ILEA000028706: Small volcanic eruption observed on Mt. Aso

Test plant that started operation at Subaru

SUBARU (Shikokuchuo City, Ehime Prefecture) will make a full-scale entry into the business of paramylon nanofiber (PNF), which is made from paramylon, a unique ingredient of fruit fly. The company plans to build a production system aiming at an annual production of 1,000 tons in five to seven years. The company will use an indoor facility to stably cultivate a highly proliferative greenbug strain discovered by Professor Masahiro Hayashi of Miyazaki University, the University of Miyazaki. (Photo taken on May 14, 2020, location unknown, credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images)

NEC's vector-based simulated annealing machine

NEC is making a full-scale entry into the quantum computing domain. From April to June 2020, the company will launch a co-creation service to solve combinatorial optimization problems, including the use of annealing machines that employ the SX Aurora Tsubasa vector supercomputer. Prior to this, the company will establish a new 20-person Quantum Computing Promotion Office in January 2008 to promote the development of applications and technologies through joint demonstrations with customers. The company plans to invest about 1 billion yen in Canada's D-Wave Systems for collaboration. On the other hand, the quantum annealing system will be based on a domestically developed machine jointly developed with the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) and D-wave, which will be a collaborative partner. The joint development with AIST is currently verifying the operation of a basic quantum cell. Photo taken on December 20, 2019, credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

Sanix enters the business of selling disaster prevention-related equipment

In the future, the company will start full-scale operations by expanding sales channels and product lineups, including EC (electronic commerce) sites. The business to be launched this time was chosen in the course of internal discussions because of its high relevance to the existing business, and the company has been exploring market trends by repeatedly participating in exhibitions in various regions since 2018. Sanix expanded through the sale and installation of solar power generation systems, but the business environment worsened with the revision of the Feed-in Tariff (FIT) system for renewable energy. The company has been exploring a growth strategy by launching a new business while returning to its main business of termite control installation. The photo shows an exhibition that Sanix participated in in October 2019. (Photo taken on October 17, 2019, location unknown, credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images)

Residents invited to tunnel for housing huge telescope

GIFU, Japan - Invited residents in Hida, Gifu Prefecture, central Japan, walk about 1.5 kilometers along a 6-kilometer L-shaped tunnel intended to house the large-scale cryogenic gravitational wave telescope "KAGRA" some 200 meters below the surface of the Kamioka mining area near the Super-Kamiokande neutrino observatory on Oct. 26, 2014.

Mt. Ontake eruption deals blow to local tourism

NAGANO, Japan - JR Kisofukushima Station in Kiso, Nagano Prefecture, central Japan, at the foot of Mt. Ontake appears deserted on Oct. 7, 2014. The number of visitors has plummeted following the volcano's deadly eruption on Sept. 27.

Search efforts resume in Mt. Ontake eruption

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows Ground Self-Defense Force personnel and firefighters searching for survivors and retrieving bodies near the top of Mt. Ontake in central Japan on Oct. 1, 2014, four days after the 3,067-meter volcano erupted. The eruption has claimed dozens of victims.

Japan to cull livestock in no-go zone near Fukushima plant

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken on April 25, 2011, shows cows wandering without their owners within a designated no-entry zone in Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, near the crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Japan has decided to cull livestock and poultry in the no-entry zone within a 20-kilometer radius of the nuclear power plant due to difficulty in feeding them, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said May 12, 2011.

Japan sets no-entry zone around Fukushima plant

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - An ''off-limits'' warning shows on an electric signboard in photo taken at 12:03 a.m. on April 22, 2011, at a checkpoint in Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, about 20 kilometers from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station. The Japanese government imposed a no-entry zone within a 20-kilometer radius of the plant at midnight April 21 amid continued fears of radiation leaks.

Gov't to kill all livestock within 10 km of foot-and-mouth areas

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama addresses a meeting of a government task force to tackle the issue of an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in Miyazaki Prefecture at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on May 19, 2010. The government decided to slaughter all pigs and cows within a 10-kilometer radius of areas hit by foot-and-mouth disease in the prefecture. (Kyodo)

Gov't to kill all livestock within 10 km of disease-hit areas

TOKYO, Japan - Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Hirotaka Akamatsu briefs reporters on measures to deal with an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in Miyazaki Prefecture during a press conference at the ministry in Tokyo on May 19, 2010. Akamatsu said all pigs and cows within a 10-kilometer radius of areas hit by the disease will be slaughtered to prevent the spread of the outbreak. (Kyodo)

Small volcanic eruption observed on Mt. Aso

KUMAMOTO, Japan - A small-scale eruption is observed at 1,506-meter Mt. Aso in Kumamoto Prefecture on April 14. A local meteorological observatory issued an alert banning entry to within a 1-kilometer radius of the volcano's crater. (Kyodo)

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