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In 1979, Japan released 30 mongooses onto Amami Oshima to kill venomous snakes, and it took 45 years to fix what happened nextJapan's ambitious plan to control venomous snakes on Amami Ōshima with Indian mongooses in 1979 backfired spectacularly. The introduced pre...- 5.9-magnitude earthquake strikes southern Japan: ReportsAn earthquake hit Japan's Kagoshima Prefecture on Tuesday. The magnitude was estimated between 5.9 and 6.2. Parts of Amami in Kagoshima fel...
- Japan's Sakurajima volcano erupts, ashfall cancels multiple flightsA volcano on Kyushu island in Japan erupted three times on Sunday, sending ash up to 4.4 km into the air and forcing around 30 flight cance...
- Heavy rain slams southern Japan, triggering floods and mudslidesTorrential rain lashed Kyushu, Japan, on Friday, unleashing floods and landslides and prompting widespread evacuations. A mudslide in Aira ...
- Chinese Navy survey ship entered Japanese waters, Japan's defence ministry saysAccording to Japan's defense ministry, a Chinese Navy survey vessel briefly entered Japanese territorial waters off Kagoshima Prefecture be...
- Japan confirms season's fourth bird flu outbreakJapan has confirmed an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza at a poultry farm in the southwestern prefecture of Kagoshima, local m...
- Japan space agency rocket carrying 8 satellites failsThe Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said its Epsilon-6 rocket experienced an unidentified "abnormality" and its flight had to be aborted...
- Powerful typhoon Nanmadol pounds southern Japan; thousands evacuatedThe Japan Meteorological Agency said Typhoon Nanmadol was near the southern island of Yakushima, packing maximum surface winds of 162 kilom...
- Japan says suspected Chinese submarine seen near territorial watersSaturday's announcement said Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force identified the vessels in a contiguous zone, which is outside territorial ...
- Japan launches latest satellite of positioning systemTokyo, Oct 10 (IANS) Japan on Tuesday successfully launched the fourth and final satellite that makes up its terrestrial positioning networ...
- Japan puts third GPS satellite into orbitTokyo, Aug 19 (IANS) Japan on Saturday launched a rocket and put the third of its new quasi-zenith satellites into orbit to help improve th...
- Japan to launch third GPS satelliteTokyo, June 15 (IANS) Japan is set to launch the third of its four global positioning system (GPS) satellites in August aimed at establishi...
- Japan to launch third GPS satelliteTokyo, June 15 (IANS) Japan is set to launch the third of its four global positioning system (GPS) satellites in August aimed at establishi...
- Japan launches new satellite to improve GPSTokyo, June 1 (IANS) Japan on Thursday launched a new satellite to improve the global positioning system's (GPS) accuracy and establish an ...
- Japan launches next-generation geostationary meteorological satelliteTokyo, Nov 2 (IANS) Japan on Wednesday launched a next-generation geostationary meteorological satellite "Himawari-9", aiming to further im...
- New parasitic plant species Sciaphila yakushimensis discovered in JapanThe new plant species named Sciaphila yakushimensis was found on the subtropical Japanese island of Yakushima, located off the coast of Kyu...
- JAXA and Mitsubishi to launch observatory to monitor global precipitation on Feb 28The satellite to be used for the Global Precipitation Measurement mission, jointly developed by JAXA and NASA, will be launched aboard an H...
- Japan may face green tea shortage due to radiation leakes from Fukushima plantThe government decided on Thursday to curb shipments of dried tea leaves containing more than 500 becquerel per kg of radioactive cesium.
- Taiwan finds radiation on imported Japanese beansRadiation has been detected on fava beans imported from Japan to Taiwan, Taiwanese officials said Sunday, in what appears to be the first c...
- Pioneer to stop making 42-inch plasma panels: ReportPioneer Corp will stop making 42-inch plasma panels and instead buy panels in that size and smaller from Panasonic maker Matsushita Electri...
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