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Gold prices top 20,000 yen per gram

Photo taken on Sept. 29, 2025, shows gold necklaces at secondhand jewelry dealer Komehyo Co. in Tokyo's Ginza shopping area. The benchmark retail gold price topped 20,000 yen per gram the same day for the first time.

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Ghana: Massive Fire Destroys Stalls At Kantamanto Market In Accra

A massive fire broke out at Kantamanto Market, one of the world’s largest secondhand clothing markets, in Accra, Ghana, on New Year's Day, January 1, destroying hundreds of traders’ stalls. Authorities stated that the cause is under investigation, with no injuries or fatalities reported.

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Real Estate Market in China

SHANGHAI, CHINA - AUGUST 7, 2024 - Residential complexes in Pudong New Area in Shanghai, China, Aug 7, 2024. According to China's real estate index system hundred city Price index, in July 2024, the average price of secondhand residential buildings in hundred cities was 14,653 yuan/square meter, down 0.74% from the previous month, the decline expanded by 0.01 percentage points from June, and it has fallen for 27 consecutive months, with a year-on-year decline of 6.58%.

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Real Estate Market in China

SHANGHAI, CHINA - AUGUST 7, 2024 - Residential complexes in Pudong New Area in Shanghai, China, Aug 7, 2024. According to China's real estate index system hundred city Price index, in July 2024, the average price of secondhand residential buildings in hundred cities was 14,653 yuan/square meter, down 0.74% from the previous month, the decline expanded by 0.01 percentage points from June, and it has fallen for 27 consecutive months, with a year-on-year decline of 6.58%.

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Real Estate Market in China

SHANGHAI, CHINA - AUGUST 7, 2024 - Residential complexes in Pudong New Area in Shanghai, China, Aug 7, 2024. According to China's real estate index system hundred city Price index, in July 2024, the average price of secondhand residential buildings in hundred cities was 14,653 yuan/square meter, down 0.74% from the previous month, the decline expanded by 0.01 percentage points from June, and it has fallen for 27 consecutive months, with a year-on-year decline of 6.58%.

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Turks' demand for used phones grows as prices of new ones soar

STORY: Turks' demand for used phones grows as prices of new ones soar DATELINE: Oct. 6, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:54 LOCATION: Ankara CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of people on the streets with cell phones 2. various of phone shops 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (Turkish): GUVEN ISIK, Smartphone shop owner 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Turkish): OZAN SENOL, University student STORYLINE: With new smartphone prices skyrocketing due to a declining national currency, Turkish consumers, especially young people, are increasingly turning towards purchasing more affordable secondhand ones. "The secondhand smartphone market is very vibrant these days," said Faruk Kocabas, Türkiye CEO of MediaMarkt, a German consumer electronics retailer. "Consumers are looking for cheaper alternatives in the face of high prices. They are turning to secondhand or refurbished smartphones," he told Milliyet Daily, predicting that 300,000 to 500,000 refurbished phones would be sold in the country this year. The main reason for the price hike of smartp

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Police question Japanese on plans to join Islamic State militants

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Oct. 6, 2014, shows a secondhand bookstore in Tokyo's Kanda district where a poster inviting people to go to Syria and work was displayed. Earlier in the day, police questioned several Japanese nationals suspected of planning to join Islamic State militants in Syria, including a 26-year-old student from Hokkaido University who likely responded to the poster which urged those interested to ask the store for more information.

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Police question Japanese on plans to join Islamic State militants

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Oct. 6, 2014, shows a secondhand bookstore in Tokyo's Kanda district where a poster inviting people to go to Syria and work was displayed. Earlier in the day, police questioned several Japanese nationals suspected of planning to join Islamic State militants in Syria, including a 26-year-old student from Hokkaido University who likely responded to the poster which urged those interested to ask the store for more information.

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Secondhand shop gives used fashion items new life

TOKYO, Japan - Junichi Kato, manager at the Musashikoyama outlet in Tokyo of recycle shop Tifana, attends to a customer on Oct. 15, 2013.

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Life in Myanmar

YANGON, Myanmar - A bicycle shop operator (L) chats with a customer in Yangon, Myanmar, on July 17, 2013. Secondhand bicycles from Japan are popular in the city.

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Life in Myanmar

YANGON, Myanmar - A man repairs a Japanese-made secondhand bicycle in Yangon, Myanmar, on July 25, 2013.

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Life in Somaliland

HARGEISA, Somalia - A secondhand Japanese vehicle is pictured on March 19, 2012, in Hargeisa, capital of the unrecognized breakaway republic of Somaliland in northwestern Somalia. The international community sees Somaliland as part of Somalia despite the former's self-declared independence in 1991.

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Unpublished haiku poems by Shiki Masaoka found

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show the cover (R) of an autographed collection of poems by haiku great Shiki Masaoka that includes unpublished verse (L), which was found recently and will be auctioned soon during a secondhand book fair, literary sources said July 2.

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Africa's 'Akiba' featuring secondhand goods draws shoppers

TOKYO, Japan - A vender sells secondhand Asian-made DVD players at Nigeria's Alaba International Market in Lagos.

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Africa's 'Akiba' featuring secondhand goods draws shoppers

TOKYO, Japan - Retailers carry their newly purchased secondhand TV sets at the Alaba International Market in Lagos to sell them in the city's suburbs and other regions in Nigeria.

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Sale of writer's manuscript raises questions

TOKYO, Japan - Lists of writers' manuscripts for sale published by secondhand bookstores.

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(1)Al-Qaida-linked Frenchman hid in Japan with fake passport

NIIGATA, Japan - Photo taken on May 17 shows the office of a secondhand car dealer in Niigata frequented by Lionel Dumont, a French national believed to be a senior member of the al-Qaida terrorist network who entered Japan on a fake passport in July 2002.

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(4)Japanese sumo wrestlers in Korea

SEOUL, South Korea - Popular sumo wrestler Takamisakari beams as he finds a magazine featuring him at a secondhand bookstore in downtown Seoul on Feb. 13.

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(2)N. Korean freighter leaves Maizuru port

KYOTO, Japan - The 298-ton North Korean freighter Namsan 3 leaves Maizuru port in Kyoto Prefecture on June 13 with a full load of secondhand bicycles after Japan granted permission to leave. It had been decided that previous port state control problems cited by authorities to prevent it leaving had been resolved.

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Lacquer-coated scooter to feature festival

KAINAN, Japan - Members of a youth association in Kainan, Wakayama Prefecture, renowned for its traditional lacquer ware, show off a lacquer-coated scooter Nov. 9, 2001, which they have taken two months to finish for display during the annual ''Kishu Lacquer Ware Festival'' beginning in the city Nov. 10. (Kishu is Wakayama's medieval name.) The special product, based on a secondhand Italian make, is not for sale. ''If you ask me, it could carry a price tag of no less than 1 million yen,'' Association chief Toshiyuki Nakamura said.

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4 held for allegedly smuggling fishing boat to N. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken last summer shows a secondhand fishing boat in Onahama, Fukushima Prefecture that was allegedly smuggled to North Korea. Police arrested the president of a ship-dealing company in Miyagi Prefecture and his three accomplices June 23 on suspicion of exporting the squid boat to North Korea without government approval.

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Unpublished Hearn biography found in London

LONDON, England - This manuscript of an unpublished critical biography of Lafcadio Hearn, who was influential in shaping Western views of Japan through his books, has been found in a secondhand book market in London. The handwritten manuscript, penned in the 1950s by Cesar dos Santos (1907-1974), a Portuguese journalist, was purchased by Sammy Tsunematsu, curator of the Soseki Museum in London.

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Secondhand market on rise in Greece in wake of multiple crises

STORY: Secondhand market on rise in Greece in wake of multiple crises DATELINE: Sept. 14, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:04 LOCATION: Athens CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: various of the marketSOUNDBITE 1 (English): KIMON TOUSMANOF, Head of Marketing at Vendora.grvarious of the surveySOUNDBITE 2 (Greek): TATYANA TODOROVA, Owner of a secondhand vintage storeSOUNDBITE 3 (Greek): ELENI GERONTAKI, Customer of the secondhand vintage store STORYLINE: Buying and selling secondhand has been taboo in Greece for a long time. However, the market is on the rise in recent years amid a series of crises. Experts and retailers have told Xinhua that thrift stores started springing up in the wake of the financial crisis (2008-2018) that shrank the average disposable income of Greeks by 25 percent. Many say that the new energy crisis and inflationary pressure, combined with growing concern about the climate crisis, strengthened a shift in the behavior of Greek consumers. According to a latest survey of Vendora.gr, a classifieds platfor

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GREECE-ATHENS-SECONDHAND MARKET

(220912) -- ATHENS, Sept. 12, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A customer shops at a secondhand/vintage store owned by Tatyana Todorova in central Athens, Greece, Sept. 12, 2022. TO GO WITH "Feature: Secondhand market on rise in Greece in wake of multiple crises" (Xinhua/Marios Lolos)

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GREECE-ATHENS-SECONDHAND MARKET

(220912) -- ATHENS, Sept. 12, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Customers shop at a secondhand/vintage store owned by Tatyana Todorova in central Athens, Greece, Sept. 12, 2022. TO GO WITH "Feature: Secondhand market on rise in Greece in wake of multiple crises" (Xinhua/Marios Lolos)

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GREECE-ATHENS-SECONDHAND MARKET

(220912) -- ATHENS, Sept. 12, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Tatyana Todorova (L), owner of a secondhand/vintage store, shows a bag to a customer at her store in central Athens, Greece, Sept. 12, 2022. TO GO WITH "Feature: Secondhand market on rise in Greece in wake of multiple crises" (Xinhua/Marios Lolos)

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GREECE-ATHENS-SECONDHAND MARKET

(220912) -- ATHENS, Sept. 12, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Tatyana Todorova, owner of a secondhand/vintage store, poses at her store in central Athens, Greece, Sept. 12, 2022. TO GO WITH "Feature: Secondhand market on rise in Greece in wake of multiple crises" (Xinhua/Marios Lolos)

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GREECE-ATHENS-SECONDHAND MARKET

(220912) -- ATHENS, Sept. 12, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Customers shop at a secondhand/vintage store owned by Tatyana Todorova in central Athens, Greece, Sept. 12, 2022. TO GO WITH "Feature: Secondhand market on rise in Greece in wake of multiple crises" (Xinhua/Marios Lolos)

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Ghanaians lament hardships amid fuel price, transport fare hikes

STORY: Ghanaians lament hardships amid fuel price, transport fare hikes DATELINE: March 25, 2022 LENGTH: 00:03:32 LOCATION: Accra CATEGORY: ECONOMY/SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of street views 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): RICHMOND LARBIE, Banker 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Twi): VIVIAN BRAIMAH, Secondhand clothes vendor 4. SOUNDBITE 3 (Twi): REBECCA AKORDOR, Clothes vendor STORYLINE: Amid the rising cost of petroleum products and transport fares, many Ghanaians expressed that they are feeling increasing hardships. The Road Transport Coordinating Council in Ghana announced a 15 percent increase in transport fares in February as the ex-pump price of petroleum products increased constantly since the beginning of this year. Richmond Larbie, a banker who commutes between the capital Accra and the eastern port city Tema daily, told Xinhua that the additional one Ghana cedi (0.13 U.S. dollars) charged fare per trip along that corridor had a rippling effect on his cost of living. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): RICHMOND LARBIE,

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Secondhand Lions (2003)

Michael Caine, Robert Duvall & Haley Joel Osment Characters: Garth,Hub & Walter Film: Secondhand Lions (2003) Director: Tim Mccanlies 05 November 2003 Date: 05 November 2003

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Secondhand Lions (2003)

Michael Caine & Haley Joel Osment Characters: Garth & Walter Film: Secondhand Lions (2003) Director: Tim Mccanlies 05 November 2003 Date: 05 November 2003

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Secondhand Lions (2003)

Robert Duvall, Haley Joel Osment & Michael Caine Characters: Hub,Walter & Garth Film: Secondhand Lions (2003) 05 November 2003 Date: 05 November 2003

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Secondhand Lions (2003)

Robert Duvall, Haley Joel Osment & Michael Caine Characters: Hub,Walter & Garth Film: Secondhand Lions (2003) 05 November 2003 Date: 05 November 2003

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Secondhand Lions (2003)

Michael Caine & Robert Duvall Characters: Garth & Hub Film: Secondhand Lions (2003) 05 November 2003 Date: 05 November 2003

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Secondhand Lions (2003)

Michael Caine, Haley Joel Osment & Robert Duvall Characters: Garth,Walter & Hub Film: Secondhand Lions (2003) 05 November 2003 Date: 05 November 2003

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Secondhand Lions (2003)

Michael Caine Characters: Garth Film: Secondhand Lions (2003) 05 November 2003 Date: 05 November 2003

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Secondhand Lions (2003)

Michael Caine Characters: Garth Film: Secondhand Lions (2003) 05 November 2003 Date: 05 November 2003

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Secondhand Lions (2003)

Robert Duvall Characters: Hub Film: Secondhand Lions (2003) 05 November 2003 Date: 05 November 2003

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Secondhand Lions (2003)

Michael Caine, Haley Joel Osment & Robert Duvall Characters: Garth,Walter & Hub Film: Secondhand Lions (2003) 05 November 2003 Date: 05 November 2003

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Secondhand Lions (2003)

Robert Duvall & Michael Caine Characters: Hub & Garth Film: Secondhand Lions (2003) 05 November 2003 Date: 05 November 2003

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Secondhand Lions (2003)

Robert Duvall Characters: Hub Film: Secondhand Lions (2003) 05 November 2003 Date: 05 November 2003

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Secondhand Lions (2003)

Robert Duvall & Michael Caine Characters: Hub & Garth Film: Secondhand Lions (2003) 05 November 2003 Date: 05 November 2003

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Secondhand Lions (2003)

Michael Caine & Haley Joel Osment Characters: Garth & Walter Film: Secondhand Lions (2003) 05 November 2003 Date: 05 November 2003

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Secondhand Lions (2003)

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Secondhand Lions (2003)

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Secondhand Lions (2003)

Robert Duvall, Haley Joel Osment & Michael Caine Characters: Hub,Walter & Garth Film: Secondhand Lions (2003) 05 November 2003 Date: 05 November 2003

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Secondhand Lions (2003)

Haley Joel Osment Characters: Walter Film: Secondhand Lions (2003) 05 November 2003 Date: 05 November 2003

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Secondhand Lions (2003)

Haley Joel Osment, Michael Caine & Robert Duvall Characters: Walter,Garth & Hub Film: Secondhand Lions (2003) 05 November 2003 Date: 05 November 2003

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Secondhand Lions (2003)

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Secondhand Lions (2003)

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