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Date: 2015-08-04
Title: Japanese youths plant cherry tree at pope's summer retreat
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High school students and other people from Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, pose after planting a cherry tree at a summer vacation retreat for the pope in Castel Gandolfo, southeast of Rome, on July 29, 2015. The group was dispatched by the prefectural government to thank Italy for support for reconstruction work in the northeastern Japan region of Tohoku ravaged by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo)
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1041K
Date: 2015-08-04
Title: Kurdish community in Japan offers education for children
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Kurdish children (R) learn their language by looking at a picture book in Kawaguchi, north of Tokyo, on July 19, 2015, in an education program conducted by the Japan Kurdish Cultural Association. The organization also offers information on daily life to people living in the largest Kurdish community in the country centering on Warabi, Saitama Prefecture. (Kyodo)
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Size:
867K
Date: 2015-08-04
Title: Mitsubishi opens small jet development base in U.S.
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Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (front L) speaks to Hiromichi Morimoto (front R), president of Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp., during the opening ceremony of a research and development site in Seattle on Aug. 3, 2015, for its Mitsubishi Regional Jet, Japan's first self-developed small jetliner. (Kyodo)
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Size:
1073K
Date: 2015-08-04
Title: Japanese high school boy plants cherry tree at pope's summer retreat
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Takehiro Imai (R), a Japanese high school student from Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, plants a cherry tree at a summer vacation retreat for the pope in Castel Gandolfo, southeast of Rome, on July 29, 2015. Imai is one of the high school students dispatched by the prefectural government to thank Italy for support for reconstruction work in the northeastern Japan region of Tohoku ravaged by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo)
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Size:
554K
Date: 2015-08-04
Title: Mitsubishi opens small jet development base in U.S.
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Hiromichi Morimoto, president of Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp., speaks in an interview in New York on July 30, 2015. The company opened a research and development site in Seattle on Aug. 3, 2015, for its Mitsubishi Regional Jet, Japan's first self-developed small jetliner. (Kyodo)
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Size:
634K
Date: 2015-08-04
Title: Japanese astronaut speaks from underwater training lab off Florida
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Japanese astronaut Norishige Kanai speaks to reporters via video phone from the Aquarius Reef Base, an underwater habitat located at a depth of 20 meters off Florida, on July 30, 2015. Kanai is receiving training in the laboratory undertaken by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. (Kyodo)
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Size:
618K
Date: 2015-08-04
Title: Osaka man recalls airport used by army for pilot training, suicide stints
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Atsuo Yokoyama shows on the map the place of an airport in Izumisano, Osaka Prefecture, western Japan, used for a year by the Imperial Japanese Army to train fighter pilots toward the end of World War II, at his home in the neighboring city of Sakai on May 19, 2015. The airport was also used for training pilots on suicide missions. (Kyodo)
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Size:
1144K
Date: 2015-08-04
Title: Visitors flock to corner for WWII books at Tokyo fair
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A corner for books related to the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II set up by publisher Iwanami Shoten at the Tokyo International Book Fair attracts a large number of visitors on July 3, 2015. (Kyodo)
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Size:
808K
Date: 2015-08-04
Title: Ex-lieutenant of Japanese army shows military cap
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Goro Higashii, a former first lieutenant of the Imperial Japanese Army, shows his military cap at his home in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, western Japan, on June 27, 2015. He was among some 70 army cadets trained as pilots at an airport in nearby Izumisano toward the end of World War II. (Kyodo)
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Size:
1048K
Date: 2015-08-04
Title: Osaka man points to site of airport used by army for pilot training
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Atsuo Yokoyama points to a place where the Imperial Japanese Army once had an airport in Izumisano, Osaka Prefecture, western Japan, on June 11, 2015. The airport was used for one year toward the end of World War II for pilot training, including for suicide missions. (Kyodo)
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Size:
1166K
Date: 2015-08-04
Title: Young people read books on WWII at Tokyo bookstore
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Young people read at a corner for books related to the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II set up at Tokyodo, a bookstore in Tokyo, on July 28, 2015. (Kyodo)
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Size:
529K
Date: 2015-08-04
Title: Japan to suspend work over Futenma relocation for month
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Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga speaks at a press conference in Naha, Japan, on Aug. 4, 2015, following the central government's announcement that work on the planned relocation of a U.S. military base within the prefecture will be suspended for a month through Sept. 9. (Kyodo)
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Size:
70K
Date: 2015-08-04
Title: Japan to suspend work over Futenma relocation for month
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Undated photo shows Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga. The top government spokesman said at a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 4, 2015 that work on the planned relocation of a U.S. military base within the prefecture will be suspended for a month through Sept. 9. (Kyodo)
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Size:
1179K
Date: 2015-08-04
Title: SNAPSHOT: Castle tower to be moved for stone wall renovation
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Photo taken July 22, 2015, shows the inside of the Hirosaki Castle tower in the northeastern Japan city of Hirosaki. The municipal government is preparing to move the tower around 70 meters to a platform without demolishing it in order to renovate its stone wall bedding. (Kyodo)
==Kyodo
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Size:
420K
Date: 2015-08-04
Title: Indiscipline costs Japan 3rd place at PNC
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Photo taken on Aug. 3, 2015, shows the Japanese rugby team after losing 31-20 to Tonga in the bronze final of the Pacific Nations Cup at Swanguard Stadium in Burnaby, Canada, on Aug. 3, 2015. (Kyodo)
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