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Flying car tested in N China

STORY: Flying car tested in N China SHOOTING TIME: June 16, 2024 DATELINE: June 19, 2024 LENGTH: 00:00:15 LOCATION: LANGFANG, China CATEGORY: TECHNOLOGY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the flying car STORYLINE: The XPeng X2 flying car successfully completed on Sunday a test flight in Langfang City, north China's Hebei Province. This flying car can cruise for approximately 25 minutes. It has an empty weight of 680 kilograms and a maximum payload of 160 kilograms. The vehicle is designed for altitudes of up to 1,000 m and flight speeds of up to 130 km/h. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Langfang, China. (XHTV)

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Sea urchins return to Sea of Japan coastal waters

FUKUI, Japan - A diver is all smiles with a bagful of sea urchins she gathered after three hours of work on Aug. 6, the last day of the urchin-gathering season off the coast of Fukui Prefecture. Fishermen in the area say the volume of sea urchins caught off the Fukui coast have more or less returned to normal 10 years after the Russian oil tanker Nakhodka carrying 20,000 kiloliters of fuel oil broke up in stormy weather in the Sea of Japan and up to 6,200 kiloliters of oil washed up in the coasts of 10 prefectures. At one point, the volume of sea urchins gathered by a local fishermen's cooperative in Fukui dropped to 19 kilograms, compared with an annual average of 300 kg before the spill, fishermen say.

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300 mil. yen Christmas tree featuring "Frozen" unveiled

TOKYO, Japan - A 300 million yen Christmas tree featuring characters from the Disney animation film "Frozen" is unveiled on Nov. 19, 2014, at a jewelry shop, Ginza Tanaka, in Tokyo's Ginza shopping district. The 2.6-meter tree contains around 31 kilograms of pure platinum.

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300 mil. yen Christmas tree featuring "Frozen" unveiled

TOKYO, Japan - A 300 million yen Christmas tree featuring characters from the Disney animation film "Frozen" is unveiled on Nov. 19, 2014, at a jewelry shop, Ginza Tanaka, in Tokyo's Ginza shopping district. The 2.6-meter tree contains around 31 kilograms of pure platinum.

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Gold bullion worth 600 mil. yen

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a piece of gold bullion, weighing 120 kilograms and worth 600 million yen ($6 million), at Takashimaya department store in Tokyo's Shinjuku district on April 19, 2013. The store began a special display the same day of the gold block, letting visitors touch it, to mark the launch inside the department store of a shop specializing in purchasing gold.

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Gold bullion worth 600 mil. yen

TOKYO, Japan - A shopper at Takashimaya department store in Tokyo's Shinjuku district touches a piece of gold bullion, weighing 120 kilograms and worth 600 million yen ($6 million), on April 19, 2013. The store began a special display the same day of the gold block, letting visitors touch it, to mark the launch inside the department store of a shop specializing in purchasing gold.

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Chocolate cherry blossom

TOKYO, Japan - A cherry blossom artwork made of chocolate is unveiled to the media in Tokyo on Dec. 19, 2012. Students from the University of Tokyo and Tokyo University of the Arts as well as an artist took part in the project to make the work, about 1.20 meters in diameter and weighing around 85 kilograms, using KitKat, a chocolate product made by Nestle Japan Ltd., to encourage students preparing for entrance examinations. The work will be exhibited at Cafe Nescafe Harajuku in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward from Dec. 20 through Jan. 8.

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China's Haier to sell small washing machine in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - An official from Haier Group Co., China's largest consumer electronics maker, demonstrates in Tokyo on Oct. 30 how to use a small-sized washing machine it will put on the Japanese market on Nov. 1. The automatic washing machine can take laundry of up to 2.3 kilograms and targets such consumers as single-person households. It will likely be sold for an open price of around 19,800 yen.

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German caught after swallowing 1.4 kg of opium

NAGOYA, Japan - An official at the customs office at Nagoya airport shows about 1.4 kilograms of opium in a plastic wrap on July 19, which Frank Frohlich, a 32-year-old German, allegedly swallowed in a bid to smuggle the drug into Japan. X-ray examinations revealed an unidentified solid matter inside Frohlich's stomach as he arrived at the airport from Thailand's Don Muang airport on June 28.

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GLOBALink | Driverless delivery vehicles aid Shanghai's epidemic fight

STORY: GLOBALink | Driverless delivery vehicles aid Shanghai's epidemic fight DATELINE: April 8, 2022 LENGTH: 0:00:36 LOCATION: SHANGHAI, China CATEGORY: TECHNOLOGY/HEALTH SHOTLIST: 1. various of unmanned distribution vehicles 2. various of medics STORYLINE: Shanghai is under temporary closed-off management due to the COVID-19 resurgence. China's e-commerce platform Meituan has dispatched dozens of unmanned distribution vehicles from Beijing to Shanghai. With a maximum loading capacity of 150 kilograms, the vehicle can autonomously drive to the residential buildings. Navigated by radar and sensors, vehicles can take optimal routes and avoid obstacles and pedestrians. They're expected to help deliver daily supplies and relieve the pressure on some communities. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Shanghai, China. (XHTV)

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HIGHTECH SEIKO's newly installed vacuum furnace.

Hitec Seiko (Hanamigawa-ku, Chiba City) has introduced a new type of vacuum heat treatment furnace. The new furnace reduces the processing time to about 10 hours, 30% less than the previous model. By increasing the utilization rate and providing more space in the furnace, the company aims to stabilize the quality. We will increase the sales of the heat treatment business to 270 million yen in the fiscal year ending March 2020, up 12.5% from the previous fiscal year. The company has newly introduced the PQ-65 pressure-cooled horizontal vacuum furnace manufactured by IHI Mechanical Systems (Koto-ku, Tokyo), with a view to entering the aerospace field in the future. The maximum processing capacity of the vacuum furnace is 400 kilograms, which is the same as the conventional furnace, but the processing time can be reduced from 15 hours with the conventional furnace. HIGHTECH SEIKO, Hanamigawa-ku, Chiba City, July 19, 2019. Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

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Sea urchins return to Sea of Japan coastal waters

FUKUI, Japan - A diver is all smiles with a bagful of sea urchins she gathered after three hours of work on Aug. 6, the last day of the urchin-gathering season off the coast of Fukui Prefecture. Fishermen in the area say the volume of sea urchins caught off the Fukui coast have more or less returned to normal 10 years after the Russian oil tanker Nakhodka carrying 20,000 kiloliters of fuel oil broke up in stormy weather in the Sea of Japan and up to 6,200 kiloliters of oil washed up in the coasts of 10 prefectures. At one point, the volume of sea urchins gathered by a local fishermen's cooperative in Fukui dropped to 19 kilograms, compared with an annual average of 300 kg before the spill, fishermen say. (Kyodo)

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Library robot

Photo taken June 19, 2020, shows a robot that can transport up to 30 kilograms of books at a library in Kumamoto, southwestern Japan. The robot, named PEANUT, was introduced for two months from mid-June on a trial basis to help librarians while lowering the risk of coronavirus infections by reducing people's workload. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Library robot

Photo taken June 19, 2020, shows a robot that can transport up to 30 kilograms of books at a library in Kumamoto, southwestern Japan. The robot, named PEANUT, was introduced for two months from mid-June on a trial basis to help librarians while lowering the risk of coronavirus infections by reducing people's workload. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese venture's satellite rocket plan

Japanese businessman Takafumi Horie (L) and Takahiro Inagawa, president of Interstellar Technologies Inc., attend a press conference in Tokyo on March 19, 2019. The venture firm, established by Horie, plans to develop the Zero rocket to carry an ultra-small satellite with a weight of less than 100 kilograms and launch the first of its kind into space in 2023. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese venture's satellite rocket plan

Photo taken March 19, 2019, in Tokyo shows a model of Interstellar Technologies Inc.'s Zero rocket that will carry an ultra-small satellite with a weight of less than 100 kilograms. The space venture plans to launch the first Zero rocket into space in 2023. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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German caught after swallowing 1.4 kg of opium

NAGOYA, Japan - An official at the customs office at Nagoya airport shows about 1.4 kilograms of opium in a plastic wrap on July 19, which Frank Frohlich, a 32-year-old German, allegedly swallowed in a bid to smuggle the drug into Japan. X-ray examinations revealed an unidentified solid matter inside Frohlich's stomach as he arrived at the airport from Thailand's Don Muang airport on June 28.