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World Exposition in Osaka

Japan Pavilion general producer Oki Sato meets the press after the pavilion's opening ceremony was held at the site of the 2025 World Exposition on an artificial island in Osaka on March 29, 2025, ahead of the expo's start on April 13.

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US: Palisades Fire Visible From Flights Near LAX As 30,000 Evacuate 4

Huge plumes of smoke were visible from flights arriving and departing from Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) as a wildfire rapidly spread through Pacific Palisades fueled by Santa Ana winds on Tuesday, January 7. The fire has scorched more than 2,900 acres, prompting the evacuation of nearly 30,000 residents and causing several road closures. Governor Gavin Newsom has declared a state of emergency to provide additional support to the affected communities.

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US: Palisades Fire Smoke Visible From Flights Near LAX As 30,000 Evacuate 2

Huge plumes of smoke were visible from flights arriving and departing from Los Angeles International Airport as a wildfire rapidly spread through Pacific Palisades fueled by Santa Ana winds on Tuesday, January 7. The fire has scorched more than 2,900 acres, prompting the evacuation of nearly 30,000 residents and causing several road closures. Governor Gavin Newsom has declared a state of emergency to provide additional support to the affected communities.

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Man finds E. Asia's oldest alligator fossil in Shimane

MATSUE, Japan - Photo taken Sept. 25, 2013, shows Shigenori Kawano, researcher at Shimane Nature Museum of Mt. Sanbe, with East Asia's oldest fossil of a giant alligator dating from around 20 million years ago, at the museum in Oda, Shimane Prefecture. In mid-July the same year, Kawano found the fossil of the backbone of a giant alligator estimated to be as large as 7 meters long on Oki Island in the prefecture.

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New generation of fishermen drawn to remote island

NISHINOSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken Sept. 10, 2013 shows a fleet of purse seine fishery, including the Ichimaru fishing boat (front), leaving Urago Port toward evening in Nishinoshima town on the island of Nishinoshima, part of the Oki Islands in the Sea of Japan, in Shimane Prefecture. (Photo by Makoto Hori)

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Oki Islands

MATSUE, Japan - An Aug. 8, 2013, photo shows Nishinoshima island of the Oki Islands, Shimane Prefecture, in the Sea of Japan. The UNESCO Global Geoparks Network announced on Sept. 9, 2013, it will add the Oki Islands to its geoparks list.

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Belize ship sinks after collision with Japanese fishing boat

TOTTORI, Japan - The 2,847-ton Belize cargo ship AIGE, with a crew of 18, sinks in the Sea of Japan off Shimane Prefecture's Oki Island on March 31 after colliding with the 78-ton fishing boat No. 3 Koshi Maru, with eight crew members aboard. The cargo ship sank but no one from either vessel was injured. The photo was taken and provided by the Japan Coast Gaurd.

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Hokkaido produce, attractions introduced at Milan Expo

Oki, a musician from Japan, plays a traditional instrument of Japan's indigenous Ainu people at the Japan Pavilion of the Expo Milano in Milan on Oct. 6, 2015, in an event to promote Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido. They Ainu are the indigenous people of Hokkaido and surrounding areas. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Foot-shaped radish crops in Oki Island

MATSUE, Japan - Is he frowning on a stinking foot? No, the boy at a kindergarten on the Japan Sea island of Oki is just trying to pick up a rare foot-shaped radish brought by a local farmer who thought it might amuse the children. By courtesy of the Okinoshima Municipal Office. (Kyodo)