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Tokyo stocks tumble

A financial data monitor in Tokyo shows the 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average down more than 1,800 points from the previous day during morning trading on April 11, 2025.

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China car attack kills over 10 people, injures 100

Photo taken on Nov. 11, 2024, shows a sports center where a man rammed a car into people exercising in the southern Chinese city of Zhuhai, China, Nov. 11, 2024. More than 10 people died and nearly 100 were injured in the incident, and the driver was detained at the scene.

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China car attack kills over 10 people, injures 100

Photo taken on Nov. 11, 2024, shows a sports center where a man rammed a car into people exercising in the southern Chinese city of Zhuhai, China, Nov. 11, 2024. More than 10 people died and nearly 100 were injured in the incident, and the driver was detained at the scene.

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China car attack kills over 10 people, injures 100

People gather near a sports center where a man rammed a car into people exercising in the southern Chinese city of Zhuhai, China, Nov. 11, 2024. More than 10 people died and nearly 100 were injured in the incident, and the driver was detained at the scene.

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China car attack kills over 10 people, injures 100

Security officers stand guard at the gate of a sports center where a man rammed a car into people exercising in the southern Chinese city of Zhuhai, China, Nov. 11, 2024. More than 10 people died and nearly 100 were injured in the incident, and the driver was detained at the scene.

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China car attack kills over 10 people, injures 100

Rescue vehicles rush to a sports center where a man rammed a car into people exercising in the southern Chinese city of Zhuhai, China, Nov. 11, 2024. More than 10 people died and nearly 100 were injured in the incident, and the driver was detained at the scene.

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China car attack kills over 10 people, injures 100

A security official stands guard near a sports center where a man rammed a car into people exercising in the southern Chinese city of Zhuhai, China, Nov. 11, 2024. More than 10 people died and nearly 100 were injured in the incident, and the driver was detained at the scene.

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12th anniversary of 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake

A child touches a cenotaph that inscribes the names of more than 3,700 people who were killed in the 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster at the Ishinomaki Minamihama Tsunami Memorial Park in the Miyagi Prefecture city of Ishinomaki, northeastern Japan, on March 11, 2023.

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Human bones over 9,000 years old found in Okinawa

NANJO, Japan - The Okinawa Prefectural Museum and Art Museum unveils human bones excavated from a stratum more than 9,000 years old in the Sakitari Cave in Nanjo, Okinawa Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Dec. 11, 2014. A finger indicates the location of the skull.

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5 years since quake, tsunami, nuclear disasters

MINAMISOMA, Japan, March 11 Kyodo - Photo taken in the northeastern Japan city of Minamisoma shows a flower bouquet thrown into the ocean to commemorate victims of the March 2011 disaster on March 11, 2016, the fifth anniversary. The disaster has left more than 18,000 people dead or missing and triggered the Fukushima nuclear crisis.

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Airborne camera demonstrated at robotics task force meeting

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (extreme L, front row) watches a demonstration flight of an airborne camera at his office in Tokyo on Sept. 11, 2014, during a meeting of a task force on realizing a robotics revolution. The machine filmed the sites of massive mudslides in Hiroshima, western Japan, in August that killed more than 70 people.

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Police look for missing tsunami victims in coastal zone

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - Police officers comb a coastal area in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, in search of more than 1,000 missing people in the northeastern Japanese prefecture on Aug. 11, 2014, three years and five months since the 2011 devastating earthquake and tsunami.

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Emperor, empress visit shopping center in disaster-hit area

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - Japanese Emperor Akihito (L) and Empress Michiko visit a makeshift shopping center in the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on July 23, 2014. The town was devastated by the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster that claimed more than 15,000 lives in northeastern Japan. (Pool photo)

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Fast Retailing aims for record 1 tril. yen in sales

TOKYO, Japan - Tadashi Yanai, president and chairman of Fast Retailing Co., holds a press conference at a Tokyo hotel on Oct. 11, 2012. Fast Retailing said the same day it aims to achieve record group sales of more than 1 trillion yen for the current business year ending in August 2013, on the back of robust growth of its Uniqlo casual clothing chain business in Asia.

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Shizuoka assembly votes down nuclear referendum bills

SHIZUOKA, Japan - Photo taken on Oct. 11, 2012 shows the plenary session of the Shizuoka prefectural assembly that voted down a revised bill calling for a referendum on whether to restart Chubu Electric Power Co.'s suspended Hamaoka nuclear power station. The original bill was tabled and voted down even after a civic group collected more than 160,000 signatures from people in the prefecture.

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Doctor to help Japan quake victims with 9/11 experience

NEW YORK, United States - Photo taken on Sept. 3, 2012, shows Robert Takahiro Yanagisawa, an associate professor at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, in front of the New York medical institute. Yanagisawa has treated those affected by the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks for more than 10 years and wants to use insights gained from the experience to treat Japan's quake victims, particularly in the area of mental health care.

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Search for remains of missing people

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Police officers search for the remains of people missing in the massive tsunami in a river in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 11, 2012, the first anniversary of the disaster. The magnitude 9.0 earthquake and ensuing tsunami left more than 15,800 people dead while more than 3,100 people remain listed as missing.

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Search for remains of missing people

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Police officers search for the remains of people missing in the massive tsunami in a river in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 11, 2012, the first anniversary of the disaster. The magnitude 9.0 earthquake and ensuing tsunami left more than 15,800 people dead while more than 3,100 people remain listed as missing.

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Amnesty move in Myanmar

YANGON, Myanmar - Reporters gather in front of the Insein prison in Yangon, Myanmar, on Oct. 11, 2011. State media reported the previous day more than 6,000 prisoners will be released starting on Oct. 11. Sources said some political detainees would be among those released.

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Half year after disaster

TOKYO, Japan - About 1,300 people join hands to surround the International Trade and Industry Ministry in Tokyo on Sept. 11, 2011, calling for an end to nuclear power on the six-month anniversary of the March 11 quake and tsunami, in a photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter. The disaster killed more than 15,700 people, while 4,000 remain missing, mainly in northeastern Japan. A nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, triggered by the natural disasters, continues.

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Half year after disaster

TOKYO, Japan - About 1,300 people join hands to surround the International Trade and Industry Ministry in Tokyo on Sept. 11, 2011, calling for an end to nuclear power on the six-month anniversary of the March 11 quake and tsunami. The disaster killed more than 15,700 people, while 4,000 remain missing, mainly in northeastern Japan. A nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, triggered by the natural disasters, continues.

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Half year after disaster

TOKYO, Japan - About 1,300 people join hands to surround the International Trade and Industry Ministry in Tokyo on Sept. 11, 2011, calling for an end to nuclear power on the six-month anniversary of the March 11 quake and tsunami, in a photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter. The disaster killed more than 15,700 people, while 4,000 remain missing, mainly in northeastern Japan. A nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, triggered by the natural disasters, continues.

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Half year after disaster

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - At the site where the main building of the Kongo Temple was swept away by a tsunami in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, a fire burns in a rite on Sept. 11, 2011, the six-month anniversary of the March 11 quake and tsunami. The ceremony was attended by Buddhist monks from six prefectures of the Tohoku area of northeastern Japan and some 250 other people. The March 11 disaster killed more than 15,700 people, while 4,000 remain missing, mainly in the Tohoku area.

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Half year after disaster

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - At the site where the main building of the Kongo Temple was swept away by a tsunami in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, a fire burns in a rite on Sept. 11, 2011, the six-month anniversary of the March 11 quake and tsunami. The ceremony was attended by Buddhist monks from six prefectures of the Tohoku area of northeastern Japan and some 250 other people. The March 11 disaster killed more than 15,700 people, while 4,000 remain missing, mainly in the Tohoku area.

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Half year after disaster

KESENNUMA, Japan - Parishioners offer a moment of silence at a site where their church was swept away by a tsunami in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on Sept. 11, 2011, at 2:46 p.m., the time a devastating quake occurred a half year ago. The quake and subsequent tsunami killed more than 15,700 people, while 4,000 remain missing, mainly in northeastern Japan.

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Half year after disaster

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - About 200 people call for an end to nuclear power during a demonstration in the city of Fukushima on Sept. 11, 2011, the six-month anniversary of the March 11 quake and tsunami. The disaster killed more than 15,700 people, while 4,000 remain missing, mainly in northeastern Japan. A nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, triggered by the natural disasters, continues.

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Half year after disaster

KESENNUMA, Japan - A police officer holds flowers at a site where a house was swept away by a tsunami in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, in picture taken on Sept. 11, 2011, the six-month anniversary of the March 11 quake and tsunami. The disaster killed more than 15,700 people, while 4,000 remain missing, mainly in northeastern Japan.

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Tsunami damage at designated evacuation site

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - Photo taken on April 11, 2011, in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, shows a city-run gymnasium designated as an evacuation site by the local government that has been devastated by the March 11 tsunami. It is believed that a number of people were swept away by the tsunami at designated evacuation sites as more than 100 such facilities were damaged by the tsunami triggered by a massive earthquake.

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Thai antigov't protesters mourn for victims

BANGKOK, Thailand - Antigovernment protesters carry coffins on April 11, 2010, of those killed in clashes between the protesters and security forces near Democracy Monument in the Thai capital Bangkok the previous day. The protesters held a memorial service near the site of the clashes in which more than 20 were killed and over 800 injured.

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Thai antigov't protesters mourn for victims

BANGKOK, Thailand - Family members of those killed in clashes between antigovernment protesters and security forces in the Thai capital Bangkok the previous day hold up photographs on April 11, 2010, of the victims during a memorial service held near Democracy Monument where the clashes occurred. More than 20 were killed and over 800 injured in Thailand's worst political violence in 18 years.

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Thai antigov't protesters mourn for victims

BANGKOK, Thailand - Family members of those killed in clashes between antigovernment protesters and security forces near Democracy Monument in the Thai capital Bangkok the previous day take part in a memorial service held April 11, 2010, near the clash site. More than 20 were killed and over 800 injured in Thailand's worst political violence in 18 years.

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19 killed, 825 injured in Thailand political violence

BANGKOK, Thailand - A Reuters spokesperson (R) reads out to reporters in Tokyo early on April 11, 2010, a statement by Reuters Editor-in-Chief David Schlesinger on the death of Hiroyuki Muramoto, a Japanese TV cameraman at Reuters. Muramoto, who Reuters said had worked for the news agency in Tokyo for more than 15 years, was shot to death during clashes between protesters and security forces in Bangkok on April 10.

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Nikkei nosedives more than 500 points on plunges in global stocks

TOKYO, Japan - The bulletin board of a brokerage in Tokyo shows the Nikkei index plunged 590.89 points as Tokyo stocks nosedived on Feb. 28 in tandem with a general fall in world stocks following a sell-off in the Shanghai stock market the previous day. The 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average shed more than 700 points at one point, more than the loss registered immediately after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, and closed 515.80 points, or 2.85 percent, lower at 17,604.12.