Soyuz rocket launch in 1990

Soyuz rocket launch in 1990

The Soyuz TM-11 rocket carrying Toyohiro Akiyama, a reporter for Japanese television broadcaster Tokyo Broadcasting System, and two Soviet cosmonauts -- commander Victor Afanasyev and engineer Musa Manarov -- launches off from the Baikonur space center in the Soviet republic of Kazakhstan on Dec. 2, 1990.

Sharp to voluntarily recall over 16,500 projectors

Sharp to voluntarily recall over 16,500 projectors

OSAKA, Japan - Photo shows Sharp Corp.'s XV-101T projector. The company said Dec. 2 it will recall a total of 16,599 liquid crystal projectors in Japan from Dec. 3 after it received reports of two cases of fire involving the equipment. The projectors, the XV-101T and five other types, were made between January 1990 and August 1993. The equipment is no longer on sale.

Reserve in China's Yunnan sees record-high number of wintering rare cranes

STORY: Reserve in China's Yunnan sees record-high number of wintering rare cranes DATELINE: Dec. 2, 2022 LENGTH: 00:00:41 LOCATION: KUNMING, China CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT SHOTLIST: 1. various of black-necked cranes STORYLINE: A new record-high number of black-necked cranes, a species under first-class state protection in China, have been spotted in a national nature reserve in southwest China's Yunnan Province during the wintering period. As of 8 a.m. Sunday, a total of 2,260 migratory black-necked cranes have been monitored by the Yunnan Dashanbao National Nature Reserve for Black-necked Cranes, the highest number since the reserve was established in 1990, said the reserve's administration bureau. The rare cranes began their wintering at the reserve around Oct. 31 this year. Last year, the total number of overwintering black-necked cranes in the Dashanbao nature reserve reached 1,926, said Wu Taiping, an engineer with the reserve's administration bureau. The reserve, located in the Zhaoyang District of Z

Sharp to voluntarily recall over 16,500 projectors

Sharp to voluntarily recall over 16,500 projectors

OSAKA, Japan - Photo shows Sharp Corp.'s XV-101T projector. The company said Dec. 2 it will recall a total of 16,599 liquid crystal projectors in Japan from Dec. 3 after it received reports of two cases of fire involving the equipment. The projectors, the XV-101T and five other types, were made between January 1990 and August 1993. The equipment is no longer on sale. (Kyodo)

Finnish composer's symphony "Hiroshima" to be played in city again

Finnish composer's symphony "Hiroshima" to be played in city again

Yumi Notohara, leader of a civic group working for the preservation of music related to the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, talks about "Symphony No. 2 Hiroshima" composed by Erkki Aaltonen (1910-1990) of Finland about four years after the western Japanese city was hit. The symphony, first played in Hiroshima in 1955, will be performed there again on Nov. 16 by the Hiroshima Philharmonic Orchestra, followed by performances by the Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra twice in December-- in Nishinomiya neighboring Osaka on Dec. 5 and in Hiroshima on Dec. 6. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Antonio Inoki, Japanese hostages pleased after Iraqi decision to free them

Antonio Inoki, Japanese hostages pleased after Iraqi decision to free them

Professional wrestler-turned Japanese lawmaker Antonio Inoki (C), surrounded by Japanese nationals who had been prevented from leaving Iraq and their families, pump their fists at the Mansour Melia Hotel in Baghdad on Dec. 6, 1990, following Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's decision to release all foreigners stranded in Iraq, including the Japanese. An estimated 6,000 Westerners and Japanese were held in Iraq following the Aug. 2, 1990, Iraqi invasion of neighboring Kuwait.