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Scotch on 'Alaskan rock'

TOKYO, Japan - The Tokyo bar LoiteR serves Scotch whisky with what the owner Ryota Nanba says is ice dug up from Alaskan permafrost. This so-called Scotch on ''Alaskan rock'' is part of a sales campaign launched by Kirin Brewery Co. to perk up the consumption of whisky in Japan. Kirin officials say the company, the distributor of Scotch whisky Shevas Regal in Japan, has contracted for 7 tons of Alaskan permafrost ice from a licensed U.S. dealer. The ice is being distributed for free to more than 600 bars in Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya that are participating in the Kirin campaign, and customers ordering a Chevas in these bars can ask for Alaskan ice to go with their whisky. As sake and other Japanese liquors have been nibbling away at the non-native alcohol market, the consumption of whisky in Japan has reportedly fallen below 100,000 kiloliters a year from a peak of 380,000 kl in 1983.

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Sea urchins return to Sea of Japan coastal waters

FUKUI, Japan - A diver is all smiles with a bagful of sea urchins she gathered after three hours of work on Aug. 6, the last day of the urchin-gathering season off the coast of Fukui Prefecture. Fishermen in the area say the volume of sea urchins caught off the Fukui coast have more or less returned to normal 10 years after the Russian oil tanker Nakhodka carrying 20,000 kiloliters of fuel oil broke up in stormy weather in the Sea of Japan and up to 6,200 kiloliters of oil washed up in the coasts of 10 prefectures. At one point, the volume of sea urchins gathered by a local fishermen's cooperative in Fukui dropped to 19 kilograms, compared with an annual average of 300 kg before the spill, fishermen say.

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Tanker carrying gasoline for export to U.S. leaves Sendai port

SENDAI, Japan - The Hong Kong-registered 44,400-ton Maritime Vanessa, loaded with 25,000 kiloliters of gasoline to be exported to the hurricane-hit United States by Japan's oil wholesalers is about to leave Sendai port in Miyagi Prefecture on Sept. 20.

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Oita soy ass'n applies to Guinness for largest barrel

USUKI, Japan - A soy sauce association in Kyushu, southwestern Japan, on Dec. 13 submitted an application with the Guinness World Records book, saying it has built the world's largest wooden barrel (right in photo) for brewing purposes. Officials of the Oita soy sauce cooperative association said their Canadian white-cedar barrel measures about 9 meters both in diameter and height and weighs 45 tons, with a cubic capacity of 540 kiloliters.

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Suntory completes construction of 3rd beer plant in China

SHANGHAI, China - Photo shows a new beer production plant just completed by Suntory Ltd., a major Japanese brewer, in Kunshan, Jiangsu Province, west of Shanghai. The plant, Suntory's third in China, is expected to produce 95,000 kiloliters of beer in the first year.

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Japan, S. Korea hold joint maritime rescue, cleanup drill

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - Coast guard officials of Japan (R) and South Korea (L) on Sept. 7 prepare to conduct a joint drill off the coast of Kitakyushu, southwestern Japan, later in the day. In a mock collision involving a 1,000-ton tanker, members of the Japan Coast Guard and the Korea National Maritime Police Agency simulated rescuing the crew of the ship from the ocean and recovering some 500 kiloliters of crude oil that leaked from the tanker.

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Japan to release hundreds of thousands of kl of reserve oil

Japan will release hundreds of thousands of kiloliters of crude oil from its emergency reserves, industry minister Koichi Hagiuda said on Wednesday, as the country seeks to address rising prices in tandem with the United States and other major energy-consuming countries.

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Tanker carrying gasoline for export to U.S. leaves Sendai port

SENDAI, Japan - The Hong Kong-registered 44,400-ton Maritime Vanessa, loaded with 25,000 kiloliters of gasoline to be exported to the hurricane-hit United States by Japan's oil wholesalers is about to leave Sendai port in Miyagi Prefecture on Sept. 20. (Kyodo)

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Sea urchins return to Sea of Japan coastal waters

FUKUI, Japan - A diver is all smiles with a bagful of sea urchins she gathered after three hours of work on Aug. 6, the last day of the urchin-gathering season off the coast of Fukui Prefecture. Fishermen in the area say the volume of sea urchins caught off the Fukui coast have more or less returned to normal 10 years after the Russian oil tanker Nakhodka carrying 20,000 kiloliters of fuel oil broke up in stormy weather in the Sea of Japan and up to 6,200 kiloliters of oil washed up in the coasts of 10 prefectures. At one point, the volume of sea urchins gathered by a local fishermen's cooperative in Fukui dropped to 19 kilograms, compared with an annual average of 300 kg before the spill, fishermen say. (Kyodo)

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Scotch on 'Alaskan rock'

TOKYO, Japan - The Tokyo bar LoiteR serves Scotch whisky with what the owner Ryota Nanba says is ice dug up from Alaskan permafrost. This so-called Scotch on ''Alaskan rock'' is part of a sales campaign launched by Kirin Brewery Co. to perk up the consumption of whisky in Japan. Kirin officials say the company, the distributor of Scotch whisky Shevas Regal in Japan, has contracted for 7 tons of Alaskan permafrost ice from a licensed U.S. dealer. The ice is being distributed for free to more than 600 bars in Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya that are participating in the Kirin campaign, and customers ordering a Chevas in these bars can ask for Alaskan ice to go with their whisky. As sake and other Japanese liquors have been nibbling away at the non-native alcohol market, the consumption of whisky in Japan has reportedly fallen below 100,000 kiloliters a year from a peak of 380,000 kl in 1983. (Kyodo)

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Company plans to fly jet using biofuel made from green algae

Mitsuru Izumo, president of Euglena Corp., briefs reporters on his company's plan to fly a passenger jet using a mix of jet fuel and biofuel made from green algae by 2020 in cooperation with All Nippon Airways Co., during a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 1, 2015. The venture company will build a demonstration plant in Yokohama for about 3 billion yen to produce about 125 kiloliters of the biofuel. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's tallest Kurobe Dam releases 10-15 kl of water every second

Photo taken on Aug. 18, 2015, shows the Kurobe Dam in Tateyama, Toyama Prefecture, central Japan, completed in 1963. The nation's tallest dam, with its wall 186 meters high, releases about 10 to 15 kiloliters of water every second during the day from late June through mid-October. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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1997 tanker Nakhodka oil spill in Sea of Japan

Photo taken Feb. 1, 1997, shows people cleaning to remove oil from a beach in Mikuni, Fukui Prefecture, after the Russian tanker Nakhodka broke up in the Sea of Japan in January the same year. The incident resulted in an estimated 6,200 kiloliters of oil being spilled, damaging a wide swathe of the Sea of Japan coastline. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Oita soy ass'n applies to Guinness for largest barrel

USUKI, Japan - A soy sauce association in Kyushu, southwestern Japan, on Dec. 13 submitted an application with the Guinness World Records book, saying it has built the world's largest wooden barrel (right in photo) for brewing purposes. Officials of the Oita soy sauce cooperative association said their Canadian white-cedar barrel measures about 9 meters both in diameter and height and weighs 45 tons, with a cubic capacity of 540 kiloliters. (Kyodo)

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Suntory completes construction of 3rd beer plant in China

SHANGHAI, China - Photo shows a new beer production plant just completed by Suntory Ltd., a major Japanese brewer, in Kunshan, Jiangsu Province, west of Shanghai. The plant, Suntory's third in China, is expected to produce 95,000 kiloliters of beer in the first year.

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Japan, S. Korea hold joint maritime rescue, cleanup drill

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - Coast guard officials of Japan (R) and South Korea (L) on Sept. 7 prepare to conduct a joint drill off the coast of Kitakyushu, southwestern Japan, later in the day. In a mock collision involving a 1,000-ton tanker, members of the Japan Coast Guard and the Korea National Maritime Police Agency simulated rescuing the crew of the ship from the ocean and recovering some 500 kiloliters of crude oil that leaked from the tanker.