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JAPAN-TOKYO-YEAREND FAIR

(231219) -- TOKYO, Dec. 19, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Decorations to celebrate the new year are seen on the shops of the Nakamise commercial street in Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan, Dec. 19, 2023. The yearend event, also named Hagoita Fair, is held at Asakusa, Tokyo from Dec. 17 to 19. The fair has a history of more than 100 years. (Xinhua/Zhang Xiaoyu)

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JAPAN-TOKYO-YEAREND FAIR

(231219) -- TOKYO, Dec. 19, 2023 (Xinhua) -- People visit a yearend fair in Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan, Dec. 19, 2023. The yearend event, also named Hagoita Fair, is held at Asakusa, Tokyo from Dec. 17 to 19. The fair has a history of more than 100 years. (Xinhua/Zhang Xiaoyu)

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JAPAN-TOKYO-YEAREND FAIR

(231219) -- TOKYO, Dec. 19, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Decorations to celebrate the new year are seen at a yearend fair in Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan, Dec. 19, 2023. The yearend event, also named Hagoita Fair, is held at Asakusa, Tokyo from Dec. 17 to 19. The fair has a history of more than 100 years. (Xinhua/Zhang Xiaoyu)

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JAPAN-TOKYO-YEAREND FAIR

(231219) -- TOKYO, Dec. 19, 2023 (Xinhua) -- People visit a yearend fair in Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan, Dec. 19, 2023. The yearend event, also named Hagoita Fair, is held at Asakusa, Tokyo from Dec. 17 to 19. The fair has a history of more than 100 years. (Xinhua/Zhang Xiaoyu)

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JAPAN-TOKYO-YEAREND FAIR

(231219) -- TOKYO, Dec. 19, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Decorations to celebrate the new year are seen at a yearend fair in Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan, Dec. 19, 2023. The yearend event, also named Hagoita Fair, is held at Asakusa, Tokyo from Dec. 17 to 19. The fair has a history of more than 100 years. (Xinhua/Zhang Xiaoyu)

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JAPAN-TOKYO-YEAREND FAIR

(231219) -- TOKYO, Dec. 19, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Decorations to celebrate the new year are seen at the Nakamise commercial street in Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan, Dec. 19, 2023. The yearend event, also named Hagoita Fair, is held at Asakusa, Tokyo from Dec. 17 to 19. The fair has a history of more than 100 years. (Xinhua/Zhang Xiaoyu)

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France's Champs-Elysees Avenue illuminated for yearend holidays

STORY: France's Champs-Elysees Avenue illuminated for yearend holidays SHOOTING TIME: Nov. 19, 2023 DATELINE: Nov. 21, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:18 LOCATION: Paris CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of the event 2. SOUNDBITE (French): MARC-ANTOINE JAMET, President of the committee of Champs-Elysees STORYLINE: The illumination on the Champs-Elysees Avenue in Paris started from Sunday. Thousands of visitors attended this ceremony. With Christmas just around the corner, 400 Christmas trees were illuminated from 5 p.m. to midnight. SOUNDBITE (French): MARC-ANTOINE JAMET, President of the committee of Champs-Elysees "Gathering together, seeing that night is falling, celebrating the lights, and waiting for the sun to come back have always been a great moment of hope and enthusiasm for cultures. That's what we're doing on the Champs-Elysees, inspiring enthusiasm, hoping for unity." The illumination will last until Jan. 7, 2024. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Paris. (XHTV)

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Narita airport full of tourists from abroad

NARITA, Japan - Tourists swarm the arrival lobby at Narita airport east of Tokyo during the yearend and New Year holiday season as seen in this file photo taken on Dec. 25, 2014.

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People queue to buy lottery tickets at 'lucky' booth

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - People wait in line to buy lottery tickets at the Kotoshiba Chance Center in Ube, Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan, as seen in this file photo taken in November 2014. The center sold a first prize-winning ticket for the "Yearend Jumbo Lottery" in three of the last four years.

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Nintendo projects 25 bil. yen loss for FY 2013

OSAKA, Japan - Satoru Iwata, president of Nintendo Co., holds a press conference in Osaka on Jan. 17, 2014. Iwata said Nintendo expects to post a net loss of 25 billion yen for the year through March 2014, instead of an earlier projected profit of 55 billion yen, on weaker-than-expected game console and software sales in the yearend shopping season.

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Yearend shopping season in NYC

NEW YORK, United States - A department store in New York is crowded with shoppers on Nov. 28, 2013, Thanksgiving Day.

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Retro train on N.Y. subway

NEW YORK, United States - Photo taken Dec. 1, 2013, shows the inside of a train made in the 1930s, in a yearend event to operate the retro train on the New York subway.

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Retro train on N.Y. subway

NEW YORK, United States - Photo taken Dec. 1, 2013, shows a train made in the 1930s in a yearend event to operate the retro train on the New York subway.

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Yearend shopping season

NEW YORK, United States - A Toys"R"Us store in central New York is crowded with shoppers on Nov. 28, 2013, Thanksgiving Day.

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Sojitz begins shipment of farmed bluefin tuna

SASEBO, Japan - Photo taken on Dec. 8, 2010, in Matsuura, Nagasaki Prefecture, shows Sojitz Tuna Farm Takashima Co.'s first shipment of farmed bluefin tuna ahead of the high-demand yearend and new-year season. Major trading house Sojitz Corp., which wholly owns Sojitz tuna farm, is the first Japanese trading company to enter into tuna farming, while an international commission decided to slightly reduce the bluefin tuna fishing quota for 2011.

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10,000-yen price cut for Sony's PSPgo

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows the ''PSPgo,'' an Internet-use-only PlayStation Portable game console. On Oct. 25, 2010, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. announced a 10,000 yen cut in the product's price to 16,800 yen in a bid to shore up its sluggish sales ahead of the yearend sales campaign.

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Mitsukoshi already starts yearend sales campaign

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsukoshi department store employees pump their fists during a ceremony to begin the Oseibo yearend gift sales campaign at Mitsukoshi's main store in Tokyo's Nihombashi district on Oct. 12, 2010. Takashimaya, another major department store chain, also launched a similar campaign the same day.

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Mitsukoshi already starts yearend sales campaign

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsukoshi department store employees pump their fists during a ceremony to begin the Oseibo yearend gift sales campaign at Mitsukoshi's main store in Tokyo's Nihombashi district on Oct. 12, 2010. Takashimaya, another major department store chain, also launched a similar campaign the same day.

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Lao premier calls on Japan to conclude investment deal by yearend

TOKYO, Japan - Laotian Prime Minister Bouasone Boughavanh speaks at a press conference at a Tokyo hotel on May 15. He expressed willingness to try to conclude an investment agreement with Japan by the yearend to motivate Japanese businesses to step up investments in his country.

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(1)Matsui returns home

NARITA, Japan - New York Yankees outfielder Hideki Matsui walks into a hotel on arriving at Narita airport on Nov. 26 to spend his yearend and New Year holidays at his home in Toyama Prefecture. (MLB)

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(2)Matsui returns home

NARITA, Japan - New York Yankees outfielder Hideki Matsui talks with reporters at a hotel on arriving at Narita airport on Nov. 26 to spend his yearend and New Year holidays at his home in Toyama Prefecture. (MLB)

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Sapporo's ''White Illumination'' starts

SAPPORO, Japan - Tourists and citizens take to Odori Koen Park in Sapporo, central Hokkaido, on Nov. 19 as some 370,000 lamps light up trees and other objects in the annual Christmas and yearend illumination.

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Japan, Europe may reach tie-up accord on rocket launch by yearend

TOKYO, Japan - Jean-Yves Le Gall, chief executive officer of European satellite launch consortium Arianespace, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on April 20. Le Gall said the Japanese government and the European Space Agency (ESA) may reach an agreement by the end of this year to mutually support the launch of their major rockets.

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Nachi Falls lit up

NACHI-KATSUURA, Japan - The Nachi Falls and the three-storied pagoda of Seigantoji Temple located nearby are illuminated on a trial basis Dec. 17 in preparation for the yearend and New Year's Day holidays. The sacred falls of the Kumano Nachi Shrine attracts many ascetics on the New Year's Day.

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Sendai citizens enjoy illuminated trees

SENDAI, Japan - Citizens and tourists enjoy the annual Christmas and yearend illuminations in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on Dec. 12 as 600,000 electric bulbs put to 190 zelkova trees along the city's thoroughfares are turned on by Mayor Hajimu Fujii.

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6 taikonauts onboard China's space station by yearend: delegate to CPC national congress

STORY: 6 taikonauts onboard China's space station by yearend: delegate to CPC national congress DATELINE: Oct. 22, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:25 LOCATION: Beijing CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the interview STORYLINE: China will launch the Shenzhou-15 manned spaceship at the end of this year, by which six astronauts will be working at China's space station at the same time, said a delegate to the 20th CPC National Congress during an interview in Beijing. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Beijing. (XHTV)

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Sendai citizens enjoy illuminated trees

SENDAI, Japan - Citizens and tourists enjoy the annual Christmas and yearend illuminations in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on Dec. 12 as 600,000 electric bulbs put to 190 zelkova trees along the city's thoroughfares are turned on by Mayor Hajimu Fujii.

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Sapporo's ''White Illumination'' starts

SAPPORO, Japan - Tourists and citizens take to Odori Koen Park in Sapporo, central Hokkaido, on Nov. 19 as some 370,000 lamps light up trees and other objects in the annual Christmas and yearend illumination. (Kyodo)

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Lao premier calls on Japan to conclude investment deal by yearen

TOKYO, Japan - Laotian Prime Minister Bouasone Boughavanh speaks at a press conference at a Tokyo hotel on May 15. He expressed willingness to try to conclude an investment agreement with Japan by the yearend to motivate Japanese businesses to step up investments in his country. (Kyodo)

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Nachi Falls lit up

NACHI-KATSUURA, Japan - The Nachi Falls and the three-storied pagoda of Seigantoji Temple located nearby are illuminated on a trial basis Dec. 17 in preparation for the yearend and New Year's Day holidays. The sacred falls of the Kumano Nachi Shrine attracts many ascetics on the New Year's Day. (Kyodo)

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Holidaymakers heading back to Tokyo

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a traffic jam on the Tokyo-bound lane of the Tomei Expressway on Jan. 2, 2016, as holidaymakers started returning home after spending their yearend and New Year holidays in their hometowns. Mt Fuji is visible in the distance. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Holidaymakers heading back to Tokyo

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a traffic jam on the Tokyo-bound lane of the Tomei Expressway on Jan. 2, 2016, as holidaymakers started returning home after spending their yearend and New Year holidays in their hometowns. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Statues of "yokai" monsters cleaned ahead of New Year

Local people wipe the dirt off the statue of Kitaro, a boy "yokai" monster character, and Medama-oyaji, an eye-ball man who is Kitaro's father, on his palm, alongside the "Mizuki Shigeru Road" shopping street in Sakaiminato, western Japan, on Dec. 29, 2015. Local people annually wipe the dirt off more than 150 bronze statues of characters from the late cartoonist Mizuki's horror comic series "Gegege no Kitaro" at the yearend to express their gratitude for the statues that draw an annual 2 million tourists to the town. The cartoonist, who hailed from Sakaiminato, died in November. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Statues of "yokai" monsters cleaned ahead of New Year

Local people wipe the dirt off the statues of Shigeru Mizuki (C) drawing cartoons at his desk, being watched by Kitaro (R), a boy "yokai" monster character, and a rat man named Nezumi Otoko (L), alongside the "Mizuki Shigeru Road" shopping street in Sakaiminato, western Japan, on Dec. 29, 2015. Local people annually wipe the dirt off more than 150 bronze statues of characters from the late cartoonist's horror comic series "Gegege no Kitaro" at the yearend to express their gratitude for the statues that draw an annual 2 million tourists to the town. Mizuki, who hailed from Sakaiminato, died in November. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Local superhero gives away mackerels to eliminate drunk driving

Bakushin Barisugor, a superhero of Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan, hands a driver a frozen mackerel as a gift and asks for cooperation to eliminate drunk driving ahead of the yearend and New Year party season, in the prefectural capital of Fukuoka on Dec. 11, 2015. The event was organized by the local police station, which prepared 250 frozen mackerels to give away to drivers for the cause. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Suntory eyes doubling sales of high-end beer

Suntory Beer Ltd. President Tetsu Mizutani (C) hands a customer a bottle of Premium Malts Master's Dream beer for tasting at a department store's yearend gift corner in Osaka, western Japan, on Nov. 26, 2015. The high-end beer brand is so popular that the company aims to double its sales within a few years from the 2015 level. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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(2)Matsui returns home

NARITA, Japan - New York Yankees outfielder Hideki Matsui talks with reporters at a hotel on arriving at Narita airport on Nov. 26 to spend his yearend and New Year holidays at his home in Toyama Prefecture. (MLB) (Kyodo)

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(1)Matsui returns home

NARITA, Japan - New York Yankees outfielder Hideki Matsui walks into a hotel on arriving at Narita airport on Nov. 26 to spend his yearend and New Year holidays at his home in Toyama Prefecture. (MLB) (Kyodo)

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Mitsukoshi already starts yearend sales campaign

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsukoshi department store employees pump their fists during a ceremony to begin the Oseibo yearend gift sales campaign at Mitsukoshi's main store in Tokyo's Nihombashi district on Oct. 12, 2010. Takashimaya, another major department store chain, also launched a similar campaign the same day. (Kyodo)

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Mitsukoshi already starts yearend sales campaign

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsukoshi department store employees pump their fists during a ceremony to begin the Oseibo yearend gift sales campaign at Mitsukoshi's main store in Tokyo's Nihombashi district on Oct. 12, 2010. Takashimaya, another major department store chain, also launched a similar campaign the same day. (Kyodo)

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Narita airport full of tourists from abroad

NARITA, Japan - Tourists swarm the arrival lobby at Narita airport east of Tokyo during the yearend and New Year holiday season as seen in this file photo taken on Dec. 25, 2014. (Kyodo)

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People queue to buy lottery tickets at 'lucky' booth

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - People wait in line to buy lottery tickets at the Kotoshiba Chance Center in Ube, Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan, as seen in this file photo taken in November 2014. The center sold a first prize-winning ticket for the "Yearend Jumbo Lottery" in three of the last four years. (Kyodo)

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Sojitz begins shipment of farmed bluefin tuna

SASEBO, Japan - Photo taken on Dec. 8, 2010, in Matsuura, Nagasaki Prefecture, shows Sojitz Tuna Farm Takashima Co.'s first shipment of farmed bluefin tuna ahead of the high-demand yearend and new-year season. Major trading house Sojitz Corp., which wholly owns Sojitz tuna farm, is the first Japanese trading company to enter into tuna farming, while an international commission decided to slightly reduce the bluefin tuna fishing quota for 2011. (Kyodo)

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10,000-yen price cut for Sony's PSPgo

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows the ''PSPgo,'' an Internet-use-only PlayStation Portable game console. On Oct. 25, 2010, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. announced a 10,000 yen cut in the product's price to 16,800 yen in a bid to shore up its sluggish sales ahead of the yearend sales campaign. (Kyodo)

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Yearend special cleaning using bamboo at temple

Buddhist monks and staff members of Shinshoji Temple in the central Japan city of Narita, near Tokyo, use 10-meter-long bamboo tree trunks with leaves to remove dust from high places during the annual "susuharai" special cleanup on Dec. 13, 2016, before the start of a new year. Around 3 million people are expected to visit the famous temple during the first three days of 2017 to make wishes for the new year. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Yearend special cleaning using bamboo at temple

Buddhist monks and staff members of Shinshoji Temple in the central Japan city of Narita, near Tokyo, use 10-meter-long bamboo tree trunks with leaves to remove dust from high places during the annual "susuharai" special cleanup on Dec. 13, 2016, before the start of a new year. Around 3 million people are expected to visit the famous temple during the first three days of 2017 to make wishes for the new year. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo