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Koshino, a Person of Cultural Merits

October 23, 2017

TOKYO- Japanese fashion designer Junko Koshino poses for a photo during an interview with the media in Tokyo, Japan, on Monday, Oct. 23, 2017. Koshino, 78, has been selected as a Person of Cultural Merits by the Japanese government. Jiji

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Higuchi Third in ISU Grand Prix

October 21, 2017

MOSCOW- Japan’s Wakaba Higuchi competes in the senior Ladies Short program at the ISU Grand Prix Rostelecom Cup in Moscow on Friday, October 20, 2017. Jiji Press  

Empress turns 83, relieved at abdication law for Emperor

October 20, 2017

TOKYO- Japanese Empress Michiko reached her 83rd birthday on Friday, expressing her tremendous relief at the enactment in June of a special law to allow Emperor Akihito to abdicate. In written answers to journalists’ questions prior to the birthday, Empress

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Party of Hope candidate, Asami Miwa waves in her campaign

October 20, 2017

SAITAMA PREFECTURE- Japanese Asami Miwa (R), Party of Hope candidate and former flight attendant, waves as her campaign aide speaks over a microphone in a campaign van, in Koshigaya city, Saitama prefecture, on Friday, October 20, 2017. An elderly woman

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G7 Summit Interior

October 19, 2017

ITALY- A picture shows a fountain next to a restaurant in the center of Ischia, an island off Naples, on October 18, 2017. Ischia will host tomorrow the delegations from Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, United Kingdom and United States

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Honda at Mexican league

October 19, 2017

PACHUCA- Japanese player Keisuke Honda of Pachuca runs with the ball during the Mexican Apertura tournament football match against Toluca at the Hidalgo stadium on Wednesday, October 18, 2017, in Pachuca, Mexico. Jiji Press

Keeping Cash

October 18, 2017

TOKYO- In this picture taken on January 27, 2017, a man puts stacks of Japanese yen notes on the table as he pays cash for buying a luxury watch at a store in Tokyo. Japan’s stock market may be riding

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Sony Mobile robot to remotely watch over kids at home

October 18, 2017

TOKYO- Sony Mobile Communications Inc. will launch a communication robot that enables users to check while staying out how their children and elderly family members are doing at home and have video chats with them. The robot, named “Xperia Hello!,”

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