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Odesa beaches

ODESA, UKRAINE - DECEMBER 20, 2023 - Seagulls fly above the beach by the Black Sea, Odesa, southern Ukraine.

Photobook on pre-quake lives in Iwate Pref. town

MORIOKA, Japan - Goichi Tamura, the head of a citizens' group to hand down tsunami experience in the town of Yamada, Iwate Prefecture, holds a photography book capturing the townscape of Yamada before the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, in this photo taken on May 13, 2014. The title of the book can be translated as "Sea, Town and Festivals: Bring Back Memories of Our Town Yamada."

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Governors call for legislation favoring Ariake fisheries

TOKYO, Japan - Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Tsutomu Takebe (C) meets with four prefectural governors -- Kumamoto Gov. Yoshiko Shiotani (L), Saga Gov. Isamu Imoto (2nd from L), Fukuoka Gov. Wataru Aso (2nd from R) and Nagasaki Gov. Genjiro Kaneko -- at the farm ministry in Tokyo on May 18. The governors, whose prefectures are being affected by the poor ''nori'' seaweed harvest in the Ariake Sea, southwestern Japan, asked Takebe for legislation to conserve the area's ecology.