Timeline for January 2017

SS-520-4, carrying the Tricom-1 microsatellite developed by the University of Tokyo takes off from Uchinoura Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture on January 15, 2017. (© Jiji)

Kisenosato (second from left) performs the dedicatory dohyō-iri at Meiji Shrine in Tokyo on January 27 after his promotion to yokozuna. Takayasu (left) is sword-bearer and Shōhōzan (third from left) is the tsuyuharai (dew sweeper).

An image from the interior of the stricken number 2 reactor shows debris that may include melted nuclear fuel. (Provided by TEPCO; © Jiji)