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A-bomb survivor Sasamori

Photo taken on July 29, 2022, shows a portrait of Shigeko Sasamori, a survivor of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japan city of Hiroshima who underwent reconstructive surgery for her scars in the United States. The New York Times reported on Jan. 2, 2025, that she died on Dec. 15, 2024, at her home in Marina del Rey, California. She was 92.

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1st anniversary of Jan. 1 quake in central Japan

Combined photo shows a toppled building in Wajima in central Japan's Ishikawa Prefecture on Jan. 2, 2024 (top), following a powerful earthquake the previous day, and the same site on Dec. 16, ahead of the disaster's first anniversary.

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1st anniversary of Jan. 1 quake in central Japan

Combined photo shows a gutted morning market in Wajima in central Japan's Ishikawa Prefecture on Jan. 2, 2024 (top), following a powerful earthquake the previous day, and the same site on Jan. 29 (middle) and on Dec. 20, ahead of the disaster's first anniversary.

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1st anniversary of Jan. 1 quake in central Japan

Combined photo taken from a Kyodo News plane shows a gutted morning market in Wajima in central Japan's Ishikawa Prefecture on Jan. 2, 2024 (top), the day after a powerful earthquake and fire hit it, and the same site under demolition taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Dec. 20, ahead of the disaster's first anniversary.

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Zelenskyy and Scholz in Kyiv

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (R) and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz mourn for the war dead in Kyiv on Dec. 2, 2024.

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Zelenskyy and Scholz in Kyiv

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (front) and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz mourn for the war dead in Kyiv on Dec. 2, 2024.

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Zelenskyy and Scholz in Kyiv

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (R) and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz shake hands during a joint press conference in Kyiv on Dec. 2, 2024.

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Protest rally by Volkswagen workers

Volkswagen workers taking part in a warning strike march near a factory in Hannover, northern Germany, on Dec. 2, 2024, amid management streamlining plans including factory closures and job cuts.

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Card reader for My Number identification cards

Photo taken on Dec. 2, 2024, shows a card reader for My Number identification cards at a health clinic in the southwestern Japan city of Fukuoka. Japan halted issuing new health insurance cards the same day under a drive to encourage the use of My Number cards integrated with health insurance data.

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Card reader for My Number identification cards

Photo taken on Dec. 2, 2024, shows a card reader for My Number identification cards at a health clinic in Tokyo. Japan halted issuing new health insurance cards the same day under a drive to encourage the use of My Number cards integrated with health insurance data.

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Hindakyo representative Tanaka

Terumi Tanaka, a representative of Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading group of atomic bomb survivors that won the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 2, 2024, prior to attending the Dec. 10 award ceremony in Oslo.

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Hindakyo representative Tanaka

Terumi Tanaka (C), a representative of Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading group of atomic bomb survivors that won the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 2, 2024, prior to attending the Dec. 10 award ceremony in Oslo.

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Hindakyo representative Tanaka

Terumi Tanaka, a representative of Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading group of atomic bomb survivors that won the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 2, 2024, prior to attending the Dec. 10 award ceremony in Oslo.

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Hindakyo representative Tanaka

Terumi Tanaka, a representative of Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading group of atomic bomb survivors that won the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 2, 2024, prior to attending the Dec. 10 award ceremony in Oslo.

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Card reader for My Number identification cards

Photo taken on Dec. 2, 2024, shows a card reader for My Number identification cards at a health clinic in the southwestern Japan city of Fukuoka. Japan halted issuing new health insurance cards the same day under a drive to encourage the use of My Number cards integrated with health insurance data.

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Card reader for My Number identification cards

Photo taken on Dec. 2, 2024, shows a card reader for My Number identification cards at a health clinic in the southwestern Japan city of Fukuoka. Japan halted issuing new health insurance cards the same day under a drive to encourage the use of My Number cards integrated with health insurance data.

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Card reader for My Number identification cards

Photo taken on Dec. 2, 2024, shows a card reader (front, on shelf) for My Number identification cards at a health clinic in the southwestern Japan city of Fukuoka. Japan halted issuing new health insurance cards the same day under a drive to encourage the use of My Number cards integrated with health insurance data.

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Mural featuring "One Piece" characters

Kumamoto Gov. Takashi Kimura (2nd from L), poses for photos with Kumamon, the official black bear mascot of the southwestern Japan prefecture, during a ceremony to unveil a mural featuring characters from the best-selling Japanese manga series "One Piece," at Kumamoto airport on Dec. 2, 2024. The mural was produced as part of a project to help Kumamoto, where the pirate manga's author Eiichiro Oda is from, recover from the April 2016 earthquakes.

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Mural featuring "One Piece" characters

Kumamon, the official black bear mascot of the southwestern Japan prefecture of Kumamoto, poses during a ceremony to unveil a mural featuring characters from the best-selling Japanese manga series "One Piece" at Kumamoto airport on Dec. 2, 2024. The mural was produced as part of a project to help Kumamoto, where the pirate manga's author Eiichiro Oda is from, recover from the April 2016 earthquakes.

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Parliamentary session in Japan

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba answers questions from a lawmaker during a House of Representatives plenary session in Tokyo on Dec. 2, 2024, following his recent policy speech.

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Parliamentary session in Japan

A House of Representatives plenary session is held in Tokyo on Dec. 2, 2024, following Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's recent policy speech, his first in parliament since his ruling coalition lost its majority in the lower house in a general election in October.

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Parliamentary session in Japan

Yoshihiko Noda, head of the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, asks a question about Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's (back, R) recent policy speech during a House of Representatives plenary session in Tokyo on Dec. 2, 2024. (Kyodo)

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Parliamentary session in Japan

Yoshihiko Noda, head of the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, asks a question about Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's recent policy speech during a House of Representatives plenary session in Tokyo on Dec. 2, 2024.

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Complaint against Hyogo gov. over gubernatorial election campaign

Reelected Hyogo Gov. Motohiko Saito meets the press at the prefectural government headquarters in Kobe, western Japan, on Dec. 2, 2024, after a professor and lawyer said earlier in the day they have together submitted a letter of complaint against the governor and the head of a public relations company, alleging a violation of election law during the November gubernatorial election.

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Bear killed after 2-day rampage through Japan supermarket

A minitruck carrying a bear which was trapped and killed after a two-day stay in a supermarket is seen leaving the facility in Akita, northeastern Japan, on Dec. 2, 2024. The animal attacked a male employee and ate from the store's meat section, according to police.

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Gov't campaign for integrated My Number cards

Photo taken at a medical institution in Tokyo on Dec. 2, 2024, shows a health ministry poster recommending patients switch from existing health insurance cards to My Number identification cards incorporating their functions. Japan halted issuing new health insurance cards the same day under a campaign to encourage use of the integrated My Number cards.

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Season's first yellowtail auction

Winter yellowtail are displayed at a wholesale market ahead of the season's first auction in Kanazawa in the central Japan prefecture of Ishikawa on Dec. 2, 2024.

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Season's first yellowtail auction

The season's first auction of winter yellowtails is held at a wholesale market in Kanazawa in the central Japan prefecture of Ishikawa on Dec. 2, 2024.

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U.N. committee to address plastic pollution

Chair Luis Vayas Valdivieso is pictured during a plenary session of the fifth U.N. Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee meeting to develop a legally binding global treaty on plastic pollution in Busan, South Korea, in the small hours of Dec. 2, 2024.