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Japan: Trump Convoy Travels Through Tokyo Under Heavy Security 2

On Monday, October 27, U.S. President Trump visited Japan for the first time in six years. In central Tokyo, a motorcade believed to be carrying Trump traveled under heavy security, with some onlookers visible along the route.

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Japan: Intense Torrential Rain Causes Flash Flooding In Tokyo 3

Heavy rainfall hit the Tokyo metropolitan area on Wednesday, August 21 causing flash flooding on streets and underground. Train services were disrupted during evening rush hour due to the rain. Videos posted on social media shows water falling from ceilings like a waterfall inside stations and streets flooded like a river across the city.

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Japan: Intense Rain Hits Evening Rush Hour In Tokyo, Trains Suspended 7

Heavy rainfall hit the Tokyo metropolitan area on Wednesday, August 21 disrupting some train services during evening rush hour. Videos posted on social media shows water falling from ceilings like a waterfall inside stations and streets flooded like a river across the city.

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Judo champion Tani stumps as DPJ candidate for upper house poll

TOKYO, Japan - Two-time Olympic judo champion Ryoko Tani works the popular Azabu Juban shopping area in central Tokyo on June 24, 2010 as she makes her debut as a candidate for the House of Councillors. Official campaigning for the poll on July 11 got under way the same day.

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Pro-Seoul Korean group goes back on reconciliation with pro-Pyongyang group

TOKYO, Japan - Ha Byeong Ok, president of Mindan, the pro-Seoul Korean residents group in Japan, reads a statement during his press conference at the Mindan headquarters in Tokyo's Minami-Azabu district on July 6. Ha announced the withdrawal of a joint reconciliation statement it signed in May with Chongryon, its pro-Pyongyang counterpart, citing North Korea's missile launches as the reason.

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Man arrested over 'one-call' mobile phone scam

TOKYO, Japan - Police have arrested a man on suspicion of duping mobile phone owners by calling them without making a connection, then forcing them to pay for sexual and other voice messages when they call back the number, police said April 19. Tokyo's Azabu police seized the personal computers, phones, and other equipment seen in the photo as evidence in the case.

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Bush, his wife Laura visit Japanese-style restaurant in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. President George W. Bush (L) chats with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi at a Japanese-style restaurant in Tokyo's Nishi-azabu district Feb. 18. Bush' wife Laura sits beside Koizumi. The photo was taken by a media representative.

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Monkey finds kitty pal in heart of Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - A monkey seen hanging around central Tokyo since mid-June plays with a new friend, a kitten, in the shade of a small garden of a house in Higashi Azabu, Minato Ward, Tokyo. The two animals were seen playing together on Aug. 4.

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Man arrested over 'one-call' mobile phone scam

TOKYO, Japan - Police have arrested a man on suspicion of duping mobile phone owners by calling them without making a connection, then forcing them to pay for sexual and other voice messages when they call back the number, police said April 19. Tokyo's Azabu police seized the personal computers, phones, and other equipment seen in the photo as evidence in the case.

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Timeless shops line Tokyo's nostalgic Azabu Juban area

From traditional hand-roasted Japanese rice crackers to deep-fried bean snacks, age-old shops line the nostalgic shopping street of Azabu Juban, which boasts over 300 years of history, in Tokyo on March 16, 2013. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Pasta crackers of Kineya in Tokyo

Photo taken March 13, 2015, shows fried pasta crackers that go well with wine at Kineya in Tokyo's Azabu Juban shopping district. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Colorfully packaged rice crackers at Agemochi-ya

Colorfully packaged rice crackers are on display at the Agemochi-ya rice cracker store in Tokyo's Azabu Juban shopping district on March 13, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Confectioner makes, sells salt rice cracker on Tokyo shopping street

A confectioner makes and sells flavored "shio-okaki" salt rice crackers in a corner of Mamegen, a shop established in 1865, on a shopping street in Tokyo's time-honored Azabu Juban district on March 16, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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People frequent 'taiyaki' pancake shop on time-honored Tokyo street

There is an endless stream of people visiting Naniwaya Sohonten, one of Japan's oldest shops selling "taiyaki" fish-shaped pancakes with a filling of sweet bean paste, on a shopping street in Tokyo's Azabu Juban district on March 13, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Shoppers at Agemochi-ya rice cracker store in Tokyo

Shoppers visit the Agemochi-ya rice cracker store in Tokyo's Azabu Juban shopping district on March 13, 2015. Crackers with a salt-lemon flavor are the most popular with customers. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese high school wins award in model U.N. confab

Kento Nakamoto (L) and Yuki Nishijo (R), students at Tokyo's Azabu High School, pose for a photo with officials of the Global Classrooms International Model U.N. Conference for 2016, at the U.N. headquarters in New York on May 14, 2016. During the conference, which drew more than 1,000 students from about 25 countries to discuss global issues in a simulation of real U.N. sessions, the Tokyo high school won an award for its students' contributions to discussion at a simulated General Assembly session to eradicate poverty. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Bush, his wife Laura visit Japanese-style restaurant in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. President George W. Bush (L) chats with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi at a Japanese-style restaurant in Tokyo's Nishi-azabu district Feb. 18. Bush' wife Laura sits beside Koizumi. The photo was taken by a media representative.

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Pro-Seoul Korean group goes back on reconciliation with pro-Pyon

TOKYO, Japan - Ha Byeong Ok, president of Mindan, the pro-Seoul Korean residents group in Japan, reads a statement during his press conference at the Mindan headquarters in Tokyo's Minami-Azabu district on July 6. Ha announced the withdrawal of a joint reconciliation statement it signed in May with Chongryon, its pro-Pyongyang counterpart, citing North Korea's missile launches as the reason. (Kyodo)

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The gate to Takanawa Tozenji Temple,the British Legation

This stereograph bears the caption View taken from the United States Legation, at Yedo and is said to depict Tempukuji Temple in Azabu, but this is incorrect. The temple is actually Tozenji, located in present-day Takanawa 3-chome. The Shogunate concluded a treaty pact with Great Britain (Anglo-Japanese Treaty of Commerce) in 1858, and Tozenji Temple was designated as the site of the British Legation. This was taken by Swiss Pierre Rossier at the end of the Edo Period. This is a side view of the sanmon gate, also seen in photographs #3420 and #3443.==Date:1859, Place:Tokyo, Photo:Pierre Rossier, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number70‐7‐0]

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Judo champion Tani stumps as DPJ candidate for upper house poll

TOKYO, Japan - Two-time Olympic judo champion Ryoko Tani works the popular Azabu Juban shopping area in central Tokyo on June 24, 2010 as she makes her debut as a candidate for the House of Councillors. Official campaigning for the poll on July 11 got under way the same day. (Kyodo)

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Zenpukuji Temple,Azabu

This is a Shingon Sect temple established by Kukai (Kobo Taishi) in 824. The sanmon and main hall are in the foreground and background, respectively. The large tree on the left is the upside-down gingko, which is still the largest gingko tree in Tokyo. This spot became the site of the American Legation after the effectuation of the Japan-U.S. Commercial Treaty in June 1859. Townsend Harris was the first envoy. The Legation moved to Tsukiji Akashi-machi in 1875. This photograph was taken in 1863 by Felix Beato, soon after Harris' arrival in Japan. The study was later burned to the ground by angry samurai from the Mito Clan.==Date:unknown, Place:Tokyo, Photo:F. Beato, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number104‐12‐0]

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Zenpukuji Temple, Azabu

Zenpukuji Temple, Azabu==Date:1863, Place:Tokyo, Photo:F. Beato, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images)

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Ex-actor Oshio arrested for giving drugs to woman who died

TOKYO, Japan - Former actor-singer Manabu Oshio arrives at the Azabu Police Station in Tokyo on Nov. 7, 2009, after being arrested on suspicion of giving the synthetic drug MDMA to a woman who was found dead after spending time with him at a Tokyo apartment in August. Oshio was given a suspended prison sentence for taking the drug by the Tokyo District Court on Nov. 2. (Kyodo)

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Ex-actor Oshio arrested for giving drugs to woman who died

TOKYO, Japan - Former actor-singer Manabu Oshio arrives at the Azabu Police Station in Tokyo on Nov. 7, 2009, after being arrested on suspicion of giving the synthetic drug MDMA to a woman who was found dead after spending time with him at a Tokyo apartment in August. Oshio was given a suspended prison sentence for taking the drug by the Tokyo District Court on Nov. 2. (Kyodo)

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Body of student killed in subway crash brought home

TOKYO, Japan - The body of Shinsuke Tomihisa, 17, a second-year student at Tokyo's Azabu High School who died in a subway train crash March 8, is brought to his Yokohama home late at night the same day. The crash occurred during the morning in Tokyo's Meguro Ward when two subway trains running on aboveground tracks collided after one had derailed. The incident left three others dead and injured 33.

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Monkey finds kitty pal in heart of Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - A monkey seen hanging around central Tokyo since mid-June plays with a new friend, a kitten, in the shade of a small garden of a house in Higashi Azabu, Minato Ward, Tokyo. The two animals were seen playing together on Aug. 4.