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Date: 2016-05-31
Title: No-confidence motion against Abe Cabinet voted down
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R in front) and his Cabinet members bow after a motion of no-confidence against the Cabinet was voted down during a plenary session of the House of Representatives at the Diet in Tokyo on May 31, 2016. (Kyodo)
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Date: 2016-05-31
Title: No-confidence motion against Abe Cabinet voted down
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R in front) and his Cabinet members bow after a motion of no-confidence against the Cabinet was voted down during a plenary session of the House of Representatives at the Diet in Tokyo on May 31, 2016. (Kyodo)
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Date: 2016-05-31
Title: N. Korea sends top official to China, 1st since Jan. nuclear test
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Armed police officers stand guard at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on May 31, 2016, where Ri Su Yong, vice chairman of North Korea's ruling Workers' Party of Korea, made a surprise visit the same day. (Kyodo)
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331K
Date: 2016-05-31
Title: Comfort women foundation committee launched in S. Korea
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Kim Tae Hyun, head of a preparation committee to work for the establishment of a foundation tasked with helping improve the lives of former Korean comfort women who were forced into wartime brothels for the Japanese military, speaks at a press conference in Seoul on May 31, 2016, after the panel's first meeting. (Kyodo)
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1233K
Date: 2016-05-31
Title: Ex-Japanese baseball star Kiyohara given suspended term for drug use
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A camera crew waits for former Japanese baseball star Kazuhiro Kiyohara to come out in front of the Tokyo District Court on May 31, 2016. The court earlier sentenced the 48-year-old to two years and six months in prison, suspended for four years, for possessing, using and purchasing illegal drugs. (Kyodo)
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577K
Date: 2016-05-31
Title: Comfort women foundation committee launched in S. Korea
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Kim Tae Hyun, head of a preparation committee to work for the establishment of a foundation tasked with helping improve the lives of former Korean comfort women who were forced into wartime brothels for the Japanese military, speaks at a press conference in Seoul on May 31, 2016, after the panel's first meeting. (Kyodo)
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Size:
303K
Date: 2016-05-31
Title: Comfort women foundation committee launched in S. Korea
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Kim Tae Hyun, head of a preparation committee to work for the establishment of a foundation tasked with helping improve the lives of former Korean comfort women who were forced into wartime brothels for the Japanese military, speaks at a press conference in Seoul on May 31, 2016, after the panel's first meeting. (Kyodo)
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628K
Date: 2016-05-31
Title: Top official in local branch of crime syndicate shot dead
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Okayama prefectural police conduct an investigation near the parking lot of an apartment complex in Okayama, western Japan, where Tadashi Takagi, a top official in the local Ikeda branch of crime syndicate Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi, was shot on May 31, 2016, resulting in his death later in the day. The police are treating the incident as a homicide, with suspicions of a connection to Japan's largest gang, the Yamaguchi-gumi, following concerns of intensifying conflicts between the two crime syndicates after their split in August 2015. (Kyodo)
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Date: 2016-05-31
Title: Ex-baseball star Kiyohara given suspended term for drug use
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A camera crew gathers in front of the Tokyo District Court on May 31, 2016, for a ruling on retired baseball star Kazuhiro Kiyohara's drug case. The court sentenced the 48-year-old to two years and six months in prison, suspended for four years, for possessing, using and purchasing illegal drugs. (Kyodo)
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86K
Date: 2016-05-31
Title: Japanese comedian to represent Cambodia at Rio de Janeiro Olympics
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Japanese-Cambodian comedian Hiroshi Neko, seen in this undated photo, will represent Cambodia in the men's marathon at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics in August 2016, a senior Olympic official in Cambodia said on May 31. (Kyodo)
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Size:
38K
Date: 2016-05-31
Title: Prosecutors not to file graft charges against ex-minister Amari
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Prosecutors have decided not to file graft charges against former Japanese economy minister Akira Amari, seen in this undated photo, and his two former secretaries over a money-for-favors scandal, citing insufficient evidence, sources close to the matter said on May 31, 2016. (Kyodo)
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Size:
1160K
Date: 2016-05-31
Title: Residents file suit to halt reactor restart after quakes in Japan
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Lawyers representing local residents head for the Matsuyama District Court in the western Japan city on May 31, 2016, to file a suit seeking an injunction to halt the restart of the No. 3 reactor at Shikoku Electric Power Co.'s Ikata nuclear plant in western Japan amid safety concerns following powerful earthquakes in southwestern Japan. (Kyodo)
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Size:
771K
Date: 2016-05-31
Title: No-confidence motion against Abe Cabinet submitted
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House of Representatives Speaker Tadamori Oshima (3rd from L) receives a motion of no confidence in Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Cabinet from senior lawmakers of four opposition parties at the Diet on May 31, 2016. The opposition bloc argues the government's economic policies, dubbed "Abenomics," have failed in light of Abe's decision to postpone the planned consumption tax hike. (Kyodo)
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1198K
Date: 2016-05-31
Title: Komeito leader Yamaguchi at press conference
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Natsuo Yamaguchi, leader of the minor ruling party Komeito, attends a press conference in Tokyo on May 31, 2016. On the move by four opposition parties to jointly submit a motion of no confidence against Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Cabinet, Yamaguchi said he will work for voting it down together with coalition partner the Liberal Democratic Party. (Kyodo)
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Size:
921K
Date: 2016-05-31
Title: Japanese chef leaves for Pyongyang
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A Japanese chef, known by the alias Kenji Fujimoto, is to leaves Beijing for Pyongyang on May 31, 2016. Fujimoto, who worked for former North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, said he plans to meet with the present leader Kim Jong Un while staying in the country until late June. (Kyodo)
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