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Japanese business leaders stress need for pay hikes

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Business Federation Chairman Yasuchika Hasegawa (L), Japan Association of Corporate Executives Chairman Sadayuki Sakakibara (C) and Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry Chairman Akio Mimura clasp hands at a New Year's party in Tokyo on Jan. 6, 2015. They echoed Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's call for pay hikes for company employees he made as a guest speaker.

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NTT Docomo to set up machine translation startup

TOKYO, Japan - Minoru Eto (C), head of NTT Docomo Inc.'s R&D Strategy Department, and other officials clasp hands at a press meeting in Tokyo on Sept. 29, 2014, held to announce the launch of a machine translation startup in a joint venture with two other firms. Eto is to assume the presidency of the new company.

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Kvitova wins 2nd Wimbledon singles title

LONDON, United Kingdom - Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic (R) and Eugenie Bouchard of Canada clasp hands after the women's singles final at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships in Wimbledon, southwest London, on July 5, 2014. Kvitova beat Bouchard 6-3, 6-0, winning her second Wimbledon singles title.

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Good Smile to build plant in Tottori Pref.

TOTTORI, Japan - Takanori Aki (2nd from R), president of Good Smile Company Inc., and Tottori Gov. Shinji Hirai (R) clasp hands at a signing ceremony in Tottori City on June 26, 2014, for the character figure maker's construction of a plant in Kurayoshi, Tottori Prefecture.

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U.N. ambassadors watch Group C games at U.N.

NEW YORK, United States - United Nations' ambassadors Motohide Yoshikawa of Japan, Youssoufou Bamba of Ivory Coast, Maria Emma Mejia Velez of Colombia and Michel Spinellis of Greece (from L) clasp hands on June 24, 2014, at the U.N. Headquarters in New York. They watched World Cup Group C matches held the same day in Brazil together at the headquarters.

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Japan emperor in India

NEW DELHI, India - Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko clasp their hands in a gesture of farewell before boarding a Japanese government airplane in New Delhi and leaving for Chennai on Dec. 4, 2013. The imperial couple is in India at the invitation of the Indian government to commemorate the 60th anniversary in 2012 of bilateral diplomatic ties. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Japan emperor in India

NEW DELHI, India - Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko clasp their hands in a gesture of farewell before boarding a Japanese government airplane in New Delhi and leaving for Chennai on Dec. 4, 2013. The imperial couple is in India at the invitation of the Indian government to commemorate the 60th anniversary in 2012 of bilateral diplomatic ties. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Azarenka advances to semifinals at U.S. Open

NEW YORK, United States - Victoria Azarenka of Belarus (L) and Samantha Stosur of Australia clasp hands after their singles quarterfinal match at the U.S. Open Tennis Championships in New York on Sept. 4, 2012. Azarenka won 6-1, 4-6, 7-6(5), to advance to the semifinals.

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Woods, Snedeker finish in tie for 3rd at British Open

LYTHAM ST. ANNES, Britain - Tiger Woods of the United States (L) and compatriot Brandt Snedeker clasp hands after holing out in the final round of the British Open Golf Championship at Royal Lytham & St. Annes Golf Club in Lytham St. Annes in the English county of Lancashire on July 22, 2012. They finished in a tie for third.

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Federer wins men's singles at Wimbledon

LONDON, Britain - Roger Federer of Switzerland (R) and Andy Murray of Britain clasp hands after the men's singles final at the Wimbledon Championships at the All England Club in London on July 8, 2012. Federer captured his seventh Wimbledon title with a 4-6, 7-5, 6-3, 6-4 victory.

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Serena Williams wins women's singles at Wimbledon

LONDON, Britain - Serena Williams of the United States (L) and Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland clasp hands after the women's singles final at the Wimbledon Championships at the All England Club in London on July 7, 2012. Williams captured her fifth Wimbledon title with a 6-1, 5-7, 6-2 victory.

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Federer advances to final at Wimbledon

LONDON, Britain - Roger Federer of Switzerland (R) and Novak Djokovic of Serbia clasp hands after a men's singles semifinals match at the Wimbledon Championships at the All England Club in London on July 6, 2012. Federer, who won 6-3, 3-6, 6-4, 6-3, advanced to the final against Andy Murray of Britain.

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Nishikori out of Wimbledon

LONDON, Britain - Japan's Kei Nishikori (R) and Juan Martin Del Potro of Argentina clasp hands after a men's singles third-round match at the Wimbledon Championships at the All England Club in London on June 30, 2012. Nishikori lost 6-3, 7-6(3), 6-1.

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Slovak President Gasparovic in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Slovak President Ivan Gasparovic (L) and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda clasp hands at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on June 27, 2012.

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3-day intensive search begins

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Members of the Self-Defense Forces and the Okayama prefectural police clasp their hands in prayer for the body of a person found during a search in an inundated area in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 1, 2011, the first day of a three-day intensive search the SDF and the U.S. military are conducting for those still missing three weeks after the March 11 devastating tsunami. Members of the Japanese police, the Japan Coast Guard and fire departments are also taking part.

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Sugiyama-Andre Sa pair advances to quarter final in mix doubles

WIMBLEDON, England - Ai Sugiyama of Japan (L) and Andre Sa of Brazil clasp hands after beating pair Rennae Stubbs of Australia and Robert Lindstedt of Sweden in the third round of the mixed doubles to advance to the quarter final at the Wimbledon tennis championships on June 30.

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Relatives of Japanese, S. Korean abductees meet

SEOUL, South Korea - Shigeru (2nd from L) and Sakie (R) Yokota, whose daughter Megumi was snatched by North Korea in 1977 at age 13, clasp hands with relatives of South Korean abductees after a news conference in Seoul on June 23. They vowed to boost cooperation in trying to get their missing relatives back.

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Japanese Yukata Style

New style of Japanese summer traditional costume "Yukata" NONOKO. Yukata can be said to be a summer tradition in Japan. In recent years, not only traditional ones, but also various types such as Geisha style, Gothic Lolita style, and for gals / gal men have become popular. Many people enjoy yukata with arranging hairstyles and accessories. August 7, 2015, Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan.(Credit:style-arena.jp/Kyodo News Images)

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Japanese Yukata Style

New style of Japanese summer traditional costume "Yukata" NONOKO. Yukata can be said to be a summer tradition in Japan. In recent years, not only traditional ones, but also various types such as Geisha style, Gothic Lolita style, and for gals / gal men have become popular. Many people enjoy yukata with arranging hairstyles and accessories. August 7, 2015, Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan.(Credit:style-arena.jp/Kyodo News Images)

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Japanese Yukata Style

New style of Japanese summer traditional costume "Yukata" NONOKO. Yukata can be said to be a summer tradition in Japan. In recent years, not only traditional ones, but also various types such as Geisha style, Gothic Lolita style, and for gals / gal men have become popular. Many people enjoy yukata with arranging hairstyles and accessories. August 7, 2015, Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan.(Credit:style-arena.jp/Kyodo News Images)

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Japanese Yukata Style

New style of Japanese summer traditional costume "Yukata" NONOKO. Yukata can be said to be a summer tradition in Japan. In recent years, not only traditional ones, but also various types such as Geisha style, Gothic Lolita style, and for gals / gal men have become popular. Many people enjoy yukata with arranging hairstyles and accessories. August 7, 2015, Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan.(Credit:style-arena.jp/Kyodo News Images)

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Japanese Yukata Style

New style of Japanese summer traditional costume "Yukata" NONOKO. Yukata can be said to be a summer tradition in Japan. In recent years, not only traditional ones, but also various types such as Geisha style, Gothic Lolita style, and for gals / gal men have become popular. Many people enjoy yukata with arranging hairstyles and accessories. August 7, 2015, Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan.(Credit:style-arena.jp/Kyodo News Images)

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Japanese Yukata Style

New style of Japanese summer traditional costume "Yukata" NONOKO. Yukata can be said to be a summer tradition in Japan. In recent years, not only traditional ones, but also various types such as Geisha style, Gothic Lolita style, and for gals / gal men have become popular. Many people enjoy yukata with arranging hairstyles and accessories. August 7, 2015, Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan.(Credit:style-arena.jp/Kyodo News Images)

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Japanese Yukata Style

New style of Japanese summer traditional costume "Yukata" NONOKO. Yukata can be said to be a summer tradition in Japan. In recent years, not only traditional ones, but also various types such as Geisha style, Gothic Lolita style, and for gals / gal men have become popular. Many people enjoy yukata with arranging hairstyles and accessories. August 7, 2015, Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan.(Credit:style-arena.jp/Kyodo News Images)

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Japanese Yukata Style

New style of Japanese summer traditional costume "Yukata" NONOKO. Yukata can be said to be a summer tradition in Japan. In recent years, not only traditional ones, but also various types such as Geisha style, Gothic Lolita style, and for gals / gal men have become popular. Many people enjoy yukata with arranging hairstyles and accessories. August 7, 2015, Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan.(Credit:style-arena.jp/Kyodo News Images)

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Japanese Yukata Style

New style of Japanese summer traditional costume "Yukata" NONOKO. Yukata can be said to be a summer tradition in Japan. In recent years, not only traditional ones, but also various types such as Geisha style, Gothic Lolita style, and for gals / gal men have become popular. Many people enjoy yukata with arranging hairstyles and accessories. August 7, 2015, Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan.(Credit:style-arena.jp/Kyodo News Images)

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Japanese Yukata Style

New style of Japanese summer traditional costume "Yukata" PARANOIA. Yukata can be said to be a summer tradition in Japan. In recent years, not only traditional ones, but also various types such as Geisha style, Gothic Lolita style, and for gals / gal men have become popular. Many people enjoy yukata with arranging hairstyles and accessories. August 29, 2015, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan.(Credit:style-arena.jp/Kyodo News Images)

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Japanese Yukata Style

New style of Japanese summer traditional costume "Yukata" PARANOIA. Yukata can be said to be a summer tradition in Japan. In recent years, not only traditional ones, but also various types such as Geisha style, Gothic Lolita style, and for gals / gal men have become popular. Many people enjoy yukata with arranging hairstyles and accessories. August 29, 2015, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan.(Credit:style-arena.jp/Kyodo News Images)

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Japanese Yukata Style

New style of Japanese summer traditional costume "Yukata" PARANOIA. Yukata can be said to be a summer tradition in Japan. In recent years, not only traditional ones, but also various types such as Geisha style, Gothic Lolita style, and for gals / gal men have become popular. Many people enjoy yukata with arranging hairstyles and accessories. August 29, 2015, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan.(Credit:style-arena.jp/Kyodo News Images)

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Japanese Yukata Style

New style of Japanese summer traditional costume "Yukata" PARANOIA. Yukata can be said to be a summer tradition in Japan. In recent years, not only traditional ones, but also various types such as Geisha style, Gothic Lolita style, and for gals / gal men have become popular. Many people enjoy yukata with arranging hairstyles and accessories. August 29, 2015, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan.(Credit:style-arena.jp/Kyodo News Images)

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Japanese Yukata Style

New style of Japanese summer traditional costume "Yukata" PARANOIA. Yukata can be said to be a summer tradition in Japan. In recent years, not only traditional ones, but also various types such as Geisha style, Gothic Lolita style, and for gals / gal men have become popular. Many people enjoy yukata with arranging hairstyles and accessories. August 29, 2015, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan.(Credit:style-arena.jp/Kyodo News Images)

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Japanese Yukata Style

New style of Japanese summer traditional costume "Yukata" PARANOIA. Yukata can be said to be a summer tradition in Japan. In recent years, not only traditional ones, but also various types such as Geisha style, Gothic Lolita style, and for gals / gal men have become popular. Many people enjoy yukata with arranging hairstyles and accessories. August 29, 2015, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan.(Credit:style-arena.jp/Kyodo News Images)

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Japanese Yukata Style

New style of Japanese summer traditional costume "Yukata" PARANOIA. Yukata can be said to be a summer tradition in Japan. In recent years, not only traditional ones, but also various types such as Geisha style, Gothic Lolita style, and for gals / gal men have become popular. Many people enjoy yukata with arranging hairstyles and accessories. August 29, 2015, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan.(Credit:style-arena.jp/Kyodo News Images)

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Japanese Yukata Style

New style of Japanese summer traditional costume "Yukata" PARANOIA. Yukata can be said to be a summer tradition in Japan. In recent years, not only traditional ones, but also various types such as Geisha style, Gothic Lolita style, and for gals / gal men have become popular. Many people enjoy yukata with arranging hairstyles and accessories. August 29, 2015, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan.(Credit:style-arena.jp/Kyodo News Images)

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Japanese Yukata Style

New style of Japanese summer traditional costume "Yukata" PARANOIA. Yukata can be said to be a summer tradition in Japan. In recent years, not only traditional ones, but also various types such as Geisha style, Gothic Lolita style, and for gals / gal men have become popular. Many people enjoy yukata with arranging hairstyles and accessories. August 29, 2015, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan.(Credit:style-arena.jp/Kyodo News Images)

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Japanese WWII soldier, British POW meet for reconciliation in London

Former Imperial Japanese Army soldier Mikio Kinoshita (L) and British World War II veteran and former prisoner of war Harold Atcherley clasp their hands together in a reconciliation encounter in London on June 22, 2015. Kinoshita once instructed Australian POWs and local people as they built the Thailand-Burma railway under brutal conditions during the war. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Matsuyama, Ishikawa finish 6th at golf world cup

Japan's Hideki Matsuyama (L) and Ryo Ishikawa clasp hands on the 18th green after playing in the final round of the World Cup of Golf at Kingston Heath Golf Club in Melbourne on Nov. 27, 2016. The Japanese pair came in sixth with a 14-under 274. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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3-day intensive search begins

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Members of the Self-Defense Forces and the Okayama prefectural police clasp their hands in prayer for the body of a person found during a search in an inundated area in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 1, 2011, the first day of a three-day intensive search the SDF and the U.S. military are conducting for those still missing three weeks after the March 11 devastating tsunami. Members of the Japanese police, the Japan Coast Guard and fire departments are also taking part. (Kyodo)

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Japanese business leaders stress need for pay hikes

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Business Federation Chairman Yasuchika Hasegawa (L), Japan Association of Corporate Executives Chairman Sadayuki Sakakibara (C) and Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry Chairman Akio Mimura clasp hands at a New Year's party in Tokyo on Jan. 6, 2015. They echoed Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's call for pay hikes for company employees he made as a guest speaker. (Kyodo)

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Good Smile to build plant in Tottori Pref.

TOTTORI, Japan - Takanori Aki (2nd from R), president of Good Smile Company Inc., and Tottori Gov. Shinji Hirai (R) clasp hands at a signing ceremony in Tottori City on June 26, 2014, for the character figure maker's construction of a plant in Kurayoshi, Tottori Prefecture. (Kyodo)

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CORRECTED U.N. ambassadors watch Group C games at U.N.

NEW YORK, United States - CORRECTING NAMES OF COLOMBIA AND GREECE AMBASSADORS United Nations' ambassadors Motohide Yoshikawa of Japan, Youssoufou Bamba of Ivory Coast, Maria Emma Mejia Velez of Colombia and Michel Spinellis of Greece (from L) clasp hands on June 24, 2014, at the U.N. Headquarters in New York. They watched World Cup Group C matches held the same day in Brazil together at the headquarters. (Kyodo)

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Badminton: Japan Open

World No. 1 Kento Momota of Japan (L) and Jonatan Christie of Indonesia clasp hands after the men's singles final at the Japan Open in Chofu, Tokyo, on July 28, 2019. Momota defended his men's singles title. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Wozniacki beats Osaka to claim 2nd Pan Pacific Open crown

Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark (L) and Naomi Osaka clasp hands at the net after their Pan Pacific Open tennis final in Tokyo on Sept. 25, 2016. Wozniacki won 7-5, 6-3. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Scenes of Rio Paralympics

Swimmers disabled in both legs await the gun to start their S2 freestyle race while helpers clasp their ankles at the Rio de Janeiro Paralympics on Sept. 11, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Sugiyama-Andre Sa pair advances to quarter final in mix doubles

WIMBLEDON, England - Ai Sugiyama of Japan (L) and Andre Sa of Brazil clasp hands after beating pair Rennae Stubbs of Australia and Robert Lindstedt of Sweden in the third round of the mixed doubles to advance to the quarter final at the Wimbledon tennis championships on June 30. (Kyodo)

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Relatives of Japanese, S. Korean abductees meet

SEOUL, South Korea - Shigeru (2nd from L) and Sakie (R) Yokota, whose daughter Megumi was snatched by North Korea in 1977 at age 13, clasp hands with relatives of South Korean abductees after a news conference in Seoul on June 23. They vowed to boost cooperation in trying to get their missing relatives back. (Kyodo)