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Twin actors starred in NHK drama series

OSAKA, Japan, July 18 Kyodo - Photo taken on Dec. 7, 2007, at public broadcaster NHK's Osaka studio shows Japanese twin actors Mana Mikura (L) and Kana Mikura ahead of the start of shooting for the television drama series "Dandan," which will starr the pair and will begin airing in September of the following year.(Kyodo)

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Ex-sumo stablemaster given 6-yr prison over wrestler's death

NAGOYA, Japan - This Feb. 7, 2008 file photo shows the ring in the building in Inuyama, Aichi Prefecture, that the Tokitsukaze sumo stable used as a temporary lodging before a July 2007 tournament in Nagoya. The Nagoya District Court ruled May 29 that a former stablemaster was involved in fatal violence against a 17-year-old wrestler in the ring in June 2007.

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Takao Yamada

Takao Yamada, TV personality and comic storyteller (photo taken on July 7, 2007)

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Fund scandal hits Abe's Cabinet, farm minister denies allegation

CHIKUSEI, Japan - Photo taken July 7, 2007, shows the house where the parents of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Norihiko Akagi live in Chikusei, Ibaraki Prefecture. A political organization supporting him registered the home as its office and booked some 123 million yen in rent, utilities and other costs from 1990 to 2005 despite the fact the house is not actually used in that way, sources familiar with the issue told Kyodo News.