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Downpour in Osaka

OSAKA, Japan - Firefighters rescue a man from a car stranded on a road flooded due to heavy rain in Osaka, western Japan, on Aug. 18, 2012.

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1,234,567th pizza

KOBE, Japan - Takahiro Yamanaka (R), owner of pizza house Pinocchio, stands beside university professor Nobuo Nagao (C), who ordered a pizza carrying serial number 1,234,567 at the restaurant in Kobe, western Japan, on Aug. 18, 2012. The 50-year-old Italian restaurant served its 1,234,567th pizza, having served each one with a serial number since its opening in 1962.

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Goldfish in bowl

TOKYO, Japan - Some 20 children invited from Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, an area hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, view about 1,000 goldfish in a large goldfish bowl at the Art Aquarium exhibition in Tokyo's Chuo Ward on Aug. 18, 2012.

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Japanese group head to Senkaku sea area

ISHIGAKI, Japan - Fishing boats carrying a group of Japanese leave Ishigaki Island in Okinawa Prefecture on Aug. 18, 2012, for the sea area near the Japan-controlled Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea also claimed by China. The group including some Japanese lawmakers and local politicians headed to the sea area to commemorate the victims of U.S. attacks on vessels sailing around the area in 1945. The Japanese government did not allow them to land on the islands.

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Lightning in western Japan

NISHINOMIYA, Japan - Lightning flashes over Koshien Stadium in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, in western Japan, on Aug. 18, 2012. A national high school baseball tournament at the stadium was suspended due to rain.

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Lightning in western Japan

NISHINOMIYA, Japan - Photo using a fisheye lens shows lightening flashing over Koshien Stadium in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, in western Japan, on Aug. 18, 2012. A national high school baseball tournament at the stadium was suspended due to rain.

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Construction of new shinkansen route

NAGASAKI, Japan - Japanese transport minister Yuichiro Hata (2nd from R) takes part in a rite to wish for safe construction during a groundbreaking ceremony in Nagasaki on Aug. 18, 2012, as construction of a new shinkansen bullet train route started in Nagasaki Prefecture.

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School baseball club member arrested for robbery

UTSUNOMIYA, Japan - Sakushin Gakuin High School principal Katsuhiko Hasegawa (R) bows during a press conference in Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture, on Aug. 18, 2012. The school and police said a member of the school's baseball club has been arrested on suspicion of assaulting and robbing a girl the previous week.

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Vacationers return home

NARITA, Japan - Narita International Airport near Tokyo is crowded on Aug. 18, 2012, with travelers returning home from summer holidays overseas.