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Jetstar Japan passengers top 50 million

Jetstar Japan Co. President Masaru Kataoka attends a ceremony at Narita airport near Tokyo on May 24, 2024, after the low-cost carrier carried its 50 millionth passenger the previous day since its inaugural flight in July 2012.

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Jetstar Japan passengers top 50 million

Jetstar Japan Co. employees pose for a photo at Narita airport near Tokyo on May 24, 2024, after the low-cost carrier carried its 50 millionth passenger the previous day since its inaugural flight in July 2012.

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AirAsia, ANA to dissolve Japan joint venture

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows airplanes of AirAsia Bhd., Asia's biggest budget airline based in Malaysia, at Narita airport near Tokyo in July 2012. Sources said on June 24, 2013, that AirAsia has decided to dissolve its joint venture in Japan with All Nippon Airways Co.

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Transportation development around Vladivostok

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Photo taken Aug. 24, 2012, shows the new terminal building of an airport in a suburb of Vladivostok, where flight services began on July 23.

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Train track damaged by downpour in Kyushu

ASO, Japan - Photo taken on Aug. 24, 2012, shows train track wreckage in Aso, Kumamoto Prefecture. Kyushu Railway Co. (JR Kyushu) showed to the media a section of the JR Hohi Line severely damaged by torrential rain in July. Train service in the area is still suspended.

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Train track damaged by downpour in Kyushu

ASO, Japan - Photo taken on Aug. 24, 2012, shows train track wreckage in Aso, Kumamoto Prefecture. Kyushu Railway Co. (JR Kyushu) showed to the media a section of the JR Hohi Line severely damaged by torrential rain in July. Train service in the area is still suspended.

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Train track damaged by downpour in Kyushu

ASO, Japan - Photo taken on Aug. 24, 2012, shows a stretch of damaged train track of the JR Hohi Line in Aso, Kumamoto Prefecture. Kyushu Railway Co. (JR Kyushu) showed to the media a section of the railroad line on which service is still suspended due to damage caused by a downpour in July.

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Ex-Kyoto Univ. president Michio Okamoto dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in 1989 shows Michio Okamoto, a former president of Kyoto University. Okamoto, who chaired an advisory panel on Japan's education policy in the 1980s, died July 24, 2012, of chronic heart failure at a Kyoto hospital. He was 98.

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Japan disaster-hit students visit New York

NEW YORK, United States - Students from Sendai Ikuei Gakuen's Shukoh Middle School in Tagajo, Miyagi Prefecture, sing in New York on July 24, 2012. The high school students from the disaster-hit prefecture shared their stories of surviving the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami at an event there, expressing their gratitude for support they received from around the world.

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Japan disaster-hit students visit New York

NEW YORK, United States - Gosei Arima, a student from Sendai Ikuei Gakuen's Shukoh Middle School in Tagajo, Miyagi Prefecture, speaks on his disaster experience in New York on July 24, 2012. Twenty-six students from the school in the disaster-hit prefecture shared their stories of surviving the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami at an event there, expressing their gratitude for support they received from around the world.

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Japan disaster-hit students visit New York

NEW YORK, United States - Sahoko Baba, a student from Sendai Ikuei Gakuen's Shukoh Middle School in Tagajo, Miyagi Prefecture, speaks on her disaster experience in New York on July 24, 2012. Twenty-six students from the school in the disaster-hit prefecture shared their stories of surviving the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami at an event there, expressing their gratitude for support they received from around the world.

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Japan disaster-hit students visit New York

NEW YORK, United States - Students from Sendai Ikuei Gakuen's Shukoh Middle School in Tagajo, Miyagi Prefecture, sing in New York on July 24, 2012. The high school students from the disaster-hit prefecture shared their stories of surviving the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami at an event there, expressing their gratitude for support they received from around the world.

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Japanese students from quake-hit areas begin U.S. tour

WASHINGTON, United States - High school students from Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures, which were devastated by the March 11 earthquake of 2011, gather for a photo on Capitol Hill in Washington on July 24, 2012. Sixty high school students from the quake-hit areas started a U.S. tour the same day as part of a bilateral exchange-promotion program dubbed the Tomodachi initiative.

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Solar plane completes transcontinental flight

PAYERNE, Switzerland - The Solar Impulse lands at Payerne airport in western Switzerland on July 24, 2012. The solar-powered plane completed a transcontinental flight from Europe to North Africa and back.

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Hitachi aims to quadruple sales in Brazil by FY 2015

SAO PAULO, Brazil - Hiroaki Nakanishi, president of Hitachi Ltd., speaks at a press conference in Sao Paulo on July 24, 2012. Nakanishi said the Japanese electronics maker aims to quadruple its sales in Brazil to 120 billion yen by the end of fiscal 2015 by investing 24 billion yen in the country by fiscal 2015.

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Japanese students from quake-hit areas begin U.S. tour

WASHINGTON, United States - High school students from Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures, which were devastated by the March 11 earthquake of 2011, gather for a photo on Capitol Hill in Washington on July 24, 2012. Sixty high school students from the quake-hit areas started a U.S. tour the same day as part of a bilateral exchange-promotion program dubbed the Tomodachi initiative.

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KBS president in N. Korea

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Kim In Kyu (L), president of South Korean broadcaster KBS, is greeted upon his arrival at Pyongyang airport on July 24, 2012. Kim is on a visit to North Korea as head of the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union.

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Solar plane completes transcontinental flight

PAYERNE, Switzerland - The two pilots cerebrate after the Solar Impulse landed at Payerne airport in western Switzerland on July 24, 2012. The solar-powered plane completed a transcontinental flight from Europe to North Africa and back.

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Japanese athletes in London

LONDON, Britain - The Japanese Olympic delegation takes part in a ceremony to mark their arrival at the Athletes' Village in London on July 24, 2012.

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Maruti Suzuki plant in India

GURGAON, India - Photo shows a car plant of Indian-Japanese carmaker Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. in Gurgaon in Haryana State, India, on July 24, 2012. The Manesar car plant has been closed since rioting took place July 18. The car seen in front was damaged in the violence.

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China helicopter drill

BEIJING, China - Crew members answer questions as China stages an army attack helicopter exercise for foreign media near Beijing on July 24, 2012.

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China helicopter drill

BEIJING, China - An army transport helicopter is shown to foreign reporters near Beijing on July 24, 2012.

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Maruti Suzuki plant in India

GURGAON, India - Photo shows a car plant of Indian-Japanese carmaker Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. in Gurgaon in Haryana State, India, on July 24, 2012. The Manesar car plant has been closed since rioting took place July 18.

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Volkswagen launches CC premium sedan in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows the Volkswagen CC sedan, which was launched in Japan by Volkswagen Group Japan KK on July 24, 2012.

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China helicopter drill

BEIJING, China - China stages an army attack helicopter exercise for foreign media near Beijing on July 24, 2012.

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China helicopter drill

BEIJING, China - China stages an army attack helicopter exercise for foreign media near Beijing on July 24, 2012.

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U.S. Osprey aircraft at Iwakuni base

IWAKUNI, Japan - MV-22 Ospreys are seen at the U.S. Marine Corps' Iwakuni Air Station in Yamaguchi Prefecture on July 24, 2012. The press relations office of the Iwakuni base announced the engines of the U.S. military aircraft will be started up the same day as part of preparations for future flights.

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Emperor, empress visit Nasu exhibition

NASU, Japan - Japanese Emperor Akihito (R front) and Empress Michiko (behind the emperor) view exhibits on the nature of Nasu at a facility in the town of Nasu, Tochigi Prefecture, on July 24, 2012. (Pool photo)

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Sumitomo Electric unveils solar power generator

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd. unveils a solar power generation system for factories in Yokohama on July 24, 2012. The system combines solar cells, twice as efficient as conventional ones, with a large battery charger.

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Tokyo stocks fall below 8,500

TOKYO, Japan - A display in the Tokyo office of money broker Gaitame.com Co. shows the Nikkei Stock Average at 8,448.52 on the morning of July 24, 2012, falling below the 8,500 mark for the first time during trading hours since June 12.

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Emperor, empress visit Nasu exhibition

NASU, Japan - Japanese Emperor Akihito (2nd from R) and Empress Michiko (R) view exhibits on the nature of Nasu at a facility in the town of Nasu, Tochigi Prefecture, on July 24, 2012. (Pool photo)

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U.S. Osprey aircraft at Iwakuni base

IWAKUNI, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows MV-22 Ospreys at the U.S. Marine Corps' Iwakuni Air Station in Yamaguchi Prefecture on July 24, 2012. The press relations office of the Iwakuni base announced the engines of the U.S. military aircraft will be started up the same day as part of preparations for future flights.

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U.S. Osprey aircraft at Iwakuni base

IWAKUNI, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows MV-22 Ospreys at the U.S. Marine Corps' Iwakuni Air Station in Yamaguchi Prefecture on July 24, 2012. The press relations office of the Iwakuni base announced the engines of the U.S. military aircraft will be started up the same day as part of preparations for future flights. A residential area is seen in the front.

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U.S. Osprey aircraft at Iwakuni base

IWAKUNI, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows 12 MV-22 Ospreys at the U.S. Marine Corps' Iwakuni Air Station in Yamaguchi Prefecture on July 24, 2012. The press relations office of the Iwakuni base announced the engines of the U.S. military aircraft will be started up the same day as part of preparations for future flights.

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Sharp expected to log 100 bil. yen net loss for April-June

OSAKA, Japan - File photo shows the headquarters of Sharp Corp. in Osaka. Sharp is expected to report a group net loss of around 100 billion yen for the April-June quarter in 2012 due to its deteriorating liquid crystal panel business, sources familiar with the matter said on July 24, 2012.

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Health check for Minamata disease ahead of relief deadline

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - A man (L) receives a health checkup in Izumi, Kagoshima Prefecture, on June 24, 2012, in the largest-ever screening for potential Minamata disease sufferers in Kumamoto and Kagoshima prefectures ahead of the end-of-July deadline for applying for state redress.

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Health check for Minamata disease ahead of relief deadline

KUMAMOTO, Japan - People visit a hospital to receive a health checkup in Minamata, Kumamoto Prefecture, on June 24, 2012, in the largest-ever screening for potential Minamata disease sufferers in Kumamoto and Kagoshima prefectures ahead of the end-of-July deadline for applying for state redress.

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Health check for Minamata disease ahead of relief deadline

KUMAMOTO, Japan - A doctor examines a man in Amakusa, Kumamoto Prefecture, on June 24, 2012, in the largest-ever screening for potential Minamata disease sufferers in Kumamoto and Kagoshima prefectures ahead of the end-of-July deadline for applying for state redress.