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Two-time A-bomb survivor Yamaguchi

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows the late Tsutomu Yamaguchi speaking in Nagasaki in June 2009 about his experience of surviving the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Japanese Embassy in London has sent a written protest against the BBC for introducing him as ''The Unluckiest Man in the World'' in its TV program that aired on Dec. 17, 2010, with the show's personalities and the audience laughing. A producer of the show has apologized via e-mail.

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Banana vending machine in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - A spokeswomen for Dole Japan Ltd. holds bananas sold at the vending machine in Tokyo's Shibuya district on July 21, 2010. The machine has sold more than 2,500 bananas since it was installed in late June.

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Fossil of large Jurassic crawfish found

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Ayumu Tadano, 13, searches for fossils in Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, on June 27, 2010. Tadano has found a fossil of a large crawfish dating from the late Jurassic period, about 150 million years ago, in a layer of earth in the city, a museum curator said on July 17, 2010.

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Ballet dancing lessons for amateurs no longer for women only

OSAKA, Japan - Kiyoshi Kato (L) attends a ballet dancing lesson in late June 2010 as part of a private course for amateurs in Tokyo's Akihabara district.

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Tokyo Disneyland reopens Michael Jackson's 3-D attraction

CHIBA, Japan - Visitors line up for a 3-D theater attraction featuring the late entertainment icon Michael Jackson at Tokyo Disneyland in Urayasu, Chiba Prefecture, as the attraction reopened for the first time in about 14 years on July 1, 2010. The theme park plans to run ''Captain EO'' through June 30, 2011.

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Civic groups release balloons with leaflets near N. Korea

SEOUL, South Korea - Japanese and South Korean civic group members release balloons carrying anti-North Korea leaflets near the border with the North in Cheolwon in South Korea's Gangwon Province, on June 23, 2010. The Japanese group campaigns on behalf of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

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Civic groups release balloons with leaflets near N. Korea

SEOUL, South Korea - Japanese and South Korean civic group members release balloons carrying anti-North Korea leaflets near the border with the North in Cheolwon in South Korea's Gangwon Province, on June 23, 2010. The Japanese group campaigns on behalf of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

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Nobel laureate Oe calls for reducing U.S. bases in Okinawa

TOKYO, Japan - Kenzaburo Oe, the 1994 Nobel laureate for literature, speaks at a meeting of the (Constitution) Article 9 Association in Tokyo on June 19, 2010, with a photo of the late popular playwright Hisashi Inoue hanging above him. The meeting was held on the 50th anniversary of the automatic enactment of the revised Japan-U.S. Security Treaty on June 19, 1960.

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Kan's rubber mask

SAITAMA, Japan - A rubber mask resembling Prime Minister Naoto Kan (C) is displayed at toy maker Ogawa Studios in Saitama City on June 18, 2010. The company has received more than 100 orders in four days for the mask, which will be put on sale in late June.

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Campbell calls on Japan to abide by Okinawa base accord

SEOUL, South Korea - Kurt Campbell, the top U.S. diplomat in charge of U.S. policy on East Asia, speaks in Seoul on June 17, 2010, before flying to Tokyo, expressing hope Japan will build a replacement facility in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, to relocate the heliport functions from the Futenma air base in the same prefecture as agreed on under a bilateral deal struck in late May.

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Michael Jackson at Tiananmen Square?

BEIJING, China - A man dressed as the late pop star Michael Jackson is surrounded by policemen at Tiananmen Square in Beijing on June 3, 2010, as the authorities have stepped up security measures ahead of the 21st anniversary of the 1989 military crackdown on democracy protesters at the square. The man was released after police identified him.

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JAL to put off submitting rehabilitation plan from June to Aug.

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Airlines Corp. Chairman Kazuo Inamori (R), seated next to JAL President Masaru Onishi, speaks about a delay in submitting the company's business turnaround plan to the Tokyo District Court during a news conference in Tokyo on May 25, 2010. Inamori said that JAL, which is undergoing a state-backed rehabilitation process, will delay submitting the plan from late June as initially targeted to the end of August.

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Mitsubishi Motors to sell i-MiEV EV to public from next April

TOKYO, Japan - A woman charges Mitsubishi Motors Corp.'s i-MiEV electric vehicle during a presentation in Tokyo on June 5. Mitsubishi said it will roll out the i-MiEV to individual customers in Japan from April 2010 and start taking orders from late next month.

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Mitsubishi Motors to market i-MiEV EV to public from next April

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi Motors Corp. President Osamu Masuko poses with the company's zero-emission i-MiEV electric vehicle during a presentation in Tokyo on June 5. Mitsubishi said it will roll out the i-MiEV to individual customers in Japan from April 2010 and start taking orders from late next month.

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Mitsubishi Motors to market i-MiEV EV to public from next April

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi Motors Corp. President Osamu Masuko poses with the company's zero-emission i-MiEV electric vehicle during a presentation in Tokyo on June 5. Mitsubishi said it will roll out the i-MiEV to individual customers in Japan from April 2010 and start taking orders from late next month. (Kyodo)

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Mitsubishi Motors to sell i-MiEV EV to public from next April

TOKYO, Japan - A woman charges Mitsubishi Motors Corp.'s i-MiEV electric vehicle during a presentation in Tokyo on June 5. Mitsubishi said it will roll out the i-MiEV to individual customers in Japan from April 2010 and start taking orders from late next month. (Kyodo)

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Women-only communal housing helping newcomers in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Chiharu Ito stands at the entrance of a communal room in Tokyo's Suginami Ward where she lives in late June 2010. (Kyodo)

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Women-only communal housing helping newcomers in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Miyuki Watanabe (2nd from R), takes part in an English conversation lesson with her roommates in late June 2010 in Tokyo. (Kyodo)

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Banana vending machine in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - A spokeswomen for Dole Japan Ltd. holds bananas sold at the vending machine in Tokyo's Shibuya district on July 21, 2010. The machine has sold more than 2,500 bananas since it was installed in late June. (Kyodo)

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Ballet dancing lessons for amateurs no longer for women only

OSAKA, Japan - Kiyoshi Kato (L) attends a ballet dancing lesson in late June 2010 as part of a private course for amateurs in Tokyo's Akihabara district. (Kyodo)

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Michael Jackson at Tiananmen Square?

BEIJING, China - A man dressed as the late pop star Michael Jackson is surrounded by policemen at Tiananmen Square in Beijing on June 3, 2010, as the authorities have stepped up security measures ahead of the 21st anniversary of the 1989 military crackdown on democracy protesters at the square. The man was released after police identified him. (Kyodo)

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Tokyo Disneyland reopens Michael Jackson's 3-D attraction

CHIBA, Japan - Visitors line up for a 3-D theater attraction featuring the late entertainment icon Michael Jackson at Tokyo Disneyland in Urayasu, Chiba Prefecture, as the attraction reopened for the first time in about 14 years on July 1, 2010. The theme park plans to run ''Captain EO'' through June 30, 2011. (Kyodo)

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Nobel laureate Oe calls for reducing U.S. bases in Okinawa

TOKYO, Japan - Kenzaburo Oe, the 1994 Nobel laureate for literature, speaks at a meeting of the (Constitution) Article 9 Association in Tokyo on June 19, 2010, with a photo of the late popular playwright Hisashi Inoue hanging above him. The meeting was held on the 50th anniversary of the automatic enactment of the revised Japan-U.S. Security Treaty on June 19, 1960. (Kyodo)

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Fossil of large Jurassic crawfish found

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Ayumu Tadano, 13, searches for fossils in Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, on June 27, 2010. Tadano has found a fossil of a large crawfish dating from the late Jurassic period, about 150 million years ago, in a layer of earth in the city, a museum curator said on July 17, 2010. (Kyodo)

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Civic groups release balloons with leaflets near N. Korea

SEOUL, South Korea - Japanese and South Korean civic group members release balloons carrying anti-North Korea leaflets near the border with the North in Cheolwon in South Korea's Gangwon Province, on June 23, 2010. The Japanese group campaigns on behalf of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea in the late 1970s and early 1980s. (Kyodo)

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Civic groups release balloons with leaflets near N. Korea

SEOUL, South Korea - Japanese and South Korean civic group members release balloons carrying anti-North Korea leaflets near the border with the North in Cheolwon in South Korea's Gangwon Province, on June 23, 2010. The Japanese group campaigns on behalf of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea in the late 1970s and early 1980s. (Kyodo)

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Kan's rubber mask

SAITAMA, Japan - A rubber mask resembling Prime Minister Naoto Kan (C) is displayed at toy maker Ogawa Studios in Saitama City on June 18, 2010. The company has received more than 100 orders in four days for the mask, which will be put on sale in late June. (Kyodo)

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Campbell calls on Japan to abide by Okinawa base accord

SEOUL, South Korea - Kurt Campbell, the top U.S. diplomat in charge of U.S. policy on East Asia, speaks in Seoul on June 17, 2010, before flying to Tokyo, expressing hope Japan will build a replacement facility in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, to relocate the heliport functions from the Futenma air base in the same prefecture as agreed on under a bilateral deal struck in late May. (Kyodo)

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JAL to put off submitting rehabilitation plan from June to Aug.

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Airlines Corp. Chairman Kazuo Inamori (R), seated next to JAL President Masaru Onishi, speaks about a delay in submitting the company's business turnaround plan to the Tokyo District Court during a news conference in Tokyo on May 25, 2010. Inamori said that JAL, which is undergoing a state-backed rehabilitation process, will delay submitting the plan from late June as initially targeted to the end of August. (Kyodo)

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Two-time A-bomb survivor Yamaguchi

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows the late Tsutomu Yamaguchi speaking in Nagasaki in June 2009 about his experience of surviving the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Japanese Embassy in London has sent a written protest against the BBC for introducing him as ''The Unluckiest Man in the World'' in its TV program that aired on Dec. 17, 2010, with the show's personalities and the audience laughing. A producer of the show has apologized via e-mail. (Kyodo)

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Czech Oscar-winning film director Jiri Menzel dies aged 82

***FILE PHOTO*** Czech Oscar-winning film director Jiri Menzel died on Saturday evening on September 5, 2020, aged 82, his wife Olga Menzelova wrote on Facebook late on Sunday and Menzel's assistant Mila Radova confirmed the information to CTK. *** Czech film directors (left to right) Dusan Hanak, Jiri Krejcik, Jiri Menzel and Vojtech Jasny visit the exhibition named Top CS Directors during the Film Festival for Children and Youth in Zlin, Czech Republic on June 3, 2010. (CTK Photo/Zdenek Nemec)

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Czech Oscar-winning film director Jiri Menzel dies aged 82

***FILE PHOTO*** Czech Oscar-winning film director Jiri Menzel died on Saturday evening on September 5, 2020, aged 82, his wife Olga Menzelova wrote on Facebook late on Sunday and Menzel's assistant Mila Radova confirmed the information to CTK. *** Czech film directors Jiri Krejcik (left) and Jiri Menzel visit the exhibition named Top CS Directors during the Film Festival for Children and Youth in Zlin, Czech Republic on June 3, 2010. (CTK Photo/Zdenek Nemec)

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Czech Oscar-winning film director Jiri Menzel dies aged 82

***FILE PHOTO*** Czech Oscar-winning film director Jiri Menzel died on Saturday evening on September 5, 2020, aged 82, his wife Olga Menzelova wrote on Facebook late on Sunday and Menzel's assistant Mila Radova confirmed the information to CTK. *** Czech film director Jiri Menzel visits the exhibition named Top CS Directors during the Film Festival for Children and Youth in Zlin, Czech Republic on June 3, 2010. (CTK Photo/Zdenek Nemec)

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Czech Oscar-winning film director Jiri Menzel dies aged 82

***FILE PHOTO*** Czech Oscar-winning film director Jiri Menzel died on Saturday evening on September 5, 2020, aged 82, his wife Olga Menzelova wrote on Facebook late on Sunday and Menzel's assistant Mila Radova confirmed the information to CTK. *** Czech film director Jiri Menzel visits the exhibition named Top CS Directors during the Film Festival for Children and Youth in Zlin, Czech Republic on June 3, 2010. (CTK Photo/Zdenek Nemec)