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Xmas tree at Rockefeller Center

Xmas tree at Rockefeller Center

A 23-meter-tall Christmas tree at the Rockefeller Center in New York is illuminated with more than 50,000 LED lights on Dec. 3, 2025

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Tokyo stocks plunge

Tokyo stocks plunge

A financial data monitor in Tokyo shows the key Nikkei Stock Average plunging more than 1,600 points during morning trading on April 3, 2025.

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Tokyo stocks plunge

Tokyo stocks plunge

A financial data monitor in Tokyo shows the key Nikkei Stock Average plunging more than 1,500 points during morning trading on April 3, 2025.

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Tokyo stocks plunge

Tokyo stocks plunge

A financial data monitor in Tokyo shows the key Nikkei Stock Average plunging more than 1,500 points during morning trading on April 3, 2025.

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Miyazaki airport reopens after WWII-era bomb explodes

Miyazaki airport reopens after WWII-era bomb explodes

An airplane lands at Miyazaki airport in Miyazaki on Oct. 3, 2024, as the southwestern Japan airport resumes operations a day after an unexploded World War II bomb detonated on the taxiway, forcing the cancellation of more than 80 flights.

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CORRECTED: Miyazaki airport reopens after WWII-era bomb explodes

CORRECTED: Miyazaki airport reopens after WWII-era bomb explodes

An aircraft leaves Miyazaki airport in Miyazaki on Oct. 3, 2024, as the southwestern Japan airport resumes operation a day after an unexploded World War II bomb detonated on the taxiway, forcing the cancellation of more than 80 flights.

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CORRECTED: Miyazaki airport reopens after WWII-era bomb explodes

CORRECTED: Miyazaki airport reopens after WWII-era bomb explodes

Photo taken Oct. 3, 2024, shows an aircraft at Miyazaki airport in Miyazaki, as the southwestern Japan airport resumes operation a day after an unexploded World War II bomb detonated on the taxiway, forcing the cancellation of more than 80 flights.

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CORRECTED: Miyazaki airport reopens after WWII-era bomb explodes

CORRECTED: Miyazaki airport reopens after WWII-era bomb explodes

Photo taken Oct. 3, 2024, shows a flight information board at Miyazaki airport in Miyazaki, as the southwestern Japan airport resumes operation a day after an unexploded World War II bomb detonated on the taxiway, forcing the cancellation of more than 80 flights.

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CORRECTED: Miyazaki airport reopens after WWII-era bomb explodes

CORRECTED: Miyazaki airport reopens after WWII-era bomb explodes

An aircraft leaves Miyazaki airport in Miyazaki on Oct. 3, 2024, as the southwestern Japan airport resumes operation a day after an unexploded World War II bomb detonated on the taxiway, forcing the cancellation of more than 80 flights.

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More than 30 dolphins washed up on beach in Chiba Pref.

Video taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on April 3, 2023, shows people trying to save a dolphin washed up on a beach near the boundary between the city of Isumi and the town of Ichinomiya in Chiba Prefecture, near Tokyo. More than 30 dolphins were found washed ashore on the beach the same day.

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More than 30 dolphins washed up on beach in Chiba Pref.

More than 30 dolphins washed up on beach in Chiba Pref.

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on April 3, 2023, shows two dolphins washed up on a beach near the boundary between the city of Isumi and the town of Ichinomiya in Chiba Prefecture, near Tokyo. More than 30 dolphins were found washed ashore on the beach the same day.

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More than 30 dolphins washed up on beach in Chiba Pref.

More than 30 dolphins washed up on beach in Chiba Pref.

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on April 3, 2023, shows a pod of dolphins swimming in waters off the beach near the boundary between the city of Isumi and the town of Ichinomiya in Chiba Prefecture, near Tokyo. More than 30 dolphins were found washed ashore on the beach the same day.

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More than 30 dolphins washed up on beach in Chiba Pref.

More than 30 dolphins washed up on beach in Chiba Pref.

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on April 3, 2023, shows people trying to save a dolphin washed up on a beach near the boundary between the city of Isumi and the town of Ichinomiya in Chiba Prefecture, near Tokyo. More than 30 dolphins were found washed ashore on the beach the same day.

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More than 30 dolphins washed up on beach in Chiba Pref.

More than 30 dolphins washed up on beach in Chiba Pref.

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on April 3, 2023, shows two dolphins washed up on a beach near the boundary between the city of Isumi and the town of Ichinomiya in Chiba Prefecture, near Tokyo. More than 30 dolphins were found washed ashore on the beach the same day.

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Lawyer Takimoto

Lawyer Takimoto

TOKYO, Japan - Lawyer Taro Takimoto answers reporters' questions after meeting Makoto Hirata, a former leading member of the AUM Shinrikyo cult, at a police station in Tokyo on Jan. 3, 2012. Hirata has been detained at the police station since turning himself in to police late on Dec. 31, 2011, after being on the run for more than 16 years.

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Japan-China panel of experts hold 1st meeting in 3 yrs

Japan-China panel of experts hold 1st meeting in 3 yrs

BEIJING, China - Japan Post Holdings Co. President Taizo Nishimuro (L) and former Chinese State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan shake hands at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on Dec. 3, 2014. They represented each side of the New Japan-China Friendship Committee for the 21st Century, which is expected to formulate a set of proposals for improved bilateral ties. The formal meeting was held for the first time in more than three years. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Chaplin's Swiss home to open as museum in 2016

Chaplin's Swiss home to open as museum in 2016

VEVEY, Switzerland - Eugene Chaplin, son of British actor, comedian and filmmaker Charlie Chaplin, speaks on June 3, 2014, in front of a house in Vevey, western Switzerland, where Chaplin spent more than 20 years until his death in 1977. The house will be open to the public as a Chaplin museum in the spring of 2016.

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Fire near Shinkansen track

Fire near Shinkansen track

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a bullet train of the Tokaido Shinkansen Line passing by a fire that broke out near JR Yurakucho Station in Tokyo on the morning of Jan. 3, 2014. Some operations on the Shinkansen line were later suspended for more than five hours due to the fire.

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Fire near Shinkansen track

Fire near Shinkansen track

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a bullet train of the Tokaido Shinkansen Line passing by a fire that broke out near JR Yurakucho Station in Tokyo on the morning of Jan. 3, 2014. Some operations on the Shinkansen line were later suspended for more than five hours due to the fire.

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Nikkei down 3.7%

Nikkei down 3.7%

TOKYO, Japan - A signboard in Tokyo shows the Nikkei index falling over 3.7 percent to its lowest level in more than a month at the Tokyo Stock Exchange on June 3, 2013, amid caution over the possible scaling down of U.S. stimulus measures.

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Doctor to help Japan quake victims with 9/11 experience

Doctor to help Japan quake victims with 9/11 experience

NEW YORK, United States - Photo taken on Sept. 3, 2012, shows Robert Takahiro Yanagisawa, an associate professor at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, in front of the New York medical institute. Yanagisawa has treated those affected by the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks for more than 10 years and wants to use insights gained from the experience to treat Japan's quake victims, particularly in the area of mental health care.

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Renesas announces massive restructuring steps

Renesas announces massive restructuring steps

TOKYO, Japan - Renesas Electronics Corp. President Yasushi Akao announces a set of restructuring steps at a press conference in Tokyo on July 3, 2012. The struggling chipmaker announced plans to close or sell eight of its 18 domestic plants and eliminate more than 5,000 jobs, as part of a massive restructuring aimed at shifting towards overseas production and focusing on profitable microcontrollers.

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Renesas announces massive restructuring steps

Renesas announces massive restructuring steps

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in May 2012 shows the building housing the headquarters of Renesas Electronics Corp. in Tokyo. The struggling chipmaker announced plans July 3, 2012, to close or sell eight of its 18 domestic plants and eliminate more than 5,000 jobs, as part of a massive restructuring aimed at shifting towards overseas production and focusing on profitable microcontrollers.

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Japan eyes to accept more ethnic Karen refugees

Japan eyes to accept more ethnic Karen refugees

UM-PIAM, Thailand - Ethnic Karen refugees are briefed by a Japanese government official on Japan's resettlement program for the Karen refugees, in Um-piam camp, which houses more than 25,000 refugees along the border Thailand shares with Myanmar, on May 3, 2012. Junji Ito, first secretary for political affairs at the Japanese Embassy in Bangkok, said Japan will extend the program to accept more Karen refugees.

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Former Khmer Rouge chief jailer gets life imprisonment

Former Khmer Rouge chief jailer gets life imprisonment

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - Khmer Rouge prison chief Kaing Guek Eav is shown on a monitor in the press room of a court in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Feb. 3, 2012. The U.N-backed Supreme Chamber of the Khmer Rouge tribunal sentenced Kaing Guek Eav, alias Duch, to life imprisonment for crimes against humanity and war crimes, deeming him responsible for the deaths of more than 12,000 people at the torture center he ran between 1976 and 1979.

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Former Khmer Rouge chief jailer gets life imprisonment

Former Khmer Rouge chief jailer gets life imprisonment

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - Monks line up in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Feb. 3, 2012, to enter court and hear the decision handed down in the trial of Kaing Guek Eav. The Supreme Chamber of the U.N.-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal sentenced the former prison chief to life imprisonment for crimes against humanity and war crimes, deeming him responsible for the deaths of more than 12,000 people at the torture center he ran between 1976 and 1979.

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Former Khmer Rouge chief jailer gets life imprisonment

Former Khmer Rouge chief jailer gets life imprisonment

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - People head for the court in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Feb. 3, 2012, to hear the decision in the trial of Kaing Guek Eav. The Supreme Chamber of the U.N.-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal sentenced the former prison chief to life imprisonment for crimes against humanity and war crimes, deeming him responsible for the deaths of more than 12,000 people at the torture center he ran between 1976 and 1979.

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'Doraemon' author's museum to feature 50,000 original drawings

'Doraemon' author's museum to feature 50,000 original drawings

TOKYO, Japan - Masako Fujimoto (2nd from L), the widow of Fujiko F. Fujio who created ''Doraemon,'' poses for photographs during a press conference at a hotel in Tokyo on March 29, 2010, at which the outlines of a museum dedicated to the cartoonist were unveiled. The Fujiko F. Fujio Museum is scheduled to open on Sept. 3, 2011, in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, the city where he spent more than three decades until his death in 1996.

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Ex-Japan PM Aso in Seoul

Ex-Japan PM Aso in Seoul

Former Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso signs a condolence book on Nov. 3, 2022, at a memorial alter in Seoul set up after a Halloween crowd crush incident that left more than 150 people dead.

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Ex-Japan PM Aso in Seoul

Ex-Japan PM Aso in Seoul

Former Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso prepares to offer flowers on Nov. 3, 2022, at a memorial alter in Seoul set up after a Halloween crowd crush incident that left more than 150 people dead.

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Ex-Japan PM Aso in Seoul

Ex-Japan PM Aso in Seoul

Former Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso offers flowers on Nov. 3, 2022, at a memorial alter in Seoul set up after a Halloween crowd crush incident that left more than 150 people dead.

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