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[Breaking News]Nikkei stock index rises above 44,000

TOKYO, Japan, Sept. 9 Kyodo - A financial data monitor in Tokyo on Sept. 9, 2025, shows the 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average climbing above the 44,000 line for the first time. (Kyodo)

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New Year's vacationers' 'return rush' to Tokyo peaks

TOKYO, Japan - Vacationers who spent the year-end and New Year's holidays overseas return to Narita International Airport, east of Tokyo, on Jan. 3. Some 44,000 people are expected to return home the same day.

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Vigil in Kobe to mark 13th anniversary of Hanshin Earthquake

ITAMI, Japan - A woman and her two children light candles at Koyaike park in Itami, Hyogo Prefecture, on Jan. 16 as part of memorial events to mark the 13th anniversary of the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake, a magnitude 7.3 temblor which devastated the Kobe region on Jan. 17, 1995, killing 6,434 people, injuring 44,000 and flattening 105,000 houses