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One firefighter was killed after a chemical tank explosion at Nippon Shokubai Co's Himeji plant in western Japan on September 29, a local fire department official said. An acrylic acid storage residue tank exploded around 2:30 p.m. local time and the fire later spread to another acrylic acid tank and a toluene tank at the plant, the official said. ...