Search launched for Japanese trans-Pacific balloonist
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Japanese and U.S. authorities are searching for a Japanese man who has gone missing while trying to cross the Pacific Ocean alone in a hot air balloon, his support group said on Saturday.
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Japan protested to Moscow after a Russian military plane intruded into Japanese air space over the Izu Islands south of Tokyo on Saturday, a Japanese foreign ministry official said.
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3,434km across the Atlantic Intrepid Brit adventurer David Hempleman-Adams this morning broke the distance record for a AA-06 (37,000 cu ft) helium balloon, having by 4am travelled 3,434km across the Atlantic, thereby claiming the FAI (Federation Aeronautique Internationale) crown.â¦
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The pilot and designer of a private rocket plane say they are confident it could return to the sky next week in a quest to claim a multimillion-dollar prize, despite a harrowing flight in which the spacecraft rolled dramatically while hurtling toward the edge of the atmosphere.
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Japan launched its first lunar probe on Friday, nicknamed Kaguya after a fairy-tale princess, in the latest move in a new race with China, India and the United States to explore the moon.
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Japanese police have searched a Kansai Electric Power Co nuclear plant Saturday for evidence of any negligence that might have led to a deadly accident there last month, a police official said.
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RENO, Nevada  - Air crews searching for U.S. adventurer Steve Fossett four days after his plane went missing vastly expanded their search area on Thursday in a mission they likened to looking for a needle in a haystack in the vast Nevada desert.
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Envelopes containing 10,000 yen &#151; about $82 &#151; and notes wishing the finder well have been discovered in municipal toilets across Japan, media reports said, baffling civil servants and triggering a nationwide hunt.
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An All Nippon Airways passenger plane with 60 people aboard made a successful emergency landing Tuesday in southwestern Japan after circling the airport for nearly two hours with faulty front landing gear. No one was injured, the Transportation Ministry said.
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A spacecraft made of folded paper zooming through the skies may sound far-fetched, but Japanese scientists plan to launch paper planes from the International Space Station to see if they make it back to Earth.
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New Zealand authorities are searching for the mother of a 3-year-old girl whose father abandoned her at an Australian train station before boarding a plane to the United States, police said.
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California - The pilot and designer of a private rocket plane say they are confident it could return to the sky next week in a quest to claim a multimillion-dollar prize.
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A U.S. search team on the Japanese island of Iwo Jima is zeroing in on a cave where a Marine combat photographer who filmed the iconic flag-raising 62 years ago is believed to have been killed in battle nine days later, officials told The Associated Press Friday.
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Japan&#39;s navy is chasing an unidentified submarine which was spotted inside the country&#39;s waters on Wednesday. The Japanese defence agency reportedly believes the sub is Chinese because of its cruising sound
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Rescuers across Japan were searching  Thursday for 40 people missing after a powerful typhoon raked  the country with heavy rains and high winds, killing at least  30 in floods and landslides.
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The pilot, who was the first person to circle the world solo in a balloon, is missing after taking off in a single-engine plane.
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Rescuers in Panama searched for survivors on Monday after a small plane carrying three Americans and their Panamanian pilot went missing in foul weather.