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New Year's Eve bell-ringing rehearsal at Kyoto temple

Monks ring a giant bell at Chion-in temple in Kyoto on Dec. 27, 2025, in a rehearsal for a bell-ringing ritual on New Year's Eve.

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New Year's Eve bell-ringing rehearsal at Kyoto temple

Monks ring a giant bell at Chion-in temple in Kyoto on Dec. 27, 2025, in a rehearsal for a bell-ringing ritual on New Year's Eve.

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Icebreaker Shirase off Japan Antarctic base

The Japanese icebreaker Shirase arrives at the closest point to Japan's Syowa Station in the Antarctic on Dec. 27, 2025. (Photo by accompanying journalist)

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Icebreaker Shirase off Japan Antarctic base

The Japanese icebreaker Shirase arrives at the closest point to Japan's Syowa Station (back, L) in the Antarctic on Dec. 27, 2025. (Photo by accompanying journalist)

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Icebreaker Shirase off Japan Antarctic base

The Japanese icebreaker Shirase arrives at the closest point to Japan's Syowa Station (back, L) in the Antarctic on Dec. 27, 2025. (Photo by accompanying journalist)

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Fatal vehicle pileup on eastern Japan expressway

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the site of a 67-vehicle pileup on the Kan-etsu Expressway in Minakami in Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Dec. 27, 2025. The pileup occurred on the evening of Dec. 26, after vehicles lost traction on the icy road surface, triggering collisions stretching over about 300 meters and leaving two people dea

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Fatal vehicle pileup on eastern Japan expressway

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the site of a 67-vehicle pileup on the Kan-etsu Expressway in Minakami in Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Dec. 27, 2025. The pileup occurred on the evening of Dec. 26, after vehicles lost traction on the icy road surface, triggering collisions stretching over about 300 meters and leaving two people dea

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Fatal vehicle pileup on eastern Japan expressway

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the site of a 67-vehicle pileup on the Kan-etsu Expressway in Minakami in Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Dec. 27, 2025. The pileup occurred on the evening of Dec. 26, after vehicles lost traction on the icy road surface, triggering collisions stretching over about 300 meters and leaving two people dea

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Fatal vehicle pileup on eastern Japan expressway

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the site of a 67-vehicle pileup on the Kan-etsu Expressway in Minakami in Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Dec. 27, 2025. The pileup occurred on the evening of Dec. 26, after vehicles lost traction on the icy road surface, triggering collisions stretching over about 300 meters and leaving two people dea

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Fatal vehicle pileup on eastern Japan expressway

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the site of a 67-vehicle pileup on the Kan-etsu Expressway in Minakami in Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Dec. 27, 2025. The pileup occurred on the evening of Dec. 26, after vehicles lost traction on the icy road surface, triggering collisions stretching over about 300 meters and leaving two people dea

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Fatal vehicle pileup on eastern Japan expressway

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the site of a 67-vehicle pileup on the Kan-etsu Expressway in Minakami in Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Dec. 27, 2025. The pileup occurred on the evening of Dec. 26, after vehicles lost traction on the icy road surface, triggering collisions stretching over about 300 meters and leaving two people dea

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Fatal vehicle pileup on eastern Japan expressway

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the site of a 67-vehicle pileup on the Kan-etsu Expressway in Minakami in Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Dec. 27, 2025. The pileup occurred on the evening of Dec. 26, after vehicles lost traction on the icy road surface, triggering collisions stretching over about 300 meters and leaving two people dea

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Fatal vehicle pileup on eastern Japan expressway

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the site of a 67-vehicle pileup on the Kan-etsu Expressway in Minakami in Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Dec. 27, 2025. The pileup occurred on the evening of Dec. 26, after vehicles lost traction on the icy road surface, triggering collisions stretching over about 300 meters and leaving two people dead.

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Year-end ritual at Nachi Falls

Priests from Kumano Nachi Taisha shrine replace a giant sacred "shimenawa" rope with a new one above Nachi Falls during a year-end ritual in Nachikatsuura, Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan, on Dec. 27, 2025.

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Year-end holiday travelers

A departure lobby for domestic flights at Haneda airport in Tokyo is crowded on Dec. 27, 2025, with people heading to their hometowns, resort areas and elsewhere for year-end and New Year holidays.

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Year-end holiday travelers

A departure lobby for domestic flights at Haneda airport in Tokyo is crowded on Dec. 27, 2025, with people heading to their hometowns, resort areas and elsewhere for year-end and New Year holidays.

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Year-end holiday travelers

A departure lobby for domestic flights at Haneda airport in Tokyo is crowded on Dec. 27, 2025, with people heading to their hometowns, resort areas and elsewhere for year-end and New Year holidays.

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Year-end holiday travelers

A departure lobby for domestic flights at Haneda airport in Tokyo is crowded on Dec. 27, 2025, with people heading to their hometowns, resort areas and elsewhere for year-end and New Year holidays.

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Pope Leo XIV in Turkey

Pope Leo XIV (R) receives guard of honor during a visit to Ankara on Nov. 27, 2025, with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan walking beside him. The pope is making a six-day visit to Turkey and Lebanon, his first overseas trip outside Italy.

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Scene in Lebanon

Buildings destroyed by Israeli military strikes remain in the border area in southern Lebanon on Nov. 27, 2025.

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Scene in Lebanon

Buildings destroyed by Israeli military strikes remain in the border area in southern Lebanon on Nov. 27, 2025.

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Scene in Lebanon

Buildings destroyed by Israeli military strikes remain in the border area in southern Lebanon on Nov. 27, 2025.

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Scene in Lebanon

Buildings destroyed by Israeli military strikes remain in Khiam, southern Lebanon, on Nov. 27, 2025.

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Scene in Lebanon

Buildings destroyed by Israeli military strikes remain in Khiam, southern Lebanon, on Nov. 27, 2025.

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Miss International pageant

Ai Nozaki of Japan poses during the 2025 Miss International Beauty Pageant in Tokyo on Nov. 27, 2025. She won the Miss Friendship special award.

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Miss International pageant

Ai Nozaki of Japan poses during the 2025 Miss International Beauty Pageant in Tokyo on Nov. 27, 2025. She won the Miss Friendship special award.

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Miss International pageant

Catalina Duque (R) of Colombia reacts after winning the 2025 Miss International Beauty Pageant in Tokyo on Nov. 27, 2025.

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Miss International pageant

Catalina Duque (R) of Colombia poses after winning the 2025 Miss International Beauty Pageant in Tokyo on Nov. 27, 2025.

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Miss International pageant

Catalina Duque of Colombia poses after winning the 2025 Miss International Beauty Pageant in Tokyo on Nov. 27, 2025.

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Miss International pageant

Catalina Duque of Colombia poses after winning the 2025 Miss International Beauty Pageant in Tokyo on Nov. 27, 2025.

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Aeon opens shopping mall in China's Changsha

Photo taken on Nov. 27, 2025, in Changsha in Hunan Province, China, shows a shopping mall that was opened by Japanese retail giant Aeon Co. the same day.

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Aeon opens shopping mall in China's Changsha

Photo taken on Nov. 27, 2025, in Changsha in Hunan Province, China, shows a supermarket at a shopping mall that was opened by Japanese retail giant Aeon Co. the same day.

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Int'l treaty panel rejects trade curbs on all eels

A panel of the Washington Convention, a treaty regulating international trade of endangered species, discusses a proposal by the European Union to put all eel species, including the Japanese eel, under global restrictions, in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, on Nov. 27, 2025. The panel overwhelmingly rejected the proposal amid calls from Japan, one of the world's largest consumers of the fish, to oppose the measure.

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Int'l treaty panel rejects trade curbs on all eels

A panel of the Washington Convention, a treaty regulating international trade of endangered species, discusses a proposal by the European Union to put all eel species, including the Japanese eel, under global restrictions, in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, on Nov. 27, 2025. The panel overwhelmingly rejected the proposal amid calls from Japan, one of the world's largest consumers of the fish, to oppose the measure.

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Int'l treaty panel rejects trade curbs on all eels

A panel of the Washington Convention, a treaty regulating international trade of endangered species, discusses a proposal by the European Union to put all eel species, including the Japanese eel, under global restrictions, in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, on Nov. 27, 2025. The panel overwhelmingly rejected the proposal amid calls from Japan, one of the world's largest consumers of the fish, to oppose the measure.

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LDP Vice President Aso

Taro Aso, vice president of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, arrives at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Nov. 27, 2025.

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LDP Vice President Aso

Taro Aso (L), vice president of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, arrives at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Nov. 27, 2025.

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LDP Vice President Aso

Taro Aso (L), vice president of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, arrives at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Nov. 27, 2025.

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Hong Kong fire

A woman bursts into tears on Nov. 27, 2025, after coming out of a center where relatives identify family members from photos, following a massive fire that broke out the previous day in a high-rise residential complex in the Tai Po district of Hong Kong, leaving at least 94 people dead and 279 unaccounted for.

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Hong Kong fire

Firefighters head to the site of a massive fire at a high-rise residential complex in the Tai Po district of Hong Kong on Nov. 27, 2025, a day after the fire broke out leaving at least 94 people dead and 279 unaccounted for.

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Hong Kong fire

A woman receives meals provided by volunteers on Nov. 27, 2025, after a massive fire broke out the previous day in a high-rise residential complex in the Tai Po district of Hong Kong, leaving at least 94 people dead and 279 unaccounted for.

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Hong Kong fire

A woman receives meals provided by volunteers on Nov. 27, 2025, after a massive fire broke out the previous day in a high-rise residential complex in the Tai Po district of Hong Kong, leaving at least 94 people dead and 279 unaccounted for.

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Hong Kong fire

People pick up clothes given as relief supplies on Nov. 27, 2025, outside of a high-rise residential complex (in background) in the Tai Po district of Hong Kong where a massive fire broke out the previous day, leaving at least 94 people dead and 279 unaccounted for.

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Hong Kong fire

Firefighters spray water at a high-rise residential complex in the Tai Po district of Hong Kong on Nov. 27, 2025, a day after a deadly fire broke out, leaving at least 94 people dead and 279 unaccounted for.

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Hong Kong fire

Firefighters prepare to tackle a massive fire at a high-rise residential complex in the Tai Po district of Hong Kong on Nov. 27, 2025, a day after the fire broke out, leaving at least 94 people dead and 279 unaccounted for.

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Hong Kong fire

A massive fire burns down bamboo scaffolding and protective mesh set up around a high-rise residential complex in the Tai Po district of Hong Kong on Nov. 27, 2025, a day after it broke out, leaving at least 94 people dead with 279 unaccounted for. Hong Kong's fire department said the mesh and foam board used for an ongoing refurbishment of exterior walls at the complex may have helped the fire to spread amid strong winds.

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Hong Kong fire

Smoke continues to rise from a high-rise residential complex in the Tai Po district of Hong Kong on Nov. 27, 2025, a day after a fire broke out, leaving at least 94 people dead and 279 unaccounted for.

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Hong Kong fire

Firefighters spray water at a high-rise residential complex in the Tai Po district of Hong Kong on Nov. 27, 2025, a day after a deadly fire broke out, leaving at least 94 people dead and 279 unaccounted for.

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Hong Kong fire

Smoke rises from a high-rise residential complex in the Tai Po district of Hong Kong on Nov. 27, 2025, a day after a fire broke out, leaving at least 94 people dead and 279 unaccounted for.

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Hong Kong fire

Firefighters continue to spray water at a high-rise residential complex in the Tai Po district of Hong Kong on Nov. 27, 2025, a day after a fire broke out, leaving at least 94 people dead and 279 unaccounted for.