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Japan launches 1st lunar explorer

TANEGASHIMA, Japan - A domestically developed H-2A rocket carrying Japan's first lunar explorer soars skyward after it was launched from the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture, about 1,000 kilometers southwest of Tokyo, on Sept. 14. A ring-shaped cloud is seen around the top of the rocket carrying the Selenological and Engineering Explorer, nicknamed ''Kaguya'' after a moon princess in an ancient Japanese folktale.

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Japan launches 1st lunar explorer

TANEGASHIMA, Japan - A domestically developed H-2A rocket carrying Japan's first lunar orbiter is launched from the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture on Sept. 14. The rocket carries the Selenological and Engineering Explorer, nicknamed ''Kaguya'' after a moon princess in an ancient Japanese folktale.

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Japan launches 1st lunar explorer

TANEGASHIMA, Japan - A domestically developed H-2A rocket carrying Japan's first lunar orbiter is launched from the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture on Sept. 14. The rocket carries the Selenological and Engineering Explorer, nicknamed ''Kaguya'' after a moon princess in an ancient Japanese folktale.

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Book on Hokkaido's indigenous Ainu people released in English

SAPPORO, Japan - The English-language version (left) of ''The Ainu and the Fox,' a picture book showing how Japan's indigenous Ainu minority sees the world will shortly go on sale overseas, the publisher said on May 1. The book, written by Ainu man Shigeru Kayano, 79, is based on an Ainu folktale and conveys Ainu beliefs about coexistence with nature.

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N.Z. in need of Pied Piper to resolve rat dilemma

SYDNEY, Australia - Resembling something out of the German folktale Pied Piper, New Zealand's government may be forced to find new home for an island population of Polynesian rats if indigenous Maori people want the rodents moved rather than killed. The Polynesian rat, or Kiore, were bought to New Zealand from Polynesia by early Maori settlers more than 1,000 years ago as a food source.

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Japan launches 1st lunar explorer

TANEGASHIMA, Japan - A domestically developed H-2A rocket carrying Japan's first lunar orbiter is launched from the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture on Sept. 14. The rocket carries the Selenological and Engineering Explorer, nicknamed ''Kaguya'' after a moon princess in an ancient Japanese folktale. (Kyodo)

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Japan launches 1st lunar explorer

TANEGASHIMA, Japan - A domestically developed H-2A rocket carrying Japan's first lunar orbiter is launched from the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture on Sept. 14. The rocket carries the Selenological and Engineering Explorer, nicknamed ''Kaguya'' after a moon princess in an ancient Japanese folktale. (Kyodo)

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Japan launches 1st lunar explorer

TANEGASHIMA, Japan - A domestically developed H-2A rocket carrying Japan's first lunar explorer soars skyward after it was launched from the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture, about 1,000 kilometers southwest of Tokyo, on Sept. 14. A ring-shaped cloud is seen around the top of the rocket carrying the Selenological and Engineering Explorer, nicknamed ''Kaguya'' after a moon princess in an ancient Japanese folktale. (Kyodo)

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"Jumping frog" event at Kinpusenji in Nara Pref.

A man clad in a frog costume performs in a traditional "jumping frog" event at Kinpusenji, a World Heritage Buddhist temple in the town of Yoshino, Nara Prefecture, Japan, on July 7, 2015. The event is based on a folktale from the Heian period. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Book on Hokkaido's indigenous Ainu people released in English

SAPPORO, Japan - The English-language version (left) of ''The Ainu and the Fox,' a picture book showing how Japan's indigenous Ainu minority sees the world will shortly go on sale overseas, the publisher said on May 1. The book, written by Ainu man Shigeru Kayano, 79, is based on an Ainu folktale and conveys Ainu beliefs about coexistence with nature. (Kyodo)

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N.Z. in need of Pied Piper to resolve rat dilemma

SYDNEY, Australia - Resembling something out of the German folktale Pied Piper, New Zealand's government may be forced to find new home for an island population of Polynesian rats if indigenous Maori people want the rodents moved rather than killed. The Polynesian rat, or Kiore, were bought to New Zealand from Polynesia by early Maori settlers more than 1,000 years ago as a food source. (Kyodo)