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Kinako and her daughters

TAKAMATSU, Japan - Labrador retriever Kinako (C) in a police uniform-like costume poses with her daughters Komugi (R) and Mirin at the Kagawa prefectural police headquarters in the city of Takamatsu on April 3, 2013. Kinako was appointed with her daughters as a special member of the prefectural police's education team. She worked as a police dog for two years and three months until the end of March 2013, having previously failed the test six years running.

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Police dog Kinako attends induction ceremony

TAKAMATSU, Japan - Labrador retriever Kinako, who became a police dog after six years of failing the test, sits next to trainer Shinji Kameyama wearing a medal presented during an induction ceremony held the same day, at Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture on Jan. 6, 2011.

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7th time lucky for apprentice police dog Kinako

TAKAMATSU, Japan - Dog trainer Shinji Kameyama gives a pat to Labrador retriever Kinako in Marugame, Kagawa Prefecture, on Dec. 14, 2010, as the Kagawa police said the same day that the dog has passed this year's test to become a police dog after failing for six years in a row and is set to start working in January 2011.

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Police dog Kinako attends induction ceremony

TAKAMATSU, Japan - Labrador retriever Kinako, who became a police dog after six years of failing the test, sits next to trainer Shinji Kameyama wearing a medal presented during an induction ceremony held the same day, at Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture on Jan. 6, 2011. (Kyodo)

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7th time lucky for apprentice police dog Kinako

TAKAMATSU, Japan - Dog trainer Shinji Kameyama gives a pat to Labrador retriever Kinako in Marugame, Kagawa Prefecture, on Dec. 14, 2010, as the Kagawa police said the same day that the dog has passed this year's test to become a police dog after failing for six years in a row and is set to start working in January 2011. (Kyodo)