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Traditional festival in Nagasaki

A float signifying a whale spouting water is carried at the Nagasaki Kunchi festival at Suwa Shrine in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on Oct. 7, 2023, the opening day of the three-day festival dating back over 380 years.

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Whale in rare sighting in Osaka confirmed dead

An 8-meter-long whale spotted near the mouth of the Yodo River in Osaka earlier this week was confirmed dead Friday, local officials said, after it had remained in the same spot for days and was not observed spouting water. Workers of the Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan in the western Japan city had approached the large mammal by boat to check if it was breathing, while Tsutomu Tamura of the Tokyo-based Institute of Cetacean Research said that the blowhole that the whale would use to breathe had been submerged underwater since Wednesday. The Osaka Ports and Harbors Bureau is expected to discuss how to dispose of the whale's carcass.

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Mine destroyed under sea

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - Photo taken Aug. 13, 2013, shows water spouting from the sea as the Maritime Self-Defense Force disposed of a mine in the Kammon Straits off Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture. The mine, found buried in the seabed off Shimonoseki in June, was dropped by a U.S. bomber around the end of World War II.

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Ancient whaling reenacted in Yamaguchi whaling festival

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - The ancient Japanese method of whaling is reenacted at a whaling festival in Kayoi, a former whaling town in Nagato, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on July 21. Using a 13-meter-long water-spouting whale model, participants in the festival showed how ancient Japanese whalers corner a whale with the use of nets and spears.

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Christmas Greetings from The Australian Airforce

Christmas Greetings from The Australian Airforce. An RAF Hawk is flying in with a large bomb to take out a Japanese submarine, which is spouting curses via its periscope! Date: 1942

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Ancient whaling reenacted in Yamaguchi whaling festival

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - The ancient Japanese method of whaling is reenacted at a whaling festival in Kayoi, a former whaling town in Nagato, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on July 21. Using a 13-meter-long water-spouting whale model, participants in the festival showed how ancient Japanese whalers corner a whale with the use of nets and spears.

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Kudan park

In the centre is a pond, with a spouting fountain in the left corner is sprouting. Several pine trees and garden stones are placed on the other side of the pond, and water falls from the rock to the right.==Date:unknown, Place:Tokyo, Photo:Kusakabe Kinbei, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number3‐30‐0]