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Wartime poison gas factory in Japan

Photo taken on May 9, 2015, shows rabbits in front of a defunct facility on a tiny island in Takehara, Hiroshima Prefecture, that supplied electricity to a nearby poison gas factory run by the Imperial Japanese Army between 1929 and 1945. The rabbits, brought to the island in the Seto Inland Sea after World War II, draw many tourists.

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Wartime poison gas factory in Japan

Photo taken on Oct. 20, 2023, shows a cenotaph built on a tiny island in Takehara, Hiroshima Prefecture, in memory of those who died after falling ill following their exposure to poison gas. Over 6,000 workers and students were mobilized to work at a poison gas factory on the island in the Seto Inland Sea run by the Imperial Japanese Army between 1929 and 1945.

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Turkish police detain 434 suspects in anti-narcotics operations

STORY: Turkish police detain 434 suspects in anti-narcotics operations SHOOTING TIME: Earlier footage DATELINE: March 29, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:18 LOCATION: Ankara CATEGORY: OTHERS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the anti-narcotics operations launched by Turkish police (courtesy of Turkish Interior Ministry) STORYLINE: Turkish police have detained 434 suspected drug traffickers in anti-narcotics operations across 53 provinces, the country's Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said on Thursday. The police seized a total of 1,043 kg of narcotics and 387,000 narcotic pills during the operations, Yerlikaya noted on social media platform X. "I want our esteemed nation to know that we will never allow drug dealers to poison our future, our youth, and our society. Our operations against drug traffickers and street dealers will continue resolutely across every corner of our country," he added. Located at the crossroads of Asia and Europe, Türkiye has been grappling with international drug smuggling for years. Turki

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Turkish police seize 1.15 tons of drugs, 14.2 million narcotic pills: minister

STORY: Turkish police seize 1.15 tons of drugs, 14.2 million narcotic pills: minister SHOOTING TIME: Dec. 21, 2023 DATELINE: Dec. 21, 2023 LENGTH: 00:00:41 LOCATION: Ankara CATEGORY: LAW SHOTLIST: 1. various of Turkish security forces seizing drugs and narcotic pills in anti-narcotic operations across 47 provinces of Türkiye (courtesy of Turkish Interior Ministry) STORYLINE: Turkish police have seized 1.15 tons of drugs and 14.2 million narcotic pills in anti-narcotic operations across 47 provinces, the country's Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said Thursday. A total of 376 suspects were detained in the operations that involved 535 teams, 1,094 personnel and 21 detector dogs, Yerlikaya said in a post on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. "Our fight against drug dealers, terrorist organizations and organized crime organizations that poison our people will continue with determination," he said. Located at the crossroads of Asia and Europe, Türkiye has been grappling with international dru

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Turkish police seize 850 kg of meth in Istanbul

STORY: Turkish police seize 850 kg of meth in Istanbul DATELINE: July 25, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:47 LOCATION: ISTANBUL, Türkiye CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the Anti-narcotics police seize narcotics 2. various of the exhibited narcotics STORYLINE: The Turkish police have seized about 850 kg of methamphetamine and detained 14 suspects in a recent anti-narcotics operation in Istanbul, police sources said Monday. The operation was carried out between June 11 and July 18 in nine districts of Istanbul. The seized drugs were exhibited at the main police headquarters. In June, Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya vowed to eliminate any passage to drug dealers "who poison our youth and threaten our future". Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Istanbul, Türkiye. (XHTV)

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Japanese public gathers to oppose contaminated wastewater discharge plan

STORY: Japanese public gathers to oppose contaminated wastewater discharge plan DATELINE: April 14, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:12 LOCATION: Tokyo CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT SHOTLIST: 1. various of Japanese against nuclear-contaminated wastewater discharge plan 2. various of the protest STORYLINE: Japanese residents on Thursday held a rally in Tokyo to protest against the Japanese government's plan to discharge nuclear-contaminated water into the sea. Carrying signs such as "Do not let nuclear-tainted water pollute the sea" and "Do not spill poison into the sea," about 120 protestors of all ages rallied in front of the House of Representatives, or the lower house of the Diet. The contaminated water must first be stored to minimize radioactivity before the world works out how to deal with it, said Toshihiro Inoue, the organizer of the rally. If the nuclear-contaminated water is allowed to be discharged into the sea, arbitrary discharges would take place whenever nuclear contamination occurs in the future, he said. Ig

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UN chief calls for stamping out "poison" of anti-Muslim bias

STORY: UN chief calls for stamping out "poison" of anti-Muslim bias DATELINE: March 11, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:56 LOCATION: UN Headquarters CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of UNGA Hall 2. various of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres walking up to the rostrum 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): ANTONIO GUTERRES, UN Secretary-General 4. various of delegates 5. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): ANTONIO GUTERRES, UN Secretary-General 6. various of UNGA Hall STORYLINE: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday called for the elimination of "poison" of anti-Muslim bias at an event marking the International Day to Combat Islamophobia. "I thank Pakistan and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation for focusing attention - and calling for action - to stamp out the poison of Islamophobia," the top UN official said at the high-level special event marking the International Day to Combat Islamophobia at the UN headquarters in New York. The event was co-convened by the Office of the President of the General Assembly and the M

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Biden laments divisive "poison" infecting U.S. politics

STORY: Biden laments divisive "poison" infecting U.S. politics DATELINE: Dec. 23, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:21 LOCATION: Washington D.C. CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): JOE BIDEN, U.S. President 2. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): JOE BIDEN, U.S. President 3. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): JOE BIDEN, U.S. President 4. SOUNDBITE 4 (English): JOE BIDEN, U.S. President STORYLINE: U.S. President Joe Biden lamented the polarization of the country's politics on Thursday. "Our politics has gotten so angry, so mean, so partisan," Biden said from the White House as part of his Christmas remarks. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): JOE BIDEN, U.S. President "Our politics has gotten so angry, so mean, so partisan. And too often we see each other as enemies, not as neighbors; as Democrats or Republicans, not as fellow Americans. We've become too divided." SOUNDBITE 2 (English): JOE BIDEN, U.S. President "I sincerely hope this holiday season will drain the poison that has infected our politics and set us against one another." A d

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Police rescue man in drill against nerve poison attack

NAGOYA, Japan - Antiriot policemen in chemical protective suits rescue an "injured man" in an antiterrorism drill on the assumption of liquid sarin nerve poison being dispersed at a police school in Kasugai, Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, on Dec.9, 2014.

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Memorial service for WWII female post office workers

SAPPORO, Japan - Chieko Kuriyama speaks in front of the photos of her nine former colleagues at a post office in Maoka (currently Kholmsk in Sakhalin, Russia) during a memorial service held for them in Wakkanai on the northernmost main island of Hokkaido on Aug. 8, 2014. Working as telephone exchange operators, the nine young Japanese women committed suicide by taking poison on the same date in 1945 when Russian forces invaded the town. (Photo by Daisuke Suzuki)

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Urban Animal Album

OSAKA, Japan - A fish known as "striped poison-fang blenny mimic" emerges from its empty-coffee-can home, in 4-meter-deep water off a beach in the city of Kobe on Sept. 12, 2013.

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Suspect stole methamidophos from factory: police

BEIJING, China - Du Hang Wei, chief of the criminal investigation bureau of China's Ministry of Public Security, speaks to Japanese reporters in Beijing on March 28, 2010. Du said the suspect in a poison dumpling case, in which 10 people fell ill in Japan in 2007 and 2008, had stolen the toxic substance methamidophos from the food factory in which he worked.

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Suspect stole methamidophos from factory: police

BEIJING, China - Du Hang Wei, chief of the criminal investigation bureau of China's Ministry of Public Security, speaks to Japanese reporters in Beijing on March 28, 2010. Du said the suspect in a poison dumpling case, in which 10 people fell ill in Japan in 2007 and 2008, had stolen the toxic substance methamidophos from the food factory in which he worked.

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Consultancy group raided over China poison gas disposal projects

TOKYO, Japan - Prosecutors head to Abandoned Chemical Weapons Disposal Corp., a group firm of Pacific Consultants International, in Tokyo on Oct. 17 over alleged accounting irregularities regarding government projects to dispose of weapons abandoned by the Imperial Japanese Army in China.

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Nara Park nettles grow poison thorns as defense against deer?

NARA, Japan - Researchers at Nara Women's University believe that the wild nettles in Nara Park (bottom photo) have grown poison-tipped thorns probably as a defense mechanism against nettle-eating deer (top photo) in the park. According to a study conducted by a research group headed by Hiroaki Sato, a Nara Women's University associate professor who specializes in insect biology, nettles in Nara Park have 50 times more thorns that nettles found in southern Nara Prefecture and elsewhere. The researchers believe that, as a survival mechanism, Nara Park nettles developed more poison-tipped thorns after deer were brought from Ibaraki Prefecture to Nara Park about 1,200 years ago.

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Victims of poison gas leak in China seek help from Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Victims of a 2003 poison gas leak from weapons abandoned by the Imperial Japanese Army in China visited Senior Vice Foreign Minister Ichiro Aisawa on Aug. 5 to urge the Japanese government to provide them with support. Six victims from Qiqihar, Heilongjiang Province, including three children, and their families presented a written demand to Aisawa.

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Chinese poison gas victim describes suffering

TOKYO, Japan - Feng Jiayuan, fourth grader at an elementary school in Qiqihar, Heilongjiang Province, wipes her tears at a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 20. The 11-year-old Chinese girl described the suffering she has endured since poison gas leaked from chemical weapons abandoned by the former Imperial Japanese Army in northeastern China at the end of World War II. Her mother called on the Japanese government for an apology.

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(2)Gov't ordered to compensate Chinese victims of poison gas

TOKYO, Japan - Chinese plaintiffs, who sued the Japanese government to compensate for injuries and fatalities caused by chemical weapons left in China by the Imperial Japanese Army, speak to reporters in Tokyo on Sept. 29 after the Tokyo District Court ordered the government to pay about 190 million yen in compensation.

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(1)Gov't ordered to compensate Chinese victims of poison gas

TOKYO, Japan - A lawyer for 13 Chinese plaintiffs, suing the Japanese government for compensation for injuries and fatalities caused by chemical weapons left in China by the Imperial Japanese Army, holds up a paper in front of the Tokyo District Court on Sept. 29 announcing their victory in the suit.

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China's Wu urges Japan to deal with poison gas

TOKYO, Japan - Wu Bangguo (L), chairman of the Standing Committee of China's National People's Congress, shakes hands with House of Representatives Speaker Tamisuke Watanuki in the Diet in Tokyo on Sept. 5 prior to their talks.

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Ibaraki begins accepting applications for poison gas redress

KAMISU, Japan - A resident (R) of Kamisu town in Ibaraki Prefecture, one of 30 locals to have suffered from arsenic poisoning after drinking water from local wells, applies for a state package June 30 to cover medical costs related to health problems believed caused by poison gas abandoned by Japan's former military at the end of World War II.

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Gov't to pay medical costs for Ibaraki poison gas victims

TOKYO, Japan - Environment Minister Shunichi Suzuki, at a news conference June 4 in Tokyo, announces an aid package for residents of Kamisu, Ibaraki Prefecture, for their illnesses believed caused by poison gas abandoned by the Japanese military after World War II.

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S. Korean troops conduct anti-poison gas drill

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean chemical unit troops conduct a drill against a poison-gas attack by terrorists in Seoul on Oct. 19.

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Japan, China begin removing abandoned WWII chemical weapons

BEIAN, China - Wearing gas masks, Japanese experts are ready Sept. 13 to begin removing poison gas shells abandoned by the former Imperial Japanese Army just after the end of World War II in Beian in China's Heilongjiang Province. They are joining their Chinese counterparts for the first time in the two-week operation aimed to remove an estimated 500 shells.

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Glico again targeted by blackmailer

OSAKA, Japan - Photo shows the head office building in Osaka's Nishi-Yodogawa Ward of Ezaki Glico Co., which received a blackmail letter in June from a man who demanded 50 million yen not to poison the company's products, police sources said Aug. 11. Glico, a major maker of confectioneries and other food products, was also the target of a series of high-profile extortion attempts in the 1980s, which remain unsolved.

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S. Korea, U.S. begin joint military exercises

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean military teams wearing suits to protect against biochemical weapons conduct a drill for dealing with poison gas at a Seoul subway station Aug. 16. South Korea is conducting the drills with the United States, in which they respond to a simulated attack by North Korea.

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Poison 'medicine' mailed by 15-year-old girl

Police report Sept. 8 that a 15-year-old junior high school girl has confessed to mailing bottles containing fake diet medicine to 26 students and one female teacher at her school in Tokyo's Minato Ward in late August. The picture shows the 20-30 milliliter plastic bottle that contained the brown liquid, which was actually the disinfectant cresol.

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Poison 'medicine' sample mailed

A junior high school student in Tokyo falls ill Aug. 26 after trying a ''diet medicine'' sent to him in the mail that was later found to be poison. Twenty-two other students and a teacher received similar packages, and police have begun investigating the case. The picture shows the 20-30 milliliter plastic bottle that contained the brown liquid, which was actually the disinfectant cresol.

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Gun violence exposes structural racism in U.S., say experts

STORY: Gun violence exposes structural racism in U.S., say experts DATELINE: June 3, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:55 LOCATION: NEW YORK, U.S. CATEGORY: SOCIETY/POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of U.S. 2. various of scenes of shooting incidents in the U.S. 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (Spanish): ANTONIO GONZALEZ PLESSMAN, Human rights activist in Venezuela 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Arabic): SUZAN ISMAIL, Lebanese lawyer 5. SOUNDBITE 3 (English) : STEPHEN NDEGWA, United States International University (USIU-Africa) in Kenya STORYLINE: As the U.S. is plagued with worsening gun violence, some observers say that mass shootings carried out by white supremacists expose structural, generational racism in the society. Last month, a heavily armed 18-year-old white man shot and killed 10 people and injured three others in Buffalo, New York, 11 of them African Americans. U.S. President Joe Biden denounced white supremacy as "a poison running through our body politic." However, as a recent Washington Post-Ipsos poll shows, more than half of African Ame

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Biden denounces white supremacy after Buffalo mass shooting

STORY: Biden denounces white supremacy after Buffalo mass shooting DATELINE: May 19, 2022 LENGTH: 00:00:56 LOCATION: Washington D.C. CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): JOE BIDEN, U.S. President 2. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): JOE BIDEN, U.S. President STORYLINE: U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday denounced white supremacy in a visit to the city of Buffalo in New York, where a gunman killed 10 people and injured three others, 11 of them African Americans. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): JOE BIDEN, U.S. President "White supremacy is a poison. It's a poison, running through our body politic. And it's been allowed to fester and grow right in front of our eyes. No more. I mean, no more. We need to say as clearly and forcefully as we can that the ideology of white supremacy has no place in America. None." Payton Gendron, an 18-year-old white man, opened fire at a supermarket in Buffalo on Saturday. He was alleged to have been motivated by a far-right conspiracy theory that white people are at risk of bei

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