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Kobe Marathon

Runners start in the Kobe Marathon in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, on Nov. 17, 2024. About 20,000 people took part in the event, held under the theme "thanks and friendship" as the western Japan city soon marks the 30th anniversary of the January 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake.

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Kobe Marathon

Runners start in the Kobe Marathon in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, on Nov. 17, 2024. About 20,000 people took part in the event, held under the theme "thanks and friendship" as the western Japan city soon marks the 30th anniversary of the January 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake.

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Grape-picking in season at Kyoho grape farms in Wakayama

KAINAN, Japan - Grape-picking is now in season at Arida Kyoho Village, a farming co-operative in Aridagawa, Wakayama Prefecture organized by 28 grape farmers who grow mostly Kyoho grapes on 20 hectares of hilly grape farms. The grape-picking season for tourists begins on Aug. 19 and lasts through late September. According to Arida co-op officials, good weather this year has made Kyoho grapes sweeter. About 20,000 people visit the grape farms each year to pick Kyoho grapes.

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Sumida River fireworks festival in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Fireworks explode over the Sumida River in Tokyo on July 26, 2014, at the annual fireworks festival. Organizers said about 965,000 people enjoyed the event, in which some 20,000 fireworks were set off. At right is the lit-up 634-meter tall Tokyo Skytree.

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Sumida River fireworks festival in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Fireworks explode over the Sumida River in Tokyo on July 26, 2014, at the annual fireworks festival. Organizers said about 965,000 people enjoyed the event, in which some 20,000 fireworks were set off. At right is the lit-up 634-meter tall Tokyo Skytree.

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Mt. Fuji draws 246,616 climbers

KOFU, Japan - Photo shows climbers on Mt. Fuji in July 2012. A municipal government in Yamanashi said on Sept. 1, 2012, that the mountain drew 246,616 climbers during July and August, up about 20,000 from the previous year due mainly to fine weather.

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Candles lit for people of Fukushima

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Parents and children enjoy the beauty of candle light at Fukushima Race Course in the city of Fukushima on Aug. 25, 2012. About 20,000 candles were lit, with messages of encouragement written on their holders by people from throughout Japan, during an event to encourage the people of Fukushima Prefecture, who are still suffering from the damage wrecked by the nuclear crisis following the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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Candles lit for people of Fukushima

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Children enjoy the beauty of candle light at Fukushima Race Course in the city of Fukushima on Aug. 25, 2012. About 20,000 candles were lit, with messages of encouragement written on their holders by people from throughout Japan, during an event to encourage the people of Fukushima Prefecture, who are still suffering from the damage wrecked by the nuclear crisis following the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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Commemorating war dead on Iwoto Island

TOKYO, Japan - Kin of soldiers who perished in World War II look down at the landscape of Iwoto Island from Mt. Suribachi on Jan. 25, 2012. About 50 people attended an annual ceremony held the same day by the Tokyo metropolitan government on the island to commemorate the war dead. About 20,000 Japanese soldiers died in the WWII battle on the Pacific island about 1,200 kilometers south of central Tokyo. (Pool photo)

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Anti-nuclear power rally in Germany

DANNENBERG, Germany - About 20,000 people gather at an anti-nuclear power rally in Dannenberg, northern Germany, on Nov. 26, 2011. The demonstrators are against the transportation of nuclear waste from France to a facility in Gorleben, near Dannenberg.

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Protests, celebrations mark H.K. handover anniversary

HONG KONG, Hong Kong - People march through Hong Kong on July 1, 2010, to mark the 13th anniversary of Hong Kong's handover to China. About 52,000 people -- a figure the police put at 20,000 -- took part in the annual march to call for democracy and a series of social measures.

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Japanese comedian sets out on around-the-world run-and-sail trek

OSAKA, Japan - Japanese comedian Kampei Hazama exchanges high-fives with his fans at the Nanba Grand Kagetu theater in Osaka on Dec. 17 as he sets off on a trip around the world combining marathon running and yachting aiming to cover 20,000 kilometers on land and 16,000 km at sea over a period of about two-and-a-half years. Updates on the journey, which is scheduled to take the 59-year-old comedian to the Atlantic Ocean, Europe and Asia before he returns to Japan, will be posted regularly on the Internet, organizers of the ''Earth Marathon'' event said.

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Matsushita cord phone set receives incoming fax on screen

OSAKA, Japan - Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. has released a cordless phone set that receives a fax on the screen, instead of printing out, with no fax sending capabilities. The fax data, as well as voice recordings, can be stored in the machine's internal memory or in an SD memory card. The machine, Otakkusu Junior VE-GP62DL, retails for about 20,000 yen.

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Shoppers jostle for New Year 'lucky bags' at department stores

TOKYO, Japan - Shoppers jostle for New Year ''lucky bags'' on sale on the first business day of the year at a department store in Tokyo's Nihombashi district on Jan. 2. About 5,000 people lined up at the Mitsukoshi Nihombashi store, which offered heavily-discounted ''lucky bags'' for 10,500 yen, while about 20,000 people waited outside the Ikebukuro main store of Seibu Department Stores before it opened for business. The New Year ''lucky bags'' usually contain merchandise sold normally at a much higher price.

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Over 200,000 attend Rengo's May Day rallies across Japan

TOKYO, Japan - About 20,000 people attend the main May Day rally held under the auspices of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation (Rengo) at Tokyo's Yoyogi Park on April 29. More than 200,000 people took part in May Day rallies in 37 prefectures.

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(2)Japanese jailed for helping N. Koreans released, leaves China

NARITA, Japan - Takashi Noguchi (L) is welcomed by his mother Sumi at Narita airport, northeast of Tokyo, on Aug. 9 after arriving from the Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport in China. Earlier in the day, Noguchi was released from a prison in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in China. Noguchi was sentenced to eight months in prison and fined 20,000 yuan (about 260,000 yen) on June 28 for helping North Koreans who entered China go to a third country.

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Japanese jailed for helping N. Koreans released, leaves China

GUANGZHOU, China - Takashi Noguchi waits at the Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport for a flight to Japan on Aug. 9 after being released from a prison in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Noguchi, a member of a Japanese nongovernmental organization, was sentenced by the Intermediate People's Court of Chongzuo to eight months in prison and fined 20,000 yuan (about 260,000 yen) on June 28 for helping North Koreans who entered China go to a third country.

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Japanese gets prison term for aiding N. Korean refugees

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroshi Kato, secretary general of the Japanese nongovernmental organization Life Funds for North Korea Refugees, speaks in Tokyo on June 28 about a sentence handed down to Takayuki Noguchi, a member of the NGO, by a Chinese court. The court sentenced Noguchi to eight months in prison and fined him 20,000 yuan (about 260,000 yen) for helping North Koreans who entered China go to a third country.

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Sony planning to cut 20,000 jobs

TOKYO, Japan - Sony Corp. Chairman Nobuyuki Idei announces in Tokyo on Oct. 28 a business reform plan centering on the establishment of a new financial holding company and a workforce cut of about 20,000 in the group.

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Cambodia introduces 1st police 'koban'

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - Two Japanese police officers (L) lecture Cambodian policemen on how to use Cambodia's first Japanese-style police box, or ''koban,'' completed in Phnom Penh on Dec. 12. The koban, built at a cost of about $20,000, was donated by Masahiro Yokota, president of a toys and dolls museum in Ikaho, a hot spring resort in central Japan's Gunma Prefecture. The community-friendly koban have caught the attention of other countries, with Singapore and San Paulo, Brazil, already introducing the system.

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900,000 spectators view Tokyo's Sumida River fireworks

TOKYO, Japan - An estimated 900,000 spectators turned out July 28 to watch about 20,000 fireworks go off at an annual Sumida River fireworks show. Some 10,000 policemen and guards patrolled streets and riverbanks in Taito and Sumida wards to prevent a recurrence of the fatal stampede that occurred in Akashi, Hyogo Prefecture a week ago, leaving 11 people dead and injuring more than 120.

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Acehnese gather in support of independence referendum

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia - About 20,000 Acehnese stage a mass rally Nov. 11 in the capital of Indonesia's restive Aceh Province to support a referendum on its political status. ''Referendum for Aceh! Referendum for Aceh!'' the people shouted in the mass rally and prayer that took place in front of Baiturrahman Grand Mosque, the biggest mosque in Banda Aceh.

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Doll-float ceremony in Wakayama

A seasonal doll-float ceremony was held on Kada beach in Wakayama, western Japan, on March 3, the Doll's Festival day. Some 20,000 dolls were sent to the ceremony, where a service was held to drive away evil spirits by floating many dolls out to sea. About 15,000 residents and tourists gathered to watch the three small doll-carrying boats decorated with peach and rape blossoms.

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Cambodian opposition rallies against Hun Sen

About 20,000 Cambodian opposition supporters rally against national leader Hun Sen in Phnom Penh on Aug. 23, in the biggest demonstration since last month's general election. Hun Sen is seeking support of the royalist FUNCINPEC party of Prince Norodom Ranariddh to get the two-thirds majority he needs to form a government. FUNCINPEC and the Sam Rainsy Party, main organizers of the rally, have filed more than 800 complaints to the National Election Committee alleging irregularities in polling and vote counting. The committee has dismissed the complaints as ''groundless.''