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Japan Post starts selling New Year’s postcards accross the country

November 1, 2017

TOKYO- Japan Post Co. started selling New Year’s lottery postcards for 2018 across the country on Wednesday, as their number fell to a record low amid the popularity of emails and social media. The initial number of New Year’s lottery

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Sony entertainment Robot

November 1, 2017

TOKYO- Japan’s Sony President and CEO Kazuo Hirai introduces the entertainment robot “aibo” during a press preview at the company’s headquarters in Tokyo on November 1, 2017. Japanese electronics giant Sony is marking the year of the dog by bringing

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Kagawa, Honda, Okazaki left out of Samurai Blue squad

November 1, 2017

TOKYO- Japanese soccer stars Shinji Kagawa, Keisuke Honda and Shinji Okazaki have been left out of the national team squad for friendly matches in Europe this month, the Japan Football Association has said. On Tuesday, the JFA announced 25 Samurai

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12th annual Rome Film Festival

October 31, 2017

ITALY- Japanese film director Tatsushi Omori (R) and Japanese actor/cast member Arata Iura pose during the photocall for the movie ‘Hikari’ (And Then There Was Light) at the 12th annual Rome Film Festival, in Rome, Italy, Tuesday, 31 October 2017.

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Nintendo games

October 30, 2017

TOKYO- This file photo taken on January 13, 2017 shows the logo of Japan’s Nintendo Co. being displayed at a presentation in Tokyo. Nintendo nearly doubled its full-year profit forecast on Monday, October 30, 2017 as it pointed to sizzling

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Events held to Mark 1,000 days to Tokyo Olympics

October 29, 2017

Various commemorative events to mark 1,000 days to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics were held on Saturday for building anticipation for the quadrennial sporting event. A countdown board showing the number of days to go until the Olympics opening was unveiled

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Japanese tattoo artist in Australia

October 29, 2017

TOKYO- A Japanese tattoo artist tattoos a visitor at the Rites of Passage tattoo festival event in Sydney on Sunday October 29, 2017. The Rites of Passage tattoo festival attracts more than 250 local and international tattoo artists. Jiji Press 

Halloween Parade

October 29, 2017

TOKYO- A man wearing a false blood-covered clown mask walk in a street during a Halloween parade in Tokyo on late October 28, 2017. Jiji Press