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Inedible pure gold soft-serve ice-cream

TOKYO, Japan - Convenience store operator Ministop Co. said May 11, 2010, it will give away ''soft-serve ice cream'' ornaments made of pure gold by lot to three applicants who send in pictures of themselves with soft-serve ice-cream by May 30. The prized ornament is 10 centimeters tall, 90 grams in weight and worth about 300,000 yen.

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Panasonic to launch 'tough' laptop PCs

OSAKA, Japan - Photo shows a Toughbook high-end laptop personal computer Panasonic Corp. will launch Feb. 13. Panasonic said Jan. 21 it will launch two ''tough'' high-end laptop PCs, Toughbook CF-19 and Toughbook CF-30, that it claims will not break even if they are dropped from a height of 90 centimeters.

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Niigata ski resort opens early due to heavy snow

YUZAWA TOWN, Japan - About 600 skiers and snowboarders hit the slopes at the Kagura-Mitsumata ski area on Nov. 16 as the resort in Yuzawa town, Niigata Prefecture, opened to the public one week earlier than expected because of an unusually heavy snowfall. The Kagura-Mitsumata area saw its first snow on Oct. 29, and as of Nov. 16, mountain peaks had 80-90 centimeters of snow, and the lowest Mitsumata piste was covered with around 30 cm.

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Osaka group tries for world record with giant pancake

OSAKA, Japan - A local group cooks a gigantic Japanese pancake Nov. 3 in Osaka city, attempting to set a new record for the largest ''okonomiyaki'' in the Guinness Book of Records. The pancake was about 8 meters wide and 3 centimeters thick, weighing about 1.6 tons. It was large enough to serve 5,000 people, the group said. The okonomiyaki pancake was made with 400 cabbages, about 4,300 eggs and nearly 90 kilograms of pork.

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60,000 homes in west Japan city face water outage after pipe collapse

WAKAYAMA, Japan, Oct. 4 Kyodo - Around 60,000 homes in a western Japan city have been facing a water outage since a section of a water pipe bridge collapsed, city officials said Monday.Some 138,000 people in parts of the city of Wakayama have been affected. The bridge that spans the Kinokawa River is not used for crossing banks by people or cars. In the incident, confirmed on Sunday evening, the two pipes on the bridge collapsed for about 60 meters near the center of the river. The bridge is 546 meters long, with each pipe measuring around 90 centimeters in diameter.

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Niigata ski resort opens early due to heavy snow

YUZAWA TOWN, Japan - About 600 skiers and snowboarders hit the slopes at the Kagura-Mitsumata ski area on Nov. 16 as the resort in Yuzawa town, Niigata Prefecture, opened to the public one week earlier than expected because of an unusually heavy snowfall. The Kagura-Mitsumata area saw its first snow on Oct. 29, and as of Nov. 16, mountain peaks had 80-90 centimeters of snow, and the lowest Mitsumata piste was covered with around 30 cm. (Kyodo)

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Dinosaur foreleg fossil found in Fukui, largest class in Japan

FUKUI, Japan - A fossil of a foreleg believed to belong to a large plant-eating dinosaur was excavated in a stratum from the Cretaceous period in Katsuyama, Fukui Prefecture, the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum said July 11. The fossil is one of the largest foreleg fossils ever discovered in Japan, with its length estimated at about 90 centimeters and width about 25 cm, according to the museum. Photo was provided by the museum. (Kyodo)

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Panasonic to launch 'tough' laptop PCs

OSAKA, Japan - Photo shows a Toughbook high-end laptop personal computer Panasonic Corp. will launch Feb. 13. Panasonic said Jan. 21 it will launch two ''tough'' high-end laptop PCs, Toughbook CF-19 and Toughbook CF-30, that it claims will not break even if they are dropped from a height of 90 centimeters. (Kyodo)

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Inedible pure gold soft-serve ice-cream

TOKYO, Japan - Convenience store operator Ministop Co. said May 11, 2010, it will give away ''soft-serve ice cream'' ornaments made of pure gold by lot to three applicants who send in pictures of themselves with soft-serve ice-cream by May 30. The prized ornament is 10 centimeters tall, 90 grams in weight and worth about 300,000 yen. (Kyodo)

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Osaka group tries for world record with giant pancake

OSAKA, Japan - A local group cooks a gigantic Japanese pancake Nov. 3 in Osaka city, attempting to set a new record for the largest ''okonomiyaki'' in the Guinness Book of Records. The pancake was about 8 meters wide and 3 centimeters thick, weighing about 1.6 tons. It was large enough to serve 5,000 people, the group said. The okonomiyaki pancake was made with 400 cabbages, about 4,300 eggs and nearly 90 kilograms of pork. (Kyodo)

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2-yr-old girl goes missing at Tokyo kindergarten

TOKYO, Japan - A 2-year-old girl has been missing since the morning of Nov. 22 when she was last seen at a kindergarten in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward, police say on Nov. 23. The girl, Haruna Wakayama, disappeared at about 11:40 a.m. on Nov. 22 at the kindergarten her 5-year-old brother attends. Haruna is about 90 centimeters tall and has shoulder-length hair. She was wearing a long-sleeved shirt with pink and white stripes, red shorts, and white sneakers rimmed with pink, police said.