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Thai vehicle sales plunge

BANGKOK, Thailand - Kyoichi Tanada, president of Toyota Motor Thailand Co., the Thai unit of Japan's Toyota Motor Corp., holds a press conference in Bangkok on July 29, 2014. Tanada said that overall auto industry sales in Thailand in the first half of 2014 plunged 40.5 percent from a year earlier to 440,911 vehicles due to the adverse effect of domestic political uncertainty on consumer sentiment.

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Toyota to manufacture Prius in Thailand

BANGKOK, Thailand - Kyoichi Tanada, president of Toyota Motor Thailand Co., stands beside the Prius gas-electric hybrid car in Bangkok on Oct. 21, 2010. Tanada announced Toyota Motor Thailand will start manufacturing the Prius in Thailand in late November.

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Sorry, grandpa

SASEBO, Japan - A scarecrow resembling an abandoned human skeleton forms part of a piece commenting on cases in which families were unaware of, or hid, the deaths of elderly relatives, in some cases to unlawfully claim their pensions, on Sept. 25, 2010. In the foreground is a sign reading, ''Are you there, grandpa...? Sorry about being unaware for 30 years.'' About 100 scarecrows have been displayed for the annual ''Onigigo Tanada Matsuri'' festival in rice paddies in the town of Hasami, Nagasaki Prefecture.

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Sorry, grandpa

SASEBO, Japan - A scarecrow resembling an abandoned human skeleton forms part of a piece commenting on cases in which families were unaware of, or hid, the deaths of elderly relatives, in some cases to unlawfully claim their pensions, on Sept. 25, 2010. In the foreground is a sign reading, ''Are you there, grandpa...? Sorry about being unaware for 30 years.'' About 100 scarecrows have been displayed for the annual ''Onigigo Tanada Matsuri'' festival in rice paddies in the town of Hasami, Nagasaki Prefecture. (Kyodo)

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Cotton mulch sheets effective for rice and other farming

IKAZAKI, Japan - A ''tanada'' terraced paddy field is covered by a set of two white cotton sheets, between which unhulled rice is put, in the Izumidani district in the town of Ikazaki, Ehime Prefecture, western Japan. The Izumidani tanada has been selected as one of Japan's 100 best terraced paddy fields. (Kyodo)

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Toyota to manufacture Prius in Thailand

BANGKOK, Thailand - Kyoichi Tanada, president of Toyota Motor Thailand Co., stands beside the Prius gas-electric hybrid car in Bangkok on Oct. 21, 2010. Tanada announced Toyota Motor Thailand will start manufacturing the Prius in Thailand in late November. (Kyodo)

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Thai vehicle sales plunge

BANGKOK, Thailand - Kyoichi Tanada, president of Toyota Motor Thailand Co., the Thai unit of Japan's Toyota Motor Corp., holds a press conference in Bangkok on July 29, 2014. Tanada said that overall auto industry sales in Thailand in the first half of 2014 plunged 40.5 percent from a year earlier to 440,911 vehicles due to the adverse effect of domestic political uncertainty on consumer sentiment. (Kyodo)