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2 nursing home residents killed near Tokyo

2 nursing home residents killed near Tokyo

Police officers block a street near a nursing home in Tsurugashima, Saitama Prefecture, near Tokyo, on Oct. 15, 2025, after two female residents were found bleeding and later pronounced dead. Police took a former male employee of the facility into custody later in the day.

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2 nursing home residents killed near Tokyo

2 nursing home residents killed near Tokyo

Police officers block a street near a nursing home in Tsurugashima, Saitama Prefecture, near Tokyo, on Oct. 15, 2025, after two female residents were found bleeding and later pronounced dead. Police took a former male employee of the facility into custody later in the day.

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2 nursing home residents killed near Tokyo

2 nursing home residents killed near Tokyo

Police officers search for clues in the vicinity of a nursing home in Tsurugashima, Saitama Prefecture, near Tokyo, on Oct. 15, 2025, after two female residents were found bleeding and later pronounced dead. Police took a former male employee of the facility into custody later in the day.

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2 nursing home residents killed near Tokyo

2 nursing home residents killed near Tokyo

Police officers search for clues in the vicinity of a nursing home in Tsurugashima, Saitama Prefecture, near Tokyo, on Oct. 15, 2025, after two female residents were found bleeding and later pronounced dead. Police took a former male employee of the facility into custody later in the day.

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US: Protest Erupts After Man Killed Fleeing ICE Raid in Monrovia, California

A protest erupted on Thursday, August 14, after a man was killed on the 210 Freeway while fleeing an ICE operation at a Home Depot in Monrovia, California. He was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

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Wind turbine with fallen blade in northeastern Japan

Wind turbine with fallen blade in northeastern Japan

Photo taken on May 2, 2025, shows a wind turbine with a fallen blade in the northeastern Japan city of Akita. A man with a head injury was found unconscious near the fallen blade but was pronounced dead after being rushed to a nearby hospital, police said, adding that they were investigating whether the blade was causally linked to his death.

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Wind turbine with fallen blade in northeastern Japan

Wind turbine with fallen blade in northeastern Japan

Photo taken on May 2, 2025, shows a wind turbine with a fallen blade in the northeastern Japan city of Akita. A man with a head injury was found unconscious near the fallen blade but was pronounced dead after being rushed to a nearby hospital, police said, adding that they were investigating whether the blade was causally linked to his death.

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Wind turbine with fallen blade in northeastern Japan

Wind turbine with fallen blade in northeastern Japan

Photo taken on May 2, 2025, shows a wind turbine with a fallen blade in the northeastern Japan city of Akita. A man with a head injury was found unconscious near the fallen blade but was pronounced dead after being rushed to a nearby hospital, police said, adding that they were investigating whether the blade was causally linked to his death.

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Police officer likely shot himself on Japan PM's office premises

Police officer likely shot himself on Japan PM's office premises

Photo taken on May 5, 2023, shows the building housing the Japanese prime minister's office. A riot police officer was found bleeding after apparently shooting himself the same day in a toilet on the premises and was later pronounced dead.

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Israel Strikes West Bank - Tulkarm

Israel Strikes West Bank - Tulkarm

Residents of the Nur Shams refugee camp come together around damaged buildings after an Israeli airstrike in Tulkarm, West Bank, October 20, 2023. The Palestinian Health Ministry has reported that 12 Palestinians lost their lives in an attack on the Nur Shams refugee camp, with seven of them being pronounced dead after they were taken to Tulkarm Governmental Hospital. Photo by Wahaj Bani Moufleh/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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(FOCUS) MIDEAST-WEST BANK-TULKARM-CLASHES

(FOCUS) MIDEAST-WEST BANK-TULKARM-CLASHES

(231020) -- TULKARM, Oct. 20, 2023 (Xinhua) -- People mourn for their relatives at a hospital in the West Bank city of Tulkarm, Oct. 20, 2023. At least 12 Palestinians and one Israeli officer were killed on Thursday in clashes in a refugee camp east of the West Bank city of Tulkarm, Palestinian sources said. The Palestinian Ministry of Health confirmed in a statement that 12 Palestinians were killed in "an attack" in the Nur Shams refugee camp, adding seven of them were pronounced dead after being sent to Tulkarm Governmental Hospital in the city. (Photo by Nidal Eshtayeh/Xinhua)

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(FOCUS) MIDEAST-WEST BANK-TULKARM-CLASHES

(FOCUS) MIDEAST-WEST BANK-TULKARM-CLASHES

(231020) -- TULKARM, Oct. 20, 2023 (Xinhua) -- People inspect the damages after clashes at a refugee camp in the West Bank city of Tulkarm, Oct. 20, 2023. At least 12 Palestinians and one Israeli officer were killed on Thursday in clashes in a refugee camp east of the West Bank city of Tulkarm, Palestinian sources said. The Palestinian Ministry of Health confirmed in a statement that 12 Palestinians were killed in "an attack" in the Nur Shams refugee camp, adding seven of them were pronounced dead after being sent to Tulkarm Governmental Hospital in the city. (Photo by Nidal Eshtayeh/Xinhua)

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(FOCUS) MIDEAST-WEST BANK-TULKARM-CLASHES

(FOCUS) MIDEAST-WEST BANK-TULKARM-CLASHES

(231020) -- TULKARM, Oct. 20, 2023 (Xinhua) -- People inspect the damages after clashes at a refugee camp in the West Bank city of Tulkarm, Oct. 20, 2023. At least 12 Palestinians and one Israeli officer were killed on Thursday in clashes in a refugee camp east of the West Bank city of Tulkarm, Palestinian sources said. The Palestinian Ministry of Health confirmed in a statement that 12 Palestinians were killed in "an attack" in the Nur Shams refugee camp, adding seven of them were pronounced dead after being sent to Tulkarm Governmental Hospital in the city. (Photo by Nidal Eshtayeh/Xinhua)

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Police officer likely shot himself on Japan PM's office premises

Police officer likely shot himself on Japan PM's office premises

Photo taken on May 5, 2023, shows the building housing the Japanese prime minister's office. A riot police officer was found bleeding after apparently shooting himself the same day in a toilet on the premises and was later pronounced dead.

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Woman fatally stabbed in Chiba Pref.

Woman fatally stabbed in Chiba Pref.

ICHIKAWA, Japan - Police officers on Nov. 27, 2013, examine a street in Ichikawa, Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo, where a woman was stabbed the same day. The woman was pronounced dead at a hospital.

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2 construction workers die of carbon monoxide poisoning

2 construction workers die of carbon monoxide poisoning

YOKKAICHI, Japan - Rescue workers at the entrance of an underground industrial pipe in Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture, on Sept. 7 work to rescue two construction workers who lost consciousness inside the 1.2-kilometer-long pipe. The two were later pronounced dead from carbon monoxide poisoning.

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2 dead after helicopter crashes in central Japan mountains

2 dead after helicopter crashes in central Japan mountains

NAGANO, Japan - A helicopter lies on the snow-covered Mt. Suishodake in the Northern Japan Alps in the city of Toyama on April 10 after a crash the previous day. Ten people who had been on board the helicopter were lifted out from a mountain hut by rescuers but two of them were pronounced dead in hospital.

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Former Japanese PM Abe dies after being fatally shot in Nara

STORY: Former Japanese PM Abe dies after being fatally shot in Nara DATELINE: July 9, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:01 LOCATION: Tokyo CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the shooting scene 2. various of the hospital that received the former prime minister STORYLINE: Former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe was pronounced dead on Friday after being shot twice by an ex-Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF) worker while he was delivering a speech in the western prefecture of Nara. Abe, 67, died at 5:03 p.m. local time, the hospital that received the former prime minister said at a press conference in the afternoon. Abe, also former leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), was shot twice from behind at 11:30 a.m. local time by Tetsuya Yamagami, a former worker for the MSDF and resident of the western city while speaking in front of Kintetsu Railway's Yamato-Saidaiji Station, ahead of Sunday's upper house election, local police and firefighters said. The 41-year-old Yamagami, who worked for MSDF for t

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JAPAN-NARA-SHINZO ABE-GUNSHOT-DEATH

JAPAN-NARA-SHINZO ABE-GUNSHOT-DEATH

(220709) -- NARA (JAPAN), July 9, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A motorcade believed to be transporting the body of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe leaves the Nara Medical University Hospital in Nara, Japan, on July 9, 2022. Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was pronounced dead on Friday after being shot twice by an ex-Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF) worker while he was delivering a speech in the western prefecture of Nara. (Xinhua/Zhang Xiaoyu)

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Japan's former prime minister Abe dies after being shot at stump speech

STORY: Japan's former prime minister Abe dies after being shot at stump speech DATELINE: July 8, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:49 LOCATION: Tokyo CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: STANDUP(English): ZHANG XIAOYU, Xinhua correspondentvarious of people morning the death of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe STORYLINE: STANDUP(English): ZHANG XIAOYU, Xinhua correspondent "Former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe was pronounced dead on Friday after being fatally shot while he was delivering a speech in the western prefecture of Nara." Abe, also former leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), was shot twice during a speech. He was shot from behind by a former worker from the Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF). He was later rushed to a hospital, and passed away there. The hospital said the cause of death was believed to be blood loss. The 41-year-old perpetrator was arrested at the scene for attempted murder and was quoted as telling police he intended to kill Abe as he was "dissatisfied" with the former

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Ex-Japan PM Abe shot to death in Nara

Ex-Japan PM Abe shot to death in Nara

A medical doctor attends a news conference at Nara Medical University Hospital in Kashihara, western Japan, on July 8, 2022, after former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was pronounced dead there following a shooting by a gunman during a House of Councillors election stump speech in Nara earlier in the day.

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Ex-Japan PM Abe shot to death in Nara

Ex-Japan PM Abe shot to death in Nara

Medical doctors attend a news conference at Nara Medical University Hospital in Kashihara, western Japan, on July 8, 2022, after former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was pronounced dead there following a shooting by a gunman during a House of Councillors election stump speech in Nara earlier in the day.

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Ex-Japan PM Abe shot to death in Nara

Ex-Japan PM Abe shot to death in Nara

Medical doctors attend a news conference at Nara Medical University Hospital in Kashihara, western Japan, on July 8, 2022, after former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was pronounced dead there following a shooting by a gunman during a House of Councillors election stump speech in Nara earlier in the day.

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JAPAN-SHINZO ABE-GUNSHOT-DEATH

JAPAN-SHINZO ABE-GUNSHOT-DEATH

(220708) -- NARA, July 8, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A citizen mourns at the site where late former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot in Nara, Japan, July 8, 2022. Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was pronounced dead on Friday after being shot twice by an ex-Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF) worker while he was delivering a speech in the western prefecture of Nara. Abe, 67, died at 5:03 p.m. local time, the hospital that received the former prime minister said at a press conference in the afternoon. (Xinhua/Zhang Xiaoyu)

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JAPAN-SHINZO ABE-GUNSHOT-DEATH

JAPAN-SHINZO ABE-GUNSHOT-DEATH

(220708) -- NARA, July 8, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A citizen mourns at the site where late former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot in Nara, Japan, July 8, 2022. Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was pronounced dead on Friday after being shot twice by an ex-Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF) worker while he was delivering a speech in the western prefecture of Nara. Abe, 67, died at 5:03 p.m. local time, the hospital that received the former prime minister said at a press conference in the afternoon. (Xinhua/Zhang Xiaoyu)

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Ex-Japan PM Abe shot to death in Nara

Ex-Japan PM Abe shot to death in Nara

Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike sheds tears at a news conference at the metropolitan government headquarters building on July 8, 2022, after former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot by a gunman while making a stump speech in Nara, western Japan, for the July 10 House of Councillors election. Abe was pronounced dead at a local hospital later in the day.

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Ex-Japan PM Abe shot to death in Nara

Ex-Japan PM Abe shot to death in Nara

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter in Nara, western Japan, on July 8, 2022, shows a helicopter carrying doctors and wounded former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe heading to Nara Medical University Hospital in Kashihara. Abe, shot by a gunman during a House of Councillors election stump speech, was pronounced dead at the hospital later in the day.

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Ex-Japan PM Abe shot in Nara

Ex-Japan PM Abe shot in Nara

Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's wife Akie (L) on July 8, 2022 heads to Nara Medical University Hospital in Kashihara, western Japan, where Abe was taken after being shot earlier in the day in Nara while delivering a stump speech for the July 10 House of Councillors election. He was pronounced dead later in the day.

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Ex-Japan PM Abe shot in Nara

Ex-Japan PM Abe shot in Nara

Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's wife Akie (2nd from L) on July 8, 2022 heads to Nara Medical University Hospital in Kashihara, western Japan, where Abe was taken after being shot earlier in the day in Nara while delivering a stump speech for the July 10 House of Councillors election. He was pronounced dead later in the day.

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Ex-Japan PM Abe shot in Nara

Ex-Japan PM Abe shot in Nara

A vehicle carrying former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's wife Akie (L) arrives on July 8, 2022, at Nara Medical University Hospital in Kashihara, western Japan, where Abe was taken after being shot earlier in the day in Nara while delivering a stump speech for the July 10 House of Councillors election. He was pronounced dead later in the day.

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Ex-Japan PM Abe shot in Nara

Ex-Japan PM Abe shot in Nara

Photo taken in Nara, western Japan, on July 8, 2022, shows former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe fallen on the ground on the side of a road after being shot from behind by a man. Abe was giving a stump speech for the July 10 House of Councillors election at the time of the attack. He was pronounced dead at a local hospital later in the day. (No trimming permitted)

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Ex-Japan PM Abe shot in Nara

Ex-Japan PM Abe shot in Nara

Photo taken in Nara, western Japan, on July 8, 2022, shows former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe fallen on the ground on the side of a road after being shot from behind by a man. Abe was giving a stump speech for the July 10 House of Councillors election at the time of the attack. He was pronounced dead at a local hospital later in the day. (No trimming permitted)

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Ex-Japan PM Abe shot in Nara

Ex-Japan PM Abe shot in Nara

Photo taken in Nara, western Japan, on July 8, 2022, shows former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe fallen on the ground on the side of a road after being shot from behind by a man. Abe was giving a stump speech for the July 10 House of Councillors election at the time of the attack. He was pronounced dead at a local hospital later in the day. (No trimming permitted)

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Woman stabbed to death in western Japan, suspect on run

A 28-year-old woman was stabbed to death on Friday in the compound of her apartment in the western Japan city of Amagasaki with a suspect apparently fleeing on a motor scooter, police said. Sayaka Morimoto was found lying face-down with multiple stab wounds in her back near a bicycle parking area, an investigative source said, adding she and the suspect are believed to have known each other. A delivery man called an ambulance at around 8:20 p.m. saying that "a man possibly in his 20s or 30s is stabbing" the woman. Morimoto, a medical clerk, was taken to a hospital but pronounced dead later, the police said, adding that no weapons were found at the crime scene. According to the police, security camera footage showed a man dressed in black who was not wearing a helmet entering a passage toward the parking area shortly before the stabbing incident and later fleeing.

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Helicopter crash in eastern Japan

Helicopter crash in eastern Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the site of a small helicopter's crash in Hadano, Kanagawa Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Oct. 7, 2021. A man believed to be the pilot was found lying nearby and taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead.

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Helicopter crash in eastern Japan

Helicopter crash in eastern Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the site of a small helicopter's crash in Hadano, Kanagawa Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Oct. 7, 2021. A man believed to be the pilot was found lying nearby and taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead.

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United Airlines-Flight826-turbulence-5

United Airlines-Flight826-turbulence-5

NARITA, Japan, Dec. 29 Kyodo A United Airlines jumbo jet with 393 people aboard hit a massive air turbulence over the Pacific late Sunday, leaving one person dead and more than 60 people injured, some of them seriously. The accident took place over the northern Pacific about two hours after the U.S. airliner took off from the New Tokyo International Airport at Narita at 9:05 p.m. The Boeing 747, flight 826 bound for Honolulu with 374 passengers and 19 crew members aboard, flew back safely to Narita. The United pilot radioed air traffic controllers at Narita after accident, and ambulances and fire engines were on standby as the aircraft touched down at the airport at 2:25 a.m. Monday One Japanese female passenger, Konomi Kataura, 32, was pronounced dead on arrival at a local hospital. The injured passengers and crew members were rushed to local hospitals in Narita and nearby cities.

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Coast Guard member dies after apparently killing daughter

Coast Guard member dies after apparently killing daughter

Photo taken in the early hours of Nov. 28, 2015, shows the house in Tokoname, Aichi Prefecture, where Takayuki Kanda, a 43-year-old Japan Coast Guard member, allegedly attacked his 9-year-old daughter who was later pronounced dead in hospital. Kanda was found dead 2 kilometers from his home. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Mother urges tighter safety measures for childcare, babysitters

Mother urges tighter safety measures for childcare, babysitters

Maki Fujii speaks during an interview on March 21, 2015, about her campaign calling for stricter safety measures and regulations for childcare facilities and babysitting services to prevent any recurrence of her case in which her baby daughter was pronounced brain-dead after being in the care of a babysitter and later died. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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2 construction workers die of carbon monoxide poisoning

2 construction workers die of carbon monoxide poisoning

YOKKAICHI, Japan - Rescue workers at the entrance of an underground industrial pipe in Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture, on Sept. 7 work to rescue two construction workers who lost consciousness inside the 1.2-kilometer-long pipe. The two were later pronounced dead from carbon monoxide poisoning. (Kyodo)

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2 dead after helicopter crashes in central Japan mountains

2 dead after helicopter crashes in central Japan mountains

NAGANO, Japan - A helicopter lies on the snow-covered Mt. Suishodake in the Northern Japan Alps in the city of Toyama on April 10 after a crash the previous day. Ten people who had been on board the helicopter were lifted out from a mountain hut by rescuers but two of them were pronounced dead in hospital. (Kyodo)

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Death of Tokyo teen in suspected suicide using gun

Death of Tokyo teen in suspected suicide using gun

A police investigation is under way at a residential area in Hachioji, a suburban Tokyo city, on June 8, 2020, after a 15-year-old boy apparently shot himself with a gun and was pronounced dead at a hospital. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Death of Tokyo teen in suspected suicide using gun

Death of Tokyo teen in suspected suicide using gun

A police investigation is under way at a residential area in Hachioji, a suburban Tokyo city, on June 8, 2020, after a 15-year-old boy apparently shot himself with a gun and was pronounced dead at a hospital. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Death of Tokyo teen in suspected suicide using gun

Death of Tokyo teen in suspected suicide using gun

A police investigation is under way at a residential area in Hachioji, a suburban Tokyo city, on June 8, 2020, after a 15-year-old boy apparently shot himself with a gun and was pronounced dead at a hospital. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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3 die after car falls from expressway in northeastern Japan

3 die after car falls from expressway in northeastern Japan

Photo shows the wreckage of a car which fell off an expressway in the northeastern Japan prefecture of Akita on April 4, 2018. Two men and a woman were found in the wrecked sports car and pronounced dead after being rushed to hospital. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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1 dead, 8 missing after fishing boat capsizes in western Japan

1 dead, 8 missing after fishing boat capsizes in western Japan

A Japan Coast Guard helicopter and patrol vessel continue to search for crew members from a fishing boat that capsized in the Sea of Japan off Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, on Dec. 14, 2016. One of the nine aboard the 76-ton Daifuku Maru was pronounced dead in hospital, while the others remained missing. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fishing boat carrying 9 men capsizes off Matsue, western Japan

Fishing boat carrying 9 men capsizes off Matsue, western Japan

A Japan Coast Guard patrol vessel looks for a fishing boat with nine men on board that capsized in the Sea of Japan off Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, on Dec. 14, 2016. A man, believed to be one of the crew of the 76-ton Daifuku Maru, was rescued but pronounced dead at hospital, while the eight others remain missing. The photo was taken from a Kyodo News helicopter. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fishing boat carrying 9 men capsizes off Matsue, western Japan

Fishing boat carrying 9 men capsizes off Matsue, western Japan

Members of the Japan Coast Guard look toward the Sea of Japan, where a fishing boat with nine men on board capsized off the city of Matsue, on Dec. 14, 2016. A man believed to be one of the crew of the 76-ton Daifuku Maru was rescued but pronounced dead at hospital, while the eight others remain missing. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fishing boat carrying 9 men capsizes off Matsue, western Japan

Fishing boat carrying 9 men capsizes off Matsue, western Japan

Members of the Japan Coast Guard look toward the Sea of Japan, where a fishing boat with nine men on board capsized off the city of Matsue, on Dec. 14, 2016. A man believed to be one of the crew of the 76-ton Daifuku Maru was rescued but pronounced dead at hospital, while the eight others remain missing. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fishing boat carrying 9 men capsizes off Matsue, western Japan

Fishing boat carrying 9 men capsizes off Matsue, western Japan

A Japan Coast Guard patrol vessel and helicopter search for a fishing boat that capsized off Matsue, western Japan, on Dec. 14, 2016. A man, believed to be one of the crew of the 76-ton Daifuku Maru, was rescued but pronounced dead at hospital, while eight others remain missing. The photo was taken from a Kyodo News helicopter. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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