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  "id": 12845237,
  "title": "Launch Ceremony Held for New MSDF Submarine",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/08/launch-ceremony-held-for-new-msdf-submarine",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-08T10:32:23.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Nippon.com News",
    "slug": "nippon-com-news",
    "url": "https://www.nippon.com/en/news/yjj2026100800716/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Kobe, Oct. 8 (Jiji Press)--Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. held a ceremony to launch a new 80.5-billion-yen nonnuclear submarine for the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force at a shipyard in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, on Thursday. The Shogei submarine, the seventh Taigei-class, is scheduled to be commissioned in March 2028. It measures 84 meters long and 9 meters wide, has a st...",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}