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Tsunami warning issued in Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows people evacuating to the rooftop of a fire department building in Mukawa, Hokkaido, northern Japan, on July 30, 2025, after the Japan Meteorological Agency issued a tsunami warning for the country's Pacific coast following a powerful earthquake off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula.

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Tsunami warning issued in Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows people evacuating to the rooftop of a fire department building in Mukawa, Hokkaido, northern Japan, on July 30, 2025, after the Japan Meteorological Agency issued a tsunami warning for the country's Pacific coast following a powerful earthquake off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula.

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Tsunami warning issued in Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows people evacuating to the rooftop of a fire department building in Mukawa, Hokkaido, northern Japan, on July 30, 2025, after the Japan Meteorological Agency issued a tsunami warning for the country's Pacific coast following a powerful earthquake off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula.

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Tsunami warning issued in Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows people evacuating to the rooftop of a fire department building in Mukawa, Hokkaido, northern Japan, on July 30, 2025, after the Japan Meteorological Agency issued a tsunami warning for the country's Pacific coast following a powerful earthquake off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula.

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Tsunami warning issued in Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows people who evacuated to the rooftop of a fire department building in Mukawa, Hokkaido, northern Japan, on July 30, 2025, after the Japan Meteorological Agency issued a tsunami warning for the country's Pacific coast following a powerful earthquake off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula.

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Tsunami warning issued in Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows people who evacuated to the rooftop of a fire department building in Mukawa, Hokkaido, northern Japan, on July 30, 2025, after the Japan Meteorological Agency issued a tsunami warning for the country's Pacific coast following a powerful earthquake off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula.

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Strong earthquake hits Hokkaido

MUKAWA, Japan, Sept. 6 Kyodo - Photo shows a cracked street in Mukawa, Hokkaido, on Sept. 6, 2018, after a strong earthquake struck the northernmost main island of Japan.

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Season to dry 'shishamo' smelts starts in northern Japan

SAPPORO, Japan - A worker hangs "shishamo" smelts to dry them in Mukawa in Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido on Oct. 15, 2014.

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Scholar explains recently found dinosaur jaw bone fossil

SAPPORO, Japan - Yoshitsugu Kobayashi, an associate professor at the Hokkaido University Museum, gives an account of a recently discovered partial upper-jaw bone fossil of a dinosaur, considered belonging to the Hadrosaurus genus, at a press conference in Mukawa in Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido on Oct. 10, 2014. The bone was unearthed in the town in September.

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Dinosaur jaw bone fossil displayed

SAPPORO, Japan - A partial upper-jaw bone fossil of a dinosaur, considered belonging to the Hadrosaurus genus, is displayed in Mukawa in Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido on Oct. 10, 2014, following its discovery in September. The upper half of the fossil is the bone, while the lower part is a rock.

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Hokkaido archaeologist leads dinosaur fossil hunt

SAPPORO, Japan - Yoshitsugu Kobayashi, an associate professor at the Hokkaido University Museum leading an excavation project for dinosaur fossils in Hokkaido Prefecture, northern Japan, poses in this undated photo at an excavation site in the town of Mukawa, southern Hokkaido.

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Dinosaur fossil excavation resumed in northern Japan

SAPPORO, Japan - Workers embark on a new round of dinosaur fossil excavations in Mukawa in Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido on Sept. 4, 2014, after the project was suspended a year ago.

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Softbank dog's grandson

SAPPORO, Japan - Photo shows a male puppy named Kaiji (bottom), the first ''grandpuppy'' of Kai, a Hokkaido-breed dog famous for playing the role of a father in a human family in TV commercials for Softbank Mobile Corp., in the town of Mukawa, Hokkaido, on Feb. 3, 2012. To the top is Kai's daughter Kirara.

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Strong earthquake hits Hokkaido

Photo shows a cracked street in Mukawa, Hokkaido, on Sept. 6, 2018, after a strong earthquake struck the northernmost main island of Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Season of dried "shishamo" smelt arrives in Hokkaido

A woman hangs "shishamo" smelt caught in waters off Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido for drying in front of her shop in Mukawa on the Pacific Coast on Oct. 20, 2015. The fish hung like "sudare" bamboo blinds are a typical autumn sight in the town. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Season of dried "shishamo" smelt arrives in Hokkaido

A woman hangs "shishamo" smelt caught in waters off Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido for drying in front of her shop in Mukawa facing the Pacific Coast on Oct. 20, 2015. The fish hung like "sudare" bamboo blinds are a typical autumn scene in the town. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Softbank dog's grandson

SAPPORO, Japan - Photo shows a male puppy named Kaiji (bottom), the first ''grandpuppy'' of Kai, a Hokkaido-breed dog famous for playing the role of a father in a human family in TV commercials for Softbank Mobile Corp., in the town of Mukawa, Hokkaido, on Feb. 3, 2012. To the top is Kai's daughter Kirara. (Kyodo)

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Dinosaur jaw bone fossil displayed

SAPPORO, Japan - A partial upper-jaw bone fossil of a dinosaur, considered belonging to the Hadrosaurus genus, is displayed in Mukawa in Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido on Oct. 10, 2014, following its discovery in September. The upper half of the fossil is the bone, while the lower part is a rock. (Kyodo)

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Hokkaido archaeologist leads dinosaur fossil hunt

SAPPORO, Japan - Yoshitsugu Kobayashi, an associate professor at the Hokkaido University Museum leading an excavation project for dinosaur fossils in Hokkaido Prefecture, northern Japan, poses in this undated photo at an excavation site in the town of Mukawa, southern Hokkaido. (Kyodo)

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Paris piano contest

Keigo Mukawa, a Japanese student at the Paris National Conservatory of Music, is pictured after playing a concerto in the final of the piano category of the Long-Thibaud-Crespin Competition in the French capital on Nov. 15, 2019. The 26-year-old won second prize at the competition for up-and-coming classical musicians, held every three years. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Paris piano contest

Keigo Mukawa (front), a Japanese student at the Paris National Conservatory of Music, holds a bouquet after winning second prize in the piano category of the Long-Thibaud-Crespin Competition in the French capital on Nov. 15, 2019. The competition for up-and-coming classical musicians is held every three years. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Skelton replica of plesiosaur

Tokyo Gakugei University associate professor Tamaki Sato explains about a replica of a skeleton of a plesiosaur in Mukawa, Hokkaido, northern Japan, on June 13, 2019. The 8-meter-long replica was produced in 1982 after the original fossil discovery was made in the town. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Replica of Japan's largest dinosaur fossil

A life-size replica of a skeleton of an 8-meter-long, 4-meter-tall plant-eating Hadrosaurid is unveiled to the press on April 17, 2019, in Mukawa, Hokkaido. It was created based on the largest-ever discovered dinosaur fossil in Japan, excavated from a 72-million-year-old geological layer in the northern Japan town. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Replica of Japan's largest dinosaur fossil

A life-size replica of a skeleton of an 8-meter-long, 4-meter-tall plant-eating Hadrosaurid is unveiled to the press on April 17, 2019, in Mukawa, Hokkaido. It was created based on the largest-ever discovered dinosaur fossil in Japan, excavated from a 72-million-year-old geological layer in the northern Japan town. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Replica of Japan's largest dinosaur fossil

A life-size replica of a skeleton of an 8-meter-long, 4-meter-tall plant-eating Hadrosaurid is unveiled to the press on April 17, 2019, in Mukawa, Hokkaido. It was created based on the largest-ever discovered dinosaur fossil in Japan, excavated from a 72-million-year-old geological layer in the northern Japan town. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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"Shishamo" smelt fishing

A fishing boat leaves a port in Mukawa, Hokkaido, to catch "shishamo" smelt on Oct. 3, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Russian islanders encourage earthquake-hit town in Hokkaido

A Russian woman from one of the disputed islands off Hokkaido presents paintings to a child at a nursery school in Mukawa, an earthquake-hit town on Japan's northernmost main island on Sept. 22, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Russian islanders encourage earthquake-hit town in Hokkaido

Russian residents from one of the disputed islands off Hokkaido play with children at a nursery school in Mukawa, an earthquake-hit town on Japan's northernmost main island on Sept. 22, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Russian islanders encourage earthquake-hit town in Hokkaido

Russian residents from one of the disputed islands off Hokkaido deliver beverages to a woman in Mukawa, an earthquake-hit town on Japan's northernmost main island on Sept. 22, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Researchers unearth Japan's largest fossilized dinosaur skeleton

Yoshiyuki Horita, a local fossil collector who found a fossilized tail bone of a Hadrosaurid in 2003, speaks in the town of Mukawa on Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido on April 27, 2017, after the fossilized remains, dating from around 72 million years ago, were found in the Hokkaido mountains, making it the largest fossilized dinosaur skeleton discovered in the country. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Researchers unearth Japan's largest fossilized dinosaur skeleton

The remains of an 8-meter-long Hadrosaurid, dating from around 72 million years ago and unearthed in the mountains of Hokkaido by Japanese researchers, are shown in the Hokkaido town of Mukawa on April 27, 2017. It is the largest fossilized dinosaur skeleton ever discovered in the country. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Researchers unearth Japan's largest fossilized dinosaur skeleton

The remains of an 8-meter-long Hadrosaurid, dating from around 72 million years ago and unearthed in the mountains of Hokkaido by Japanese researchers, are shown in the Hokkaido town of Mukawa on April 27, 2017. It is the largest fossilized dinosaur skeleton ever discovered in the country. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Researchers unearth Japan's largest fossilized dinosaur skeleton

Japanese researchers stand in the Hokkaido town of Mukawa on April 27, 2017, in front of the remains of an 8-meter-long Hadrosaurid, dating from around 72 million years ago, they unearthed in the mountains of Hokkaido. It is the largest fossilized dinosaur skeleton ever discovered in the country. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo