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Taiwan rocket crashes in Hokkaido

A rocket developed by jtSPACE Co., a Japanese arm of a Taiwanese aerospace company, lifts off from a spaceport in Taiki, Hokkaido, northern Japan, on July 12, 2025, before losing control and crashing to the ground.

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Taiwan rocket crashes in Hokkaido

A rocket developed by jtSPACE Co., a Japanese arm of a Taiwanese aerospace company, loses control and heads groundward after lifting off from a spaceport in Taiki, Hokkaido, northern Japan, on July 12, 2025.

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Taiwan rocket crashes in Hokkaido

A rocket developed by jtSPACE Co., a Japanese arm of a Taiwanese aerospace company, lifts off from a spaceport in Taiki, Hokkaido, northern Japan, on July 12, 2025, before losing control and crashing to the ground.

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Taiwan rocket crashes in Hokkaido

A rocket developed by jtSPACE Co., a Japanese arm of a Taiwanese aerospace company, lifts off from a spaceport in Taiki, Hokkaido, northern Japan, on July 12, 2025, before losing control and crashing to the ground.

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Tsunami evacuation tower in Mie Pref.

TAIKI, Japan - Photo shows a tower for evacuation in case of tsunami in Taiki, Mie Prefecture in western Japan, in May 2011. Visitors to the 21.8 meter-high tower have increased since the March quake and tsunami in northeastern Japan.

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Camui rocket undergoes flight test in Hokkaido

SAPPORO, Japan - Preparations are underway for the small rocket system Camui in the town of Taiki, Hokkaido, on March 15. On March 16, the Camui underwent a flight experiment as part of joint research by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and Hokkaido University for an ejector rocket engine.

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Low-cost experimental rocket lifts off in Hokkaido

TAIKI, Japan - An experimental rocket that uses liquid oxygen and polyethylene as composite propellant lifts off from Taichi, Hokkaido, on Dec. 23. The 2.8-meter rocket soared to an altitude of about 1,000 meters in 10 seconds. Developers say the rocket, developed by Harunori Nagata, professor of space engineering at Hokkaido University, takes just about one-10th of the launch cost for a conventional solid-fuel rocket.

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Papers on 9 Snow Brand execs sent to prosecutors

OSAKA, Japan - Photo shows Snow Brand Milk Products Co.'s plant in Taiki, Hokkaido. The plant former head Osamu Kubota is one of the nine company officials sent to prosecutors on March 16 on suspicion of professional negligence in the massive outbreak of food poisoning that hit western Japan last summer. Others include former Snow Brand President Tetsuro Ishikawa and former Senior Managing Director Hiroshi Soma. The powdered skim milk produced in Taiki was an ingredient in tainted dairy products such as low-fat milk and yogurt drinks made at Snow Brand's Osaka plant that led to widespread food poisoning in June and July last year.

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Pillbox in Hokkaido

Photo taken on Aug. 5, 2022, in Taiki, Hokkaido, shows pillboxs built during the closing days of World War II to block a U.S. military landing on Japan's northernmost main island.

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Pillbox in Hokkaido

Photo taken on Aug. 5, 2022, in Taiki, Hokkaido, shows a pillbox built during the closing days of World War II to block a U.S. military landing on Japan's northernmost main island.

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Pillbox in Hokkaido

Photo taken on Aug. 5, 2022, in Taiki, Hokkaido, shows a pillbox built during the closing days of World War II to block a U.S. military landing on Japan's northernmost main island.