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- Unusual all-red dragonfly found at Tokyo museum
- Higashikurume Municipal Assembly member becomes Japan's first completely blind vice speaker
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- Number of elderly people living alone in Tokyo and surrounding areas expected to surge
- Japanese food manufacturer withdraws products over China milk scare
- CEPCO snubs settlement offer in Shizuoka nuclear reactor shutdown suit
- Japanese Navy tanker sunk in WWII leaking oil in Micronesia
- Popular killer whale 'Ku' dies at Nagoya Port Aquarium
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Veteran craftsman leaves individual stamp on traditional woodblock printing
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Daily Haiku Selection
Sept. 22. 2008
landing sound
of summer camellia
dawn
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Fumiko Sato (Osaka, Japan)More...
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