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Art event on islands

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - An artist sets up an installation at an art event on Kamikoshiki Island, Kagoshima Prefecture, on Aug. 14, 2010. The Koshiki Art Exhibition 2010 will be held from Aug. 21 to 29 using the Koshiki Islands as exhibition sites.

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Art event on islands

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - An artist sets up an installation at an art event on Nakakoshiki Island, Kagoshima Prefecture, on Aug. 14, 2010. The Koshiki Art Exhibition 2010 will be held from Aug. 21 to 29 using the Koshiki Islands as exhibition sites.

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Sake brewing tradition revived after 17 yrs in Niigata

NIIGATA, Japan - The sake brewing tradition of "koshiki-daoshi" (literally pulling down a rice-steaming pot) is held in Nagaoka, Niigata Prefecture, central Japan, on Feb. 22, 2014, for the first time in 17 years. In the rite, rice wine makers dress up with equipment used for producing sake and report to brewery owners the completion of brewing preparations. The tradition was resumed 10 years after a major earthquake in the area caused extensive damage including to sake breweries.

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Experiment under way to introduce broadband on remote

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - An experiment has gotten under way to introduce broadband with a super-high-frequency radio system on Dec. 3 on Koshiki Islands in the city of Satsuma-Sendai, Kagoshima Prefecture.

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Practicing doctor on remote island to retire in 2016

File photo taken in March 2008 shows Kenjiro Setoue (L), a practicing doctor on Shimo Koshiki Island off Satsumasendai in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, receiving his likeness from cartoonist Takatoshi Yamada. Setoue, 74, the inspiration for the main character of Yamada's popular comic and TV drama series "Dr. Koto's Clinic," will retire in March 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Art event on islands

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - An artist sets up an installation at an art event on Kamikoshiki Island, Kagoshima Prefecture, on Aug. 14, 2010. The Koshiki Art Exhibition 2010 will be held from Aug. 21 to 29 using the Koshiki Islands as exhibition sites. (Kyodo)

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Art event on islands

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - An artist sets up an installation at an art event on Nakakoshiki Island, Kagoshima Prefecture, on Aug. 14, 2010. The Koshiki Art Exhibition 2010 will be held from Aug. 21 to 29 using the Koshiki Islands as exhibition sites. (Kyodo)