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American offers 'cool-headed' info on Japan whaling town

OSAKA, Japan - Jay Alabaster from the United States points to a videotaped folding screen showing an ancient whaling operation at the Taiji Whale Museum in Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan, as seen in this file photo taken on Oct. 15, 2014. The American researcher has lived in Taiji since the autumn of 2013 helping disseminate in a cool-headed manner information on life in the whaling town to the rest of the world.

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Japanese poet recalls censorship of late friend's work

TOKYO, Japan - Poet Kiyoko Horiba stands on a beach near her home in Onjuku, Chiba prefecture, east of Tokyo, on Oct. 15, 2014. She wonders why the postwar Allied occupation authorities had to cut a reference to the Japanese army's atrocities in Hiroshima A-bomb surviving poet Sadako Kurihara's poems in "Black Eggs" in 1946, if not the A-bomb part itself, as Horiba, also an A-bomb survivor, helped Kurihara publish the full original version in 1983. (Photo by Makoto Hori)

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Century-old inaugural issue of local daily found

MIYAZAKI, Japan - A century-old copy of the inaugural issue of "Miyazaki Shimpo," the southwestern Japan prefecture's first local daily, dated March 15, 1888, is exhibited at a prefectural library on Oct. 1, 2014, after being found at a home in Kushima on the southern tip of the prefecture.

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Street vendors in Phnom Penh

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - Cambodian street vendors sell popular sandwiches made of French bread in a market in Phnom Penh, capital of the former French colony, on Oct. 15, 2014. (Photo by Yasushi Yukigaya)

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Small stove burner for single-person use released

OSAKA, Japan - A small portable stove burner intended for people eating alone is put on sale on Oct. 15, 2014, by gas supplier Iwatani Corp.

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Japan's justice minister Matsushima to resign

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken on Oct. 15, 2014, shows Justice Minister Midori Matsushima attending a Diet session, at which she was grilled over her distribution of free paper fans to voters in her district in possible election law violation. It was reported on Oct. 20 that she has decided to resign.

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Royals sweep into World Series

KANSAS CITY, United States - Kansas City Royals' Christian Colon (24), Nirichika Aoki (23) and Raul Ibanez (18) run out of the team's dugout after a 2-1 victory over the Baltimore Orioles in Game 4 of the American League Championship Series at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City on Oct. 15, 2014. The Royals advanced to their first World Series in 29 years.

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Royals sweep into World Series

KANSAS CITY, United States - The Kansas City Royals' Norichika Aoki gets hit by a pitch from Baltimore Orioles starter Miguel Gonzalez during the first inning of Game 4 of the American League Championship Series at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City on Oct. 15, 2014. The Royals won 2-1 to advance to their first World Series in 29 years.

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Royals sweep into World Series

KANSAS CITY, United States - Kansas City Royals closer Greg Holland pitches against the Baltimore Orioles during the ninth inning of Game 4 of the American League Championship Series at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City on Oct. 15, 2014. The Royals won 2-1 to advance to their first World Series in 29 years.

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Royals sweep into World Series

KANSAS CITY, United States - Kansas City Royals relief pitcher Greg Holland celebrates on Oct. 15, 2014, at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri, after beating the Baltimore Orioles 2-1 in Game 4 of the American League Championship Series. With the victory, the Royals advanced to their first World Series in 29 years.

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Royals sweep into World Series

KANSAS CITY, United States - The Kansas City Royals' Norichika Aoki (R) celebrates with his teammates after scoring in the first inning of Game 4 of the American League Championship Series at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City on Oct. 15, 2014. The Royals won 2-1 to advance to their first World Series in 29 years.

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Royals sweep into World Series

KANSAS CITY, United States - Kansas City Royals manager Ned Yost gives an interview on Oct. 15, 2014, at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri, after beating the Baltimore Orioles 2-1 in Game 4 of the American League Championship Series. With the victory, the Royals advanced to their first World Series in 29 years.

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Fukushima students awarded for film about balloon bombs aimed at U.S.

NEW YORK, United States - Students from Nakoso 1st Junior High School in Iwaki City, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, receive an award for their five-minute documentary, "There Once Was War Here," at ceremony for the Kid Witness News global video contest near New York on Oct. 15, 2014. For their video, the Fukushima students researched the desperate practice in the final states of World War II of attaching bombs to large balloons that were released from Japan's Pacific coast in hopes they would reach the United States.

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Togashi signs contract with Mavericks

DALLAS, United States - Yuki Togashi (R), a 21-year-old Japanese professional basketball player, smiles while working out in Dallas, Texas, on Oct. 15, 2014, after the Dallas Mavericks announced they had signed a contract with him. Togashi, who played for Dallas' summer league team this year, will play for a team in a lower league that starts in November.

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Royals sweep into World Series

KANSAS CITY, United States - A fan of the Kansas City Royals holds a board with a message in Japanese, "Mr. Aoki, 'guts spirit'," to support Norichika Aoki on Oct. 15, 2014, at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri, during Game 4 against the Baltimore Orioles of the American League Championship Series. The Royals won 2-1 to advance to their first World Series in 29 years.

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Aoki responds to fans after Royals' win in AL Championship

KANSAS CITY, United States - Norichika Aoki acknowledges the cheers of the fans in Kansas City, Missouri, on Oct. 15, 2014, after his Kansas City Royals beat the Baltimore Orioles to advance to the World Series.

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Royals sweep into World Series

KANSAS CITY, United States - Kansas City Royals' Norichika Aoki is kissed by a woman on Oct. 15, 2014, at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri, after the team beat the Baltimore Orioles 2-1 in Game 4 of the American League Championship Series. With the victory, the Royals advanced to their first World Series in 29 years.

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Royals sweep into World Series

KANSAS CITY, United States - Kansas City Royals' Norichika Aoki (R) celebrates with teammate Terrance Gore on Oct. 15, 2014, at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri, after beating the Baltimore Orioles 2-1 in Game 4 of the American League Championship Series. With the victory, the Royals advanced to their first World Series in 29 years.

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Royals' Aoki celebrates AL Championship victory with fans

KANSAS CITY, United States - The Kansas City Royals' Norichika Aoki throws an American League Champion commemorative T-shirt to fans at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri, on Oct. 15, 2014. The Royals beat the Baltimore Orioles 2-1 to advance to the World Series.

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Royals sweep into World Series

KANSAS CITY, United States - Kansas City Royals' Norichika Aoki (R) celebrates with fans on Oct. 15, 2014, at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri, after beating the Baltimore Orioles 2-1 in Game 4 of the American League Championship Series. With the victory, the Royals advanced to their first World Series in 29 years.

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Fukushima food safety debated at London art show

LONDON, Britain - Artist Ei Arakawa (2nd from R) and his mother Miwako (2nd from L) distribute free soup made with vegetables from Japan's Fukushima Prefecture at London's Frieze Art Fair on Oct. 15, 2014. The performance-based installation at the fair has been devised by artist Ei Arakawa who is aiming to stimulate a debate about food safety in Japan.

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Abe arrives in Milan

MILAN, Italy - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (front) arrives in Milan on Oct. 15, 2014, to attend a two-day Asia-Europe Meeting summit that will begin the following day in the Italian city.

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Panasonic signs sponsorship accord for Paralympics

TOKYO, Japan - Panasonic Corp. Executive Officer Satoshi Takeyasu (L) shakes hands with International Paralympic Committee President Philip Craven on Oct. 15, 2014, in Tokyo after they signed a new partnership agreement. The Japanese electronics conglomerate has supplied audiovisual equipment to the Olympic and Paralympic Games since 1998, and the new agreement additionally covers the provision of care products for the elderly and disabled.

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Prince Hitachi gives toast to U.S. architecture prize winner

TOKYO, Japan - Prince Hitachi (R), younger brother of Emperor Akihito, gives a toast to U.S. architect Steven Holl, a laureate for architecture in this year's Praemium Imperiale global arts award, during a feast in Tokyo on Oct. 15, 2014, held after an award ceremony for the prize given by the Japan Art Association. (Pool photo)

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Police, protesters at feud in Hong Kong

HONG KONG, China - Police forces and protesters face off in front of the police headquarters in Hong Kong, China, on Oct. 15, 2014. During the day hundreds of police carrying shields and batons dismantled makeshift barricades on Lung Wo Road outside the Chief Executive Office, and arrested at least 45 protesters pressing for democratic elections.

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S. African playwright gets Japan's 2014 global arts award

TOKYO, Japan - Prince Hitachi (L), younger brother of Emperor Akihito, confers a medal on South African playwright Athol Fugard for the theater/film category of this year's Praemium Imperiale global arts prize awarded by the Japan Art Association in Tokyo on Oct. 15, 2014. (Pool photo)

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Japan wear distributor shows prototypes of Mackintosh London

TOKYO, Japan - Sanyo Shokai Ltd. unveils prototypes of Mackintosh London brand clothing in Tokyo on Oct. 15, 2014, as a successor to Burberry London for which a licensing contract will end next June.

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People mourn victims of mudslide prior to 1st anniv.

OSHIMA, Japan - Residents of Izu Oshima Island, around 120 kilometers south of Tokyo, light candles on Oct. 15, 2014, to mourn those who were killed by mudslides triggered by a power typhoon ahead of the first anniversary of the disaster, which occurred on Oct. 16, 2013, leaving 39 dead or unaccounted for.

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Kagoshima assembly head seeks industry minister's visit

TOKYO, Japan - Industry minister Yuko Obuchi (extreme R) meets with Kagoshima Prefectural Assembly Chairman Kenichi Ikehata (L) at her office in Tokyo on Oct. 15, 2014. Obuchi showed readiness to meet Ikehata's call for her visit to the southwestern Japan prefecture to explain the planned reactivation of a local nuclear power plant's two reactors.

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People mourn victims of mudslide prior to 1st anniv.

OSHIMA, Japan - Residents of Izu Oshima Island, around 120 kilometers south of Tokyo, light candles on Oct. 15, 2014, to mourn those who were killed by mudslides triggered by a power typhoon ahead of the first anniversary of the disaster, which occurred on Oct. 16, 2013, leaving 39 dead or unaccounted for.

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Niigata governor hits nuclear watchdog over plant restart

TOKYO, Japan - Niigata Gov. Hirohiko Izumida says at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on Oct. 15, 2014, that the Nuclear Regulation Authority is only examining the adequateness of its new regulatory standards for nuclear power plants when it should seek to ensure their safety before approving the planned restart of some of them.

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Ski jumper Takanashi returns from training in S. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's ace ski jumper Sara Takanashi talks to the press at Tokyo's Haneda airport on Oct. 15, 2014, after ending a training camp in South Korea's Pyeongchang, the host city to the 2018 Winter Olympics.

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Chinese official urges more contact among Asian leaders

TIANJIN, China - Chinese Assistant Foreign Minister Liu Jianchao says at an international academic conference in Tianjin, northern China, on Oct. 15, 2014, that leaders in Northeast Asian nations should intensify their mutual communication to promote their political relations of trust, a rare reference by a high-ranking Chinese official to the need for leadership dialogue.

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New fleece lineup with better heat insulation unveiled

TOKYO, Japan - Tadashi Yanai (C), head of Fast Retailing Co., which operates the Uniqlo clothing chain, and models wearing a new lineup of fleece wear with enhanced heat insulation pose at a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 15, 2014.

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China's ambassador hints at Sino-Japanese summit talks

TOKYO, Japan - Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua says in a speech in Tokyo on Oct. 15, 2014, that Beijing and Tokyo are arranging through diplomatic channels to realize the first formal talks between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during November's APEC forum meeting in the Chinese capital.

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Justice Minister Matsushima faces criticism

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Justice Minister Midori Matsushima attends a parliamentary panel session in Tokyo on Oct. 15, 2014. She withdrew her remarks in which she described questions from the opposition in the Diet as "noise."

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Village head asks TEPCO to resume nuke plant construction

TOKYO, Japan - Yasuo Echizen (L), mayor of Higashidori, Aomori Prefecture, presents Naomi Hirose, president of Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), with a written request at TEPCO's head office in Tokyo on Oct. 15, 2014, for the utility to resume the suspended construction of a nuclear power plant in the northeastern Japan village.

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Hamamatsu Photonics wins IEEE Milestone prize

HAMAMATSU, Japan - Akira Hiruma, president of Hamamatsu Photonics K.K., meets reporters in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, on Oct. 15, 2014, following a decision by the U.S.-based Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers to award the IEEE Milestone prize to the Japanese optical sensor manufacturer for its development of a 20-inch photomultiplier tube, placed next to him.

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Abe stands before office for promotion of women's role

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (L) and Haruko Arimura, minister in charge of women's active social participation, stand by the signboard of an office tasked with creating "a society where all women can become active" in the Cabinet Office in Tokyo on Oct. 15, 2014.

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Laver seaweed growers start work for cultivation in Japan

SAGA, Japan - Fishermen begin preparations for the cultivation of seaweed used for "nori" dried laver in the Ariake Sea off Saga, southwestern Japan, on Oct. 15, 2014.

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Season to dry 'shishamo' smelts starts in northern Japan

SAPPORO, Japan - A worker hangs "shishamo" smelts to dry them in Mukawa in Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido on Oct. 15, 2014.

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Aussie Scott practices for Japan Open Golf Championship

CHIBA, Japan - Adam Scott, an Australian professional golfer, practices on Oct. 15, 2014, for the Oct. 16-19 Japan Open Golf Championship on the Umenosato Course of the Chiba Country Club in Noda, Chiba Prefecture, outside Tokyo.

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Japan's TPP negotiator speaks after meeting

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroshi Oe, Japan's deputy chief TPP negotiator, answers reporters' questions at the Cabinet Office in Tokyo on Oct. 15, 2014, after meeting with Wendy Cutler, acting deputy U.S. trade representative, over the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade initiative. Oe said the two sides "made progress" but there are "a pile of things we need to do."

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U.S. urges Japan to take "bold" steps in TPP talks

TOKYO, Japan - Wendy Cutler, acting deputy U.S. trade representative, answers reporters' questions at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Oct. 15, 2014, after a meeting on the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal with Japanese representatives. Cutler said Japan needs to take "bold" steps toward concluding the free trade talks, noting that difficult issues remain between Japan and the United States.

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PM Abe leaves for Italy

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) waves as he leaves Tokyo's Haneda airport on Oct. 15, 2014, for Italy to attend a two-day Asia-Europe Meeting summit that will begin the following day in Milan.

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U.S. forces start dismantling "Elephant Cage" antenna at Misawa base

MISAWA, Japan - A ceremony is held in front of an antenna array at the U.S. military's Misawa Airbase in Aomori Prefecture on Oct. 15, 2014, before the military began dismantling the aged facility, nicknamed the "Elephant Cage," that was used to intercept radio transmissions during the Cold War era.

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Dept. store boosts lineup of sweets for year-end shopping season

OSAKA, Japan - Takashimaya Department Store in Osaka, western Japan, displays an extensive lineup of sweets for the year-end shopping season on Oct. 15, 2014, expecting greater demand from female consumers at women-only parties.

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Search continues on Mt. Ontake

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows members of a search team getting off a helicopter near the top of snowcapped Mt. Ontake in central Japan on Oct. 15, 2014, to resume searching for seven climbers who remain missing following the deadly eruption Sept. 27 of the 3,067-meter volcano, which has claimed 56 lives.

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Dept. store workers raise morale for year-end shopping season

OSAKA, Japan - Workers at Takashimaya Department Store in Osaka, western Japan, hold a morale-boosting rally on Oct. 15, 2014, at the start of a year-end "shopping war."

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Search continues on Mt. Ontake

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows Self-Defense Forces at the top of snowcapped Mt. Ontake in central Japan on Oct. 15, 2014, searching for seven climbers who remain missing following the deadly eruption Sept. 27 of the 3,067-meter volcano, which has claimed 56 lives.