Japanese teams start spring camps without fans
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Yomiuri Giants manager Tatsunori Hara addresses his players on the first day of spring training on Monday in Miyazaki.Japan News-Yomiuri
The spring training camps of Japan s pro baseball teams, concentrated in Miyazaki and Okinawa prefectures, got off to quiet starts on Monday, with strict pandemic protocols in place that included the banning of fans from observing the action.
Both prefectures have declared a state of emergency on their own, and players and staff will be undergoing periodic testing for the coronavirus. Countermeasures to prevent infections have been put in place at the stadiums and the teams lodgings.
Stand-alone photo: Japan flowers
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A heart created using nanohana blossoms appeared ahead of Valentine s Day near the left bank of the Kumozu River in Tsu, Japan. A resident created the field art using his fallow field as a canvas, sowing the seeds of early-blooming nanohana blossoms in the shape of a heart last October. Flowers are scarce at this time of year. I hope everyone enjoys it, he said. The man changes the theme of the rice paddy art every year.Japan News-Yomiuri
Stand-alone photo: A heart created using nanohana blossoms appeared ahead of Valentine s Day near the left bank of the Kumozu River in Tsu, Japan. A resident created the field art using his fallow field as a canvas, sowing the seeds of early-blooming nanohana blossoms in the shape of a heart last October. Flowers are scarce at this time of year. I hope everyone enjoys it, he said. The man changes the theme of the rice paddy art every year.
Stand-alone photo: Japan dolls
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Hina dolls of newly elected U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are displayed in the shop of famous doll maker Kyugetsu Co. in Tokyo, on Wednesday, ahead of the Hina Matsuri doll festival on March 3. The firm, which singles out people expected to be in the news each year, selected Biden and Harris in the hope that the change in the U.S. administration will lead to a restoration of world order. The dolls are not for sale.Japan News-Yomiuri
Stand-alone photo: Hina dolls of newly elected U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are displayed in the shop of famous doll maker Kyugetsu Co. in Tokyo, on Wednesday, ahead of the Hina Matsuri doll festival on March 3. The firm, which singles out people expected to be in the news each year, selected Biden and Harris in the hope that the change in the U.S. administration will lead to a restoration of world order. The dolls are not for sale.
Stand-alone photo: Japan coral
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A diver swims near a table coral colony growing near Sokodo Beach on Hachijo Island, Japan, on Dec. 15. The area is drawing attention as a place where corals and humans live in close proximity to each other. In the late 1980s, wave-dissipating blocks were placed about 300 meters offshore to prevent erosion of the nearby beach. They also protect the corals from waves, allowing them to grow. During the same period, two surveys were conducted on the corals growing near the island, but the area near the beach, on the inside of the wave-dissipating blocks, was not included, according to the Environment Ministry. The growth of such a large coral colony could be attributed to the wave-dissipating blocks, which have created an environment similar to a reef, said Takeshi Igarashi, director of the Shell Hall, Mutsu city sea and forest experience center in Aomori Prefecture, who researched coral on the island from 1984 to 2005. The corals
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