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Uzbek translates novel to keep friends with Japan

TSUKUBA, Japan - Photo taken Aug. 13, 2013 shows Aminova Nodira, an Uzbek who studied in Japan, holding a monthly Uzbek magazine carrying her translation of "Kokoro," a Japanese novel by Meiji era novelist Natsume Soseki, at the University of Tsukuba campus in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture.

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World athletics championships

MOSCOW, Russia - Mohammed Aman of Ethiopia finishes first in the men's 800 meters final at the world athletics championships in Moscow on Aug. 13, 2013. Aman won the gold medal in 1:43.31.

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World athletics championships

MOSCOW, Russia - Russia's Elena Isinbaeva raises her fists facing spectators after winning the women's pole vault at the world athletics championships in Moscow on Aug. 13, 2013.

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World athletics championships

MOSCOW, Russia - Russia's Elena Isinbaeva holds the Russian national flag after winning the women's pole vault at the world athletics championships in Moscow on Aug. 13, 2013.

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World athletics championships

MOSCOW, Russia - Russia's Elena Isinbaeva celebrates her victory in the women's pole vault at the world athletics championships in Moscow on Aug. 13, 2013. Isinbaeva won the gold medal, clearing 4.89 meters.

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World athletics championships

MOSCOW, Russia - Russia's Elena Isinbaeva holds the Russian national flag after winning the women's pole vault at the world athletics championships in Moscow on Aug. 13, 2013.

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Egyptian sumo wrestler visits home

CAIRO, Egypt - Egyptian sumo wrestler Osunaarashi (C), whose real name is Abdelrahman Ahmed Shaalan, is welcomed when he held a lecture in Cairo on Aug. 13, 2013. The first sekitori from Africa has been praised in Japan for compiling a winning record in the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament in July while fasting from dawn to dusk on the days the tournament overlapped with Ramadan, the Islamic month of fasting.

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World athletics championships

MOSCOW, Russia - Russia's Elena Isinbaeva competes in the women's pole vault final at the world athletics championships in Moscow on Aug. 13, 2013. Isinbaeva won the gold medal, clearing 4.89 meters.

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World athletics championships

MOSCOW, Russia - Ganna Melnichenko of Ukraine (3rd from R) runs in the 800 meters of the women's heptathlon at the world athletics championships in Moscow on Aug. 13, 2013. Melnichenko won the gold medal with 6,586 points.

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Egyptian sumo wrestler visits home

CAIRO, Egypt - Egyptian sumo wrestler Osunaarashi (L), whose real name is Abdelrahman Ahmed Shaalan, holds a lecture in Cairo on Aug. 13, 2013. The first sekitori from Africa has been praised in Japan for compiling a winning record in the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament in July while fasting from dawn to dusk on the days the tournament overlapped with Ramadan, the Islamic month of fasting.

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World athletics championships

MOSCOW, Russia - LaShawn Merritt of the United States celebrates with the U.S. national flag after winning the men's 400 meters with a time of 43.74 seconds at the world athletics championships in Moscow on Aug. 13, 2013.

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World athletics championships

MOSCOW, Russia - Ganna Melnichenko of Ukraine celebrates after winning gold in the women's heptathlon at the world athletics championships in Moscow on Aug. 13, 2013. Melnichenko finished with 6,586 points.

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World athletics championships

MOSCOW, Russia - Mohammed Aman of Ethiopia adopts the Muslim prayer position after winning the men's 800 meters at the world athletics championships in Moscow on Aug. 13, 2013. Aman won the gold medal in 1:43.31.

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World athletics championships

MOSCOW, Russia - Kenya's Milcah Chemos Cheywa finishes first in the women's 3,000-meter steeplechase at the world athletics championships in Moscow on Aug. 13, 2013. Cheywa won the gold medal in 9:11.65.

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World athletics championships

MOSCOW, Russia - Robert Harting of Germany celebrates with the German national flag after winning the men's discus at the world athletics championships in Moscow on Aug. 13, 2013. Harting won the gold medal with a throw of 69.11 meters.

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World athletics championships

MOSCOW, Russia - Kenya's Milcah Chemos Cheywa competes in the women's 3,000-meter steeplechase at the world athletics championships in Moscow on Aug. 13, 2013. Cheywa won the gold medal in 9:11.65.

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World athletics championships

MOSCOW, Russia - LaShawn Merritt of the United States runs in the men's 400 meters final at the world athletics championships in Moscow on Aug. 13, 2013. Merritt won the gold medal with a time of 43.74 seconds.

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World athletics championships

MOSCOW, Russia - LaShawn Merritt of the United States celebrates with the U.S. national flag after winning the men's 400 meters with a time of 43.74 seconds at the world athletics championships in Moscow on Aug. 13, 2013.

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Sit-in by supporters of Morsi

NASR CITY, Egypt - A supporter of ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, wearing a gas mark around his neck, stands guard at a site where pro-Morsi protesters continue a sit-in demonstration in the Nasr City district of Cairo, Egypt, on Aug. 13, 2013.

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Sit-in by supporters of Morsi

NASR CITY, Egypt - Photo shows a makeshift hospital set up at a site where supporters of ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi continue their sit-in protest in the Nasr City district of Cairo, Egypt, on Aug. 13, 2013.

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Sit-in by supporters of Morsi

NASR CITY, Egypt - Supporters of ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi reinforce a barricade at a site where pro-Morsi protesters continue a sit-in demonstration in a suburban area of Cairo, Egypt, on Aug. 13, 2013.

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World athletics championships

MOSCOW, Russia - Russia's Elena Isinbaeva celebrates after clearing 4.89 meters during the women's pole vault final at the world athletics championships in Moscow on Aug. 13, 2013. Isinbaeva won the gold medal.

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World athletics championships

MOSCOW, Russia - Russia's Elena Isinbaeva clears 4.89 meters during the women's pole vault final at the world athletics championships in Moscow on Aug. 13, 2013. Isinbaeva won the gold medal, clearing 4.89 meters.

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World athletics championships

MOSCOW, Russia - Russia's Elena Isinbaeva clears 4.82 meters during the women's pole vault final at the world athletics championships in Moscow on Aug. 13, 2013. Isinbaeva won the gold medal, clearing 4.89 meters.

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Cartoonists' graffiti

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows graffiti drawn by popular cartoonists on the wall of the reception lobby of Shogakukan Inc. building in Tokyo on Aug. 13, 2013. The building will be demolished for rebuilding.

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World athletics championships

MOSCOW, Russia - Russia's Elena Isinbaeva celebrates after clearing 4.89 meters during the women's pole vault final at the world athletics championships in Moscow on Aug. 13, 2013. Isinbaeva won the gold medal.

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Lantern festival

KAMAISHI, Japan - People pass colorful lanterns at a Zen Buddhist temple in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Aug. 13, 2013. The lanterns were lit in the "mantokuyo" event to commemorate the dead, particularly ancestors and victims of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami.

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World athletics championships

MOSCOW, Russia - Robert Harting of Germany throws the discus during the men's final at the world athletics championships in Moscow on Aug. 13, 2013. Harting won the gold medal with a throw of 69.11 meters.

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Lantern festival

KAMAISHI, Japan - Women stand among colorful lanterns at a Zen Buddhist temple in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Aug. 13, 2013. The lanterns were lit in the "mantokuyo" event to commemorate the dead, particularly ancestors and victims of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami.

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Protesting Ospreys

GINOWAN, Japan - Demonstrators hold "NO!" signs as they march in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, on Aug. 13, 2013. They protested the deployment of Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft at the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station in Ginowan during the rally marking the ninth anniversary of the crash of a Marines helicopter at a local university campus.

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Oliver Stone in Okinawa

GINOWAN, Japan - U.S. film director Oliver Stone views the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station (back) in Okinawa Prefecture on Aug. 13, 2013.

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Oliver Stone in Okinawa

GINOWAN, Japan - U.S. film director Oliver Stone views the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station (back) in Okinawa Prefecture on Aug. 13, 2013.

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World athletics championships

MOSCOW, Russia - Elena Lashmanova of Russia holds the Russian national flag after winning gold in the women's 20-kilometers walk of the world athletics championships in Moscow on Aug. 13, 2013.

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World athletics championships

MOSCOW, Russia - Elena Lashmanova (L) and Anisya Kirdyapkina, both of Russia, compete in the women's 20-kilometers walk of the world athletics championships in Moscow on Aug. 13, 2013. Lashmanova won gold and Kirdyapkina got silver.

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Monsters dumplings

TOKYO, Japan - A woman holds dumplings featuring characters from the Pixer animation film "Monsters University" at a FamilyMart Co. store in Tokyo's Ikebukuro area as the convenience store chain began selling the products on Aug. 13, 2013.

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Heat wave in Japan

KOCHI, Japan - Men jump into the Shimanto River in Shimanto, Kochi Prefecture, on Aug. 13, 2013. Temperatures in the city reached 40 C for the fourth day in a row as a severe heat wave continued to engulf wide areas of Japan.

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Heat wave in Japan

KOCHI, Japan - A child touches an ice pillar at Tosa Kuroshio Railway Co.'s Nakamura Station in Shimanto, Kochi Prefecture, on Aug. 13, 2013. Temperatures in the city reached 40 C for the fourth day in a row as a severe heat wave continued to engulf wide areas of Japan.

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Jetstar marks 2 million passengers

NARITA, Japan - Budget airline operator Jetstar Japan Co. holds a commemorative ceremony at Narita International Airport near Tokyo on Aug. 13, 2013, after crossing the threshold of having carried 2 million passengers since its inauguration in July 2012. At right is Jetstar President Miyuki Suzuki.

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Heat wave in Japan

KYOTO, Japan - Photo shows passers-by on a bridge under the scorching sun in Yawata, Kyoto Prefecture, on Aug. 13, 2013. A severe heat wave continued to engulf wide areas of Japan.

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Mine destroyed under sea

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - Photo taken Aug. 13, 2013, shows water spouting from the sea as the Maritime Self-Defense Force disposed of a mine in the Kammon Straits off Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture. The mine, found buried in the seabed off Shimonoseki in June, was dropped by a U.S. bomber around the end of World War II.

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Summer meteor shower

FUJI, Japan - Photo taken at 1:46 a.m. on Aug. 13, 2013, shows a shooting star of Perseid Meteor Shower (movement is from bottom to top) as seen from Mt. Fuji in the city of Fuji, Shizuoka Prefecture.