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Former students sing before gymnasium is torn down

IWAKI, Japan - Former students of Toyoma Junior High School in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, sing the school song on Sept. 21, 2014, at the school's soon-to-be demolished gymnasium accompanied by the piano that was repaired after being damaged by the 2011 tsunami.

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Catch of yellowtail in Toyoma Pref. jumps 30-fold

TOYAMA, Japan - Buyers take part in an auction of yellowtail at a fish market in Himi, Toyama Prefecture, on Feb. 4, 2011. The number of yellowtail caught off the city along the Sea of Japan coast between December 2010 and January 2011 reached a record 130,774, up 30-fold from the same period a year before.

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Employee buyout pension resort gets big support

HIMI, Japan - Minoru Kakitani (2nd from L), president of Hoyo-no-Yado Himi Co., and his employees take its popular open-air bath together with hotel guests in the city of Himi, Toyoma Prefecture.

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Female Japanese wrestlers undergo extreme training

TOKYO, Japan - Tomiaki Fukuda (C), chairman of the Japan Wrestling Association, sits under a waterfall for training together with Kyoko Hamaguchi (R) and Saori Yoshida (L) at Nisseki Temple on Mt. Nisseki, in the town of Kamiichi, Toyoma Prefecture on July 3.

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Koizumi presented with Toyama tulips

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi looks happy at his official residence in Tokyo on April 16 as he receives bunches of cut tulips from the ''goodwill ambassadors of Toyoma Prefecture,'' the Sea of Japan local known for its flowers.

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Murata wins triple at rhythmic gymnastics c'ships

SHIMMINATO, Japan - Yukari Murata captures three of four apparatus finals at the rhythmic gymnastics national championships on Nov. 28 at the Shimminato municipal gymnasium in Toyoma Prefecture on the Sea of Japan coast. The photo shows Murata's hoop which recorded the day's highest mark of 9.900.

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Koizumi presented with Toyama tulips

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi looks happy at his official residence in Tokyo on April 16 as he receives bunches of cut tulips from the ''goodwill ambassadors of Toyoma Prefecture,'' the Sea of Japan local known for its flowers.

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Japan's avg. commercial land prices stop falling, 1st time in 7 yrs

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on March 14, 2015, shows an area around JR Kanazawa train station in Ishikawa Prefecture, central Japan. A government survey said on March 18 commercial land prices as of Jan. 1 had risen from a year earlier in the cities of Kanazawa and Toyoma, where a new shinkansen bullet train service started the previous week to directly link Tokyo with the Hokuriku region. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Female Japanese wrestlers undergo extreme training

TOKYO, Japan - Tomiaki Fukuda (C), chairman of the Japan Wrestling Association, sits under a waterfall for training together with Kyoko Hamaguchi (R) and Saori Yoshida (L) at Nisseki Temple on Mt. Nisseki, in the town of Kamiichi, Toyoma Prefecture on July 3. (Kyodo)

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Catch of yellowtail in Toyoma Pref. jumps 30-fold

TOYAMA, Japan - Buyers take part in an auction of yellowtail at a fish market in Himi, Toyama Prefecture, on Feb. 4, 2011. The number of yellowtail caught off the city along the Sea of Japan coast between December 2010 and January 2011 reached a record 130,774, up 30-fold from the same period a year before. (Kyodo)

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Former students sing before gymnasium is torn down

IWAKI, Japan - Former students of Toyoma Junior High School in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, sing the school song on Sept. 21, 2014, at the school's soon-to-be demolished gymnasium accompanied by the piano that was repaired after being damaged by the 2011 tsunami. (Kyodo)

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Murata wins triple at rhythmic gymnastics c'ships

SHIMMINATO, Japan - Yukari Murata captures three of four apparatus finals at the rhythmic gymnastics national championships on Nov. 28 at the Shimminato municipal gymnasium in Toyoma Prefecture on the Sea of Japan coast. The photo shows Murata's hoop which recorded the day's highest mark of 9.900.