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A visitor takes photos of some mosquitoes warning posters at closed gate of Yoyogi Park in Tokyo Friday, Sept. 5, 2014. Yoyogi Park, a popular park in downtown Tokyo, has been closed temporarily after dozens of cases of dengue fever were contracted by people who visited the area. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
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Tokyo closes park seen as local source of dengue

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FILE - In this Sunday, Jan. 5, 2014 file photo, customers take sushi of a bluefin tuna which was bought by sushi restauranteur Kiyoshi Kimura at the year's celebratory first auction, at his restaurant near Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo. The multi-nation fisheries body that monitors most of the Pacific Ocean has agreed to cut the catch of juvenile bluefin tuna to half of its average level in 2002-2004. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi, File)
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Fisheries to cut catch of endangered bluefin tuna

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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivers a speech during his lecture at the University of the Sacred Heart in Tokyo, Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2014. Modi is currently on a five-day visit to Japan. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
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Modi promises red carpet for Japan firms in India

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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, right, watches Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi drink a bowl of green tea during a tea ceremony at a tea hut of the Omotesenke, one of the main schools of Japanese tea ceremony, in Tokyo Monday, Sept. 1, 2014. Modi was on his official visit to Japan. (AP Photo/Yuya Shino, Pool)
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Modi visit draws pledges of support from Japan

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Indian and Japanese students walk together near a portrait of Mahatma Gandhi at Global Indian International School in Tokyo Friday, Aug. 29, 2014. Japan and India both have much to gain from a visit by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and more than a dozen Indian steel, energy and IT tycoons that begins Saturday in the ancient capital of Kyoto. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
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India, Japan each seek deals during Modi’s visit

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Pedestrians wait to cross a street at Shibuya shopping district in Tokyo, Friday, Aug. 29, 2014. Japan's vital signs remained weak in July as wages fell further and household spending dropped, signaling continued weakness in the world's third-largest economy. Data released Friday showed the inflation rate was unchanged from the previous month. The core price consumer index that excludes volatile fresh food prices rose 3.3 percent in July, the same as a month earlier. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
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Japan economy stalls as incomes, spending languish

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Riken Center for Development Biology director Ryoji Noyori speaks to the media after submitting the government-affiliated research center's organizational overhaul plan to Japanese education, culture, sports and science minister at the ministry in Tokyo Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2014. Riken, the Japanese laboratory that retracted a paper reporting a potentially major breakthrough in stem cell research, said Wednesday its researchers have not managed to replicate the results. Riken scientists said they are still trying to match results reported in two papers published by the journal Nature in January and then retracted in July. But they refused to say whether or not they expected to succeed in doing so. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT
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Japan lab unable to replicate stem cell results

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In this aerial image, rescuers search for the people still missing in the mud-covered residential area after the Aug. 20 landslides in Hiroshima, western Japan Monday, Aug. 25, 2014. The death toll from the landslides in the western city of Hiroshima climbed to at least 50 as local officials revised the number missing to 28 people. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT
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Japan PM visits landslide site as complaints swirl

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In this aerial photo, a rescue helicopter hovers over an area devastated by a massive landslide in Hiroshima, western Japan, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014. A several people died and at least a dozen are missing after rain-sodden hills in the outskirts of Hiroshima gave way early Wednesday in several landslides. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT
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36 dead, 7 missing in Hiroshima landslide

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A cargo is unloaded from a truck to load onto a freight vessel at the pier of a container terminal in Tokyo, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014. Japan's trade deficit rose in July from the month before to a wider than expected 964 billion yen ($9.4 billion), though exports were higher for the first time in three months, the government said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
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Japan trade deficit widens, exports up slightly

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