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Transparent specimen of alien fish caught in Lake Biwa

KYOTO, Japan - A Kyoto University researcher holds a chemically processed transparent specimen of a bluegill caught in Lake Biwa, Shiga Prefecture, western Japan, on Dec. 17, 2014. His team started selling in September specimens of alien fish caught in the lake as accessories by coloring and hardening the fishbone with resin in a campaign to protect the lake's ecosystem.

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China rare earths exports to Japan stagnant

TOKYO, Japan - Undated combination file photo taken in Beijing shows chunks of chemically processed rare earths (top) and mini magnets made from the materials. Chinese exports to Japan of rare earths, used in hybrid cars, mobile phones and other high-tech products, have been stagnant since around Sept. 21, 2010.

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Recalled dumplings delivered to China firm

BEIJING, China - Photo taken Jan. 21 shows a gate of the headquarters of Tangshan Iron and Steel Co. in Tangshan, Hebei Province of China. Some employees showed symptoms of food poisoning after eating dumplings that were delivered to the steel company free of charge. The frozen dumplings, made by Tianyang Food in the province, were recalled after causing food-poisoning cases in Japan last year as the products were chemically tainted.

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Diamond-studded Christmas tree going for 200.7 million yen

TOKYO, Japan - A diamond-studded Christmas tree is on display at the Nihonbashi Takashimaya department store in Tokyo on Nov. 13. The 40-centimeter-tall Christmas tree is studded with 400 diamonds, the largest weighing 3 karats, and lined with chemically treated miniature roses. The Christmas tree comes with a teddy bear with a diamond necklace. Takashimaya says the set was specially designed for Christmas 2007 with the price set at 200.7 million yen. Without the diamonds, the tree and the teddy bear carry a more affordable price tag: 52,500 yen. The diamond Christmas tree set will be displayed for public viewing from Nov. 14 to Dec. 4.

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School offers open-air classes for chemically sensitive siblings

OSAKA, Japan - Koji, 20, Naoko, 17, and Shigehiro Irie, 16, study with a teacher (far L) at an open-air evening class offered by Kitano Senior High School in Osaka's Yodogawa Ward for the three siblings who have severe allergy to chemical substances.

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Mitsui Engineering succeeds in test operation of NGH plant

ICHIHARA, Japan - Photo shows a test plant Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co. built in Ichihara, Chiba Prefecture, for reducing natural gas to a sherbet-like state and then returning it to a gaseous form, a process that will reduce transportation and storage costs. The company said Feb. 10 it has succeeded in the test operation of the plant, which is capable of producing 600 kilograms of natural gas hydrate (NGH), a chemically stable crystalline substance that resembles sherbet, a day.

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Recalled dumplings delivered to China firm

BEIJING, China - Photo taken Jan. 21 shows a gate of the headquarters of Tangshan Iron and Steel Co. in Tangshan, Hebei Province of China. Some employees showed symptoms of food poisoning after eating dumplings that were delivered to the steel company free of charge. The frozen dumplings, made by Tianyang Food in the province, were recalled after causing food-poisoning cases in Japan last year as the products were chemically tainted. (Kyodo)

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DR HERBERT KALMUS

DR HERBERT KALMUS [1881 - 1963] co-inventor of the Technicolor system of photographing motion-pictures and then making prints for cinema showing with color inks. This particular system, now defunct, meant the colours didn't generally fade in the way other chemically developed colour films did DR HERBERT KALMUS

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Diamond-studded Christmas tree going for 200.7 million yen

TOKYO, Japan - A diamond-studded Christmas tree is on display at the Nihonbashi Takashimaya department store in Tokyo on Nov. 13. The 40-centimeter-tall Christmas tree is studded with 400 diamonds, the largest weighing 3 karats, and lined with chemically treated miniature roses. The Christmas tree comes with a teddy bear with a diamond necklace. Takashimaya says the set was specially designed for Christmas 2007 with the price set at 200.7 million yen. Without the diamonds, the tree and the teddy bear carry a more affordable price tag: 52,500 yen. The diamond Christmas tree set will be displayed for public viewing from Nov. 14 to Dec. 4. (Kyodo)

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China rare earths exports to Japan stagnant

TOKYO, Japan - Undated combination file photo taken in Beijing shows chunks of chemically processed rare earths (top) and mini magnets made from the materials. Chinese exports to Japan of rare earths, used in hybrid cars, mobile phones and other high-tech products, have been stagnant since around Sept. 21, 2010. (Kyodo)

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Transparent specimen of alien fish caught in Lake Biwa

KYOTO, Japan - A Kyoto University researcher holds a chemically processed transparent specimen of a bluegill caught in Lake Biwa, Shiga Prefecture, western Japan, on Dec. 17, 2014. His team started selling in September specimens of alien fish caught in the lake as accessories by coloring and hardening the fishbone with resin in a campaign to protect the lake's ecosystem. (Kyodo)

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Pavel Jelinek

Pavel Jelinek of Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, a Czech physicist, member of an international group of scientists, that for the first time chemically identified individual atoms using an atomic force microscope and quantum-mechanical computation, in Prague, Czech Republic, on October 15, 2020. (CTK Photo/Michal Krumphanzl)

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Pavel Jelinek

Pavel Jelinek of Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, a Czech physicist, member of an international group of scientists, that for the first time chemically identified individual atoms using an atomic force microscope and quantum-mechanical computation, in Prague, Czech Republic, on October 15, 2020. (CTK Photo/Michal Krumphanzl)

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Pavel Jelinek

Pavel Jelinek of Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, a Czech physicist, member of an international group of scientists, that for the first time chemically identified individual atoms using an atomic force microscope and quantum-mechanical computation, in Prague, Czech Republic, on October 15, 2020. (CTK Photo/Michal Krumphanzl)

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Pavel Jelinek

Pavel Jelinek of Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, a Czech physicist, member of an international group of scientists, that for the first time chemically identified individual atoms using an atomic force microscope and quantum-mechanical computation, in Prague, Czech Republic, on October 15, 2020. (CTK Photo/Michal Krumphanzl)

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Pavel Jelinek

Pavel Jelinek of Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, a Czech physicist, member of an international group of scientists, that for the first time chemically identified individual atoms using an atomic force microscope and quantum-mechanical computation, in Prague, Czech Republic, on October 15, 2020. (CTK Photo/Michal Krumphanzl)

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Pavel Jelinek

Pavel Jelinek of Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, a Czech physicist, member of an international group of scientists, that for the first time chemically identified individual atoms using an atomic force microscope and quantum-mechanical computation, in Prague, Czech Republic, on October 15, 2020. (CTK Photo/Michal Krumphanzl)

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Pavel Jelinek

Pavel Jelinek of Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, a Czech physicist, member of an international group of scientists, that for the first time chemically identified individual atoms using an atomic force microscope and quantum-mechanical computation, in Prague, Czech Republic, on October 15, 2020. (CTK Photo/Michal Krumphanzl)

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Japan's NPO completes trip to chemically attacked Iran city

Shizuko Tsuya (2nd from R), chief of Japanese nonprofit organization MOCT, and its members meet with reporters on July 2, 2017, in Tehran after completing a trip to the northwestern Iran city of Sar Dasht, which was attacked 30 years ago with chemical weapons during the Iran-Iraq War. The Hiroshima-based MOCT has provided medical support to the victims of the attacks. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Mitsui Engineering succeeds in test operation of NGH plant

ICHIHARA, Japan - Photo shows a test plant Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co. built in Ichihara, Chiba Prefecture, for reducing natural gas to a sherbet-like state and then returning it to a gaseous form, a process that will reduce transportation and storage costs. The company said Feb. 10 it has succeeded in the test operation of the plant, which is capable of producing 600 kilograms of natural gas hydrate (NGH), a chemically stable crystalline substance that resembles sherbet, a day. (Kyodo)