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CHINA-GUANGXI-JING ETHNIC GROUP-SINGLE-STRINGED MUSICAL INSTRUMENT (CN)

(230816) -- DONGXING, Aug. 16, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Su Haizhen, head of a museum of the Jing ethnic group and an inheritor of the art of the single-stringed instrument of the Jing ethnic group, plays for visitors at her museum, in Dongxing, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Aug. 13, 2023. The Jing is the only maritime ethnic group in China, most of its members living on the three islands off the coast of Dongxing in Guangxi. The single-stringed instrument, or "duxianqin" in transliteration, is unique to the Jing culture, capable of presenting exquisite melodies with the only string it has. The art of duxianqin was formally recognized by the Chinese national government as a piece of intangible cultural heritage in 2011. (Xinhua/Fei Maohua)

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CHINA-GUANGXI-JING ETHNIC GROUP-SINGLE-STRINGED MUSICAL INSTRUMENT (CN)

(230816) -- DONGXING, Aug. 16, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Su Haizhen, head of a museum of the Jing ethnic group and an inheritor of the art of the single-stringed instrument of the Jing ethnic group, plays for visitors at her museum, in Dongxing, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Aug. 13, 2023. The Jing is the only maritime ethnic group in China, most of its members living on the three islands off the coast of Dongxing in Guangxi. The single-stringed instrument, or "duxianqin" in transliteration, is unique to the Jing culture, capable of presenting exquisite melodies with the only string it has. The art of duxianqin was formally recognized by the Chinese national government as a piece of intangible cultural heritage in 2011. (Xinhua/Zhang Ailin)

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CHINA-GUANGXI-JING ETHNIC GROUP-SINGLE-STRINGED MUSICAL INSTRUMENT (CN)

(230816) -- DONGXING, Aug. 16, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Su Haizhen, head of a museum of the Jing ethnic group and an inheritor of the art of the single-stringed instrument of the Jing ethnic group, directs her students during their practice, in Dongxing, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Aug. 13, 2023. The Jing is the only maritime ethnic group in China, most of its members living on the three islands off the coast of Dongxing in Guangxi. The single-stringed instrument, or "duxianqin" in transliteration, is unique to the Jing culture, capable of presenting exquisite melodies with the only string it has. The art of duxianqin was formally recognized by the Chinese national government as a piece of intangible cultural heritage in 2011. (Xinhua/Zhou Hua)

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CHINA-GUANGXI-JING ETHNIC GROUP-SINGLE-STRINGED MUSICAL INSTRUMENT (CN)

(230816) -- DONGXING, Aug. 16, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Su Haizhen, head of a museum of the Jing ethnic group and an inheritor of the art of the single-stringed instrument of the Jing ethnic group, plays for visitors at her museum, in Dongxing, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Aug. 13, 2023. The Jing is the only maritime ethnic group in China, most of its members living on the three islands off the coast of Dongxing in Guangxi. The single-stringed instrument, or "duxianqin" in transliteration, is unique to the Jing culture, capable of presenting exquisite melodies with the only string it has. The art of duxianqin was formally recognized by the Chinese national government as a piece of intangible cultural heritage in 2011. (Xinhua/Zhang Ailin)

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Ex-Thai PM Thaksin

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken Aug. 23, 2011, in Tokyo shows former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. The Thai foreign ministry reissued an ordinary passport to the ousted former prime minister on Oct. 26, 2011, after it concluded Thaksin's movements overseas do not harm the country, a Thai foreign ministry spokesman confirmed Dec. 16.

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Antarctic penguin treated in New Zealand

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - Photo taken on Aug. 16, 2011 shows an emperor penguin at Wellington Zoo in Wellington, New Zealand. Named Happy Feet, the male, about 3 and half years old, was found after drifting ashore in the country from the Antarctic in late June and is being treated at the zoo.

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Film on double A-bomb survivor Yamaguchi

LONDON, Britain - Members of the audience at the screening of two documentary films about Tsutomu Yamaguchi, a survivor of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, in London, on Aug. 16, 2011. A 2006 documentary film about Yamaguchi, ''Double Victim of the Atomic Bomb,'' and its 2011 sequel, ''Double Victim of the Atomic Bomb/The Testament of Yamaguchi Tsutomu,'' were screened at the venue.

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Chinese vice premier visits H.K

HONG KONG, China - Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang speaks to reporters upon arrival in Hong Kong on Aug. 16, 2011, for a three-day visit.

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Female jockey record holder Miyashita retires

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Hitomi Miyashita jockeying at Nagoya racecourse in Aichi Prefecture in July 2005. Miyashita, 34, who owns the Japanese record for the most victories by a female jockey, retired on Aug. 16, 2011, from professional horse racing.

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Film on double A-bomb survivor Yamaguchi

TOKYO, Japan - This file photo taken in June 2009 shows Tsutomu Yamaguchi, a survivor of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. The screening of a 2006 documentary film about him, ''Double Victim of the Atomic Bomb,'' and its 2011 sequel, ''Double Victim of the Atomic Bomb/The Testament of Yamaguchi Tsutomu,'' was held at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, in London, on Aug. 16, 2011.

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Low-cost carrier Jetstar Japan

TOKYO, Japan - (From L) Japan Airlines Co. President Masaru Onishi, Jetstar Group Chief Executive Officer Bruce Buchanan and Hideshi Takeuchi, vice president and group chief executive officer of Industrial Finance, Logistics and Development Group at Mitsubishi Corp., pose for photos during a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 16, 2011. The Qantas Group, Japan Airlines and Mitsubishi announced the launch of budget airline Jetstar Japan.

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Thaksin to visit Japan

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Thailand's former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, on Aug. 16, 2011, ahead of his visit to Japan.

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Summer holiday return rush

SENDAI, Japan - Passengers crowd a platform for Tokyo-bound shinkansen bullet trains at JR Sendai Station in Miyagi Prefecture on Aug. 16, 2011, as the number of travelers returning to the Tokyo area from their ''Bon'' holidays peaked on the day.

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Present and former Japan soccer team coaches

SENDAI, Japan - Japan national soccer team coach Alberto Zaccheroni (R) and former coach Takeshi Okada shake hands at a hotel in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on Aug. 16, 2011, after talking about what is necessary for today's Japanese children to do so that the Japan team will become the world champion in the future, in a corporate publicity event.

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'Night Train to the Stars' on paddy field

HANAMAKI, Japan - Images of a locomotive and stars created with rice varieties having different colors are shown in a paddy field in Hanamaki, Iwate Prefecture, on Aug. 16, 2011, along with a message of encouragement for the prefecture still suffering from damage caused by the March quake-tsunami disaster. Hanamaki is the birthplace of reputed Japanese poet and children's author Kenji Miyazawa, known for such pieces as the children's story, ''Ginga Tetsudo no Yoru''(Night Train to the Stars). The paddy image can be viewed in its finest colors through late September, according to local citizens.

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Singer Akiko Futaba dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in April 2003 shows Japanese singer Akiko Futaba. The singer died of heart failure in Hiroshima on Aug. 16, 2011 at age 96.

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Japanese economic minister Kaieda in Indonesia

MANADO, Indonesia - Japanese economic minister Banri Kaieda (C) is pictured during a meeting of economic ministers from 16 East Asia Summit countries in the Indonesian provincial capital of Manado on Aug. 13, 2011.

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Japanese economic minister Kaieda in Indonesia

MANADO, Indonesia - Japanese economic minister Banri Kaieda (3rd from L) is pictured during a meeting of economic ministers from 16 East Asia Summit countries in the Indonesian provincial capital of Manado on Aug. 13, 2011. (Kyodo

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World Cosplay Summit in Nagoya

NAGOYA, Japan - Participants of the World Cosplay Summit 2011 strike poses at the Osu Kannon temple in Nagoya, central Japan, on Aug. 6, 2011. Around 500 cosplayers from Japan and 16 other countries are taking part in the three-day event that began the same day.

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World Cosplay Summit in Nagoya

NAGOYA, Japan - Participants of the World Cosplay Summit 2011 strike poses at the Osu Kannon temple in Nagoya, central Japan, on Aug. 6, 2011. Around 500 cosplayers from Japan and 16 other countries are taking part in the three-day event that began the same day.

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Panasonic to launch e-book reader on Aug. 10

OSAKA, Japan - Photo shows the UT-PB1, an e-book reader handset to be put on sale by Panasonic Corp. on Aug. 10, 2011. The Japanese consumer electronics giant said July 22, 2011, that the handset, with a price tag of 34,800 yen, can only be purchased via Panasonic's web store. The e-book reader has a 7-inch color liquid-crystal display, and is equipped with 16 kinds of applications such as e-mail and a camera.

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Nagasaki peace statue cleaned

NAGASAKI, Japan - The Peace Statue in Nagasaki Peace Park is cleaned on July 16, 2011, ahead of the anniversary of the Aug. 9, 1945, U.S. atomic bombing of the city.

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Exhibition to experience Doraemon world

OSAKA, Japan - One of the world's smallest single-seat helicopters is demonstrated in Osaka on July 15, 2011. The helicopter and other experiments using the latest technologies to simulate Doraemon's secret tools opened July 16 to run through Aug. 31

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Poet unveils plan to dedicate original holy tunes to Fukushima shrine

Poet Ryoichi Wago briefs the press in Fukushima city, northeastern Japan, on June 16, 2015, on a plan to stage a series of "Future Festival Fukushima" events on Aug. 21-23 featuring the dedication of a newly created "kagura" (sacred Shinto music) to the Fukushima Inari Shrine. A shadow picture play based on a folk tale of Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, which includes a no-go zone following the 2011 nuclear power plant accident, will be also performed as part of the events. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Antarctic penguin treated in New Zealand

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - Photo taken on Aug. 16, 2011 shows an emperor penguin at Wellington Zoo in Wellington, New Zealand. Named Happy Feet, the male, about 3 and half years old, was found after drifting ashore in the country from the Antarctic in late June and is being treated at the zoo. (Kyodo)

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Decade later, 4 New York lives forever transformed by 9/11

NEW YORK, United States - Yumi Tanaka (L), founder of the New York Peace Film Festival, is pictured on Aug. 16, 2011 speaking with M. T. Silvia, director of the ''Atomic Mom'' documentary film, at a New York meeting. Living through 9/11 inspired the actress and comedian to tell the world about Japan's atomic-bomb survivors and disarmament. (Kyodo)

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World Cosplay Summit in Nagoya

NAGOYA, Japan - Participants of the World Cosplay Summit 2011 strike poses at the Osu Kannon temple in Nagoya, central Japan, on Aug. 6, 2011. Around 500 cosplayers from Japan and 16 other countries are taking part in the three-day event that began the same day. (Kyodo)

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World Cosplay Summit in Nagoya

NAGOYA, Japan - Participants of the World Cosplay Summit 2011 strike poses at the Osu Kannon temple in Nagoya, central Japan, on Aug. 6, 2011. Around 500 cosplayers from Japan and 16 other countries are taking part in the three-day event that began the same day. (Kyodo)

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Evacuees visit homes within 3 km of Fukushima plant for 1st time

HIRONO, Japan - Natsu Suzuki, a 16-year-old high school student, wearing radiation protection gear, sorts through his belongings at his home in Futaba, Fukushima Prefecture, within 3 kilometers of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, on Aug. 26, 2011. Suzuki was among nearly 150 evacuees from areas within 3 km of the plant who were allowed to visit their homes for the first time in five and a half months since the complex was crippled by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo)

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Youths from disaster-hit Iwate invited to Russia

MOSCOW, Russia - Naoya Niisato (2nd from L in front), a third-year student of Kamaishi Junior High School in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, speaks at the Russian Foreign Ministry in Moscow on Aug. 17, 2011. Twenty-eight members of kendo swordsmanship clubs at a junior high school and a university in disaster-hit Iwate Prefecture paid a courtesy visit to the ministry during their trip to Moscow and Krasnoyarsk from Aug. 16 to 22. The trip was realized after an invitation was issued after a proposal by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's wife, Svetlana. (Kyodo)

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Film on double A-bomb survivor Yamaguchi

LONDON, Britain - Members of the audience at the screening of two documentary films about Tsutomu Yamaguchi, a survivor of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, in London, on Aug. 16, 2011. A 2006 documentary film about Yamaguchi, ''Double Victim of the Atomic Bomb,'' and its 2011 sequel, ''Double Victim of the Atomic Bomb/The Testament of Yamaguchi Tsutomu,'' were screened at the venue. (Kyodo)

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Cesium-absorbing device at Fukushima Daiichi plant

TOKYO, Japan - Workers install a new cesium-absorbing device, which uses the mineral zeolite, into a water treatment system at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture on July 30, 2011. Tokyo Electric Power Co. began a test run of the device on Aug. 16, 2011. (Photo courtesy of TEPCO)(Kyodo)

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Film on double A-bomb survivor Yamaguchi

TOKYO, Japan - This file photo taken in June 2009 shows Tsutomu Yamaguchi, a survivor of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. The screening of a 2006 documentary film about him, ''Double Victim of the Atomic Bomb,'' and its 2011 sequel, ''Double Victim of the Atomic Bomb/The Testament of Yamaguchi Tsutomu,'' was held at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, in London, on Aug. 16, 2011. (Kyodo)

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Present and former Japan soccer team coaches

SENDAI, Japan - Japan national soccer team coach Alberto Zaccheroni (R) and former coach Takeshi Okada shake hands at a hotel in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on Aug. 16, 2011, after talking about what is necessary for today's Japanese children to do so that the Japan team will become the world champion in the future, in a corporate publicity event. (Kyodo)

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Female jockey record holder Miyashita retires

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Hitomi Miyashita jockeying at Nagoya racecourse in Aichi Prefecture in July 2005. Miyashita, 34, who owns the Japanese record for the most victories by a female jockey, retired on Aug. 16, 2011, from professional horse racing. (Kyodo)

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Low-cost carrier Jetstar Japan

TOKYO, Japan - (From L) Japan Airlines Co. President Masaru Onishi, Jetstar Group Chief Executive Officer Bruce Buchanan and Hideshi Takeuchi, vice president and group chief executive officer of Industrial Finance, Logistics and Development Group at Mitsubishi Corp., pose for photos during a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 16, 2011. The Qantas Group, Japan Airlines and Mitsubishi announced the launch of budget airline Jetstar Japan. (Kyodo)

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Chinese vice premier visits H.K

HONG KONG, China - Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang speaks to reporters upon arrival in Hong Kong on Aug. 16, 2011, for a three-day visit. (Kyodo)

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Thaksin to visit Japan

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Thailand's former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, on Aug. 16, 2011, ahead of his visit to Japan. (Kyodo)

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Summer holiday return rush

SENDAI, Japan - Passengers crowd a platform for Tokyo-bound shinkansen bullet trains at JR Sendai Station in Miyagi Prefecture on Aug. 16, 2011, as the number of travelers returning to the Tokyo area from their ''Bon'' holidays peaked on the day. (Kyodo)

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Low-cost carrier Jetstar Japan

TOKYO, Japan - (From L) Japan Airlines Co. President Masaru Onishi, Jetstar Group Chief Executive Officer Bruce Buchanan and Hideshi Takeuchi, vice president and group chief executive officer of Industrial Finance, Logistics and Development Group at Mitsubishi Corp., hold a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 16, 2011. The Qantas Group, Japan Airlines and Mitsubishi announced the launch of budget airline Jetstar Japan. (Kyodo)

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Singer Akiko Futaba dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in April 2003 shows Japanese singer Akiko Futaba. The singer died of heart failure in Hiroshima on Aug. 16, 2011 at age 96. (Kyodo)

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'Night Train to the Stars' on paddy field

HANAMAKI, Japan - Images of a locomotive and stars created with rice varieties having different colors are shown in a paddy field in Hanamaki, Iwate Prefecture, on Aug. 16, 2011, along with a message of encouragement for the prefecture still suffering from damage caused by the March quake-tsunami disaster. Hanamaki is the birthplace of reputed Japanese poet and children's author Kenji Miyazawa, known for such pieces as the children's story, ''Ginga Tetsudo no Yoru''(Night Train to the Stars). The paddy image can be viewed in its finest colors through late September, according to local citizens. (Kyodo)

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Japanese economic minister Kaieda in Indonesia

MANADO, Indonesia - Japanese economic minister Banri Kaieda (C) is pictured during a meeting of economic ministers from 16 East Asia Summit countries in the Indonesian provincial capital of Manado on Aug. 13, 2011. (Kyodo)

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Japanese economic minister Kaieda in Indonesia

MANADO, Indonesia - Japanese economic minister Banri Kaieda (3rd from L) is pictured during a meeting of economic ministers from 16 East Asia Summit countries in the Indonesian provincial capital of Manado on Aug. 13, 2011. (Kyodo (Kyodo)

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Panasonic to launch e-book reader on Aug. 10

OSAKA, Japan - Photo shows the UT-PB1, an e-book reader handset to be put on sale by Panasonic Corp. on Aug. 10, 2011. The Japanese consumer electronics giant said July 22, 2011, that the handset, with a price tag of 34,800 yen, can only be purchased via Panasonic's web store. The e-book reader has a 7-inch color liquid-crystal display, and is equipped with 16 kinds of applications such as e-mail and a camera. (Kyodo)

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Exhibition to experience Doraemon world

OSAKA, Japan - One of the world's smallest single-seat helicopters is demonstrated in Osaka on July 15, 2011. The helicopter and other experiments using the latest technologies to simulate Doraemon's secret tools opened July 16 to run through Aug. 31 (Kyodo)

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Nagasaki peace statue cleaned

NAGASAKI, Japan - The Peace Statue in Nagasaki Peace Park is cleaned on July 16, 2011, ahead of the anniversary of the Aug. 9, 1945, U.S. atomic bombing of the city. (Kyodo)

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Ex-Thai PM Thaksin

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken Aug. 23, 2011, in Tokyo shows former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. The Thai foreign ministry reissued an ordinary passport to the ousted former prime minister on Oct. 26, 2011, after it concluded Thaksin's movements overseas do not harm the country, a Thai foreign ministry spokesman confirmed Dec. 16. (Kyodo)

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Fukushima nuclear power plant prepares for spent nuclear fuel removal

Part of a roof cover is placed on top of the No. 3 reactor building of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on Aug. 2, 2017. The arch-shaped roof cover, which will be made up of 16 parts and is planned to be 18 meters in height, 23 meters in length and 57 meters in width when completed, will help prevent radioactive materials from being spattered during an operation which could start in 2018 to remove spent nuclear fuel from the reactor damaged in the 2011 tsunami. (Pool photo)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fukushima nuclear power plant prepares for spent nuclear fuel removal

Part of a roof cover is placed on top of the No. 3 reactor building of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on Aug. 2, 2017. The arch-shaped roof cover, which will be made up of 16 parts and is planned to be 18 meters in height, 23 meters in length and 57 meters in width when completed, will help prevent radioactive materials from being spattered during an operation which could start in 2018 to remove spent nuclear fuel from the reactor damaged in the 2011 tsunami. (Pool photo)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo