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Top JFA officials watch RoboCup-winning soccer robot

CHIBA, Japan - Japan Football Association President Kuniya Daini (R) and supreme adviser Saburo Kawabuchi pose with a soccer robot in Narashino, Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo, on Oct. 30, 2014. The Chiba Institute of Technology's humanoid robot team won this year's RoboCup world soccer event in Brazil.

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Dalai Lama, musician Yarrow

TOKYO, Japan - American folk musician Peter Yarrow (R) performs his new song "Never Give Up" based on words of the Dalai Lama (L) at an event involving the Tibetan spiritual leader in Narashino, Chiba Prefecture, near Tokyo on Nov. 16, 2013.

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Robot in Fukushima operation

CHIBA, Japan - A robot ''Quince' is loaded onto a truck at Chiba Institute of Technology in Narashino, Chiba Prefecture, on June 20, 2011. The robot jointly developed by Chiba Institute of Technology, Tohoku University and other institutions was being sent to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Fukushima Prefecture. Quince is capable of operating in places where rubble is scattered and is believed to be able to measure levels of radiation inside buildings and depths of contaminated water, as well as obtain samples of such water, as it can climb wet and slippery steps.

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Japanese robot to be dispatched to Fukushima plant

NARASHINO, Japan - A man demonstrates robot ''Quince'' at Chiba Institute of Technology in Narashino, Chiba Prefecture, on June 8, 2011. The remote-controlled robot developed by a team including CIT and Tohoku University will be dispatched to the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture to measure radiation levels and other data in buildings housing reactors.

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Disgraced sumo stable searched

TOKYO, Japan - Police officers enter the Onomatsu sumo stable in Narashino, Chiba Prefecture, on July 7, 2010, over alleged illegal gambling on baseball involving its wrestler and hairdresser.

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Sumo hairdresser admits his role in illegal gambling

TOKYO, Japan - Stablemaster Onomatsu speaks to reporters at his stable in Narashino, Chiba Prefecture, on June 19, 2010. An Onomatsu stable hairdresser, who prepares the traditional topknots of sumo wrestlers, has admitted to involvement in illegal gambling on professional baseball in a statement submitted to the Japan Sumo Association.

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Gov't asks farmers to advance vegetable shipments to stem price hikes

NARASHINO, Japan - A customer looks at vegetables in a JUSCO supermarket in Tsudanuma in the city of Narashino, Chiba Prefecture, on April 16, 2010. Major supermarket chains are cutting vegetable prices as an emergency measure to lure consumers amid soaring prices in the face of record rainfall, unusually low temperatures and few hours of sunlight.

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Emperor, empress inspect facility for people with disabilities

TOKYO, Japan - Emperor Akihito (L) and Empress Michiko (2nd R) visit a job-training facility for people with intellectual disabilities in Narashino, Chiba Prefecture on Dec. 7. The couple were inspecting packaging work at the facility ''Akane-en,'' which provides training for about 60 people with disabilities, from people in their teens to people in the 40s. (Pool Picture)

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Osim's Japan prepare for Trinidad & Tobago friendly

NARASHINO, Japan - Mebers of Japan's national soccer squad practice in Narashino, Chiba Prefecture, on Aug. 7 in preparation for their friendly match against Trinidad and Tobago at the National Stadium in Tokyo on Aug. 9.