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Expressway ETC lanes closed in 8 Japanese prefectures

Electronic toll collection lanes are closed at a toll gate of the Chuo Expressway's interchange in Komaki in the central Japan prefecture of Aichi on April 7, 2025, due to a system outage. A similar problem that started the previous day spread to over 100 interchanges in eight prefectures in Japan.

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Expressway ETC lanes closed in 8 Japanese prefectures

Electronic toll collection lanes are closed at a toll gate of the Chuo Expressway's interchange in Komaki in the central Japan prefecture of Aichi on April 7, 2025, due to a system outage. A similar problem that started the previous day spread to over 100 interchanges in eight prefectures in Japan.

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Paris Olympics: Japan figure skaters awarded Beijing team silver in Paris

Kaori Sakamoto (front C) of Japan speaks during a press conference alongside her teammates after their medal ceremony for the figure skating team event of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics in Paris on Aug. 7, 2024. They belatedly received silver medals in the French capital after the ceremony was postponed for over two years due to a doping controversy involving Russian skater Kamila Valieva.

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Paris Olympics: Japan figure skaters awarded Beijing team silver in Paris

Japanese figure skaters Kaori Sakamoto (L) and Yuma Kagiyama pose for a photo during a press conference after their medal ceremony for the figure skating team event of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics in Paris on Aug. 7, 2024. They belatedly received silver medals after the ceremony was postponed for over two years due to a doping controversy involving Russian skater Kamila Valieva.

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Paris Olympics: Japan figure skaters awarded Beijing team silver in Paris

Japanese figure skaters (from L) Takeru Komatsubara, Misato Komatsubara, Wakaba Higuchi, Kaori Sakamoto, Yuma Kagiyama, Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara show off their team silver medals from the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics in Paris on Aug. 7, 2024. They belatedly received the medals after the ceremony had been postponed for over two years following a doping controversy surrounding Russian skater Kamila Valieva.

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Paris Olympics: Japan figure skaters awarded Beijing team silver in Paris

Japanese figure skaters wave to spectators during the medal ceremony for the figure skating team event of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics at the Paris Olympics Champions Park in Paris on Aug. 7, 2024. They belatedly received silver medals after the ceremony had been postponed for over two years following a doping controversy surrounding Russian skater Kamila Valieva.

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Japan figure skaters awarded Beijing team silver in Paris

Japanese figure skaters (from L) Takeru Komatsubara, Misato Komatsubara, Ryuichi Kihara, Riku Miura, Kaori Sakamoto, Yuma Kagiyama and Wakaba Higuchi wave during the medal ceremony for the figure skating team event of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics at the Paris Olympics Champions Park at the Trocadero in Paris on Aug. 7, 2024. They belatedly received silver medals after the ceremony had been postponed for over two years following a doping controversy surrounding Russian skater Kamila Valieva.

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Paris Olympics: Japan figure skaters awarded Beijing team silver in Paris

Japanese figure skaters pose for a photo during the medal ceremony for the figure skating team event of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics at the Paris Olympics Champions Park at the Trocadero in Paris on Aug. 7, 2024. They belatedly received silver medals after the ceremony had been postponed for over two years following a doping controversy surrounding Russian skater Kamila Valieva.

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Paris Olympics: Japan figure skaters awarded Beijing team silver in Paris

Japanese figure skaters (from L) Takeru Komatsubara, Misato Komatsubara, Riku Miura, Ryuichi Kihara, Kaori Sakamoto, Yuma Kagiyama and Wakaba Higuchi jump during the medal ceremony for the figure skating team event of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics at the Paris Olympics Champions Park at the Trocadero in Paris on Aug. 7, 2024. They belatedly received silver medals after the ceremony had been postponed for over two years following a doping controversy surrounding Russian skater Kamila Valieva.

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Paris Olympics: Figure skaters awarded Beijing team medals in Paris

U.S. figure skaters show off their team gold medals from the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics after the medal ceremony at the Paris Olympics Champions Park at the Trocadero in Paris on Aug. 7, 2024. They belatedly received the medals after the ceremony had been postponed for over two years following a doping controversy surrounding Russian skater Kamila Valieva.

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Paris Olympics: Japan figure skaters awarded Beijing team silver in Paris

Japanese figure skaters (from L) Takeru Komatsubara, Misato Komatsubara, Ryuichi Kihara, Riku Miura, Kaori Sakamoto, Yuma Kagiyama and Wakaba Higuchi show off their team silver medals from the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics in Paris on Aug. 7, 2024. They belatedly received the medals earlier in the day after the ceremony had been postponed for over two years following a doping controversy surrounding Russian skater Kamila Valieva.

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Johnny's talent agency sex abuse scandal

Julie Keiko Fujishima (R), former president of Johnny & Associates Inc., wipes away tears during a Tokyo press conference on Sept. 7, 2023, alongside new president Noriyuki Higashiyama, amid allegations of sexual abuse by the agency's late founder and her uncle, Johnny Kitagawa, against aspiring teenage pop singers over decades.

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CEATEC begins in Chiba

CHIBA, Japan - CEATEC, Asia's largest electronics and information technology trade show, opens at Makuhari Messe in the city of Chiba near Tokyo on Oct. 7, 2014. Over 500 domestic and foreign exhibitors are showcasing advanced technologies from wearable devices and high-resolution televisions to humanoid robots.

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Mitsubishi Regional Jet

NAGOYA, Japan - Part of the Mitsubishi Regional Jet, Japan's first small commercial airliner under development, is shown to reporters in Tobishima, Aichi Prefecture, on Sept. 7, 2013. The aircraft's developer Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp. said the previous month that the first delivery will be delayed by over a year to around the April-June period in 2017.

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Ota places 13th in men's over 105-kg weightlifting

London, Britain - Japan's Kazuomi Ota raises his fist after successfully lifting 185 kilograms in the third snatch of the men's weightlifting over 105-kg class at ExCeL London at the 2012 London Olympics on Aug. 7, 2012. Ota lifted a combined total of 400 kg and placed 13th.

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Pyrotechnic signal over Miyakojima

MIYAKOJIMA, Japan - A pyrotechnic signal is launched over an Air Self-Defense Force base in Miyakojima, Okinawa Prefecture at 7:44 a.m., shortly after North Korea fired a rocket at 7:38 a.m.

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U.S. girl hands tsunami relief money to Japanese envoy

WASHINGTON, United States - Eight-year-old Mackenzie Walsh (R) hands at the Japanese Embassy in Washington on Sept. 7, 2011, to Japanese Ambassador to the United States Ichiro Fujisaki $115 in donations, which she raised for people affected by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Mackenzie, from Maryland, collected the money by walking door to door to sell over 20 copies of a handmade children's book she had created after learning about the disaster.

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Myanmar holds 1st election in over 2 decades

BAGO, Myanmar - Voters line up at a polling station in Bago on Nov. 7, 2010. Military-ruled Myanmar kicked off its long-awaited but much-criticized parliamentary elections, the first in over two decades.

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Myanmar holds 1st election in over 2 decades

BAGO, Myanmar - A woman casts a vote at a polling station in Bago on Nov. 7, 2010. Military-ruled Myanmar kicked off its long-awaited but much-criticized parliamentary elections, the first in over two decades.

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Myanmar holds 1st election in over 2 decades

YANGON, Myanmar - A Buddhist monk passes by a polling station in Yangon on Nov. 7, 2010. Military-ruled Myanmar kicked off its long-awaited but much-criticized parliamentary elections, the first in over two decades.

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Myanmar holds 1st election in over 2 decades

YANGON, Myanmar - Voters leave a polling station in Yangon on Nov. 7, 2010. Military-ruled Myanmar kicked off its long-awaited but much-criticized parliamentary elections, the first in over two decades.

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Myanmar holds 1st election in over 2 decades

YANGON, Myanmar - People look for their names on a list of eligible voters in front of a polling station in Yangon on Nov. 7, 2010. Military-ruled Myanmar kicked off its long-awaited but much-criticized parliamentary elections, the first in over two decades.

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Hiroshima's call for nuke-free world

NEW YORK, United States - Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba speaks at a session of the U.N. conference on reviewing the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in New York on May 7, 2010. Akiba called for the realization of a world without nuclear weapons within the lifetime of the hibakusha atomic-bomb survivors, whose average age is now over 75.

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Locals protest Okada's idea to transfer U.S. base to Kadena

KADENA, Japan - Over 2,000 people march through the town of Kadena, Okinawa Prefecture, on Nov. 7, 2009, in protest over Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada's remarks that merging the heliport functions of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station with the nearby Kadena Air Base is an option.

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Pyrotechnic signal over Miyakojima

MIYAKOJIMA, Japan - A pyrotechnic signal is launched over an Air Self-Defense Force base in Miyakojima, Okinawa Prefecture at 7:44 a.m., shortly after North Korea fired a rocket at 7:38 a.m. (Kyodo)