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Shark sucker

Photo taken on July 31, 2025, shows a shark sucker at Uozu Aquarium in Uozu in the central Japan prefecture of Toyama.

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Shark sucker

Photo taken on July 31, 2025, shows a shark sucker at Uozu Aquarium in Uozu in the central Japan prefecture of Toyama.

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Boxing: Takami claims WBA light flyweight world championship

Japanese boxer Kyosuke Takami smiles at a press conference in Tokyo on July 31, 2025, a day after claiming the WBA light flyweight world championship.

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Boxing: Takami claims WBA light flyweight world championship

Japanese boxer Kyosuke Takami takes a pose at a press conference in Tokyo on July 31, 2025, a day after claiming the WBA light flyweight world championship.

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Boxing: Takami claims WBA light flyweight world championship

Japanese boxer Kyosuke Takami takes a pose at a press conference in Tokyo on July 31, 2025, a day after claiming the WBA light flyweight world championship.

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Golf: Women's British Open

Rio Takeda of Japan plays a shot during the first round of the Women's British Open golf tournament on July 31, 2025, at Royal Porthcawl Golf Club in Wales.

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Golf: Women's British Open

Rio Takeda of Japan plays a shot during the first round of the Women's British Open golf tournament on July 31, 2025, at Royal Porthcawl Golf Club in Wales.

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Golf: Women's British Open

Eri Okayama of Japan plays a shot during the first round of the Women's British Open golf tournament on July 31, 2025, at Royal Porthcawl Golf Club in Wales.

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Finnish President Stubb

Finnish President Alexander Stubb gives an interview to Kyodo News in Helsinki on July 31, 2025.

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Finnish President Stubb

Finnish President Alexander Stubb gives an interview to Kyodo News in Helsinki on July 31, 2025.

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Swimming: World aquatics championships

France's Leon Marchand poses with the gold medal he won in the men's 200-meter individual medley at the world aquatics championships in Singapore on July 31, 2025, alongside silver medalist Shaine Casas of the United States and bronze medalist Hubert Kos of Hungary.

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Swimming: World aquatics championships

France's Leon Marchand poses with the gold medal he won in the men's 200-meter individual medley at the world aquatics championships in Singapore on July 31, 2025, alongside silver medalist Shaine Casas of the United States and bronze medalist Hubert Kos of Hungary.

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Swimming: World aquatics championships

France's Leon Marchand poses with the gold medal he won in the men's 200-meter individual medley at the world aquatics championships in Singapore on July 31, 2025, alongside silver medalist Shaine Casas of the United States and bronze medalist Hubert Kos of Hungary.

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World aquatics championships: Swimming

Leon Marchand of France swims to gold in the men's 200-meter individual medley final at the world aquatics championships in Singapore on July 31, 2025.

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Golf: Women's British Open

Mao Saigo of Japan hits off the first tee during the first round of the Women's British Open golf tournament on July 31, 2025, at Royal Porthcawl Golf Club in Wales.

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Golf: Women's British Open

Hinako Shibuno of Japan hits off the first tee during the first round of the Women's British Open golf tournament on July 31, 2025, at Royal Porthcawl Golf Club in Wales.

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Festival in northeastern Japan

Decorated floats are lined up in Hachinohe in Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on July 31, 2025, as the annual Hachinohe Sansha Taisai festival kicks off. The floats, each 11 meters high and 8 meters wide, will be paraded for three days starting the following day as part of the five-day festival, which dates back around 300 years and, in 2016, was inscribed on UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage list.

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Festival in northeastern Japan

Decorated floats are lined up in Hachinohe in Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on July 31, 2025, as the annual Hachinohe Sansha Taisai festival kicks off. The floats, each 11 meters high and 8 meters wide, will be paraded for three days starting the following day as part of the five-day festival, which dates back around 300 years and, in 2016, was inscribed on UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage list.

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Festival in northeastern Japan

Decorated floats are lined up in Hachinohe in Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on July 31, 2025, as the annual Hachinohe Sansha Taisai festival kicks off. The floats, each 11 meters high and 8 meters wide, will be paraded for three days starting the following day as part of the five-day festival, which dates back around 300 years and, in 2016, was inscribed on UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage list.

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Festival in northeastern Japan

Decorated floats are lined up in Hachinohe in Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on July 31, 2025, as the annual Hachinohe Sansha Taisai festival kicks off. The floats, each 11 meters high and 8 meters wide, will be paraded for three days starting the following day as part of the five-day festival, which dates back around 300 years and, in 2016, was inscribed on UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage list.

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BOJ policy-setting meeting

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda holds a press conference at the central bank's headquarters in Tokyo on July 31, 2025, following its two-day policy-setting meeting.

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BOJ policy-setting meeting

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda holds a press conference at the central bank's headquarters in Tokyo on July 31, 2025, following its two-day policy-setting meeting.

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Japan empress at medal ceremony

Japan's Empress Masako (R) confers a Florence Nightingale Medal on an awardee during an award ceremony in Tokyo on July 31, 2025.

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Japan empress at medal ceremony

Japan's Empress Masako (R) and Crown Princess Kiko attend a Florence Nightingale Medal award ceremony in Tokyo on July 31, 2025.

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Japan empress at medal ceremony

Japan's Empress Masako attends a Florence Nightingale Medal award ceremony in Tokyo on July 31, 2025.

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BOJ policy-setting meeting

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda holds a press conference at the central bank's headquarters in Tokyo on July 31, 2025, following its two-day policy-setting meeting.

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BOJ policy-setting meeting

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda holds a press conference at the central bank's headquarters in Tokyo on July 31, 2025, following its two-day policy-setting meeting.

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Deaflympics Japan delegation

Karate competitor Ryo Ogura (L) and football player Takumi Matsumoto, who will serve as flagbearers for the Japanese delegation at the 2025 Tokyo Deaflympics to be held in November, pose during a press conference at the Tokyo metropolitan government headquarters on July 31, 2025.

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Deaflympics Japan delegation

Karate competitor Ryo Ogura (L) and football player Takumi Matsumoto, who will serve as flagbearers for the Japanese delegation at the 2025 Tokyo Deaflympics to be held in November, pose for a photo during a press conference at the Tokyo metropolitan government headquarters on July 31, 2025.

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Deaflympics Japan delegation

Karate competitor Ryo Ogura (L) and football player Takumi Matsumoto, who will serve as flagbearers for the Japanese delegation at the 2025 Tokyo Deaflympics to be held in November, pose for a photo during a press conference at the Tokyo metropolitan government headquarters on July 31, 2025.

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World Exposition in Osaka

Photo taken on July 31, 2025, shows a demonstration flight of the "flying car" developed by SkyDrive Inc. at the World Exposition in Osaka.

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World Exposition in Osaka

Photo taken on July 31, 2025, shows a demonstration flight of the "flying car" developed by SkyDrive Inc. at the World Exposition in Osaka.

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Partial lifting of tsunami advisories in Japan

An official from the Japan Meteorological Agency explains the lifting of tsunami advisories for some parts of Japan a day after their issuance in the wake of a powerful earthquake off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, during a press conference at the agency in Tokyo on July 31, 2025.

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Day after tsunami warning in Japan

Photo shows a flight information board at Sendai airport in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on July 31, 2025, following the resumption of flights after the Japan Meteorological Agency lifted a tsunami warning for the country's Pacific coast that was put in place the previous day due to a powerful earthquake off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula.

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BOJ policy-setting meeting

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda arrives at the Japanese central bank's headquarters in Tokyo on July 31, 2025, the second day of a two-day monetary policy meeting. (Pool photo)

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BOJ policy-setting meeting

The Bank of Japan holds a monetary policy meeting at the Japanese central bank's headquarters in Tokyo on July 31, 2025, with Governor Kazuo Ueda seated in the center. (Pool photo)

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Japanese Princess Yuriko

Japan's Princess Yuriko (C) visits a Persian cultural exhibition at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum with her husband Prince Mikasa and her granddaughter Princess Akiko on July 31, 2006. Emperor Naruhito's great-aunt, the oldest member of Japan's imperial family, died at a Tokyo hospital on Nov. 15, 2024, at the age of 101.

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Paris Olympics: Swimming

Japan's Yu Hanaguruma (top) and Ippei Watanabe start in the men's 200-meter breaststroke final at the Paris Olympics on July 31, 2024, at La Defense Arena in Nanterre, near Paris.

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Photos of WWII Japanese soldiers

Photo taken on July 31, 2024, at Misaka shrine in the western Japan city of Yamaguchi shows photos of Japanese soldiers who went to World War II. Those photos were sent to the shrine during the war by family members as it was believed that doing so would help the photographed person dodge bullets and survive. The shrine has been trying to return the photos to the families since the end of the war but about 14,000 photos still remain.

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Photos of WWII Japanese soldiers

Photo taken on July 31, 2024, at Misaka shrine in the western Japan city of Yamaguchi shows photos of Japanese soldiers who went to World War II. Those photos were sent to the shrine during the war by family members as it was believed that doing so would help the photographed person dodge bullets and survive. The shrine has been trying to return the photos to the families since the end of the war but about 14,000 photos still remain.

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Baseball: Kikuchi joins Astros

Japanese left-hander Yusei Kikuchi, who was traded from the Toronto Blue Jays baseball club to the Houston Astros, speaks at an introductory press conference in Houston on July 31, 2024.

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Paris Olympics: Artistic Gymnastics

Gold medalist Shinnosuke Oka (C) of Japan poses for a selfie with silver medalist Zhang Boheng (R) and bronze medalist Xiao Ruoteng, both of China, after winning the men's artistic gymnastics individual all-around final at the Paris Olympics on July 31, 2024, at Bercy Arena in Paris.

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Paris Olympics: Swimming

Sarah Sjoestroem of Sweden celebrates winning gold in the women's 100-meter freestyle at the Paris Olympics at La Defense Arena in Nanterre, near Paris, on July 31, 2024.

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Scene from Paris Olympics

Photographers point their lenses at swimmers during the Paris Olympics at La Defense Arena in Nanterre, near Paris, on July 31, 2024.

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Paris Olympics: Table Tennis

Japan's Shunsuke Togami plays against South Korea's Jang Woo Jin in the men's singles round of 16 at the Paris Olympics at South Paris Arena in Paris on July 31, 2024.

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Paris Olympics: Table Tennis

Japan's Shunsuke Togami plays against South Korea's Jang Woo Jin in the men's singles round of 16 at the Paris Olympics at South Paris Arena in Paris on July 31, 2024.

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Paris Olympics: Table Tennis

Japan's Shunsuke Togami plays against South Korea's Jang Woo Jin in the men's singles round of 16 at the Paris Olympics at South Paris Arena in Paris on July 31, 2024.

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Paris Olympics: Table Tennis

Japan's Tomokazu Harimoto plays against Denmark's Anders Lind in the men's singles round of 16 at the Paris Olympics at South Paris Arena in Paris on July 31, 2024.

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Paris Olympics: Table Tennis

Japan's Tomokazu Harimoto plays against Denmark's Anders Lind in the men's singles round of 16 at the Paris Olympics at South Paris Arena in Paris on July 31, 2024.

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Paris Olympics: Table Tennis

Japan's Miu Hirano plays against India's Manika Batra in the women's singles round of 16 at the Paris Olympics at South Paris Arena in Paris on July 31, 2024.