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Fukushima students awarded for film about balloon bombs aimed at U.S.

NEW YORK, United States - Students from Nakoso 1st Junior High School in Iwaki City, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, receive an award for their five-minute documentary, "There Once Was War Here," at ceremony for the Kid Witness News global video contest near New York on Oct. 15, 2014. For their video, the Fukushima students researched the desperate practice in the final states of World War II of attaching bombs to large balloons that were released from Japan's Pacific coast in hopes they would reach the United States.

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Fukushima beach kicks off sea-bathing season

IWAKI, Japan - Local tour guides frolic in the water at the Nakoso swimming beach, one of two beaches open to bathers in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, in a ceremony marking the formal start of the sea-bathing season on July 20, 2014.

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1st Fukushima beach opens since nuclear disaster

IWAKI, Japan - Three local women working as tour guides, including Yukiei Hakozaki (L), enter the water at Nakoso beach in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on July 16, 2012, marking the start of the swimming season on the Marine Day public holiday. The beach opened the same day as the prefecture's only functioning beach for the summer, with all other beaches to remain closed following the Fukushima nuclear accident in March 2011.

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1st Fukushima beach opens since nuclear disaster

IWAKI, Japan - Parents and their son have fun at Nakoso beach in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on July 16, 2012, the Marine Day public holiday. The beach opened the same day as the prefecture's only functioning beach for the summer, with all other beaches to remain closed following the Fukushima nuclear accident in March 2011.

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1st Fukushima beach opens since nuclear disaster

IWAKI, Japan - Three local women working as tour guides enter the water at Nakoso beach in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on July 16, 2012, marking the start of the swimming season on the Marine Day public holiday. The beach opened the same day as the prefecture's only functioning beach for the summer, with all other beaches to remain closed following the Fukushima nuclear accident in March 2011.

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Bringing fire to Tohoku

IWAKI, Japan - Buddhist monks walk along Nakoso Beach in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on March 2, 2012, as they brought fire taken from a monument in Hyogo Prefecture to commemorate the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake to the northeastern Japanese city hit by the March 11, 2011, quake and tsunami. The fire will be used for events to mark the first anniversary of the disaster.

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Bringing fire to Tohoku

IWAKI, Japan - Buddhist monks walk along Nakoso Beach in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on March 2, 2012, as they brought fire taken from a monument in Hyogo Prefecture to commemorate the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake to the northeastern Japanese city hit by the March 11, 2011, quake and tsunami. The fire will be used for events to mark the first anniversary of the disaster.

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Women's money champ Lee surpasses men's earnings record

South Korea's Lee Bo Mee poses with the winner's trophy after her victory in the Elleair Ladies Open golf tournament on the Japan LPGA tour at Itsuurateien Country Club in the town of Nakoso, Fukushima Prefecture, on Nov. 22, 2015. Lee, who clinched her first earnings title on the women's tour by winning the Itoen Ladies on Nov. 15, sent her season earnings past the 225 million yen (about $1.83 million) mark, eclipsing the previous record on the domestic men's tour. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Women's money champ Lee surpasses men's earnings record

South Korea's Lee Bo Mee celebrates after winning the Elleair Ladies Open golf tournament on Japan's LPGA tour at Itsuurateien Country Club in the town of Nakoso, Fukushima Prefecture, on Nov. 22, 2015. Lee, who clinched her first earnings title on the women's tour by winning the Itoen Ladies on Nov. 15, sent her season earnings past the 225 million yen (about $1.83 million) mark, eclipsing the previous record on the domestic men's tour. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Bringing fire to Tohoku

IWAKI, Japan - Buddhist monks walk along Nakoso Beach in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on March 2, 2012, as they brought fire taken from a monument in Hyogo Prefecture to commemorate the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake to the northeastern Japanese city hit by the March 11, 2011, quake and tsunami. The fire will be used for events to mark the first anniversary of the disaster. (Kyodo)

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Bringing fire to Tohoku

IWAKI, Japan - Buddhist monks walk along Nakoso Beach in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on March 2, 2012, as they brought fire taken from a monument in Hyogo Prefecture to commemorate the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake to the northeastern Japanese city hit by the March 11, 2011, quake and tsunami. The fire will be used for events to mark the first anniversary of the disaster. (Kyodo)

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Fukushima students awarded for film about balloon bombs aimed at U.S.

NEW YORK, United States - Students from Nakoso 1st Junior High School in Iwaki City, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, receive an award for their five-minute documentary, "There Once Was War Here," at ceremony for the Kid Witness News global video contest near New York on Oct. 15, 2014. For their video, the Fukushima students researched the desperate practice in the final states of World War II of attaching bombs to large balloons that were released from Japan's Pacific coast in hopes they would reach the United States. (Kyodo)

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Fukushima beach kicks off sea-bathing season

IWAKI, Japan - Local tour guides frolic in the water at the Nakoso swimming beach, one of two beaches open to bathers in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, in a ceremony marking the formal start of the sea-bathing season on July 20, 2014. (Kyodo)