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Fukushima nuclear power plant is now pumping wastewater into the Pacific OceanThe International Atomic Energy Agency — the UN's atomic watchdog — has said the release meets international safety standards with a "negligible radiological impact."
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Hirota people of Japan intentionally deformed infant skulls 1,800 years agoThe Hirota people, who occupied a Japanese island for around 400 years, deliberately flattened the back of their children's heads. And experts are not entirely sure why.
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Deadly swarm of earthquakes in Japan caused by magma moving through extinct volcanoOver 10,000 earthquakes have hit the Noto Peninsula over the last three years. They are believed to be emanating from an long-dead volcano, with fluids pushing through the collapsed system.
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Dolphins terrorize and bite beachgoers in Japan — for the 2nd year in a rowFour separate incidents on a beach in Fukui prefecture on July 16 echo a string of attacks in the same region last year that may have been perpetrated by a single Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin.
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Ethereal ice swirls dance around Arctic peninsula in stunning new satellite imageNASA's Aqua satellite spotted giant ice swirls stretching for hundreds of miles in the Sea of Okhotsk off Russia's P'yagina Peninsula.
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NASA uncovers shattered remains of Japanese lunar lander that mysteriously disappeared on April 25Japan's private Hakuto-R spacecraft broke into at least four large pieces of debris, according to new images from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
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Days before dying, Japan's lunar lander snaps glorious photo of Earth during a total solar eclipseJapan's Hakuto-R lander may have crashed on the moon, but the spacecraft still sent back valuable images.
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WWII ship that sank with 1,000 Allied POWs on board discovered in South China SeaThe wreck of a Japanese transport ship that sank in 1942 with more than 1,000 Allied prisoners-of-war on board has been discovered near the Philippines.
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Deepest-dwelling fish ever seen is a ghostly snailfish spotted more than 27,000 feet beneath the ocean surfaceThe never-before-seen fish was spotted 5 miles below the ocean's surface in the Izu-Ogasawara Trench near Japan.
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