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Kamikaze flowers bloom on southwestern island

AMAMI ISLAND, Japan - A blanket of flowers, known locally as ''tokkobana'' (kamikaze flowers), bloom in the fields around an airport on Kikai Island, Kagoshima Prefecture.

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High school hula competition in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Dancers from Kikai High School in Kagoshima Prefecture perform during a hula competition at Akiba Square hall in Tokyo's Akihabara district on Sept. 4, 2011. The Kikai High School team won the Hula Girls Koshien competition for high school students. The event had originally been scheduled for late March in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, but was canceled due to the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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A shipping line equipped with metal detectors to ensure the safety of rice at Hyoshin Kikai Kogyo Co.

Hyoshin Kikai Kogyo Co., Ltd. of Harima Town, Hyogo Prefecture, has entered the rice cultivation and sales business. The company has obtained JGAP certification for its rice, a safety management standard for agricultural products. The company has harvested about three tons of "Milky Queen," a variety of rice that has a good taste and sells at a relatively high price, and is currently selling samples of the rice. in fiscal 2008, the company will borrow paddy fields from farmers in the vicinity of its headquarters to more than double the area under cultivation. The company will use its own bases for sales. The company has already developed and sold a device for hydroponic cultivation of vegetables on board by applying the technology of marine equipment. The company obtained JGAP certification for its hydroponic fruits and vegetables in 2006, and has now obtained the certification for rice as well. Photo taken on August 30, 2019, credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

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Headquarters of Tsukishima Kikai

Headquarters = Harumi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan, August 18, 2017; Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

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Headquarters building of Tsukishima Kikai

Headquarters = Harumi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan, August 18, 2017; Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

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Tokyo Motor Show opening draws large crowds

Toyota Motor Corp.'s Kikai concept car is displayed at the Tokyo Motor Show which opened to limited ticket holders on Oct. 29, 2015 at Tokyo Big Sight. With automakers scrambling to get an edge over rivals in the global market, a total of 160 companies from 11 countries are showing off their next-generation concepts, products and technology at the show, open to the general public from Oct. 30 to Nov. 8. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tokyo Motor Show opens with green, self-driving cars in spotlight

Toyota Motor Corp.'s Kikai concept car is displayed at the Tokyo Motor Show on Oct. 28, 2015. The show opened to the press the same day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Toyota's concept car bucks digital trend with focus on analog beauty

Toyota Motor Corp.'s "Kikai" (machinery) concept car is displayed at the Tokyo Motor Show at Tokyo Big Sight on Oct. 30, 2015. Instead of concealing the vehicle's inner workings, the concept vehicle emphasizes the complex beauty of the mechanical aspects of cars. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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High school hula competition in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Dancers from Kikai High School in Kagoshima Prefecture perform during a hula competition at Akiba Square hall in Tokyo's Akihabara district on Sept. 4, 2011. The Kikai High School team won the Hula Girls Koshien competition for high school students. The event had originally been scheduled for late March in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, but was canceled due to the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo)

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Giant two-legged robot

Masaaki Nagumo (bottom R), an engineer at machinery maker Sakakibara-Kikai, shows a two-legged robot he developed, LW-Mononofu, in Shinto, Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Feb. 6, 2018. Operated by a person boarding it, the 8.5-meter, 7.3-ton robot can walk. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo