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Former volleyball coach Matsudaira dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Japan men's national volleyball team head coach Yasutaka Matsudaira being tossed into the air by members of his team after winning the gold medal at the Munich Olympics in September 1972. The Japan Volleyball Association said Jan. 5, 2012, that Matsudaira died from a lung condition at a Tokyo hospital on Dec. 31, 2011. He was 81.

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Former volleyball coach Matsudaira dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in July 2001 shows former Japan men's national volleyball team head coach Yasutaka Matsudaira. Matsudaira, who steered the country to the gold medal at the 1972 Munich Olympics, died from a lung condition at a Tokyo hospital on Dec. 31, 2011, the Japan Volleyball Association said Jan. 5, 2012. He was 81.

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Report on U.S. base relocation

NAHA, Japan - An employee of the Okinawa prefectural government checks the content of the environmental impact assessment report on the relocation of a U.S. Marine base within the prefecture at the government office in Naha on Jan. 5, 2012. Delivering the report to the prefectural government drew public attention late 2011 after protesters blocked the report's submission and the Defense Ministry managed to get it through by delivering it in the predawn hours of Dec. 28 when protesters were scarce.

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Ex-Chinese public security chief Zhou expelled from party

BEIJING, China - Zhou Yongkang, a former Chinese public security chief, attends the closing ceremony for the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party at Beijing's Great Hall of the People in November 2012. On Dec. 5, 2014, the party expelled Zhou, whom it had been investigating for suspected "disciplinary violations," China Central Television reported.

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Child rights support group uses picture cards for publicity

OSAKA, Japan - A staff member of the Ombudspersons for Children's Human Rights in Kawanishi, Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, displays one of picture cards used to explain its work. This file photo was taken on Dec. 5, 2012.

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Child rights support group marks 15th anniversary

OSAKA, Japan - Staff members work in the office of the Ombudspersons for Children's Human Rights in Kawanishi, Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, marking its 15th anniversary as Japan's first public third-party body to address problems involving children. This file photo was taken on Dec. 5, 2012.

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Public bus in Singapore

SINGAPORE, Singapore - Photo shows a public bus in Singapore on Dec. 5, 2012.

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Architect Niemeyer dies

TOKYO, Japan - A file photo shows Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer speaking during an interview at his atelier in Rio de Janeiro in 2002. Niemeyer died on Dec. 5, 2012, in hospital in Rio de Janeiro after suffering pneumonia and kidney problems, hospital officials said. He was 104.

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Japan deploys missile interceptors

TOKYO, Japan - Patriot Advanced Capability-3 interceptors are deployed on the premises of the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on Dec. 5, 2012, to intercept a North Korean rocket if it appears to be falling on Japanese territory. North Korea says it plans to launch a rocket carrying an "earth observation satellite" sometime between Dec. 10 and 22.

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China's Xi Jinping

BEIJING, China - Chinese Vice President and Communist Party leader Xi Jinping attends a session with foreign academics at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Dec. 5, 2012. (Pool photo)

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Indonesian workers demonstrate outside Japanese Embassy

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Protesters and police officers face each other in front of the Japanese Embassy in Jakarta on Dec. 5, 2012, during a demonstration over layoffs at a Japanese company.

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Indonesian workers demonstrate outside Japanese Embassy

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesian workers stage a protest in front of the Japanese Embassy in Jakarta on Dec. 5, 2012, over layoffs at a Japanese company.

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China's Xi Jinping

BEIJING, China - Chinese Vice President and Communist Party leader Xi Jinping attends a session with foreign academics at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Dec. 5, 2012. (Pool photo)

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BOJ deputy head

NIIGATA, Japan - Bank of Japan Deputy Governor Kiyohiko Nishimura holds a news conference in the city of Niigata on Dec. 5, 2012. Nishimura indicated that the central bank could take further monetary easing steps at its policy meeting later in the month.

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FIFA to showcase goal-line technology at Club World Cup

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Photo taken at Nissan Stadium in Yokohama on Dec. 5, 2012, shows a ball with an embedded sensor and a watch for referees used in GoalREF goal-line technology, which was successfully demonstrated to the media. GoalREF employs embedded wire coils that allow the exact position of a ball to be relayed to a referee's vibrating watch in under a second using a magnetic curtain draped around the goal. FIFA will unveil two systems of goal-line technology at the Club World Cup to be held from Dec. 6. GoalREF technology will be installed at the Yokohama stadium while the Hawk-Eye system will be given a run at Toyota Stadium outside Nagoya during the tournament.

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Court orders gov't to compensate asbestos victims

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a courtroom at the Tokyo District Court on Dec. 5, 2012. The court ordered the central government later the same day to pay a total of 1.06 billion yen in compensation for workers who suffered asbestos-related diseases such as lung cancer at construction sites due to insufficient countermeasures by the state. (Pool photo)

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Japan's greenhouse gas emissions

DOHA, Qatar - Japanese Environment Minister Hiroyuki Nagahama answers reporters' questions on Dec. 5, 2012, in Doha, Qatar, where the 18th United Nations Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change is being held. Greenhouse gases equivalent to 1,307 million tons of carbon dioxide were emitted in Japan in fiscal 2011 through March 2012, up 3.9 percent from the previous year, the Environment Ministry said the same day in a preliminary report.

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Court orders gov't to compensate asbestos victims

TOKYO, Japan - Plaintiffs celebrate in front of the Tokyo District Court on Dec. 5, 2012. The central government was ordered to pay a total of 1.06 billion yen in compensation for workers who suffered asbestos-related diseases such as lung cancer at construction sites due to insufficient countermeasures by the state.

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Fashion doll Blythe

OSAKA, Japan - Some 100 Blythe fashion dolls are displayed for a charity auction at the Hankyu department store chain's Umeda flagship shop in Osaka on Dec. 5, 2012.

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Fashion doll Blythe

OSAKA, Japan - Some 100 Blythe fashion dolls are displayed for a charity auction at the Hankyu department store chain's Umeda flagship shop in Osaka on Dec. 5, 2012.

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Kabuki actor Nakamura Kanzaburo dies

TOKYO, Japan - A November 2011 file photo shows prominent Kabuki actor Nakamura Kanzaburo (R) attending an event in Tokyo's Asakusa area. Kanzaburo died on Dec. 5, 2012, at the age of 57. He had made public that he was suffering from esophageal cancer. At C and L of the photo are Kanzaburo's sons Nakamura Kankuro and Nakamura Shichinosuke, also Kabuki actors.

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Kabuki actor Nakamura Kanzaburo dies

TOKYO, Japan - A January 2005 file photo shows prominent Kabuki actor Nakamura Kanzaburo speaking during an interview. Kanzaburo died on Dec. 5, 2012, at the age of 57. He had been suffering from esophageal cancer.