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Fukuma loses by default in shogi title series

Combined photo taken on Sept. 8, 2024, and in July 2022, respectively, shows professional shogi players in the women's category Tomoka Nishiyama (L) and Kana Fukuma. Nishiyama defended her Osho women's title as her competitor Fukuma withdrew from the third match of a best-of-three series due to ill health on Oct. 29, 2024. Fukuma earlier said she would be sidelined from competition between Nov. 17, 2024, and Feb. 12, 2025, due to pregnancy.

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Baseball: Dodgers' Ohtani, interpreter Mizuhara

Shohei Ohtani (L) of the Los Angeles Dodgers and his interpreter Ippei Mizuhara meet the media on Feb. 29, 2024, in Glendale, Arizona. The U.S. Justice Department said on May 8 that Mizuhara, who was dismissed in March, has agreed to plead guilty on two charges, including bank fraud, in an upcoming arraignment, in a case where prosecutors allege that he stole nearly $17 million from one of Ohtani's bank accounts to cover gambling debts.

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Japan's Foreign Minister Kamikawa

Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa gives an interview in Tokyo on Feb. 29, 2024.

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Japan's Foreign Minister Kamikawa speaks in interview

Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa gives an interview in Tokyo on Feb. 29, 2024.

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Japan's Foreign Minister Kamikawa speaks in interview

Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa gives an interview in Tokyo on Feb. 29, 2024.

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Japan's Foreign Minister Kamikawa

Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa gives an interview in Tokyo on Feb. 29, 2024.

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U.S. President Biden

U.S. President Joe Biden (C,L) delivers a speech in Brownsville, Texas, on Feb. 29, 2024, after visiting the U.S.-Mexico border.

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BOJ chief Ueda in Brazil

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda holds a press conference in Sao Paulo on Feb. 29, 2024.

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G20 finance chiefs meeting in Brazil

Brazilian Finance Minister Fernando Haddad (C) attends a press conference in Sao Paulo on Feb. 29, 2024, after the conclusion of meetings of finances chiefs of the Group of 20 advanced and emerging economies.

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G20 finance chiefs meeting in Brazil

Brazilian Finance Minister Fernando Haddad attends a press conference in Sao Paulo on Feb. 29, 2024, after the conclusion of meetings of finances chiefs of the Group of 20 advanced and emerging economies.

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G20 finance chiefs meeting in Brazil

Finance chiefs from the Group of 20 advanced and emerging economies meet in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Feb. 29, 2024.

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Baseball: Ohtani speaks about marriage

Shohei Ohtani (L) of the Los Angeles Dodgers speaks to reporters in Glendale, Arizona, on Feb. 29, 2024, after announcing his marriage.

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Baseball: Ohtani speaks about marriage

Shohei Ohtani (L) of the Los Angeles Dodgers speaks to reporters in Glendale, Arizona, on Feb. 29, 2024, after announcing his marriage.

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Baseball: Ohtani speaks about marriage

Shohei Ohtani (C) of the Los Angeles Dodgers speaks to reporters in Glendale, Arizona, on Feb. 29, 2024, after announcing his marriage.

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Baseball: Ohtani speaks about marriage

Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Dodgers speaks to reporters in Glendale, Arizona, on Feb. 29, 2024, after announcing his marriage.

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Baseball: Ohtani speaks about marriage

Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Dodgers speaks to reporters in Glendale, Arizona, on Feb. 29, 2024, after announcing his marriage.

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Baseball: Ohtani speaks about marriage

Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Dodgers speaks to reporters in Glendale, Arizona, on Feb. 29, 2024, after announcing his marriage.

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Baseball: Ohtani speaks about marriage

Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Dodgers speaks to reporters in Glendale, Arizona, on Feb. 29, 2024, after announcing his marriage.

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Fireworks launched in Toyama to cheer up quake evacuees

Fireworks light up the night sky above Toyama, central Japan, on Feb. 29, 2024, in a show of support for evacuees from the quake-hit city of Suzu in neighboring Ishikawa Prefecture who are currently staying in a nearby resort hotel following the Jan. 1 disaster.

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CORRECTED: Baseball superstar Ohtani reveals marriage

A man reads a copy of an extra edition of the Iwate Nippo daily newspaper in Morioka, capital of Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani's home prefecture of Iwate, on Feb. 29, 2024, after he announced his marriage to a Japanese woman.

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Czech foreign minister in Tokyo

Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa (R) shakes hands with her Czech counterpart Jan Lipavsky during a meeting in Tokyo on Feb. 29, 2024.

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World's first immersive theme park

Photo taken during a media preview on Feb. 29, 2024, shows the Immersive Fort Tokyo theme park in the capital's Odaiba area a day ahead of its opening to the public. The world's first immersive theme park, the facility has 12 attractions including a theater replicating Sherlock Holmes' Murder in Baker Street case.

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World's first immersive theme park

Photo taken during a media preview on Feb. 29, 2024, shows the Immersive Fort Tokyo theme park in the capital's Odaiba area a day ahead of its opening to the public. The world's first immersive theme park, the facility has 12 attractions including a theater replicating Sherlock Holmes' Murder in Baker Street case.

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World's first immersive theme park

Photo taken during a media preview on Feb. 29, 2024, shows the Immersive Fort Tokyo theme park in the capital's Odaiba area a day ahead of its opening to the public. The world's first immersive theme park, the facility has 12 attractions including a theater replicating Sherlock Holmes' Murder in Baker Street case.

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70th anniversary of Lucky Dragon tragedy

Photo shows the tuna fishing boat Fukuryu Maru No. 5, also known as the Lucky Dragon, at an exhibition hall in Tokyo on Feb. 29, 2024, on the eve of the 70th anniversary of its crew tragically being exposed to radiation in a U.S. hydrogen bomb test in the Marshall Islands in the Pacific. The crew suffered acute radiation sickness, and the chief radio operator died six months later at age 40.

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70th anniversary of Lucky Dragon tragedy

Photo shows the tuna fishing boat Fukuryu Maru No. 5, also known as the Lucky Dragon, at an exhibition hall in Tokyo on Feb. 29, 2024, on the eve of the 70th anniversary of its crew tragically being exposed to radiation in a U.S. hydrogen bomb test in the Marshall Islands in the Pacific. The crew suffered acute radiation sickness, and the chief radio operator died six months later at age 40.

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Football: N. Korea team to return home

Members of the North Korea women's national football team leave their hotel in Tokyo on Feb. 29, 2024, following the second leg of their two final Paris Olympic qualifying games against Japan the previous day.

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Football: N. Korea team to return home

Members of the North Korea women's national football team leave their hotel in Tokyo on Feb. 29, 2024, following the second leg of their two final Paris Olympic qualifying games against Japan the previous day.

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Japan-Mongolia defense talks

Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara (R) and his Mongolian counterpart Gursediin Saikhanbayar shake hands in Tokyo on Feb. 29, 2024, following their signing of a memorandum on bilateral defense cooperation.

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PM Kishida at political ethics panel session

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks on Feb. 29, 2024, at a session of the House of Representatives political ethics deliberative council in Tokyo, held for the first time since July 2009 to examine a political funds scandal involving his Liberal Democratic Party. (Pool photo)

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PM Kishida at political ethics panel session

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks on Feb. 29, 2024, at a session of the House of Representatives political ethics deliberative council in Tokyo, held for the first time since July 2009 to examine a political funds scandal involving his Liberal Democratic Party. (Pool photo)

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PM Kishida at political ethics panel session

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks on Feb. 29, 2024, at a session of the House of Representatives political ethics deliberative council in Tokyo, held for the first time since July 2009 to examine a political funds scandal involving his Liberal Democratic Party. (Pool photo)

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Japan PM Kishida

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida arrives at the premier's office in Tokyo on Feb. 29, 2024.

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Japan PM Kishida

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida arrives at the premier's office in Tokyo on Feb. 29, 2024.

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Japan PM Kishida

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida arrives at the premier's office in Tokyo on Feb. 29, 2024.

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A scene in Myanmar

A woman prays at Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangonon Jan. 29, 2023, ahead of the Feb. 1 anniversary of the military coup that ousted Myanmar's democratically elected government in 2021.

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A scene in Myanmar

People walk in a market in Yangon on Jan. 29, 2023, ahead of the Feb. 1 anniversary of the military coup that ousted Myanmar's democratically elected government in 2021.

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A scene in Myanmar

People pray at Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon on Jan. 29, 2023, ahead of the Feb. 1 anniversary of the military coup that ousted Myanmar's democratically elected government in 2021.

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Megasolar plant at Kansai int'l airport

KANSAI AIRPORT, Japan - Photo shows a megasolar power plant on idle land at Kansai International Airport near Osaka on Jan. 29, 2014. New Kansai International Airport Co. held a ceremony the following day to open the power plant before it starts operation on Feb. 1.

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Cruise liner docks as 'floating hotel' at Sochi port

SOCHI, Russia - The cruise liner Thomson Spirit anchors at Imeritinsky port in Sochi, Russia, on Jan. 29, 2014, as one of seven "floating hotels" for accommodating visitors to the Winter Olympic Games to be held in the Black Sea resort city from Feb. 7 to 23.

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New coronavirus

NAGASAKI, Japan, March 1 Kyodo - Few people are seen in the historic Dejima district of Nagasaki in southwestern Japan on Feb. 29, 2020, amid the ongoing coronavirus outbreak.

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N. Korean hostel in Berlin

BERLIN, Germany, Feb. 4 Kyodo - Photo taken Jan. 29, 2020, shows a hostel operated by North Korea on the premises of the North Korean Embassy in Berlin. A German court ruled recently that City Hostel Berlin be shut down as it violated the 2016 U.N. Security Council resolution banning North Korean real estate business in third countries.

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A month before Sochi Olympics

SOCHI, Russia - Photo shows workers near the Olympic Park (back) in Sochi, Russia, on Dec. 29, 2013. The Winter Games will be held in the Black Sea resort from Feb. 7 to 23, 2014.

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Olympic symbol at Sochi station

SOCHI, Russia - Photo shows the Olympic symbol set up at Sochi station, Russia, on Oct. 29, 2013, about 100 days before the Feb. 7 start of the Winter Olympics in Sochi.

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Nikkei jumps to highest level since Sept. 2008

TOKYO, Japan - An electronic board in Tokyo's Yaesu district shows Japan's Nikkei stock index ending at 11,463.75 on Feb. 6, 2013, up 416.83 points from the previous day and its highest close since Sept. 29, 2008, following the collapse of U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.

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Gori nuclear plant

SEOUL, South Korea - Photo shows the Gori Nuclear Power Plant in Busan, South Korea, on Feb. 29, 2012. In the far right is the Gori-1 reactor, which was suspended in March 2012 following a report of a possible malfunction.

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Alex Morgan

VILAMOURA, Portugal - Alex Morgan (L) of the United States women's national soccer team passes the ball in an Algarve Cup game against Denmark in Lagos, Portugal, on Feb. 29, 2012. The United States won 5-0.

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Abby Wambach

VILAMOURA, Portugal - Abby Wambach, a star striker of the United States women's national soccer team, is shown in action in an Algarve Cup game against Denmark in Lagos, Portugal, on Feb. 29, 2012. The United States won 5-0.

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Unrest in Xinjiang

KASHGAR, China - A vehicle of armed police is parked near the scene of an attack in Yecheng County in the Kashgar region of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in northwestern China on Feb. 29, 2012. The photo was taken from inside a vehicle.

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Unrest in Xinjiang

KASHGAR, China - Vigilantes carrying batons guard a road near the scene of an attack in Yecheng County in the Kashgar region of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in northwestern China on Feb. 29, 2012. The photo was taken from inside a vehicle.