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Size:
1302K
Date: 2018-07-21
Title: Basketball: Japan's Watanabe
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Yuta Watanabe of the Brooklyn Nets makes a free throw during a match against the Indiana Pacers in Las Vegas on July 13, 2018. (Kyodo)
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Size:
1472K
Date: 2018-07-21
Title: World's 1st Paddington Bear-themed park opens near Tokyo
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Photo taken on July 21, 2018, shows Paddington Town, the world's first amusement park themed on Britain's popular Paddington Bear character, which opened on the same day in Sagamihara, near Tokyo. (Kyodo)
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Size:
877K
Date: 2018-07-21
Title: WWII flags
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Photo taken June 25, 2018 in Astoria, Oregon shows Obon Society founders Keiko Ziak (R) and her husband Rex examining a Yosegaki Hinomaru flag sent to the organization from an American family. The nonprofit venture, which returns these WWII-era souvenirs collected by Allied Forces from Japanese soldiers who died in battle to surviving relatives, receives around four to five flags per day. (Kyodo)
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Size:
594K
Date: 2018-07-21
Title: WWII flags
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Obon Society co-founder Rex Ziak explains during a luncheon in Santa Barbara, California, (on May 14, 2018) how the organization's scholars analyze Yosegaki Hinomaru -- WWII-era "good luck flags" collected by Allied Forces from Japanese soldiers who died in battle - to determine the flag's origins. The nonprofit organization is searching for surviving families of original owners of around 900 such flags and has returned more than 200 flags since its founding in 2009. (Kyodo)
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Size:
890K
Date: 2018-07-21
Title: WWII flags
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Photo taken June 25, 2018, shows a visitor to the Columbia River Maritime Museum in Astoria, Oregon, viewing Obon Society's exhibit of more than a dozen Yosegaki Hinomaru flags. Such "good luck flags" signed by friends and family that Japanese soldiers had brought to World War II battlefields were often collected by Allied Forces as keepsakes. (Kyodo)
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Size:
556K
Date: 2018-07-21
Title: U.N. meeting on N. Korea
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U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (R) and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley meet the press at the United Nations in New York on July 20, 2018. (Kyodo)
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Size:
754K
Date: 2018-07-21
Title: U.N. meeting on N. Korea
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U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (C), along with South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung Wha (R) and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, attend a briefing at the United Nations in New York on July 20, 2018. (Pool photo) (Kyodo)
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Size:
748K
Date: 2018-07-21
Title: Olympics: World gymnastics chief Watanabe
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International Gymnastics Federation President Morinari Watanabe meets the press at Beijing international airport on July 14, 2018, after visiting North Korea. He is in line to become one of nine new International Olympic Committee members. (Kyodo)
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Size:
842K
Date: 2018-07-20
Title: China-North Korea bridge
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Photo taken in June 2018 shows a part of a new bridge over the Yalu River between the Chinese border city of Dandong, Liaoning Province, and the North Korean county of Ryongchon. (Kyodo)
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Size:
1035K
Date: 2018-07-20
Title: China-North Korea bridge
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Photo taken in June 2018 shows a part of a new bridge over the Yalu River between the Chinese border city of Dandong, Liaoning Province, and the North Korean county of Ryongchon. (Kyodo)
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Size:
1267K
Date: 2018-07-20
Title: Murakami novel given indecent rating
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Photo taken July 20, 2018 in Hong Kong shows a copy of Haruki Murakami's novel "Killing Commendatore" with a sticker which warns the book must not to be sold to people under age 18. (Kyodo)
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Size:
1379K
Date: 2018-07-20
Title: Rain disaster damage
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Photo shows ruined greenhouses in Hiroshima on July 13, 2018, after the area was hit hard by torrential rain. (Kyodo)
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Size:
1512K
Date: 2018-07-20
Title: Rain disaster damage
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A man gestures to show the level reached by floodwater near a rice paddy covered with garbage in Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture, on July 12, 2018, after torrential rain hit the western Japan area. (Kyodo)
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Size:
280K
Date: 2018-07-20
Title: Japan Prime Minister Abe
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrives at his office in Tokyo on July 20, 2018. (Kyodo)
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Size:
675K
Date: 2018-07-20
Title: Tokyo Olympic tickets
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Organizers of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics explain prices and other details about tickets for the Games in Tokyo on July 20, 2018. (Kyodo)
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