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Surfing: World Games

Tokyo Olympic surfing silver medalist Kanoa Igarashi of Japan meets the press in Tokyo on Dec. 25, 2023, after being named to represent Japan at the World Surfing Games starting in Puerto Rico in February 2024.

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Surfing: World Games

Connor O'Leary of Japan meets the press in Tokyo on Dec. 25, 2023, ahead of the World Surfing Games in Puerto Rico starting in February.

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Surfing: World Games

Japanese surfer Amuro Tsuzuki meets the press in Tokyo on Dec. 25, 2023, ahead of the World Surfing Games in Puerto Rico starting in February.

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Japan's Thomas-themed train to retire

TOKYO, Japan, March 12 Kyodo - Photo taken on Jan. 25, 2018, shows a Thomas the Tank Engine train that runs in Otsuki, central Japan. Its operator Fuji Kyuko Co. has decided to retire the aging train in February 2019.

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Mother sheep stroll on snow-covered ground in Sapporo

SAPPORO, Japan - A total of 32 mother sheep, including 13 pregnant sheep, walk on snow-covered ground of the National Agriculture and Food Research Organization in Sapporo, Hokkaido, on Dec. 25, 2014. They took a 1-kilometer, 15-minute walk to make up for a lack of exercise. The sheep will continue their walk in the snow almost every day until February.

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China's top policy negotiator begins landmark Taiwan visit

TAOYUAN, Taiwan - China's Taiwan Affairs Council Minister Zhang Zhijun (L) and Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council Minister Wang Yu-chi shake hands at a hotel in Taoyuan County, Taiwan, on June 25, 2014, prior to their talks. The two sides held talks in Nanjing and Shanghai in February, the first intergovernmental talks since the Chinese Civil War ended 65 years ago.

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China's top policy negotiator begins landmark Taiwan visit

TAOYUAN, Taiwan - China's Taiwan Affairs Council Minister Zhang Zhijun (L) and Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council Minister Wang Yu-chi shake hands at a hotel in Taoyuan County, Taiwan, on June 25, 2014, prior to their talks. The two sides held talks in Nanjing and Shanghai in February, the first intergovernmental talks since the Chinese Civil War ended 65 years ago.

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Honda Insight

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows the Insight, Honda Motor Co.'s first hybrid vehicle released in 1999. Sources close to the automaker said on Feb. 25, 2014, the company plans to cease production of the Insight at the end of February 2014.

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30 foreign applicants pass nursing examination in Japan

KOBE, Japan - Laraswaty Suyono, an Indonesian nurse, holds a press conference at a hospital in Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture, where she works on March 25, 2013. Suyono is among a total of 30 applicants from the Philippines and Indonesia who have passed an examination held in February qualifying them to work as nurses in Japan.

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Toyota in Russian Far East

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Russia's First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov (L) views the assembly process for Land Cruiser Prado sport utility vehicles at a plant of Japanese automaker Toyota Motor Corp. in Vladivostok in the Russian Far East on Jan. 25, 2013. Toyota said it will commence full-fledged production of SUVs at the plant in February.

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Toyota in Russian Far East

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Russia's First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov (far R) views the assembly process for Land Cruiser Prado sport utility vehicles at a plant of Japanese automaker Toyota Motor Corp. in Vladivostok in the Russian Far East on Jan. 25, 2013. Toyota said it will commence full-fledged production of SUVs at the plant in February.

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Kenyan Nobel Prize winner Maathai dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize winner and environmentalist Wangari Maathai (front L) visiting the A-Bomb Dome in Hiroshima, western Japan, escorted by then Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba, in February 2010. Maathai died at the age of 71 on Sept. 25, 2011, at a hospital in Nairobi while undergoing treatment for cancer, according to her organization the Green Belt Movement.

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World champion Takahashi returns home

NARITA, Japan - Daisuke Takahashi, who became the first Japanese man to capture the gold medal at the World Figure Skating Championships in Turin, Italy, on March 25, 2010, smiles after arriving at Narita International Airport, east of Tokyo, on March 30. Takahashi was also the first Japanese man to win an Olympic figure skating medal with a bronze in Vancouver, Canada, in February.

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Underwater camera filmed bodies in suspected N. Korea spy ship

FUKUOKA, Japan - Photo taken on February 25, 2002 shows the Japan Coast Guard survey ship Kaiyo in operation to investigate a suspected North Korean spy ship lying at the bottom of the East China Sea. Sources close to the investigation said April 1 that a remote-controlled camera filmed several bodies in the spy ship.

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3 businessmen suicide

Three Japanese business partners hanged themselves at a hotel in the city of Kunitachi, western Tokyo, on February 25, 1998, apparently because of business difficulties. Three men are identified as Mr. Masaaki Kobayashi, 51, president of an auto parts sales company, Mr. Masaru Sudo, 49, self-employed, and Mr. Yoshimi Shoji, 49, president of an auto parts sales comapny. (Photo: ""Le Piano"" where they died.)