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Size:
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Date: 2014-08-25
Title: Tram passes old railway station in southwestern Japan
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MIYAZAKI, Japan - A tram with tourists aboard, converted from a pickup, passes the now defunct Amanoiwato Station of an old railway line in Takachiho in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Miyazaki on Aug. 12, 2014. The line went out of service in 2008. (Kyodo)
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Date: 2014-08-25
Title: Tram runs on iron bridge in southwestern Japan
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MIYAZAKI, Japan - A tram with tourists aboard, converted from a pickup, runs past the Takachiho Iron Bridge on an old railway line in Takachiho in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Miyazaki on Aug. 12, 2014. The line went out of service in 2008. (Kyodo)
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Date: 2014-08-25
Title: Chorus remembers suicides of 9 women before Soviet invasion
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WAKKANAI, Japan - Women sing in chorus at a memorial service held in Wakkanai in Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido on Aug. 20, 2014, for nine female postal office workers who killed themselves on the same day in 1945 in a town in the southern half of the Russian Far East island of Sakhalin, then controlled by Japan, in the face of an invasion by Soviet troops during the closing days of World War II. The town, then known as Maoka, is called Kholmsk today. (Kyodo)
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Date: 2014-08-25
Title: Tourists wait for tram ride on old railway line
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MIYAZAKI, Japan - People wait in front of an old station in Takachiho in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Miyazaki on Aug. 12, 2014, to ride a tram pulled by a pickup-turned locomotive on the Takachiho Line that went out of service in 2008. (Kyodo)
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Size:
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Date: 2014-08-25
Title: Chinese, Mongolian leaders shake hands before talks
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ULAN BATOR, Mongolia - Chinese President Xi Jinping (R) and Mongolian President Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj shake hands before their talks in Ulan Bator on Aug. 21, 2014. (Kyodo)
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Size:
528K
Date: 2014-08-25
Title: #Chinese, Mongolian leaders meet press after accord
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ULAN BATOR, Mongolia - Chinese President Xi Jinping (L) and Mongolian President Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj meet the press in Ulan Bator on Aug. 21, 2014, after signing an agreement calling for reinforced strategic relations between the two countries. (Kyodo)
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222K
Date: 2014-08-25
Title: Names of 28 missing people in Hiroshima released
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HIROSHIMA, Japan - Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui attends a press conference on Aug. 25, 2014, as the municipal government released the names of 28 residents feared missing in deadly mudslides. The death toll from the natural disaster has risen to 52 so far. (Kyodo)
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Size:
490K
Date: 2014-08-25
Title: Chinese, Mongolian leaders shake hands after accord
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ULAN BATOR, Mongolia - Chinese President Xi Jinping (L) and Mongolian President Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj shake hands in Ulan Bator on Aug. 21, 2014, after signing an agreement calling for reinforced strategic relations between the two countries. (Kyodo)
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Size:
689K
Date: 2014-08-25
Title: U.S. official urges stronger U.S.-S. Korea missile defense
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OSAN, South Korea - U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work calls at a press conference in Osan, South Korea, on Aug. 21, 2014, for reinforced cooperation in missile defense between Washington and Seoul to counter North Korea's missile program. (Kyodo)
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Date: 2014-08-25
Title: China publishes collection of late Deng's writings
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BEIJING, China - China publishes a collection of writings by Deng Xiaoping, seen in this undated file photo, before the late strongman's 110th birthday on Aug. 22, 2014. (Kyodo)
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Size:
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Date: 2014-08-25
Title: U.S. official urges stronger U.S.-S. Korea missile defense
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OSAN, South Korea - U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work stress at a press conference in Osan, South Korea, on Aug. 21, 2014, the importance of reinforcing cooperation in missile defense between Washington and Seoul to counter North Korea's missile program. (Kyodo)
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Size:
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Date: 2014-08-25
Title: Japan to disclose Fukushima nuclear plant chief's testimony
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TOKYO, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga announces on Aug. 25, 2014, in Tokyo that the government will release transcripts of interviews with those who had key roles in handling the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi complex next month. The interviewees include the late Masao Yoshida, who headed the plant when the crisis broke out in March 2011. (Kyodo)
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Size:
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Date: 2014-08-25
Title: Abe visits disaster-hit area
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HIROSHIMA, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe talks on Aug. 25, 2014 with evacuees from a deadly landslide that hit Japan's western city of Hiroshima. The death toll from the disaster has risen to 52 so far. (Kyodo)
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Size:
390K
Date: 2014-08-25
Title: U.S. defense official encourages soldiers in S. Korea
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OSAN, South Korea - U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work (R) gives words of encouragement to American soldiers at a U.S. air base in Osan, South Korea, on Aug. 21, 2014. (Kyodo)
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Date: 2014-08-25
Title: Japan to disclose Fukushima nuclear plant chief's testimony
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TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in November 2011 shows Masao Yoshida, who headed the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant when a nuclear crisis broke out in March 2011. The government will release transcripts of interviews with those who had key roles in handling the disaster, including Yoshida, who died last year, next month. (Kyodo)
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