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Fire burns Japanese inn

FUKUI, Japan, May 7 Kyodo - Photo taken May 7, 2018, shows the remains of the Japanese-style inn Beniya, a national tangible cultural property in the Awara hot spring resort in Fukui Prefecture, destroyed by a fire that broke out two days earlier.

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'Cat temple' in Fukui Pref.

FUKUI, Japan - Some of over 50 formerly abandoned cats living in the precincts of the Gotanjoji Temple, dubbed "the cat temple" among cat fanciers, are photographed on June 17, 2014, in Echizen, Fukui Prefecture. About 10,000 cat-loving people annually visit the temple built in 2002.

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Court orders power supplier not to operate Oi nuke plant

FUKUI, Japan - Lawyers for plaintiffs seeking to stop the restart of the No. 3 and No. 4 reactors at the Oi nuclear power plant hold banners in front of the court house in Fukui, Fukui Prefecture, on May 21, 2014, saying the Fukui District Court acknowledged the plaintiffs' claims. The court ordered Kansai Electric Power Co. not to resume operating the reactors. The Nuclear Regulation Authority is now scrutinizing whether the Oi nuclear power plant in Fukui Prefecture is safe enough to resume operating.

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Halal soy sauce for Muslim market

FUKUI, Japan - Photo taken Feb. 27, 2014 in Eiheiji, Fukui Prefecture, shows bottles of the alcohol-free soy sauce-like seasoning named "Fukumurasaki."

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Halal soy sauce for Muslim market

FUKUI, Japan - Photo taken Feb. 27, 2014 in Eiheiji, Fukui Prefecture, shows Takashi Utagawa, specially appointed professor of applied microbiology at the Fukui Prefectural University, holding a bottle of the alcohol-free soy sauce-like seasoning named "Fukumurasaki."

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Noh tradition performed at shrine in Fukui Pref.

FUKUI, Japan - The annual "Mizuumi no Dengaku Nohmai," a Noh tradition designated as a national intangible folk cultural property, is performed at Ukan Shrine in the town of Ikeda, Fukui Prefecture, on Feb. 15, 2014.

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5 elderly bee hunters contributing to field over 5 decades

FUKUI, Japan - Photo taken April 17, 2013 shows a set of bee samples collected by five former teachers from Fukui Prefecture now in their 70s to 90s and donated by them to the Fukui City Museum of Natural History in the prefecture.

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Town assembly OKs nuclear reactors' restart

FUKUI, Japan - The town assembly of Oi, Fukui Prefecture, takes a vote on whether to approve the restart of two idled reactors at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Oi nuclear power plant on May 14, 2012. The assembly decided to support the restart in consideration of the damage to the local economy and employment that a prolonged halt of the reactors could bring.

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Crabs for imperial family

FUKUI, Japan - People wearing masks and gloves check boiled snow crabs which will be presented to the Japanese imperial family at Sakai, Fukui Prefecture, on Feb. 9, 2011. The custom of presenting crabs in the area to the imperial family has been continuing almost every year since 1922.

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Student camps prove lucrative for cheap inns run by local gov'ts

FUKUI, Japan - Members of Gifu Shotoku Gakuen University's tennis club hold a club camp in Fukui, Fukui Prefecture, on Aug. 7.

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Private funeral for Eiheiji Temple abbot Miyazaki held

FUKUI, Japan - A private funeral for Ekiho Miyazaki, abbot of Eiheiji Temple in Fukui Prefecture, was held at the temple on Jan. 11. The abbot died of natural causes Jan 5 at a hospital in Sapporo at age 106.

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Nuclear reactor resumes operation 30 months after fatal accident

FUKUI, Japan - Photo taken on Jan. 10 shows the No. 3 reactor (fore) at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Mihama, Fukui Prefecture, which resumed operation, two and a half years after an accident that killed five people and injured six others. The accident was blamed on pipes that had not been inspected for 28 years.

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1 confirmed dead, 26 injured in train collision+

FUKUI, Japan - Two trains sit on a private railway in the town of Matsuoka, Fukui Prefecture, on Dec. 17, after a collision that killed a driver and injured 26 passengers. The collision occurred around 1:30 p.m. near Shiizakai Station on the main Echizen Line of Keifuku Electric Railroad Co. A train coming down a branch line failed to stop at Higashi-Furuichi Station and continued onto the mainline for about 1 kilometer, railway officials said.