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Kurobe Gorge Railway partially opens in central Japan
The Kurobe Gorge Railway partially opens in central Japan, with tourists taking in the sceneries on open-air trains.
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Snow wall route reopens in central Japan
The Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route in central Japan has fully reopened featuring snow walls up to 13 meters high.
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Whale washes ashore in eastern Japan
A whale measuring more than 10 meters long washes ashore in Chiba Prefecture, eastern Japan.
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"Spring Quartet" full bloom in central Japan
Visitors enjoy a beautiful landscape of tulips, rape blossoms and cherry blossoms and snowy mountains in central Japan.
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32 dolphins washed ashore near Tokyo
32 dolphins get washed ashore near Tokyo, out of which 6 of them die and are carried into a research center.
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Temple cherry blossoms lit up in western Japan
Cherry blossoms at Miidera, a Buddhist temple in Shiga Prefecture, western Japan, are lit up at night for a limited time...
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Cherry blossoms enchant visitors in Washington DC
The symbol of Japan-US friendship is now in full bloom in Washington DC.
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Firefly squids washed ashore on central Japan island
Massive amounts of firefly squids wash up on the shore of Sado Island in Niigata Prefecture, central Japan.
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Tokyo's Ueno Park to allow visitors to drink while seeing cherry blossoms this year
Tokyo's Ueno Park will allow visitors to drink while seeing cherry blossoms this year for the first time in four years.
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New supercomputer expected to improve accuracy of linear rainband prediction
The Japan Meteorological Agency begins using a new supercomputer expected to improve the accuracy of predicting linear r...
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