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Tokyo to open new wholesale food Toyosu market on Oct. 11
TOKYO, Sept. 14 ― The Tokyo metropolitan government will open a new wholesale food market, called the Toyosu market, replacing the aging Tsukiji market on Oct. 11. The market relocation comes about two years later than previously planned, because additional safety work was required to control soil pollution at the Toyosu site. The Tokyo metropolitan government held a ceremony on Sept. 13 to celebrate opening the new market. At the ceremony, Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike said: “We will grow the Toyosu market as a new showcase center for the Japanese food culture.” The new market features cutting-edge equipment in enclosed facilities at an area of 400,000 square meters. That makes … Continue reading
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Powerful M6.7 quake jolts Hokkaido, causing damage to infrastructure and agriculture
HOKKAIDO, Sept. 7 – A magnitude 6.7 earthquake, which registered up to 7 on the 7-point Japanese seismic intensity scale, hit the northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido on Sept. 6 at 3:07 a.m. The earthquake, with its epicenter in the Iburi region in southwestern Hokkaido, triggered massive landslides and damaged houses. The death toll rose to 35 (updated as of 8 p.m. Sept. 8), out of which 31 were confirmed at the worst-hit mountainous town of Atsuma, and one each in Mukawa, Shinhidaka, Tomakomai and the prefectural capital of Sapporo, according to the Hokkaido Prefectural Government. Some 2.95 million households throughout the prefecture was temporarily left without power, as all thermal … Continue reading
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Sunflowers in full bloom in empty town in Fukushima, as hopes rise for lifting of evacuation orders
FUKUSHIMA, Aug. 29 – Sunflowers are in full bloom in the town of Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, where all the residents have been unable to return after the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant accident brought about by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. A group of 50 residents sowed the seeds on a 1.8-hectare land in June in an effort to maintain the weakening ties between the town and the evacuated residents, as more than seven years have passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake. The yellow flowers fill the fields besides a street in the town’s Ogawara district where people drive on to return to their homes temporarily. A message … Continue reading
National high school baseball championship runners-up ‘Kana-no’ creates new history as agricultural high school
HYOGO, Aug. 22 – Kanaashi Nogyo High School, an agricultural high school in Akita Prefecture known as “Kana-no,” finished second in the 100th National High School Baseball Championship on Aug. 21, beaten 13-2 by Osaka Toin High School of Osaka Prefecture in the final. The team, the first from Akita to reach the final since 1915 and the first agricultural high school to do so after World War II, left a new footprint at Koshien Stadium in Hyogo Prefecture, impressing people with its never-give-up attitude. “We were able to come this far thanks to the support of the local community,” Kanaashi Nogyo ace Kosei Yoshida said in tears after the … Continue reading
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Abandoned world war factory sitting still in farmland
SAITAMA, Aug. 15 – The day to remember the end of the World War II came again on August 15. However, in a crop land in Kushibiki region, Fukaya city, Saitama Prefecture, a thick concrete building always sits still to help you recall the war. The 5-square-meter 10-meter-high 2-story building used to be a gunpowder factory built during the World War II. Both the building and the farmland belong to a local farmer, but he grows nothing there as the land is always shady because of the structure. During the war, it was, reportedly, part of the No.2 arsenal of the Tokyo army base. It was moved from Tokyo to … Continue reading