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Size:
349K
Date: 2015-07-06
Title: U.S. diplomat's daughter publishes memoir about childhood in A-bombed Hiroshima
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Farida Fotouhi, daughter of the first U.S. diplomat assigned to Hiroshima after the 1945 atomic bombing, explains in an interview in Los Angeles on March 27, 2015, about her English memoir "Charcoal Girl" that describes her childhood experience in the western Japanese city in 1952-57. She also plans to publish a Japanese-English version of the book, which includes a picture card show Fotouhi produced in Japanese at school at age 7. (Kyodo)
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Size:
853K
Date: 2015-07-06
Title: Foreign tourists undeterred by eruptions at Hakone resort outside Tokyo
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A couple from Spain study their map outside Odakyu Electric Railway's Hakone-Yumoto Station to plan their sightseeing route in Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture, southwest of Tokyo, on July 1, 2015. Many foreign tourists do not appear as worried as local visitors shying away from the famous hot spring resort town following volcanic eruptions there. (Kyodo)
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Size:
180K
Date: 2015-07-06
Title: Refurbished Saga museum features Japanese painter Okada's works
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A visitor looks at a painting at a permanent exhibition of Japanese oil painter Saburosuke Okada's works at the refurbished Saga Prefectural Art Museum in Saga, southwestern Japan, on July 1, 2015. (Kyodo)
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Size:
1563K
Date: 2015-07-06
Title: 1,300 lanterns illuminate Osaka riverside as summer festival starts
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White lanterns light up along Osaka's famous Dotombori riverside entertainment area at the start of an annual summer festival on July 1, 2015. The 1,300 lanterns will be lit every night through Aug. 31. (Kyodo)
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Size:
660K
Date: 2015-07-06
Title: Tokyo stocks dive as Greek vote points to eurozone exit
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A financial data monitor shows the Nikkei Stock Average losing more 500 points at one point in Tokyo on July 6, 2015 after Greeks voted a day earlier to reject austerity conditions required for continued financial aid from creditors. The Nikkei ended down 427.67 points, or 2.08 percent, at 20,112.12. (Kyodo)
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Size:
827K
Date: 2015-07-06
Title: Ishikawa finishes 76th at Greenbrier Classic
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Japan's Ryo Ishikawa makes a birdie putt on the fifth hole during the final round of the Greenbrier Classic at the Old White TPC course in West Virginia on July 5, 2015. Ishikawa ended up in 76th place after putting together an even-par 70. (Kyodo)
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Size:
1336K
Date: 2015-07-06
Title: 1,300 lanterns light up Osaka riverside as summer festival starts
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White lanterns light up along Osaka's famous Dotombori riverside entertainment area as an annual summer festival kicks off on July 1, 2015. The 1,300 lights will be up every night through Aug. 31. (Kyodo)
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Size:
834K
Date: 2015-07-06
Title: IOC welcomes idea for quake-hit areas to host Olympic baseball if added
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John Coates, chairman of the International Olympic Committee's Coordination Commission, speaks during an interview in Tokyo on July 1, 2015. Coates welcomed the idea of having Fukushima and other areas devastated by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami host some baseball matches at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics if the sport wins approval from the IOC to be added to the Games. (Kyodo)
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Size:
547K
Date: 2015-07-06
Title: Cold beer with "geisha" girls marks start of hot Kyoto summer
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"Geisha" female entertainers and their "maiko" apprentices serve guests at a beer garden on its opening day on July 1, 2015, at the Kamishichiken Kaburenjo theater in Kyoto, western Japan. The annual beer garden opens in the evenings through Sept. 5, except for the midsummer Buddhist "bon" holiday period of Aug. 14-16. (Kyodo)
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Size:
1430K
Date: 2015-07-06
Title: Japan celebrates addition of industrial sites to UNESCO listing
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Visitors at the Nirayama reverberatory furnace in the central Japanese city of Izunokuni walk in the rain on July 6, 2015, the morning after the UNESCO World Heritage Committee decided to add the facility as "Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution" to the World Cultural Heritage list. (Kyodo)
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Size:
442K
Date: 2015-07-06
Title: Honda, Nissan, Toyota to share burden in aiding hydrogen station operators
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Executives from three major Japanese automakers -- (from L) Nissan Motor Co.'s Hitoshi Kawaguchi, Toyota Motor Corp.'s Kiyotaka Ise and Honda Motor Co.'s Toshihiro Mibe -- shake hands after a press conference in Tokyo on July 1, 2015, on their joint efforts to promote hydrogen-refueling stations for fuel cell vehicles in Japan. The companies pledged to shoulder part of the operators' costs for building and maintaining such stations. (Kyodo)
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Size:
1560K
Date: 2015-07-06
Title: Japan celebrates addition of industrial sites to UNESCO listing
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People celebrate in front of the city government office of Kamaishi, northeastern Japan, on July 6, 2015, the morning after the UNESCO World Heritage Committee decided to add the city's Hashino iron mining and smelting site as "Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution" to the World Cultural Heritage list. Around 200 children also gathered there to celebrate the decision. (Kyodo)
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Size:
1424K
Date: 2015-07-06
Title: Japan miss 2nd straight Women's world Cup title with U.S. defeat
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Supporters of Japan's national soccer team cheer at a public viewing event on July 6, 2015 in Obanazawa, Yamagata Prefecture, as Yuki Ogimi scored the team's first goal in the U.S.-Japan Women's World Cup final. (Kyodo)
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Size:
263K
Date: 2015-07-06
Title: Fresh arrest warrant served on major Japanese gang boss
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Naomasa Yoshida, head of Fukuoka prefectural police, announces that a fresh arrest warrant has been served on the boss of Kudo-kai, one of Japan's major gangster groups, in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture on July 6, 2015. Satoru Nomura is suspected of violating two laws over the 2012 shooting of a former police officer and was arrested for the fifth time. (Kyodo)
==Kyodo
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Size:
547K
Date: 2015-07-06
Title: Kid reaches out for lechon roast pig in Cotabato, Philippines
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A child reaches out for the lechon roasted pig in Cotabato on the Philippine island of Mindanao in June 2015. Eating pork is taboo for Muslim people who form an overwhelming majority in the area. (Kyodo)
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