Stones unturned: Japan city to ask visitors to stop taking jade rocks from rivers
This central Japan city famed for its jade stones is set to ask people to refrain from taking the prized mineral formations ...
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Kiso Three Rivers - Going with the Flow
Our cyclist travels three large rivers in central Japan: the Kiso, the Nagara and the Ibi. He explores unique cultures related to the rivers, like cormorant fishing and an exciting float festival.
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Rescuers in Japan search for 3 missing in or near rivers swollen by heavy rains last week
Rescue workers in Japan searched Monday for three people ... On Monday, residents were cleaning up in flood-hit parts of Iwata city in Shizuoka, where a river bank was breached and dozens of ...
Swimming pool-sized sinkhole swallows truck in Japan, trapping driver
Officials said the driver had been stuck in the hole, approximately 20ft deep, for some eight hours after it formed at about ...
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Analysis: 20% of population in Japan reside in flood-risk areas
About 20 percent of Japan’s population resides in areas that are at risk of flooding when heavy rain causes rivers to overflow ... nearly 30 percent of the city's population—live in areas ...
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Stones unturned: Japan city to ask visitors to stop taking jade rocks from rivers
ITOIGAWA, Niigata -- This central Japan city famed for its jade stones ... which oversee a portion of the city's rivers, have expressed a wish to cooperate on the creation of new "manners." ...