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Ohtani boom

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A store clerk helps a customer choose baseball hats with different designs showing the name of Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Dodgers at a sporting goods store in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo. Read

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Badminton silver

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Japan's Nami Matsuyama and Chiharu Shida, left, pose with their silver medals after the final of the women's doubles at the All England Open Badminton Championships against South Korea's Baek Ha Na and Lee So Hee in Birmingham, England, on Sunday. See related story here. Read

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Blue Impulse

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The Japan Air Self-Defense Force's Blue Impulse aerobatic team flies over Komatsu City in Ishikawa Prefecture on Saturday, to celebrate the start of a shinkansen bullet train service between Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, and Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture -- a new extended route of the Hokuriku Shinkansen Line, previously linking Tokyo with… Read

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Ghostly girls

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Japanese girl group Atarashii Gakko! attend the premiere of "Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire" at the AMC Loews Lincoln Square on Thursday in New York. Read

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Teeing off

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Hideki Matsuyama, of Japan, prepares to hit his tee shot on the ninth hole during the first round of The Players Championship golf tournament in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla, on Thursday. Read

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GSDF, U.S. Marines hold drills

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A large-scale exercise of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force and U.S. Marine Corps is carried out on Okinoerabu Island in Kagoshima Prefecture on Wednesday. The Iron Fist exercise includes training for the defense and recapture of remote islands. Read

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Good manners

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A poster on the wall of a subway station in Tokyo asks commuters to cover their nose and mouth when they sneeze or cough. Read

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Godzilla awaits

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A Godzilla statue stands outside Tokyo Midtown in Hibiya to promote the film "Godzilla Minus One" on Monday after the film won the Oscar for Best Visual Effects at the Academy Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday. Read

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Fire-walking festival

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Buddhist monks walk barefoot over smoldering coals at the fire-walking festival, called Hiwatari Matsuri in Japanese, at Mount Takao in Tokyo, on Sunday. Over 1,000 worshipers walk barefoot with Buddhist monks over coals at the annual festival, praying for their safety and peace in the world, according to the organizer, Takao-san Yakuo-in Buddhist… Read

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One for the birds

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A white-eye bird perches on a branch of an early-flowering okanzakura cherry blossom tree at Ueno Park in Tokyo on Saturday. Read

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