Amami Islands
(2000 est. pop. 150,000). The Amami Islands, or Amami Gunto, form the northern half of the Nansei Island chain, south of Kyushu, Japan, and are located between 29° and 27° ...
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Average temperatures in most of the Japanese archipelago are
expected to remain within the range of normal-year levels or higher
in the coming three months between November and January, the J...
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Temperatures and precipitation from rain and snow for most of
the Japanese archipelago are expected to remain within the range of a
normal year in the coming winter season between December an...
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Temperatures may be lower than in normal years across Japan this
December due partly to the effects of the so-called La Nina weather
pattern that has prevailed since the spring, the Japan Met...
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(EDS: UPDATING)
Firefighters and police confirmed Saturday the deaths of all
four crew members of a Ground Self-Defense Force helicopter that
crashed late Friday at a mountain on Tokunoshima...
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(EDS: UPDATING INFO)
Firefighters and police confirmed Saturday the death of one of
four crew members of a Ground Self-Defense Force helicopter that
crashed late Friday into a mountain on To...
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(EDS: RECASTING, ADDING INFO)
A Ground Self-Defense Force helicopter crashed on a mountain on
Tokunoshima Island late Friday evening, killing four crew members,
firefighters and police said ...
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(EDS: UPDATING DEATH TALLY, BODY DISCOVERY)
Firefighters and police confirmed Saturday the deaths of two of
four crew members of a Ground Self-Defense Force helicopter that
crashed late Frid...
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Firefighters and police confirmed Saturday the deaths of two of
four crew members of a Ground Self-Defense Force helicopter that
crashed late Friday into a mountain on Tokunoshima Island.
...
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Campaigning begins for critical House of Councillors election
TOKYO - Official campaigning for the July 29 upper house
election got under way on Thursday, opening the highlight o...
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Powerful typhoon Man-yi is forecast to approach and possibly
make landfall on Kyushu on Saturday afternoon, and then travel along
the southern coast of Honshu through the Kanto region over th...
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Amami Islands
Nov.-Jan. average temperature forecast at normal levels or higher
