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Japan hails schoolboy as world record breaker Japan hails schoolboy as world record breaker
Reuters | Tuesday, 22 May 2007
TOKYO: Japanese media have hailed 15-year-old schoolboy Ryo Ishikawa as a golfing world record breaker after his astonishing win at the Munsingwear Open KSB Cup.
Ishikawa fired 69 and 66 on Sunday’s final day of the storm-affected tournament to become the youngest winner on the Japanese men’s tour with a one-stoke victory.
At 15 years and eight months, the Saitama-born Ishikawa shattered the previous record held by Spain’s Seve Ballesteros, who won the 1977 Japan Open at 20 years and seven months.
“New Hero!” declared the Nikkan Sports
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First endangered stork hatched in Japan since 1964First endangered stork hatched in Japan since 1964
http://www.physorg.com/news98859580.html
Published May 20, 2007
One of Japan’s artificially bred white storks in Toyooka city, Hyogo prefecture, September 2005. Endangered Oriental white storks have naturally hatched a chick in Japan for the first time in more than four decades, according to a park official.
Wild Oriental white storks became extinct in Japan in 1971, since when Japanese conservationists have tried breeding some pairs of the migrant birds donated by Russia and released several of them into the wild.
But until now there had been no confirmed natural hatchings in Japan since 1964.
“We have seen at least three eggs laid in the nest,” said Masayoshi Iida, an official of the breeding park for endangered birds in Hyogo prefecture, some 450 kilometres (280 miles) west of Tokyo.
