The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo News.

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Japan anime giant Miyazaki's latest fantasy wins Golden Globe

LOS ANGELES - Renowned Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki won the genre's best film award at the U.S. Golden Globes competition on Sunday, marking his comeback as the winner of a major international contest.

The 124-minute fantasy "The Boy and the Heron" marked the first time a film by a Japanese director has won the award in the category that was created in 2007.

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Snow hampers rescue operations in central Japan quake-hit areas

KANAZAWA, Japan - Rescuers braved snow and rain Monday as they continued to search for hundreds of people who remain missing following a magnitude-7.6 quake that hit the Noto Peninsula in central Japan on New Year's Day, leaving over 160 dead.

Snow was also hampering efforts to relocate survivors to hotels and inns outside Ishikawa Prefecture, where the Noto Peninsula is located, amid the potential spread of COVID-19 in evacuation centers.

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Japan to back Ukraine's peace plan, foreign minister tells Zelenskyy

KYIV - Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa has told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that Japan will support Ukraine's proposed peace plan to end the war with Russia.

Kamikawa told reporters after meeting with Zelenskyy in Kyiv on Sunday that Japan will co-chair a working group on radiation and nuclear safety, one of the 10 points in Ukraine's "peace formula" amid the ongoing Russian invasion.

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Runway at Tokyo's Haneda reopens after JAL jetliner collision

TOKYO - A runway at Tokyo's Haneda airport that had been closed since a fatal collision between a Japan Airlines plane and a Japan Coast Guard aircraft reopened Monday.

The closure of Runway C, one of four runways at the country's busiest airport, following the Jan. 2 collision led to the cancellation of over 1,200 flights, affecting more than 200,000 passengers during the New Year holiday season.

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Japan's labor productivity ranked 30th among 38 OECD members in 2022

TOKYO - Japan ranked 30th in labor productivity among the 38 Organization for Economic Cooperation Development members in 2022, down two spots from the previous year and to a new lowest-ever position, a Tokyo-based group said.

Measured by the worth of goods or services a worker can produce per hour, labor productivity totaled $52.30 in Japan, the lowest calculated among the Group of Seven advanced economies since 1970 when comparable data became available, the Japan Productivity Center said.

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FEATURE: Nishikigoi breeders hope for early resumption of exports to China

TOKYO - Two months after China halted imports from Japan of "nishikigoi," or ornamental carp, breeders have started shipping their products to other destinations in an effort to make up for what they hope will be only the temporary loss of their biggest overseas market.

It is still not known why Beijing took such a measure. Some observers speculate it may be in response to Tokyo's decision last year to release treated radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant, an act the International Atomic Energy Agency approved but China criticized.

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Football: Rising Japan face test of resolve at Asian Cup

TOKYO - Amid a chorus of European club managers moaning about the midseason loss of key Japanese players, the Samurai Blue are looking to lift the Asian Cup in Qatar en route to their pursuit of even loftier goals, the 2026 World Cup.

Managing Asian football's highest-placed team in the FIFA rankings at 17th, Hajime Moriyasu has pulled some surprises but "assembled the best members to win" the Asian Cup, with the tournament's most successful team seeking their fifth championship to widen the gap over three-time winners Iran and Saudi Arabia.

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Blow flies may be bird flu virus carriers: Japan researchers

FUKUOKA - Blow flies may be carriers of avian influenza viruses, a Japanese research team said recently, as the country grapples with infections that have led to widespread bird culls and driven up food prices.

With new outbreaks reported late last year following heavy culls the previous season, the research team led by Ryosuke Fujita, an associate professor at Kyushu University's Graduate School of Bioresource and Bioenvironmental Sciences, is urging chicken farms to use insect-proof nets to contain the spread of the virus.

==Kyodo

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