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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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Buddhist statues at Yakushi-ji get dust-down for New Year

Buddhist monks dust down statues at World Heritage-listed Yakushi-ji temple in Nara, western Japan, on Dec. 29, 2024, in an annual event to prepare for New Year.

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Buddhist statues at Yakushi-ji get dust-down for New Year

Buddhist monks dust down statues at World Heritage-listed Yakushi-ji temple in Nara, western Japan, on Dec. 29, 2024, in an annual event to prepare for New Year.

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Buddhist statues at Yakushi-ji get dust-down for New Year

A Buddhist monk dusts down a statue at World Heritage-listed Yakushi-ji temple in Nara, western Japan, on Dec. 29, 2024, in an annual event to prepare for New Year.

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Buddhist statues at Yakushi-ji get dust-down for New Year

A Buddhist monk dusts down a statue at World Heritage-listed Yakushi-ji temple in Nara, western Japan, on Dec. 29, 2024, in an annual event to prepare for New Year.

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Football: Scottish Premiership

Celtic's Kyogo Furuhashi reacts after scoring in the second half of a Scottish Premiership football match against St Johnstone on Dec. 29, 2024, in Glasgow.

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Football: Scottish Premiership

Celtic's Kyogo Furuhashi (front) scores in the second half of a Scottish Premiership football match against St Johnstone on Dec. 29, 2024, in Glasgow.

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Football: Scottish Premiership

Celtic's Kyogo Furuhashi (front) scores in the second half of a Scottish Premiership football match against St Johnstone on Dec. 29, 2024, in Glasgow.

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Football: Scottish Premiership

Celtic's Kyogo Furuhashi (3rd from R) scores in the second half of a Scottish Premiership football match against St Johnstone on Dec. 29, 2024, in Glasgow.

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Football: Scottish Premiership

Celtic's Daizen Maeda (C) scores in the second half of a Scottish Premiership football match against St Johnstone on Dec. 29, 2024, in Glasgow.

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Football: Scottish Premiership

Celtic's Daizen Maeda (C) scores in the second half of a Scottish Premiership football match against St Johnstone on Dec. 29, 2024, in Glasgow.

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Year-end shopping in Tokyo's Ueno district

Ameyoko shopping street in Tokyo's Ueno district is crowded on Dec. 29, 2024, with shoppers buying food and other items ahead of New Year.

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Plane crash kills 179 in S. Korea

Photo taken on Dec. 29, 2024, shows the wreckage of a passenger plane that skidded off a runway and crashed into a wall at Muan International Airport in Muan County, South Korea. The Jeju Air flight, carrying 181 passengers and crew, belly-landed around 9 a.m. before making a large impact, with the National Fire Agency saying two of the crew were rescued.

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Year-end shopping in Tokyo's Ueno district

Ameyoko shopping street in Tokyo's Ueno district is crowded on Dec. 29, 2024, with shoppers buying food and other items ahead of New Year.

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Plane crash kills 179 in S. Korea

Photo taken on Dec. 29, 2024, shows the charred wreckage of a passenger plane that skidded off a runway and crashed into a wall at Muan International Airport in Muan County, South Korea. The Jeju Air flight, carrying 181 passengers and crew, belly-landed around 9 a.m. before making a large impact, with the National Fire Agency saying two of the crew were rescued.

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Plane crash kills 179 in S. Korea

Photo taken on Dec. 29, 2024, shows the wreckage of a passenger plane that skidded off a runway and crashed into a wall at Muan International Airport in Muan County, South Korea. The Jeju Air flight, carrying 181 passengers and crew, belly-landed around 9 a.m. before making a large impact, with the National Fire Agency saying two of the crew were rescued.

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Japanese Princess Kako turns 30

Japanese Princess Kako, Emperor Naruhito's niece, waves on her way to meet Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Dec. 29, 2024, her 30th birthday.

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Plane crash kills 179 in S. Korea

Jeju Air CEO Kim E Bae (L) speaks at a press conference in Seoul on Dec. 29, 2024, after one of the airline's passenger planes crashed and burst into flames the same day, killing 179 people on board, at Muan International Airport in Muan County, South Korea.

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Plane crash kills 179 in S. Korea

Photo taken on Dec. 29, 2024, shows the charred wreckage of a passenger plane that skidded off a runway and crashed into a wall at Muan International Airport in Muan County, South Korea. The Jeju Air flight, carrying 181 passengers and crew, belly-landed around 9 a.m. before making a large impact, with the National Fire Agency saying two of the crew were rescued.

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Plane crash kills 179 in S. Korea

Photo taken on Dec. 29, 2024, shows the charred wreckage of a passenger plane that skidded off a runway and crashed into a wall at Muan International Airport in Muan County, South Korea. The Jeju Air flight, carrying 181 passengers and crew, belly-landed around 9 a.m. before making a large impact, with the National Fire Agency saying two of the crew were rescued.

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Plane crash kills 179 in S. Korea

Photo taken on Dec. 29, 2024, shows the wreckage of a passenger plane that skidded off a runway and crashed into a wall at Muan International Airport in Muan County, South Korea. The Jeju Air flight, carrying 181 passengers and crew, belly-landed around 9 a.m. before making a large impact, with the National Fire Agency saying two of the crew were rescued.

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Plane crash kills 179 in S. Korea

Photo taken on Dec. 29, 2024, shows the charred wreckage of a passenger plane that skidded off a runway and crashed into a wall at Muan International Airport in Muan County, South Korea. The Jeju Air flight, carrying 181 passengers and crew, belly-landed around 9 a.m. before making a large impact, with the National Fire Agency saying two of the crew were rescued.

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Plane crash kills 179 in S. Korea

Photo taken on Dec. 29, 2024, shows the charred wreckage of a passenger plane that skidded off a runway and crashed into a wall at Muan International Airport in Muan County, South Korea. The Jeju Air flight, carrying 181 passengers and crew, belly-landed around 9 a.m. before making a large impact, with the National Fire Agency saying two of the crew were rescued.

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Plane crash kills 179 in S. Korea

Family members and acquaintances of those who were aboard a passenger jet that crashed at Muan International Airport gather to hear South Jeolla Province Gov. Kim Yong Rok (L) speak in an airport lobby in Muan County in the province of South Korea on Dec. 29, 2024. The Jeju Air flight, carrying 181 passengers and crew, belly-landed around 9 a.m. before making a large impact, with the National Fire Agency saying two of the crew were rescued.

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Plane crash kills 179 in S. Korea

Photo taken on Dec. 29, 2024, shows the charred wreckage of a passenger plane that skidded off a runway and crashed into a wall at Muan International Airport in Muan County, South Korea. The Jeju Air flight, carrying 181 passengers and crew, belly-landed around 9 a.m. before making a large impact, with the National Fire Agency saying two of the crew were rescued.

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Plane crash kills 179 in S. Korea

South Korean soldiers work near the wreckage of a passenger plane that skidded off a runway and slammed into a wall at Muan International Airport on Dec. 29, 2024, in Muan County in South Korea. The Jeju Air flight, carrying 181 passengers and crew, belly-landed around 9 a.m. before making a large impact, with the National Fire Agency saying two of the crew were rescued.

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Plane crash kills 179 in S. Korea

People watch a monitor at Gimpo airport in Seoul on Dec. 29, 2024, showing the news of a passenger plane crash that killed 179 people at Muan International Airport in Muan County in South Korea the same day.

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Plane crash kills 179 in S. Korea

Photo taken on Dec. 29, 2024, shows the charred wreckage of a passenger plane that skidded off a runway and crashed into a wall at Muan International Airport in Muan County, South Korea. The Jeju Air flight, carrying 181 passengers and crew, belly-landed around 9 a.m. before making a large impact, with the National Fire Agency saying two of the crew were rescued.

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1st anniversary of Jan. 1 quake in central Japan

Combined photo shows a wavy road in Uchinada in central Japan's Ishikawa Prefecture on Jan. 29, 2024 (top), following soil liquefaction caused by a powerful earthquake on Jan. 1, and the same site on Dec. 21, ahead of the disaster's first anniversary.

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Figure skating: Grand Prix Final

Japanese figure skater Yuma Kagiyama practices in Toyota in the central Japan prefecture of Aichi Prefecture on Nov. 29, 2024, ahead of the Grand Prix Final competition in Grenoble, France, staring on Dec. 5.

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Figure skating: Grand Prix Final

Japanese figure skater Yuma Kagiyama practices in Toyota in the central Japan prefecture of Aichi Prefecture on Nov. 29, 2024, ahead of the Grand Prix Final competition in Grenoble, France, staring on Dec. 5.

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Figure skating: Grand Prix Final

Japanese figure skater Yuma Kagiyama practices in Toyota in the central Japan prefecture of Aichi Prefecture on Nov. 29, 2024, ahead of the Grand Prix Final competition in Grenoble, France, staring on Dec. 5.

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Figure skating: Grand Prix Final

Japanese figure skater Yuma Kagiyama practices in Toyota in the central Japan prefecture of Aichi Prefecture on Nov. 29, 2024, ahead of the Grand Prix Final competition in Grenoble, France, staring on Dec. 5.

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U.N. Security Council meeting over Middle East

U.N. Security Council convenes an unscheduled meeting in New York on Dec. 29, 2023, to discuss the situation in the Middle East against the backdrop of escalating violence between Israeli settlers and Palestinians in the West Bank.

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Nikkei's highest year-end finish in 34 years

A financial data screen in Tokyo on Dec. 29, 2023, shows the Nikkei Stock Average finishing at 33,464.17, its highest year-end finish since 1989.

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Final trading day at TSE

Former Japanese men's national baseball team manager Hideki Kuriyama rings the bell at the Tokyo Stock Exchange at the end of the year's final trading day on Dec. 29, 2023.

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Final trading day at TSE

Former Japanese men's national baseball team manager Hideki Kuriyama rings the bell at the Tokyo Stock Exchange at the end of the year's final trading day on Dec. 29, 2023.

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New Year holiday exodus in Japan

A departure lobby at Haneda airport in Tokyo is crowded on Dec. 29, 2023, with people heading to their hometowns and resort areas for the New Year holidays. (Kyodo)

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New Year holiday exodus in Japan

A departure lobby at Haneda airport in Tokyo is crowded on Dec. 29, 2023, with people heading to their hometowns and resort areas for the New Year holidays. (Kyodo)

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New Year holiday exodus in Japan

A departure lobby at Haneda airport in Tokyo is crowded on Dec. 29, 2023, with people heading to their hometowns and resort areas for the New Year holidays.

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Salvage ship to recover Osprey fuselage

A U.S. military salvage vessel heads to waters around the Nov. 29, 2023 crash site of a U.S. military CV-22 Osprey aircraft off the island of Yakushima in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Kagoshima on Dec. 23 for a mission to recover the plane's fuselage found underwater.

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First metro line in Bangladesh capital

People await the arrival of a train on a platform in Dhaka on Dec. 29, 2022, as Bangladesh's first-ever metro line, largely funded by Japan, starts operating for the general public the same day.

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First metro line in Bangladesh capital

People line up outside a metro station in Dhaka on Dec. 29, 2022, as Bangladesh's first-ever metro line, largely funded by Japan, starts operating for the general public the same day.

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Rally against Netanyahu's return to power

People stage a rally in front of the Knesset in Jerusalem on Dec. 29, 2022, against reelected Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new right-wing cabinet approved the same day by the Israeli parliament.

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Rally against Netanyahu's return to power

People stage a rally in front of the Knesset in Jerusalem on Dec. 29, 2022, against reelected Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new right-wing cabinet approved the same day by the Israeli parliament.

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Rally against Netanyahu's return to power

People stage a rally in front of the Knesset in Jerusalem on Dec. 29, 2022, against reelected Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new right-wing cabinet approved the same day by the Israeli parliament.

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Football legend Pele dies at 82

File photo shows Pele in action for New York Cosmos during his retirement match against Japan's Furukawa Electric in September 1977 at the National Stadium in Tokyo. The Brazilian football legend died at 82 on Dec. 29, 2022, after a battle with colon cancer.

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Football legend Pele dies at 82

File photo taken in October 2011 shows Pele mingling with Japanese elementary school students in Natori, a northeastern Japan city heavily damaged by the earthquake-tsunami disaster in March 2011. The Brazilian football legend died at 82 on Dec. 29, 2022, after a battle with colon cancer.

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Wuhan amid COVID surge

Officials in protective gear walk in front of a funeral hall in Wuhan on Dec. 29, 2022, amid a surge in COVID-19 cases. The Chinese government eased its strict antivirus measures earlier in the month.

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Wuhan amid COVID surge

Photo taken on Dec. 29, 2022, shows Wuhan's Huanan seafood wholesale market, which has been closed for about three years since the initial outbreak of the novel coronavirus there. The Chinese government eased its strict antivirus measures earlier in the month.