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Japanese astronauts play musical instruments together

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese astronauts Soichi Noguci (L in back) and Naoko Yamazaki (R in back) at the International Space Station talk to Moeka Kusuda, a six-grader at an elementary school, at the prime minister's office in Tokyo during a video chat event on April 12, 2010. Two Cabinet ministers and six schoolchildren took part in the event during which Noguchi and Yamazaki played musical instruments together.

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Fire for Winter Asian Games taken

AOMORI, Japan - Two elementary schoolchildren work to start a fire through ancient technique to light torches for the Winter Asian Games in Aomori at the Sannai Maruyama Jomon period excavation site on Jan. 25. The eight-day sports event will open in a ceremony on Feb. 1.

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Aomori residents prepare for Winter Asian Games

AOMORI, Japan - Two elementary schoolchildren try to start a fire by ancient technique, to light a torch for the Winter Asian Games in Aomori in a rehearsal at the Sannai Maruyama Jomon period excavation site on Jan. 24. The opening ceremony for eight-day event will take place on Feb. 1.

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Education minister visits school where 8 children were slain

OSAKA, Japan - Education minister Atsuko Toyama arrives at Ikeda Elementary School, Osaka Prefecture, on July 5, where a man killed eight schoolchildren and injured 13 other students and two teachers last month. Toyama, the first member of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's cabinet to visit the scene of the June 8 slaying, prayed for the peace of the dead children's souls and met the state-run school's principal.

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Pupils hang paper cranes at Ikeda school

IKEDA, Japan - Two girls try to hang a chain of paper-folded cranes June 14 on the gate to Ikeda Elementary School in Osaka Prefecture, the scene of a stabbing rampage that claimed the lives of eight schoolchildren on June 8.

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Teacher-counselor pair visits Ikeda students

IKEDA, Japan - A teacher-counselor team June 11 begins visiting the homes of pupils involved in the June 8 massacre at the state-run Ikeda Elementary School in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, to assess their emotional and psychological states. The rampage by a knife-wielding man left eight schoolchildren dead and 15 others, including two teachers, injured.

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Schoolchildren escorted by parents

Escorted by parents, schoolchildren at Tainohata Elementary School in Kobe city, in the western Japan, walk to school on May 28, a day after the severed head of a missing 11-year-old boy was found placed vertically in front of the school's main gate with two hand-written notes in the mouth. (Later, it was found out that the killer was a 14-year old junior high school student.)

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Parents escort schoolchildren

Escorted by parents, schoolchildren at Tainohata Elementary School in the western Japan city of Kobe, walk to school after the severed head of a missing 11-year-old boy was found, on May 27, placed vertically in front of the school's main gate with two hand-written notes in the mouth. (Later, it was found out that the killer was a 14-year old junior high school student.)

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Aomori residents prepare for Winter Asian Games

AOMORI, Japan - Two elementary schoolchildren try to start a fire by ancient technique, to light a torch for the Winter Asian Games in Aomori in a rehearsal at the Sannai Maruyama Jomon period excavation site on Jan. 24. The opening ceremony for eight-day event will take place on Feb. 1. (Kyodo)

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Fire for Winter Asian Games taken

AOMORI, Japan - Two elementary schoolchildren work to start a fire through ancient technique to light torches for the Winter Asian Games in Aomori at the Sannai Maruyama Jomon period excavation site on Jan. 25. The eight-day sports event will open in a ceremony on Feb. 1. (Kyodo)

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Japanese astronauts play musical instruments together

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese astronauts Soichi Noguci (L in back) and Naoko Yamazaki (R in back) at the International Space Station talk to Moeka Kusuda, a six-grader at an elementary school, at the prime minister's office in Tokyo during a video chat event on April 12, 2010. Two Cabinet ministers and six schoolchildren took part in the event during which Noguchi and Yamazaki played musical instruments together. (Kyodo)

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Fire for Winter Asian Games taken

AOMORI, Japan - Two elementary schoolchildren work to start a fire through ancient technique to light torches for the Winter Asian Games in Aomori at the Sannai Maruyama Jomon period excavation site on Jan. 25. The eight-day sports event will open in a ceremony on Feb. 1. (Kyodo)

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Pupils hang paper cranes at Ikeda school

IKEDA, Japan - Two girls try to hang a chain of paper-folded cranes June 14 on the gate to Ikeda Elementary School in Osaka Prefecture, the scene of a stabbing rampage that claimed the lives of eight schoolchildren on June 8.

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Teacher-counselor pair visits Ikeda students

IKEDA, Japan - A teacher-counselor team June 11 begins visiting the homes of pupils involved in the June 8 massacre at the state-run Ikeda Elementary School in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, to assess their emotional and psychological states. The rampage by a knife-wielding man left eight schoolchildren dead and 15 others, including two teachers, injured.