A Japanese boy looks at a 10 cm (4 inch) model of Japan's rocket-powered boy Astro Boy encrusted with diamonds, rubies and emeralds worth about 100 million yen (£415,000) displayed at a Tokyo department store April 7, 2003.Artist Osamu Tezuka, considered the father of Japan's animation or "manga" industry, created Astro Boy as a serialised comic strip in 1951 and set his character's birthday far in the future-April 7, 2003.
A shark-shaped model inlayed with 4,276 diamonds is displayed at a shopping mall in Shijiazhuang, north China's Hebei province in this picture taken on May 24, 2005. The 26 cm (10 inches) long model is made of 18K platinum and worth 18.8 million yuan (about £1.15 million).
A model demonstrates the use of Umo Inc.'s 24-carat gold leaf "Gold Facial Treatment" at the Beautyworld Japan 2007 trade fair in Tokyo. The treatment costs 30,000 yen (£130).
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