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Fukuma loses by default in shogi title series

Combined photo taken on Sept. 8, 2024, and in July 2022, respectively, shows professional shogi players in the women's category Tomoka Nishiyama (L) and Kana Fukuma. Nishiyama defended her Osho women's title as her competitor Fukuma withdrew from the third match of a best-of-three series due to ill health on Oct. 29, 2024. Fukuma earlier said she would be sidelined from competition between Nov. 17, 2024, and Feb. 12, 2025, due to pregnancy.

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Holder of 5 women's shogi titles back to competition

Professional shogi player Kana Fukuma, holder of five titles in the women's category, is pictured after beating Kei Kato in a round-robin match at the Hakurei women's championship in Takatsuki, Osaka, on Feb. 14, 2025. She returned to competition after being sidelined between Nov. 17, 2024, and Feb. 12, 2025, due to pregnancy.

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Taklimakan Desert Control Afforestation - China

An aerial drone photo taken on April 12, 2025 shows a grassland in Baicheng County, Aksu Prefecture, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The Taklimakan Desert in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region covers 337,600 square kilometers and its circumference measures 3,046 kilometers, making it the largest desert in China and the second-largest drifting desert in the world. Thanks to decades-long sand prevention and control efforts, the Taklimakan Desert was completely encircled with a sand-blocking green belt on Nov. 28, 2024. In 2025, Xinjiang aims to afforest a land area of about 796,000 hectares, including 562,666 hectares for frontline control in the Taklimakan Desert. These afforestations form a part of the Three-North Shelterbelt Forest Program, the world's largest afforestation program, which tackles desertification in northwest, north and northeast China. Meanwhile, Xinjiang will further widen the sand-blocking green belt and enhance desert-locking efforts to achieve sustaina

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Recycling of Scrapped Cars Increases in China

QINGZHOU, CHINA - NOVEMBER 12, 2025 - (FILE) A worker dismantles a car at a scrapped motor vehicle recycling and dismantling enterprise in Qingzhou, East China's Shandong province, Nov 12, 2024.

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Recycling of Scrapped Cars Increases in China

QINGZHOU, CHINA - NOVEMBER 12, 2025 - (FILE) A worker dismantles a car at a scrapped motor vehicle recycling and dismantling enterprise in Qingzhou, East China's Shandong province, Nov 12, 2024.

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Recycling of Scrapped Cars Increases in China

QINGZHOU, CHINA - NOVEMBER 12, 2025 - (FILE) A worker dismantles a car at a scrapped motor vehicle recycling and dismantling enterprise in Qingzhou, East China's Shandong province, Nov 12, 2024.

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Recycling of Scrapped Cars Increases in China

QINGZHOU, CHINA - NOVEMBER 12, 2025 - (FILE) A worker dismantles a car at a scrapped motor vehicle recycling and dismantling enterprise in Qingzhou, East China's Shandong province, Nov 12, 2024.

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Recycling of Scrapped Cars Increases in China

QINGZHOU, CHINA - NOVEMBER 12, 2025 - (FILE) Cars to be dismantled are parked at a scrapped motor vehicle recycling and dismantling enterprise in Qingzhou city, East China's Shandong province, Nov 12, 2024.

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Recycling of Scrapped Cars Increases in China

QINGZHOU, CHINA - NOVEMBER 12, 2025 - (FILE) Cars to be dismantled are parked at a scrapped motor vehicle recycling and dismantling enterprise in Qingzhou city, East China's Shandong province, Nov 12, 2024.

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Memorial service for ex-yokozuna Kitanofuji

A memorial service is held for former yokozuna Kitanofuji, a 10-time grand sumo tournament champion, whose real name was Katsuaki Takezawa, in Tokyo on Dec. 18, 2024. The former yokozuna, who mentored two grand champions including the legendary Chiyonofuji before becoming a popular TV sumo pundit, died on Nov. 12, 2024, at the age of 82.

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Crystal-glass Christmas trees sparkle at Hakone museum

Photo taken on Nov. 12, 2024, shows Christmas trees decorated with crystal glass set up for display in the pond of the garden of the Venetian Glass Museum in the town of Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture in eastern Japan. Two trees, 11 meters and 8 meters high, are decorated with approximately 85,000 and 65,000 pieces of crystal glass, respectively, and will be on display until Jan. 13, 2025.

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Pampas grass fields in Hakone

People visit the Sengokuhara pampas grass fields as they turn gold in the Hakone hot spring resort in Kanagawa Prefecture, near Tokyo, on Nov. 12, 2024.

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Sumo: Ex-yokozuna Kitanofuji dies at 82

Yokozuna Kitanofuji performs his ring-entering ritual at a grand sumo tournament in January 1971 in Tokyo. The 10-time grand sumo tournament champion, whose real name was Katsuaki Takezawa and who mentored two grand champions including the legendary Chiyonofuji before becoming a popular TV sumo pundit, died on Nov. 12, 2024, at the age of 82, according to media.

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Sumo: Ex-yokozuna Kitanofuji dies at 82

Yokozuna Kitanofuji forces fellow yokozuna Tamanoumi out of the ring in Tokyo in May 1971, winning the summer grand tournament without losing a single match. The 10-time grand sumo tournament champion, whose real name was Katsuaki Takezawa and who mentored two grand champions including the legendary Chiyonofuji before becoming a popular TV sumo pundit, died on Nov. 12, 2024, at the age of 82, according to media.

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Sumo: Ex-yokozuna Kitanofuji dies at 82

Sumo wrestler Kitanofuji celebrates his first career victory at a grand tournament in Osaka, western Japan, in March 1967, with the trophy. The 10-time grand sumo tournament champion and former yokozuna, whose real name was Katsuaki Takezawa and who mentored two grand champions including the legendary Chiyonofuji before becoming a popular TV sumo pundit, died on Nov. 12, 2024, at the age of 82, according to media.

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Sumo: Ex-yokozuna Kitanofuji dies at 82

File photo taken in August 2016 shows former yokozuna Kitanofuji, a 10-time grand sumo tournament champion, whose real name was Katsuaki Takezawa. The former yokozuna, who mentored two grand champions including the legendary Chiyonofuji before becoming a popular TV sumo pundit, died on Nov. 12, 2024, at the age of 82, according to media.

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Sumo: Ex-yokozuna Kitanofuji dies at 82

Yokozuna Kitanofuji performs his ring-entering ritual at a grand sumo tournament in January 1971 in Tokyo. The 10-time tournament champion, whose real name was Katsuaki Takezawa and who mentored two grand champions including the legendary Chiyonofuji before becoming a popular TV sumo pundit, died on Nov. 12, 2024, at the age of 82, according to media.

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Japan opposition DPP head admits extramarital affair

TOKYO, Japan, Nov. 12 Kyodo - Yuichiro Tamaki, leader of the opposition Democratic Party for the People, meets the press in Tokyo on Nov. 11, 2024, over an extramarital affair revealed in a tabloid magazine report. He said that the report was basically true and offered an apology. (Kyodo)

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Mother of Japanese abductee

KAWASAKI, Japan, Nov. 12 Kyodo - Sakie Yokota, whose daughter Megumi was abducted by North Korea at age 13 in 1977, speaks during a meeting with the media in Kawasaki near Tokyo on Nov. 12, 2024, ahead of the 47th anniversary on Nov. 15 of her abduction from a beach in Niigata, northwest of Tokyo. (Kyodo)

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Poet Shuntaro Tanikawa dies at 92

Shuntaro Tanikawa, a leading poet in postwar Japan also known for his translations of the U.S. cartoon strip "Peanuts," reads a poem at a Tokyo hotel on Feb. 12, 2015. Tanikawa died on Nov. 13, 2024, aged 92.

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Aftermath of deadly flooding in Spain

A street is covered with mud in Paiporta, Valencia, eastern Spain, on Nov. 12, 2024, two weeks after deadly flooding caused by torrential rain.

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Aftermath of deadly flooding in Spain

Spanish soldiers carry out a disaster relief operation in Paiporta, Valencia, eastern Spain, on Nov. 12, 2024, two weeks after deadly flooding caused by torrential rain.

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Aftermath of deadly flooding in Spain

Relief supplies are given out on a street in Paiporta, Valencia, eastern Spain, on Nov. 12, 2024, two weeks after deadly flooding caused by torrential rain.

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Aftermath of deadly flooding in Spain

Damaged cars and debris are piled up in Paiporta, Valencia, eastern Spain, on Nov. 12, 2024, two weeks after deadly flooding caused by torrential rain.

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Aftermath of deadly flooding in Spain

Damaged cars and debris lie buried in mud in Paiporta, Valencia, eastern Spain, on Nov. 12, 2024, two weeks after deadly flooding caused by torrential rain.

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Sales of commercial housing in China have declined

XI'AN, CHINA - NOVEMBER 12, 2024 - Workers work at a housing project site in Xi 'an, Shaanxi province, China, Nov 12, 2024.

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Sales of commercial housing in China have declined

XI'AN, CHINA - NOVEMBER 12, 2024 - Workers work at a housing project site in Xi 'an, Shaanxi province, China, Nov 12, 2024.

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Sales of commercial housing in China have declined

XI'AN, CHINA - NOVEMBER 12, 2024 - Workers work at a housing project site in Xi 'an, Shaanxi province, China, Nov 12, 2024.

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Sales of commercial housing in China have declined

XI'AN, CHINA - NOVEMBER 12, 2024 - Workers work at a housing project site in Xi 'an, Shaanxi province, China, Nov 12, 2024.

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Sales of commercial housing in China have declined

XI'AN, CHINA - NOVEMBER 12, 2024 - Workers work at a housing project site in Xi 'an, Shaanxi province, China, Nov 12, 2024.

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