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Tokyo stocks advance, key indexes hit fresh closing highs

TOKYO, Japan - A pedestrian looks up at the price board outside a brokerage house in Tokyo's Marunouchi district on April 13, as the Nikkei Stock Average soared to 12,127.82, its highest closing level since Aug. 8, 2001.

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(2)Koizumi's Yasukuni visits ruled unconstitutional

FUKUOKA, Japan - One of plaintiffs speaks at a press conference after the Fukuoka District Court ruled April 7 that Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visits to the war-related Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo are unconstitutional. The decision was handed down in a suit filed by 211 plaintiffs in the Kyushu region who claimed the premier's visit to the Shinto shrine on Aug. 13, 2001, violated the constitutional separation of state and religion.

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(2)Takuma sentenced to death for school mass murder

OSAKA, Japan - Ikeda Elementary School pupils go to school in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, on Aug. 28, shortly before Mamoru Takuma was sentenced to death for murdering eight children and injuring 13 others and two teachers in a stabbing rampage at the school in June 2001.

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(3)Koizumi makes surprise visit to Yasukuni Shrine

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi meets reporters at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on April 21 after offering prayers to Japanese war dead, including 14 Class-A war criminals, enshrined there. Koizumi said he will not go to the shrine again in August. His visit to the shrine on Aug. 13, 2001, two days before the 56th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II, drew strong protests from neighboring countries such as China and South Korea.

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(3)Koizumi makes surprise visit to Yasukuni Shrine

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi meets reporters at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on April 21 after offering prayers to Japanese war dead, including 14 Class-A war criminals, enshrined there. Koizumi said he will not go to the shrine again in August. His visit to the shrine on Aug. 13, 2001, two days before the 56th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II, drew strong protests from neighboring countries such as China and South Korea.

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(2)Koizumi's Yasukuni visits ruled unconstitutional

FUKUOKA, Japan - One of plaintiffs speaks at a press conference after the Fukuoka District Court ruled April 7 that Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visits to the war-related Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo are unconstitutional. The decision was handed down in a suit filed by 211 plaintiffs in the Kyushu region who claimed the premier's visit to the Shinto shrine on Aug. 13, 2001, violated the constitutional separation of state and religion. (Kyodo)

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Tokyo stocks advance, key indexes hit fresh closing highs

TOKYO, Japan - A pedestrian looks up at the price board outside a brokerage house in Tokyo's Marunouchi district on April 13, as the Nikkei Stock Average soared to 12,127.82, its highest closing level since Aug. 8, 2001. (Kyodo)

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(2)Takuma sentenced to death for school mass murder

OSAKA, Japan - Ikeda Elementary School pupils go to school in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, on Aug. 28, shortly before Mamoru Takuma was sentenced to death for murdering eight children and injuring 13 others and two teachers in a stabbing rampage at the school in June 2001. (Kyodo)

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(1)Takuma sentenced to death for school mass murder

OSAKA, Japan - Mamoru Takuma (file photo) was sentenced to death on Aug. 28 for murdering eight children and injuring 13 others and two teachers in a stabbing rampage at the Ikeda Elementary School in Osaka Prefecture in June 2001. Presiding Judge Masayuki Kawaai read out the sentence in the absence of Takuma, 39, who caused a commotion and was removed from the courtroom on the judge's orders. (Kyodo)

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Obuchi vows to carry out adminis

Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi (far L) expresses his resolve Aug. 4 to carry forward administrative reform to reorganize the existing 22 government ministries and agencies into 13 entities, preferably by 2001. The photo shows Obuchi, who took office July 30, making a speech at a meeting of a group of his advisers on administrative reform, headed by Takashi Imai (far R), chairman of the Federation of Economic Organizations (Keidanren).