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Research launched on pregnancy-induced diseases

Research launched on pregnancy-induced diseases

TOKYO, Japan - Narumi Umeda (R), director of NTT Docomo Inc.'s Research Laboratories, poses with Nobuo Yaegashi, deputy executive director of Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, at a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 19, 2014, announcing the launch of a joint project to establish mobile monitoring methods for the prevention and early detection of pregnancy-induced diseases.

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Defense minister thanks Gunma village over Osprey exercise

Defense minister thanks Gunma village over Osprey exercise

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera (R) shows his appreciation to Shinto Mayor Narumi Akuzawa at the Ministry of Defense in Tokyo on June 24, 2014, for the decision by the village assembly in Gunma Prefecture to accept a Japan-U.S. joint exercise involving MV-22 Osprey transport aircraft.

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Japan figure skating team members laud pairs' Kihara

Japan figure skating team members laud pairs' Kihara

SOCHI, Russia - Members of the Japanese figure skating team -- (from L) Cathy Reed, Mao Asada, Chris Reed and Yuzuru Hanyu -- laud Ryuichi Kihara (far L) after he performs the pairs free program with partner Narumi Takahashi in the sport's team final at the Sochi Olympics in Russia on Feb. 8, 2014.

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Takahashi, Kihara perform in team figure skating at Sochi

Takahashi, Kihara perform in team figure skating at Sochi

SOCHI, Russia - Japanese pairs figure skaters Narumi Takahashi (L) and Ryuichi Kihara complete their free program performance in the final of the sport's team competition at the Sochi Olympics in Russia on Feb. 8, 2014.

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Kihara lifts Takahashi in team figure skating at Sochi

Kihara lifts Takahashi in team figure skating at Sochi

SOCHI, Russia - Japanese pairs figure skater Ryuichi Kihara (bottom) lifts Narumi Takahashi during their free program in the final of figure skating's team competition at the Sochi Olympics in Russia on Feb. 8, 2014.

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Japanese duo in team free program

Japanese duo in team free program

SOCHI, Russia - Figure skater Ryuichi Kihara lifts his partner Narumi Takahashi during the pairs free program in the figure skating team competition at Iceberg Skating Palace in the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia, on Feb. 8, 2014. The Japanese pair came in fifth place with a score of 86.33.

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Japanese duo in team free program

Japanese duo in team free program

SOCHI, Russia - Narumi Takahashi (L) and Ryuichi Kihara of Japan perform during the pairs free program in the figure skating team competition at Iceberg Skating Palace in the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia, on Feb. 8, 2014. The pair came in fifth place with a score of 86.33.

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Japanese pair comes in 8th in team event SP

Japanese pair comes in 8th in team event SP

SOCHI, Russia - Narumi Takahashi (R) and Ryuichi Kihara of Japan perform during the pairs short program figure skating team competition at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, on Feb. 6, 2014. The pair finished in eighth with 46.56 points.

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Japanese pair comes in 8th place in team event SP

Japanese pair comes in 8th place in team event SP

SOCHI, Russia - Figure skater Ryuichi Kihara lifts his partner Narumi Takahashi during the pairs short program figure skating team competition at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, on Feb. 6, 2014. The Japanese pair finished eighth with 46.56 points.

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Young woman ventures into world of washi papermaking

Young woman ventures into world of washi papermaking

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Photo taken June 21, 2013 shows Yuko Narumi working at the Tenjin paper mill in her hometown of Uchiko in Ehime Prefecture. Narumi once dreamt of becoming an illustration artist but abandoned the pencil and plunged into the ancient craft of making paper by hand, providing new blood to the dying craft.

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Takahashi, Tran at world c'ships

Takahashi, Tran at world c'ships

NICE, France - Japan's Narumi Takahashi and Mervin Tran celebrate as they won the bronze in the pairs at the figure skating world championships in Nice, France, on March 30, 2012. They made history by claiming Japan's first pairs skating world medal with the bronze.

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Takahashi, Tran at world c'ships

Takahashi, Tran at world c'ships

NICE, France - Japan's Narumi Takahashi and Mervin Tran perform during the pairs' free skate at the figure skating world championships in Nice, France, on March 30, 2012. They made history by claiming Japan's first pairs skating world medal with the bronze.

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Takahashi, Tran at world c'ships

Takahashi, Tran at world c'ships

NICE, France - Japan's Narumi Takahashi and Mervin Tran perform during the pairs' free skate at the figure skating world championships in Nice, France, on March 30, 2012. They made history by claiming Japan's first pairs skating world medal with the bronze.

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E. Timorese president in disaster-hit Sendai

E. Timorese president in disaster-hit Sendai

SENDAI, Japan - East Timorese President Jose Ramos-Horta puts the country's traditional cotton fabric on Narumi Osawa, an 18-year-old student at a high school in Sendai, on Jan. 20, 2012. Ramos-Horta visited the high school in the city hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami to cheer up some 800 students there.

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Takahashi, Tran win junior pairs at GP Final

Takahashi, Tran win junior pairs at GP Final

BEIJING, China - Narumi Takahashi of Japan (top) and Canadian-born partner Mervin Tran perform in the free skate at the Grand Prix Final in Beijing on Dec. 11, 2010. The pair went on to win the junior pairs title.

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Anti-Futemma base rally in Okinawa

Anti-Futemma base rally in Okinawa

YOMITAN, Japan - Narumi Shikiya and Kana Okamoto, both students of Futemma Senior High School, take turns addressing a rally calling for the relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station in Yomitan, Okinawa Prefecture, on April 25, 2010. The girls urged ''all people in Japan'' to put themselves in Okinawans' shoes.

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Anti-Futemma base rally in Okinawa

Anti-Futemma base rally in Okinawa

YOMITAN, Japan - Narumi Shikiya (L) and Kana Okamoto, both students of Futemma Senior High School, take turns addressing a rally calling for the relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station in Yomitan, Okinawa Prefecture, on April 25, 2010. The girls urged ''all people in Japan'' to put themselves in Okinawans' shoes.

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Oda 3rd, Lysacek wins as U.S. keeps lead at World Team Trophy

Oda 3rd, Lysacek wins as U.S. keeps lead at World Team Trophy

TOKYO, Japan - Narumi Takahashi and Mervin Tran of Japan perform at the ISU World Team Trophy at Tokyo's Yoyogi national gymnasium on April 17, placing sixth after the pair's short program.

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Japan's last MSDF ship returns from refueling mission

Japan's last MSDF ship returns from refueling mission

TOKYO, Japan - After completing a four-month mission to refuel vessels of U.S.-led coalition forces in the Indian Ocean, the 8,150-ton Maritime Self-Defense Force supply ship Tokiwa berths at Narumi pier in Tokyo on Nov. 23. The Tokiwa is the last MSDF vessel to return home after Japan called off a six-year refueling mission in the Indian Ocean, as the government failed to get a bill through parliament to re-authorize the mission.

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Japan's last MSDF ship returns from refueling mission

Japan's last MSDF ship returns from refueling mission

TOKYO, Japan - After completing a four-month mission to refuel vessels of U.S.-led coalition forces in the Indian Ocean, the 8,150-ton Maritime Self-Defense Force supply ship Tokiwa berths at Narumi pier in Tokyo on Nov. 23, as families of the crew members await the return of their loved ones. The Tokiwa is the last MSDF vessel to return home after Japan called off a six-year refueling mission in the Indian Ocean, as the government failed to get a bill through parliament to re-authorize the mission.

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Japan's last MSDF ship returns from refueling mission

Japan's last MSDF ship returns from refueling mission

TOKYO, Japan - A Maritime Self-Defense Force officer gets kisses from his daughter and son after getting off the 8,150-ton MSDF supply ship Tokiwa, which berthed at Narumi pier in Tokyo on Nov. 23. After completing a four-month mission to refuel vessels of U.S.-led coalition forces in the Indian Ocean, the Tokiwa is the last MSDF vessel to return home after Japan called off a six-year refueling mission in the Indian Ocean, as the government failed to get a bill through parliament to re-authorize the mission.

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Japan's last MSDF ship returns from refueling mission

Japan's last MSDF ship returns from refueling mission

TOKYO, Japan - After completing a four-month mission to refuel vessels of U.S.-led coalition forces in the Indian Ocean, the 8,150-ton Maritime Self-Defense Force supply ship Tokiwa berths at Narumi pier in Tokyo on Nov. 23. The Tokiwa is the last MSDF vessel to return home after Japan called off a six-year refueling mission in the Indian Ocean, as the government failed to get a bill through parliament to re-authorize the mission.

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Trampoline: world championships

Trampoline: world championships

(From L) Japan's Risa Kiryu, Hikaru Mori, Megu Uyama and Narumi Tamura pose after winning bronze in the women's team final during the trampoline world championships in Sofia, Bulgaria, on Nov. 18, 2022.

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Japan's last MSDF ship returns from refueling mission

Japan's last MSDF ship returns from refueling mission

TOKYO, Japan - After completing a four-month mission to refuel vessels of U.S.-led coalition forces in the Indian Ocean, the 8,150-ton Maritime Self-Defense Force supply ship Tokiwa berths at Narumi pier in Tokyo on Nov. 23. The Tokiwa is the last MSDF vessel to return home after Japan called off a six-year refueling mission in the Indian Ocean, as the government failed to get a bill through parliament to re-authorize the mission. (Kyodo)

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Japan's last MSDF ship returns from refueling mission

Japan's last MSDF ship returns from refueling mission

TOKYO, Japan - After completing a four-month mission to refuel vessels of U.S.-led coalition forces in the Indian Ocean, the 8,150-ton Maritime Self-Defense Force supply ship Tokiwa berths at Narumi pier in Tokyo on Nov. 24, as families of the crew members await the return of their loved ones. The Tokiwa is the last MSDF vessel to return home after Japan called off a six-year refueling mission in the Indian Ocean, as the government failed to get a bill through parliament to re-authorize the mission. (Kyodo)

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Japan's last MSDF ship returns from refueling mission

Japan's last MSDF ship returns from refueling mission

TOKYO, Japan - A Maritime Self-Defense Force officer gets kisses from his daughter and son after getting off the 8,150-ton MSDF supply ship Tokiwa, which berthed at Narumi pier in Tokyo on Nov. 23. After completing a four-month mission to refuel vessels of U.S.-led coalition forces in the Indian Ocean, the Tokiwa is the last MSDF vessel to return home after Japan called off a six-year refueling mission in the Indian Ocean, as the government failed to get a bill through parliament to re-authorize the mission. (Kyodo)

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Japan's last MSDF ship returns from refueling mission

Japan's last MSDF ship returns from refueling mission

TOKYO, Japan - After completing a four-month mission to refuel vessels of U.S.-led coalition forces in the Indian Ocean, the 8,150-ton Maritime Self-Defense Force supply ship Tokiwa berths at Narumi pier in Tokyo on Nov. 23. The Tokiwa is the last MSDF vessel to return home after Japan called off a six-year refueling mission in the Indian Ocean, as the government failed to get a bill through parliament to re-authorize the mission. (Kyodo)

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Hiroshige - 53 Stations of the Tokaido - Print 41

Hiroshige - 53 Stations of the Tokaido - Print 41

41 Narumi - A woman carried in a kago and two others walking in front, followed by a man on horseback and two attendants, passing two large open shops in the main street, where dyed cloths are sold. On the fascia over the front of the nearer shop is the monogram Hiro in the centre, and that of the publisher, Take-no-Uchi, each side of it. This station and the nearby town of Arimatsu are both famous for the production of tie-dyed fabrics which were suitable for making yukata, the kimono worn in summer and after a bath. Utagawa Hiroshige (1797 - 1858). The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido - Hoeido edition (1831-4) Date: 1831 - 1834

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Retail giant Seven & i holds entrance ceremony for new recruits

Retail giant Seven & i holds entrance ceremony for new recruits

Narumi Sato, representing new recruits of the Seven & i Holdings Co. group, Japan's retail giant, gives a pledge before Chairman and CEO Toshifumi Suzuki (front) during a company entrance ceremony at a Tokyo hotel on March 17, 2016, ahead of similar ceremonies by other major Japanese firms in April. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Takahashi, Tran win junior pairs at GP Final

Takahashi, Tran win junior pairs at GP Final

BEIJING, China - Narumi Takahashi of Japan (top) and Canadian-born partner Mervin Tran perform in the free skate at the Grand Prix Final in Beijing on Dec. 11, 2010. The pair went on to win the junior pairs title. (Kyodo)

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Anti-Futemma base rally in Okinawa

Anti-Futemma base rally in Okinawa

YOMITAN, Japan - Narumi Shikiya and Kana Okamoto, both students of Futemma Senior High School, take turns addressing a rally calling for the relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station in Yomitan, Okinawa Prefecture, on April 25, 2010. The girls urged ''all people in Japan'' to put themselves in Okinawans' shoes. (Kyodo)

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Anti-Futemma base rally in Okinawa

Anti-Futemma base rally in Okinawa

YOMITAN, Japan - Narumi Shikiya (L) and Kana Okamoto, both students of Futemma Senior High School, take turns addressing a rally calling for the relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station in Yomitan, Okinawa Prefecture, on April 25, 2010. The girls urged ''all people in Japan'' to put themselves in Okinawans' shoes. (Kyodo)

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Oda 3rd, Lysacek wins as U.S. keeps lead at World Team Trophy

Oda 3rd, Lysacek wins as U.S. keeps lead at World Team Trophy

TOKYO, Japan - Narumi Takahashi and Mervin Tran of Japan perform at the ISU World Team Trophy at Tokyo's Yoyogi national gymnasium on April 17, placing sixth after the pair's short program. (Kyodo)

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Takahashi, Tran at world c'ships

Takahashi, Tran at world c'ships

NICE, France - Japan's Narumi Takahashi and Mervin Tran perform during the pairs' free skate at the figure skating world championships in Nice, France, on March 30, 2012. They made history by claiming Japan's first pairs skating world medal with the bronze. (Kyodo)

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Takahashi, Tran at world c'ships

Takahashi, Tran at world c'ships

NICE, France - Japan's Narumi Takahashi and Mervin Tran perform during the pairs' free skate at the figure skating world championships in Nice, France, on March 30, 2012. They made history by claiming Japan's first pairs skating world medal with the bronze. (Kyodo)

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Takahashi, Tran at world c'ships

Takahashi, Tran at world c'ships

NICE, France - Japan's Narumi Takahashi and Mervin Tran celebrate as they won the bronze in the pairs at the figure skating world championships in Nice, France, on March 30, 2012. They made history by claiming Japan's first pairs skating world medal with the bronze. (Kyodo)

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Research launched on pregnancy-induced diseases

Research launched on pregnancy-induced diseases

TOKYO, Japan - Narumi Umeda (R), director of NTT Docomo Inc.'s Research Laboratories, poses with Nobuo Yaegashi, deputy executive director of Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, at a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 19, 2014, announcing the launch of a joint project to establish mobile monitoring methods for the prevention and early detection of pregnancy-induced diseases. (Kyodo)

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Defense minister thanks Gunma village over Osprey exercise

Defense minister thanks Gunma village over Osprey exercise

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera (R) shows his appreciation to Shinto Mayor Narumi Akuzawa at the Ministry of Defense in Tokyo on June 24, 2014, for the decision by the village assembly in Gunma Prefecture to accept a Japan-U.S. joint exercise involving MV-22 Osprey transport aircraft. (Kyodo)

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E. Timorese president in disaster-hit Sendai

E. Timorese president in disaster-hit Sendai

SENDAI, Japan - East Timorese President Jose Ramos-Horta puts the country's traditional cotton fabric on Narumi Osawa, an 18-year-old student at a high school in Sendai, on Jan. 20, 2012. Ramos-Horta visited the high school in the city hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami to cheer up some 800 students there. (Kyodo)

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Suspect in Japanese woman's murder extradited to France

Suspect in Japanese woman's murder extradited to France

Sylvie Galley, a lawyer for the family of Narumi Kurosaki, a female Japanese student allegedly killed by Chilean national Nicolas Zepeda Contreras in 2016 in Besancon, meets the press in the eastern French city on July 24, 2020, as he was extradited from Chile to France.

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Suspect in Japanese woman's murder extradited to France

Suspect in Japanese woman's murder extradited to France

French prosecutor Etienne Manteaux meets the press in Besancon on July 24, 2020, as Chilean national Nicolas Zepeda Contreras, who is suspected of killing female Japanese student Narumi Kurosaki in 2016 in the eastern French city, was extradited from Chile to France.

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Football: Women's World Cup

Football: Women's World Cup

Narumi Miura (17) of Japan and Aldana Cometti of Argentina vie for the ball during the second half of their scoreless draw in a Women's World Cup Group D match in Paris on June 10, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Football: Women's World Cup

Football: Women's World Cup

Narumi Miura (R) of Japan is in action with Jade Moore of England during the second half of England's 2-0 win in a Group D match of the Women's World Cup in Nice, France, on June 19, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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French prosecutor Edwige Roux-Morizot

French prosecutor Edwige Roux-Morizot

French prosecutor Edwige Roux-Morizot holds a press conference in Besancon, France, on Nov. 30, 2017, about the whereabouts of Japanese student Narumi Kurosaki who went missing a year earlier. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Suspect appears in Chile court over Japanese woman missing in France

Suspect appears in Chile court over Japanese woman missing in France

Nicolas Zepeda Contreras, a 26-year-old Chilean suspected of involvement in the disappearance in France of Narumi Kurosaki, a 21-year-old Japanese student, leaves Chile's Supreme Court in Santiago on Feb. 14, 2017, after giving his explanation to the court regarding France's request for Chile to detain and extradite him, as well as a two-month travel ban imposed on him by the court. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Soccer: Aomori Yamada hammer Maebashi Ikuei for 1st high-school title

Soccer: Aomori Yamada hammer Maebashi Ikuei for 1st high-school title

Akito Narumi (front) of Aomori Yamada High School scores a goal against Maebashi Ikuei High School in the second half of the national high school championship final at Saitama Stadium on Jan. 9, 2017. Aomori Yamada won their first national championship after demolishing Maebashi Ikuei 5-0. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Chilean wanted over alleged killing of Japanese student in France

Chilean wanted over alleged killing of Japanese student in France

Photo taken Jan. 3, 2017, shows the entrance of the room (R) where Japanese student Narumi Kurosaki was staying before she went missing in early December 2016, at a dormitory at the University of Franche-Comte in Besancon, France. French prosecutors have put a Chilean man on the international wanted list for the alleged murder of Kurosaki. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Chilean wanted over suspected killing of Japanese student in France

Chilean wanted over suspected killing of Japanese student in France

Photo taken Jan. 3, 2017, shows an emergency exit at a dormitory of the University of Franche-Comte in Besancon, eastern France, where Narumi Kurosaki, a 21-year-old Japanese woman, lived until she disappeared in early December 2016. Local media reported that some blood stains were found near the exit. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Search continues for missing Japanese woman in France

Search continues for missing Japanese woman in France

A photo of missing Japanese student Narumi Kurosaki is posted at the entrance of the administrative office for the dormitory at the University of Franche-Comte in Besancon, France on Dec. 26, 2016, to seek information. She disappeared around Dec. 4 and could not be reached on her cell phone thereafter, according to local authorities. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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