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Contemporary word dictionaries face uphill battle in Web era

TOKYO, Japan - The 2007 editions of Gendaiyogo no Kisochishiki, Chiezo and Imidas (front row, from L to R) struggle to survive in the Internet era.

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New York college receives books donated by PM Abe's wife

NEW YORK, United States - Sumio Kusaka (C), the consul general of Japan in New York, attends a ceremony to present a collection of approximately 100 Japan-related books donated by Akie Abe, wife of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, to the City University of New York's LaGuardia Community College on Oct. 8, 2014. The books range from novels such as Haruki Murakami's "Kafka on the Shore" to Japanese-English dictionaries.

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Work on dictionaries for Asian-Pacific sign languages

HANOI, Vietnam - A group of hearing-impaired sign language experts from Vietnam, Cambodia, the Philippines, Indonesia and Hong Kong are working on dictionaries of Asian-Pacific sign languages in a project funded by the Nippon Foundation under the direction of James Woodward, a linguistics expert based in Vietnam and Hong Kong. In this photo, taken in Phnom Penh on Feb. 22, a group of Vietnamese and Cambodian hearing-impaired sign language experts hold copies of their partly completed sign language dictionaries.

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Electronic dictionaries selling well, diversifying

TOKYO, Japan - A variety of electronic dictionaries are on sale on Aug. 2 at big electronics store in downtown Tokyo.

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Casio unveils electronic dictionary for Thai, Vietnamese, other Asian languages

Casio Computer Co. releases on Aug. 21, 2015, a new product in the Ex-word series of electronic dictionaries that features Thai and Vietnamese, in addition to Japanese and English, at an expected market price of around 21,600 yen. The XD-CV810 model also includes conversational Indonesian, Tagalog, Malaysian and English for travelers. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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"Emoji" symbol for tears of joy chosen as Oxford's Word of Year

Undated image shows an "emoji" symbol expressing the "face with tears of joy," chosen as the Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries, a unit of Oxford University Press. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Work on dictionaries for Asian-Pacific sign languages

HANOI, Vietnam - A group of hearing-impaired sign language experts from Vietnam, Cambodia, the Philippines, Indonesia and Hong Kong are working on dictionaries of Asian-Pacific sign languages in a project funded by the Nippon Foundation under the direction of James Woodward, a linguistics expert based in Vietnam and Hong Kong. In this photo, taken in Phnom Penh on Feb. 22, a group of Vietnamese and Cambodian hearing-impaired sign language experts hold copies of their partly completed sign language dictionaries. (Kyodo)