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Sumo association holds morning calisthenics

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Aug. 8, 2014, shows people joining sumo wrestlers in stamping their feet during morning calisthenics at Kokugikan in Tokyo, organized by Nihon Sumo Kyokai, or Japan Sumo Association during August. Businessmen on the way to work and foreign travelers staying at nearby hotels also took part.

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Buddhist priests reviewing funerals

TOKYO, Japan - Hideo Usui (standing), chief executive of Jiin Design Co., which provides business advice to Buddhist temples, addresses the first meeting of a study panel on Buddhist funerals at the Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai building in Tokyo's Minato Ward on Nov. 13, 2013. Around 30 priests from across Japan gathered for the meeting.

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Kosanji elected new 'rakugo' association chief

TOKYO, Japan - Yanagiya Kosanji (L), a master of the Japanese traditional comic storytelling art of ''rakugo,'' shakes hands with Reireisha Bafu after being elected to succeed him as head of the Rakugo Kyokai association in Tokyo on June 25, 2010.

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Religious group searched over death of baby boy in Fukuoka

FUKUOKA, Japan - Vehicles carrying police investigators line up at the gate of the headquarters of a religious organization, Shinkenko Kyokai, in Fukuoka Prefecture in southwestern Japan, on Jan. 14, 2010. The police raided the religious headquarters over the death of a baby whose parents, followers of the group, are under arrest for allegedly failing to provide medical treatment.

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NPOs create national group modeled on British organization

TOKYO, Japan - People attend an inaugural general meeting of a national group called Nihon Third Sector Keieisha Kyokai in Japanese and JACEVO in English on Sept. 1 in Tokyo.

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NPOs create national group modeled on British organization

TOKYO, Japan - People attend an inaugural general meeting of a national group called Nihon Third Sector Keieisha Kyokai in Japanese and JACEVO in English on Sept. 1 in Tokyo.

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Permanent 'rakugo' theater opens in Osaka, 1st since WWII

OSAKA, Japan - Rakugo performer Katsura Sanshi, head of the Kamigata Rakugo Kyokai, pulls a rickshaw carrying Katsura Harudanji III during a ceremony held to mark the opening of the Temma Tenjin Hanjo Tei, a theater dedicated to ''rakugo'' comic storytelling, in Osaka's Kita Ward on Sept. 15. It is the first permanent rakugo theater to open in Osaka since World War II.

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Media representatives open meeting

YOKOHAMA, Japan - The Japan Newspaper Publishers and Editors Association (Nihon Shimbun Kyokai) opens a 2-day annual convention in Yokohama on Oct. 17. The 53rd such gathering was attended by some 540 representatives of newspapers, news agencies and broadcast stations throughout Japan.

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Permanent 'rakugo' theater opens in Osaka, 1st since WWII

OSAKA, Japan - Rakugo performer Katsura Sanshi, head of the Kamigata Rakugo Kyokai, pulls a rickshaw carrying Katsura Harudanji III during a ceremony held to mark the opening of the Temma Tenjin Hanjo Tei, a theater dedicated to ''rakugo'' comic storytelling, in Osaka's Kita Ward on Sept. 15. It is the first permanent rakugo theater to open in Osaka since World War II. (Kyodo)

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Welfare body chairman arrested over state subsidy scandal

OSAKA, Japan - Ichiro Ueno, a former vice chairman of Tokyo-based Zenkoku Seishin Shogaisha Shakai Fukki Shisetsu Kyokai (the national association for assisting the rehabilitation of mentally disabled people), is driven to the Osaka District Prosecutors Office on Oct. 20, 2009. He was arrested on suspicion of illegally receiving state subsidies from the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry, along with the current head of the organization and a former senior official. (Kyodo)

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Kosanji elected new 'rakugo' association chief

TOKYO, Japan - Yanagiya Kosanji (L), a master of the Japanese traditional comic storytelling art of ''rakugo,'' shakes hands with Reireisha Bafu after being elected to succeed him as head of the Rakugo Kyokai association in Tokyo on June 25, 2010. (Kyodo)

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Sumo association holds morning calisthenics

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Aug. 8, 2014, shows people joining sumo wrestlers in stamping their feet during morning calisthenics at Kokugikan in Tokyo, organized by Nihon Sumo Kyokai, or Japan Sumo Association during August. Businessmen on the way to work and foreign travelers staying at nearby hotels also took part. (Kyodo)

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Religious group searched over death of baby boy in Fukuoka

FUKUOKA, Japan - Vehicles carrying police investigators line up at the gate of the headquarters of a religious organization, Shinkenko Kyokai, in Fukuoka Prefecture in southwestern Japan, on Jan. 14, 2010. The police raided the religious headquarters over the death of a baby whose parents, followers of the group, are under arrest for allegedly failing to provide medical treatment. (Kyodo)

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Media representatives open meeting

YOKOHAMA, Japan - The Japan Newspaper Publishers and Editors Association (Nihon Shimbun Kyokai) opens a 2-day annual convention in Yokohama on Oct. 17. The 53rd such gathering was attended by some 540 representatives of newspapers, news agencies and broadcast stations throughout Japan.