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Australia: Record Flooding Batters Northern NSW After Heavy Rainfall 2

Flooding has battered cities and towns across the Mid-North Coast and the Hunter Region in northern New South Wales, leaving many residents stranded or forced to evacuate after days of heavy rainfall. In the city of Taree, the Manning River surpassed its 1929 record of six meters and was still rising as of Wednesday morning, May 21. Authorities have issued 13 emergency-level alerts.

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Australia: Record Flooding Batters Northern NSW After Heavy Rainfall 3

Flooding has battered cities and towns across the Mid-North Coast and the Hunter Region in northern New South Wales, leaving many residents stranded or forced to evacuate after days of heavy rainfall. In the city of Taree, the Manning River surpassed its 1929 record of six meters and was still rising as of Wednesday morning, May 21. Authorities have issued 13 emergency-level alerts.

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M6.6 earthquake hits western Japan

A ticket gate at JR Uwajima Station in Uwajima in Ehime Prefecture, western Japan, is closed on the morning of April 18, 2024, after an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.6 hit Ehime and Kochi prefectures the previous night.

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Anpanman train

A ceremony to celebrate a train featuring Anpanman, a popular cartoon character in Japan, serving 1 million passengers is held in JR Kochi Station in Kochi Prefecture, western Japan, on June 14, 2023.

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Anpanman train

A ceremony to celebrate a train featuring Anpanman, a popular cartoon character in Japan, serving 1 million passengers is held in JR Kochi Station in Kochi Prefecture, western Japan, on June 14, 2023.

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Benches with Anpanman characters in Kochi

KOCHI, Japan - Benches decorated with characters from the popular anime series Anpanman are seen in front of JR Kochi Station in Kochi Prefecture on Nov. 15, 2014. Anpanman creator, the late Takashi Yanase, hailed from the western Japanese prefecture.

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Godzilla appeals for traffic safety

KOCHI, Japan - Godzilla appeals for traffic safety on Sept. 20, 2014, in the city of Kami, Kochi Prefecture, in southwestern Japan. The local police station assigned Godzilla, who turned 60 this year, as its chief-for-a-day.

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Nakaoka's statue removed before arrival of huge typhoon

KOCHI, Japan - A statute of Shintaro Nakaoka is removed from the pedestal in front of Shikoku Railway Co.'s Kochi Station in Kochi City on July 8, 2014, ahead of the arrival of Typhoon Neoguri.

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Anpanman creator Yanase dies

KOCHI, Japan - A special train, painted with Anpanman and other characters from one of the most popular Japanese anime cartoon series for young children, arrives at JR Kochi Station in Kochi Prefecture on Oct. 15, 2013. The creator of the characters, Takashi Yanase, a native of the prefecture, died of heart failure at a Tokyo hospital on Oct. 13 aged 94.

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Heat wave in Japan

KOCHI, Japan - A child touches an ice pillar at Tosa Kuroshio Railway Co.'s Nakamura Station in Shimanto, Kochi Prefecture, on Aug. 13, 2013. Temperatures in the city reached 40 C for the fourth day in a row as a severe heat wave continued to engulf wide areas of Japan.

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Protest in Kochi against Osprey deployment

KOCHI, Japan - People protest against the deployment in Japan of U.S. Marine Corps' MV-22 Osprey aircraft in a rally in Tosa, Kochi Prefecture, on Oct. 6, 2012. The prefectural government of Kochi in southwestern Japan said the same day at least one Osprey aircraft being deployed in Okinawa flew over the city of Shimanto on Oct. 1 on its way to the island prefecture from the Marines' Iwakuni Air Station.

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Kochi governor pitches for city dwellers' relocation to countryside

Gov. Masanao Ozaki of Kochi Prefecture, western Japan, addresses an opening ceremony for an office set up by the internal affairs ministry in front of JR Tokyo Station in the Japanese capital on March 25, 2015, to support people wishing to move to less populated areas and to help bolster sluggish regional economic activity. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Benches with Anpanman characters in Kochi

KOCHI, Japan - Benches decorated with characters from the popular anime series Anpanman are seen in front of JR Kochi Station in Kochi Prefecture on Nov. 15, 2014. Anpanman creator, the late Takashi Yanase, hailed from the western Japanese prefecture. (Kyodo)

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Godzilla appeals for traffic safety

KOCHI, Japan - Godzilla appeals for traffic safety on Sept. 20, 2014, in the city of Kami, Kochi Prefecture, in southwestern Japan. The local police station assigned Godzilla, who turned 60 this year, as its chief-for-a-day. (Kyodo)

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Nakaoka's statue removed before arrival of huge typhoon

KOCHI, Japan - A statute of Shintaro Nakaoka is removed from the pedestal in front of Shikoku Railway Co.'s Kochi Station in Kochi City on July 8, 2014, ahead of the arrival of Typhoon Neoguri. (Kyodo)

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Rural railway in western Japan

Photo taken Aug. 3, 2018, shows a statue of "Kagami Mikan," a character created by Japanese cartoonist Takashi Yanase, at Kagami station in Konan, Kochi Prefecture, western Japan. It is one of the characters created by Yanase for each of 20 stations on the Gomen-Nahari Line operated by Tosa Kuroshio Tetsudo (Railway) Co. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Rural railway in western Japan

Photo taken Aug. 3, 2018, shows a statue of "Ananai Nasubi," a character created by Japanese cartoonist Takashi Yanase, at Ananai station in Aki, Kochi Prefecture, western Japan. It is one of the characters created by Yanase for each of 20 stations on the Gomen-Nahari Line operated by Tosa Kuroshio Tetsudo (Railway) Co. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Rural railway in western Japan

Photo taken Aug. 3, 2018, shows Tosa Kuroshio Tetsudo (Railway) Co.'s single-car train at Wajiki station in Geisei village, Kochi Prefecture, western Japan. The open-deck train allows its passengers a great view of the Pacific Ocean. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo