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World's 1st wooden satellite

Takao Doi, a Japanese astronaut and a program-specific professor at Kyoto University, speaks about the world's first-ever wooden satellite "LignoSat" during an interview in Kyoto, western Japan, on May 28, 2024. Scientists at Kyoto University and Tokyo-based wood products company Sumitomo Forestry Co. developed the spacecraft, a cube with 10-centimeter sides and weighing 1 kilogram.(Kyodo)

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World's 1st wooden satellite

Takao Doi, a Japanese astronaut and a program-specific professor at Kyoto University, speaks about the world's first-ever wooden satellite "LignoSat" during an interview in Kyoto, western Japan, on May 28, 2024. Scientists at Kyoto University and Tokyo-based wood products company Sumitomo Forestry Co. developed the spacecraft, a cube with 10-centimeter sides and weighing 1 kilogram.

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World's 1st wooden satellite

Takao Doi, a Japanese astronaut and a program-specific professor at Kyoto University, speaks about the world's first-ever wooden satellite "LignoSat" during an interview in Kyoto, western Japan, on May 28, 2024. Scientists at Kyoto University and Tokyo-based wood products company Sumitomo Forestry Co. developed the spacecraft, a cube with 10-centimeter sides and weighing 1 kilogram.

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People produce giant blanket in disaster-hit Japan city

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - People in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, connect 20-square-centimeter granny squares gifted by knitters from across the world to create a giant blanket on Sept. 20, 2014, in a project led by Bernd Kestler, a German knitting artist from Yokohama, southwest of Tokyo. Kestler is set to seek the listing of the 476-square-meter blanket as a new Guinness World Record for a crocheted blanket exceeding the current record of about 306 square meters.

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"Yabusame" mounted archery rite at Shimogamo Shrine in Kyoto

KYOTO, Japan - An archer in traditional costume shoots an arrow while riding a horse at full speed during the annual "Yabusame Shinji" event at Shimogamo Shrine in Kyoto on May 3, 2014. Archers shot at three 50-centimeter-square targets set at 100-meter intervals. About 22,000 visitors watched the event.

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"Yabusame" mounted archery rite at Shimogamo Shrine in Kyoto

KYOTO, Japan - An archer in traditional costume shoots an arrow while riding a horse at full speed during the annual "Yabusame Shinji" event at Shimogamo Shrine in Kyoto on May 3, 2014. Archers shot at three 50-centimeter-square targets set at 100-meter intervals. About 22,000 visitors watched the event.

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Self-propelled endoscope

OSAKA, Japan - A woman holds a self-propelled, remote-controlled capsule endoscope in Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture, on June 21, 2011. A research team in western Japan has successfully captured images inside a human stomach and colon using the endoscope, about 1 centimeter in diameter and 4.5 cm in length. The team that developed the device consists of researchers from such institutes as Ryukoku University and Osaka Medical College.

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Self-propelled endoscope

OSAKA, Japan - A man holds a self-propelled, remote-controlled capsule endoscope in Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture, on June 21, 2011. A research team in western Japan has successfully captured images inside a human stomach and colon using the endoscope, about 1 centimeter in diameter and 4.5 cm in length. The team that developed the device consists of researchers from such institutes as Ryukoku University and Osaka Medical College.

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Housesitter robot to be launched in Sept.

TOKYO, Japan - Robot developing company tmsuk Co. has began taking orders for a housesitter robot named Roborior (in photo), which can be wirelessly controlled via a mobile phone from a remote place, at a price of 294,000 yen per unit. The Kitakyushu-based company exhibited the robot at Takashimaya department store in Tokyo's Nihonbashi to solicit orders ahead of its planned launch in September. It aims to sell about 3,000 units of the 26-centimeter-high robot weighing 3.25 kilograms.

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Shipment of square watermelons begins in Kagawa

TAKAMATSU, Japan - Workers at an agricultural cooperative in Kagawa Prefecture make preparations June 12 for the shipment of square watermelons that look like huge dice. The Zentsuji branch of the National Federation of Agricultural Cooperative Associations (Zen-Noh) will ship about 700 cubic watermelons, grown in 19 x 19 centimeter glass boxes, to the domestic market as well as to Hong Kong and Canada, among other places. The specialty of the Zentsuji cooperative fetches around 10,000 yen each wholesale and is only for exhibition.

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Shipments of square water watermelons begin in Zentsuji

ZENTSUJI, Japan - Farmers decorate square watermelons with ribbons before shipping them from an agricultural cooperative in Zentsuji, Kagawa Prefecture, western Japan, on June 17. The 18-centimeter-square watermelons are priced at 10,000 yen each. Some 450 to 500 watermelons will be shipped to department stores and other places in Tokyo and Osaka -- for display rather than for eating. About 50 of them will be shipped to Canada. The square watermelons were devised to save space in refrigerators.

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Giraffe at Akita zoo gets artificial leg

AKITA, Japan - A nine-month-old giraffe named Taiyo, who underwent an operation to receive an artificial leg on his front right leg on May 14, looks well in his stall at Omoriyama Zoo in Akita on May 16. Doctors made a 40-centimeter-long incision in order to attach the artificial leg. The giraffe stands about 280 centimeters tall and weighs 200 kilograms.

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(InTibet)CHINA-TIBET-NAGQU-BIRU-CATERPILLAR FUNGI-HARVEST (CN)

(220531) -- NAGQU, May 31, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Villagers arrange newly-harvested caterpillar fungi in Lainqu Township, Biru County of Nagqu, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, May 25, 2022. On the prairie of over 4,700 meters above sea level in Biru County, herdsmen are busy hunting down caterpillar fungus at the harvest time. Biru County is a key site of yielding caterpillar fungus, an expensive ingredient in traditional Chinese medicine. Found only at high altitudes, the fungus, known in China as "winter-worm summer-grass," is said to be effective in boosting the immune system. The caterpillar fungus harvest time lasts 45 days. For local herdsmen, collecting this precious fungus offers them seasonal jobs and increases their income. Trekking on the alpine ground, searching for the tiny caterpillar fungus as small as an apple stalk, fungus diggers must brave harsh weather conditions from sunrise till sunset. Fungus diggers use an ice pick to prod the earth and dig a hole about 10 centimeter

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Osaka University's compact and lightweight flexible thermoelectric conversion device

Associate Professor Toru Sugawara of the Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University, and Assistant Professor Kenzo Iwayano of the Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, and their colleagues have succeeded in reducing the size and weight of a flexible thermoelectric conversion device in which semiconductor chips are mountedon a flexible substrate. The new device converts the temperature difference between the two ends of the semiconductor into electrical information, and is equipped with a high density of about 200 ultra-small semiconductor chips per square centimeter, achieving high heat recovery efficiency and operational reliability. The flexible device, which was developed in 2018, has been improved. The new device uses semiconductor chips that are precisely aligned in size through ultra-fine processing that exceeds conventional methods. (Photo taken on March 17, 2020, location unknown, credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images)

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Shipment of square watermelons begins in Kagawa

TAKAMATSU, Japan - Workers at an agricultural cooperative in Kagawa Prefecture make preparations June 12 for the shipment of square watermelons that look like huge dice. The Zentsuji branch of the National Federation of Agricultural Cooperative Associations (Zen-Noh) will ship about 700 cubic watermelons, grown in 19 x 19 centimeter glass boxes, to the domestic market as well as to Hong Kong and Canada, among other places. The specialty of the Zentsuji cooperative fetches around 10,000 yen each wholesale and is only for exhibition. (Kyodo)

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50-cm drone with camera found on roof of Japanese prime minister's office

Photo taken April 22, 2015, shows a four-propeller drone about 50 centimeters long on the roof of the Japanese prime minister's office in Tokyo. The drone equipped with a miniature camera and carrying a flare and 10-centimeter plastic bottle, apparently fell onto the roof from the sky. An investigative source said low-level radiation was detected from the drone, which bore a radioactivity symbol. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Line of green tea dumplings sets Guinness record in Kyoto

People put green tea dumplings about 3-centimeter-wide on wooden stands stretching between Byodoin Temple and Ujigami Shrine, both UNESCO-designated World Heritage sites in Uji, Kyoto Prefecture on March 6, 2016, during a event to set a Guinness World Record for the longest such line. About 2,000 people formed a 341.57 meter-line of 16,291 dumplings to set up a world record. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Line of green tea dumplings sets Guinness record in Kyoto

People put green tea dumplings about 3-centimeter-wide on wooden stands stretching between Byodoin Temple and Ujigami Shrine, both UNESCO-designated World Heritage sites in Uji, Kyoto Prefecture on March 6, 2016, during a event to set a Guinness World Record for the longest such line. About 2,000 people formed a 341.57 meter-line of 16,291 dumplings to set up a world record. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Housesitter robot to be launched in Sept.

TOKYO, Japan - Robot developing company tmsuk Co. has began taking orders for a housesitter robot named Roborior (in photo), which can be wirelessly controlled via a mobile phone from a remote place, at a price of 294,000 yen per unit. The Kitakyushu-based company exhibited the robot at Takashimaya department store in Tokyo's Nihonbashi to solicit orders ahead of its planned launch in September. It aims to sell about 3,000 units of the 26-centimeter-high robot weighing 3.25 kilograms. (Kyodo)

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Self-propelled endoscope

OSAKA, Japan - A woman holds a self-propelled, remote-controlled capsule endoscope in Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture, on June 21, 2011. A research team in western Japan has successfully captured images inside a human stomach and colon using the endoscope, about 1 centimeter in diameter and 4.5 cm in length. The team that developed the device consists of researchers from such institutes as Ryukoku University and Osaka Medical College. (Kyodo)

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Self-propelled endoscope

OSAKA, Japan - A man holds a self-propelled, remote-controlled capsule endoscope in Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture, on June 21, 2011. A research team in western Japan has successfully captured images inside a human stomach and colon using the endoscope, about 1 centimeter in diameter and 4.5 cm in length. The team that developed the device consists of researchers from such institutes as Ryukoku University and Osaka Medical College. (Kyodo)

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Artwork at famed Tokyo meeting spot vandalized

Photo taken on July 2, 2019, shows "Shinjuku no me" (The Eye of Shinjuku) artwork, a popular meeting spot near Shinjuku Station in Tokyo. Police said the same day that 20-centimeter-long damage had been found (white patch) in the central part of the artwork, which is about 10 meters wide and around 3.4 meters high. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Artwork at famed Tokyo meeting spot vandalized

Photo taken on July 2, 2019, shows "Shinjuku no me" (The Eye of Shinjuku) artwork, a popular meeting spot near Shinjuku Station in Tokyo. Police said the same day that 20-centimeter-long damage had been found (white patch) in the central part of the artwork, which is about 10 meters wide and around 3.4 meters high. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Artwork at famed Tokyo meeting spot vandalized

File photo taken June 20, 2019, shows "Shinjuku no me" (The Eye of Shinjuku) artwork, a popular meeting spot near Shinjuku Station in Tokyo. Police said on July 2 that 20-centimeter-long damage had been found (white patch) in the central part of the artwork, which is about 10 meters wide and around 3.4 meters high. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Artwork at famed Tokyo meeting spot vandalized

File photo taken June 20, 2019, shows "Shinjuku no me" (The Eye of Shinjuku) artwork, a popular meeting spot near Shinjuku Station in Tokyo. Police said on July 2 that 20-centimeter-long damage had been found (white patch) in the central part of the artwork, which is about 10 meters wide and around 3.4 meters high. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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JR West apologizes for crack found in bullet train

Norihiko Yoshie (R), vice president of train operator West Japan Railway Co., speaks at a press conference in Osaka on Dec. 19, 2017, about a 16-centimeter-long crack that was found in an undercarriage of a running shinkansen bullet train on Dec. 11. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Shipments of square water watermelons begin in Zentsuji

ZENTSUJI, Japan - Farmers decorate square watermelons with ribbons before shipping them from an agricultural cooperative in Zentsuji, Kagawa Prefecture, western Japan, on June 17. The 18-centimeter-square watermelons are priced at 10,000 yen each. Some 450 to 500 watermelons will be shipped to department stores and other places in Tokyo and Osaka -- for display rather than for eating. About 50 of them will be shipped to Canada. The square watermelons were devised to save space in refrigerators.