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Indonesian ferry issues call for help in Kagoshima

NAKATANE, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter at 2:26 p.m. on March 26, 2012, shows a crewmember of the Indonesian passenger ferry Masagena (below, L) being hoisted aboard a Japan Coast Guard helicopter off Yakushima Island, Kagoshima Prefecture. Twelve Indonesian crewmembers were airlifted from the 833-ton vessel after it issued a call for help that morning when the vessel began taking in water.

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Indonesian ferry issues call for help in Kagoshima

NAKATANE, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter at 2:20 p.m. on March 26, 2012, shows the Indonesian passenger ferry Masagena off Yakushima Island, Kagoshima Prefecture. The Japan Coast Guard airlifted 12 Indonesian crewmembers from the 833-ton vessel after it issued a call for help that morning when the vessel began taking in water.

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(2)New cigarette vending machines check age of buyers

NAKATANE, Japan - An IC card for purchasing cigarettes from vending machines featuring an age-verification system, which have been experimentally introduced on the island of Tanegashima.

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(1)New cigarette vending machines check age of buyers

NAKATANE, Japan - A buyer holds up an IC card against a cigarette vending machine's scanner in the town of Nakatane, Kagoshima Prefecture.