Disaster Minister Shinya Izumi told reporters that the earthquake caused a blackout in wide areas in the region, leaving about 6,700 homes without electricity.

防灾担当大臣泉信也告诉记者地震在该地区引起了大面积的停电，近6,700户家庭的电力供应中断。

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John Hopkins claimed his first MotoGP pole after beating Shinya Nakano's time at the end of qualifying.

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The genetic approach to reprogramming, pioneered by Shinya Yamanaka who won the 2012 Nobel Prize in medicine for his work, allows human cells to be transformed back into an embryonic-like, pluripotent state.

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But as biologists have discovered in the past few years since iPSCs were first generated by Shinya Yamanaka in 2006, coaxing the cells to proliferate without acquiring mutations has proved to be a challenge.

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