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Powerful typhoon lashes Japan's Okinawa islands through weekend, evacuation ordered

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida delivers a video message during the ceremony for the 50th Anniversary of Okinawa's reversion to Japan from US occupation, in Tokyo, Japan, May 15, 2022. Rodrigo Reyes Marin/Pool via REUTERS
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Japan's Okinawa marks half century since US handover as regional tensions grow

Shuri Castle, listed as a World Heritage site, goes up in flames, in Naha on the southern island of Okinawa, Japan October 31, 2019, in this photo taken by Kyodo/Reuters
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Fire engulfs Japan's Shuri Castle, a World Heritage site in Okinawa

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Quake of magnitude 6.1 strikes north of Japan's Okinawa: USGS