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People compete in chair race in Kyotonabe

OSAKA, Japan - Participants sitting on office chairs compete in a race at a shopping district in the city of Kyotanabe, Kyoto Prefecture, on March 29, 2014. About 40 three-person teams took part in the race, in which teams competed to see how many laps of a 180-meter course they could complete in two hours.

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Participants in chair race go through shopping arcade

OSAKA, Japan - Participants of a chair race go through a shopping street in Kyotanabe, Kyoto Prefecture, while sitting on office chairs on March 29, 2014.

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Wheelchair-bound woman 1st to attend university with dog

KYOTO, Japan - Chikako Tatebayashi (C) attends the entrance ceremony at private Doshisha University's campus in Kyotanabe, Kyoto Prefecture, western Japan, on April 2 with her Labrador retriever. Tatebayashi, 21, became the first wheelchair-bound person with an assistant dog to study at a Japanese university. She lost the use of the lower half of her body in a 1998 traffic accident.

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Wheelchair-bound woman 1st to attend university with dog

KYOTO, Japan - Chikako Tatebayashi (C) attends the entrance ceremony at private Doshisha University's campus in Kyotanabe, Kyoto Prefecture, western Japan, on April 2 with her Labrador retriever. Tatebayashi, 21, became the first wheelchair-bound person with an assistant dog to study at a Japanese university. She lost the use of the lower half of her body in a 1998 traffic accident.