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Size:
1265K
Date: 2016-12-07
Title: Law enacted to secure educational opportunities for truant children
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An upper house plenary session on Dec. 7, 2016, enacts a law making the central and local governments responsible for ensuring educational opportunities for truant children. The law says opportunities for learning can exist outside schools and urges information and advice to be provided depending on each child's need. (Kyodo)
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Size:
931K
Date: 2016-12-07
Title: Ueno zoo suspends bird display over fear of bird flu
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Ueno Zoological Gardens in Tokyo has suspended displaying birds as seen in this photo taken Dec. 7, 2016, over fears of bird flu infection. In the central city of Nagoya, a tundra swan at a zoo tested positive for bird flu virus the previous day. (Kyodo)
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Size:
252K
Date: 2016-12-07
Title: Law enacted to secure educational opportunities for truant children
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Education minister Hirokazu Matsuno bows at an upper house plenary session on Dec. 7, 2016, after it enacted a law making the central and local governments responsible for ensuring educational opportunities for truant children. The law says opportunities for learning can exist outside schools and urges information and advice to be provided depending on each child's need. (Kyodo)
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Size:
308K
Date: 2016-12-07
Title: Mayor convicted in bribery case says to resign and seek reelection
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Hiroto Fujii, mayor of the central Japan city of Minokamo, tells the city assembly on Dec. 7, 2016, that he will step down to seek reelection after being convicted in November of taking bribes in 2013 while an assembly member. (Kyodo)
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Size:
484K
Date: 2016-12-07
Title: Mayor convicted in bribery case says to resign and seek reelection
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Hiroto Fujii, mayor of the central Japan city of Minokamo, is to attend a meeting of city assembly members on Dec. 7, 2016. Fujii expressed his readiness to step down to seek reelection after being convicted in November of taking bribes in 2013 while an assembly member. (Kyodo)
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Size:
652K
Date: 2016-12-07
Title: Japan, U.S. defense chiefs meet for talks on alliance, base issues
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Japanese Defense Minister Tomomi Inada (R) and U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter attend a joint press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 7, 2016. The two defense chiefs met to reaffirm the bilateral alliance and discuss efforts to address local concerns over crimes linked to the heavy U.S. military presence in Japan's southern island prefecture of Okinawa. (Kyodo)
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Size:
762K
Date: 2016-12-07
Title: Hina dolls carrying year's famous faces revealed
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A staff member of a doll maker in Saitama, near Tokyo, displays on Dec. 7, 2016, special hina dolls depicting people who were in the news during the year. (Kyodo)
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Size:
498K
Date: 2016-12-07
Title: Year-end radish boiling event held at Kyoto temple
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Pieces of Japanese radish are boiled on Dec. 7, 2016, at a year-end ceremony at Daihoonji temple in the western city of Kyoto. The food will be served for worshippers during the two-day event through Dec. 8. (Kyodo)
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Size:
1404K
Date: 2016-12-07
Title: Swan tests positive for bird flu virus at Nagoya zoo
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Photo taken Dec. 7, 2016, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens in the central Japan city of Nagoya, which had areas covered with white hydrated lime after a tundra swan there tested positive for bird flu virus the previous day. (Kyodo)
==Kyodo
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Size:
1247K
Date: 2016-12-07
Title: Swan tests positive for bird flu virus at Nagoya zoo
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Photo taken Dec. 7, 2016, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens in the central Japan city of Nagoya, which had areas covered with white hydrated lime after a tundra swan there tested positive for bird flu virus the previous day. (Kyodo)
==Kyodo
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Size:
1334K
Date: 2016-12-07
Title: Swan tests positive for bird flu virus at Nagoya zoo
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Photo taken Dec. 7, 2016, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens in the central Japan city of Nagoya, which had areas covered with white hydrated lime after a tundra swan there tested positive for bird flu virus the previous day. (Kyodo)
==Kyodo
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Size:
276K
Date: 2016-12-07
Title: Year-end radish boiling event held at Kyoto temple
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People enjoy boiled pieces of Japanese radish on Dec. 7, 2016, during a year-end ceremony at Daihoonji temple in the western city of Kyoto. The food will be served for worshippers during the two-day event through Dec. 8. (Kyodo)
==Kyodo
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Size:
450K
Date: 2016-12-07
Title: Year-end radish boiling event held at Kyoto temple
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People enjoy boiled pieces of Japanese radish on Dec. 7, 2016, during a year-end ceremony at Daihoonji temple in the western city of Kyoto. The food will be served for worshippers during the two-day event through Dec. 8. (Kyodo)
==Kyodo
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Size:
376K
Date: 2016-12-07
Title: Year-end radish boiling event held at Kyoto temple
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Pieces of Japanese radish are boiled on Dec. 7, 2016, at a year-end ceremony at Daihoonji temple in the western city of Kyoto. The food will be served for worshippers during the two-day event through Dec. 8. (Kyodo)
==Kyodo
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Size:
310K
Date: 2016-12-07
Title: Baseball: MLB hijacks market for Japanese star Otani: report
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Shohei Otani of the Nippon Ham Fighters delivers at Sapporo Dome on Oct. 16, 2016. (Kyodo)
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