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Japanese man starts walk across Africa with 2-wheeled cart

ALEXANDRIA, Egypt - Masahito Yoshida, a 33-year-old Japanese man, begins walking across Africa with a two-wheeled cart, leaving Alexandria, northern Egypt, on Sept. 7, 2014. Yoshida, who completed a cart-pulling walk through three continents in 2013, embarked on an 11,000-kilometer walk to the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa, pulling up to 100 kilograms of luggage including water, food, cooking utensils and a tent in his cart.

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Japanese man completes walk around world with 2-wheeled cart

SHANGHAI, China - Japan's Masahito Yoshida nears the endpoint in Shanghai on June 9, 2013, of his journey around the world in which he covered about 40,000 kilometers with a two-wheeled cart after leaving the city on New Year's Day 2009.

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Japanese man completes walk around world with 2-wheeled cart

SHANGHAI, China - Japan's Masahito Yoshida nears the endpoint in Shanghai on June 9, 2013, of his journey around the world in which he covered about 40,000 kilometers with a two-wheeled cart after leaving the city on New Year's Day 2009.

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Japanese man completes walk around world with 2-wheeled cart

SHANGHAI, China - Japan's Masahito Yoshida (front R) celebrates with his mother Toshiko (2nd from L) in People's Square in Shanghai on June 9, 2013, after completing his walk around the world in which he covered about 40,000 kilometers with a two-wheeled cart after leaving Shanghai on New Year's Day 2009.

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Segway Japan seeking to expand sales of 2-wheeled EV

TOKYO, Japan - Segway Japan Ltd. President Hiroshi Otsuka takes a ride on a segway two-wheeled, self-balancing vehicle in Yokohama on May 14. Segway Japan said it plans to expand sales of its personal transporter electric vehicles to Japanese companies to more than 1,000 units by the end of March 2012 from about 300 units that it hopes to sell by next March.

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MM Catalyst, an auxiliary catalyst device developed by Haiba Iron Works in collaboration with Nichidai Filter

Haiba Iron Works (Kakegawa City, Shizuoka Prefecture), in cooperation with Nichidai Filter (Ujitawara Town, Kyoto Prefecture), a stainless steel diffusion bonding (sintering) company, has developed an auxiliary catalytic converter "MM catalyst" that shortens the activation time of the main catalyst for exhaust gas purification by about 40%. The MM catalyst is manufactured by loading precious metals onto a structure made of sintered stainless steel wire mesh. Compared to the honeycomb structure that is commonly used in catalysts, the reaction space is more complex and the contact efficiency of exhaust gas is improved. Noboru Ishizawa, director of the technology department at Haiba Iron Works, said, "We will further refine our technology through repeated tests using actual machines (for practical use). On July 10, 2019, the head office of Haruba Ironworks in Kakegawa City, Shizuoka Prefecture.

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Segway Japan seeking to expand sales of 2-wheeled EV

TOKYO, Japan - Segway Japan Ltd. President Hiroshi Otsuka takes a ride on a segway two-wheeled, self-balancing vehicle in Yokohama on May 14. Segway Japan said it plans to expand sales of its personal transporter electric vehicles to Japanese companies to more than 1,000 units by the end of March 2012 from about 300 units that it hopes to sell by next March. (Kyodo)

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Japanese man starts walk across Africa with 2-wheeled cart

ALEXANDRIA, Egypt - Masahito Yoshida, a 33-year-old Japanese man, begins walking across Africa with a two-wheeled cart, leaving Alexandria, northern Egypt, on Sept. 7, 2014. Yoshida, who completed a cart-pulling walk through three continents in 2013, embarked on an 11,000-kilometer walk to the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa, pulling up to 100 kilograms of luggage including water, food, cooking utensils and a tent in his cart. (Kyodo)