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Size:
998K
Date: 2014-08-25
Title: Shipping containers provide housing in quake-hit city
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MORIOKA, Japan - Shipping containers turned into a row of living quarters, as seen in this file photo taken in June 2014 in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, serve as a furnished dormitory mainly for people involved in reconstruction work in the northeastern Japanese city amid a severe housing shortage following the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster. (Kyodo)
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1805K
Date: 2014-08-25
Title: Celebrities join 'Ice Bucket Challenge' in Tokyo
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TOKYO, Japan - Several Japanese celebrities pour buckets of ice water over their heads during the "Ice Bucket Challenge" awareness-raising activity for the amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) disease in Tokyo on Aug. 21, 2014. (Kyodo)
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121K
Date: 2014-08-25
Title: Woman leads therapy dog training in Japan
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TOKYO, Japan - Mayumi Tokiwa, head of a training section of the Japan Animal Therapy Association, shows how she trains canines to become therapy dogs at the association in Yamato, Kanawaga Prefecture, west of Tokyo, in this file photo taken on July 15, 2014. (Kyodo)
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521K
Date: 2014-08-25
Title: U.S. casino tycoon eyes 10 bil. dollar investment in Japan
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TOKYO, Japan - MGM Resorts International Chairman and CEO James Murren says during an interview in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Aug. 20, 2014, that his firm plans to invest up to 10 billion dollars in Japan to produce the world's biggest integrated resort, including casino facilities. This file photo was taken on Sept. 11 (U.S. time), 2013. (Kyodo)
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426K
Date: 2014-08-25
Title: Olympic snowboarding medalist Takeuchi publishes 1st book
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TOKYO, Japan - Japanese snowboarder Tomoka Takeuchi, a silver medalist at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, poses in Tokyo on June 17, 2014, with her first book "Watashi, Kachi Ni Ikimasu" (I'll Go for a Win) about lessons in life learned through her competitive sport career. (Kyodo)
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1054K
Date: 2014-08-25
Title: Woman leads project to put hometown on Guinness list
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KUSHIRO, Japan - Ayako Maura, a graphic designer and leader of a civic group that organizes local events to challenge Guinness records and help promote her hometown, poses on July 7, 2014, at her home in Obihiro in Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido. (Kyodo)
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183K
Date: 2014-08-25
Title: Snoopy, Peanuts character stamps sold
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TOKYO, Japan - A sheet of Snoopy and Peanuts postage stamps being sold nationwide by Japan Post Co. is shown in this undated photo. (Kyodo)
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770K
Date: 2014-08-25
Title: Thai rail fans chase train for Queen Sirikit's birthday
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BANGKOK, Thailand - Thai rail fans take pictures of a special train to celebrate Queen Sirikit's birthday on Aug. 12, 2014, dashing from a platform as the train, pulled by a Japan-made steam locomotive, leaves Bangkok's central station bound for Ayutthaya. (Kyodo)
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825K
Date: 2014-08-25
Title: Police stay alert in Jakarta
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JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesian policemen close a section of the road near the Constitutional Court in Jakarta on Aug. 21, 2014, to supporters of former army general Prabowo Subianto, who lost to Joko "Jokowi" Widodo in last month's presidential election but filed a judicial review over alleged fraud. (Kyodo)
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Date: 2014-08-25
Title: French meal to be served on Seven Stars train in Kyushu
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FUKUOKA, Japan - An example of French cuisine to be served for dinner on Kyushu Railway Co.'s deluxe sleeping car excursion train Seven Stars in Kyushu from Aug. 26, 2014, is shown on July 29, 2014. (Kyodo)
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1291K
Date: 2014-08-25
Title: Actress Godai wants to convey war tragedy in NY
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TOKYO, Japan - Actress Michiko Godai practices for one-woman play "Yokohama Rosa" in Yokohama on Aug. 14, 2014, for the first overseas performance in New York next spring. The play portrays the life of a real-life Japanese woman who worked as a prostitute for officers of the occupation forces after the end of World War II in the Yokohama area, Kanagawa Prefecture. (Kyodo)
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927K
Date: 2014-08-25
Title: Women wait for bus near damaged building in Syria
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ALEPPO, Syria - A group of women waits for a bus in front of a severely damaged building in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on Aug. 20, 2014. (Kyodo)
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1169K
Date: 2014-08-25
Title: Syrian refugees at shelter in Aleppo
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ALEPPO, Syria - Muhammad Kurdi (R) and his family members remain cooped up in a refugee facility in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on Aug. 20, 2014. He expressed a desire to return home. (Kyodo)
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786K
Date: 2014-08-25
Title: Example of French cuisine for Seven Stars train in Kyushu
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FUKUOKA, Japan - An example of French cuisine from high-class restaurant Georges Marceau in Fukuoka is shown on July 29, 2014. Kyushu Railway Co. will offer a menu of food from the restaurant on its Seven Stars in Kyushu deluxe sleeping car excursion train from Aug. 26. (Kyodo)
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1214K
Date: 2014-08-25
Title: Panasonic to sell new refrigerators
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OSAKA, Japan - One of nine large-sized refrigerators Panasonic Corp. plans to sell from Sept. 25, 2014, is shown in Osaka on Aug. 21. It says the refrigerators can better preserve the freshness of vegetables compared with conventional counterparts due to an automatic humidity-control filter attached to the vegetable compartment. (Kyodo)
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