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Memorial service for WWII female post office workers

SAPPORO, Japan - Chieko Kuriyama speaks in front of the photos of her nine former colleagues at a post office in Maoka (currently Kholmsk in Sakhalin, Russia) during a memorial service held for them in Wakkanai on the northernmost main island of Hokkaido on Aug. 8, 2014. Working as telephone exchange operators, the nine young Japanese women committed suicide by taking poison on the same date in 1945 when Russian forces invaded the town. (Photo by Daisuke Suzuki)

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Russian museum eager to display Japan dinosaur fossil replica

ASAHIKAWA, Japan - Nipponosaurus' skeleton model is displayed at the Hokkaido University Museum in Sapporo on June 26, 2014. The fossil was discovered in 1934 in the Japanese territory of Karafuto, in what is now Sakhalin, Russia. The Sakhalin Regional Museum in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk wants to display a replica of the fossil.

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Event for victims of 1983 KAL shoot-down

NEVELSK, Russia - Open burning of ceramics is held in Nevelsk, Sakhalin, Russia, on Aug. 22, 2014, to mourn the victims of a Korean Air Lines jumbo jet shot down by a Soviet jet fighter in 1983. The memorial event started at the initiative of Japanese ceramic artist Hitoko Okai who lost her son Makoto and his wife Yoko in the shoot-down. It was the fifth event.

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Statue of sumo legend Taiho erected in birthplace in Russia

PORONAYSK, Russia - Photo taken Aug. 15, 2014, shows a ceremony to unveil a bronze statue of the late Japanese sumo legend Taiho in his birthplace Poronaysk in Sakhalin, eastern Russia. Toshio Kamada (far R), the Japanese sculptor who created the original mold was in attendance.

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Luxury liner Sun Princess visits Otaru, northern Japan

SAPPORO, Japan - The 77,000-ton Sun Princess, a cruise ship operated by Princess Cruise Lines Ltd. of the U.S., makes a port call in Otaru, Hokkaido, on June 28, 2014, prior to departure for an eight-day cruise around sightseeing spots in the northernmost Japanese prefecture and Sakhalin, Russia.

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Luxury facilities of Sun Princess cruise ship opened

SAPPORO, Japan - A casino aboard the 77,000-ton Sun Princess, a cruise ship operated by Princess Cruise Lines Ltd. of the U.S., is unveiled to the press at Otaru port in Hokkaido on June 28, 2014, prior to departure for an eight-day cruise around sightseeing spots in the northernmost Japanese prefecture and Sakhalin, Russia.

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Hokkaido firms attempting to attract Russian tourists

SAPPORO, Japan - Tourism personnel from Sakhalin, Russia, receive an explanation about facilities as they visit a ski resort in Sapporo, Hokkaido, in December 2010. Companies in Hokkaido are aiming to attract Russian tourists, particularly higher socioeconomic groups.