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Japan News Articles April 18 - 24

• Abe visits quake-hit Kumamoto; service on key section of Kyushu bullet-train line resumes | The Japan Times

• Second Japan Cabinet minister visits Tokyo war shrine - Channel NewsAsia

• Making hay while the sun shines: Should Japan adopt daylight saving time in summer? | The Japan Times

• The changing values behind school uniforms | The Japan Times

• Why did Japan just build a stealth fighter jet? - CSMonitor.com

• A population-based analysis of increasing rates of suicide mortality in Japan and South Korea, 1985–2010 | BMC Public Health | Full Text

• Japan's dementia time bomb | The Japan Times

• 'Vagina artist' Rokudenashiko to marry British rock musician | The Japan Times

• Japan becomes fourth nation to test-fly homegrown stealth jet | The Japan Times

• Buddhist cafe gives Tokyo caffeinated enlightenment | The Japan Times

• A new documentary shows the surprising, circular journey of Japanese Brazilians | Public Radio International

• Japan may draw up disaster relief spending by June 1 - sources

• Japan's ''vagina artist'' meets her waterboy

• Kumamoto quakes are 0.3 percent seismic phenomenon：The Asahi Shimbun

• Watch: Japan’s Stealth Fighter Makes Its Maiden Flight | Foreign Policy

• GM to Shut Four Plants Temporarily After Japan Quakes - WSJ

• Quakes damage 10,000 homes, four municipal buildings：The Asahi Shimbun

• Stoffel Vandoorne weet zijn opdracht:

• Twitter sets sights on Japan - San Jose Mercury News

• Make Japan Democratic Again | Foreign Policy

• Hurdles cleared but disillusionment, homesickness prompt Filipino health workers to exit Japan | The Japan Times

• Food, diapers, and free wifi: Japan relies on 7-11 to lead earthquake relief efforts — Quartz

• Abe skips Yasukuni ceremony, sends offering as private citizen | The Japan Times

• 'Hometown donation' system emerges as effective way to help quake victims | The Japan Times

• How Japan’s Abe Is Making a Failure of Success - Bloomberg

• Japan eyes double-barrelled stimulus to ease yen strains | Reuters

• Preparing for the Big One | The Economist

• Between Consenting Adults: Japan’s Incongruous Celebrity Sex Scandals | Nippon.com

• 58 dead, 90,000 evacuated 1 week after Kumamoto earthquakes - The Mainichi

• Catholic Church sex abuse scandal hits Japan with allegations by ex-students of St. Mary's International school in Tokyo - CBS News

• Abe poses a grave danger | The Japan Times

• Luxury foreign cars find favor among Japan's rich | The Japan Times

• Japanese whisky at ¥100,000 a bottle driving rice farmers to the drink | The Japan Times

• Mitsubishi Motors admits employees falsified fuel-efficiency data | The Japan Times

• Japan Today

• One Economist Suggests Tax to Make Japan Inc. Spend Their Cash - Bloomberg

• Japan's Abe makes offering at shrine to war dead, prompting China rebuke | Reuters

• Concerns raised over support services for disabled earthquake evacuees | The Japan Times

• Uncertain Future for Scenic Village Hit by Japan Earthquakes - ABC News

• Uncertain future for scenic Kumamoto village hit by earthquakes：The Asahi Shimbun

• EDITORIAL: Full-scale efforts needed to stem health problems at quake shelters：The Asahi Shimbun

• Beloved mascot Kumamon's absence since quakes spurs Japan Twitter traffic | The Japan Times

• Abe insider wages one-man campaign to challenge foreign media over reporting 'mistakes' | The Japan Times

• After quakes, Japan is expected to delay TPP approval | The Japan Times

• 'Economy-class syndrome' concerns grow as Kyushu quake toll rises to 47 | The Japan Times

• Cold rice balls, no flush toilets at quake-hit Japan shelter | Fox News

• Big role for Ospreys in flying supplies to quake-stricken S. Japan - News - Stripes

• Reporter’s Notebook: The Stunning Destruction in Japan After 2 Quakes - ABC News

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• Japan earthquakes: Nuclear regulator refuses to shut down station on Kyushu Island

• Japan quake relief work continues amid aftershocks - BBC News

• Japan Today

• Japan PM sticks to script on sales tax plans after deadly quakes | Reuters

• Two Japan Earthquakes Leave Thousands in Shelters

• Stabilized amateur footage of the Kumamoto earthquake in Japan.

• Quakes put chill in south Japan's hot spring tourism boom | Reuters

• In-out distinction raises linguistic issues for Japan's long-term 'inside outsiders' | The Japan Times

• The Kumamoto quakes | The Japan Times

• Questions and answers: The Kumamoto earthquakes | The Japan Times

• Food in short supply, government response crippled in quake-hit Kumamoto | The Japan Times

• Embassies working to help non-Japanese quake survivors | The Japan Times

• Evacuee shelters overcrowded - The Japan News

• Natuurrampen kunnen positief economisch effect hebben - BNR Nieuwsradio

• Zoekactie en schade na aardbevingen Japan in beeld | NOS

• Is 'Abeggedon' approaching? | The Japan Times

• Two years after Japan signed Hague, children have been returned but old issues remain | The Japan Times

• Seismologists urge caution as epicenters move southwest：The Asahi Shimbun

• Hokkaido creates car stickers for foreign rent-a-car drivers - The Mainichi

• Food in short supply, offices crippled in quake-hit southwestern Japan - The Mainichi

• New Sense of Fragility in Japanese Town Struck Twice by Quakes - The New York Times

• The first test for six-year-olds starting school in Japan is walking to class on their own | | The Times & The Sunday Times

• Les haricots et la pauvreté cachée au Japon - International - LeVif.be

• US forces aid Japan quake rescue, aid; 42 dead, 10 missing

• Pictures reveal serious damage to Shinkansen in Kyushu：The Asahi Shimbun

• Meet the woman who makes fake fingers for Japan's reformed gangsters | World news | The Guardian

• Disruptions From Twin Quakes in Southern Japan Hit Economy - ABC News

• Japan earthquake: Toyota, Sony and Honda suspend production - BBC News

• Japan earthquake: 'Nearly 250,000 told to leave amid fear of tremors' - BBC News

• Why do so many earthquakes strike Japan? - CSMonitor.com

• Straten Japanse stad bedekt met mysterieus schuim na aardbeving - HLN.be

• Kumamoto quake info: where to go, how to help | The Japan Times

• Desperate race on to find Kyushu earthquake survivors; death toll at 42 | The Japan Times

• In pictures: After the Kumamoto quakes | The Japan Times

• The Latest: Number of People In Japan Quake Shelters Doubles - The New York Times

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ISS passing

It's difficult to see but that line left of the moon is the International Space Station passing. Over Yokohama, around 6:47PM on April 19, 2016

Intercontinental Hotel

65km Cycling

Tullibardine 228

Tullibardine 228, Burgundy cask finish. Delicious

Japan News Articles April 11 - 17

• Twin quakes kills at least 29 in south Japan; many trapped | WSOC-TV

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• Japan earthquakes: Dozens killed as bad weather slows rescue efforts - CNN.com

• Japan earthquake: Rescuers in 'race against time' as storm hits - BBC News

• Japan earthquake: Thousands spend night in cold and wet - BBC News

• Donald Richie: The legacy of an entrenched view | The Japan Times

• Obama has unfinished business in Hiroshima | The Japan Times

• Kyushu villagers trapped by landslides, severed roads | The Japan Times

• Can Japan make itself great again by 2050? | The Japan Times

• More powerful magnitude-7.3 quake rocks Kumamoto, kills dozens | The Japan Times

• Japan quakes disrupt Sony production of image sensors used in Apple iPhones | Reuters

• Saying no in Japanese: don’t mention it! INSiGHT

• Seismic activity could move east, trigger quakes in active faults：The Asahi Shimbun

• Large road bridge collapses as new quake hits Kumamoto：The Asahi Shimbun

• See the Devastation Caused by the Recent Earthquakes in Japan

• Doden, gewonden en vulkaanuitbarsting na beving Japan | Buitenland | de Volkskrant

• Second strong quake rocks Kumamoto area, killing at least 11 | The Japan Times

• Another Strong Earthquake Strikes Japan, Reportedly Killing Nine - WSJ

• Watch The Moment A Massive Earthquake Hits An Office In Japan

• Doden en vermisten na nieuwe aardbeving Japan | NOS

• Japan earthquake: Powerful new tremor in Kumamoto - BBC News

• ‘Shaking Was So Violent, I Couldn’t Stand Still’: Powerful Japan Quake Kills At Least 9, Injures 761 | TheBlaze.com

• Quake in Kyushu kills 9, injures 700; aftershocks continue：The Asahi Shimbun

• At least nine dead after earthquake hits Japan | World news | The Guardian

• Most seats empty on Hokkaido Shinkansen | The Japan Times

• Two dead, scores hurt as magnitude-6.5 temblor, strong aftershocks strike Kumamoto; nuke plants safe | The Japan Times

• Chimp caught in residential area after escaping Sendai zoo | The Japan Times

• Deadly earthquake topples houses in southern Japan - BBC News

• ‘Spotlight’: a beacon for investigative journalism | The Japan Times

• Powerful Earthquake Hits South Japan; Some Damage Reported - ABC News

• BlackRock Joins $46 Billion Japan Pullout - Bloomberg

• Japan's demographic time bomb, in one chart - Vox

• One problem with Japan doubling its tourism target: Hotels are already full | The Japan Times

• Drones Turn Into Delivery Boys In Japan

• Japan likely averted recession in first quarter; BOJ to ease more by July: Reuters poll | Reuters

• Nagasaki mayor asks Obama to visit atomic-bombed city | The Japan Times

• Global education experts urge Japan to look beyond rote learning | The Japan Times

• Interview : Jake Adelstein, le journaliste qui a passé 10 ans dans le milieu des yakuzas

• Why Japan should just pay people to have children

• OECD chief calls for consumption tax of 'at least 15%' | The Japan Times

• Anthropology: War uncommon in prehistoric Japan : Nature : Nature Publishing Group

• Japan's debt now estimated at around 250% of the country's income | This is Money

• Abe ally urges double dose of stimulus exceeding $184 billion | The Japan Times

• When Will the Powers That Be Notice That Japan's Insolvent?

• Quintessentially Japanese scene near Fuji draws tourist hordes：The Asahi Shimbun

• With Abenomics Withering, Japan Hears Calls for Fresh Action - Bloomberg

• Why the Yen Is Causing Headaches in Tokyo - WSJ

• Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant prepares to release tonnes of radioactive water | Daily Mail Online

• Schoolgirl says education pointless; gets schooled in debate on Twitter ‹ Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion

• In Japan kun je deze zomer betalen met je vingerafdruk | NOS

• ‘In Japan vindt niemand mij vreemd’ - NRC

• Land of the Rising Suntory: visiting Japan's award-winning whisky distillery - Telegraph

• Girl in Japan falls to her death after watching anime cartoon about children who could fly | World news | The Guardian

• Seto Inland Sea island finds salvation through art, but on its residents' own terms | The Japan Times

• Japan Today

• Will President Obama Visit Hiroshima? : Parallels : NPR

• Apple's Yokohama, Japan R&D facility opening delayed until early 2017

• Japan Begins Testing Drones For Home Deliveries In Urban Areas - Fortune

• Actually, the Surging Yen Could Be a Good Thing for Japan's Economy - Bloomberg

• Olivier Blanchard eyes ugly 'end game' for Japan on debt spiral

• How Japan Became a Hedge Fund Wasteland - Bloomberg

• There Isn’t Much Japan Can Do About The Yen - MoneyBeat - WSJ

• Japan's Lethal 'Helicopter-Destroyer': An Aircraft Carrier in Disguise? | The National Interest Blog

• Hiroshima hails Kerry's A-bomb park visit, though some call it too brief | The Japan Times

• G-7 ministers adopt Hiroshima Declaration hoping to add momentum to nonproliferation movement | The Japan Times

• Zien: Japan door de ogen van drie filmmakers - De Standaard Mobile

• The worrying market denial about Japan | TheHill

• John Kerry makes historic visit to Hiroshima memorial - BBC News

• G-7 foreign ministers push nuclear disarmament in Hiroshima：The Asahi Shimbun

• British Expat: “Don’t Forget Ishinomaki!” | Nippon.com

• Japan worstelt met de vraag: hoe worden wij weer innovatief - NRC

• LDP keeping close watch on foreign media reports on Japan：The Asahi Shimbun

• Terrorism, refugee flood, North Korea nuclear threat on G-7 foreign minister meeting agenda in Hiroshima | The Japan Times

• No Hiroshima apology for wartime atomic bomb expected on Kerry's Japan visit

• Japanese shares lower in early trade - BBC News

• Kerry Visits Hiroshima Memorial and Underlines U.S.-Japan Alliance - NYTimes.com

• Canada Hounded Japanese Even After WWII - The Daily Beast

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One day trip to Ahigara and Yamanaka-ko

Climbing Tonodake

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Japan News Articles April 3 - 10

• Kerry arrives in Japan for landmark Hiroshima visit ‹ Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion

• Japan reminds citizens of tsunami danger with disturbingly realistic CGI PSA - 9news.com.au

• Fast Retailing drags down Japan markets - BBC News

• Japan's ever-increasing 'temporary' road tolls are here to stay | The Japan Times

• Are Japan's counterterrorism forces really ready? | The Japan Times

• Japan is as happy as it feels — miserable | The Japan Times

• Government to promote construction of larger hotels in provincial areas to accommodate growing number of foreign tourists | The Japan Times

• Japan is as happy as it feels — miserable | The Japan Times

• What's happened to Japan's car culture? | Top Gear

• In Japan, ghost ships from North Korea that wash ashore weighted with questions - LA Times

• Tourists in Japan could soon use their fingertips to pay for stuff

• Japan to Test New Fingerprint Payment System | News & Opinion | PCMag.com

• Exploring Tabaruzaka's idyllic but forgotten samurai battleground | The Japan Times

• TV takes the lazy approach on 'hikikomori' | The Japan Times

• A pint or a prayer? Monks in Japan put Buddhism on the menu | Reuters

• Clothing giant Uniqlo: again the face of Japan's deflating economy | Reuters

• Japan's economic plan 'backfiring' as yen surges | World news | The Guardian

• Grey zone | The Economist

• Diet erupts in outrage as ex-minister's TPP manuscript reveals details Abe kept under wraps | The Japan Times

• Japan unveils final four candidates for Tokyo 2020 Olympics logo | The Japan Times

• Japan Today

• Knuffelen met egeltjes? Het kan in Japan

• Panama Papers raise concerns offshore tax havens hiding criminal activity in Japan | The Japan Times

• Japan Today

• Japan printing more ¥10,000 bills as folks hoard cash

• Japan Today

• Japan Economy: Daycare Crisis Is Forcing Moms To Stay At Home

• Panama Papers raise concerns offshore tax havens hiding criminal activity in Japan | The Japan Times

• WRAPUP 1-Japan faces trouble controlling damaging yen rises | Reuters

• Searchers Find 1 of 6 Crewmen on Missing Japan Military Jet - ABC News

• Dollar falls below 110 yen, BOJ seen unlikely to intervene

• High court upholds ruling endorsing restarts of Sendai reactors | The Japan Times

• Japan’s Nuclear Weapons Conundrum | The Diplomat

• Japan’s Shinzo Abe defends U.S. alliance, warns against ‘naked nationalism’ - MarketWatch

• Gorgeous Photos Show Off The Beauty Of Japan's Cherry Blossom Season

• A penis festival just took place in Japan - and the pictures are extraordinary

• Japan's Abe talks economics, but not sales tax, with French Nobel laureate | Reuters

• Japan Defence ministry announces military jet with six aboard missing | The Indian Express

• Justice Attributes Japan’s Cultural Conflict to Western Contact | The Cornell Daily Sun

• DNA match for remains of early Italian Jesuit missionary：The Asahi Shimbun

• Time to include teachers in textbook selections | The Japan Times

• Japan Today

• Japan to print millions of Y10,000 notes as people pad their futons

• Why Japan’s Economy Is Laboring - WSJ

• Amnesty slams Japan over death penalty as global executions soar | The Japan Times

• Japan regulators raid messaging app Line over use of payment tokens | Reuters

• Tokyo ward touts possible discovery of Italian Jesuit priest's remains | The Japan Times

• Russia police raids target Japan Aum Shinrikyo cult - BBC News

• Russian foreign minister to visit Japan on April 15 | The Japan Times

• Schaeffler just getting started on Japan growth

• Japan to mull welfare, stimulus measures to boost economy | The Japan Times

• Japan Today

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• Japan's Constitution Allows Nuclear Weapons, Says Shinzo Abe's Government After Donald Trump Comments

• Japan PM's advisers propose steps to spur consumption, East Asia News & Top Stories - The Straits Times

• Traveling through Japan via high-speed rail (VIDEO).

• Minding your manners and judging others' with 'shitsurei' | The Japan Times

• Abenomics failure explained | The Japan Times

• New all-in-one bus terminal opens at Tokyo's Shinjuku Station | The Japan Times

• Students' English skills differ greatly between prefectures | The Japan Times

• 'Panama Papers' bombshell reveals Secom founders' use of offshore tax havens | The Japan Times

• A Heavenly Hike Through Ancient Japan - WSJ

• 'Invisible' train plans unveiled in Japan - CBBC Newsround

• A look at the playboy existence of an author born without arms and legs | The Tokyo Reporter

• FCCJ - Face-off

• PHOTOS - Japon : l'étonnant festival du phallus géant – metronews

• McDonald's Unleashes the 'Giga Big Mac' in Japan | Highsnobiety

• Sentiment's role in politics | The Japan Times

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Climbing Mitsutogeyama

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Hiking Kintokiyama & Yamanakako

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Yaki-onigiri at Hyoutan

Sunset from the roof

Japan News Articles March 28 - April 3

• The scourge of binge drinking on youth | The Japan Times

• The drug problem that keeps getting older | The Japan Times

• Japan Today

• Donald Trump on potential war between Japan and North Korea: 'If they do, they do' - CNNPolitics.com

• Death by overwork on rise among Japan's vulnerable workers | Reuters

• Retailer bets on generational links to save Japanese craft industry | The Japan Times

• Japan's inescapable 'comfort women' problem | The Japan Times

• Job-hunting students may be in for a shock when they arrive at their new company | The Japan Times

• Japan to have record 1 million foreign workers this year | The Japan Times

• The Hypocrisy of the World's Crusade Against Japanese Whaling

• Kerry to visit Hiroshima for G-7 ministerial talks | The Japan Times

• Hon Hai seals deal with Sharp | The Japan Times

• Obama hits back at Trump for suggesting Japan acquire nuclear weapons to deal with North Korea

• Ex-Japan PM ‘regrets’ recommending nuclear technology to Erdoğan - ASIA

• American becomes Japan's first salaried foreign ninja | The Japan Times

• Les huîtres françaises viennent du Japon

• PLUS | Niet geregistreerd - De Standaard Mobile

• Japan Today

• Japan Today

• 910,000 new recruits mark first day at work across Japan | The Japan Times

• JR rail pass to be available in Japan, ending frustration for tardy tourists | The Japan Times

• Mammoth burger? Ghostbuster device? Japan enjoys a range of April fools | The Japan Times

• Japan business sentiment plunges to lowest in three years, may worsen | The Japan Times

• Plutonium from Japan to be disposed of underground in New Mexico | The Japan Times

• Alqohol: Quote proeft de betere fles (Hibiki Japanese Harmony) | Quote

• New book sheds light on North Korea's abduction programme | World news | The Guardian

• Mammoth burger? Ghostbuster device? Japan enjoys a range of April fools | The Japan Times

• Japan earthquake: Strong tremor hits off Mie and Wakayama prefecture - BNO News

• Japan business mood sours to three-year low, adds to doubt over 'Abenomics' | Reuters

• Japan Today

• Japan, South Korea hit back at Trump's nuclear comments - CNNPolitics.com

• Ryuichi Sakamoto offers his thoughts on politics, Japan and how his music will change 'post-cancer' | The Japan Times

• Japan′s Abe sticks to tax hike plans | Asia | DW.COM | 31.03.2016

• Cherry trees in full bloom in Tokyo, elsewhere across Japan | The Japan Times

• Japan’s lost black hole satellite is back online, still tumbling through space | ExtremeTech

• Japan's building a giant 'ice wall' to contain the Fukushima radiation - ScienceAlert

• How modularization felled Japan's electronics titans | The Japan Times

• Japan's power monopolies face major reform jolt

• HSBC doesn't believe Japan Prime Minister Abe wants a sales tax hike

• Onderzoek: met een Japans dieet wordt u veel ouder! | Quote

• Trump's idea of Japan, South Korea with nuclear weapons destabilizing, says White House - World - CBC News

• Japan’s Lost Black Hole Satellite Just Reappeared and Nobody Knows What Happened to It 

• Welcome to Japan — Where homes are thrown away after one generation - Yahoo Finance

• Japan’s ‘New’ Opposition Party Is Not Actually New | The Diplomat

• Japanese Chefs Make Their Mark in Paris - NYTimes.com

• Sushi, cultuur en karaoke: Japan als vakantieland - BNR Nieuwsradio

• Japan's PM defends new security laws as protesters denounce them - Channel NewsAsia

• Les retraités japonais vont volontairement en prison pour une meilleur vie | www.directmatin.fr

• Nuclear issues involving North Korea, Japan on table at Washington summit | The Japan Times

• UPDATE 1-Japan's PM Abe aims to double tourist visits by 2020 to boost economy | Reuters

• 110,000 SDF rescuers planned for killer quake in Tokyo - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Japan stocks dip as unemployment rate rises - BBC News

• Starbucks is giving Japan alcoholic “Frappuccinos” | RocketNews24

• Summit boost for Japan's 'women of the sea' - BBC News

• Snake Venom, Bee Toxin, Horse Oil, Snail Slime: Saving Face in Japan is Icky Fun | Japan Subculture Research Center

• Japan's Problem with Tattoos

• Japan's Abe Says No Plans to Postpone Consumption Tax Hike - ABC News

• Japan approves record-high budget, focusing on defense, economic recovery

• Security laws usher in new era for pacifist Japan | The Japan Times

• Japan defends new security laws as protesters denounce them - The Economic Times

• Japan to keep tax hike despite falling wages | Business | DW.COM | 29.03.2016

• Scientists attempt to regain contact with Japan's malfunctioning Hitomi satellite | Fox News

• Africanews | Japan’s Abe welcomes ‘iconic’ Mugabe

• The Woman Who Took Whisky to Japan: Remembering Rita Cowan Taketsuru | Nippon.com

• Tourists lacking a Japan Rail Pass will be in luck in fiscal 2016 - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Is Japan's plan for more women in the workplace failing? - BBC News

• Kyu-shirataki Train Station in Hokkaido, Japan, Closes After Student Graduates - CityLab

• Analysis: Japan's Abe to dive back into diplomatic activities - Chicago Tribune

• Japan’s elderly turn to life of crime to ease cost of living

• Can anything rescue Japan from the abyss?

• Japan concerned at possible Russian base on disputed island chain | Reuters

• Japan and China: The Geo-Economic Dimension | The Diplomat

• Japanese man held after teenager 'kidnapped for two years' - BBC News

• Japan Has Set Up a Radar Station in the East China Sea | TIME

• The train station that stayed open for a single school girl finally closes down | RocketNews24

• Japan's Abe expected to delay sales tax rise, call snap election - again | Reuters

• Tokyo man, 23, nabbed in Ito after Saitama girl, 15, missing two years flees captivity, alerts cops | The Japan Times

• Democratic Party launches with vow to halt ruling coalition | The Japan Times

• New opposition party launched in Japan ahead of election | Business Standard News

• Magazine says pollen allergy being blown way out of proportion ‹ Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion

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