Japan's 2014 newsmakers featured on battledores

Japan's 2014 newsmakers featured on battledores

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo's doll maker Kyugetsu Co. displays on Dec. 3, 2014, traditional Japanese "hagoita" battledores decorated with reliefs featuring this year's newsmakers such as red-hot tennis player Kei Nishikori, female comic duo "Nippon Erekiteru Rengo" and scientists awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.

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