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YOKOHAMA, Japan - Photo shows a family from Indonesia visiting Shinyokohama Raumen Museum, an amusement facility featuring ramen noodles, in Yokohama near Tokyo on Aug. 14, 2013. The number of foreign visitors to Japan in July 2013 topped 1 million for the first time, a record high for any month, due partly to the effect of easier visa requirements for Southeast Asian nations, a government tourism body said on Aug. 21, 2013.

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Make-your-own-ramen shop in Yokohama

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Customers select prepackaged ingredients for their ramen noodles on Dec. 1, 2010, at the My Ramen Kitchen shop inside the Shinyokohama Ramen Museum south of Tokyo. The shop, which opened the same day, offers 5,000 combinations of ramen noodles for customers.

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Japan's top skaters treat audience to fashionable ice show

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Japanese star figure skater Miki Ando performs during the Dream on Ice event at Shinyokohama Skate Center in Yokohama on June 19. Ando is among the athletes taking part in a special training project led by the Japan Skating Federation prior to next year's Vancouver Olympics.

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Japan's top skaters treat audience to fashionable ice show

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Japanese figure skater Nobunari Oda performs a comical dance during the Dream on Ice event at Shinyokohama Skate Center in Yokohama on June 19. Oda is among the athletes taking part in a special training project led by the Japan Skating Federation prior to next year's Vancouver Olympics.

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Japan's top skaters treat audience to fashionable ice show

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Japanese figure skater Yukari Nakano performs during the Dream on Ice event at Shinyokohama Skate Center in Yokohama on June 19. Nakano is among the athletes taking part in a special training project led by the Japan Skating Federation prior to next year's Vancouver Olympics.

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Japan's top skaters treat audience to fashionable ice show

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Japanese star figure skater Miki Ando performs during the Dream on Ice event at Shinyokohama Skate Center in Yokohama on June 19. Ando is among the athletes taking part in a special training project led by the Japan Skating Federation prior to next year's Vancouver Olympics.

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Olympic skate medalist Ito comes back onto ice

SHINYOKOHAMA, Japan - Skater Midori Ito, the 1989 World champion and 1992 Olympic silver medalist, performs in an ice show at Shinyokohama Skate Center on May 2 to help boost figure skating. Ito, 39, now a commentator for newspapers and television programs, returns to the ice arena for the first time in seven year. .

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Olympic skate medalist Ito comes back onto ice

SHINYOKOHAMA, Japan - Skater Midori Ito, the 1989 World champion and 1992 Olympic silver medalist, performs in an ice show at Shinyokohama Skate Center on May 2 to help boost figure skating. Ito, 39, now a commentator for newspapers and television programs, returns to the ice arena for the first time in seven year. (Kyodo).

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Japan's top skaters treat audience to fashionable ice show

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Japanese star figure skater Miki Ando performs during the Dream on Ice event at Shinyokohama Skate Center in Yokohama on June 19. Ando is among the athletes taking part in a special training project led by the Japan Skating Federation prior to next year's Vancouver Olympics. (Kyodo)

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Japan's top skaters treat audience to fashionable ice show

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Japanese figure skater Yukari Nakano performs during the Dream on Ice event at Shinyokohama Skate Center in Yokohama on June 19. Nakano is among the athletes taking part in a special training project led by the Japan Skating Federation prior to next year's Vancouver Olympics. (Kyodo)

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Japan's top skaters treat audience to fashionable ice show

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Japanese figure skater Nobunari Oda performs a comical dance during the Dream on Ice event at Shinyokohama Skate Center in Yokohama on June 19. Oda is among the athletes taking part in a special training project led by the Japan Skating Federation prior to next year's Vancouver Olympics. (Kyodo)

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Japan's top skaters treat audience to fashionable ice show

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Japanese star figure skater Miki Ando performs during the Dream on Ice event at Shinyokohama Skate Center in Yokohama on June 19. Ando is among the athletes taking part in a special training project led by the Japan Skating Federation prior to next year's Vancouver Olympics. (Kyodo)

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Owner of tsunami-hit restaurant gets pep talk from "Ramen museum" head

Kenji Chiba (L), owner of the Kamome Diner restaurant in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, chats with Yoji Iwaoka, president of the Shinyokohama Raumen Museum on Nov. 17, 2015, two days before the opening of the shop in the northeastern Japanese city. It was operated at the museum in Yokohama, southwest of Tokyo, until recently before relocating to Kesennuma. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Make-your-own-ramen shop in Yokohama

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Customers select prepackaged ingredients for their ramen noodles on Dec. 1, 2010, at the My Ramen Kitchen shop inside the Shinyokohama Ramen Museum south of Tokyo. The shop, which opened the same day, offers 5,000 combinations of ramen noodles for customers. (Kyodo)