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Exhibition of Chinese artifacts loaned from Taiwan opens in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken June 23, 2014, at the Tokyo National Museum in Tokyo's Taito Ward shows a cabbage carved from jadeite dating from the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) on loan from Taiwan's National Palace Museum.

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Exhibition of Chinese artifacts loaned from Taiwan opens in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - A tape-cutting ceremony is held at the Tokyo National Museum in Tokyo's Taito Ward on June 23, 2014, for an exhibition of ancient Chinese artifacts on loan from Taiwan. Feng Ming-chu, director of Taiwan's National Palace Museum, can be seen second from right.

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2 Taiwanese students killed in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows an apartment building (C) in Tokyo's Taito Ward where two female Taiwanese language-school students were killed on Jan. 5, 2012. Lin Chih-ying, 22, and Chu Li-chieh, 24, were found bleeding with stab wounds in their apartment in the building rented as a dorm by the language school they attended. The cause of their death was apparently blood loss.

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Asakusa Samba Carnival

TOKYO, Japan - The annual Asakusa Samba Carnival is held near the Sensoji temple in Tokyo's Taito Ward on Aug. 23, 2014, with some 4,700 dancers taking part.

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Asakusa Samba Carnival

TOKYO, Japan - The annual Asakusa Samba Carnival is held near the Sensoji temple in Tokyo's Taito Ward on Aug. 23, 2014, with some 4,700 dancers taking part.

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Taiwan museum's exhibitions in Japan might be canceled

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken June 20, 2014, shows signboards advertising an exhibition, scheduled to begin June 24, of ancient Chinese artifacts from Taiwan's National Palace Museum, set up inside JR Ueno Station in Tokyo's Taito Ward. The word "national" is omitted in referring to the museum on the signboards. Taiwan warned the same day the exhibition will be canceled if posters and other promotional materials prepared by the Japanese side continue to omit the word "national" in referring to the museum.

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Exhibit on 'right to read'

TOKYO, Japan - An exhibited art book shows the embossed picture, "Girl with a Pearl Earring" by Johannes Vermeer, to enable visually impaired people to trace with their fingers so they can visualize what it looks like, at the Tokyo Metropolitan Human Rights Promotion Center in Tokyo's Taito Ward on April 23, 2014.

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Polar bear enjoys heavy snow in Tokyo

Tokyo, Japan - A polar bear enjoys heavy snow in the quiet Ueno Zoological Gardens in Taito Ward, Tokyo, covered with more than 20 centimeters of snow for the first time in 20 years on Feb. 8, 2014.

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CG, scientific studies bring dinosaurs closer to people

TOKYO, Japan - Visitors look at dinosaur skeletons displayed at the National Museum of Nature and Science in the Ueno district of Tokyo's Taito Ward on Dec. 17, 2013.

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LED 'fireflies' light up Tokyo river

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Tokyo Sky Tree in Tokyo's Taito Ward towering over the Sumida River, with its surface lit up in blue by 100,000 light-emitting diode bulbs, mimicking fireflies, during an event called "Tokyo Firefly" on the night of May 25, 2013. Participants bought LED bulbs measuring 8.5 centimeters in diameter, each containing a solar panel and a rechargeable battery, and threw them into the river. The bulbs were collected by fishermen using a net downstream for reuse.

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Empress attends charity concert for quake victims

TOKYO, Japan - Empress Michiko arrives at the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan hall in Tokyo's Taito Ward on the night of March 28, 2013, to attend a charity concert organized to support the victims of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster. Students from disaster-hit Fukushima Prefecture gave choral and instrumental performances, including Mozart's Requiem and traditional Japanese koto string music.

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Samba carnival in Asakusa

TOKYO, Japan - Women dance a samba during the Asakusa Samba Carnival in Tokyo's Taito Ward on Aug. 25, 2012. Tokyo Sky Tree tower is visible in the background. The annual samba carnival was cancelled the previous year due to the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster.

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Samba carnival in Asakusa

TOKYO, Japan - Women dance a samba during the Asakusa Samba Carnival in Tokyo's Taito Ward on Aug. 25, 2012. Tokyo Sky Tree tower is visible in the background. The annual samba carnival was cancelled the previous year due to the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster.

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Samba carnival in Asakusa

TOKYO, Japan - Women dance a samba during the Asakusa Samba Carnival in Tokyo's Taito Ward on Aug. 25, 2012. The Kaminari gate of Sensoji temple can be seen in the background to the left. The annual samba carnival was cancelled the previous year due to the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster.

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Morning glory market

TOKYO, Japan - An annual morning glory market begins at a temple called Iriya Kishimojin in Tokyo's Taito Ward on July 6, 2012.

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Asakusa Station building with retro look

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows the building of Tobu Railway Co.'s Asakusa Station in Tokyo's Taito Ward on May 18, 2012. The station near the Tokyo Skytree tower has been refurbished to look like what it was at its opening in 1931.

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'LED fireflies' light up Tokyo river

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Tokyo Sky Tree in Tokyo's Taito Ward towering over the Sumida River, with its surface lit up in blue by 100,000 bulbs containing light-emitting diodes, mimicking fireflies, during an event called ''Tokyo Firefly'' on May 6, 2012. Participants bought bulbs measuring 8.5 centimeters in diameter, each containing an LED charged with solar power, and threw them into the river. The bulbs were collected by the organizers using a net downstream.

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'LED fireflies' light up Tokyo river

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Tokyo Sky Tree in Tokyo's Taito Ward towering over the Sumida River, with its surface lit up in blue by 100,000 bulbs containing light-emitting diodes, mimicking fireflies, during an event called ''Tokyo Firefly'' on May 6, 2012. Participants bought bulbs measuring 8.5 centimeters in diameter, each containing an LED charged with solar power, and threw them into the river. The bulbs were collected by the organizers using a net downstream.

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'LED fireflies' light up Tokyo river

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the Sumida River in Tokyo's Taito Ward with its surface lit up in blue by 100,000 bulbs containing light-emitting diodes, mimicking fireflies, during an event called ''Tokyo Firefly'' on May 6, 2012. Participants bought bulbs measuring 8.5 centimeters in diameter, each containing an LED charged with solar power, and threw them into the river. The bulbs were collected by the organizers using a net downstream.

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Tokyo cherry blossoms in full bloom

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on April 6, 2012, shows cherry blossoms in full bloom at Ueno Park in Tokyo's Taito Ward. A local observatory said blossoms on the ''someiyoshino'' variety of cherry trees were in full bloom that day in Tokyo, three days later than usual and the same as the previous year.

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300 more days before Tokyo Sky Tree's opening

TOKYO, Japan - The countdown board on the rooftop of a building in Tokyo's Taito Ward shows 300, the number of days left before the opening of the 634-meter Tokyo Sky Tree (L in background), on July 27, 2011, during a ceremony to light up the board, with the tower's official mascots (from L to R) Teppenpen, Sorakara-chan and Sukoburuburu attending. The world's tallest self-standing tower is scheduled to open for visitors on May 22, 2012.

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Commemorating Tokyo air raid

TOKYO, Japan - Women offer chrysanthemums at the cenotaph for victims of the March 10, 1945, U.S. air raid on Tokyo in Sumida Park in Tokyo's Taito Ward on March 10, 2011, the event's 66th anniversary. An estimated 100,000 people were killed in the single night's attack involving over 300 B-29 bombers.

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Commemorating Tokyo air raid

TOKYO, Japan - About 180 people take part in a memorial gathering in Sumida Park in Tokyo's Taito Ward on March 10, 2011, the 66th anniversary of a massive U.S. air raid on Tokyo. Survivors of the attack, which killed an estimated 100,000 people, said the site, with Tokyo Sky Tree under construction now visible on the other side of Sumida River, was covered with numerous dead bodies at the time.

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Wrestler turning reporter

TOKYO, Japan - Sumo wrestler Masumeidai smiles at the Chiganoura stable in Tokyo's Taito Ward on March 1, 2011. The 26-year-old, whose real name is Shuichi Tanaka, will quit the ring in a ceremony March 5 and become a reporter at a regional daily in April. He was the third wrestler to enter the sumo world from a state university.

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Annual morning-glory market begins

TOKYO, Japan - A vendor hands a flowerpot of morning glory to a customer as the annual Iriya Morning Glory Festival begins at Shingenji Temple, commonly known as Iriya Kishibojin, in Tokyo's Taito Ward on July 6, 2010. More than 100 morning glory vendors crowd the temple's precincts and its vicinity, with some 300,000-400,000 people expected to visit the event during a three-day run.

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'Hina' doll featuring Olympic skater Asada

TOKYO, Japan - Doll maker Kyugetsu displays a March 3 'hina' doll featuring Japanese Olympic figure skater Mao Asada in Tokyo's Taito Ward on Feb. 23, 2010.

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'Hina' doll featuring Olympic skater Asada

TOKYO, Japan - Doll maker Kyugetsu displays a March 3 'hina' doll featuring Japanese Olympic figure skater Mao Asada in Tokyo's Taito Ward on Feb. 23, 2010 ahead of her performace in the Vancouver Winter Olympics.

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Snow monkeys, nationally protected species, exhibited at Tokyo zoo

TOKYO, Japan - Snow monkeys from Aomori Prefecture, the northernmost habitat in the world for a simian, are exhibited to the public at Ueno Zoo in Tokyo's Taito Ward on Jan. 24, 2010. One of the 23 nationally protected Japanese macaques escaped from the zoo on the same day, the first day of public exhibition, but was captured six hours later by employees of the zoo.

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Exhibition draws protests from pro-Tibet supporters

TOKYO, Japan - Two pro-Tibet activists holding Tibetan flags rally near the Ueno Royal Museum on Dec. 19, 2009, in Tokyo's Taito Ward which is hosting a Tibetan Buddhist exhibition. Sponsors and the Tokyo museum have come under sharp criticism from such activists who say the display is politically biased because of the lack of reference to historical facts about the region.

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Name bars of new parliamentarians produced

TOKYO, Japan - Calligraphers create name bars for new House of Representatives members for use in the lower house's plenary chamber. Nine calligraphers from Nushisa Seisakusho, a lacquered tableware company in Tokyo's Taito Ward, on Sept. 2, 2009 worked on completing the bars for a total of 158 new lower house members by Sept. 9, company president Eiji Takemata said. The next parliamentary session is to begin Sept. 16.

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Name bars of new parliamentarians produced

TOKYO, Japan - Calligraphers create name bars for new House of Representatives members for use in the lower house's plenary chamber. Nine calligraphers from Nushisa Seisakusho, a lacquered tableware company in Tokyo's Taito Ward, on Sept. 2, 2009 worked on completing the bars for a total of 158 new lower house members by Sept. 9, company president Eiji Takemata said. The next parliamentary session is to begin Sept. 16.

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Ex-official of Chongryon affiliate to be arrested

TOKYO, Japan - Riot police confront supporters of the pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, or Chongryon, as police searched Chongryon's federation of chambers of commerce and industry in Tokyo's Taito Ward Nov. 27. Police plan to arrest a former official of a Chongryon affiliate on suspicion of violating the certified tax accountant law.

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Annual Hozuki Fair begins in Tokyo's Asakusa

TOKYO, Japan - The two-day annual ''Hozuki (Chinese lantern plant) Fair,'' which heralds the arrival of summer, begins at Sensoji Temple in Tokyo's Taito Ward on July 9, with some 250 vendors taking part.

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Annual Hozuki Fair begins in Tokyo's Asakusa

TOKYO, Japan - A woman puts a wind bell on a Hozuki (Chinese lantern plant) in the annual Hozuki Fair that begins at Sensoji Temple in Tokyo's Taito Ward on July 9, with some 250 vendors taking part.

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Buddha statue auctioned in New York on display at Tokyo museum

TOKYO, Japan - Visitors marvel at a 12th century wooden Buddha statue that fetched a record price for a work of Buddhist art at a New York auction on display at the Tokyo National Museum in Taito Ward on June 10. The exhibition will run through Sept. 21. The Japanese Buddhist organization Shinnyo-En bought the statue for $12.8 million at the auction.

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Old sewage pipes being renewed without digging up roads

TOKYO, Japan - Workers attach zonal polyvinyl chloride resin to the inner wall of an old pipe in Tokyo's Taito Ward. (Photo courtesy of the Tokyo metropolitan government's Sewerage Bureau).

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Over 450 feel ill, gov't to do its utmost over food poisoning

TOKYO, Japan - A notice put up at a restaurant in Tokyo's Taito Ward on Jan. 31 tells customers it has stopped offering food products imported from China. The number of people who have complained of illness after eating gyoza dumplings or other products made by a Chinese producer has reached 457 in 35 prefectures in Japan, while the government vowed utmost efforts to deal with the food poisoning.

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Annual 'Hozuki (Chinese lantern plant) Fair' to begin in Asakusa

TOKYO, Japan - The annual ''Hozuki (Chinese lantern plant) Fair'' begins at Sensoji Temple in Tokyo's Taito Ward on July 9, with some 250 vendors taking part. About 60,000 people are expected to come to the two-day event.

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Annual 'Hozuki (Chinese lantern plant) Fair' to begin in Asakusa

TOKYO, Japan - The annual ''Hozuki (Chinese lantern plant) Fair'' begins at Sensoji Temple in Tokyo's Taito Ward on July 9, with some 250 vendors taking part. About 60,000 people are expected to come to the two-day event.

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Chinese lantern plants put on sale in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Some 250 shops begin selling potted Chinese lantern plants at Sensoji Temple in Tokyo's Taito Ward on July 9.

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Morning glories marketed in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Some 120,000 pots of morning glories are put on sale in a market that opened July 6 in Iriya in Tokyo's Taito Ward. The market will open until July 8.

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Election campaign starts for Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly

TOKYO, Japan - Liberal Democratic Party Secretary General Tsutomu Takebe stumps in Tokyo's Taito Ward on June 24 as the election campaign for the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly started on the day.

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Schools teaching craft of handmade shoes see boom

TOKYO, Japan - Ko Soda, 33, a sought-after shoe craftsman who graduated from the Taito branch of the Tokyo metropolitan Adachi Career College, makes by hand ''an odd but interesting pair of shoes'' at his workroom on the outskirts of Tokyo.

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Ground cherry fair begins at Sensoji Temple in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - An annual ground cherry fair, a summer feature of downtown Tokyo, begins in the precincts of Sensoji Temple in Tokyo's Taito Ward on July 9, with some 200 vendors taking part. Some 600,000 people are expected to visit the two-day event.

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3 Mitsui-affiliated sugar refiners to merge in April 2005

TOKYO, Japan - Keichiro Ohashi (L), president of KS Co., Yoshitaka Ihara (C), president of Shin Mitsui Sugar Co., and Hideo Sato, president of Taito Co., speak to reporters at the Tokyo Stock Exchange on April 8 about their companies' merger in 2005. The new firm -- named Mitsui Sugar Co. -- will have about 23% of the Japanese sugar market.

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Ground cherry fair begins at Tokyo's Asakusa

TOKYO, Japan - An annual ground cherry fair begins at Sensoji Temple in Tokyo's Taito Ward on July 9, with some 250 vendors taking part. About 600,000 visitors are expected to come to the two-day event.

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(2) Big crowds enjoy Sanja Festival in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Locals and visitors pack the main street leading to Sensoji Temple in Tokyo's Taito Ward on May 17 as the annual Sanja Matsuri (festival) begins. The two-day event features a parade of about 100 portable shrines (mikoshi).

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(1)Big crowds enjoy Sanja Festival in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Both locals and visitors are in a festive mood May 17 as portable shrines (mikoshi) parade through the streets of Asakusa in the annual Sanja Matsuri, one of the three major festivals in Tokyo along with the Kanda Matsuri and Sanno Matsuri. Sanja Matsuri is a festival of Asakusa Shrine located adjacent to Sensoji Temple in Tokyo's Taito Ward.

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TokyoNow: Japan in tourism campaign, targets 10 mil. in 2010

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese-style inn Sawa-no-ya in Tokyo's Taito Ward with only 12 tatami mats rooms is popular for non-Japanese tourists, who want to stay at less expensive hotels during their sight-seeing trip to Japan. Tourists from Australia are taking breakfast.

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Shoppers crowd Tokyo's Ameyoko shopping district

TOKYO, Japan - Shoppers looking for food items for New Year's dishes crowd a stall in the Ameyoko shopping district in Tokyo's Taito Ward on Dec. 29. The number of shoppers is expected to exceed last year's 2.12 million between Dec. 25 and Dec. 31.