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Maritime Self-Defense Force submarine "Jingei"

KOBE, Japan, March 8 Kyodo - A ceremony to award a Self-Defense Forces flag to a Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force submarine is held at a shipyard of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture in western Japan on March 8, 2024. The submarine, "Jingei," will be deployed to the MSDF Yokosuka Base in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, near Tokyo. (Kyodo)

New presidential palace in Indonesia

Video taken on Nov. 2, 2023, shows Indonesia's new presidential palace under construction in Sepaku, East Kalimantan. (Kyodo)

Protesters rally against Japan's increasing arms trade

STORY: Protesters rally against Japan's increasing arms trade DATELINE: March 16, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:30 LOCATION: Tokyo CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the rally 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Japanese): People attending the rally 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Japanese): KOJI SUGIHARA, Representative of the Network Against Japan Arms Trade 4. SOUNDBITE 3 (Japanese): KIMIE NAKAMURA, Member of the Chiba City Assembly STORYLINE: Hundreds of Japanese gathered outside the venue of a military equipment fair near Tokyo on Wednesday to protest Japan's move to intensify its arms trade. The three-day event, or DSEI Japan 2023, kicked off Wednesday at the convention center of Makuhari Messe in Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo. SOUNDBITE 1 (Japanese): Protestors "No war! No war preparation!" The crowd lay on the ground after the speech, in an attempt to oppose the trade of weapons in a country that boasts of "exclusive defense" using the "body language of death." SOUNDBITE 2 (Japanese): KOJI SUGIHARA, Representative of the Network A

4 Turkish soldiers killed in clash with Kurdish militants in Iraq

STORY: 4 Turkish soldiers killed in clash with Kurdish militants in Iraq DATELINE: Sept. 13, 2022 LENGTH: 00:00:53 LOCATION: Ankara CATEGORY: MILITARY SHOTLIST: 1. various of funeral of dead turkish soldiers 2. file of Turkish military operations in northern Iraq 3. various of Kurdish militants STORYLINE: Four Turkish soldiers were killed in a clash with militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in northern Iraq, the Turkish defense ministry said Monday. The clash took place on Sunday when Turkish security forces were conducting a search mission in a region where Türkiye was carrying out a cross-border operation, according to a ministry statement. Two soldiers were killed and four others injured in the clash with PKK militants in the Operation Claw-Lock zone, but two of the four injured later died at the hospital. Meanwhile, Vedat Aksac, who was a member of the PKK's "assassination team," and two other members of the group were killed in a Turkish operation in Khalifan, a town in the nort

Female GSDF member dispatched to NATO headquarters

Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Lt. Col. Chizu Kurita, the first Japanese official dispatched to the headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in Brussels, is seen in this photo. She was dispatched as the adviser to NATO Special Representative for Women, Peace and Security in the office of the Secretary General in December 2014 for approximately two years. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Kokubo barred from Games opening ceremony over dress code

VANCOUVER, Canada - Japanese snowboarder Kazuhiro Kokubo (R) and Seiko Hashimoto, the head of Japan's Vancouver Winter Olympic delegation, bow in apology at the start of a news conference in Vancouver on Feb. 12, 2010, after the delegation decided to bar him from the opening ceremony of the Games for flouting the Olympic dress code. The 21-year-old, who will still take part in the halfpipe events, was seen at Tokyo's Narita airport with his tie loosened and his shirt hanging out of his trousers, which he wore low down off his hips. (Kyodo)

Top Japanese moguls skier Uemura leaves for Vancouver

NARITA, Japan - Top Japanese moguls skier Aiko Uemura waves as she leaves Narita International Airport, east of Tokyo, on Feb. 4, 2010, for Vancouver to take part in the Winter Olympic Games. (Kyodo)

Funeral held for actor Morishige

TOKYO, Japan - A photo of renowned Japanese actor Hisaya Morishige, who died Nov. 10 aged 96, is displayed on the alter at his funeral held in Tokyo's Minato Ward on Nov. 20, 2009. Mourners, including former Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, attended the ceremony to pay their respects to Morishige, who was beloved by many Japanese and who was the first popular artist to win the Order of Culture. (Kyodo)

5 injured as American Airlines plane hit by turbulence

CHIBA, Japan - An American Airlines Boeing 777 from Dallas-Fort Worth airport sits on the tarmac at Narita International Airport, east of Tokyo, on Oct. 26, 2009, after it was hit by air turbulence over the Pacific Ocean about 70 kilometers southeast of the airport. Among 228 passengers and crew members aboard the plane, five passengers were injured and taken to a nearby hospital. (Kyodo)

Children drag jumbo jet at Narita airport

NARITA, Japan - About 170 children take part in dragging a 160-ton Boeing 747-400F cargo plane at Narita airport, east of Tokyo, on Sept. 22, 2009, in commemoration of Sky Day on Sept. 20. The children, joined later by their parents, managed to slowly move the plane. (Kyodo)

Part of Japan's defense force research team returns from Iraq

TOKYO, Japan - A member of a Japanese defense team sent to Iraq to examine the security situation there is surrounded by members of the press at Narita airport, northeast of Tokyo, on Nov. 27 after arriving from Iraq.

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