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Akazome wins Akutagawa award

TOKYO, Japan - Author Akiko Akazome holds the June edition of literary magazine Shincho which published her fiction in Tokyo on July 15, 2010. Akazome was awarded the 143rd Akutagawa Prize for up-and-coming authors for her work ''Otome no Mikkoku'' (The Anonymous Tip of a Virgin).

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Panel questions former ozeki Chiyotaikai on alleged gambling

NAGOYA, Japan - Sumo elder Sanoyama, former ozeki Chiyotaikai, speaks to reporters at Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium in Nagoya on July 13, 2010, after the Shukan Shincho weekly magazine reported he was allegedly involved in illegal gambling. Sanoyama said, ''All of what has been written is fabricated. I have no involvement at all.''

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Police question sumo stablemaster Otake over gambling

TOKYO, Japan - Sumo stablemaster Otake (file photo) has admitted in police questioning to illegal gambling on baseball, the Metropolitan Police Department said on June 17, 2010. The Tokyo police questioned Otake before an article in the Shukan Shincho weekly that went on sale the same day mentioned him and top-division sumo wrestler Toyonoshima in connection with the gambling.

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Legendary 'rakugo' family mementos draw fans to Tokyo shop

TOKYO, Japan - Yasuji Ogawa poses for a photo at his shop ''Tamaru'' in Tokyo's downtown Yanaka district on April 21, 2010. The shop, dedicated to the legendary rakugo storyteller Kokontei Shinsho V and his sons Kingentei Basho and Kokontei Shincho, is packed with rare mementos of the family.

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Noted rakugo artist Kokontei Shincho dies at 63

TOKYO, Japan - Kokontei Shincho, a master of traditional Japanese rakugo comic storytelling, is seen in this photo taken in November 1993. He died Oct. 1 of liver cancer at his home in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward. He was 63.

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Noted rakugo artist Kokontei Shincho dies at 63

TOKYO, Japan - Kokontei Shincho, a master of traditional Japanese rakugo comic storytelling, is seen in this photo taken in November 1993. He died Oct. 1 of liver cancer at his home in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward. He was 63.

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Legendary 'rakugo' family mementos draw fans to Tokyo shop

TOKYO, Japan - Yasuji Ogawa poses for a photo at his shop ''Tamaru'' in Tokyo's downtown Yanaka district on April 21, 2010. The shop, dedicated to the legendary rakugo storyteller Kokontei Shinsho V and his sons Kingentei Basho and Kokontei Shincho, is packed with rare mementos of the family. (Kyodo)

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Panel questions former ozeki Chiyotaikai on alleged gambling

NAGOYA, Japan - Sumo elder Sanoyama, former ozeki Chiyotaikai, speaks to reporters at Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium in Nagoya on July 13, 2010, after the Shukan Shincho weekly magazine reported he was allegedly involved in illegal gambling. Sanoyama said, ''All of what has been written is fabricated. I have no involvement at all.'' (Kyodo)

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Akazome wins Akutagawa award

TOKYO, Japan - Author Akiko Akazome holds the June edition of literary magazine Shincho which published her fiction in Tokyo on July 15, 2010. Akazome was awarded the 143rd Akutagawa Prize for up-and-coming authors for her work ''Otome no Mikkoku'' (The Anonymous Tip of a Virgin). (Kyodo)

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Hatoyama denies taking shady donations from resort developer

TOKYO, Japan - Yukio Hatoyama, leader of the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan, meets the press in Tokyo on Feb. 17 to deny allegations that he received some 50 million yen in shady donations from a former resort developer. Toshikazu Hanada said in an article in the monthly ''Shincho 45'' magazine that he gave the money to Hatoyama through donations and political fund-raising events from the late 1980s to around 1991.