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Date: 2017-02-17
Title: Skiing: Japan's moguls ace Endo out of World Cup meet in Akita
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Japanese freestyle skier Sho Endo takes to the air in the men's preliminary round of a World Cup moguls event in Pyeongchang, South Korea, on Feb. 11, 2017. Endo has pulled out of a two-day World Cup meet from Feb. 18 at Lake Tazawa in Japan's Akita Prefecture due to injury and is also expected to sit out the Asian Winter Games getting under way in Sapporo on Feb. 19. (Kyodo)
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956K
Date: 2017-02-17
Title: Children in Aleppo, Syria
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Children play around debris in the formerly rebel-held eastern Aleppo, Syria, on Feb. 9, 2017. (Kyodo)
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891K
Date: 2017-02-17
Title: N. Korean athletes arrive in Japan
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North Korean athletes and accompanying officials are welcomed on Feb. 17, 2017, at New Chitose Airport on Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido. They will take part in the Asian Winter Games, after receiving visas as an exception to the country's ongoing entry ban on North Korean citizens. (Kyodo)
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659K
Date: 2017-02-17
Title: N. Korean athletes arrive in Japan
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North Korean athletes and accompanying officials are welcomed on Feb. 17, 2017, at New Chitose Airport on Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido. They will take part in the Asian Winter Games, after receiving visas as an exception to the country's ongoing entry ban on North Korean citizens. (Kyodo)
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702K
Date: 2017-02-17
Title: N. Korean athletes arrive in Japan
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People wait for the arrival of North Korean athletes and accompanying officials on Feb. 17, 2017, at New Chitose Airport on Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido. The athletes will take part in the Asian Winter Games, after receiving visas as an exception to the country's ongoing entry ban on North Korean citizens. (Kyodo)
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348K
Date: 2017-02-17
Title: Rugby: Sunwolves warm-up game marks a series of firsts
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Mikuni World Stadium in Kitakyushu, Japan, seen in this photo taken Feb. 17, 2017, will host a match between the Sunwolves and the Top League All-Stars the following day. It will be Filo Tiatia's first game in charge of Japan's Super Rugby franchise and the first event held at the brand new stadium. (Kyodo)
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624K
Date: 2017-02-17
Title: Scope of new conspiracy bill reined in, targets fewer crimes: source
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Justice Minister Katsutoshi Kaneda attends a lower house budget committee in Tokyo on Feb. 17, 2017. The Japanese government, aiming to pass a contentious terrorism conspiracy bill, has whittled down the number of crimes punishable to less than half of the 676 proposed previously. (Kyodo)
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533K
Date: 2017-02-17
Title: Scope of new conspiracy bill reined in, targets fewer crimes: source
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Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga attends a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 17, 2017. On a contentious terrorism conspiracy bill which may apply to civic groups, Suga said, "We can't protect the public's safety or peace of mind if we don't make (the bill) applicable to groups that have turned into those that commit crimes." (Kyodo)
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619K
Date: 2017-02-17
Title: Temperature exceeds 20 C in Tokyo
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A woman walks in Tokyo's Marunouchi business district amid strong winds on Feb. 17, 2017, as the temperature exceeds 20 C in the capital. (Kyodo)
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487K
Date: 2017-02-17
Title: Temperature exceeds 20 C in Tokyo
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The center of Tokyo appears blurred in this photograph taken from a Kyodo News helicopter amid strong winds on Feb. 17, 2017, as the temperature exceeds 20 C in the capital. (Kyodo)
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391K
Date: 2017-02-17
Title: Temperature exceeds 20 C in Tokyo
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Airplanes take off and land amid strong winds at a dusty Narita International Airport near Tokyo, on Feb. 17, 2017, as the temperature exceeds 20 C in the capital. (Kyodo)
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Date: 2017-02-17
Title: Former crew member of Lucky Dragon
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Matashichi Oishi, a former crew member of the fishing boat Fukuryu Maru No. 5 that was exposed to radioactive fallout from a 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test in the Pacific, stands beside the ship, also known as the Lucky Dragon, at its exhibition hall in Tokyo in April 2015. (Photo by Tatsuya Hagiwara)(Kyodo)
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45K
Date: 2017-02-17
Title: Japanese chef for ex-N. Korean leader opens restaurant in Pyongyang
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Undated photo shows a Japanese sushi chef, known by the alias Kenji Fujimoto, who worked for North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's late father for more than a decade. Fujimoto opened his own restaurant called Takahashi, in a department store in Pyongyang, people with knowledge of the matter said Feb. 17, 2017. (Kyodo)
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723K
Date: 2017-02-17
Title: Toru Funamura, composer of popular Japanese songs, dies at 84
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File photo taken in April 2015 shows Japanese singer Saburo Kitajima (L) and Toru Funamura, a celebrated composer of popular Japanese songs, at the opening ceremony for the Toru Funamura Commemorative Museum in Nikko, Tochigi Prefecture. Funamura, who composed over 5,000 songs, including hits such as "Yagiri no Watashi" (Ferry at Yagiri), died Feb. 16, 2017, aged 84, his office said. (Kyodo)
==Kyodo
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1104K
Date: 2017-02-17
Title: "Day Without Immigrants" protests staged all over U.S.
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Citizens stage "A Day Without Immigrants" rally in front of a regional government building in Washington on Feb. 16, 2017, opposing U.S. President Donald Trump's controversial immigration policies including building a U.S.-Mexico border wall. Around 200 people participated in the rally, with similar protests taking place across the nation. (Kyodo)
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