In a separate incident, another unidentified submarine was detected traveling west of Amami-Oshima Island in Kagoshima prefecture on May 2.
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The strong winds associated with Typhoon Melor have already left over ten thousand homes without electricity in Okinawa, Amami-Oshima and other southern islands.
But in the summer and especially during the Buddhist Obon festival in August, Towa's island of Suoh-Oshima is overrun with visitors, many of them returning locals.
After receiving his first camera as a middle-school present, Oshima won a gold medal in a photo contest and began picking up commercial work.
Even in a picture-crazy culture, Oshima's aggressive expansion isn't without risks.
"It does seem to represent a recognition on the part of authorities of the need to introduce some reforms in these areas in order to increase production, and to produce some incentive mechanisms, " said Kenzo Oshima, UN under-secretary general for humanitarian affairs.
Oshima aims to more than double the chain-to 2, 000 shops-over the next three years via new franchises and company-owned outlets, including those inside supermarket and discount chains.
Oshima said it was not necessary for anti-Taliban forces to take control of the key northern town of Mazar-e Sharif before relief agencies could start moving south out of Uzbekistan.
The UN's Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs, Kanzo Oshima, says he is still waiting for a response after offering to send UN staff back into Afghanistan if the Taleban will guarantee their safety.
The soft-spoken eldest son of a Buddhist monk, Oshima grew up on the grounds of the Nagoya temple his family has run for 27 generations.
Oshima also directed singer David Bowie in the WWII prison-camp drama Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence.
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Oshima was sure consumers would take to the sort of U.S.-style mini-labs he'd been gathering information about, where film is developed quickly on-site for a small premium.
Oshima first began selling Vivitar's cameras in Japan in July as Plaza Create's store brand-disposables decorated with Warner Bros.
Borrowing a strategy familiar to razormakers and electronics firms alike, Oshima figures he'll lure customers with good, cheap equipment, and earn his keep from add-on goods and services.
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