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Size:
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Date: 2016-12-06
Title: Yankees' Tanaka, golfer Lee Bo Mee attend charity event
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New York Yankees pitcher Masahiro Tanaka (L) and South Korean golfer Lee Bo Mee attend a charity event in Tokyo on Dec. 6, 2016. (Kyodo)
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589K
Date: 2016-12-06
Title: Ueda to become NHK president to replace Momii
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Ryoichi Ueda, former senior executive vice president of major trading company Mitsubishi Corp., speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 6, 2016, after being selected as new president of Japan Broadcasting Corp. by the board of governors of the public broadcaster known as NHK. Katsuto Momii, the current NHK president, will retire in January after one three-year term. Ueda currently serves as the only full-time governor of the 12-member NHK board and a member of the NHK audit committee. (Kyodo)
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Size:
621K
Date: 2016-12-06
Title: Ueda to become NHK president to replace Momii
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Ryoichi Ueda, former senior executive vice president of major trading company Mitsubishi Corp., speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 6, 2016, after being selected as new president of Japan Broadcasting Corp. by the board of governors of the public broadcaster known as NHK. Katsuto Momii, the current NHK president, will retire in January after one three-year term. Ueda currently serves as the only full-time governor of the 12-member NHK board and a member of the NHK audit committee. (Kyodo)
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Size:
621K
Date: 2016-12-06
Title: S. Korean tycoons face parliamentary questioning over scandal
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South Korean tycoons from the country's top conglomerates take an oath during a parliamentary hearing into an ongoing influence-peddling scandal linked to embattled President Park Geun Hye's longtime confidante, at the National Assembly in Seoul on Dec. 6, 2016. The appearance of the nation's leading business chiefs before the two-day parliamentary hearing was the first such event in 28 years. (Pool photo)(Kyodo)
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Size:
539K
Date: 2016-12-06
Title: Ueda to become NHK president to replace Momii
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Ryoichi Ueda, former senior executive vice president of major trading company Mitsubishi Corp., speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 6, 2016, after being selected as new president of Japan Broadcasting Corp. by the board of governors of the public broadcaster known as NHK. Katsuto Momii, the current NHK president, will retire in January after one three-year term. Ueda currently serves as the only full-time governor of the 12-member NHK board and a member of the NHK audit committee. (Kyodo)
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Size:
1212K
Date: 2016-12-06
Title: Prince Hisahito visits Nagasaki Hypocenter Park
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(From front) Prince Hisahito, his mother Princess Kiko and his father Prince Akishino offer flowers at the Hypocenter Cenotaph in Nagasaki Hypocenter Park in the atomic-bombed city of Nagasaki on Dec. 6, 2016. (Kyodo)
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Size:
751K
Date: 2016-12-06
Title: Japan's Osumi arrives in Stockholm for Nobel award ceremony
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Japanese scientist Yoshinori Osumi, winner of this year's Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, arrives at a hotel in Stockholm on Dec. 6, 2016, to attend the award ceremony on Dec. 10. (Kyodo)
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Size:
628K
Date: 2016-12-06
Title: U.S. Defense Secretary Carter meets with Japanese Prime Minister Abe
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U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter (2nd from L), accompanied by U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy, arrives at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Dec. 6, 2016, for talks with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo)
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Size:
1033K
Date: 2016-12-06
Title: Chinese sue Japan's contractor Kajima over wartime forced labor
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A bereaved family member of a former Chinese forced laborer at Kajima Corp. speaks at a press conference in Beijing on Dec. 6, 2016, after a total of 27 people, consisting of a survivor and bereaved families, filed a lawsuit against the Japanese construction company, seeking 1 million yuan ($145,000) in compensation for each plaintiff for forced labor during World War II. The plaintiffs said the former laborers were forced to work at Kajima construction sites in Japan's Gunma and Kagoshima prefectures in 1944. (Kyodo)
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Size:
800K
Date: 2016-12-06
Title: Obama looking forward to Japan PM Abe's Pearl Harbor visit: Ash Carter
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U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter (L) and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) hold talks at the premier's office in Tokyo on Dec. 6, 2016. Carter told Abe that President Barack Obama is "very much looking forward" to Abe's visit to Pearl Harbor in late December. (Kyodo)
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Size:
428K
Date: 2016-12-06
Title: Chinese sue Japan's contractor Kajima over wartime forced labor
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A bereaved family member of a former Chinese forced laborer at Kajima Corp. speaks at a press conference in Beijing on Dec. 6, 2016, after a total of 27 people, consisting of a survivor and bereaved families, filed a lawsuit against the Japanese construction company, seeking 1 million yuan ($145,000) in compensation for each plaintiff for forced labor during World War II. The plaintiffs said the former laborers were forced to work at Kajima construction sites in Japan's Gunma and Kagoshima prefectures in 1944. (Kyodo)
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Size:
785K
Date: 2016-12-06
Title: Anime "your name." ranks as 2nd-highest grossing Japanese film
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People wait in line to watch the Japanese animation film "your name." at a movie theater in Hida, Gifu Prefecture, on Nov. 6, 2016. A month later, the time-traveling fantasy was found to have topped the 20 billion yen ($176 million) mark in domestic box office receipts, making it the second-highest grossing Japanese film released in the country. (Kyodo)
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Size:
560K
Date: 2016-12-06
Title: Obama looking forward to Japan PM Abe's Pearl Harbor visit: Ash Carter
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U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter (L) and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shake hands at the premier's office in Tokyo on Dec. 6, 2016. Carter told Abe that President Barack Obama is "very much looking forward" to Abe's visit to Pearl Harbor in late December. (Kyodo)
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Size:
803K
Date: 2016-12-06
Title: Park expresses readiness to step down in April
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File photo taken in Seoul on Nov. 29, 2016, shows South Korean President Park Geun Hye expressing her readiness to resign from her post before her term ends in February in 2018. According to Chung Jin Suk, floor leader of the ruling Saenuri Party, the president showed her readiness to step down in April during talks with him in Seoul on Dec. 6, 2016. (Kyodo)
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Size:
1137K
Date: 2016-12-06
Title: 4 injured as taxi mounts sidewalk in central Tokyo
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A taxi is seen smashed into a street light on a sidewalk at an intersection in Tokyo's Minamiaoyama district on Dec. 6, 2016, after it ran into a bicycle and a pedestrian. The taxi hit a motorcycle and a minivehicle waiting for a traffic light and then mounted the sidewalk after being rear-ended by a passenger car. Four people were injured in the accident. (Kyodo)
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