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Southern Europe and The Northwestern Mediterranean Coast from The ISS

Handout - JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya Yui captured this photo of southern Europe and the northwestern Mediterranean coast from the International Space Station as it orbited 261 miles above Earth on August 30, 2025. At left, the Po Valley urban corridor in Italy shines with the metropolitan areas of Milan and Turin and their surrounding suburbs. Crew members aboard the orbital lab have produced hundreds of thousands of images of the land, oceans, and atmosphere of Earth, and even of the Moon through Crew Earth Observations. Their photographs of Earth record how the planet changes over time due to human activity and natural events. This allows scientists to monitor disasters and direct response on the ground and study a number of phenomena, from the movement of glaciers to urban wildlife. Photo by JAXA/Kimiya Yui/NASA via ABACAPRESS.COM

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Police sent to Cambodia to transport Japanese scam suspects

Officers from Japan's Aichi prefectural police are pictured at Chubu Centrair International Airport in Tokoname in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, on Aug. 19, 2025, before departure to Cambodia. About 80 officers are tasked with transporting to Japan 29 Japanese men and women detained in Phnom Penh for suspected involvement in a fraud scheme in Poipet, northwestern Cambodia. ==Kyodo

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Japanese scam suspects in Cambodia deported to Japan

A chartered Malaysia Airlines plane carrying 29 Japanese men and women suspected of involvement in a fraud scheme in Poipet, northwestern Cambodia, takes off from an airport in Phnom Penh on Aug. 20, 2025, for deportation to Japan. About 80 officers from Japan's Aichi prefectural police were recently sent to Cambodia to transport the 29 Japanese, detained by local authorities in May 2025.

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Japanese scam suspects in Cambodia deported to Japan

A chartered Malaysia Airlines plane carrying 29 Japanese men and women suspected of involvement in a fraud scheme in Poipet, northwestern Cambodia, prepares to take off from an airport in Phnom Penh on Aug. 20, 2025, for deportation to Japan. About 80 officers from Japan's Aichi prefectural police were recently sent to Cambodia to transport the 29 Japanese, detained by local authorities in May 2025.

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Japanese scam suspects in Cambodia to be deported to Japan

A bus carrying 29 Japanese men and women suspected of involvement in a fraud scheme in Poipet, northwestern Cambodia, leaves a detention facility in Phnom Penh on Aug. 20, 2025, for deportation to Japan. About 80 officers from Japan's Aichi prefectural police were sent to Cambodia to transport the 29 Japanese, detained by local authorities in May 2025, on a chartered Malaysia Airlines plane.

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Japanese scam suspects in Cambodia to be deported to Japan

A bus carrying 29 Japanese men and women suspected of involvement in a fraud scheme in Poipet, northwestern Cambodia, leaves a detention facility in Phnom Penh on Aug. 20, 2025, for deportation to Japan. About 80 officers from Japan's Aichi prefectural police were sent to Cambodia to transport the 29 Japanese, detained by local authorities in May 2025, on a chartered Malaysia Airlines plane.

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Japan: Heavy Rain Hits Ishikawa and Toyama

On Thursday, August 7, heavy rainfall affected the prefectures of Ishikawa and Toyama as rain clouds developed over the Sea of Japan. Authorities have issued warnings for landslides and river overflows amid reports of flash flooding throughout the northwestern region.

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Japan: Wildfires Rage in Okayama and Ehime Prefectures, Evacuations Ordered 7

Wildfires are raging in Ehime and Okayama prefectures in western Japan. In Okayama Prefecture, a forest fire broke out in Minami Ward, Okayama City, on Sunday, March 23. Despite the lifting of all evacuation orders, the burned area expanded to approximately 300 hectares as of Tuesday. 6 buildings were damaged, but no injuries have been reported. Also on Sunday, March 23, a fire broke out in Imabari City, Ehime Prefecture, on northwestern Shikoku Island, and spread to more than 150 hectares by Tuesday morning. Evacuation orders have been issued for 1300 homes. Local reports indicate a firefighter sustained a minor injury.

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Japan: Wildfires Rage in Okayama and Ehime Prefectures, Evacuations Ordered 6

Wildfires are raging in Ehime and Okayama prefectures in western Japan. In Okayama Prefecture, a forest fire broke out in Minami Ward, Okayama City, on Sunday, March 23. Despite the lifting of all evacuation orders, the burned area expanded to approximately 300 hectares as of Tuesday. 6 buildings were damaged, but no injuries have been reported. Also on Sunday, March 23, a fire broke out in Imabari City, Ehime Prefecture, on northwestern Shikoku Island, and spread to more than 150 hectares by Tuesday morning. Evacuation orders have been issued for 1300 homes. Local reports indicate a firefighter sustained a minor injury.

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Japan: Wildfires Rage in Okayama and Ehime Prefectures, Evacuations Ordered 5

Wildfires are raging in Ehime and Okayama prefectures in western Japan. In Okayama Prefecture, a forest fire broke out in Minami Ward, Okayama City, on Sunday, March 23. Evacuation orders were issued, and the burned area expanded to approximately 250 hectares as of Monday, 7:00 a.m. local time. No injuries have been reported. Also on Sunday, March 23, a fire broke out in Imabari City, Ehime Prefecture, on northwestern Shikoku Island, and spread to 128 hectares by Monday morning. Local reports indicate a firefighter sustained a minor injury.

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Japan: Wildfires Rage in Okayama and Ehime Prefectures, Evacuations Ordered 4

Wildfires are raging in Ehime and Okayama prefectures in western Japan. In Okayama Prefecture, a forest fire broke out in Minami Ward, Okayama City, on Sunday, March 23. Evacuation orders were issued, and the burned area expanded to approximately 250 hectares as of Monday, 7:00 a.m. local time. No injuries have been reported. Also on Sunday, March 23, a fire broke out in Imabari City, Ehime Prefecture, on northwestern Shikoku Island, and spread to 128 hectares by Monday morning. Local reports indicate a firefighter sustained a minor injury.

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Japan: Wildfires Rage in Okayama and Ehime Prefectures, Evacuations Ordered 3

Wildfires are raging in Ehime and Okayama prefectures in western Japan. In Okayama Prefecture, a forest fire broke out in Minami Ward, Okayama City, on Sunday, March 23. Evacuation orders were issued, and the burned area expanded to approximately 250 hectares as of Monday, 7:00 a.m. local time. No injuries have been reported. Also on Sunday, March 23, a fire broke out in Imabari City, Ehime Prefecture, on northwestern Shikoku Island, and spread to 128 hectares by Monday morning. Local reports indicate a firefighter sustained a minor injury.

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Typhoon Shanshan – Strong Winds, Heavy Rains Lash Southwestern Japan 8

Typhoon Shanshan brought heavy rains and strong winds to southwestern Japan as it made landfall near Sendai, Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Kyushu Thursday morning, August 29. This video was recorded at "Ebisuya" the tourist home in Nagashima Town, northwestern Kagoshima Prefecture.

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Typhoon Shanshan – Strong Winds, Heavy Rains Lash Southwestern Japan 7

Typhoon Shanshan brought heavy rains and strong winds to southwestern Japan as it made landfall near Sendai, Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Kyushu Thursday morning, August 29. This video was recorded at "Ebisuya" the tourist home in Nagashima Town, northwestern Kagoshima Prefecture.

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Kumamoto gov. visits TSMC headquarters

Kumamoto Gov. Ikuo Kabashima (L) visits the head office of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. in Hsinchu, northwestern Taiwan, on Jan. 12, 2023. The world's largest contract chipmaker plans to build a factory in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Kumamoto.

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Niigata Pref.'s "antenna shop" opens in NY

NEW YORK, United States - A shop to introduce local specialties from Niigata Prefecture, northwestern Japan, opens in New York on Jan. 13, 2015, with Niigata Vice Gov. Kunio Mori (2nd from R) joining a traditional "Kagami-biraki" sake barrel breaking ceremony.

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Inside of Niigata Pref.'s "antenna shop" in NY

NEW YORK, United States - Various bottles of Japanese sake indigenous to Niigata Prefecture, northwestern Japan, are displayed on the shelves of the prefecture's shop that opened in New York on Jan. 13, 2015, to introduce local specialties from the prefecture.

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Qaulity cherries ready for year's 1st shipment

YAMAGATA, Japan - Cherries of the high-quality Sato Nishiki variety greenhouse-cultured in Tendo, Yamagata Prefecture, northwestern Japan, are ready for the year's first shipment on Jan. 4, 2015.

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Women sort out quality Japanese cherries for shipment

YAMAGATA, Japan - Women sort out greenhouse-cultured cherries of the luxury Sato-Nishiki variety in Tendo, Yamagata Prefecture, northwestern Japan, on Jan. 4, 2015, for the first shipment of the year.

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Ex-classmates of abduction victim sing at concert

TOKYO, Japan - Former elementary and junior high school classmates of Megumi Yokota, a Japanese woman abducted to North Korea in 1977 at age 13, sing at a concert in Niigata, northwestern Japan, on the Sea of Japan coast on Sept. 21, 2014.

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Osprey takes part in disaster drill

SENDAI, Japan - A U.S. Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey aircraft makes a landing at a Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force airfield in northwestern city of Sendai on Nov. 7, 2014. The Osprey from the Marines' Futenma Air Station in Okinawa is to take part in a large-scale disaster drill called "Michinoku ALERT 2014" that simulates a severe earthquake in the northeastern Japan.

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Man gets int'l food award for coaching rice farm tech

NIIGATA, Japan - Japanese rice planting expert Tatsushi Tsuboi gets the Niigata International Food Award from a foundation in Niigata, northwestern Japan, on Oct. 29, 2014, for his effort to propagate rice cultivation technology in developing countries mainly in Asia and Africa for over 30 years.

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10th anniv. of Chuetsu Earthquake in northwestern Japan

NIIGATA, Japan - Two residents of Ojiya in Niigata Prefecture, northwestern Japan, put their hands around a gas lamp burning a flame shared from the "1.17 Kibo no Hikari" (Light of Hope) in Kobe, western Japan, on Oct. 23, 2014, on the 10th anniversary of the 2004 Chuetsu Earthquake that killed 68 people.

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Balloons floated on 10th anniv. of Chuetsu Earthquake

NAGAOKA, Japan - Mourners fly balloons in the former Yamakoshi village in Niigata Prefecture, northwestern Japan, on Oct. 23, 2014, at a ceremony marking the 10th anniversary of the 2004 Chuetsu Earthquake that killed 68 people.

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10th anniv. of Chuetsu Earthquake observed

NAGAOKA, Japan - A family looks at candles lit as a memorial to victims of the 2004 Chuetsu Earthquake in the former Yamakoshi village in Niigata Prefecture, northwestern Japan, on Oct. 23, 2014, on the 10th anniversary of the disaster that claimed 68 lives.

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Villager revives hometown bullfighting despite killer quake

NIIGATA, Japan - Haruji Matsui, photographed ahead of the 10th anniversary on Oct. 23, 2014, of a devastating earthquake that hit his hometown Yamakoshi, Niigata Prefecture, is known for his contribution to the post-quake recovery of the village through the revival of local bullfighting after the disaster in the northwestern Japan region.

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U.S. envoy Kennedy visits museum in Yonezawa, north Japan

YONEZAWA, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy visits the "Denkoku no Mori" museum in Yonezawa, Yamagata Prefecture, northwestern Japan, on Sept. 27, 2014, as a museum official greets her in a suit of armor. The museum is focused on famed feudal lord Uesugi Yozan, known for good governance, making sacrifices for the public good, and being praised by former U.S. President John Kennedy, father of the envoy.

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Poster for Yamagata int'l film festival 2015 unveiled

YAMAGATA, Japan - Kiho Tsuruoka of Tohoku University of Art and Design holds a publicity poster she designed for the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival 2015 in Yamagata, northwestern Japan, on Aug. 18, 2014. The festival will be held on Oct. 8-15 next year.

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'Fox dance' fiesta held in northwestern Japan

OITA, Japan - Children disguising themselves as foxes perform a frolicsome fox dance by holding lantern-lit umbrellas during a "bon" midsummer Buddhist festival in Himeshima, Oita Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Aug. 14, 2014. The fox dance originates from a Buddhist incantation dance in the Kamakura era (1192-1333).

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Entrance to Neemrana industrial zone in India

NEEMRANA, India - The entrance to a Japan External Trade Organization-led industrial zone in Neemrana in the northwestern Indian state of Rajasthan developed exclusively for Japanese companies is seen in this photograph of June 2014.

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Popular Indian industrial zone for Japanese firms

NEEMRANA, India - The surroundings of a Japan External Trade Organization-led industrial zone (back) in Neemrana in the northwestern Indian state of Rajasthan developed exclusively for Japanese companies are seen in this photo taken in June 2014. The zone has nearly 50 major Japanese companies operating there.

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Construction gearing up at Japan's World Cup base camp

SAO PAULO, Brazil - Construction work gears up at Spa Sports Resort, the Japanese national soccer team's base camp for the 2014 FIFA World Cup, in Itu, northwestern Sao Paulo state, Brazil, on May 20, 2014. The Japanese squad is scheduled to settle there on June 7, a week ahead of its opening game against Ivory Coast.

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Construction gearing up at Japan's World Cup base camp

SAO PAULO, Brazil - Finishing touches are being put on accommodation facilities at Spa Sports Resort, the Japanese national soccer team's base camp for the 2014 FIFA World Cup, in Itu, northwestern Sao Paulo state, Brazil, on May 20, 2014. The Japanese squad is scheduled to settle there on June 7, a week ahead of its opening game against Ivory Coast.

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Japan "research whaling"

SHIMONOSEKI, Japan - The Japanese whaling ship Yushin Maru No. 2 leaves Shimonoseki port in Yamaguchi Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on May 16, 2014. The vessel will take part in so-called research whaling in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with a sharply reduced quota for whale catches following a ruling by the International Court of Justice in March 2014 banning Japanese whaling in the Antarctic Sea.

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Japan "research whaling"

SHIMONOSEKI, Japan - Relatives of a crewmember see off the Japanese whaling ship Yushin Maru No. 2 at Shimonoseki port in Yamaguchi Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on May 16, 2014. The vessel will take part in so-called research whaling in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with a sharply reduced quota for whale catches following a ruling by the International Court of Justice in March 2014 banning Japanese whaling in the Antarctic Sea.

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Japan "research whaling"

SHIMONOSEKI, Japan - The Japanese whaling ship Yushin Maru leaves Shimonoseki port in Yamaguchi Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on May 16, 2014. The vessel will take part in so-called research whaling in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with a sharply reduced quota for whale catches following a ruling by the International Court of Justice in March 2014 banning Japanese whaling in the Antarctic Sea.

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Former Japanese army officer Onoda dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in March 1974 shows Hiroo Onoda (C) saluting after handing over a military sword on Lubang Island in the northwestern Philippines. Onoda, a former Imperial Japanese Army intelligence officer who remained on the island for nearly 29 years without knowledge of Japan's surrender in World War II, died of heart failure at a Tokyo hospital on Jan. 16, 2014. He was 91.

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Former Japanese army officer Onoda dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken by a rescue team in March 1974 shows a former Imperial Japanese Army intelligence officer Hiroo Onoda (L) receiving a pack of cigarettes from his former commanding officer on Lubang Island in the northwestern Philippines. Onoda, who remained on the island for nearly 29 years without knowledge of Japan's surrender in World War II, died of heart failure at a Tokyo hospital on Jan. 16, 2014. He was 91.

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Former Japanese army officer Onoda dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in March 1974 shows Hiroo Onoda (R) shaking hands with Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos at Malacanang Palace in Manila, as the president's wife Imelda (L front) looks on. Onoda, a former Imperial Japanese Army intelligence officer who remained on Lubang Island in the northwestern Philippines for nearly 29 years without knowledge of Japan's surrender in World War II, died of heart failure at a Tokyo hospital on Jan. 16, 2014. He was 91.

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Former Japanese army officer Onoda dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in 2005 shows Hiroo Onoda. Onoda, a former Imperial Japanese Army intelligence officer who remained on Lubang Island in the northwestern Philippines for nearly 29 years without knowledge of Japan's surrender in World War II before returning to Japan in March 1974, died of heart failure at a Tokyo hospital on Jan. 16, 2014. He was 91.

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Japan, Russia sign accord on poaching, smuggling of crabs

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda (L back) and Russian President Vladimir Putin (R back) attend a ceremony in Vladivostok, Russia, on Sept. 8, 2012, in which representatives of the two countries sign an agreement that would ban the poaching of crabs in Russian-administered waters in the Sea of Okhotsk in the northwestern Pacific and their smuggling to Japan. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Japan's whaling ships leave for northwestern Pacific

SHIMONOSEKI, Japan - The Yushin Maru (front) and Yushin Maru No. 2 (back), a pair of Japanese whaling vessels, are anchored at Shimonoseki port in Yamaguchi Prefecture on the morning of May 18, 2012, before leaving later in the day with the aim of hunting whales for scientific research in the northwestern Pacific Ocean through early August.

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Myanmar refugees in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - A married couple who are refugees from Myanmar attend a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 28, 2011. Five families, including the couple's, arrived in Japan in 2010 as the first batch of 90 refugees from Myanmar that the Japanese government plans to accept from the Mera refugee camp in northwestern Thailand over a three-year period. The couple's family and another family have refused to work for a farm in Chiba Prefecture where they settled due to the working conditions.

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Tokyo event to promote postquake reconstruction

TOKYO, Japan - A man looks at a copy of a newspaper exhibited at Tokyo's Shiodome area on July 6, 2011, a day before the opening of an event, co-hosted by UNESCO and other organizations, to promote the reconstruction of the Tohoku region devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami disaster. During the three-day event, products of the six prefectures in northwestern Japan are sold and articles of local newspapers are on display.

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Tokyo event to promote postquake reconstruction

TOKYO, Japan - A man looks at a copy of a newspaper exhibited at Tokyo's Shiodome area on July 6, 2011, a day before the opening of an event, co-hosted by UNESCO and other organizations, to promote the reconstruction of the Tohoku region devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami disaster. During the three-day event, products of the six prefectures in northwestern Japan are sold and articles of local newspapers are on display.

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Myanmar refugees at Thai camp

MAE SOT, Thailand - An official from Japan's Ministry of Justice (R back) talks to refugees from Myanmar in Mae Sot, northwestern Thailand, on Feb. 9, 2011, ahead of their departure for Japan under the ''third country'' refugee resettlement program.

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Myanmar refugee camp in Thailand

MAE SOT, Thailand - Photo shows Camp Mera in northwestern Thailand for refugees from Myanmar on Feb. 8, 2011. A Japanese government mission plans to begin interviewing refugees who want to go to Japan from the next day.

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Myanmar refugees on way to Japan

MAE SOT, Thailand - Myanmar refugees arrive at a facility of the International Organization for Migration in Mae Sot, northwestern Thailand, on Sept. 22, 2010, ahead of their departure for Japan. They were in the first group of Myanmar refugees to resettle in Japan from a refugee camp in Mera under a pilot program.

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Myanmar refugees on way to Japan

MERA, Thailand - A Myanmar family leaves a refugee camp in Mera, northwestern Thailand, on Sept. 22, 2010, for a facility of the International Organization for Migration in Mae Sot ahead of their departure for Japan. The family was in the first group of Myanmar refugees to resettle in Japan from the camp under a pilot program.

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Myanmar refugees on way to Japan

MAE SOT, Thailand - Myanmar refugees arrive at a facility of the International Organization for Migration in Mae Sot, northwestern Thailand, on Sept. 22, 2010, ahead of their departure for Japan. They were in the first group of Myanmar refugees to resettle in Japan from a refugee camp in Mera under a pilot program.