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Newly-found dinosaur in western Japan

KOBE, Japan - Photo shows a model of the imagined figure of a species of Deinonychosauria. The Museum of Nature and Human Activities, Hyogo, in the city of Sanda, Hyogo Prefecture, announced on July 15, 2011, that the fossil of the dinosaur was discovered in Sasayama in the western Japan prefecture in September 2010. The model was created by Hirokazu Tokugawa.

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Newly-found dinosaur in western Japan

KOBE, Japan - Kaoru Matsubara (L) looks at the fossil of a species of Deinonychosauria displayed at the Museum of Nature and Human Activities, Hyogo, in the city of Sanda, Hyogo Prefecture, on July 15, 2011. Matsubara found the fossil in Sasayama in the western Japan prefecture in September 2010.

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Newly-found dinosaur in western Japan

KOBE, Japan - Photo shows the fossil of a species of Deinonychosauria. The Museum of Nature and Human Activities, Hyogo, in the city of Sanda, Hyogo Prefecture, announced on July 15, 2011, that the fossil was discovered in Sasayama in the western Japan prefecture in September 2010.

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Painting inspired by Kobe quake victim donated to hometown

KOBE, Japan - Alexandra Nechita (R), a U.S. teenager who was inspired by the tale of a young victim of the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake, donates a painting to Kobe Mayor Kazutoshi Sasayama (L) in Kobe on Jan. 15. The story goes that after the death of the 11-year-old Haruka Kato, sunflower seeds that she had fed her parrot sprouted up through the rubble of her home and local residents began planting the new seeds in their own backyards.

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Hyogo Seimitsu Kogyosho builds its own robot system.

Hyogo Seimitsu Kogyosho (Hyogo Ward, Kobe City) has started to build a robot system to improve productivity within the company. In the past, cast parts weighing several dozen kilograms were manually fed into machine tools and the finished products were taken out. The tip of the robot's arm was developed and manufactured independently, and a light-weight yet high-strength mechanism that can withstand the transportation of heavy objects was adopted. The lathe process can be reduced to about one-third of the conventional process, which will lead to an optimal allocation of human resources in the plant. At the Sasayama Plant, the products to be processed by each machine tool are separated, minimizing the need for setup changes. The company aims to further improve its production efficiency by optimizing the use of robots within the company. Hyogo Seimitsu Kogyosho's Sasayama Plant in Sasayama, Tamba, Hyogo Prefecture, November 5, 2019; Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

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Fossilized jawbone judged as that of newly discovered lizard species

A fossilized lower jawbone unearthed in 2007 from a geological layer of the Lower Cretaceous (some 110 million years ago) in Sasayama, Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, is shown to the press at the Museum of Nature and Human Activities in nearby Sanda on Feb. 4, 2015. It has proved to be that of a newly discovered lizard species. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Newly-found dinosaur in western Japan

KOBE, Japan - Photo shows the fossil of a species of Deinonychosauria. The Museum of Nature and Human Activities, Hyogo, in the city of Sanda, Hyogo Prefecture, announced on July 15, 2011, that the fossil was discovered in Sasayama in the western Japan prefecture in September 2010. (Kyodo)

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Newly-found dinosaur in western Japan

KOBE, Japan - Kaoru Matsubara (L) looks at the fossil of a species of Deinonychosauria displayed at the Museum of Nature and Human Activities, Hyogo, in the city of Sanda, Hyogo Prefecture, on July 15, 2011. Matsubara found the fossil in Sasayama in the western Japan prefecture in September 2010. (Kyodo)

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Newly-found dinosaur in western Japan

KOBE, Japan - Photo shows a model of the imagined figure of a species of Deinonychosauria. The Museum of Nature and Human Activities, Hyogo, in the city of Sanda, Hyogo Prefecture, announced on July 15, 2011, that the fossil of the dinosaur was discovered in Sasayama in the western Japan prefecture in September 2010. The model was created by Hirokazu Tokugawa. (Kyodo)

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Tokyo Olympic torch relay

Nobuharu Asahara, silver medalist in the men's 400-meter relay at Beijing Olympics, runs during the Tokyo Olympic torch relay at a space where Sasayama Castle used to be located in the Hyogo Prefecture city of Tambasasayama on May 24, 2021. The torch relay was taken off public roads with a coronavirus state of emergency in place in the western Japan prefecture.

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Tokyo Olympic torch relay

Figure skater Rika Kihira runs during the Tokyo Olympic torch relay at a space where Sasayama Castle used to be located in the Hyogo prefecture city of Tambasasayama on May 24, 2021. The torch relay was taken off public roads with a coronavirus state of emergency in place in the western Japan prefecture.

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Tokyo Olympic torch relay

Figure skater Rika Kihira runs during the Tokyo Olympic torch relay at a space where Sasayama Castle used to be located in the Hyogo prefecture city of Tambasasayama on May 24, 2021. The torch relay was taken off public roads with a coronavirus state of emergency in place in the western Japan prefecture.

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Painting inspired by Kobe quake victim donated to hometown

KOBE, Japan - Alexandra Nechita (R), a U.S. teenager who was inspired by the tale of a young victim of the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake, donates a painting to Kobe Mayor Kazutoshi Sasayama (L) in Kobe on Jan. 15. The story goes that after the death of the 11-year-old Haruka Kato, sunflower seeds that she had fed her parrot sprouted up through the rubble of her home and local residents began planting the new seeds in their own backyards.