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Toyama white shrimp harvest season begins

Fishermen land the first catch of small white shrimps, known as "Toyama Bay jewelry" for their translucent pink color, at Shinminato fishing port in Imizu, Toyama Prefecture in central Japan, on April 1, 2023, as the harvest season begins.

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Kobe kids put paper lanterns on river cleaned by locals

OSAKA, Japan - Children put handmade paper lanterns on the Shinminato River in Kobe, western Japan, as seen in this file photo taken on Aug. 7, 2014. The river was once filled with filth following the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake but has since been cleaned by local people.

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(2)N. Korea ship leaves for China

TOYAMA, Japan - The 874-ton North Korean freighter Suyangsan leaves a port in Shinminato, Toyama Prefecture, for Dandong, China on June 27 after being refueled by a Japanese ship. The freighter had been stranded off a Toyama port over the past two weeks because of a dispute over safety issues.

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(1)N. Korea ship in Toyama leaves for China

TOYAMA, Japan - The 874-ton North Korean freighter Suyangsan (R) is refueled at a port in Shinminato, Toyama Prefecture, on June 27. Later, the freighter, which had been stranded off a Toyama port over the past two weeks because of a dispute over safety issues, left for Dandong, China.

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Sushi school to open in northwestern Japan town to lure tourists

Foreign students learn how to make sushi on Oct. 2, 2015, from a professional chef (L) during a lesson at a sushi school set to open in late November in the Shinminato district of Toyama Prefecture's Imizu city, northwestern Japan. Local store managers have founded the school to lure tourists for hands-on experience following the launch last March of the Hokuriku Shinkansen bullet train line linking Tokyo and Kanazawa via the prefecture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Queen crab for school lunch

TOYAMA, Japan - The Shinminato fishermen cooperative in Imizu, a fishing town on the Sea of Japan coast in Toyama Prefecture, is offering free queen crabs to sixth graders as a treat to local primary school students. The coop, which launched the annual queen-crab-for-school-lunch program in 2003, plans to give one crab to each of the 900 sixth graders in 16 local primary schools this year as well. On Oct. 5, the 23 sixth graders at the municipal Shimomura Primary School each got a queen crab for their lunch on Oct. 5, the first day of the crab lunch program this year. Kyodo)

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(2)N. Korea ship leaves for China

TOYAMA, Japan - The 874-ton North Korean freighter Suyangsan leaves a port in Shinminato, Toyama Prefecture, for Dandong, China on June 27 after being refueled by a Japanese ship. The freighter had been stranded off a Toyama port over the past two weeks because of a dispute over safety issues. (Kyodo)

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(1)N. Korea ship in Toyama leaves for China

TOYAMA, Japan - The 874-ton North Korean freighter Suyangsan (R) is refueled at a port in Shinminato, Toyama Prefecture, on June 27. Later, the freighter, which had been stranded off a Toyama port over the past two weeks because of a dispute over safety issues, left for Dandong, China. (Kyodo)