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Airport Fire burning in Orange and Riverside Counties, Southern California has grown to more than 23,000 acres as of Wednesday morning, September 11. The fire injured at least seven people and destroyed homes.

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Rakuten buying U.S. shopping portal Ebates

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroshi Mikitani (L), chief executive officer of Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten Inc., and Kevin Johnson, CEO of U.S. cash-back shopping portal Ebates Inc., pose for photos during a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 9, 2014. Rakuten said it is buying the San Francisco-based firm in October for about $1 billion or 105 billion yen to strengthen its international operations.

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Dollar at upper 105 yen in early Tokyo deals

TOKYO, Japan - A bulletin board in Gaitame.Com Co. shows the U.S. dollar trading at an almost six-year high against the yen on Sept. 5, 2014. The dollar's gain came on the back of the view that a rosy U.S. economic outlook would cause U.S. long-term interest rates to rise, widening the gap with rates in Japan.

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Dollar at upper 105 yen in early Tokyo deals

TOKYO, Japan - A bulletin board in Tokyo, Japan, shows the U.S. dollar trading at an almost six-year high against the yen on Sept. 5, 2014. The dollar's gain came on the back of the view that a rosy U.S. economic outlook would cause U.S. long-term interest rates to rise, widening the gap with rates in Japan.

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Rakuten Eagles pitcher Tanaka receives 105 million yen pay raise

SENDAI, Japan - Rakuten Eagles right-hander Masahiro Tanaka looks pleased during a press conference in Sendai on Dec. 25, 2009, after re-signing with the Pacific League baseball club for an annual salary of 180 million yen plus performance bonuses. Tanaka received a whopping 105 million yen pay raise following a career-best 15-6 season with one save and a 2.33 ERA in 25 games.

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Rakuten Eagles pitcher Tanaka receives 105 million yen pay raise

SENDAI, Japan - Rakuten Eagles right-hander Masahiro Tanaka let off a firecracker during a press conference in Sendai on Dec. 25, 2009, after re-signing with the Pacific League baseball club for an annual salary of 180 million yen plus performance bonuses. Tanaka received a whopping 105 million yen pay raise following a career-best 15-6 season with one save and a 2.33 ERA in 25 games.

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Cosmetics firms battle it out in superpremium market segment

TOKYO, Japan - A woman tries Noevir's high-end Speciale facial cream, which sells for 105,000 yen per 50 grams, at Noevir's head office in Ginza in Tokyo's Chuo Ward.

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Fish-cake cooking oil converted to bio-diesel fuel in Miyagi

SENDAI, Japan - The city of Shiogama, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan's largest fish-cake processing base, has been producing bio-diesel from cooking oil disposed by fish-cake makers in the city, selling the product at 105 yen per liter, substantially cheaper than ordinary diesel sold at gas filling stations. Each year, fish-cake makers in Shiogama dispose of more than 500,000 liters of used cooking oil, which had been sold to outside dealers for use as fat in pet food or as ink solvent. The city started converting used cooking oil to bio-diesel in November 2006 with subsidies from the Ministry of Environment. The photo shows an employee at the bio-diesel fuel station in Shiogama filling up a diesel truck.

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Dollar falls to 45-month low in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - The price board at a Tokyo foreign exchange dealer shows the U.S. dollar fell below 105 yen to hit a 45-month low during morning deals on March 31.

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Olympus, Riso Kagaku develop world's fastest color printer

TOKYO, Japan - Olympus Corp. and Riso Kagaku Corp. said Oct. 14 they have jointly developed what they call the world's fastest color printer (in photo) capable of printing 105 sheets per minute. The two firms said they will put the new printer, code-named the Orphis HC5000, on the market on Dec. 9. The printer targeting corporate customers will sell for 3.37 million yen per unit.

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UFJ starts charging fees for ATM use on Saturdays

TOKYO, Japan - As the first such move by a major Japanese bank, UFJ Bank on Dec. 7 bigins charging 105 yen as fees for each transaction at its automated teller machines all day Saturdays. The bank already charges ATM usage fees on Sundays and national holidays. Until now, ATM transactions between 8:45 a.m. and 2 p.m. Saturdays were free.

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Suzuki Motor unveils cheapest 50 cc scooter

TOKYO, Japan - Suzuki Motor Corp. introduced a restyled version of the ''Let's II Standard'' 50 cc scooter (in handout photo) on Oct. 15. The suggested retail price for the new scooter is 105,000 yen, but industry officials said retailers are likely to sell it around the 90,000 yen level to enable it to compete with Honda Motor Co.'s product in the same price range. Suzuki officials said it is the cheapest of all scooters assembled in Japan.

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Luxury passenger boat sets sail from Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - The 26,518-ton Japanese luxury passenger boat Pacific Venus sails past the Rainbow Bridge in Tokyo Bay on March 15 on a 105-day round-the-world voyage that will take her passengers to 23 ports in 19 nations. The 60,500-kilometer-long tour costs an average passenger 4 million yen and the occupant of the ''Royal Suite Room'' 18 million yen.

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Daiei slugger Kokubo gets hefty pay raise

FUKUOKA, Japan - Daiei Hawks infielder Hiroki Kokubo swings his bat at a news conference Dec. 27 after accepting an offer of a 180 million yen annual salary to double his pay for this year. With the signing of the new one-year deal, Kokubo, who hit 31 homers and drove in 105 RBIs in the 2000 season, joined catcher Kenji Jojima as the most expensive players at the Fukuoka club.

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Obuchi worried about stronger yen

TOKYO, Japan - The U.S. dollar falls below 105 yen in early trading on the Tokyo currency market Sept. 16, prompting Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi to express strong concern over negative impact a stronger yen could have on Japan's economic recovery. The dollar briefly sank to 103.63 yen in New York on Sept. 15, touching the 103 yen level there for the first time since April 1996.

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Fish-cake cooking oil converted to bio-diesel fuel in Miyagi

SENDAI, Japan - The city of Shiogama, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan's largest fish-cake processing base, has been producing bio-diesel from cooking oil disposed by fish-cake makers in the city, selling the product at 105 yen per liter, substantially cheaper than ordinary diesel sold at gas filling stations. Each year, fish-cake makers in Shiogama dispose of more than 500,000 liters of used cooking oil, which had been sold to outside dealers for use as fat in pet food or as ink solvent. The city started converting used cooking oil to bio-diesel in November 2006 with subsidies from the Ministry of Environment. The photo shows an employee at the bio-diesel fuel station in Shiogama filling up a diesel truck. (Kyodo)

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Sharp cuts profit estimate on slack cellphone handset sales

OSAKA, Japan - Sharp Corp. Vice President Toshishige Hamano speaks during a news conference at a hotel in Osaka on Oct. 6. He said the company has revised downward its group net profit forecast for the current 2008 business year to 60 billion yen from an initial estimate of 105 billion yen due to sluggish sales of cellphone handsets. (Kyodo)

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Olympus, Riso Kagaku develop world's fastest color printer

TOKYO, Japan - Olympus Corp. and Riso Kagaku Corp. said Oct. 14 they have jointly developed what they call the world's fastest color printer (in photo) capable of printing 105 sheets per minute. The two firms said they will put the new printer, code-named the Orphis HC5000, on the market on Dec. 9. The printer targeting corporate customers will sell for 3.37 million yen per unit. (Kyodo)

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Dollar tumbles below 105 yen in Tokyo

A financial data screen shows the U.S. dollar sliding below 105 yen in Tokyo shortly after the Bank of Japan decided to maintain its monetary policy settings on June 16, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan to "respond steadily" to stem yen's rapid moves: Aso

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (C), Nobuteru Ishihara (L), minister in charge of economic revitalization, and Finance Minister Taro Aso attend a Cabinet meeting in Tokyo on June 14, 2016. After the meeting, Aso said to reporters that the government will "respond steadily" if necessary to stem the yen's rapid moves after the U.S. dollar slid to a one-month low in the upper 105 yen range the previous day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Rakuten buying U.S. shopping portal Ebates

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroshi Mikitani (L), chief executive officer of Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten Inc., and Kevin Johnson, CEO of U.S. cash-back shopping portal Ebates Inc., pose for photos during a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 9, 2014. Rakuten said it is buying the San Francisco-based firm in October for about $1 billion or 105 billion yen to strengthen its international operations. (Kyodo)

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Dollar at upper 105 yen in early Tokyo deals

TOKYO, Japan - A bulletin board in Tokyo, Japan, shows the U.S. dollar trading at an almost six-year high against the yen on Sept. 5, 2014. The dollar's gain came on the back of the view that a rosy U.S. economic outlook would cause U.S. long-term interest rates to rise, widening the gap with rates in Japan. (Kyodo)

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Nikkei, foreign exchange rate

A finance monitor shows the 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average plunging more than 600 points and the U.S. dollar falling to the upper 105 yen level on March 6, 2020, in Tokyo. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Budget requests for fiscal 2020

Photo taken Aug. 30, 2019, shows Japan's Finance Ministry in Tokyo. The ministry stopped the same day accepting budget requests for fiscal 2020 from other government ministries and agencies, with their total reaching a record 105 trillion yen. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nikkei suffers sharp drop

A stock price board on a Tokyo street shows the key Nikkei index plunging over 600 points and the yen quoted in the 105 range against dollar in the morning on March 2 in Tokyo, Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Rakuten Eagles pitcher Tanaka receives 105 million yen pay raise

SENDAI, Japan - Rakuten Eagles right-hander Masahiro Tanaka looks pleased during a press conference in Sendai on Dec. 25, 2009, after re-signing with the Pacific League baseball club for an annual salary of 180 million yen plus performance bonuses. Tanaka received a whopping 105 million yen pay raise following a career-best 15-6 season with one save and a 2.33 ERA in 25 games. (Kyodo)

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Rakuten Eagles pitcher Tanaka receives 105 million yen pay raise

SENDAI, Japan - Rakuten Eagles right-hander Masahiro Tanaka let off a firecracker during a press conference in Sendai on Dec. 25, 2009, after re-signing with the Pacific League baseball club for an annual salary of 180 million yen plus performance bonuses. Tanaka received a whopping 105 million yen pay raise following a career-best 15-6 season with one save and a 2.33 ERA in 25 games. (Kyodo)

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Dollar falls to 45-month low in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - The price board at a Tokyo foreign exchange dealer shows the U.S. dollar fell below 105 yen to hit a 45-month low during morning deals on March 31. (Kyodo)

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UFJ starts charging fees for ATM use on Saturdays

TOKYO, Japan - As the first such move by a major Japanese bank, UFJ Bank on Dec. 7 bigins charging 105 yen as fees for each transaction at its automated teller machines all day Saturdays. The bank already charges ATM usage fees on Sundays and national holidays. Until now, ATM transactions between 8:45 a.m. and 2 p.m. Saturdays were free. (Kyodo)

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Luxury passenger boat sets sail from Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - The 26,518-ton Japanese luxury passenger boat Pacific Venus sails past the Rainbow Bridge in Tokyo Bay on March 15 on a 105-day round-the-world voyage that will take her passengers to 23 ports in 19 nations. The 60,500-kilometer-long tour costs an average passenger 4 million yen and the occupant of the ''Royal Suite Room'' 18 million yen.

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Daiei slugger Kokubo gets hefty pay raise

FUKUOKA, Japan - Daiei Hawks infielder Hiroki Kokubo swings his bat at a news conference Dec. 27 after accepting an offer of a 180 million yen annual salary to double his pay for this year. With the signing of the new one-year deal, Kokubo, who hit 31 homers and drove in 105 RBIs in the 2000 season, joined catcher Kenji Jojima as the most expensive players at the Fukuoka club.

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Obuchi worried about stronger yen

TOKYO, Japan - The U.S. dollar falls below 105 yen in early trading on the Tokyo currency market Sept. 16, prompting Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi to express strong concern over negative impact a stronger yen could have on Japan's economic recovery. The dollar briefly sank to 103.63 yen in New York on Sept. 15, touching the 103 yen level there for the first time since April 1996.