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Ex-Fukushima town mayor passes away at 74
Katsuya Endo, the former mayor of Tomioka in northeastern Japan who was forced to evacuate the town along with his fellow residents following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, died of gum cancer on...
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Town picked as candidate for radiation-tainted waste disposal
The government notified a town in Tochigi Prefecture on Wednesday that it has been picked as a candidate site for the final disposal of some of the radiation-tainted waste resulting from the 2011...
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Tochigi town favored as permanent radioactive waste storage site
The Ministry of the Environment is preparing to use state-owned land in the Tochigi Prefecture town of Shioya to permanently store radioactive waste from the Fukushima nuclear disaster, it has been...
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New York town gets entire summer's worth of rain
A record-setting rainstorm dumped more than a foot of water on parts of suburban New York in a matter of hours, turning highways into streams that stranded hundreds of drivers, flooded basements and...
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Volcano in Kyushu still smoking; town remains on alert
Smoke continues to billow out of a large, deep crack created by the volcanic eruption of Mount Shindake on Kuchinoerabujima island earlier this month.
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Police, protesters collide again in Missouri town
Police and protesters collided in the streets of Ferguson again late Monday, a day after the Missouri governor summoned the National Guard to help restore calm to the St. Louis suburb where Michael...
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Hokkaido town issued evacuation orders hours after fatal landslides
A local government in Hokkaido, where two people died on Aug. 24 after landslides triggered by torrential rain, issued evacuation orders some four hours after the disaster occurred as it did not have...
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Airstrikes and aid provide relief for Iraqi town
Aircraft from the United States, Australia, France and Britain dropped food and water to the beleaguered Iraqi town of Amirli, which has been under siege by Islamic State militants for nearly two...
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Buckle Up, Teens and Parents, Three Hands-On Toyota TeenDrive365 Events...
Parents can help steer their teenage drivers to safety by joining them during Toyota’s 11th year of offering free, driving skills programs. Toyota’s comprehensive TeenDrive365 platform gives families...
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Tsunami-stricken town harvests rice for first time in 4 years
As the Tohoku region enters harvest season, rice is being gathered here for the first time since the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster.Farmers were seen operating combines for harvesting rice stalks...
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Town-wide cosplay events organized across Japan
Many Japanese towns and villages are organizing town-wide events for costume players in an effort to attract tourists and revitalize their regional economies.
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Mitsubishi Dealership Teams Up With Cheltenham Town FC
A MITSUBISHI dealership has shown its support for Cheltenham Town FC by sponsoring the club’s dugouts.Cheltenham and Gloucester Mitsubishi is sponsoring the pitch-side stands used by the home and away...
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VIDEO : Welcome to Toyota Hybrid Town
More Toyota Hybrid cars per capita were sold in Hampshire than any county in the first quarter of 2014 and this got us thinking – what would your local area be like if everyone drove one?
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New facility in Saitama gives nuclear evacuees from Fukushima town a sense of...
A new facility here is helping maintain community ties between displaced residents from the Fukushima Prefecture town of Okuma, who evacuated from the town after the Fukushima nuclear plant meltdowns...
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Nagano town residents head over heels for sport of slacklining
A new sport that involves balancing and jumping on a tightrope-like belt is taking over this small northern Nagano town known for its quaint townscape and historical attractions.
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Miyagi town protesters block gov't survey of proposed radioactively...
Protesters here have continued to block an Environment Ministry team from conducting tests at a proposed final site in the town for disposing of waste contaminated with radioactive substances from the...
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Photographer turns to calligraphy in his favorite town
A Japanese photographer renowned for his decades of artistic shots, including portraits of pop divas Bjork and Lady Gaga, is now using a calligraphy brush to express his thoughts on life and death.
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Fukushima town evacuees work to connect fellow displaced citizens
On Oct. 18, reconstruction assistant Makie Tomikawa, 55, finished visiting 103 households spread across Japan, from the Kinki region to Hokuriku on the Sea of Japan. All these families were once part...
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Vacation houses hamper decontamination work in famous Tochigi Pref. town
Decontamination work at Nasu Highland, one of Japan's most famous cottage areas, is making little headway because many owners of vacation houses have been unreachable in the aftermath of the disaster...
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Tohoku field of dreams: Sanriku Railway forms baseball team in disaster-hit town
Sanriku Railway Co. and food giant Nestle Japan Ltd. announced Nov. 6 that they have teamed to form an amateur baseball club in Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, to invigorate the region still rebounding from...
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Tochigi town mayor rejects disposal site plan for Fukushima radioactive waste
The mayor of the Tochigi Prefecture town of Shioya rejected the central government's plan to build a final disposal facility for waste contaminated with radioactive substances from the crippled...
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Steller sea lion catches a few warm rays in Hokkaido town
Residents in one of the northeastern-most towns in Japan were greeted by a rare visitor from the wild.Locals found a Steller sea lion sitting in the middle of a road in a residential area about 250...
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VIDEO : Panasonic Fujisawa #Sustainable Smart Town Goes Into Full-Scale...
On 27th November, Fujisawa SST begins full-scale operation, following the completion of “Fujisawa SST SQUARE”, its core facility.
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Kyoto puts stop to makeover of old town house
Authorities in the city of Kyoto have acted to restore the facade of a traditional town house that was renovated without permission.The old-fashioned houses, shrines and temples that make up the...
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Charmed by bonsai, French man settles in producing town
Falling under the spell of Japanese bonsai miniature potted plants, a French man came to have relocated to the western Japanese prefecture of Kagawa, its major production area, and even started...
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Year's first day of work in 2011 quake-hit town
The mayor of a town in northeastern Japan hard hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami has pledged further efforts toward recovery at the start of the New Year.The town of Otsuchi in Iwate...
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Futaba town accepts interim storage facilities
The Japanese government's plan to build intermediate storage facilities for radioactive waste from the 2011 nuclear accident is set to move ahead, now that the candidate sites have accepted the plan.
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Town near crippled nuclear facility OKs plan to build storage facility for waste
A town that co-hosts the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant has agreed to the construction of an intermediate storage facility for radioactive debris generated by the 2011 earthquake and...
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Panasonic to make Fujisawa Sustainable Smart Town Operational with its...
Panasonic Corporation, its partner companies and the city of Fujisawa have worked together to make Fujisawa Sustainable Smart Town a reality. The city of Fujisawa in Kanagawa Prefecture is located...
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Saitama town offers safe haven for Girls' Day dolls without a home
Katsunobu Saito and his wife, Momoko, brought their 1-year-old daughter to the city office in Konosu, Saitama Prefecture, to look at a mountain of Hina Matsuri (Girls' Day) dolls. What they saw was a...
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Evacuated Fukushima town to remove ironic nuclear signboards
The town of Futaba, which has been evacuated since the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident, decided Monday to remove street signboards propagating the positive aspects of nuclear power.
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Train service resumes on final stretch of JR line in disaster-hit Miyagi town
After a four-year wait, trains are up and running the full length of the restored JR Ishinomaki Line, which was ravaged by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster.
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Young Thais practicing skiing in Hokkaido town for Olympics
Three young athletes from Thailand are practicing cross-country skiing in the town of Higashikawa in Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido, hoping to compete in the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in...
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Contaminated soil begins arriving at mid-term storage site in Fukushima town
The transfer of radioactively contaminated soil from a temporary holding area to a mid-term storage site began here on March 25.Similar work has been underway in neighboring Okuma since March 13, but...
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Evacuee from Fukushima town wants nuclear signboard kept in hometown
A 39-year-old man from this town has launched a signature-collecting campaign to keep a signboard here on which a slogan reads, "Nuclear power -- bright future energy," as a reminder of the 2011...
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Calbuco volcano erupts in Chile, and nearby town evacuated
The Calbuco volcano erupted Wednesday for the first time in more than 42 years, billowing a huge ash cloud over a sparsely populated, mountainous area in southern Chile.
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China's Xi greets Indian PM in ancestral home town with eye to trade ties
Chinese President Xi Jinping hosted Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his ancestral home town at the start of a three-day visit to China on Thursday as the two Asian giants work to boost economic...
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Search for missing in Colombian town hit by flood, avalanche
Rescuers searched for more bodies Tuesday and sought to aid the hundreds of survivors of a deadly flood and mudslide triggered by heavy rains that swept through a Colombian town, carrying away homes...
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Website shares photos, memories of evacuated Fukushima town
Once home to more than 6,000 people, the northeastern coastal town of Futaba today remains completely evacuated following the nuclear accident triggered by the March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake.
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Button shop separates historic Manseibashi district, Akihabara 'otaku' town
The world may be fascinated by the anime and manga "otaku" (geek) culture that has transformed Tokyo's Akihabara "Electric Town" district.But Takeo Oka wants to keep it from encroaching into his...
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Feudal warriors, kimono-clad town girls adorn proposed national treasure...
After 400 years, swarms are invading the main keep at Matsue Castle, this time increasing numbers of tourists attracted by its planned designation as a national treasure and volunteer "cosplayers" in...
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Tiny Japanese brewery links up with Italian town to make unique sake
Japan's smallest sake brewery is aiming to help rejuvenate a small Italian town by concocting a brew using the local rice.Shintani sake brewery uses rice produced in the city of Biella in the northern...
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Petitioners push to have pro-nuclear signs in evacuated town kept in place
A man whose slogan was adopted many years ago for a pro-nuclear sign in Futaba, Fukushima Prefecture, delivered a petition on June 8 signed by 6,502 people to have the signboard and others like it kept...
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Gunma town signs dinosaur research partnership with Mongolia
The birthplace of Japan's dinosaur fossil research has signed a partnership agreement with Mongolia, a hot place for dinosaur fossil discoveries.A partnership signing ceremony was held on June 13 in...
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Small town residents have mixed feelings on No. 1 beach rank
Many small-town residents would get a kick out of their communities being recognized like Waimanalo recently was when one of its beaches was ranked No. 1 in the U.S. But here, pride was mixed with...
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Gov't to lift evacuation order for Fukushima Prefecture town of Naraha
The on-the-spot headquarters of the government's nuclear disaster response task force said here on June 17 that it will lift an evacuation order for the entire town of Naraha in mid-August ahead of the...
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Fukushima town decides to preserve pro-nuclear signs as negative legacy
The government of what became a ghost town in the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear disaster has decided to preserve signboards featuring slogans boasting a bright future from nuclear energy.
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Hokkaido town promotes tourism with historical ship
The town of Kikonai in Hokkaido is promoting tourism by touting its relationship with the Kanrin Maru ship that crossed the Pacific to North America in 1860 but sank into waters near the town about a...
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Gov to delay lifting of evacuation order for Naraha town to Sept
The government said Monday it now plans to lift its evacuation order for the town of Naraha in Fukushima Prefecture on Sept. 5, rather than in mid-August as earlier proposed, after some residents...
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Calling all Bostonians: Nissan's "No Charge to Charge" program arrives in...
Nissan is launching its "No Charge to Charge" promotion for Boston-area Nissan LEAF buyers, providing two years complimentary public charging with the purchase of the all-electric car from...
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