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Kobe aquarium holds mapping event from December

KOBE, Japan - Suma Aqualife Park in Kobe, western Japan, unveils to media its "Suma Aqua Illuminage" event projecting computer graphics images on the surface of an outdoor pool on Nov. 29, 2014. The event publicly opens from Dec. 1 to March 1, 2015.

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Sapporo's 'Ramen Republic' to mark 10th anniversary

SAPPORO, Japan - The "Sapporo Ramen Republic," a theme park for noodle shops in the capital of Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido, is set to celebrate the 10th anniversary of its opening at a commercial complex next to JR Sapporo Station on Oct. 1, 2014. The photo shows a ceremony held in December 2012 when the cumulative number of customers topped 10 million.

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Fallout from U.S. nuke tests continues to take toll

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in December 2013 shows Masatoshi Yamashita, a former high school teacher, giving an interview at his home in Sukumo, Kochi Prefecture. Yamashita, together with his students, confirmed after 30 years of studies that some 1,000 Japanese fishing boats were exposed to "death ash" caused by a series of U.S. nuclear tests in the central Pacific Ocean around 60 years ago, in addition to the Fukuryu Maru No. 5 tuna fishing boat that was exposed to fallout from a U.S. hydrogen bomb detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands on March 1, 1954.

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Polar bear cub

AKITA, Japan - Photo shows a female polar bear cub and her mother at Oga Aquarium GAO in Oga, Akita Prefecture, on May 1, 2013. The aquarium unveiled the cub, born in December 2012, to the public the same day.

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Polar bear cub

AKITA, Japan - Photo shows a female polar bear cub and her mother at Oga Aquarium GAO in Oga, Akita Prefecture, on May 1, 2013. The aquarium unveiled the cub, born in December 2012, to the public the same day.

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Polar bear cub

AKITA, Japan - Photo shows a female polar bear cub and her mother at Oga Aquarium GAO in Oga, Akita Prefecture, on May 1, 2013. The aquarium unveiled the cub, born in December 2012, to the public the same day.

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Sharp President Okuda

TOKYO, Japan - Sharp Corp. President Takashi Okuda attends a press conference in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on Feb. 1, 2013, on the company's earnings for the October-December period. The struggling electronics maker posted a group operating profit of 2.6 billion yen during the quarter, returning to the black for the first time in five quarters, due partly to the improvement of its liquid crystal display business as well as restructuring efforts.

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Unrest in D.R. Congo

GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo - A U.N. peacekeeping mission vehicle passes fighters of the M23 rebel movement in Goma, in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on Dec. 1, 2012. M23 rebels occupied Goma in November 2012 until their withdrawal in early December. (Photo by Takeshi Kuno)

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Maruti Suzuki's Swift Dzire

MUMBAI, India - Shinzo Nakanishi, managing director of Maruti Suzuki India Ltd., unveils the new Swift Dzire in Mumbai, western India, on Feb. 1, 2012. The subsidiary of Japanese automaker Suzuki Motor Corp. and India's biggest automaker announced Feb. 9, 2012, that it has sold over 10 million passenger cars in India since starting operations in December 1983.

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U.N. Conference on Global Warming held in Kyoto

Mr. Hiroshi OKI (center), the chairman of the Kyoto Conference appeared at a press conference. (Picture taken on December 1, 1997)