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Shika nuclear power plant in Ishikawa Prefecture

File photo taken on December, 2023, shows Hokuriku Electric Power Co.'s Shika nuclear power plant in Shika in central Japan's Ishikawa Prefecture.

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Manga artist Leiji Matsumoto dies at 85

In a photo taken December, 2009, Japanese cartoonist Leiji Matsumoto writes an autograph on a "ninja train" designed by himself at Uenoshi station in the Mie Prefecture city of Iga, known as home to one of the most famous ninja clans. Matsumoto, known for his works "Galaxy Express 999" and "Space Battleship Yamato," died of acute heart failure on Feb. 13, 2023, at age 85, his production studio said.

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China farm land long contaminated with cadmium

SANHE, China - In this photo taken in December, 2014, villagers of Sanhe village in China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region stand on farm land suspected of being contaminated by cadmium and other pollutants. Since the mid-1950s, a state-run company has mined lead and zinc in the area and there is evidence that the local water source has been polluted by waste from the mining operations.

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China farm land long contaminated with cadmium

SANHE, China - Photo taken in December, 2014, shows a drain in Sanhe village in China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. The drain is suspected of being contaminated by cadmium and other pollutants. Since the mid-1950s, a state-run company has mined lead and zinc in the area and there is evidence that the local water source has been polluted by waste from the mining operations.

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China farm land long contaminated with cadmium

SANHE, China - In this photo taken in December, 2014, villagers of Sanhe village in China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region show swollen hands suspected of being caused by cadmium and other pollutants. Since the mid-1950s, a state-run company has mined lead and zinc in the area and there is evidence that the local water source has been polluted by waste from the mining operations.

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Obokata fails to file appeal after panel condemns "STAP cell" study

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Haruko Obokata, a former researcher with the Riken research institute. The institute said on Jan. 6, 2015, that Obokata has not filed an appeal in response to a panel investigation finding in December, 2014 that "STAP cells" she claimed to have created almost certainly did not exist.

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Japanese light rail cars aid U.S. public transportation boom

NEW YORK, United States - File photo taken in December, 2013, shows a light rail train produced by Japan's Kinki Sharyo Co. running on a street in Boston, Massachusetts. Major metropolitan areas all over the United States are increasingly turning to light rail transit networks, or LRT, as a way to transport commuters. (

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South African foreign minister Nkoana-Mashabane

STELLENBOSCH, South Africa - South African foreign minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane (C) speaks at a press conference in Stellenbosch, South Africa, on Oct. 21, 2011, after a two-day ministerial-level preparatory talks for a key U.N. climate conference. The U.N. climate change conference is scheduled to be held from late November to early December, 2011, in South Africa.

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Writer, antiwar activist Makoto Oda dies at 75

TOKYO, Japan - Makoto Oda (file photo taken in December, 2004), a Japanese writer who led the antiwar movements against the wars in Vietnam and Iraq, died on July 30 at a Tokyo hospital. He was 75. He had revealed in April he was battling a terminal phase of cancer.