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Former Japan national volleyball team player Kano

TOKYO, Japan, Jan. 8 Kyodo - Photo taken in 2012 shows Japanese volleyball player Maiko Kano. On Jan. 3, 2025, Akito Kiriyama, a member of Japanese idol group WEST., announced on his agency's website that he married the former Japan national team player.

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US: Brush Fire Erupts In Del Mar Heights, San Diego 3

A brush fire erupted in the Del Mar Heights neighborhood in San Diego on Tuesday morning, June 25. The fire near Mira Montana Drive off Del Mar Heights Road prompted the mandatory evacuation of 2,500 residents from the area. The fire's forward progress was stopped by about 5:30 p.m. and all evacuation orders and warnings have been lifted by 7:20 p.m.

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U.S. diplomat in China

BEIJING, China - Kurt Campbell (C), U.S. assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, arrives at Beijing international airport on Jan. 3, 2012, on the first leg of his Asian tour to China, South Korea and Japan.

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Lawyer Takimoto

TOKYO, Japan - Lawyer Taro Takimoto answers reporters' questions after meeting Makoto Hirata, a former leading member of the AUM Shinrikyo cult, at a police station in Tokyo on Jan. 3, 2012. Hirata has been detained at the police station since turning himself in to police late on Dec. 31, 2011, after being on the run for more than 16 years.

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Sakai joins Stuttgart

STUTTGART, Germany - Japan Under-22 defender Gotoku Sakai (L) holds his new shirt during a press conference in Stuttgart, Germany, on Jan. 3, 2012, after joining German first-division team Stuttgart on loan from Albirex Niigata through June 2013.

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Huge rally in Pyongyang

PYONGYANG, North Korea - North Korea holds a huge morale-boosting rally in Pyongyang's Kim Il Sung Square on Jan. 3, 2012, aimed at achieving national goals. Around 100,000 people participated.

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Huge rally in Pyongyang

PYONGYANG, North Korea - North Korea holds a huge morale-boosting rally in Pyongyang's Kim Il Sung Square on Jan. 3, 2012, aimed at achieving national goals. Around 100,000 people participated.

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Huge rally in Pyongyang

PYONGYANG, North Korea - North Korea holds a huge morale-boosting rally in Pyongyang's Kim Il Sung Square on Jan. 3, 2012, aimed at achieving national goals. Around 100,000 people participated.

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Narita airport arrival lobby

NARITA, Japan - The arrival lobby at Narita airport, near Tokyo, is crowded with people returning from New Year holidays overseas on Jan. 3, 2012.

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Huge rally in Pyongyang

PYONGYANG, North Korea - North Korea holds a huge morale-boosting rally in Pyongyang's Kim Il Sung Square on Jan. 3, 2012, aimed at achieving national goals. Around 100,000 people participated.

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Huge rally in Pyongyang

PYONGYANG, North Korea - North Korea holds a huge morale-boosting rally in Pyongyang's Kim Il Sung Square on Jan. 3, 2012, aimed at achieving national goals. Around 100,000 people participated.

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Territorial dispute over Senkaku Islands

HONG KONG, China - A fishing vessel carrying activists from Hong Kong, mainland China and Taiwan is pictured shortly before leaving Hong Kong port for the disputed Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea to assert Chinese sovereignty on Jan. 3, 2012, the same day two Japanese local assemblymen landed on one of the islands, angering China. The fishing vessel was stopped in Hong Kong waters, boarded by officials of Hong Kong's Marine Department and escorted back to port.

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Toyo Univ. wins Hakone ekiden

TOKYO, Japan - Toyo University anchor Takashi Saito crosses the finishing line in Tokyo's Otemachi business district on Jan. 3, 2012. Toyo won the annual collegiate ekiden road relay -- a two-day, 217.9-kilometer round trip between Otemachi and the spa resort of Hakone in Kanagawa Prefecture -- for the third time in four years with a record time of 10 hours, 51 minutes, 36 seconds.

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Toyo Univ. wins Hakone ekiden

TOKYO, Japan - Toyo University's Ryuji Kashiwabara is tossed into the air by teammates in Tokyo's Otemachi business district on Jan. 3, 2012, after the university won the Tokyo-Hakone collegiate ekiden relay race. Toyo won the annual race -- a two-day, 217.9-kilometer round trip between Otemachi and the spa resort of Hakone in Kanagawa Prefecture -- for the third time in four years with a record time of 10 hours, 51 minutes, 36 seconds. (Pool photo)

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Obic wins Rice Bowl

TOKYO, Japan - Defensive back Masashi Fujimoto (L) of the Obic Seagulls competes for the ball with wide receiver Shunsuke Wada (16) of Kwansei Gakuin University during the first quarter of the Rice Bowl at Tokyo Dome in Tokyo on Jan. 3, 2012. Obic of the corporate league won the game 38-28 for their second straight victory in the Rice Bowl, the Japanese championship of American football.

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Yangon's Insein Prison

YANGON, Myanmar - People await the release of detained family members in front of Insein Prison in Yangon, the largest city in Myanmar, on Jan. 3, 2012. Myanmar's President Thein Sein announced the previous day that he was reducing prisoners' sentences to mark the country's 64th independence anniversary on Jan. 4.

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Obic wins Rice Bowl

TOKYO, Japan - Wide receiver Ken Shimizu (C) of the Obic Seagulls is tackled by defensive backs Nobuhiro Shigeta (12) and Takehiro Ko (R) of Kwansei Gakuin University during the third quarter of the Rice Bowl at Tokyo Dome in Tokyo on Jan. 3, 2012. Obic of the corporate league won the game 38-28 for their second straight victory in the Rice Bowl, the Japanese championship of American football.

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Yangon's Insein Prison

YANGON, Myanmar - People await the release of detained family members in front of Insein Prison in Yangon, the largest city in Myanmar, on Jan. 3, 2012. Myanmar's President Thein Sein announced the previous day that he was reducing prisoners' sentences to mark the country's 64th independence anniversary on Jan. 4.

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Narita airport arrival lobby

NARITA, Japan - The arrival lobby at Narita airport, near Tokyo, is crowded with people returning from New Year holidays overseas on Jan. 3, 2012.

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Body of famed Japanese climber killed in Russia returns home

SHIZUOKA, Japan - The coffin containing famed Japanese climber Haruhisa Watanabe arrives at his family's home in the town of Mori, Shizuoka Prefecture, on Jan. 3, 2013. Watanabe, 31, died on Dec. 26, 2012, in a traffic accident in Russia's Murmansk region during a cycling expedition through Central Asia. In 2004, when aged 22, he became the youngest Japanese to scale the tallest peaks of the seven continents.

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Shiga Gov. Kada

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Shiga Gov. Yukiko Kada. Kada, who formed the antinuclear Tomorrow Party of Japan ahead of the general election in December 2012, has decided to quit as head of a splinter group from the party amid criticism that she has neglected her duties as governor, sources close to her said on Jan. 3, 2013.

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Tokyo Gov. Ishihara

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara (R) speaks at a meeting of the Sunrise Party of Japan in Tokyo on Jan. 3, 2012. To the left is Sunrise Party of Japan leader Takeo Hiranuma. The two men plus People's New Party leader Shizuka Kamei are said to be planning to launch a new party.

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Tokyo Gov. Ishihara

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara (R) speaks at a meeting of the Sunrise Party of Japan in Tokyo on Jan. 3, 2012. To the left is Sunrise Party of Japan leader Takeo Hiranuma. The two men plus People's New Party leader Shizuka Kamei are said to be planning to launch a new party.

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Ex-upper house lawmaker Tomobe dies at 83

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in May 1995 shows Tatsuo Tomobe, a former House of Councillors member who was convicted of fraud and expelled from parliament in 2001. Tomobe died on Jan. 28, 2012, in Tokyo, police said Feb. 3, 2012. He was 83.

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Han elected leader of S. Korea opposition party

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in Seoul on May 3, 2006, shows former South Korean Prime Minister Han Myeong Sook. South Korea's main opposition Democratic United Party on Jan. 15, 2012, elected her as its new leader.

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Japanese ski jumper Takanashi

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Dec. 3, 2011, shows Japanese teenage ski jumper Sara Takanashi. Takanashi, 15, placed second in a World Cup event on Jan. 8, 2012, in Hinterzarten, Germany, becoming the first Japanese female jumper to stand on the podium in the three events held so far on the inaugural World Cup ski jumping circuit.

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Ultraman, Ultraseven exhibition at museum in Mito

MITO, Japan - Photo shows figures of Ultraman (L) and Ultraseven (R), characters from popular Japanese TV hero series aired since the 1960s, on display at the Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki, in Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, on Nov. 2, 2011. An exhibition entitled ''Ultraman Art! Times and creation Ultraman & Ultraseven'' runs from Nov. 3, 2011, through Jan. 15, 2012.