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Date: 2015-01-30
Title: Award-winning writer Kono dies at 88
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File photo taken in October 2014 shows writer and critic Taeko Kono, who died of respiratory failure at a Tokyo hospital on Jan. 29, 2015, at 88. She won the Akutagawa Prize, one of the country's leading literary awards, for her novel "Kani," meaning "a crab," in 1963, and received the Order of Culture in 2014. (Kyodo)
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1082K
Date: 2015-01-30
Title: Japan tense as fate of Islamic State hostages remains uncertain
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (L) talks with Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga at the Diet in Tokyo on Jan. 30, 2015, as the Japanese government continues racing against time to confirm the fate of a Japanese journalist believed to be held by Islamic State militants, after a purported new deadline for a potential prisoner swap expired the previous day. (Kyodo)
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19K
Date: 2015-01-30
Title: Taiwan museum to lend 5 rare ceramic pieces to Osaka museum
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Feng Ming-chu (R), director of Taiwan's National Palace Museum, exchanges a letter of intent with Tetsuro Degawa, director of the Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, in Taipei on Jan. 29, 2015. The Taiwanese museum has agreed to lend five rare ceramic pieces for an exhibit to be held in Japan in 2017. (Kyodo)
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32K
Date: 2015-01-30
Title: Wide areas of Japan hit by snow
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Photo taken Jan. 30, 2015, shows Tokyo's Asakusa tourist spot. Wide areas of Japan were hit by snow, with five centimeters of snow expected in the downtown of Tokyo. (Kyodo)
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Date: 2015-01-30
Title: Wide areas of Japan hit by snow
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Photo taken Jan. 30, 2015, shows Tokyo's Asakusa tourist spot. Wide areas of Japan were hit by snow, with five centimeters of snow expected in the downtown of Tokyo. (Kyodo)
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Date: 2015-01-30
Title: Wide areas of Japan hit by snow
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Photo taken Jan. 30, 2015, shows Tokyo's Asakusa tourist spot. Wide areas of Japan were hit by snow, with five centimeters of snow expected in the downtown of Tokyo. (Kyodo)
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1125K
Date: 2015-01-30
Title: Kishida meets with reporters over hostage crisis
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Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida meets with reporters on Jan. 30, 2015, in Tokyo over a hostage crisis involving a Japanese journalist believed to be held by Islamic State militants. (Kyodo)
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359K
Date: 2015-01-30
Title: Jordanian media affairs minister meets with reporters
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Mohammad al-Momani, Jordanian media affairs minister, meets with reporters in Amman on Jan. 29, 2015. The Islamic State group has threatened to kill a Jordanian pilot it holds unless a jailed would-be suicide bomber in Jordan is handed over. Islamic State is also believed to be holding a Japanese hostage. (Kyodo)
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582K
Date: 2015-01-30
Title: Hostage's mother expresses worry
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Junko Ishido, mother of a Japanese journalist believed to be held by Islamic State militants, meets with reporters in Tokyo on Jan. 30, 2015. "I'm very worried. I would like my son's life to be saved in exchange for mine," she said. (Kyodo)
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Size:
197K
Date: 2015-01-30
Title: Fate of Islamic State hostages unknown as deadline passes
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Reporters wait in the town of Akcakale, southeastern Turkey, on the border with Syria Jan. 29, 2015. The Islamic State group has threatened to kill a Jordanian pilot it holds unless a jailed would-be suicide bomber in Jordan is handed over at the Turkish border. Islamic State is also believed to be holding a Japanese hostage. (Kyodo)
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808K
Date: 2015-01-29
Title: Japan, Philippines agree to work on maritime security
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Japanese Defense Minister Gen Nakatani (R) and his Philippine counterpart Voltaire Gazmin shake hands at Japan's Defense Ministry in Tokyo on Jan. 29, 2015, after signing a note on defense cooperation and exchanges. (Kyodo)
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Size:
418K
Date: 2015-01-29
Title: Tensions high at Turkish border with Syria
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A Turkish military vehicle is seen near the border crossing with Syria in Akcakale, southeastern Turkey, on Jan. 29, 2015, the location where a group of Islamic State militants have demanded that Jordan release Sajida al-Rishawi, who was sentenced to death for involvement in a 2005 terror attack in Jordan's capital Amman. (Kyodo)
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Size:
429K
Date: 2015-01-29
Title: Murray advances to Australian Open final
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Andy Murray of Britain celebrates after beating Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic in their semifinal match of the Australian Open Tennis Championships at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Australia, on Jan. 29, 2015. (Kyodo)
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164K
Date: 2015-01-29
Title: Murray advances to Australian Open final
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Andy Murray of Britain celebrates after beating Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic in their semifinal match of the Australian Open Tennis Championships at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Australia, on Jan. 29, 2015. (Kyodo)
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558K
Date: 2015-01-29
Title: Murray advances to Australian Open final
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Andy Murray of Britain stretches for the ball during a semifinal match against Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic at the Australian Open Tennis Championships at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Australia, on Jan. 29, 2015. Murray won 6-7, 6-0, 603, 7-5. (Kyodo)
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