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Actress Nagasawa, actor Fujiki win 'Best Smiles' award

TOKYO, Japan - Actress Masami Nagasawa (C, left) and actor Naohito Fujiki (C, right) won this year's ''Best Smiles of the Year'' awards given to movie stars, sports athletes, politicians and other celebrities. The awards, sponsored by the Japan Dental Association, are given to candidates with the best teeth and the most attractive smiles. The photo shows Nagasawa and Fujiki posing with the winners of other categories at an award ceremony in Tokyo on Nov. 8.

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Nara prefectural police officials apologize over errant cop

NARA, Japan - Naohito Yamagishi (L), chief of the Personnel and Training Bureau of Nara Prefectural Police Headquarters, and Tadatsugu Omae, chief of the inspection section, bow and apologize at a news conference Nov. 20 for the conduct of a former officer of the force. The officer was arrested the same day on suspicion of abusing his authority to obtain information on customers of a cell phone company.

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Fukushima Medical University opens center for probing death cause

Naohito Kuroda, head of Fukushima Medical University's newly opened center for identifying causes of death, explains to the press at the facility in Fukushima, northeastern Japan, on July 29, 2015, about a specialized CT scanner for determining cases of unnatural death. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hadron facility in east Japan village restarts 2 yrs after accident

Naohito Saito, head of the Hadron Experimental Facility at the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex in Tokai, Ibaraki Prefecture, east of Tokyo, speaks to reporters on April 24, 2015, as it restarted two years after a radiation leakage accident in 2013. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Old Japanese house mixes nostalgia, novelty for foreign tourists

Naohito Tousen Watanabe teaches how to create and carve one's name for use as a traditional Japanese seal or stamp (hanko). Watanabe offers this lesson at Kominka Yado LOOF, an old traditional-style wooden house, known in Japanese as a "kominka," that has been renovated into a lodging, on Dec. 27, 2016, at Fuefuki city in Yamanashi Prefecture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Actress Nagasawa, actor Fujiki win 'Best Smiles' award

TOKYO, Japan - Actress Masami Nagasawa (C, left) and actor Naohito Fujiki (C, right) won this year's ''Best Smiles of the Year'' awards given to movie stars, sports athletes, politicians and other celebrities. The awards, sponsored by the Japan Dental Association, are given to candidates with the best teeth and the most attractive smiles. The photo shows Nagasawa and Fujiki posing with the winners of other categories at an award ceremony in Tokyo on Nov. 8. (Kyodo)

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Nara prefectural police officials apologize over errant cop

NARA, Japan - Naohito Yamagishi (L), chief of the Personnel and Training Bureau of Nara Prefectural Police Headquarters, and Tadatsugu Omae, chief of the inspection section, bow and apologize at a news conference Nov. 20 for the conduct of a former officer of the force. The officer was arrested the same day on suspicion of abusing his authority to obtain information on customers of a cell phone company.