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Exterior view of Yodoyabashi Station One

Yodoyabashi Station One, a 150-meter-high mixed-use building in Yodoyabashi, Osaka, is completed.=June 25,2025,Osaka

Parkour traceurs challenge 999-step course in China's Tianmen Mountain

STORY: Parkour traceurs challenge 999-step course in China's Tianmen Mountain DATELINE: July 24, 2023 LENGTH: 00:00:50 LOCATION: ZHANGJIAJIE, China CATEGORY: SPORTS SHOTLIST: 1. various of parkour competitors STORYLINE: More than 80 parkour traceurs home and abroad competed at Tianmen Mountain National Forest Park in Zhangjiajie, central China's Hunan Province in a three-day parkour competition, which concluded on Sunday. The 999-step staircase leading up to the scenic area's landmark Tianmen Cave is a famous parkour course. Competitors were required to complete a sequence of jumps and flips down a nearly 300-meter-long slope with a 150-meter vertical drop from the top of the 999-step staircase. A total of 108 obstacles were placed along the steps, putting the competitors' stamina, skills and precision under test. Chinese competitor Zhou Mianwei won the championship of individual speed run with a record time of 1'35"505. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Zhangjiajie, China. (XHTV)

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A glimpse of prize-winning Huayudong Bridge in SW China

STORY: A glimpse of prize-winning Huayudong Bridge in SW China DATELINE: Feb. 10, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:11 LOCATION: GUIYANG, China CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Huayudong Bridge 2. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): YANG JIAN, Chief engineer of Guizhou Transportation Planning Survey and Design Academy Co. Ltd. STORYLINE: Huayudong Bridge, located in China's Guiyang, is a mega bridge spanning across the Red Maple Lake National Wetland Park and a drinking water source conservation zone. In 2019, to increase the bridge's traffic capacity, the original bridge with a 150-meter main span was dismantled and replaced with a new one with a 180-meter main span. In April 2022, the Huayudong Bridge was announced a winner of the Gustav Lindenthal Medal, the world's most prestigious bridge construction award. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): YANG JIAN, Chief engineer of Guizhou Transportation Planning Survey and Design Academy Co. Ltd. "There were serious environmental challenges during the demolition and reconstruction of the Huayu

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Night view, 3D image projection on Tokyo Tower start

TOKYO, Japan - An event to enjoy both Tokyo's night landscape and 3D images projected on the large semi-transparent window of Tokyo Tower's 150-meter-high main observatory starts on Dec. 15, 2014, for a run through February 2015.

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Multilingual guide robot at Tokyo Tower

TOKYO, Japan - Nippon Television City Corp., the operator of Tokyo Tower, inaugurates a new robot capable of providing information in Japanese, English, Chinese and Korean on the tower's observation deck on Aug. 1, 2012. The 160-centimeter-tall barrel shaped robot, which weighs 200 kilograms, does the rounds of the second floor of the 150-meter-high deck and tells visitors what they can see below.

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Tokyo Sky Tree

TOKYO, Japan - Reporters are given a tour of a 150-meter-high section of the Tokyo Sky Tree on July 4, 2010. The TV tower in Tokyo's Sumida Ward will stand 634 meters tall and so far 398 meters has been completed.

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Japan's snowboarders test Olympic course

TURIN, Italy - Japan's Melo Imai practices on the Bardonecchia halfpipe track on Feb. 7. Japanese halfpipe snowboarders got the feel of Turin's extended 150-meter Olympic course with an official practice session head of the upcoming Winter Games.

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Japan's snowboarders test Olympic course

TURIN, Italy - Domu Narita, one of Japanese medal hopefuls, practices on the Bardonecchia halfpipe track on Feb. 7. Japanese halfpipe snowboarders got the feel of Turin's extended 150-meter Olympic course with an official practice session head of the upcoming Winter Games.

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Japan's snowboarders test Olympic course

TURIN, Italy - Japan's Soko Yamaoka, the overall women's World Cup champion in the 2003-2004 season, practices on the Bardonecchia halfpipe track on Feb. 7. Japanese halfpipe snowboarders got the feel of Turin's extended 150-meter Olympic course with an official practice session head of the upcoming Winter Games.

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(1)Nissan to move most HQ functions to Yokohama

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Nissan Motor Co. President Carlos Ghosn (R) receives a certificate from Yokohama Mayor Hiroshi Nakada approving relocation of most of the company's functions and personnel at its head office in Tokyo to a new headquarters in Yokohama by 2010. Nissan plans to build a 150-meter-high new head office building at Yokohama's Minato-Mirai waterfront area.

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Narita wins gold medal with Paralympic world record

SYDNEY, Australia - Japanese swimmer Mayumi Narita waves at fans after winning gold medal in the women's 150-meter individual medley at the Sydney Paralympics on Oct. 20, with a world record time of 2 minutes, 53.73 seconds.

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Fukushima offshore wind farm experiment

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on the coast of Awajishima Island in western Japan on July 2, 2016, shows a marine wind turbine under tow. The 150-meter turbine, which was assembled near the island, will be transferred to waters off Fukushima, northeastern Japan, for an experimental study on offshore wind generation. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fukushima offshore wind farm experiment

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on the coast of Awajishima Island in western Japan on July 2, 2016, shows a marine wind turbine under tow. The 150-meter turbine, which was assembled near the island, will be transferred to waters off Fukushima, northeastern Japan, for an experimental study on offshore wind generation. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tokyo Sky Tree

TOKYO, Japan - Reporters are given a tour of a 150-meter-high section of the Tokyo Sky Tree on July 4, 2010. The TV tower in Tokyo's Sumida Ward will stand 634 meters tall and so far 398 meters has been completed. (Kyodo)

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Japan's snowboarders test Olympic course

TURIN, Italy - Japan's Soko Yamaoka, the overall women's World Cup champion in the 2003-2004 season, practices on the Bardonecchia halfpipe track on Feb. 7. Japanese halfpipe snowboarders got the feel of Turin's extended 150-meter Olympic course with an official practice session head of the upcoming Winter Games. (Kyodo)

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Japan's snowboarders test Olympic course

TURIN, Italy - Domu Narita, one of Japanese medal hopefuls, practices on the Bardonecchia halfpipe track on Feb. 7. Japanese halfpipe snowboarders got the feel of Turin's extended 150-meter Olympic course with an official practice session head of the upcoming Winter Games. (Kyodo)

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Japan's snowboarders test Olympic course

TURIN, Italy - Japan's Melo Imai practices on the Bardonecchia halfpipe track on Feb. 7. Japanese halfpipe snowboarders got the feel of Turin's extended 150-meter Olympic course with an official practice session head of the upcoming Winter Games. (Kyodo)

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Night view, 3D image projection on Tokyo Tower start

TOKYO, Japan - An event to enjoy both Tokyo's night landscape and 3D images projected on the large semi-transparent window of Tokyo Tower's 150-meter-high main observatory starts on Dec. 15, 2014, for a run through February 2015. (Kyodo)

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(1)Nissan to move most HQ functions to Yokohama

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Nissan Motor Co. President Carlos Ghosn (R) receives a certificate from Yokohama Mayor Hiroshi Nakada approving relocation of most of the company's functions and personnel at its head office in Tokyo to a new headquarters in Yokohama by 2010. Nissan plans to build a 150-meter-high new head office building at Yokohama's Minato-Mirai waterfront area. (Kyodo)

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Narita wins gold medal with Paralympic world record

SYDNEY, Australia - Japanese swimmer Mayumi Narita waves at fans after winning gold medal in the women's 150-meter individual medley at the Sydney Paralympics on Oct. 20, with a world record time of 2 minutes, 53.73 seconds.