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Various clocks dedicated to shrine at time festival in western Japan

OTSU, Japan, June 15 Kyodo - Women dressed in ancient court attire dedicate new clocks and wristwatches at a festival at Omi Shrine in Otsu, Shiga Prefecture, western Japan, on June 10, 2015, known as Time Day. The festival is held to commemorate the day when Emperor Tenji reportedly used the first water clock in Japan in 671.

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Over 90% of world citizens support zero emissions goal: UNFCCC

TOKYO, June 16 Kyodo - Christiana Figueres (C), executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, talks in Bonn, Germany, on June 10, 2015, about the result of a citizen consultation project. In the largest ever citizen consultation on climate change involving 10,000 people selected for being demographically representative of their countries across the globe, over 90% said the new universal agreement to be inked in Paris should have a long term goal of zero emissions at the end of the century.

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Japanese astronaut Yui

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui during an interview in October 2012. On July 10, 2013, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration revealed the members of a space expedition team for a voyage in 2015, saying American Kjell Lindgren, Yui and Oleg Kononenko of Russia will leave Earth in June 2015 and stay at the International Space Station for about six months.