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Waste oil illuminates Tokyo
Winter lights are illuminating Tokyo -- and some of them use waste oil.
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Flowering bamboo threatens local craft making
The Sasamorpha borealis bamboo is flowering throughout Japan for the first time in 120 years. The phenomenon is threaten...
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M5.5 quake shakes northern Japan
A magnitude 5.5 earthquake shakes Aomori Prefecture and nearby areas but leaves no damage.
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Volcanic island erupting and growing
Volcanic eruptions begin anew on Nishinoshima Island, part of Tokyo's Ogasawara Islands, after about a year.
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Takeda Castle floating in the sky
The ruins of Takeda Castle in Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, appear to float in the sky due to a natural phenomenon.
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Coldest morning in Japan this winter
Temperatures in northern Japan plunge to their lowest this winter due to a cold air mass hovering above the archipelago.
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Halo ring around the sun
Kentaro Araki from the JMA explains how a halo, or rainbow ring around the sun, is formed.
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Drone delivers relief goods to isolated Tokyo area
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government uses a drone to deliver relief goods to an area isolated following Typhoon Hagibis.
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