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Date: 2015-11-25
Title: Remote island aims to attract tourists through sport climbing
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Photo taken in October 2015 shows people enjoying bouldering at a recreational center in Miyake Island in the Izu island chain south of Tokyo. The island, which was completely evacuated in the summer of 2000 following a series of eruptions by Mt. Oyama, aims to attract tourists by promoting sport climbing, which will be proposed as an additional sport for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. (Kyodo)
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Date: 2015-11-25
Title: Sales of year-end lottery tickets begin
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People line up in front of a booth in Tokyo's Ginza commercial district to buy the year-end "Jumbo" lottery tickets, which went on sale on Nov. 25, 2015. Sales of the 300-yen lottery, which provide the chance to win up to 1 billion yen, continue through Dec. 22 nationwide, and the drawing will be held on New Year's Eve. (Kyodo)
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1141K
Date: 2015-11-25
Title: Taxation talks in ruling coalition continue
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Tetsuo Saito, tax panel chief of the Komeito party, meets with reporters in Tokyo on Nov. 25, 2015, following talks between senior lawmakers of his party and its ruling coalition partner Liberal Democratic Party over the introduction of reduced tax rates. (Kyodo)
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1433K
Date: 2015-11-25
Title: Preparations for Kabuki performance take place in Kyoto
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Preparations for the year-end Kabuki performance are going on in Japan's ancient city of Kyoto, with the name plates of Kabuki actors displayed in front of the theater on Nov. 25, 2015. The performance will run from Nov. 30 to Dec. 26, with the participation of popular actors including Sakata Tojuro and Kataoka Nizaemon. (Kyodo)
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908K
Date: 2015-11-25
Title: Nakatani meets with U.S. Pacific commander
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Japanese Defense Minister Gen Nakatani (far R) hold talks with the commander of the U.S. forces in the Pacific, Adm. Harry Harris (far L), in Hawaii on Nov. 24, 2015, against the backdrop of China's military presence in the South China Sea. (Kyodo)
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1287K
Date: 2015-11-25
Title: Preparations for Kabuki performance take place in Kyoto
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Preparations for the year-end Kabuki performance are going on in Japan's ancient city of Kyoto, with the name plates of Kabuki actors displayed in front of the theater on Nov. 25, 2015. The performance will run from Nov. 30 to Dec. 26, with the participation of popular actors including Sakata Tojuro and Kataoka Nizaemon. (Kyodo)
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1146K
Date: 2015-11-25
Title: Man in news: Japan's 1st thylacocephala fossil founder Ehiro
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Masayuki Ehiro, a professor emeritus at Tohoku University, speaks in Minamisanriku Town, Miyagi Prefecture, on Sept. 22, 2015. His group made the first ever discovery of thylacocephala fossils in Japan in the tsunami-hit town in northeastern Japan. (Kyodo)
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579K
Date: 2015-11-25
Title: China's special rep. on climate change speaks in Beijing
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Xie Zhenhua, China's special representative on climate change issues, speaks at a press conference in Beijing on Nov. 19, 2015. (Kyodo)
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873K
Date: 2015-11-25
Title: Tsunami-hit school buildings in Miyagi Pref. to be leased
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The closed Hamaichi Elementary School in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, that was damaged by the 2011 tsunami and shut down, is pictured on Nov. 10, 2015. The municipal government has decided to lease the school buildings of Hamaichi and Nobiru elementary schools to companies and nonprofit organizations for 10 years. (Kyodo)
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747K
Date: 2015-11-25
Title: Soseki's letter sent to haiku poet Seigetsu Murakami discovered
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A newly discovered letter written by Japanese novelist Soseki Natsume (1867-1916), postmarked Feb. 17, 1897, to his friend Hantaro Murakami, known as haiku poet Seigetsu Murakami, is shown on Nov. 19, 2015. The letter addressed to Murakami in Matsuyama, western Japan, reveals young Soseki's loneliness as a high school teacher in Kumamoto, southwestern Japan, and contains his 26 haiku of which two are not believed to have been included in his haiku anthology. (Kyodo)
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754K
Date: 2015-11-25
Title: Osaka shrine prepares monkey-shaped clay bells for New Year
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Making of monkey-shaped clay bells is underway at the Konda-hachiman Shrine in Habikino, Osaka Prefecture, on Nov. 19, 2015, in preparation for the New Year, as 2016 falls on the Year of the Monkey. (Kyodo)
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654K
Date: 2015-11-25
Title: N. Korean defector badly wants to return to North
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A tearful Kim Ryen Hi, a former dress designer from North Korea, says in Seoul on Sept. 29, 2015, she wants to return to the North to be reunited with her family. She said a broker prevented her from returning although she realized that her decision to visit Seoul in 2011 was a mistake, an unprecedented move by North Korean defectors to seek a return home. (Kyodo)
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864K
Date: 2015-11-25
Title: N. Korean defector ejected from human rights office in Seoul
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Kim Ryen Hi (C), a North Korean defector to the South in 2011, is removed by policewomen from the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights in Seoul on Oct. 7, 2015. She says she wants to return to the North since her visit to Seoul had never been her true intention. (Kyodo)
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627K
Date: 2015-11-25
Title: Seiko hopes to boost robot business sales six-fold in decade
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Seiko Epson Corp.'s new N series industrial robot, which will be put on sale in May 2016, is shown in Tokyo on Nov. 19, 2015. The company hopes to boost its robot business sales to 100 billion yen ($813 million) or more than six times the current level by fiscal 2025 through March 2026. (Kyodo)
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1152K
Date: 2015-11-25
Title: Award of merit given to Hokuriku Sinkansen bullet train line team
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An award of merit is given to the Hokuriku Shinkansen bullet train line's Kanazawa area team at a ceremony in Tokyo on Nov. 19, 2015, marking the selection of the year's most impressive groups. Photo shows (3rd from L to R) East Japan Railway Co.'s Hitoshi Suzuki, Japan Railway Construction, Transport and Technology Agency's Jun Horikawa and West Japan Railway Co.'s Kanazawa Branch chief Masashi Nonaka. The "Best Team of the Year" honor went to Japan's national rugby team that wowed the international sport community in the Rugby World Cup in England. (Kyodo)
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