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Princess Noriko engaged to shrine priest

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken May 11, 2013, shows priest Kunimaro Senge (L) and other priests during a rite at Izumo-taisha, or Izumo grand shrine, in Shimane Prefecture. Princess Noriko, the 25-year-old second daughter of the late Prince Takamado and Princess Hisako, has engaged to Senge, 40, the Imperial Household Agency said May 27, 2014.

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Spring Airlines

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroshi Ugai (C), president of Spring Airlines Japan Co., holds a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 5, 2013. The Japanese unit of the Chinese discount carrier Spring Airlines Co. plans to start scheduled passenger flights in late May 2014 linking Tokyo and three other cities in Japan.

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Eating insects

SKUON, Cambodia - A Cambodian woman sells fried tarantulas in Skuon, a village about 70 kilometers from the capital Phnom Penh, in May 2013. Cambodians reportedly started eating the big spiders when they suffered from a famine during the Khmer Rouge regime in the late 1970s.

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Heritage railways targeted by thieves

MAEBASHI, Japan - Photo taken May 24, 2013 shows part of cables cut and hanging down from overhead at the dead track of JR Shin-Etsu Honsen line in Annaka, Gunma Prefecture. In late April, some 6 tons of overhead and signal cables were found to have been stolen from an 11.2-kilometer railway of the line between Yokokawa Station in Annaka and Karuizawa Station in Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, which went out of use in 1997.

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Heritage railways targeted by thieves

MAEBASHI, Japan - Photo taken May 24, 2013 shows part of overhead cables cut by thieves at the dead track of JR Shin-Etsu Honsen line in Annaka, Gunma Prefecture. In late April, some 6 tons of overhead and signal cables were found to have been stolen from an 11.2-kilometer railway of the line between Yokokawa Station in Annaka and Karuizawa Station in Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, which went out of use in 1997.

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Demonstrations in Turkey

ISTANBUL, Turkey - Demonstrators march in Istanbul on June 3, 2013. Antigovernment demonstrations have spread in Turkey after initial protests in Istanbul in late May over a local development project.

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Demonstrations in Turkey

ISTANBUL, Turkey - A security force vehicle is left near Taksim Square in Istanbul on June 2, 2013. Antigovernment demonstrations have spread in Turkey from initial rallies in late May in Taksim Square and elsewhere in Istanbul over a local development project.

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60th anniv. of Mt. Everest 1st conquest

KATHMANDU, Nepal - Family members of late Edmund Hillary and late Tenzing Norgay, who reached the summit of Mt. Everest on May 29, 1953, take part in a parade in Kathmandu, Nepal, on May 29, 2013, to celebrate the diamond jubilee of the first conquest of Mt. Everest.

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African Union

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Photo taken on May 24, 2013, shows the headquarters building of the African Union in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, which was completed in late 2011, funded by China. A summit meeting was held there on May 25, 2013, the 50th anniversary of the foundation of its predecessor Organization of African Unity.

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Famous dog statues to leave Tokyo Tower

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken at Tokyo Tower in Tokyo's Minato Ward on May 15, 2013, shows the statues of Sakhalin huskies which accompanied the first Japanese Antarctic expedition team in the late 1950s, including those of Taro and Jiro, the only dogs to miraculously survive after being left behind when the expedition team returned home. Work began the same day to remove the 15 statues, as part of an afforestation project within the Tokyo Tower grounds.

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Famous dog statues to leave Tokyo Tower

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken at Tokyo Tower in Tokyo's Minato Ward on May 15, 2013, shows the statues of Sakhalin huskies which accompanied the first Japanese Antarctic expedition team in the late 1950s, including those of Taro and Jiro, the only dogs to miraculously survive after being left behind when the expedition team returned home. Work began the same day to remove the 15 statues, as part of an afforestation project within the Tokyo Tower grounds.

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Rhone Glacier

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in September 2007 shows the Rhone Glacier in the Alps, southern Switzerland. The area of the glacier decreased to 1,900 square kilometers in 2012, down nearly 40 percent since the late 1960s to early 1970s, Swiss experts said May 14, 2013.

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Lower house OKs ratification of int'l child custody pact

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a House of Representatives plenary session in the Diet building in Tokyo on April 23, 2013, shortly after unanimous approval of Japan's ratification of an international treaty to help settle cross-border child custody disputes, paving the way for passage through the Diet in late May. The 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction sets out the rules and procedures for the prompt return of children under 16, taken or retained by one parent following the failure of an international marriage, to the country of their habitual residence if requested by the other parent.

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Spring Airlines freezes business expansion plans in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in May 2012 shows passengers boarding a flight of Chinese budget carrier Spring Airlines bound for Ibaraki Airport in Japan at Shanghai Pudong International Airport in China. Spring Airlines, which currently operates flights to three Japanese cities, plans to freeze plans to fly to additional destinations in the country, the airline's chairman Wang Zhenghua said in late March 2013.

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Japanese princess to study at Univ. of Edinburgh

NARITA, Japan - Princess Mako, a granddaughter of Japan's Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko, is seen at Narita airport near Tokyo on Aug. 24, 2012, prior to her departure for Britain to study at the University of Edinburgh. The 20-year-old princess, the eldest daughter of Prince Akishino and Princess Kiko, will stay in Britain through late May 2013.

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Japanese princess to study at Univ. of Edinburgh

NARITA, Japan - Princess Mako, a granddaughter of Japan's Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko, is seen at Narita airport near Tokyo on Aug. 24, 2012, prior to her departure for Britain to study at the University of Edinburgh. The 20-year-old princess, the eldest daughter of Prince Akishino and Princess Kiko, will stay in Britain through late May 2013.

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Czech Oscar-winning film director Jiri Menzel dies aged 82

Filmovy a divadelni reziser Jiri Menzel (na snimku) prevzal 23. kvetna v Praze z rukou ministryne kultury Aleny Hanakove cenu Artis Bohemiae Amicis (Pratele ceskeho umeni). ***FILE PHOTO*** Czech director Jiri Menzel with the Artis Bohemiae Amicis Award in Prague, Czech Republic, May 23, 2013. (CTK Photo/Michal Kamaryt) *** 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.

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Japanese filmmaker Yasuo Furuhata

File photo taken in July 2013 shows Japanese film director Yasuo Furuhata, known for his work with the late actor Ken Takakura. Furuhata died of pneumonia on May 20, 2019, in Tokyo at age 84. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo