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Tokyo stocks tumble

Tokyo stocks tumble

A financial data screen in Tokyo on Nov. 5, 2025, shows the 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average below 50,000 at the end of morning trading, with a loss of over 2,000 points from the previous day's close.

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Tokyo stocks tumble

Tokyo stocks tumble

A financial data screen in Tokyo on Nov. 5, 2025, shows the 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average below 50,000 at the end of morning trading, with a loss of over 2,000 points from the previous day's close.

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Giant ginkgo tree in fall foliage

Giant ginkgo tree in fall foliage

A giant ginkgo tree, over 1,000 years old, is in fall foliage at Sairen-ji temple in Namegata, Ibaraki Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Dec. 5, 2024.

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Giant ginkgo tree in fall foliage

Giant ginkgo tree in fall foliage

A giant ginkgo tree, over 1,000 years old, is in fall foliage at Sairen-ji temple in Namegata, Ibaraki Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Dec. 5, 2024.

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Giant ginkgo tree in fall foliage

Giant ginkgo tree in fall foliage

A giant ginkgo tree, over 1,000 years old, is in fall foliage at Sairen-ji temple in Namegata, Ibaraki Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Dec. 5, 2024.

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Indonesia: Mount Marapi Erupts, Widespread Ashfall Reported

Mount Marapi in West Sumatra erupted at 5:44 a.m. on Wednesday, November 6, producing ashfall over large areas, including Bukittinggi and surrounding regions.

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Tokyo stocks plunge

Tokyo stocks plunge

A pedestrian looks at a stock monitor in Tokyo's Marunouchi business district on Aug. 5, 2024, showing nearly all stocks plunging with the Nikkei Stock Average ending over 4,400 points lower than the previous day's close marking its largest-ever single-day point drop.

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Tokyo stocks debacle

Tokyo stocks debacle

Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi meets the press in Tokyo on Aug. 5, 2024, following the Nikkei Stock Average's plunge of over 4,400 points for its largest single-day point drop.

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Tokyo stocks debacle

Tokyo stocks debacle

Pedestrians look at a financial monitor in Tokyo's Marunouchi business district on Aug. 5, 2024, showing the Nikkei Stock Average ending over 4,400 points lower from the previous day's close for its largest single-day point drop.

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Keidanren sponsors meeting of Asian business leaders

Keidanren sponsors meeting of Asian business leaders

The Japan Business Federation, also known as Keidanren, sponsors a one-day "Asia Business Summit" in Tokyo on July 5, 2024, bringing together business leaders from over 10 economic groups in Asian countries such as China, India, Thailand and South Korea.

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Red panda at eastern Japan zoo

Red panda at eastern Japan zoo

Red panda Futa is seen in his hut at Chiba Zoological Park in Chiba, eastern Japan, on July 5, 2023, his 20th birthday. Futa is over 80 years old in human years.

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Red panda at eastern Japan zoo

Red panda at eastern Japan zoo

Red panda Futa is seen in his hut at Chiba Zoological Park in Chiba, eastern Japan, on July 5, 2023, his 20th birthday. Futa is over 80 years old in human years.

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Lantern festival opens in Taipei

Lantern festival opens in Taipei

An international lantern festival opens in Taipei on Feb. 5, 2023, with over 10 million expected to visit the event through Feb. 19. It is being held on a full scale for the first time in three years following the lifting of COVID-related restrictions.

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Lantern festival opens in Taipei

Lantern festival opens in Taipei

An international lantern festival opens in Taipei on Feb. 5, 2023, with over 10 million expected to visit the event through Feb. 19. It is being held on a full scale for the first time in three years following the lifting of COVID-related restrictions.

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Lantern festival opens in Taipei

Lantern festival opens in Taipei

An international lantern festival opens in Taipei on Feb. 5, 2023, with over 10 million expected to visit the event through Feb. 19. It is being held on a full scale for the first time in three years following the lifting of COVID-related restrictions.

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Lantern festival opens in Taipei

Lantern festival opens in Taipei

An international lantern festival opens in Taipei on Feb. 5, 2023, with over 10 million expected to visit the event through Feb. 19. It is being held on a full scale for the first time in three years following the lifting of COVID-related restrictions.

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Composer Samuragochi

Composer Samuragochi

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in 2008 shows Mamoru Samuragochi, a deaf composer of classical music works as well as scores for videogames, at his office in Yokohama, near Tokyo. Samuragochi had someone else write his pieces for over 10 years, including his best-known Hiroshima Symphony, a lawyer representing him said Feb. 5, 2014.

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Works by deaf composer written by someone else

Works by deaf composer written by someone else

TOKYO, Japan - In this file photo taken in 2011, Mamoru Samuragochi, a deaf composer of classical music, poses with a CD of Symphony No. 1 "Hiroshima". A lawyer for Samuragochi, dubbed a modern Beethoven by the media, said on Feb. 5, 2014, that the composer had someone else write his pieces for over 10 years, including "Hiroshima". Samuragochi is a Hiroshima native and the son of atomic bomb survivors.

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Composer Samuragochi

Composer Samuragochi

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Mamoru Samuragochi, a deaf composer of classical music works as well as scores for videogames. Samuragochi had someone else write his pieces for over 10 years, including his best-known Hiroshima Symphony, a lawyer representing him said Feb. 5, 2014.

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Cosplayers from around world in Nagoya

Cosplayers from around world in Nagoya

NAGOYA, Japan - Participants of the World Cosplay Summit 2012 pose wearing costumes of their favorite characters from Japanese animation, manga comics and video games in Nagoya on Aug. 5, 2012. Over 1,000 costume players from around the world took to the streets of Nagoya the same day to wrap up the 10th World Cosplay Summit in the central Japan city.

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Cosplayers from around world in Nagoya

Cosplayers from around world in Nagoya

NAGOYA, Japan - Participants of the World Cosplay Summit 2012 pose wearing costumes of their favorite characters from Japanese animation, manga comics and video games in Nagoya on Aug. 5, 2012. Over 1,000 costume players from around the world took to the streets of Nagoya the same day to wrap up the 10th World Cosplay Summit in the central Japan city.

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Landmines left in Tripoli

Landmines left in Tripoli

TRIPOLI, Libya - A man walks past a pile of landmines (L back) deserted near a residential area in southern Tripoli on Sept. 5, 2011. A total of over 10,000 preplanted landmines that are believed to have been left behind by Muammar Gaddafi's forces have been discovered there, according to a member of Libyan opposition group the National Transitional Council.

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Minister visits area hit by heavy snow

Minister visits area hit by heavy snow

UONUMA, Japan - Disaster prevention minister Ryu Matsumoto (3rd from L) inspects an area hit by heavy snow in Uonuma, Niigata Prefecture, on Feb. 5, 2011. The area recorded over 4 meters of accumulated snow in the winter season.

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MQ9 drone to be deployed at MSDF air base in Kagoshima

MQ9 drone to be deployed at MSDF air base in Kagoshima

The U.S. military conducts a demonstration flight of an MQ9 unmanned aerial vehicle at the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force's air base in the Kagoshima Prefecture city of Kanoya, southwestern Japan, on Nov. 5, 2022, ahead of the drone's temporary deployment there later in November. The U.S. military plans to deploy a total of eight MQ9s at the MSDF base over one year.

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MQ9 drone to be deployed at MSDF air base in Kagoshima

MQ9 drone to be deployed at MSDF air base in Kagoshima

The U.S. military conducts a demonstration flight of an MQ9 unmanned aerial vehicle at the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force's air base in the Kagoshima Prefecture city of Kanoya, southwestern Japan, on Nov. 5, 2022, ahead of the drone's temporary deployment there later in November. The U.S. military plans to deploy a total of eight MQ9s at the MSDF base over one year.

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MQ9 drone to be deployed at MSDF air base in Kagoshima

MQ9 drone to be deployed at MSDF air base in Kagoshima

The U.S. military conducts a demonstration flight of an MQ9 unmanned aerial vehicle at the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force's air base in the Kagoshima Prefecture city of Kanoya, southwestern Japan, on Nov. 5, 2022, ahead of the drone's temporary deployment there later in November. The U.S. military plans to deploy a total of eight MQ9s at the MSDF base over one year.

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