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UNESCO "eco park" list

KOFU, Japan - Hirofumi Nakagomi, mayor of Minami-Alps in Yamanashi Prefecture, receives the news that UNESCO has decided to add Japan's Southern Alps mountain range to its list of biosphere reserves, known as eco parks in Japan, at the city hall around 1 a.m. on June 12, 2014. The 302,474-hecatre region straddles Yamanashi, Nagano and Shizuoka prefectures. UNESCO also decided to add the Tadami beech forest in Fukushima Prefecture to the list.

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Comet Ison

MINAMI-ALPS, Japan - Photo taken Nov. 14, 2013, from Minami-Alps, Yamanashi Prefecture, shows Comet Ison visible in the sky before dawn. (Combination of two photos exposed for 15 seconds)

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Rolling blackout

MINAMI-ALPS, Japan - A police officer controls traffic at an intersection without traffic lights in Minami-Alps in Yamanashi Prefecture on March 15, 2011, during a rolling blackout introduced by Tokyo Electric Power Co. amid an electricity supply shortage following the automatic shut down of its nuclear power plants after the March 11 killer quake and tsunami.

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NEC, NTT develop robot helping parents monitor kids at remote sites

TOKYO, Japan - NEC Corp. and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. said on Oct. 25 they have jointly developed a robot to enable parents to watch over children at remote locations via Net-linked video cameras and instruct it on how to care for them via Net-linked cellphones. The two firms said that they will test the robot at two nursing schools in Tokyo and Minami-Alps, Yamanashi Prefecture, from November to the year-end, with an eye to applying it to commercial use in view of the growing need to protect children from crimes and accidents while parents are away.

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NEC, NTT develop robot helping parents monitor kids at remote si

TOKYO, Japan - NEC Corp. and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. said on Oct. 25 they have jointly developed a robot to enable parents to watch over children at remote locations via Net-linked video cameras and instruct it on how to care for them via Net-linked cellphones. The two firms said that they will test the robot at two nursing schools in Tokyo and Minami-Alps, Yamanashi Prefecture, from November to the year-end, with an eye to applying it to commercial use in view of the growing need to protect children from crimes and accidents while parents are away. (Kyodo)

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Rolling blackout

MINAMI-ALPS, Japan - A police officer controls traffic at an intersection without traffic lights in Minami-Alps in Yamanashi Prefecture on March 15, 2011, during a rolling blackout introduced by Tokyo Electric Power Co. amid an electricity supply shortage following the automatic shut down of its nuclear power plants after the March 11 killer quake and tsunami. (Kyodo)

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UNESCO 'eco park' list

KOFU, Japan - Hirofumi Nakagomi, mayor of Minami-Alps in Yamanashi Prefecture, receives the news that UNESCO has decided to add Japan's Southern Alps mountain range to its list of biosphere reserves, known as eco parks in Japan, at the city hall around 1 a.m. on June 12, 2014. The 302,474-hecatre region straddles Yamanashi, Nagano and Shizuoka prefectures. UNESCO also decided to add the Tadami beech forest in Fukushima Prefecture to the list. (Kyodo)