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Boy leaves for U.S. for heart transplant

OSAKA, Japan - Ryo Sunagawa, 14, a third-year student at a junior high school in Kobe, western Japan, leaves Osaka for the United States on July 15 with his parents and doctors for a heart transplant. He will be hospitalized at a heart clinic in Texas. His parents said Ryo had a heart attack in February this year and now relies on a mechanical heart to sustain his life.

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Stinking garbage supplies power in Hokkaido

SUNAGAWA, Japan - One of two big tanks at a garbage processing center ''Clean Plaza Kurukuru'' in the city of Sunagawa, Hokkaido, is designed to decompose garbage and generate methane gas for electric power. (Kyodo)

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Ex-defendant calls for retrial of case over 1957 entry into U.S. base

Gentaro Tsuchiya, one of the seven people found guilty over their 1957 entry into a U.S. military base in Tokyo, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on July 15, 2015, after giving his statement of opinion at a Tokyo District Court hearing on their petition for reopening the "Sunagawa Case." The case led to the 1959 Supreme Court ruling that Article 9 of the Constitution does not deny Japan's right to self-defense, a decision cited by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's administration as a basis for permitting Japan to exercise the right to collective self-defense. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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FEATURE: 60-year-old Sunagawa Case casts spotlight on security laws

Photo taken June 28, 2016, in the central Japan city of Shizuoka shows Gentaro Tsuchiya talking about his experience of joining a 1957 anti-U.S. military base campaign in Tokyo, known as the "Sunagawa Case." Tsuchiya, who was fined for unlawful entry into the base, is seeking a retrial. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Man ordered to pay fine in Sunagawa case raps security reforms

Gentaro Tsuchiya, who was convicted of trespassing on a U.S. base in Tokyo decades ago and is requesting a retrial, meets the press in Tokyo on June 18, 2015. Tsuchiya said the government is "abusing" the 1959 Supreme Court ruling on the so-called Sunagawa incident by citing it as a basis of the constitutionality of security bills that would allow Japan to engage in collective self-defense. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Coal-fired power plant in northern Japan

File photo taken Jan. 11, 2019, shows coal extracted on Hokkaido being piled up at a power plant in the city of Sunagawa on Japan's northernmost main island.

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Coal-fired power station in northern Japan

File photo taken Jan. 11, 2019, shows a coal-fired power plant, with piles of coal in the foreground, in Sunagawa in Hokkaido, northern Japan.

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Boy leaves for U.S. for heart transplant

OSAKA, Japan - Ryo Sunagawa, 14, a third-year student at a junior high school in Kobe, western Japan, leaves Osaka for the United States on July 15 with his parents and doctors for a heart transplant. He will be hospitalized at a heart clinic in Texas. His parents said Ryo had a heart attack in February this year and now relies on a mechanical heart to sustain his life.