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Taiwan: Typhoon Danas Batters Southern Region, Leaving Widespread Damage 3

Typhoon Danas made landfall near Chiayi's Budai Township around 11:40 p.m. on Sunday, July 6, bringing gusty winds and heavy rainfall to the southern region. Typhoon Danas weakened to a tropical storm after its eye departed Taiwan early Monday.

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Books written by soccer players selling well

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a host of books written by active and retired soccer players on sale at Kinokuniya Co.'s main store in Shinjuku, Tokyo, on June 5, 2014. The books are popular with readers looking for stories of self-improvement and motivation, as with business books, according to some commentators.

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Kinokuniya's expanded foreign language book section

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken May 29, 2014, shows the expanded foreign language book section of Kinokuniya Co.'s Shinjuku South Store in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward. The renovated section opened the same day.

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New audio equipment filling market niche for seniors

TOKYO, Japan - A man checks radios for elderly people at the flagship bookstore of Kinokuniya Co. in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward on July 9.

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(2)Large bookstores mushrooming across Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Kinokuniya bookstores (left) will have to compete with a new big bookstore to be opened by Junkudo Co. in late October on two floors of the Mitsukoshi Ltd.'s department store in Tokyo's Shinjuku district (right).