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Children’s day Japan
Toshifumi KItamuratoshifumi/AFP Children play underneath carp streamers – or koinobori – flying above a riverside park in Sagamihara, Kanagawa prefecture in Japan, on Thursday to celebrate Children’s...
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Breitling Jet Team fly over Mount Fuji
Katsuhiko Tokunaga/Breitling/AP The Breitling Jet Team, the world’s only professional civilian aerobatic team, fly over Mount Fuji, in central Japan. They completed their tour of the country by...
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Kyoto’s Aoi Festival
Buddhika Weerasinghe/Getty Images Japanese women dressed in traditional costumes walk in the procession of the Aoi Festival at the Imperial Palace in Kyoto, Japan. Aoi Festival is one of the three main...
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Zebra crossing
Akio Kon/Bloomberg A pedestrian crosses a road in Tokyo, Japan. The economy of Japan expanded last quarter, the most in a year, as consumer spending and export gains outweighed the weakest business...
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Changing face of Tokyo
Itsuo Inouye/AP A man walks in front of a huge poster advertising a cosmetics company in Tokyo on Tuesday. Read more
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Very heavy metal in Tokyo
Toru Hanai/Reuters Robot rock band Z-Machines performs during the band’s debut concert in Tokyo. Guitarist Mach (centre), keyboardist Cosmo (left) and drummer Ashura took to the stage in Tokyo on...
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Kirobo the humanoid unveiled in Tokyo
Toru Hanai/Reuters Robot Kirobo talks to Fuminori Kataoka of Toyota during its unveiling in Tokyo. Dentsu, the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo, Robo Garage...
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Mount Fuji climbing season begins
Buddhika Weerasinghe/Getty Japanese school students attend a purification ritual as they pray during the annual opening ceremony for Mount Fuji at Murayama Sengen Shrine in Fujinomiya, Japan on Monday....
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Japanese jellyfish aquarium
Kimimasa Mayama/EPA Cassiopea ornata jellyfish are seen in the Enoshima Aquarium in Fujisawa, southwest of Tokyo, Japan. The aquarium displays various jellyfishes as its key feature. Read more
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Climbers on Mount Fuji
Shuji Kajiyama/AP Climbers walk down Mount Fuji in Fujiyoshida city, Yamanashi prefecture, Japan on Thursday. Japan’s most iconic landmark, the 3,776m mountain was selected as a World Heritage site in...
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Sleeping in Tokyo
Shizuo Kambayashi/AP A man takes a nap on a bench at a park in Tokyo, where temperature soared to more than 30 degrees Celsius on Monday Read more
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Crow takes the Liberty
Shizuo Kambayashi/AP A crow perches on the crown of a replica of the Statue of Liberty in Tokyo, on Wednesday Read more
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Johnny Depp meets his Japanese fans
Toru Hanai/Reuters Johnny Depp signs autographs for fans during the premiere of his film “The Lone Ranger” in Tokyo, on Wednesday. The movie opens in Japan on August 2 2013. Read more
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Outdoor aquarium in Tokyo
Kimimasa Mayama/EPA Pedestrians stop and look at tropical fish from the Japanese southwestern island of Okinawa at an outdoor aquarium in central Tokyo. About 400 from 15 species are swimming in the...
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Ricefield art
Kyodo/Reuters An aerial view of several kinds of rice plants designed to depict a Japanese oiran, or traditional courtesan, left, and actress Marilyn Monroe at ricefields in Inakadate town, Aomori...
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Parliamentary elections in Japan
Itsuo Inouye/AP Voters cast their ballots in Japan’s upper house parliamentary elections as a baby cries at a polling station in Tokyo on Sunday Read more
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Yokozuna Hakuho wins sumo tournament
Kyodo News/AP Mongolian grand champion Yokozuna Hakuho holds a large vessel of sake after winning the Nagoya Grand Sumo tournament in Nagoya, central Japan on Sunday. Read more
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Crows in Tokyo park
Shizuo Kambayashi/AP Crows stop at an urn filled with water in a park in Tokyo, Japan. Read more
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Hiroshima anniversary
Shizuo Kambayashi/AP The Atomic Bomb Dome is silhouetted at sunset in Hiroshima, western Japan, on Monday, eve of the 68th anniversary of the world’s first use of nuclear weapons in war Read more
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Remembering Hiroshima
Kimimasa Mayama/EPA People offer prayer for atomic bomb victims at a cenotaph at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, western Japan on Tuesday after the Peace Memorial Ceremony commemorating...
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