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(240608) -- SANYA, June 8, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- Sea anemones and a clownfish are pictured in a marine ranch in the waters of Wuzhizhou Island in Sanya, south China's Hainan Province, May 17, 2024. Sanya boasts a coastline that offers stunning tropical coastal scenery, making it an ideal destination for beach holidays. In recent years, Sanya has been promoting tropical coastal leisure and sports tourism. Activities such as surfing, diving, sailing, and paddle boarding have flourished, attracting water sports enthusiasts from both near and far. Wang Fengguo, 42, has been working at Wuzhizhou Island Tourism Resort since 2006. Initially, he worked as a diving instructor. In 2011, Wuzhizhou Island launched China's first tropical marine ranching project, and Wang joined the team, dedicating himself to marine environmental protection for 13 years. Wang's team is responsible for maintaining the marine ranch, transplanting corals, monitoring the marine environment and cleaning up coral predators. To

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(SP)CHINA-HAINAN-SANYA-SPORTS-TOURISM-DIVING (CN)

(240608) -- SANYA, June 8, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- Wang Fengguo (R) transplants corals with his colleague in the waters of Wuzhizhou Island in Sanya, south China's Hainan Province on May 17, 2023. Sanya boasts a coastline that offers stunning tropical coastal scenery, making it an ideal destination for beach holidays. In recent years, Sanya has been promoting tropical coastal leisure and sports tourism. Activities such as surfing, diving, sailing, and paddle boarding have flourished, attracting water sports enthusiasts from both near and far. Wang Fengguo, 42, has been working at Wuzhizhou Island Tourism Resort since 2006. Initially, he worked as a diving instructor. In 2011, Wuzhizhou Island launched China's first tropical marine ranching project, and Wang joined the team, dedicating himself to marine environmental protection for 13 years. Wang's team is responsible for maintaining the marine ranch, transplanting corals, monitoring the marine environment and cleaning up coral predators. To re

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(SP)CHINA-HAINAN-SANYA-SPORTS-TOURISM-DIVING (CN)

(240608) -- SANYA, June 8, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Sea anemones and a clownfish are pictured in a marine ranch in the waters of Wuzhizhou Island in Sanya, south China's Hainan Province, May 17, 2024. Sanya boasts a coastline that offers stunning tropical coastal scenery, making it an ideal destination for beach holidays. In recent years, Sanya has been promoting tropical coastal leisure and sports tourism. Activities such as surfing, diving, sailing, and paddle boarding have flourished, attracting water sports enthusiasts from both near and far. Wang Fengguo, 42, has been working at Wuzhizhou Island Tourism Resort since 2006. Initially, he worked as a diving instructor. In 2011, Wuzhizhou Island launched China's first tropical marine ranching project, and Wang joined the team, dedicating himself to marine environmental protection for 13 years. Wang's team is responsible for maintaining the marine ranch, transplanting corals, monitoring the marine environment and cleaning up coral predators. To restore the ec

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(SP)CHINA-HAINAN-SANYA-SPORTS-TOURISM-DIVING (CN)

(240608) -- SANYA, June 8, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Wang Fengguo (R) transplants corals with his colleague in the waters of Wuzhizhou Island in Sanya, south China's Hainan Province on May 17, 2023. Sanya boasts a coastline that offers stunning tropical coastal scenery, making it an ideal destination for beach holidays. In recent years, Sanya has been promoting tropical coastal leisure and sports tourism. Activities such as surfing, diving, sailing, and paddle boarding have flourished, attracting water sports enthusiasts from both near and far. Wang Fengguo, 42, has been working at Wuzhizhou Island Tourism Resort since 2006. Initially, he worked as a diving instructor. In 2011, Wuzhizhou Island launched China's first tropical marine ranching project, and Wang joined the team, dedicating himself to marine environmental protection for 13 years. Wang's team is responsible for maintaining the marine ranch, transplanting corals, monitoring the marine environment and cleaning up coral predators. To restore the ecolo

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Festival in northeastern Japan

The two-day Tohoku Kizuna Festival begins in Aomori on June 17, 2023, symbolizing hope for the recovery of the six-prefecture Tohoku northeastern Japan region, which was devastated by the March 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster.

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Festival in northeastern Japan

The two-day Tohoku Kizuna Festival begins in Aomori on June 17, 2023, symbolizing hope for the recovery of the six-prefecture Tohoku northeastern Japan region, which was devastated by the March 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster.

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Festival in northeastern Japan

The Japan Air Self-Defense Force's Blue Impulse aerobatic team flies over the main venue of the annual Tohoku Kizuna Festival, being held in Aomori on June 17, 2023, symbolizing hope for the recovery of the six-prefecture Tohoku northeastern Japan region which was devastated by the March 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster.

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Festival in northeastern Japan

The Japan Air Self-Defense Force's Blue Impulse aerobatic team flies over the main venue of the annual Tohoku Kizuna Festival, being held in Aomori on June 17, 2023, symbolizing hope for the recovery of the six-prefecture Tohoku northeastern Japan region which was devastated by the March 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster.

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Festival in northeastern Japan

The Japan Air Self-Defense Force's Blue Impulse aerobatic team flies over the venue of the annual Tohoku Kizuna Festival, being held in Aomori on June 17, 2023, symbolizing hope for the recovery of the six-prefecture Tohoku northeastern Japan region which was devastated by the March 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster.

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Festival in northeastern Japan

The two-day Tohoku Kizuna Festival begins in Aomori on June 17, 2023, symbolizing hope for the recovery of the six-prefecture Tohoku northeastern Japan region, which was devastated by the March 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster.

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Governor wants Tokyo Olympic Games torch relay in Fukushima

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Yuhei Sato (R), governor of Fukushima Prefecture, shakes hands with Yoshiro Mori, a former prime minister who heads the organizing committee for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games, on June 17, 2014. Sato said at a press conference after his meeting with Mori that he hopes to invite torch runners for the Tokyo Olympic Games to run through his prefecture to demonstrate its recovery from the 2011 earthquake and nuclear crisis.

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New robot to be used at Fukushima complex

CHIBA, Japan - Nuclear disaster minister Goshi Hosono (2nd from L) on Aug. 17, 2012, at the Chiba Institute of Technology in Chiba Prefecture, remotely controls "Rosemary," a new type of robot expected to be used in the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant's radiation-contaminated reactor buildings from September 2012. The robot can transport much heavier objects than its predecessor "Quince," used at the Tokyo Electric Power Co. complex since June 2011 to check conditions in the reactor buildings and to capture images, according to the institute.

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Morioka student's work on display at U.N. conference site

MORIOKA, Japan - Takuya Takahashi, a second-grade junior high school student, writes calligraphy in Morioka, Iwate Prefecture, on June 17, 2012, in front of his work "Tohoku Forward," referring to the northeastern Japan region, including Iwate, worst hit by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster. A copy of his work is on display near the entrance of a pavilion introducing Japan at a U.N. development conference in Rio de Janeiro to be held from June 20.

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Marathoner to protest Cambodia picking Japan-born man

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Cambodian marathon runner Hem Bunting (front R) after winning an international half marathon in Phnom Penh in June 2011, while Japan-born comedian and runner Hiroshi Neko (front L) finished second. Hem Bunting said on April 17, 2012, he will protest to the Cambodian sports authorities the nomination of Neko to represent Cambodia at the Olympic Games in London.

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Japanese astronaut Furukawa

TSUKUBA, Japan - Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa (on screen) at the International Space Station communicates with people at the Tsukuba Space Center in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, on Sept. 14, 2011. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said the same day that it is consulting with agencies in other countries to arrange the return of Furukawa, who has been on the ISS since June 10, to Earth on Nov. 17.

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Protest at utility firm shareholders' meeting

OSAKA, Japan - A man, wearing a contraption of an exploding Fukushima nuclear reactor, protests against nuclear power in front of the venue, where the Kansai Electric Power Co. shareholders' meeting was held in Osaka on June 29, 2011. His sign is written in traditional Japanese verse form with 17 syllables arranged in a five-seven-five pattern. It translates as ''Nuclear power plants become nuclear bombs in a country prone to earthquakes.''

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Renho leaves ministerial post

TOKYO, Japan - Renho, minister for government revitalization, leaves the prime minister's office in Tokyo on June 27, 2011. Renho left the ministerial post the same day, as Kan wanted to name Goshi Hosono minister in charge of dealing with the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Kan's Cabinet already had 17 ministers, the legal limit, so bringing a new member into his Cabinet without taking legislative action required one of the existing ministers to step down from the posts.

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Furukawa communicates with children from space

NAGANO, Japan - Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa at the International Space Station (on screen) communicates via satellite circuit with a patient at a children's hospital in Azumino, Nagano Prefecture, on June 23, 2011. Furukawa, also a doctor, communicated with 11 patients aged 7 to 17 at the hospital during the event which connected the ISS and a medical facility in Japan for the first time.

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K-pop culture in Shin-Okubo

Tokyo, Japan - A charity event is held at Okubo Park in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward on June 19, 2011. The event, held June 17-19, was aimed at supporting the reconstruction of northeastern Japan areas hit by March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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Brunei's energy minister

SINGAPORE, Singapore - Pehin Yasmin, Brunei's energy minister, speaks during an interview in Singapore on June 17, 2011.

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Anti-Gaddafi forces in Libya

BENGHAZI, Libya - Militias against leader Muammar Gaddafi proceed in vehicles along a street in Benghazi, northeastern Libya, on June 17, 2011.

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Studio Ghibli raises anti-nuclear power banner

TOKYO, Japan - Studio Ghibli Inc. displays an anti-nuclear power banner at its office in Koganei, western Tokyo, on June 17, 2011, at the initiative of noted animator Hayao Miyazaki. The banner reads, ''Studio Ghibli wants to create movies using electricity without nuclear power plants.''

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Nuclear safety panel chief

TOKYO, Japan - Haruki Madarame, chairman of the Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan, speaks during an interview in Tokyo on June 17, 2011.

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Anti-Gaddafi forces in Libya

BENGHAZI, Libya - Citizens against leader Muammar Gaddafi offer a prayer in Benghazi, northeastern Libya, on June 17, 2011. Seen in the background are flags including those of the United States and the European Union.

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Tokyo Gov. Ishihara

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara delivers a speech at a regular session of the metropolitan assembly in Tokyo on June 17, 2011. Ishihara said the Japanese capital will make a bid to host the 2020 Summer Olympics, after losing its bid for the 2016 games.

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Nuclear safety panel chief

TOKYO, Japan - Haruki Madarame, chairman of the Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan, speaks during an interview in Tokyo on June 17, 2011.

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Industry minister Kaieda

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese industry minister Banri Kaieda speaks to reporters after delivering a speech at the head office of Kyodo News in Tokyo on June 17, 2011. He said it is necessary to resume operations of some nuclear power plants after completing safety checks as a power supply crunch could occur during the summer.

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Senkaku Islands

ISHIGAKI, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on June 17, 2011, shows the disputed Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, about 400 kilometers west of Okinawa Island.

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JCG vessel around Uotsuri Island

ISHIGAKI, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a Japan Coast Guard ship patrolling around Uotsuri Island, one of the disputed Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, on June 17, 2011.

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Film director Takita

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Japanese film director Yojiro Takita. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in the United States said on June 17, 2011, that it has invited 178 film artists and executives, including Takita, to join as Oscar voters.

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Yokohama mayor in Seoul

SEOUL, South Korea - Yokohama Mayor Fumiko Hayashi (L) hands Seoul Mayor Oh Se Hoon (R) a memorial gift in Seoul on June 17, 2011. Hayashi visited the South Korean capital to promote the safety of the Japanese city to attract tourists and investors in the wake of the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant.

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Mexico's Carstens seeks Japan's backing in IMF race

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda (L) and Bank of Mexico Governor Agustin Carstens hold talks at the Finance Ministry in Tokyo on June 17, 2011. Carstens asked the Japanese government to support his bid to become the next head of the International Monetary Fund.

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JCG vessel around Uotsuri Island

ISHIGAKI, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a Japan Coast Guard ship patrolling around Uotsuri Island, one of the disputed Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, on June 17, 2011.

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PM Kan, Indonesian President Yudhoyono meet

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan (R) and Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono shake hands ahead of their meeting at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on June 17, 2011. The two leaders held talks over enhancing the bilateral strategic partnership and maritime security issues including escalating tensions in the South China Sea over territorial rows between China and some Southeast Asian nations.

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Emperor, Indonesian president meet

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Emperor Akihito (L) and Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (3rd from L) talk at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on June 17, 2011. Empress Michiko (R) and Indonesian first lady Ani Yudhoyono (3rd from R) are also seen talking. (Pool Photo)

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Cleanup efforts in disaster-hit Onagawa

ONAGAWA, Japan - A Self-Defense Forces member clears rubble in the quake- and tsunami-hit town of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, on June 17, 2011.

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Indonesia cautious after Fukushima crisis

TOKYO, Japan - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono speaks during an interview in Tokyo on June 17, 2011. Yudhoyono expressed reservations about proceeding with plans to build nuclear power plants in his country, following the crisis at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi plant.

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Basic law on sports enacted

TOKYO, Japan - Ryoko Tani (C), a two-time Olympic judo gold medalist and a lawmaker of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, shakes hands with Financial Services Minister Shozaburo Jimi after a basic law outlining the promotion of sports as a state responsibility was enacted on June 17, 2011, during a House of Councillors plenary session at the Diet building in Tokyo.

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Radiation screening at swimming beach

MITO, Japan - Personnel collect samples of seawater at a swimming beach in Hitachinaka, Ibaraki Prefecture, on June 7, 2011, to measure the radiation levels of the water in the wake of radiation leaks at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in the neighboring prefecture of Fukushima. The Ibaraki prefectural government plans to screen beaches at 17 sites ahead of the opening of the beaches for this summer and the test results will be announced on its website later in the month.

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Radiation screening at swimming beach

MITO, Japan - An Ibaraki Prefecture official measures radiation levels of the surface of swimming beach sands in Hitachinaka in the prefecture on June 7, 2011, in the wake of radiation leaks at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in the neighboring prefecture of Fukushima. The Ibaraki prefectural government plans to screen beaches at 17 sites ahead of the opening of the beaches for this summer and the test results will be announced on its website later in the month.

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'Hayabusa' bullet train enters Aomori City

AOMORI, Japan - People welcome the new bullet train model 'Hayabusa' as it arrives at JR Shin-Aomori Station in Aomori during a test run on June 17, 2010. The train will be introduced to the Tohoku Shinkansen Line between Tokyo and Shin-Aomori in spring 2011, following an extension of bullet train services to the station from JR Hachinohe Station in Aomori Prefecture in December.

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'Hayabusa' bullet train enters Aomori City

AOMORI, Japan - People welcome the new bullet train model 'Hayabusa' as it arrives at JR Shin-Aomori Station in Aomori during a test run on June 17, 2010. The train will be introduced to the Tohoku Shinkansen Line between Tokyo and Shin-Aomori in spring 2011, following an extension of bullet train services to the station from JR Hachinohe Station in Aomori Prefecture in December.

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U.S. volunteer aid group members visit nursery in northern Japan

Members of "Helping Hands," a volunteer group of U.S. military personnel supporting victims of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, visit Milk, a nursery for babies and toddlers in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on June 17, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Northern Japan nursery filled with items from U.S. volunteer group

A nursery for babies and toddlers, called Milk, in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, is filled with toys, paper diapers and other items on June 17, 2015, sent by "Helping Hands," a volunteer group of U.S. military personnel supporting victims of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster that hit the northeastern Japanese region of Tohoku. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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U.S. author reads picture book on Japan's recovery from 2011 disaster

Joseph Krakora, a senior adviser at the National Gallery of Art, reads his picture book, "Yuki's Journey," during a charity event held at the Japanese ambassador's residence in Washington on June 17, 2015, to commemorate its publication. The book depicts efforts to recover from the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster that devastated northeastern Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Picture book on Japan's recovery from 2011 disaster produced in U.S.

A picture book, titled "Yuki's Journey," is shown at a charity event held at the Japanese ambassador's residence in Washington on June 17, 2015, to commemorate its publication. Made by Joseph Krakora, a senior adviser at the National Gallery of Art, and his granddaughter, the book depicts efforts to recover from the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster that devastated northeastern Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Families in tsunami-hit town then and now

Combined photo shows Kazue Takahashi and her son Kosei at a gymnasium serving as a shelter in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, in northeastern Japan on June 8, 2011 (L) after the area was devastated by a tsunami, and at the same gymnasium on Feb. 17, 2017 (R), as the two attend a dance class. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Quake-hit Tohoku struggling despite Japan's tourism boom

Photo taken June 17, 2016, shows a group of Taiwanese people taking an excursion in the northeastern town of Matsushima during a business trip to Japan. The northeastern Japan region, devastated by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, has struggled to attract foreign tourists despite a tourism boom in the country. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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'Hayabusa' bullet train enters Aomori City

AOMORI, Japan - People welcome the new bullet train model 'Hayabusa' as it arrives at JR Shin-Aomori Station in Aomori during a test run on June 17, 2010. The train will be introduced to the Tohoku Shinkansen Line between Tokyo and Shin-Aomori in spring 2011, following an extension of bullet train services to the station from JR Hachinohe Station in Aomori Prefecture in December. (Kyodo)

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Tokyo Olympic torch relay

A Tokyo Olympic torch relay runner (bottom) leaves the monument to the "Miracle Pine," a lone tree that survived in a coastal forest flattened by the deadly tsunami of March 2011 in the Iwate Prefecture city of Rikuzentakata, northeastern Japan, on June 17, 2021.