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Date: 2015-08-04
Title: Record No. of people taken to hospitals for heatstroke in Japan
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Photo taken Aug. 3, 2015, shows people with parasols crossing a bridge in Kyoto. A record-high 11,672 people were taken to hospitals in Japan the previous week due to heatstroke or heat exhaustion, with 25 people dying on the way -- the most for this summer --, the government said on Aug. 4. (Kyodo)
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Date: 2015-08-04
Title: Popular mascot character joins "scrapbook relay" to promote newspapers
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Kumamon (R), a popular mascot character representing Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern Japan, hands his handmade newspaper scrapbook to Hyakumansan, a mascot of Ishikawa Prefecture, in Kanazawa, central Japan, on July 30, 2015. The handover was part of a "scrapbook relay" by some local government mascots to promote a project organized by the Japan Newspaper Publishers & Editors Association to attract a broader readership among the younger generation. (Kyodo)
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Date: 2015-08-04
Title: Japanese navy's WWII canned rice found in near-perfect condition
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A can of "sekihan" red bean rice made over 70 years ago during World War II for the Imperial Japanese Navy appears to be in near-perfect condition when opened on July 30, 2015, in Tonosho on Shodo-shima island, Kagawa Prefecture, western Japan. A total of 17 such cans were discovered in 2011 at a former soy sauce shop's warehouse in the town. The 415-gram canned rice was possibly preserved food for the navy's special attack unit that had a base nearby during wartime. (Kyodo)
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Date: 2015-08-04
Title: 12 teams to join top division in Japan's reformed pro basketball league
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Saburo Kawabuchi (C), president of the Japan Basketball Association, speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on July 30, 2015, in announcing the first batch of 12 teams that will play in the top division of Japan's new men's professional basketball league from next year. Six teams are to join from the National Basketball League and the other six from the Basketball Japan League or bj league. (Kyodo)
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Date: 2015-08-04
Title: 12 teams to join top division in Japan's reformed pro basketball league
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Saburo Kawabuchi (2nd from L), president of the Japan Basketball Association, attends a press conference in Tokyo on July 30, 2015, in which he announced the first batch of 12 teams that will play in the top division of Japan's new men's professional basketball league from next year. Six teams are to join from the National Basketball League and the other six from the Basketball Japan League or bj league. (Kyodo)
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Date: 2015-08-04
Title: Japanese destroyer heads home after 3-month antipiracy mission
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Crew members aboard the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Sawagiri wave their hats from the deck to send off fellow MSDF destroyer Murasame (background) in Djibouti, eastern Africa, on July 30, 2015. Murasame was on its way back to Japan after completing a three-month antipiracy mission in the Gulf of Aden off Somalia, east Africa. The duty is passed on to Sawagiri. (Kyodo)
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Date: 2015-08-04
Title: Japan, U.S. students join exchange program honoring American tsunami victim
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Students from Randolph-Macon College in Ashland in the U.S. state of Virginia engage in a Japanese "taiko" drumming session with those from Ishinomaki Senshu University in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, during an exchange program on July 19, 2015. The program is supported by a fund established by the parents of Taylor Anderson, an American English-language teaching assistant who was killed in the 2011 tsunami in Ishinomaki. Anderson graduated from Randolph-Macon. (Kyodo)
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Date: 2015-08-04
Title: Revival of Tibetan Buddhism in post-Soviet Tuva republic
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The original site of an ancient stone Buddha sculpture in a cave, submerged under water due to the completion of a dam in 1985, appears between spring, when snow covering the cave melts, and early summer when the frozen reservoir completely melts and the water level rises, as seen on April 19, 2015. About 80 percent of the Tuva population are followers of Tibetan Buddhism, which had been suppressed under Communist rule but is making a strong comeback since the Soviet Union's collapse. (Kyodo)
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Date: 2015-08-04
Title: Japanese navy's WWII canned rice found in near-perfect condition
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One of several cans of "sekihan" red bean rice made over 70 years ago during World War II for the Imperial Japanese Navy is opened and found to be in near-perfect condition on July 30, 2015, in Tonosho on Shodo-shima island, Kagawa Prefecture, western Japan. A total of 17 such cans were discovered in 2011 at a former soy sauce shop's warehouse in the town. The 415-gram canned rice was possibly preserved food for the navy's special attack unit that had a base nearby during wartime. (Kyodo)
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Date: 2015-08-04
Title: Revival of Tibetan Buddhism in post-Soviet Tuva republic
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People visit the original site of an ancient stone Buddha sculpture in a cave in Russia's southern Siberian republic of Tuva on April 19, 2015. About 80 percent of the Tuva population are followers of Tibetan Buddhism, which had been suppressed under Communist rule but is making a strong comeback since the Soviet Union's collapse. (Kyodo)
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Date: 2015-08-04
Title: Japanese navy's WWII canned rice found in near-perfect condition
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Hayato Kurokawa, an expert in canned goods, shows a can of "sekihan" red bean rice made over 70 years ago during World War II for the Imperial Japanese Navy on July 30, 2015, in Tonosho on Shodo-shima island, Kagawa Prefecture, western Japan. The rice appeared to be in near-perfect condition when he opened it at a former soy sauce shop's warehouse in the town. A total of 17 such cans were discovered in 2011 and were possibly preserved for the navy's special attack unit that had a base nearby during wartime. (Kyodo)
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Date: 2015-08-04
Title: Photo of Asia: Traditional facial threading in Thailand
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Beauticians at a beauty salon in a night market street in Nakhon Ratchasima, northeastern Thailand, perform traditional facial threading on customers on July 3, 2015. The technique, which involves a thin thread being rolled over the skin to remove unwanted hair, is a traditional beauty treatment method commonly practiced in Asia and other parts of the world for centuries. (Photo by Yasushi Ukigaya) (Kyodo)
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Date: 2015-08-04
Title: "Koban" community police box taking root in Bangkok
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Tourists ask questions at a "koban" police box around the popular Chatuchak Weekend Market in Bangkok in May 2015. The police boxes, modeled after Japan's unique community-based "koban" system, have started to take root and are playing an important role in helping residents and tourists in the country. (Kyodo)
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Date: 2015-08-04
Title: Ex-socialist party secretary general Yamaguchi dies at 89
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Photo shows Tsuruo Yamaguchi, former secretary general of the now defunct Socialist Party of Japan. It was reported on Aug. 4, 2015, that Yamaguchi, also former chief of the now defunct Management and Coordination Agency, died on Aug. 3 at 89. (Kyodo)
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Date: 2015-08-04
Title: Li Xiaolin, president of China's friendship association
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Photo shows Li Xiaolin, president of the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries and daughter of former Chinese President Li Xiannian. She was at a meeting held by former Japanese home affairs minister Takeshi Noda and Yu Zhengsheng, the fourth-highest ranking member of the Communist Party of China, in June 2015 in Beijing and separately held talks with Noda during his visit to China. (Kyodo)
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