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29th anniv. of Tokyo subway sarin attack

Tokyo Metro Co. workers hold a moment of silence at Kasumigaseki Station in Tokyo on March 20, 2024, in memory of the victims of the sarin nerve gas attack on a Tokyo subway system by the AUM Shinrikyo cult exactly 29 years ago. (Pool photo)

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A Brighter Summer Day

Ryan cutting Tang Tang’s hair before going to work, New Taipei City, Taiwan, 2019 'You will meet someone who will change your life when you are 25. Be patient, and take much care of him! Don’t take things the way I did; all the sadness and horrible things you have encountered are to make yourself a better person now. Believe in yourself, be brave, then you will have a fairytale-like happy ending.' Tang Tang Tang Tang (left) and Ryan met at the KTV for a karaoke with their co-workers. That night Ryan had not wanted to go out, he had just lost his mother and was very depressed. Dragged there by his colleagues, he spent the evening crying in a corner, with Tang Tang trying to make him feel better. They have been together for 4 years now and they recently flew to Las Vegas to get married as it remained illegal in Taiwan. They respectively work as actor and hair dresser, and have to hide their relationship in order to keep certain costumers. Photo by Su Cassiano/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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UAW strike near Detroit

Ford Motor Co. workers near Detroit stand on a picket line as part of the United Auto Workers union's strike against major vehicle manufacturers on Sept. 26, 2023.

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UAW strike near Detroit

Ford Motor Co. workers near Detroit stand on a picket line as part of the United Auto Workers union's strike against major vehicle manufacturers on Sept. 26, 2023.

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Haneda airport Terminal 2 int'l facilities reopen

All Nippon Airways Co. workers pose for a photo in front of a plane departing from a Terminal 2 facility for international flights at Tokyo's Haneda airport on July 19, 2023, which reopened the same day after a three-year, three-month closure due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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28 years after Tokyo subway sarin attack

Tokyo Metro Co. workers hold a moment of silence at Kasumigaseki Station in Tokyo on March 20, 2023, in honor of the victims of the sarin nerve gas attack on a Tokyo subway system by the AUM Shinrikyo cult exactly 28 years ago.

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CHINA-BEIJING-NPC DEPUTY-SANITATION WORKER (CN)

(230308) -- BEIJING, March 8, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Liu Mingqun cleans equipment at a garbage station in Shijingshan District of Beijing, capital of China, Feb. 17, 2023. Liu Mingqun, a deputy to the 14th National People's Congress (NPC), has been working as a sanitation worker for 25 years in Beijing. The garbage station she is responsible for covers residential compounds as well as commercial areas in two subdistricts of Shijingshan District, dealing with garbage produced by more than 10,000 households totaling about 15 tonnes of garbage to remove everyday. Liu always goes to work one hour in advance to tidy up the garbage station and disinfect its garbage trucks. Thanks to Liu's consistent efforts, the station is acclaimed as the "cleanest garbage station in Beijing" by Liu's co-workers and neighbouring residents. (Xinhua/Zhang Chenlin)

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CHINA-BEIJING-NPC DEPUTY-SANITATION WORKER (CN)

(230308) -- BEIJING, March 8, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Liu Mingqun measures the weight of a truck loaded with garbage at a garbage station in Shijingshan District of Beijing, capital of China, Feb. 17, 2023. Liu Mingqun, a deputy to the 14th National People's Congress (NPC), has been working as a sanitation worker for 25 years in Beijing. The garbage station she is responsible for covers residential compounds as well as commercial areas in two subdistricts of Shijingshan District, dealing with garbage produced by more than 10,000 households totaling about 15 tonnes of garbage to remove everyday. Liu always goes to work one hour in advance to tidy up the garbage station and disinfect its garbage trucks. Thanks to Liu's consistent efforts, the station is acclaimed as the "cleanest garbage station in Beijing" by Liu's co-workers and neighbouring residents. (Xinhua/Zhang Chenlin)

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CHINA-BEIJING-NPC DEPUTY-SANITATION WORKER (CN)

(230308) -- BEIJING, March 8, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Liu Mingqun disinfects the garbage station she is responsible for in Shijingshan District of Beijing, capital of China, Feb. 17, 2023. Liu Mingqun, a deputy to the 14th National People's Congress (NPC), has been working as a sanitation worker for 25 years in Beijing. The garbage station she is responsible for covers residential compounds as well as commercial areas in two subdistricts of Shijingshan District, dealing with garbage produced by more than 10,000 households totaling about 15 tonnes of garbage to remove everyday. Liu always goes to work one hour in advance to tidy up the garbage station and disinfect its garbage trucks. Thanks to Liu's consistent efforts, the station is acclaimed as the "cleanest garbage station in Beijing" by Liu's co-workers and neighbouring residents. (Xinhua/Zhang Chenlin)

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CHINA-BEIJING-NPC DEPUTY-SANITATION WORKER (CN)

(230308) -- BEIJING, March 8, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Sanitation worker Liu Mingqun poses for a photo at a garbage station in Shijingshan District of Beijing, capital of China, Feb. 17, 2023. Liu Mingqun, a deputy to the 14th National People's Congress (NPC), has been working as a sanitation worker for 25 years in Beijing. The garbage station she is responsible for covers residential compounds as well as commercial areas in two subdistricts of Shijingshan District, dealing with garbage produced by more than 10,000 households totaling about 15 tonnes of garbage to remove everyday. Liu always goes to work one hour in advance to tidy up the garbage station and disinfect its garbage trucks. Thanks to Liu's consistent efforts, the station is acclaimed as the "cleanest garbage station in Beijing" by Liu's co-workers and neighbouring residents. (Xinhua/Zhang Chenlin)

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CHINA-BEIJING-NPC DEPUTY-SANITATION WORKER (CN)

(230308) -- BEIJING, March 8, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Liu Mingqun disinfects a garbage truck at a garbage station in Shijingshan District of Beijing, capital of China, Feb. 17, 2023. Liu Mingqun, a deputy to the 14th National People's Congress (NPC), has been working as a sanitation worker for 25 years in Beijing. The garbage station she is responsible for covers residential compounds as well as commercial areas in two subdistricts of Shijingshan District, dealing with garbage produced by more than 10,000 households totaling about 15 tonnes of garbage to remove everyday. Liu always goes to work one hour in advance to tidy up the garbage station and disinfect its garbage trucks. Thanks to Liu's consistent efforts, the station is acclaimed as the "cleanest garbage station in Beijing" by Liu's co-workers and neighbouring residents. (Xinhua/Zhang Chenlin)

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Planned restart of nuclear power plant in Kagoshima

SATSUMASENDAI, Japan - Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Yoichi Miyazawa (far R) talks to Kyushu Electric Power Co. workers at the utility's nuclear power plant in the city of Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture, on Nov. 3, 2014.

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Industry minister Miyazawa visits Fukushima plant

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Industry minister Yoichi Miyazawa (C), on his first visit to the disaster-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant since assuming his post, speaks to Tokyo Electric Power Co. workers at the site on Nov. 1, 2014. (Pool photo)

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Industry minister Miyazawa visits Fukushima plant

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Industry minister Yoichi Miyazawa, on his first visit to the disaster-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant since assuming his post, speaks to Tokyo Electric Power Co. workers at the site on Nov. 1, 2014. (Pool photo)

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New industry minister Obuchi visits Fukushima plant

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - New industry minister Yuko Obuchi, on her first visit to the disaster-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant after assuming her post, speaks before Tokyo Electric Power Co. workers dealing with reactor decommissioning and the buildup of radioactive water at the site, on Sept. 7, 2014. (Pool photo)

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New industry minister Obuchi visits Fukushima plant

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - New industry minister Yuko Obuchi (C), on her first visit to the disaster-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant after assuming her post, shakes hands with Tokyo Electric Power Co. workers dealing with reactor decommissioning and the buildup of radioactive water at the site, on Sept. 7, 2014. (Pool photo)

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New industry minister Obuchi visits Fukushima plant

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - New industry minister Yuko Obuchi (C), on her first visit to the disaster-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant after assuming her post, shakes hands with Tokyo Electric Power Co. workers dealing with reactor decommissioning and the buildup of radioactive water at the site, on Sept. 7, 2014. (Pool photo)

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New industry minister Obuchi visits Fukushima plant

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - New industry minister Yuko Obuchi (far L), on her first visit to the disaster-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant after assuming her post, speaks before Tokyo Electric Power Co. workers dealing with reactor decommissioning and the buildup of radioactive water at the site, on Sept. 7, 2014. (Pool photo)

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New industry minister Obuchi visits Fukushima plant

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - New industry minister Yuko Obuchi, on her first visit to the disaster-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant after assuming her post, speaks before Tokyo Electric Power Co. workers dealing with reactor decommissioning and the buildup of radioactive water at the site, on Sept. 7, 2014. (Pool photo)

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Toho Gas prepares for Nankai Trough quake

NAGOYA, Japan - Toho Gas Co. workers install the firm's own electrical power generator at its plant in Chita, Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, on Aug. 27, 2014, in preparation for the possible occurrence of a devastating earthquake along the Nankai Trough off central and western Japan.

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Ski jumper Kasai speaks before co-workers

SAPPORO, Japan - Japanese ski jumper Noriaki Kasai, winner of the silver medal in the men's individual large hill and the bronze medal in the team large hill at the Sochi Winter Olympics, speaks before colleagues at his employer Tsuchiya Home in Sapporo on Feb. 21, 2014.

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Japanese executives locked up in China in labor dispute

SHANGHAI, China - Photo taken on Jan. 20, 2013, shows a factory of an electronic parts maker in Shanghai owned by Japan's Shinmei Electric Co. Workers at the plant locked up around 10 Japanese executives for two days to press their demands for better pay and working conditions, releasing them early on Jan. 20 after police intervention.

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Nishimatsu agrees on redress fund with former forced laborers

TOKYO, Japan - Shao Yicheng, one of five Chinese victims of forced labor during World War II, speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Oct. 23, 2009, after Nishimatsu Construction Co. agreed to set up a 250 million yen trust fund to compensate the five and 360 former co-workers.

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Nishimatsu agrees on redress fund with former forced laborers

TOKYO, Japan - Shao Yicheng (L), one of five Chinese victims of forced labor during World War II, shakes hands with a lawyer representing Nishimatsu Construction Co. during a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 23, 2009, after Nishimatsu agreed to set up a 250 million yen trust fund to compensate the five and 360 former co-workers.

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Express train hits 4 rail maintenance workers, 2 die

TOTTORI, Japan - Rescue workers try to save a maintenance worker stuck beneath a train in Kofu Town, Tottori Prerecture, on Jan. 24. An express train hit four West Japan Railway Co. workers engaged in rail maintenance work, killing two of them and injuring the other two.

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JR West resumes work to install safety system

ITAMI, Japan - West Japan Railway Co. workers install an advanced type of Automatic Train Stop system on the Fukuchiyama Line in Itami, Hyogo Prefecture, on May 3. The measure is being taken in the wake of the deadly derailment on April 25 of a JR West commuter train in Amagasaki.

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Entire Tohoku bullet train line back in service a month after quake

East Japan Railway Co. workers hold up a banner showing the resumption of services on the entire Tohoku Shinkansen bullet train line on April 14, 2022, at a platform in JR Sendai Station in northeastern Japan, nearly a month after a powerful earthquake hit the country's northeast and derailed one of its bullet trains.

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Tanzanian cartoonist-cum-radio presenter makes electric car

STORY: Tanzanian cartoonist-cum-radio presenter makes electric car DATELINE: April 10, 2022 LENGTH: 00:05:12 LOCATION: DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. Various of Masoud and his co-workers making a car at their workshop 2. Various of a new electric car passing on the street 3. Various of people witnessing the car in a public place 4. SOUNDBITE (English): MASOUD KIPANYA, Cartoonist and designer of the car STORYLINE: Ally Masoud, commonly known as Masoud Kipanya, a 49-year-old Tanzanian cartoonist, radio producer and radio presenter, recently unveiled his locally made electric car in the commercial capital Dar es Salaam. SOUNDBITE (English): MASOUD KIPANYA, Cartoonist and designer of the car "A fossil fuel car when it moves for one kilometer, it produces 21kg of carbon dioxide, a gas car produces 15 kg of carbon dioxide, electric car produces zero, so you can do the math. The future is electric, you know when you look at these other countries developed countries, the UK, they have

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(BEIJING2022)CHINA-BEIJING-OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES-SLIDING TRACK-ICE MAKER (CN)

(220218) -- BEIJING, Feb. 18, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Ice maker Zhu Yongtao (1st R), together with his co-workers, maintains the track at the National Sliding Centre in Yanqing District, Beijing, capital of China, Feb. 15, 2022. At the National Sliding Centre in Yanqing District, Beijing, a team of ice-making and repairing workers are engaged in the maintenance of the track for the sliding events. The sliding track at the National Sliding Centre is the first of its kind in China, where competitions in bobsleigh, skeleton and luge are held during the Beijing Winter Olympic Games. The ice-making work of the track includes ice-making, ice repair, ice replenishment, cleaning and sprinkler maintenance. The work on the long track with many hyperbolic curves is a semi-outdoor activity. The sliding track functions properly only when under high-standard conditions, such as the right cooling tem.....

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(BEIJING2022)CHINA-BEIJING-OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES-SLIDING TRACK-ICE MAKER (CN)

(220218) -- BEIJING, Feb. 18, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Ice maker Zhu Yongtao (1st L) has dinner with his co-workers at the National Sliding Centre in Yanqing District, Beijing, capital of China, Feb. 14, 2022. At the National Sliding Centre in Yanqing District, Beijing, a team of ice-making and repairing workers are engaged in the maintenance of the track for the sliding events. The sliding track at the National Sliding Centre is the first of its kind in China, where competitions in bobsleigh, skeleton and luge are held during the Beijing Winter Olympic Games. The ice-making work of the track includes ice-making, ice repair, ice replenishment, cleaning and sprinkler maintenance. The work on the long track with many hyperbolic curves is a semi-outdoor activity. The sliding track functions properly only when under high-standard conditions, such as the right cooling temperature and strict .....

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(BEIJING2022)CHINA-ZHANGJIAKOU-OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES-CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING-TRIAL SKIER (CN)

(220214) -- ZHANGJIAKOU, Feb. 14, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Torsongan Bullik and his co-workers go on a test run before the cross-country skiing men's 15km+15km skiathlon of the Beijing Winter Olympics at National Cross-Country Skiing Centre in Zhangjiakou, north China's Hebei Province, Feb. 6, 2022. Born in a herdsman's family in the pastoral area of Wenquan County in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, the 27-year-old Torsongan Bullik has many identities: shepherd, marathoner, cyclist and skier. He now works as a trial skier for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics. Long before the start of the cross-country skiing game of the Beijing Winter Olympics, the trail skiers had already buckled down on ski slopes to test skiing and its related training on a daily basis. "This is the Winter Olympic Games. The cross-country skiing track is the most important track to me," said Bullik......

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(BEIJING2022)CHINA-ZHANGJIAKOU-OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES-CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING-TRIAL SKIIER (CN)

(220214) -- ZHANGJIAKOU, Feb. 14, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Torsongan Bullik and his co-workers go on a test run before the cross-country skiing women's sprint free qualification of the Beijing Winter Olympics at National Cross-Country Skiing Centre in Zhangjiakou, north China's Hebei Province, Feb. 8, 2022. Born in a herdsman's family in the pastoral area of Wenquan County in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, the 27-year-old Torsongan Bullik has many identities: shepherd, marathoner, cyclist and skier. He now works as a trial skier for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics. Long before the start of the cross-country skiing game of the Beijing Winter Olympics, the trail skiers had already buckled down on ski slopes to test skiing and its related training on a daily basis. "This is the Winter Olympic Games. The cross-country skiing track is the most important track to me," said.....

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(BEIJING2022)CHINA-ZHANGJIAKOU-OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES-CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING-TRIAL SKIIER (CN)

(220214) -- ZHANGJIAKOU, Feb. 14, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Torsongan Bullik and his co-workers go on a test run before the women's cross-country skiing sprint free semifinal of the Beijing Winter Olympics at National Cross-Country Skiing Centre in Zhangjiakou, north China's Hebei Province, Feb. 8, 2022. Born in a herdsman's family in the pastoral area of Wenquan County in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, the 27-year-old Torsongan Bullik has many identities: shepherd, marathoner, cyclist and skier. He now works as a trial skier for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics. Long before the start of the cross-country skiing game of the Beijing Winter Olympics, the trail skiers had already buckled down on ski slopes to test skiing and its related training on a daily basis. "This is the Winter Olympic Games. The cross-country skiing track is the most important track to me," said Bul.....

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JR West train wrapped with "Case Closed" characters

West Japan Railway Co. workers wrap a train with film sheets printed with characters of the popular Japanese comic series "Case Closed" (previously known as "Detective Conan") on April 26, 2015, in Yonago, Tottori Prefecture, prior to the running of "Conan Train" on the Sanin Main Line from April 29. Gosho Aoyama, author of the series, hails from the western Japan prefecture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan Post to launch 'Smart Letter' delivery service

Japan Post Co. workers show "Smart Letter" envelopes in Tokyo on March 6, 2015, used for its new delivery service beginning on April 3 at a flat nationwide price of 180 yen, cheaper than the existing Letter Pack service available for 360 yen and 510 yen depending on the size. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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JR West resumes work to install safety system

ITAMI, Japan - West Japan Railway Co. workers install an advanced type of Automatic Train Stop system on the Fukuchiyama Line in Itami, Hyogo Prefecture, on May 3. The measure is being taken in the wake of the deadly derailment on April 25 of a JR West commuter train in Amagasaki. (Kyodo)

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Express train hits 4 rail maintenance workers, 2 die

TOTTORI, Japan - Rescue workers try to save a maintenance worker stuck beneath a train in Kofu Town, Tottori Prerecture, on Jan. 24. An express train hit four West Japan Railway Co. workers engaged in rail maintenance work, killing two of them and injuring the other two. (Kyodo)

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Nishimatsu agrees on redress fund with former forced laborers

TOKYO, Japan - Shao Yicheng, one of five Chinese victims of forced labor during World War II, speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Oct. 23, 2009, after Nishimatsu Construction Co. agreed to set up a 250 million yen trust fund to compensate the five and 360 former co-workers. (Kyodo)

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Nishimatsu agrees on redress fund with former forced laborers

TOKYO, Japan - Shao Yicheng (L), one of five Chinese victims of forced labor during World War II, shakes hands with a lawyer representing Nishimatsu Construction Co. during a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 23, 2009, after Nishimatsu agreed to set up a 250 million yen trust fund to compensate the five and 360 former co-workers. (Kyodo)

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Lodging area for Fukushima nuke workers

TOKYO, Japan - Workers engaged in stabilizing the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant rest on the floor of a gymnasium of the Fukushima Daini nuclear plant, some 10 kilometers away from the troubled site, during the evening of April 16, 2011. The Tokyo Electric Power Co. workers, who return to the gym at the end of each day to rest, are provided with sleeping bags, blankets and insulation sheets. (PHOTO COURTESY of TAKESHI TANIGAWA) (Kyodo)

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Lodging area for Fukushima nuke workers

TOKYO, Japan - Workers engaged in stabilizing the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant rest on the floor of a gymnasium of the Fukushima Daini nuclear plant, some 10 kilometers away from the troubled site, during the evening of April 18, 2011. The Tokyo Electric Power Co. workers, who return to the gym at the end of each day to rest, are provided with sleeping bags, blankets and insulation sheets. (PHOTO COURTESY of TAKESHI TANIGAWA) (Kyodo)

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Industry minister Miyazawa visits Fukushima plant

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Industry minister Yoichi Miyazawa, on his first visit to the disaster-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant since assuming his post, speaks to Tokyo Electric Power Co. workers at the site on Nov. 1, 2014. (Pool photo)(Kyodo)

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New industry minister Obuchi visits Fukushima plant

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - New industry minister Yuko Obuchi, on her first visit to the disaster-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant after assuming her post, speaks before Tokyo Electric Power Co. workers dealing with reactor decommissioning and the buildup of radioactive water at the site, on Sept. 7, 2014. (Pool photo)(Kyodo)

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New industry minister Obuchi visits Fukushima plant

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - New industry minister Yuko Obuchi, on her first visit to the disaster-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant after assuming her post, speaks before Tokyo Electric Power Co. workers dealing with reactor decommissioning and the buildup of radioactive water at the site, on Sept. 7, 2014. (Pool photo)(Kyodo)

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New industry minister Obuchi visits Fukushima plant

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - New industry minister Yuko Obuchi (C), on her first visit to the disaster-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant after assuming her post, shakes hands with Tokyo Electric Power Co. workers dealing with reactor decommissioning and the buildup of radioactive water at the site, on Sept. 7, 2014. (Pool photo)(Kyodo)

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New industry minister Obuchi visits Fukushima plant

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - New industry minister Yuko Obuchi (C), on her first visit to the disaster-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant after assuming her post, shakes hands with Tokyo Electric Power Co. workers dealing with reactor decommissioning and the buildup of radioactive water at the site, on Sept. 7, 2014. (Pool photo)(Kyodo)

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Toho Gas prepares for Nankai Trough quake

NAGOYA, Japan - Toho Gas Co. workers install the firm's own electrical power generator at its plant in Chita, Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, on Aug. 27, 2014, in preparation for the possible occurrence of a devastating earthquake along the Nankai Trough off central and western Japan. (Kyodo)