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Date: 2014-12-19
Title: JLPGA title winners pose at award ceremony
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TOKYO, Japan - Title winners pose at an award ceremony held by the Ladies Professional Golfers' Association of Japan in Tokyo on Dec. 17, 2014. From L: Ai Suzuki of Japan, Ahn Sung Ju of South Korea, Ayaka Watanabe of Japan and Teresa Lu of Taiwan. (Kyodo)
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758K
Date: 2014-12-19
Title: Bloodstained shirt of attacked Nagasaki mayor shown
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NAGASAKI, Japan - A bloodstained shirt worn in 1990 by then Nagasaki Mayor Hitoshi Motoshima during a shooting attack is shown to the press in the southwestern Japan city's municipal office on Dec. 17, 2014, ahead of an exhibit of items related to him set for Jan. 15-19, 2015. Motoshima, who died at 92 on Oct. 31, 2014, was shot by a rightist in January 1990 for his statements about the emperor's responsibility for World War II. (Kyodo)
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Date: 2014-12-19
Title: Obokata failed to replicate "STAP cell" creation
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TOKYO, Japan - Riken President Ryoji Noyori, a 2001 Nobel laureate in chemistry, is surrounded by reporters at the science ministry in Tokyo on Dec. 19, 2014, as the Japanese research institute announced that embattled scientist Haruko Obokata has failed in experiments to produce the cells that she previously claimed to have created. (Kyodo)
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Date: 2014-12-19
Title: Japan pro golfer Yokomine attends award ceremony
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TOKYO, Japan - Japanese professional golfer Sakura Yokomine appears at an award ceremony held by the Ladies Professional Golfers' Association of Japan in Tokyo on Dec. 17, 2014. Yokomine attended the event as one of the season's tournament winners. (Kyodo)
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Date: 2014-12-19
Title: South Korean pro golfer Ahn bags Japan money title
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TOKYO, Japan - South Korean professional golfer Ahn Sun Ju (L), poses with Hiromi Kobayashi, president of the Ladies Professional Golfers' Association of Japan, as a winner of the 2014 earnings title on Japan's LPGA tour at an award ceremony in Tokyo on Dec. 17, 2014. Ahn also won the titles of JLPGA Mercedes-Benz Player of the Year and scoring average leader. (Kyodo)
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714K
Date: 2014-12-19
Title: Muslims walk on Sydney street after shooting incident
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SYDNEY, Australia - Muslims walk on a street in Sydney on Dec. 16, 2014, hours after a shooting incident by a hostage-taker claiming to be a Muslim cleric. (Kyodo)
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Date: 2014-12-19
Title: Taxis await passengers in front of Pyongyang Station
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PYONGYANG, North Korea - Taxis wait for passengers in front of Pyongyang Station as seen in this file photo taken on Sept. 4, 2014. North Korea marked the third anniversary on Dec. 17 of the death of former leader Kim Jong Il. (Kyodo)
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Date: 2014-12-19
Title: Man strives to save albatrosses on S. Pacific isle
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TOKYO, Japan - Koji Nitta, an Environment Ministry official, speaks about his work protecting albatrosses on Tori-shima (literally Bird Island), an uninhabited Japanese island in the Pacific Ocean, in this file photo taken on Nov. 17, 2014. The big seabirds are listed as an endangered species. (Kyodo)
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Date: 2014-12-19
Title: Obokata failed to replicate "STAP cell" creation
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TOKYO, Japan - Shinichi Aizawa (2nd from L), head of Japan's Riken verification team on the STAP cell research, attends a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 19, 2014. The research institute announced that embattled scientist Haruko Obokata has failed in experiments to produce the cells that she previously claimed to have created. (Kyodo)
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1063K
Date: 2014-12-19
Title: People walk under heavy snowfall in Hiroshima
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HIROSHIMA, Japan - People walk under a heavy snowfall in Hiroshima, western Japan, on Dec. 17, 2014, as snowstorms hit various parts of the Japanese archipelago. (Kyodo)
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Date: 2014-12-19
Title: Seoul to check safety of 2nd Lotte World complex
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SEOUL, South Korea - The Seoul city government has ordered a temporary ban on the operation of an aquarium and on further construction work at the partially opened second Lotte World commercial complex in the South Korean capital, shown in this photo taken on Dec. 16, 2014, to carry out a safety inspection. The order follows a series of incidents raising safety issues including water leaks at the aquarium and a worker's fatal fall at the construction site. (Kyodo)
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Date: 2014-12-19
Title: Construction of 2nd Lotte World temporarily halted
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SEOUL, South Korea - Construction work on the 2nd Lotte World commercial complex in Seoul, shown in this photo taken on Dec. 16, 2014, has been temporarily suspended as the city government is poised to carry out a safety check of the building. The order follows a series of incidents raising safety issues including water leaks at the aquarium and a worker's fatal fall at the construction site. (Kyodo)
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Date: 2014-12-19
Title: Debris storage area in town near crippled nuke plant
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FUTABA, Japan - Debris left by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Futaba, a town near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant crippled by the disaster in the northeastern Japan prefecture of Fukushima, is to be kept in a field on a temporary basis as seen in this photo taken on Dec. 17, 2014. (Kyodo)
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Date: 2014-12-19
Title: Moss-covered bus unveiled in Osaka
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OSAKA, Japan - A nonprofit organization set up to create an eco-friendly environment around Grand Front Osaka, a commercial complex on the north side of Osaka Station, displays a bus covered with moss in the western Japan city on Dec. 17, 2014. The "moss bus" is in operation in the area for a week until Dec. 25. (Kyodo)
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1069K
Date: 2014-12-19
Title: Debris removal starts in town near crippled reactors
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FUTABA, Japan - Workers begin to remove debris in Futaba, Fukushima Prefecture, on Dec. 17, 2014, left by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that hit the northeastern Japan region of Tohoku. The work is limited to part of the town as the bulk of the area is designated as a no-go zone for its proximity to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant crippled by the disaster. (Kyodo)
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