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Store's 222-meter pearl necklace a record, unpriced
Ōsaka :: Japan | 1 month ago
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A 222-meter-long pearl necklace, certified by Guinness World Records as the world's longest, is on display at a Hanshin department store in the city of Osaka. The necklace, which weighs about 20 kg and is comprised of 28,000 pieces of 8 mm pearls,
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J-Power starts work on Ehime wind farm
Uwajima :: Japan | 8 months ago
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The wind farm in Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture, will use nine turbines made by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd., the firm said in a statement...J-Power has 18 operating wind farms across the country and expects the new plant to start in September 2014,
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NISA to ask four prefectures to relocate nuclear emergency centers farther away from atomic plants
Ōsaka :: Japan | 11 months ago
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Kyodo The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency will ask four prefectures to relocate emergency control centers currently within 5 km of nuclear power plants to locations farther away, sources said Friday...March 2011 meltdown crisis due to
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Japanese amateur aims for second consecutive Augusta win
Yokohama :: Japan | 1 year ago
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Last year, the college student won the Silver Cup, given to the lowest-scoring amateur at Augusta. This year, Matsuyama shot an even par 72 on Saturday, leaving him at one over par for 54 holes and giving him a six-stroke lead over his nearest
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Japan remains the best choice
Mishima :: Japan | over 1 year ago
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I have observed the changes over 25 years and understand the pessimism. Everything considered, Japan is the best country in the world, it has the best future, and I intend to live here full time again...Everywhere you look, economies are failing,
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Ehime Maru tragedy marked
Ōsaka :: Japan | over 1 year ago
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A fisheries training school in Ehime Prefecture held a memorial service Friday to mark the 11th anniversary of a collision between its training boat and a U.S. nuclear submarine that killed nine people off Hawaii. Participants in the ceremony at
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Ehime hospital accidentally kills man by blocking breathing hole
Matsuyama :: Japan | over 1 year ago
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A patient in his 70s suffocated at Ehime Prefectural Central Hospital on Saturday after a nurse mistakenly stuck an airtight sheet over the breathing hole in his throat, the hospital said Sunday. Police said they are treating the incident as a case
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Kan resumes Shikoku pilgrimage
Imabari :: Japan | over 1 year ago
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Staff writer Naoto Kan, who stepped down as prime minister last month, has resumed his pilgrimage to Shikoku's 88 famed temples, arriving at the 54th, Enmeiji, in Imabari, Ehime Prefecture, on Monday. Kan first started the traditional pilgrimage in
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Crime › Woman arrested for beating 94-year-old father to death with iron
Matsuyama :: Japan | almost 2 years ago
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Police said Monday they have arrested a 61-year-old woman for allegedly beating her 94-year-old father to death with an iron at his home in Matsuyama City, Ehime Prefecture, on Sunday. According to Ehime prefectural police, Yasuko Arimitsuwho lived
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Ehime hospital in organ trade raid
Matsuyama :: Japan | almost 2 years ago
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Police raided a hospital in Ehime Prefecture on Tuesday in connection with suspected organ trading in which a doctor, a gangster and three other people have been arrested. It is the second time Uwajima Tokushukai Hospital has been searched over organ
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