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Japan H3 rocket mission fails

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Dec. 22, 2025, shows a Japanese H3 rocket lifting off from Tanegashima Space Center in Minamitane in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, with a Michibiki No. 5 satellite in its payload. The rocket failed to place the satellite into orbit after its second-stage engine prematurely cut off shortly after liftoff.

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Japan's H3 rocket launch

Officials of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. celebrate at the Tanegashima Space Center in Minamitane, Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on July 1, 2024, after an Earth observation satellite detached from Japan's H3 rocket No. 3 following its liftoff from the space center.

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Japan crown prince visits facility for children

Japanese Crown Prince Fumihito (2nd from front) and his wife Crown Princess Kiko (back, far L) visit a welfare facility established to support children's development in Isa, Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Oct. 27, 2023. (Pool photo)

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Japan crown prince visits facility for children

Japanese Crown Prince Fumihito (back, L) and his wife Crown Princess Kiko (back, R) visit a welfare facility established to support children's development in Isa, Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Oct. 27, 2023. (Pool photo)

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Bus hijacking in Japan

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken in the early hours of May 12, 2014, shows an intercity bus that was hijacked the previous night by a man holding scissors in Miyazaki Prefecture, southwestern Japan. The 45-year-old hijacker was arrested in Ebino in the prefecture in the early hours of May 12. Nobody among the crew and passengers was injured in the incident.

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Bus hijacking in Japan

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken in the early hours of May 12, 2014, shows an intercity bus that was hijacked the previous night by a man holding scissors in Miyazaki Prefecture, southwestern Japan. The 45-year-old hijacker was arrested in Ebino in the prefecture in the early hours of May 12. Nobody among the crew and passengers was injured in the incident.

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Japan's new radar satellite launched

TANEGASHIMA, Japan - An H-2A rocket carrying a new information-gathering satellite ascends in the air after being launched from the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Dec. 12, 2011. The radar satellite successfully separated from the rocket into an orbit as planned, according to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.

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Rare whale carcass found in southern Japan island

AMAMI, Japan - A man examines the carcass of a male Blainville's beaked whale Jan. 20, 2010 that was washed ashore on Amami-Oshima Island in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan. The 4.4-meter-long whale, usually found in deep waters near the equator, was discovered on Jan. 16.

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Fisherman processes sea urchins

FUKUOKA, Japan - Veteran fisherman Katsumi Hamasaki separates the shell of a sea urchin from its flesh on July 11, 2009. The shells of sea urchins, caught in the sea off the coast of Akune in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, are sent to a research institution for reuse of ingredients such as calcium.