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What's a toilet like about 2,000 years ago in ancient China?

STORY: What's a toilet like about 2,000 years ago in ancient China? SHOOTING TIME: Nov. 14, 2023 DATELINE: Nov. 20, 2023 LENGTH: 00:00:36 LOCATION: HANZHONG, China CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of the ancient pottery model of a toilet 2. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): LU HUI, Curator of Hanzhong Museum, Shaanxi Province STORYLINE: Nov. 19 marks World Toilet Day. What's a toilet like about 2,000 years ago in ancient China? An exhibit at Hanzhong Museum, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, has the answer. The ancient pottery model of a toilet, with a height of 40 centimeters, a length of 22.5 centimeters, and a width of 15.5 centimeters, was unearthed from a tomb of Han Dynasty (202 BC-AD 220). SOUNDBITE (Chinese): LU HUI, Curator of Hanzhong Museum, Shaanxi Province "We can tell from the structure of the relic that the toilet has already been separated by gender back in the Han Dynasty. It has a window on each side for ventilation, which was designed very scientifically." Xinhua News Agency correspondents

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Chinese micro-carving master creates incredible works of art

STORY: Chinese micro-carving master creates incredible works of art DATELINE: Aug. 3, 2023 LENGTH: 00:00:16 LOCATION: CHONGQING, China CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of Pan Qihui and his masterpieces STORYLINE: Pan Qihui is an intangible cultural heritage inheritor with over 40 years of experience in miniature sculpture that employs materials as gold, jade, porcelain, and even hair to create exquisite mini-artworks. In Pan's masterpiece "Pipa Xing," he carved the long narrative poem "Pipa Xing" on four human hairs, which are used as strings in a mini Pipa, a kind of traditional Chinese instrument. Pan also recreated a mini version of the celebrated Chinese picture "Along the River During the Qingming Festival," with the entire length of the work being about 5 centimeters. In 2018, Pan was granted the title of master of Chinese arts and crafts. Now, Pan is trying his best to pass down his skills to younger generations. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Chongqing, China. (XHTV)

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Tsunami alert after Chile quake

SENDAI, Japan - City officials of Kesennuma in Miyagi Prefecture watch a television broadcast of information about tsunami at an evacuation center past 5:30 a.m. on April 3, 2014. A tsunami of up to 40 centimeters was observed in the early morning that day at a port on the Pacific coast of northeastern Japan's Iwate Prefecture following a magnitude 8.2 quake that hit Chile on April 1, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.

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New Year tea ceremony

NARA, Japan - Worshipers at Saidai-ji, a temple in Nara, Nara Prefecture, enjoy green tea served in cups with a diameter of 30-40 centimeters and weighing about 5 kilograms, at an annual New Year tea ceremony on Jan. 15, 2014.

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New Year tea ceremony

NARA, Japan - Worshipers at Saidai-ji, a temple in Nara, Nara Prefecture, enjoy green tea served in cups with a diameter of 30-40 centimeters and weighing about 5 kilograms, at an annual New Year tea ceremony on Jan. 15, 2014.

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4-kg police dog

KUMAMOTO, Japan - Mieko Shinkubo holds her 3-year-old female miniature dachshund Becky at the Kumamoto prefectural police headquarters in the city of Kumamoto on April 3, 2013. Becky, about 40 centimeters long and weighing about 4 kilograms, was granted a certificate the same day to work as a police dog.

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Huge New Year's bowl tea ceremony held in Nara

NARA, Japan - A woman is helped by another next to her to drink ''maccha'' green tea from a huge tea bowl in the year's first gathering of the traditional ''Ochamori'' tea ceremony, believed to date back to the 13th century, at Saidaiji Temple in Nara, Nara Prefecture, Jan. 15. Several bowls measuring 30 to 40 centimeters in diameter and weighing 5 to 7 kilograms were used in the ceremony about 20 people took part in.

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JVC devises technology to make thinner rear-projection TVs

TOKYO, Japan - Victor Co. of Japan Ltd. (JVC) said on Sept. 28 it has developed a technology that can substantially reduce the depth of rear-projection television sets. In the case of a 60-inch machine (in photo), the depth can be cut to 27 centimeters, about 40 percent thinner than the company's existing model, the company said.

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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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Train derails due to fallen concrete in Hokkaido

SAPPORO, Japan - A freight train partly derailed in Hokkaido on Nov. 28 after hitting a 2-ton block of concrete that had fallen off the wall of a tunnel. The photo shows the circular chunk of concrete, about 3 to 4 meters in diameter and 30 to 40 centimeters thick inside the Rebunhama Tunnel on the JR Muroran Line.

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Soft serve ice cream claimed to be Japan's longest

Women eat soft serve ice cream about 40 centimeters in height and claimed to be Japan's longest, in Osaka, western Japan, on July 9, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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JVC devises technology to make thinner rear-projection TVs

TOKYO, Japan - Victor Co. of Japan Ltd. (JVC) said on Sept. 28 it has developed a technology that can substantially reduce the depth of rear-projection television sets. In the case of a 60-inch machine (in photo), the depth can be cut to 27 centimeters, about 40 percent thinner than the company's existing model, the company said. (Kyodo)

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Huge New Year's bowl tea ceremony held in Nara

NARA, Japan - A woman is helped by another next to her to drink ''maccha'' green tea from a huge tea bowl in the year's first gathering of the traditional ''Ochamori'' tea ceremony, believed to date back to the 13th century, at Saidaiji Temple in Nara, Nara Prefecture, Jan. 15. Several bowls measuring 30 to 40 centimeters in diameter and weighing 5 to 7 kilograms were used in the ceremony about 20 people took part in. (Kyodo)

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Train derails due to fallen concrete in Hokkaido

SAPPORO, Japan - A freight train partly derailed in Hokkaido on Nov. 28 after hitting a 2-ton block of concrete that had fallen off the wall of a tunnel. The photo shows the circular chunk of concrete, about 3 to 4 meters in diameter and 30 to 40 centimeters thick inside the Rebunhama Tunnel on the JR Muroran Line.

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2-yr-old girl goes missing at Tokyo kindergarten

TOKYO, Japan - A 2-year-old girl has been missing since the morning of Nov. 22 when she was last seen at a kindergarten in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward, police say on Nov. 23. The girl, Haruna Wakayama, disappeared at about 11:40 a.m. on Nov. 22 at the kindergarten her 5-year-old brother attends. Haruna is about 90 centimeters tall and has shoulder-length hair. She was wearing a long-sleeved shirt with pink and white stripes, red shorts, and white sneakers rimmed with pink, police said.