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Osaka high schoolers win this year's comedy duo title

OSAKA, Japan - A high school comedy duo called "Inaka-no Kuruma" or countryside cars, Ryoichiro Kisa (2nd from front R) and Chihiro Ota (2nd from front L) from Osaka, pose in Osaka on Sept. 21, 2014, after winning the 2014 high school "manzai" comedy duo championship final.

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Japan's longest toll-free bridge opens in Yamaguchi Pref.

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - Japan's longest toll-free bridge, linking the island of Tsunoshima in Yamaguchi Prefecture with Honshu, opens to traffic Nov. 3 after seven years in construction. The bridge, built at a cost of 14.9 billion yen, spans 1.78 kilometers, 90 meters longer than Okinawa's Kuruma bridge, the longest toll-free road bridge in Japan until now. Tsunoshima, population 996, is a small, 4.1-square-km island off Hohoku, a fishing town in western Yamaguchi.

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Japanese shiitake mushrooms introduced at world expo in Milan

Hisashi Kuruma (2nd from L), owner of a ginger candy maker with a 300-year history in Izumo in western Japan's Shimane Prefecture, poses with visitors at Japan's pavilion during the world exposition in Milan, Italy, on May 16, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Canal from YOKOHAMA hillside

Written October 1865 by Beato. A view of Yoshida Shinden at the back of the settlement from the Bluff of Yokohama. In the hills to the left, a foreigner and a half-naked Japanese wearing a hat can be seen. The bridge is Kuruma Bridge, and the houses in the centre are Ishikawa Nakamura.==Date:1865, Place:Yokohama, Photo:F. Beato, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number17‐6‐0]

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Osaka high schoolers win this year's comedy duo title

OSAKA, Japan - A high school comedy duo called "Inaka-no Kuruma" or countryside cars, Ryoichiro Kisa (2nd from front R) and Chihiro Ota (2nd from front L) from Osaka, pose in Osaka on Sept. 21, 2014, after winning the 2014 high school "manzai" comedy duo championship final. (Kyodo)

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Crown Prince Naruhito, Crown Princess Masako

File photo taken Oct. 13, 1998, shows Japan's Crown Prince Naruhito and Crown Princess Masako hiking near the summit of Mt. Kuruma in Nagano Prefecture, central Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's longest toll-free bridge opens in Yamaguchi Pref.

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - Japan's longest toll-free bridge, linking the island of Tsunoshima in Yamaguchi Prefecture with Honshu, opens to traffic Nov. 3 after seven years in construction. The bridge, built at a cost of 14.9 billion yen, spans 1.78 kilometers, 90 meters longer than Okinawa's Kuruma bridge, the longest toll-free road bridge in Japan until now. Tsunoshima, population 996, is a small, 4.1-square-km island off Hohoku, a fishing town in western Yamaguchi.