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High-grade gold ore found off remote island south of Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan, Nov. 21 Kyodo - An illustration shows the location of Aogashima Island (arrow) in the Pacific. A team of researchers at the University of Tokyo said on June 2, 2016 that it discovered high-grade gold ore in 2015 in a hydrothermal deposit at an underwater volcanic crater off Aogashima Island in the Izu Island chain over 350 kilometers south of Tokyo.(Kyodo)

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Nikkei tops 20,000 for 1st time since December 2015

TOKYO, Japan, June 2 Kyodo - A stock price monitor in Tokyo shows the Nikkei Stock Average topping the 20,000 mark for the first time since December 2015, on June 2, 2017.

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Drill held on Japan island for illegal landing, fishing

TOKYO, June 2 Kyodo - Participants arrive on Chichijima Island in the Pacific on June 2, 2015, for the first Japan Coast Guard-Metropolitan Police Department joint training drill to prevent illegal landing and fishing by foreign nationals. The drill follows an increase in Chinese vessels spotted poaching red coral since September 2014.

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Tanaka poised for comeback start in Seattle

SEATTLE, June 3 Kyodo - New York Yankees pitcher Masahiro Tanaka is surrounded by reporters before a game against the Seattle Mariners at Safeco Field on June 2, 2015. Tanaka is scheduled to start against the Mariners the following day in his return from the disabled list.

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'Rimpa' school of painting's 400th anniv. in 2015

KYOTO, Japan - Kyoto Mayor Daisaku Kadokawa (L) and Kyoto Gov. Keiji Yamada hold a press conference on June 2, 2014, in Kyoto on the establishment of a committee to commemorate the 400th anniversary in 2015 of the start of "Rimpa" -- a major school of Japanese painting created in the western Japanese city by Honami Koetsu and Tawaraya Sotatsu. The "Rimpa" school is said to have a far-reaching influence on today's Japanese fine arts and traditional craft.