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Japan's benchmark bond yield rises

A financial data monitor in Tokyo displays the yield on the benchmark 10-year Japanese government bond at 1.625 percent on Aug. 27, 2025. The yield briefly rose to 1.630 percent the day, its highest level since October 2008.

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Japan's benchmark bond yield rises

A financial data monitor in Tokyo displays the yield on the benchmark 10-year Japanese government bond at 1.625 percent on Aug. 27, 2025. The yield briefly rose to 1.630 percent the day, its highest level since October 2008.

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Nagano-Kanazawa bullet train to start operation on March 14

TOKYO, Japan - Tetsuro Tomita, president of East Japan Railway Co., announces the plan to start bullet train operations connecting Nagano and Kanazawa on March 14 next year during a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 27, 2014. The new Hokuriku Shinkansen Line will be an extension of the Tokyo-Nagano route launched in October 1997.

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H.K. Yoshinoya poster says 'no ingredients from Fukushima'

HONG KONG, China - A poster at a Hong Kong outlet of Japanese fast food chain Yoshinoya, famous for its "gyudon" beef bowls, stresses that it "absolutely does not use rice or other ingredients from Japan's Fukushima Prefecture," as seen in this photo taken on March 27, 2014. Rumors spread in Hong Kong that the restaurant's food is carcinogenic after Yoshinoya Holdings Co. in Japan announced in October 2013 it will grow rice and vegetables in a joint venture with farmers in Fukushima, home to the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power complex.

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Macross exhibition at Tezuka museum

KOBE, Japan - A "life-size" model of the cockpit of a "VF-1 Valkyrie" fighter from science fiction anime series Macross is shown at a preview at the Osamu Tezuka Manga Museum in Takarazuka, Hyogo Prefecture, on June 27, 2013. The special exhibition of the Macross series opened the following day and will run through October 28.

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Macross exhibition at Tezuka museum

KOBE, Japan - A "life-size" model of the cockpit of a "VF-1 Valkyrie" fighter from science fiction anime series Macross is shown at a preview at the Osamu Tezuka Manga Museum in Takarazuka, Hyogo Prefecture, on June 27, 2013. The special exhibition of the Macross series opened the following day and will run through October 28.

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Tokyo Gate Bridge lit up in blue in hope for rescue of abductees

TOKYO, Japan - (From R) Shigeru Yokota and his wife Sakie, whose daughter Megumi Yokota was abducted by North Korean agents in 1977 aged 13, answer reporters' questions in front of Tokyo Gate Bridge in Tokyo's Koto Ward on Aug. 27, 2012. The bridge was illuminated in blue, after the blue ribbons worn by families of abductees to symbolize their call for the return of all abductees from North Korea, ahead of the 10th anniversary in October of five abductees returning home.

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Nishioka, Donaire meet ahead of October title fight

LOS ANGELES, United States - WBC emeritus champion Toshiaki Nishioka (R) of Japan poses for a photo with WBO and IBF super bantamweight champion Nonito Donaire Jr. of the Philippines during a press conference in Los Angeles, California, on Aug. 27, 2012. The two will glove up in Carson, California, on Oct. 13, 2012.

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Tokyo Gate Bridge lit up in blue in hope for rescue of abductees

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Aug. 27, 2012, in Tokyo's Koto Ward shows Tokyo Gate Bridge illuminated in blue, after the blue ribbons worn by families of abductees to symbolize their call for the return of all abductees from North Korea, ahead of the 10th anniversary in October of five abductees returning home. (From R front) Shigeru Yokota and his wife Sakie, whose daughter Megumi Yokota was abducted by North Korean agents in 1977 aged 13, view the bridge.

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Ibis donation from China up in air amid territorial row

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows crested ibises in a cage in Shaanxi Province in October 2011. The planned donation of two Chinese crested ibises to Japan is in doubt due to Beijing's reluctance to formalize the deal amid the growing territorial row between the two countries over a chain of Japanese-controlled islands in the East China Sea known in Japan as the Senkakus and in China as Diaoyu, bilateral sources said on Aug. 27, 2012.

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Tokyo Station Hotel

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on May 27, 2012, shows a room of the Tokyo Station Hotel housed in the historic, red brick Tokyo Station building, which was unveiled to the media the same day. After the completion of renovation work, the hotel will be reopened in October 2012.

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Ukraina Hotel in Moscow

MOSCOW, Russia - Photo shows the Ukraina Hotel in Moscow lit up at 8:00 a.m., before sunrise at 8:24 a.m., on Oct. 27, 2011. The Russian government abolished winter time and the usual time shift on the last Sunday of October will not be conducted.

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Key chain containing radioactive material

CHIBA, Japan - Photo shows a key chain confiscated by the Chiba prefectural police which contains a glow-in-the-dark material that emits radiation around 12 times greater than the legal limit. Police said on Sept. 27, 2011, they sent papers to prosecutors in April concerning a 15-year-old boy suspected of violating laws meant to prevent radiation hazards. The boy allegedly sold the key chains via the Internet at prices ranging from 3,000 to 10,000 yen after purchasing 30 of them online for 1,000 yen each from July to October 2010.

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Saito agrees on 1-year deal with Brewers

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Japanese pitcher Takashi Saito. Saito reportedly agreed with the Milwaukee Brewers on a one-year deal on Dec. 27, 2010, after the Atlanta Braves unconditionally released him in October.

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Haneda airport new runway under construction

TOKYO, Japan - This photo shows a reclaimed island near Haneda airport in Tokyo on Jan. 27, 2010, where the construction of a 2,500-meter runway, the fourth for the key airport, is under way. The airport will try to start to use the runway in October 2010.

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Haneda airport new runway under construction

TOKYO, Japan - Workers watch the ongoing construction of a fourth runway of Haneda airport in Tokyo on Jan. 27, 2010. The airport will try to start to use the 2,500-meter runway, being built on a reclaimed island, in October 2010.

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Ex-abductee Hasuike wins nonfiction award

TOKYO, Japan - Repatriated abductee Kaoru Hasuike (file photo) won an award Aug. 27, 2009, for a nonfiction work that features his experience of being abducted to North Korea and living in the reclusive country. Hasuike went missing along with his girlfriend, Yukiko Okudo, in Niigata Prefecture in July 1978, and returned to Japan in October 2002 with Okudo, to whom he got married in North Korea, after Pyongyang admitted to past abductions of Japanese citizens.

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Deng Xiaoping in Kyoto

Deng Xiaoping and his wife visit Kyoto, Japan. (Picture taken on October 27, 1978)