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Japan: Heavy Snowfall Hits Sea Of Japan Coast 4

Heavy snowfall has battered a wide area of Japan, especially the Hokuriku region along the Sea of Japan coast. This video shows blizzard conditions in the city Otaru, Hokkaido.

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US: Level 2 Evacuations Issued As Upper Cemetery Fire Sparks In Spokane

The Upper Cemetery Fire, previously called the Hills Fire, sparked near Greenwood Memorial Terrace in the Spokane Palisades Park area on Friday, July 26. The fire burned 90 acres, threatening more than 500 structures within hours, and level 2 evacuations were in place.

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Tokyo's Kabukicho night-life district to have new skyscraper

The new 225-meter-tall skyscraper in the Japanese capital's popular Kabukicho nightlife district was shown to the media Thursday ahead of its April 14 opening. With 48 floors above ground and five below, Tokyu Kabukicho Tower houses two hotels and entertainment facilities like a theater, a concert hall and a movie house. "We want it to be a facility that specializes in entertainment and motivates people to come to the area," said Tomoo Kimura, an executive officer of Tokyu Corp., which engages in railway and urban development businesses. The theater can seat around 900 people and the concert hall has a maximum capacity of around 1,500, while the movie house has eight screens. The tower includes a gym and spas for members and a food court offering "B-class gourmet foods," or unpretentious but tasty meals, from around the country at affordable prices for the general public.

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House Foods launches new potato snack

TOKYO, Japan - House Foods Corp. unveils a "matsutake" mushroom-flavored potato snack product, the latest in the "O'ZACK" series, in Tokyo on Aug. 21, 2014.

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Document by Japanese captain assigned to Mediterranean in 1917

VALLETTA, Malta - This document written by the captain of the flagship of the Japanese fleet dispatched to the Mediterranean Sea in April 1917 during World War I is kept by Frank Borda, president of a trading house in Malta. Dated Aug. 17, 1917, the document describing the purchase of foods and other goods and expressing satisfaction with the service was sent to Borda's grandfather.

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Ig Nobel award

CAMBRIDGE, United States - Shinsuke Imai (C), a senior researcher at Japan's House Foods Corp., and Ishikawa Prefectural University President Hidehiko Kumagai (L) attend an award ceremony at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Sept. 12, 2013. Their group won the spoof Ig Nobel chemistry prize for researching the possibility of a tear-free, yet flavorful, onion.

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House Foods to buy Takeda Pharmaceutical's food business

OSAKA, Japan - Takeda Food Products, Ltd. President Koji Nagamine (L) and House Foods Corp. President Akira Oze show off the main products of their companies after announcing a deal at a press conference in Osaka on Dec. 26. Under the deal, Takeda Pharmaceutical Co., the parent of Takeda Food Products, will sell the food unit to House Foods in October 2007.

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Vietnamese celebrate traditional festival amid goods price hike

STORY: Vietnamese celebrate traditional festival amid goods price hike DATELINE: June 5, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:54 LOCATION: Hanoi CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Thanh Cong Market, Ba Dinh district, Hanoi, Vietnam 2. various of retailers busy preparing foods 3. various of a family making ceremonial offerings and enjoying foods STORYLINE: Sitting in a 4-square meter room of a boarding house with sheet metal rooftops, kidney patient Nguyen Thi Oanh was enjoying a bowl of fermented sticky rice on a scorching summer day. The fermented sticky rice the middle-aged woman was eating is the most typical dish of "Doan Ngo" (Duanwu in Chinese) Festival, also known as Double Fifth or Dragon Boat Festival, which falls on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month in Vietnam. It is similar to the Chinese dish Jiuniang, a mixture of partially digested rice grains floating in a sweet saccharified liquid, with small amounts of alcohol and lactic acid. Oanh, born in the northern province of Hai Duong, has rented a room

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House Foods to buy Takeda Pharmaceutical's food business

OSAKA, Japan - Takeda Food Products, Ltd. President Koji Nagamine (L) and House Foods Corp. President Akira Oze show off the main products of their companies after announcing a deal at a press conference in Osaka on Dec. 26. Under the deal, Takeda Pharmaceutical Co., the parent of Takeda Food Products, will sell the food unit to House Foods in October 2007. (Kyodo)

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Life of Ainu

The English title at the lower left reads Ainu-TEMPLE., but this hut was not a religious facility but an elevated pu floor in which foods and provisions were stored. It is interesting that the upper parts of these two pu have a different structure. These probably stood adjacent to those in photograph #4032.==Date:unknown, Place:Hokkaido, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number60‐4‐0]

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Document by Japanese captain assigned to Mediterranean in 1917

VALLETTA, Malta - This document written by the captain of the flagship of the Japanese fleet dispatched to the Mediterranean Sea in April 1917 during World War I is kept by Frank Borda, president of a trading house in Malta. Dated Aug. 17, 1917, the document describing the purchase of foods and other goods and expressing satisfaction with the service was sent to Borda's grandfather. (Kyodo)

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Ex-farm minister's money scandal

Journalists gather around a building of the House of Representatives in Tokyo that houses the office of former Japanese farm minister Takamori Yoshikawa. Tokyo prosecutors raided his offices in Tokyo and Sapporo in northern Japan over allegations that he received a total of 5 million yen ($48,000) from Akita Foods Co., an egg production company, while in office.