker Oce

TOKYO, Japan - Canon Inc. President Tsuneji Uchida (L) shakes hands with Anton Schaaf, chief technology officer and chief operating officer of Oce NV of the Netherlands, the biggest printer maker in Europe, during a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 16, 2009, at which they announced that Canon will acquire Oce through a takeover bid worth about 730 million euros (around 100 billion yen).

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Pioneer to raise 2.5 bil. yen through rights issue to Honda

TOKYO, Japan - Pioneer Corp. President Susumu Kotani speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on April 28, saying his company will raise 2.5 billion yen (around $26 million) by issuing shares to Honda Motor Co. to secure funds to turn around its business amid a severe sales slump due to the global economic downturn.

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Pioneer to raise 2.5 bil. yen through rights issue to Honda

TOKYO, Japan - Pioneer Corp. President Susumu Kotani told a news conference in Tokyo on April 28 that his company will raise 2.5 billion yen (around $26 million) by issuing shares to Honda Motor Co. to secure funds to turn around its business amid a severe sales slump due to the global economic downturn.

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Chiba mayor arrested over bribery

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken April 9 shows Chiba Mayor Keiichi Tsuruoka speaking at a news conference at the Chiba city hall on April 9. Tsuruoka was arrested April 22 on suspicion of receiving around 1 million yen in cash from a construction company in Tokyo for city-ordered construction work.

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Golden hawk worth 10 mil. yen stolen

OSAKA, Japan - Photo shows an exquisite golden hawk that was stolen by three robbers wearing balaclavas from the Tomiya Gold precious metals shop in the city of Okayama on Jan. 29. Tomiya Corp., which runs the shop, said around 850 grams of gold was used to make the 28-centimeter-high hawk worth 10 million yen. The robbers and another man who drove the getaway vehicle are still at large. (Photo taken from the company's website)

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Record amount of cannabis seized

TOKYO, Japan - Police display around 180 kilograms of cannabis with a street value of 720 million yen July 17. The cannabis was seized from a condominium in Tokyo and a company executive and a Chinese student have been arrested on suspicion of hiding the drug. The amount seized was the largest ever found by Japanese police in a raid, according to police.

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Ex-Nova boss Sahashi arrested for alleged embezzlement

OSAKA, Japan - Osaka prefectural police search the headquarters of bankrupt Nova Corp. in Chuo Ward in Osaka on June 24 in connection with the arrest the same day of Nozomu Sahashi, former Nova president, on suspicion of diverting around 320 million yen in July from an employee benefit fund to reimburse tuition fees to people who canceled contracts for language courses. Nova was once the nation's largest chain of English conversation schools.