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Yamaha Motor HQ inspected over improper vehicle testing

Officials from the Japanese transport ministry head to Yamaha Motor Co.'s headquarters in Iwata, Shizuoka Prefecture, to conduct an inspection on June 5, 2024, after the motorcycle maker admitted to improperly obtaining vehicle quality certifications.

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Yamaha Motor HQ inspected over improper vehicle testing

Officials from the Japanese transport ministry head to Yamaha Motor Co.'s headquarters in Iwata, Shizuoka Prefecture, to conduct an inspection on June 5, 2024, after the motorcycle maker admitted to improperly obtaining vehicle quality certifications.

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Yamaha Motor HQ inspected over improper vehicle testing

Officials from the Japanese transport ministry head to Yamaha Motor Co.'s headquarters in Iwata, Shizuoka Prefecture, to conduct an inspection on June 5, 2024, after the motorcycle maker admitted to improperly obtaining vehicle quality certifications.

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Urban Animal Album

OSAKA, Japan - A cat takes a walk with the help of a walker in a park in Iwata, Shizuoka Prefecture, on April 13, 2014. The cat, kept by Yukihiro and Chiho Iio of Fukuroi, Shizuoka Prefecture, was found immobile last winter, with its lower extremities paralyzed. It is believed to have been involved in an accident.

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Engineer devises fingertip-size optical sensor

IWATA, Japan - Photo taken Oct. 1, 2013 shows an ultrasmall photomultiplier tube "Micro PMT" on the fingertip of Hiroyuki Kyushima, a Hamamatsu Photonics K.K. engineer whose team developed the world's first device for mass production at a plant in Iwata, Shizuoka Prefecture. (Photo by Tatsuya Hagiwara)

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Apparent draft letter about Ogai

HAMAMATSU, Japan - A Sept. 13, 2012, photo taken in Iwata, Shizuoka Prefecture, shows a manuscript believed to be a draft letter describing the circumstances leading up to the divorce of Japanese novelist Mori Ogai (1862-1922) from his first wife Akamatsu Toshiko. The Iwata education board announced the finding of the letter that day.

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Midsized, small firms take crack at electric vehicles

IWATA, Japan - An employee of Tajima Motor Corp. in Iwata, Shizuoka Prefecture, charges the battery of an electric vehicle converted from a gas-fed car on March 29, 2010.

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3 Yamaha Motor employees held over chopper export to China

IWATA, Japan - Takashi Kajikawa (front), president of Yamaha Motor Co., bows in apology during a press conference Feb. 23 at the company's head office in Iwata, Shizuoka Prefecture, after one executive and two other employees were arrested on suspicion of attempting to export without authorization an unmanned helicopter to China that could be converted to military use.

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Police raid Yamaha Motor over chopper export to China

SHIZUOKA, Japan - Investigators approach Yamaha Motor Co.'s headquarters in Iwata, Shizuoka Prefecture, on Jan. 23 to search the offices on suspicion that the company illegally exported an unmanned helicopter to China.

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(2)Children cheer Japan squad

IWATA, Japan - Japan midfielder Junichi Inamoto (2nd from L) reads messages from schoolchildren as his teammate Shinji Ono (R) watches during a get-together held in Iwata, Shizuoka Prefecture, on June 11, three days before their final first-round group H game against Tunisia. (World Cup 2002)