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Date: 2014-12-19
Title: Ex-Japanese lawmaker meets China's 4th-ranked politician
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BEIJING, China - Yohei Kono (L), a former senior member of Japan's main ruling party known for his apology in the 1990s to women who worked against their will in wartime military brothels, holds talks with China's fourth-ranking Communist Party member Yu Zhengsheng at Beijing's Great Hall of the People on Dec. 19, 2014. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)(Kyodo)
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Date: 2014-12-19
Title: BOJ maintains monetary policy
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TOKYO, Japan - Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda holds a press conference at the BOJ's head office in Tokyo on Dec. 19, 2014, after the end of a two-day monetary policy meeting in which the central bank decided to maintain its current monetary policy. (Kyodo)
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Date: 2014-12-19
Title: Ex-Japanese lawmaker meets China's 4th-ranked politician
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BEIJING, China - Yohei Kono (L), a former senior member of Japan's main ruling party known for his apology in the 1990s to women who worked against their will in wartime military brothels, shakes hands with China's fourth-ranking Communist Party member Yu Zhengsheng ahead of their talks at Beijing's Great Hall of the People on Dec. 19, 2014. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)(Kyodo)
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Date: 2014-12-19
Title: Japan varsity reps visit Yangon to lure students
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YANGON, Myanmar - Seminar participants (L) listen to officials from six Japanese national universities brief them on studying in Japan in Myanmar's largest city Yangon on Dec, 17, 2014. One of the schools, Okayama University, is scheduled to establish a stronghold in Yangon in 2015 to facilitate the acceptance of students from Myanmar. (Kyodo)
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Date: 2014-12-19
Title: JR West promotes train rides for senior travelers
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OSAKA, Japan - Actress Ran Ito (R) poses with West Japan Railway Co. President Seiji Manabe in Osaka on Dec. 17, 2014, at a press conference announcing the launch of a campaign to promote train rides for travelers aged 50 and over in 2015 by discounting tickets for Sanyo Shinkansen bullet trains. (Kyodo)
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Date: 2014-12-19
Title: S. Korean team has firsthand look at Fukushima nuke plant
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OKUMA, Japan - Members of a South Korean investigation team visit the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, on Dec. 17, 2014, in search of clues as to whether to lift or ease Seoul's import ban on seafood products from the northeastern Japan region imposed after the 2011 disaster that crippled the plant. (Kyodo)
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Date: 2014-12-19
Title: S. Korean team inspects Fukushima nuclear power plant
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OKUMA, Japan - Members of a South Korean investigation team inspect the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, on Dec. 17, 2014, in search of clues as to whether to lift or ease Seoul's import ban on seafood products from the northeastern Japan region imposed after the 2011 disaster that crippled the plant. Radioactive water tanks are seen behind. (Kyodo)
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Date: 2014-12-19
Title: S. Korean team visits Fukushima nuclear power plant
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OKUMA, Japan - Members of a South Korean investigation team visit the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, on Dec. 17, 2014, in search of clues as to whether to lift or ease Seoul's import ban on seafood products from the northeastern Japan region imposed after the 2011 disaster that crippled the plant. (Kyodo)
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Date: 2014-12-19
Title: Transparent specimen of alien fish caught in Lake Biwa
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KYOTO, Japan - A Kyoto University researcher holds a chemically processed transparent specimen of a bluegill caught in Lake Biwa, Shiga Prefecture, western Japan, on Dec. 17, 2014. His team started selling in September specimens of alien fish caught in the lake as accessories by coloring and hardening the fishbone with resin in a campaign to protect the lake's ecosystem. (Kyodo)
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Date: 2014-12-19
Title: FIBA official meets Japan sports minister on JBA reform
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TOKYO, Japan - Patrick Baumann (L), secretary general of the International Basketball Federation (FIBA), meets with sports minister Hakubun Shimomura at the latter's office in Tokyo on Dec. 17, 2014, to discuss proposed reform of Japan's basketball community. The two agreed to have sports ministry officials join a task force as observers to help lift a FIBA ban on the Japan Basketball Association's international competitions imposed for the JBA's failure to unify the domestic basketball world split into two leagues. (Kyodo)
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Date: 2014-12-19
Title: Lobster imports peak ahead of Christmas
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NARITA, Japan - A Tokyo Customs officer inspects lobsters imported from Canada at Narita airport, east of Tokyo, on Dec. 17, 2014, at the peak of their importation ahead of Christmas. (Kyodo)
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Date: 2014-12-19
Title: Man nabbed for stealing women's underwear
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OSAKA, Japan - Police in Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, show on Dec. 17, 2014, scores of items of stolen women's underwear found at the home of a suspect's family in Hiroshima Prefecture. (Kyodo)
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Date: 2014-12-19
Title: Shiseido to consolidate product brands in streamlining drive
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TOKYO, Japan - Shiseido Co. President Masahiko Uotani announces in Tokyo on Dec. 17, 2014, a plan to consolidate 28 of some 120 product brands as part of efforts to streamline its business operations. (Kyodo)
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Date: 2014-12-19
Title: Aeon launches large shopping mall in Wuhan
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WUHAN, China - Photo shows a shopping mall that Aeon Co. launched in the Chinese city of Wuhan on Dec. 19, 2014. It is the 14th shopping mall set up by the Japanese retail giant in China, and Aeon plans to open four more malls in Wuhan in around two years. (Kyodo)
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Date: 2014-12-19
Title: Emperor invites ministers to lunch
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TOKYO, Japan - Japan's Emperor Akihito (C) talks with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (L) at a luncheon at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Dec. 19, 2014. Emperor Akihito invited Cabinet members to lunch as an annual year-end event. (Pool photo)(Kyodo)
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