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Solar power plant

TOKYO, Japan - Archive photo, taken October 2011, shows a solar power generation facility in Wakkanai, Hokkaido. Some renewable energy suppliers are giving up entering the power market due to grid access problems.

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Fire on freighter

WAKKANAI, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a firefighting operation on the 497-ton Taigan, a Cambodia-registered freighter docked at Wakkanai port in Hokkaido on May 16, 2013. Six Russian crew members are missing after a fire broke out early in the morning.

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Fire on freighter

WAKKANAI, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a firefighting operation on the 497-ton Taigan, a Cambodia-registered freighter docked at Wakkanai port in Hokkaido on May 16, 2013. Six Russian crew members are missing after a fire broke out early in the morning.

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Venus transit observed in Hokkaido, Tokyo metropolitan area

WAKKANAI, Japan - A bird flies during a transit of Venus (small dot) observed in Wakkanai, Hokkaido, on June 8. A transit takes place when Venus passes between the Earth and the Sun.

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Items recovered from downed S. Korean jumbo incinerated

WAKKANAI, Japan - Two women watch as unclaimed personal effects recovered after a South Korean jumbo jet was shot down by a Soviet fighter in 1983 are incinerated on a seashore in Wakkanai, Hokkaido on Sept. 1.