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Two Japanese citizens and a Japanese-born American won the 2008 Nobel Prize in physics for discoveries in the world of subatomic physics, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Tuesday. American Yoichiro Nambu, 87, of the University of Chicago, won half of the prize for the discovery of a mechanism called spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics. Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa of Japan shared the other half of the prize for discovering the origin of the broken symmetry t
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A protester holds a portrait of Chinese Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo during a rally against Chinese government in Tokyo, Japan, Saturday, Nov. 6, 2010. More than 3,000 Japanese have staged the anti-China demonstration in Tokyo amid a diplomatic row between the two Asian powers.
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A Myanmar womaneresident in Japan holds a poster during the 65th birth anniversary of Myanmar's Democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi outside the United Nation University in Tokyo, Japan, Saturday, June 19, 2010. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate marked her 65th birthday Saturday locked in her dilapidated lakeside compound as global calls for her freedom erupted at rallies and prayer vigils around the world.(AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa)
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Architect Alvaro Siza of Portugal, left, and sculpturer Dani Karavan of Israel, jsa1
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German dance theatre choreograph Pina Bausch is seen during a news conference in Duesseldorf, wester
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Wheel size comparison: Sojourner, Mars Exploration Rover, Mars Science Laboratory.
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Ayu being grilled with salt in Japan
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The company office in Chiyoda, Tokyo
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2005/05/10 The Zen-Like Quality of Mars - Like a circular ripple intersecting a flowing stream, the tracks created by NASA´s Spirit rover are reminiscent of a Zen rock garden. Highly prized in Japan, such gardens use rocks and raked gravel to sugg
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2005/05/10 The Zen-Like Quality of Mars - Like a circular ripple intersecting a flowing stream, the tracks created by NASA´s Spirit rover are reminiscent of a Zen rock garden. Highly prized in Japan, such gardens use rocks and raked gravel to sugg
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2005/05/10 The Zen-Like Quality of Mars - Like a circular ripple intersecting a flowing stream, the tracks created by NASA´s Spirit rover are reminiscent of a Zen rock garden. Highly prized in Japan, such gardens use rocks and raked gravel to sugg
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2005/05/10 The Zen-Like Quality of Mars - Like a circular ripple intersecting a flowing stream, the tracks created by NASA´s Spirit rover are reminiscent of a Zen rock garden. Highly prized in Japan, such gardens use rocks and raked gravel to sugg
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2005/05/10 The Zen-Like Quality of Mars - Like a circular ripple intersecting a flowing stream, the tracks created by NASA´s Spirit rover are reminiscent of a Zen rock garden. Highly prized in Japan, such gardens use rocks and raked gravel to sugg
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2005/05/10 The Zen-Like Quality of Mars - Like a circular ripple intersecting a flowing stream, the tracks created by NASA´s Spirit rover are reminiscent of a Zen rock garden. Highly prized in Japan, such gardens use rocks and raked gravel to sugg
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2005/05/10 The Zen-Like Quality of Mars - Like a circular ripple intersecting a flowing stream, the tracks created by NASA´s Spirit rover are reminiscent of a Zen rock garden. Highly prized in Japan, such gardens use rocks and raked gravel to sugg
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Sonya Thomas and Tim Janus at the 2005 Midway Slots Crabcake Eating Competition.
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Serena Williams, right, of the United States and her sister Venus
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The University of Tsukuba has a modern campus
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Public Service, Philippines' Grace Padaca for Government Service, Thailand's Therdchai Jivacate for Public Service and Japan's Akio Ishii for Journalism, Literature and Creative Communication Arts pose for photographers in Manila on Thursday Aug. 28, 2008.
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Sailors speak with friends and family in the U.S. from webcam-enabled computer terminals at the Fleet Activities Yokosuka USO.
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Chūō-ku, Osaka-jō Hall (大阪城ホール, Ōsaka-jō Hōru?), or Osaka Castle Hall, is a multi-purpose arena, in the Kyōbashi area, of Osaka, Japan. The hall opened in 1983 and can seat up to 16,000 people
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Nintendo 64
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