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"No War" demonstration in Japan

Demonstrators raise banners reading "No War" at an anti-war rally in front of Sendai Station in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 8, 2026.

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"No War" demonstration in Japan

Demonstrators raise banners reading "No War" at an anti-war rally in front of Sendai Station in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 8, 2026.

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Luxury train Cassiopeia's last run

TOKYO, Japan, July 1 Kyodo - JR East's luxury sleeper express train Cassiopeia arrives at JR Ueno Station in Tokyo on June 30, 2025, after making its last run before retirement, a three-day round-trip tour between Tokyo and Sendai, northeastern Japan. The 12-car train, including a restaurant car, ran a regular service between 1999 and 2016, after which it was dedicated to providing a luxury tour service. (Kyodo)

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Luxury train Cassiopeia's last run

Staff pose for a photo by JR East's luxury sleeper express train Cassiopeia on June 30, 2025 after it arrived at JR Ueno Station in Tokyo following a three-day round-trip service between Tokyo and Sendai, northeastern Japan, on its last run before retirement. The 12-car train, including a restaurant car, ran a regular service between 1999 and 2016, after which it was dedicated to providing a luxury tour service.

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Luxury train Cassiopeia's last run

JR East's luxury sleeper express train Cassiopeia arrives at JR Ueno Station in Tokyo on June 30, 2025, after making its last run before retirement, a three-day round-trip tour between Tokyo and Sendai, northeastern Japan. The 12-car train, including a restaurant car, ran a regular service between 1999 and 2016, after which it was dedicated to providing a luxury tour service.

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Luxury train Cassiopeia's last run

JR East's luxury sleeper express train Cassiopeia arrives at JR Ueno Station in Tokyo on June 30, 2025, after making its last run before retirement, a three-day round-trip tour between Tokyo and Sendai, northeastern Japan. The 12-car train, including a restaurant car, ran a regular service between 1999 and 2016, after which it was dedicated to providing a luxury tour service.

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Luxury train Cassiopeia's last run

JR East's luxury sleeper express train Cassiopeia arrives at JR Ueno Station in Tokyo on June 30, 2025, after making its last run before retirement, a three-day round-trip tour between Tokyo and Sendai, northeastern Japan. The 12-car train, including a restaurant car, ran a regular service between 1999 and 2016, after which it was dedicated to providing a luxury tour service.

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Luxury train Cassiopeia's last run

JR East's luxury sleeper express train Cassiopeia arrives at JR Ueno Station in Tokyo on June 30, 2025, after making its last run before retirement, a three-day round-trip tour between Tokyo and Sendai, northeastern Japan. The 12-car train, including a restaurant car, ran a regular service between 1999 and 2016, after which it was dedicated to providing a luxury tour service.

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Luxury train Cassiopeia's last run

JR East's luxury sleeper express train Cassiopeia arrives at JR Ueno Station in Tokyo on June 30, 2025, after making its last run before retirement, a three-day round-trip tour between Tokyo and Sendai, northeastern Japan. The 12-car train, including a restaurant car, ran a regular service between 1999 and 2016, after which it was dedicated to providing a luxury tour service.

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Luxury train Cassiopeia's last run

JR East's luxury sleeper express train Cassiopeia arrives at JR Ueno Station in Tokyo on June 30, 2025, after making its last run before retirement, a three-day round-trip tour between Tokyo and Sendai, northeastern Japan. The 12-car train, including a restaurant car, ran a regular service between 1999 and 2016, after which it was dedicated to providing a luxury tour service.

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Bullet trains in northeastern Japan halted due to inspection

An electronic sign at JR Sendai Station in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, notifies passengers of the temporary suspension of services in both directions on the Tokyo-Sendai section of the Tohoku Shinkansen line on June 17, 2025, following a malfunction that saw a train stop between stations.

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Bullet trains in northeastern Japan halted due to inspection

An electronic sign at JR Sendai Station in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, notifies passengers of the temporary suspension of services in both directions on the Tokyo-Sendai section of the Tohoku Shinkansen line on June 17, 2025, following a malfunction that saw a train stop between stations.

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Bullet trains in northeastern Japan halted due to inspection

An electronic sign at JR Sendai Station in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, notifies passengers of the temporary suspension of services in both directions on the Tokyo-Sendai section of the Tohoku Shinkansen line on June 17, 2025, following a malfunction that saw a train stop between stations.

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Bullet trains in northeastern Japan halted due to inspection

JR Sendai Station in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, is crowded with passengers on June 17, 2025, after the Tohoku Shinkansen bullet train service was suspended in both directions on the Tokyo-Sendai section, following a malfunction that saw a train stop between stations.

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Australia: Record Flooding Batters Northern NSW After Heavy Rainfall 2

Flooding has battered cities and towns across the Mid-North Coast and the Hunter Region in northern New South Wales, leaving many residents stranded or forced to evacuate after days of heavy rainfall. In the city of Taree, the Manning River surpassed its 1929 record of six meters and was still rising as of Wednesday morning, May 21. Authorities have issued 13 emergency-level alerts.

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Australia: Record Flooding Batters Northern NSW After Heavy Rainfall 3

Flooding has battered cities and towns across the Mid-North Coast and the Hunter Region in northern New South Wales, leaving many residents stranded or forced to evacuate after days of heavy rainfall. In the city of Taree, the Manning River surpassed its 1929 record of six meters and was still rising as of Wednesday morning, May 21. Authorities have issued 13 emergency-level alerts.

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[Breaking News]Disney-themed shinkansen bullet train

SENDAI, Japan, Oct. 10 Kyodo - Video taken Oct. 10, 2024, shows a specially painted bullet train adorned with characters from Tokyo DisneySea's Fantasy Springs area -- themed after Disney films "Frozen," "Peter Pan" and "Tangled" -- ahead of its departure from JR Sendai Station in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan. The Disney-themed train will run through June 2025 on the Tohoku and Hokkaido Shinkansen lines linking Tokyo and the Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto Station, northern Japan. (Kyodo)

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Disney-themed shinkansen bullet train

Photo taken Oct. 10, 2024, shows a specially painted bullet train adorned with characters from Tokyo DisneySea's Fantasy Springs area -- themed after Disney films "Frozen," "Peter Pan" and "Tangled" -- ahead of its departure from JR Sendai Station in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan. The Disney-themed train will run through June 2025 on the Tohoku and Hokkaido Shinkansen lines linking Tokyo and the Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto Station, northern Japan.

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Disney-themed shinkansen bullet train

Mickey Mouse (C) sees off specially painted bullet trains adorned with characters from Tokyo DisneySea's Fantasy Springs area -- themed after Disney films "Frozen," "Peter Pan" and "Tangled" -- at JR Sendai Station in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Oct. 10, 2024. The Disney-themed trains will run through June 2025 on the Tohoku and Hokkaido Shinkansen lines linking Tokyo and the Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto Station, northern Japan.

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Disney-themed shinkansen bullet train

Mickey Mouse poses in front of a specially painted bullet train adorned with characters from Tokyo DisneySea's Fantasy Springs area -- themed after Disney films "Frozen," "Peter Pan" and "Tangled" -- ahead of its departure from JR Sendai Station in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Oct. 10, 2024. The Disney-themed trains will run through June 2025 on the Tohoku and Hokkaido Shinkansen lines linking Tokyo and the Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto Station in Hokkaido, northern Japan.

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Disney-themed shinkansen bullet train

Mickey Mouse (2nd from L) gestures prior to the departure of a specially painted bullet train adorned with characters from Tokyo DisneySea's Fantasy Springs area -- themed after Disney films "Frozen," "Peter Pan" and "Tangled" -- at JR Sendai Station in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Oct. 10, 2024. The Disney-themed train will run through June 2025 on the Tohoku and Hokkaido Shinkansen lines linking Tokyo and the Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto Station in Hokkaido, northern Japan.

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Japan: Shinkansen Services Halted After Two Linked Cars Disconnected

Tohoku Shinkansen services were suspended for hours after two linked trains uncoupled between Furukawa and Sendai stations in Miyagi Prefecture, northeast Japan on Thursday, September 19. JR East halted all bullet train services between Tokyo and Shin-Aomori in Aomori Prefecture for inspection. This video shows a bullet train stopped in Osaki City, about 8 kilometers south of Furukawa station. There is no injuries reported among the some 320 people aboard.

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Golden Week begins in Japan

A shinkansen bullet train platform at JR Sendai Station in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, is crowded with passengers on April 29, 2023, as Japan enters the Golden Week holiday season.

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Power outage halts bullet trains in Japan

Passengers form lines in front of ticket gates at JR Sendai Station in Sendai, northeastern Japan, on Jan. 23, 2024, after shinkansen bullet train services were suspended between Tokyo and stations in eastern, central and northeastern Japan due to a power outage.

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Disney-themed shinkansen bullet train

Tohoku Shinkansen Line bullet trains featuring Disney characters are pictured at JR Sendai Station in the northeastern Japan prefecture of Miyagi on Dec. 22, 2023. They started running between Sendai and Tokyo the same day to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the opening of the Tokyo Disney Resort.

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Disney-themed shinkansen bullet train

Tohoku Shinkansen Line bullet trains featuring Disney characters are pictured at JR Sendai Station in the northeastern Japan prefecture of Miyagi on Dec. 22, 2023. They started running between Sendai and Tokyo the same day to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the opening of the Tokyo Disney Resort.

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Golden Week begins in Japan

A shinkansen bullet train platform at JR Sendai Station in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, is crowded with passengers on April 29, 2023, as Japan enters the Golden Week holiday season.

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Utility shows procedures for resuming Sendai reactor

SATSUMASENDAI, Japan, July 14 Kyodo - A Kyushu Electric Power Co. official explains to reporters about the procedures for resuming the No. 1 reactor of its Sendai Nuclear Power Station in the southwestern Japanese city of Satsumasendai on July 14, 2015. The utility plans to reactivate the reactor around Aug. 10 to generate and transmit electricity around Aug. 13.

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M-6.8 quake rocks northeastern Japan

SENDAI, May 13 Kyodo - Junior high school students wait for a shinkansen bullet train at the main station in Sendai, northeastern Japan, after a powerful earthquake caused a delay in train services on May 13, 2015. No tsunami warning was issued.

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NPO provides grief-healing support to kids across Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Masahiro Nishida (back L), director of Sendai-based nonprofit organization Children's Grief Support Station, plays with a group of children in a meeting room at a hotel in Tokyo in September 2014. The organization, specializing in taking care of the psychological wellbeing of children who have lost family members, has expanded its services beyond areas hit by the 2011 earthquake to 14 major cities across Japan.

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Tsunami-destroyed railway station to be restored

SENDAI, Japan - East Japan Railway Co.'s Rikuchu-Yamada Station on the Yamada Line in Yamada, Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, is seen in tatters in this file photo taken on March 23, 2011, a dozen days after it was hit by the devastating earthquake and tsunami. The company and the local community agreed on Dec. 24, 2014, to restore the station, burned down by a tsunami-caused fire, as part of a project to revive the line wrecked by the disaster.

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Osprey arrives to participate in disaster drill

SENDAI, Japan - A U.S. MV-22 Osprey tilt-motor aircraft arrives at the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force's Kasuminome Station in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Oct. 7, 2014, to participate in a local earthquake-tsunami disaster drill.

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Osprey carries U.S. soldiers for disaster drill

SENDAI, Japan - U.S. soldiers gather before an MV-22 Osprey aircraft after arriving aboard the tilt-motor plane at the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force's Kasuminome Station in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Nov. 7, 2014, to participate in a local earthquake-tsunami disaster drill as two JGSDF members look on.

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Osprey takes part in disaster drill

SENDAI, Japan - A U.S. Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey aircraft makes a landing at a Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force airfield in northwestern city of Sendai on Nov. 7, 2014. The Osprey from the Marines' Futenma Air Station in Okinawa is to take part in a large-scale disaster drill called "Michinoku ALERT 2014" that simulates a severe earthquake in the northeastern Japan.

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SoftBank tests balloon wireless network station

SENDAI, Japan - SoftBank Mobile Corp. conducts an experiment to restore a telecommunication network by flying a balloon to be used as a wireless station in the event of a disaster in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Nov. 6, 2014.

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Safety briefing session held on Sendai nuke plant

FUKUOKA, Japan - A resident of Sendai, Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, asks a question during a briefing session on the safety of the Sendai Nuclear Power Station operated by Kyushu Electric Power Co. on Oct. 9, 2014, ahead of its planned restart.

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People protest against plan to resume Sendai nuke plant

SATSUMASENDAI, Japan - Protesters hold banners opposing the restart of Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s Sendai Nuclear Power Station in front of a venue for a briefing session on plant safety for residents in Sendai, Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Oct. 9, 2014.

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Safety briefing session held on Sendai nuke plant

FUKUOKA, Japan - More than 1,000 residents in Sendai, Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, randomly selected by lottery attend a briefing session on the safety of the Sendai Nuclear Power Station operated by Kyushu Electric Power Co. on Oct. 9, 2014, ahead of its planned restart.

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Safety briefing session held on Sendai nuke plant

FUKUOKA, Japan - The Sendai Nuclear Power Station operated by Kyushu Electric Power Co. is shown in this photo taken in Sendai, Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, in June 2013. The company held the first briefing session on the safety of the plant for residents in Sendai on Oct. 9, 2014, after the Nuclear Regulation Authority approved safety precautions and opened the way to resume operations.

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JR station near Fukushima nuke plant on way to recovery

SENDAI, Japan - The weed-covered Tatsuta Station in the town of Naraha on the JR Joban railway line is seen in the upper photo taken on Sept. 26, 2012, while the photograph below taken on Sept. 4, 2014, shows the station looking normal as train runs between Tatsuta and Hirono Station, south of Naraha, resumed in June this year.

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Model of Onagawa Station designed by Pritzker winner Ban

SENDAI, Japan - Photo taken on March 25, 2014 shows a model of East Japan Railway Co.'s new Onagawa Station in Onagawa Town, Miyagi Prefecture, designed by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, winner of the 2014 Pritzker Architecture Prize. The northeastern Japan town was devastated by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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3 years after quake-tsunami

SENDAI, Japan - Photos show an area of Futaba, Fukushima Prefecture, which hosts the disaster-struck Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. The top photo was taken on April 14, 2011, about a month after the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, and the bottom photo on Feb. 28, 2014.

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3 years after quake-tsunami

SENDAI, Japan - Photos show a coastal area of Naraha, Fukushima Prefecture, near the disaster-struck Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. The upper photo was taken on Sept. 26, 2012, one and a half years after the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, and the lower photo on March 3, 2014.

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3 years after quake-tsunami

SENDAI, Japan - Photos show JR Rikuzentakata Station in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on March 18, 2011 (top), a week after the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, and on March 3, 2014 (bottom).

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3 years after quake-tsunami

SENDAI, Japan - Photos show Nobiru Station on the JR Senseki Line in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 14, 2011 (L), three days after the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, and on March 3, 2014 (R).

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German fugitive turns himself in

SENDAI, Japan - Photo taken Nov. 14, 2013, shows a police box in Miyagi Prefecture where Petro Vladimirovic Shchus, a 25-year-old German national, turned himself in earlier in the day. Shchus ran away from a police station in the prefecture the previous day while being questioned about his alleged assault on two employees at a local hotel on Oct. 30.

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German fugitive turns himself in

SENDAI, Japan - Petro Vladimirovic Shchus (back), a 25-year-old German national, arrives at a police station in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on Nov. 14, 2013, after turning himself in at a police box in the prefecture earlier that day. Shchus ran away from the Sendai police station the previous day while being questioned about his alleged assault on two employees at a local hotel on Oct. 30.

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German fugitive turns himself in

SENDAI, Japan - Police officers ask drivers about Petro Vladimirovic Shchus, a German fugitive, in Tagajo, Miyagi Prefecture, on Nov. 14, 2013. Shchus turned himself in at a police box in the prefecture later in the day. He ran away from a police station in the prefecture the previous day while being questioned about his alleged assault on two employees at a local hotel on Oct. 30.

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2 and a half years after quake

SENDAI, Japan - Combination photos taken from a Kyodo News helicopter show (from R front) the No. 4, No. 3, No. 2 and No. 1 reactor buildings at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture on Dec. 15, 2011 (top), about nine months after the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake, and about two and a half years after the disaster on Sept. 6, 2013 (bottom).

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2 and a half years after quake

SENDAI, Japan - Combination photos taken from a Kyodo News helicopter show the Yotsukura beach in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on March 18, 2011 (top), shortly after the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake, with fire engines gathered to douse overheated reactors and spent fuel at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, and the same location on the beach about two and a half years later on Aug. 18, 2013 (bottom), after opening to the public for the summer season for the first time in three years.