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'Shooting Star' bullet train runs in southwestern Japan ahead of full-scale launch

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Shooting Star bullet train runs in southwestern Japan ahead of full-scale launch
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This photo shows the shinkansen bullet train casting light in Chikugo, Fukuoka Prefecture, on March 14, 2021. (Mainichi/ Minoru Kanazawa)
FUKUOKA A special Nagareboshi Shinkansen, or shooting star bullet train, ran in the southwestern Japan region of Kyushu with a spectacular display of light on the night of March 14 to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Kyushu Shinkansen Line s full-scale opening.
The bullet train, casting beams of light from windows in seven colors with special lighting equipment, ran from Kagoshima-Chuo Station in the city of Kagoshima to Hakata Station in the city of Fukuoka. An event to view the shinkansen was held in a multipurpose square near Chikugo-Funagoya Station in the Fukuoka Prefecture town of Chikugo, and some 2,100 people enjoyed the view. ....

Japan General , Mainichi Minoru Kanazawa , Munehisa Ishida , Nagareboshi Shinkansen , Kyushu Railway Co , Kyushu Business News Department , Nippon City Bank , Fukuoka Prefecture , Minoru Kanazawa , Mainichi This , Kyushu Shinkansen Line , Kagoshima Chuo Station , Hakata Station , Chikugo Funagoya Station , Nishi Nippon City Bank , ஜப்பான் ஜநரல் , கையஶு ரயில்வே இணை , கையஶு வணிக செய்தி துறை , நிப்பான் நகரம் வங்கி , ஃப்யூகூவோகா ப்ரீஃபெக்சர் , மைனரு கனசாவா , கையஶு ஷிங்கான்செங் வரி , ககோஷிமா சுோ நிலையம் , ஹகாட்டா நிலையம் , நிஷி நிப்பான் நகரம் வங்கி ,

Japan high schoolers develop world's fastest air powered bicycle that runs at 64 kph

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Japan high schoolers develop world s fastest air powered bicycle that runs at 64 kph
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This photo shows the compressed air powered bicycle in the city of Fukuoka on Feb. 24, 2021. (Mainichi/Sayo Kato)
FUKUOKA A team of high school students in this west Japan city has developed a bicycle that runs on a compressed air engine which has been officially certified by Guinness World Records as the fastest compressed air powered bicycle on the planet.
The group that came up with the bike consists of eight third-year students majoring in automotive engineering at Fukuoka Municipal Hakata Technical High School. Using the specially adapted engine, the bike reached a speed of 63.966 kilometers per hour in November 2020. ....

Mainichi Sayo Kato , Sayo Kato , Soichiro Takashima , Shogo Inoue , Fukuoka News Department , Fukuoka Municipal Hakata Technical High School , Mainichi This , Guinness World Records , Fukuoka Municipal Hakata Technical High , Mayor Soichiro Takashima , Guinness World , Ground Self Defense Force , சயோ கட்டோ , சொய்ச்சிறோ தகாஷிமா , ஷோகோ இணௌஊே , ஃப்யூகூவோகா செய்தி துறை , ஃப்யூகூவோகா நகராட்சி ஹகாட்டா தொழில்நுட்ப உயர் பள்ளி , கின்னஸ் உலகம் பதிவுகள் , ஃப்யூகூவோகா நகராட்சி ஹகாட்டா தொழில்நுட்ப உயர் , மேயர் சொய்ச்சிறோ தகாஷிமா , கின்னஸ் உலகம் , தரையில் சுய பாதுகாப்பு படை ,

Japan's impoverished hesitating to apply for welfare due to checks on kin

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Japan s impoverished hesitating to apply for welfare due to checks on kin
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This photo shows a consultation area for people who have lost their homes or run into other difficulties amid the coronavirus pandemic at Okubo Park in Tokyo s Shinjuku Ward. A survey regarding social aid was conducted there. (Mainichi/Satoshi Tokairin)
TOKYO A system in which authorities phone the parents, siblings or other kin of people applying for welfare in Japan to check whether they can offer financial assistance is placing a psychological burden on applicants that causes some to hesitate to apply for social aid, a survey conducted by a group supporting the needy has found. ....

Tsuyoshi Inaba , Mainichi Satoshi Tokairin , Hiroshi Endo , City News Department , Ministry Of Health , Tsukuroi Tokyo Fund , Okubo Park , Satoshi Tokairin , Mainichi This , New Year , ஹிரோஷி எண்டோ , நகரம் செய்தி துறை , அமைச்சகம் ஆஃப் ஆரோக்கியம் , ஓகுபோ பூங்கா , புதியது ஆண்டு ,

'Elegant' ammonite fossil discovered in Hokkaido town identified as new species

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Elegant ammonite fossil discovered in Hokkaido town identified as new species
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This Jan. 13, 2021 photo at Mikasa City Museum in Hokkaido shows fossil pieces of an ammonite that has been identified as a new species. (Mainichi/Hiroto Watanabe)
MIKASA, Hokkaido A fossilized ammonite discovered in the town of Haboro in Japan s northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido has been identified as a new species, it has been reported.
Mikasa City Museum in the same prefecture announced the discovery in a journal published on Jan. 1 by the Palaeontological Society of Japan.
The fossil was found in a stratum from the Cretaceous period of the Mesozoic era (about 86.3 million years to 89.8 million years ago). Ammonites were an ancient relative of squid and octopi that had spiral shells. Throughout Japan s 47 prefectures, the highest number of ammonite fossils have been found in Hokkaido. The fossil of the new species w ....

Daisuke Aiba , Tetsuro Iwasaki , Mainichi Hiroto Watanabe , Hiroto Watanabe , Mikasa City Museum , Mikasa City Museum In Hokkaido , Asahikawa Bureau , Yokohama National University , Palaeontological Society Of Japan , Mainichi This , City Museum , Palaeontological Society , மிகச நகரம் அருங்காட்சியகம் , மிகச நகரம் அருங்காட்சியகம் இல் ோக்கைடோ , அஸஹிக்கவா பணியகம் , யோகோகாமா தேசிய பல்கலைக்கழகம் , நகரம் அருங்காட்சியகம் ,

7.5% of teachers at Japan public primary, junior high schools are temp. workers: survey

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7.5% of teachers at Japan public primary, junior high schools are temp. workers: survey
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This 2009 file photo shows people taking the teacher employment exam in Oita Prefecture. (Mainichi/Eisuke Obata)
TOKYO The number of temporary teachers in Japan at public elementary and junior high schools has reached 7.5% of the total, according to the results of a survey by the education ministry.
According to a Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology survey, there are 43,900 temporary teachers in Japan at such schools this academic year (excluding substitutes for teachers on maternity and child care leave), a 24% increase from the 35,374 in the 2008 academic year the earliest year for which data could be confirmed by the Mainichi Shimbun. The ministry also says that the number of teachers stipulated by law to maintain an adequate level of education is 583,488 this academic year. Of these, ....

Mainichi Shimbun , Mainichi Eisuke Obata , Akira Okubo , City News Department , Ministry Of Education , Keisuke Obata , Mainichi This , நகரம் செய்தி துறை , அமைச்சகம் ஆஃப் கல்வி ,