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JR West runs 'Yokai Watch' train

OSAKA, Japan - West Japan Railway Co. (JR West) displays a train sporting the images of characters of "Yokai Watch," a huge-hit video game and animation for children, at a railroad yard in Osaka, western Japan, on Dec. 11, 2014. The special train is running from Dec. 13 through Feb. 1, 2015.

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JR West shows interior of 'Yokai Watch' train

OSAKA, Japan - West Japan Railway Co. (JR West) shows in Osaka, western Japan, on Dec. 11, 2014, the interior of a "Yokai Watch" train featuring the popular role-playing game. The special train is running from Dec. 13 through Feb. 1, 2015.

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Tourists on Brooklyn Bridge

NEW YORK, United States - Tourists take pictures of skyscrapers in Manhattan from the Brooklyn Bridge on Feb. 1, 2014.

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Nagoya Castle getting 1st face-lift in 300 years

NAGOYA, Japan - The first renovation in 300 years of "ishigaki" stone walls at the foot of Nagoya Castle is in full swing on Feb. 1, 2014.

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Souvenir shop opens near Chikugo River Lift Bridge

SAGA, Japan - New souvenir shop Hashi no Eki (Bridge Station) Dorompa opens nears the Chikugo River Lift Bridge in the city of Saga on Feb. 1, 2014. The shop sells local agricultural and marine products among other items.

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Japan can end nuclear power reliance in future: Oettinger

MUNICH, Germany - Gunther Oettinger, European commissioner for energy, says Japan can break with nuclear power generation in the future, answering a question from a Kyodo News reporter in Munich on Feb. 1, 2014.

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Miyazaki wins Annie Award

TOKYO, Japan - Combination file photo shows Japanese animation director Hayao Miyazaki (L), and cartoonist and film director Katsuhiro Otomo. Miyazaki won the Annie Award for Writing in an Animated Feature Production for his screenplay for "The Wind Rises," the organizer of the event, known as the Academy Award for animation, said Feb. 1, 2014. Otomo was given the Winsor McCay Award at the event.

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Sochi rehearsal

SOCHI, Russia - Fireworks are set off above Fisht Olympic Stadium in Sochi, Russia, on Feb. 1, 2014, during a rehearsal for the opening ceremony of the Winter Games.

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Japan teen wins int'l ballet competition

LAUSANNE, Switzerland - Haruo Niyama, a 17-year-old Japanese boy, receives applause after winning an international ballet competition in Lausanne, Switzerland, on Feb. 1, 2014, for teenagers aiming to dance professionally.

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Takanashi wins 9th World Cup event of season

HINZENBACH, Austria - Sochi Olympic women's individual gold medal favorite Sara Takanashi makes her first jump on the K-85 hill in Hinzenbach, Austria, on Feb. 1, 2014. Takanashi posted her ninth World Cup win of the season.

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Sochi rehearsal

SOCHI, Russia - Fireworks are set off above Fisht Olympic Stadium in Sochi, Russia, on Feb. 1, 2014, during a rehearsal for the opening ceremony of the Winter Games.

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Japan teen wins int'l ballet competition

LAUSANNE, Switzerland - Photo shows Haruo Niyama, a 17-year-old Japanese boy, who won an international ballet competition in Lausanne, Switzerland, on Feb. 1, 2014, for teenagers aiming to dance professionally.

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Japan teen wins int'l ballet competition

LAUSANNE, Switzerland - Photo shows Haruo Niyama, a 17-year-old Japanese boy, who won an international ballet competition in Lausanne, Switzerland, on Feb. 1, 2014, for teenagers aiming to dance professionally.

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Protests in Bangkok

BANGKOK, Thailand - Antigovernment demonstrators march in Bangkok on Feb. 1, 2014, a day before a general election called by Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra.

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Kawashima saves shot in Belgian league soccer match

LIEGE, Belgium - Japanese goalkeeper Eiji Kawashima of Standard Liege saves a shot in the first half of a Belgian first-division soccer match against Cercle Brugge in Liege on Feb. 1, 2014. Standard beat Cercle 4-0.

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Japanese foreign minister in Germany

MUNICH, Germany - Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida holds a press conference after his speech at the Munich Security Conference in Germany on Feb. 1, 2014.

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Takanashi wins 9th World Cup event of season

HINZENBACH, Austria - Sochi Olympic women's individual gold medal favorite Sara Takanashi makes her first jump on the K-85 hill in Hinzenbach, Austria, on Feb. 1, 2014. Takanashi posted her ninth World Cup win of the season.

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Japan teen wins int'l ballet competition

LAUSANNE, Switzerland - Photo shows Haruo Niyama (C), a 17-year-old Japanese boy, who won an international ballet competition in Lausanne, Switzerland, on Feb. 1, 2014, for teenagers aiming to dance professionally. At left is Sae Maeda, who was second, and at right is Mikio Kato, who was sixth in the competition.

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Japan, Russian foreign ministers

MUNICH, Germany - Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida (R) and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov shake hands prior to holding talks in Munich, Germany, on Feb. 1, 2014.

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Protests in Bangkok

BANGKOK, Thailand - Antigovernment demonstrators march in Bangkok on Feb. 1, 2014, a day before a general election called by Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra.

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Protests in Bangkok

BANGKOK, Thailand - Antigovernment demonstrators in Bangkok on Feb. 1, 2014, call for not casting ballots in a general election the following day.

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Nishikori and Uchiyama

TOKYO, Japan - Yasutaka Uchiyama (front) and Kei Nishikori of Japan play doubles against Daniel Nestor and Frank Dancevic of Canada in a Davis Cup World Group first-round match at Tokyo's Ariake Colosseum on Feb. 1, 2014. Uchiyama and Nishikori won 6-3, 7-6(3), 4-6, 6-4.

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Protests in Bangkok

BANGKOK, Thailand - Antigovernment demonstrators flee as pro-government supporters fire guns in Bangkok on Feb. 1, 2014, a day before a general election called by Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra.

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Nishikori and Uchiyama

TOKYO, Japan - Kei Nishikori (front) and Yasutaka Uchiyama of Japan play doubles against Daniel Nestor and Frank Dancevic of Canada in a Davis Cup World Group first-round match at Tokyo's Ariake Colosseum on Feb. 1, 2014. Nishikori and Uchiyama won 6-3, 7-6(3), 4-6, 6-4.

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Takarazuka performers at bean-throwing ceremony in Osaka

OSAKA, Japan - Three members of the all-women Takarazuka Revue musical theater troupe throw beans during a "setsubun" ceremony at Tsutenkaku tower in Osaka on Feb. 1, 2014. The 300-meter tall Abeno Harukasu skyscraper can be seen in the background to the right. Bean-throwing ceremonies are held across Japan around the day before the beginning of spring.

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Nishikori and Uchiyama

TOKYO, Japan - Kei Nishikori (L) and Yasutaka Uchiyama of Japan celebrate after beating Daniel Nestor and Frank Dancevic of Canada in a Davis Cup World Group first-round match at Tokyo's Ariake Colosseum on Feb. 1, 2014.

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Osaka Mayor Hashimoto to quit

TOKYO, Japan - Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto, who doubles as co-head of the Japan Restoration Party, speaks at the party convention in Tokyo on Feb. 1, 2014. Hashimoto expressed later that day his intention to quit as mayor and run for reelection to gain public support for his goal of creating an Osaka metropolitan government through the merger of the prefectural and municipal governments.

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Tourist attraction lights up to welcome Year of Sheep

CHIBA, Japan - Colorful illumination adorns a pasture at Mother Farm, a tourist attraction in Futtsu, Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo, on Dec. 17, 2014, under the theme "sheep carnival" to welcome the Year of the Sheep in 2015 according to the Chinese zodiac. The illumination event will run through Feb. 1, 2015.

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LED lighting marks 100th anniversary of Tokyo Station

TOKYO, Japan - People walk along a pedestrian deck at the Yaesu exit of JR Tokyo Station in the Japanese capital as illuminations commemorating the 100th anniversary of the station's opening start on Dec. 1, 2014. The attraction, consisting of some 3,000 column-shaped light-emitting diodes, will run through Feb. 14, 2015.

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LED lighting marks 100th anniversary of Tokyo Station

TOKYO, Japan - Illuminations along a pedestrian deck at the Yaesu exit of JR Tokyo Station in the Japanese capital start on Dec. 1, 2014, in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the station's opening. The attraction, consisting of some 3,000 column-shaped light-emitting diodes, will run through Feb. 14, 2015.

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Flooding in Tuvalu

FUNAFUTI, Tuvalu - Photo shows a road battered by waves in Funafuti, the capital of Tuvalu, on Feb. 1, 2014.

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Flooding in Tuvalu

FUNAFUTI, Tuvalu - Photo shows a house, near which seawater has approached, in Funafuti, the capital of Tuvalu, on Feb. 1, 2014.

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Woman works to deepen awareness about sinking nations

FUNAFUTI, Tuvalu -Photo taken Feb. 1, 2014 in the capital of Tuvalu shows Haruna Kitazoe, who spent four years in living on Tuvalu, a small island nation in the southern Pacific Ocean, to report on the effects of rising sea levels caused by global warming.

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Panasonic's new lighting equipment

TOKYO, Japan - Panasonic Corp. demonstrates the projection of flowers and butterflies on a table as it unveiled new lighting equipment in Tokyo on Feb. 27, 2014. The spotlight-shaped Space Player that can project menus on restaurant walls, descriptions adjacent to artworks and different clothes on mannequins will be launched on July 1, 2014.

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Panasonic's new lighting equipment

TOKYO, Japan - Panasonic Corp. demonstrates the projection of flowers on a table as it unveiled new lighting equipment in Tokyo on Feb. 27, 2014. The spotlight-shaped Space Player that can project menus on restaurant walls, descriptions adjacent to artworks and different clothes on mannequins will be launched on July 1, 2014.

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Panasonic's new lighting equipment

TOKYO, Japan - Panasonic Corp. unveils in Tokyo on Feb. 27, 2014, new lighting equipment that can project menus on restaurant walls, descriptions adjacent to artworks and different clothes on mannequins. The spotlight-shaped Space Player will be launched on July 1, 2014.

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Shiseido's next president

TOKYO, Japan - Masahiko Uotani, who is set to become president of cosmetics maker Shiseido Co. on April 1, 2014, is interviewed by Kyodo News in Tokyo on Feb. 25, 2014.

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A month before Sochi Olympics

SOCHI, Russia - A girl reacts to the New Year fireworks in Sochi, Russia, on Jan. 1, 2014. The Winter Olympics will be held in the Black Sea resort from Feb. 7 to 23.

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New rails for disaster-hit railway company

NODA, Japan - Workers on Feb. 1, 2012, lay new railroad rails in the village of Noda, Iwate Prefecture, an area hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, as the work began the same day in the village. Sanriku Railway Co. aims at fully resuming its services in April 2014.