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Date: 2015-08-04
Title: Mercury exceeds 35 C in Tokyo for 5th straight day
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People walk in Tokyo's Ginza shopping district with sunshades on Aug. 4, 2015, as the mercury exceeds 35 C in the capital for the fifth straight day for the first time on record. In the central Japan city of Tatebayashi, the temperature reached as high as 38.5 C. (Kyodo)
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607K
Date: 2015-08-04
Title: Toyota posts record group net profit in April-June
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Toyota Motor Corp. Managing Officer Tetsuya Otake attends a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 4, 2015, to announce the automaker's group net profit in the April to June period rose 10.0 percent from a year earlier to a record 646.39 billion yen ($5.2 billion) on robust sales in North America and a weaker yen. (Kyodo)
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373K
Date: 2015-08-04
Title: Toyota posts record group net profit in April-June
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Toyota Motor Corp. Managing Officer Tetsuya Otake attends a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 4, 2015, to announce the automaker's group net profit in the April to June period rose 10.0 percent from a year earlier to a record 646.39 billion yen ($5.2 billion) on robust sales in North America and a weaker yen. (Kyodo)
==Kyodo
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318K
Date: 2015-08-04
Title: Taliban insurgency avoids touching on top leader Omar's alleged death
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Supreme Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar is shown in this photo spread on the Internet in 2002. While the Afghan presidential office confirmed on July 29, 2015, that Omar died in Pakistan in 2013, the Taliban insurgency did not mention Omar in its statement on July 30. (Kyodo)
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686K
Date: 2015-08-04
Title: Leopard fur skin confiscated by Fukuoka police
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A leopard fur skin confiscated by police in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, on suspicion of violating the Washington Convention is shown on July 30, 2015. Trading leopard skins is prohibited under the treaty, known officially as the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora. (Kyodo)
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1778K
Date: 2015-08-04
Title: Ruins of "ondol" Korean underfloor heating system found in west Japan
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The remnants of a smoke path stretching from a fire hole to the building under an "ondol" Korean underfloor heating system are shown to the press in Takatori, Nara Prefecture, western Japan, on July 30, 2015. They are believed to have been made by people from the Korean Peninsula in the late fifth century.
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897K
Date: 2015-08-04
Title: Konica Minolta demonstrates transmission of national ID numbers
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Konica Minolta Inc.'s group company demonstrates the operation of a printer-fax-copier machine with a function enabling easy transmission of personal information under the "My Number" social security and tax identify system via the cloud computing system during an office machine fair in Tokyo on July 8, 2015. Individual numbers given under the national ID numbering system are to be notified from October and put into use from January 2016. (Kyodo)
==Kyodo
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1521K
Date: 2015-08-04
Title: Ruins of large-walled 5th-century structure found in western Japan
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The remnants of a large-walled structure believed to have been built by people from the Korean Peninsula in the late fifth century are shown to the press in Takatori, Nara Prefecture, western Japan, on July 30, 2015. The ruins of what is believed to have been an "ondol" Korean underfloor heating system are seen in the back on the left side. (Kyodo)
==Kyodo
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911K
Date: 2015-08-04
Title: Abe urges U.S. to look into alleged spying on Japanese gov't
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks at a session of the House of Councillors' special committee on security legislation in Tokyo on Aug. 4, 2015. Abe urged the United States to look into allegations raised by the WikiLeaks website that Washington has been spying on the Japanese government and companies. (Kyodo)
==Kyodo
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Size:
89K
Date: 2015-08-04
Title: Chinese man tries Morpheus VR headset at ChinaJoy 2015
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A Chinese man tries on Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.'s Morpheus virtual reality system headset at the China Digital Entertainment Expo & Conference 2015, or ChinaJoy 2015, in Shanghai on July 30, 2015. (Kyodo)
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1071K
Date: 2015-08-04
Title: "Prince curry rice" served at Miyazaki Airport restaurant
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Head chef Yukinori Hidaka at a restaurant in Miyazaki Airport shows off "Much-talked-about Miyazaki Prince Curry," a summer-only special dish, on July 24, 2015. The restaurant started serving the dish after it was served to Japanese Crown Prince Naruhito when he visited Miyazaki Prefecture, southwestern Japan, in May 2015. (Kyodo)
==Kyodo
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295K
Date: 2015-08-04
Title: SCE's Morpheus VR headset showcased at ChinaJoy 2015 in Shanghai
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A person wearing Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.'s Morpheus virtual reality system headset watches virtual pop sensation Hatsune Miku at the China Digital Entertainment Expo & Conference 2015, or ChinaJoy 2015, in Shanghai, on July 30, 2015. (Kyodo)
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653K
Date: 2015-08-04
Title: Hiroshima Mayor Matsui gives interview ahead of Aug. 6
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Photo shows Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui in an exclusive interview with Kyodo News in the western Japan city on July 29, 2015. Matsui said he hopes people will understand and accept the significance of atomic bomb survivors' testimonies. He said many of them chose not to speak out because of discrimination and the strain of digging up their painful memories. (Kyodo)
==Kyodo
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293K
Date: 2015-08-04
Title: Detained Canadian pastor speaks at press conference in Pyongyang
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Canadian pastor Hyeon Soo Lim, who has been detained since entering North Korea in January 2015, speaks at a press conference in Pyongyang on July 30, 2015. He admitted to planning "subversive plots" against the communist state. (Kyodo)
==Kyodo
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491K
Date: 2015-08-04
Title: Nishikori meets press before 1st match since Wimbledon
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World No. 5 tennis player Kei Nishikori speaks at a press conference in Washington on Aug. 3, 2015, ahead of his Citi Open appearance. Against James Duckworth of Australia, Nishikori will play his first match since he withdrew from Wimbledon before the second round due to a left calf injury on July 1. (Kyodo)
==Kyodo
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