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PHOTO of the DAY (JAPAN) Dial up warning

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Swordsmiths in Setouchi, Okayama Prefecture, are pictured making a "katana" -- a Japanese traditional steel sword -- amid sparks scattering from the steel heated to around 1,300 degrees Celsius. Traditionally popular for their good quality and the region's abundance of iron sand, Okayama Prefecture has a proud history of sword craftsmanship from ancient times to the present. (Mainichi)

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An abandoned electric locomotive sits surrounded by grass tinged with the colors of autumn in Yamamoto, Miyagi Prefecture. All of the train's freight cars were carried off in the March 11 tsunami, but the engine car alone withstood the waves. The train driver fled through waist-high waters to a nearby home and was unhurt. Almost seven months after that day, train cars involved in recovery efforts are running nearby and the overgrown weeds have begun to wither. The Japan Freight Railway Co.'s Tohoku branch says it plans to dismantle and remove the engine car by winter. (Mainichi)

Takoyaki: Kamaishi-Higashi Junior High School students make octopus dumplings with three Uemachi Junior High School students, from center to right, in Osaka's Chuo Ward, on Oct. 5, 2011. Seventy-one third-year students and eight teachers from Kamaishi-Higashi Junior High School in quake- and tsunami-hit Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, visited Osaka on a school excursion at the invitation of the Osaka Municipal Government. During their four-day stay in Osaka, the students and teachers are expected to visit Universal Studios Japan. (Mainichi)

Visitors look at a colorful float of a Japanese festival shown on Sharp's 8K4K super hi-vision 85-inch LCD TV at CEATEC Japan, Japan's biggest consumer electronics show, in Chiba, east of Tokyo, on Oct. 4, 2011. The super hi-vision, or ultra high definition TV, developed jointly by Sharp and Japan's public broadcaster NHK, offers viewers images 16 times clearer than regular hi-vision TV. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)

Floats carrying "taiko" drums are brightly lit up by lanterns in Nihonmatsu, Fukushima Prefecture, as the traditional lantern festival kicked off on Oct. 4, 2011. About 300 lanterns decorate each taiko float, entertaining spectators at the 370-year-old Nihonmatsu Lantern Festival -- one of Japan's three biggest lantern festivals. Evacuees from the prefectural town of Namie, close to the crippled Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant, also joined the crowd to drag the floats. (Mainichi)

The top of the Tateyama mountain range in Toyama Prefecture is covered in white following the area's first snow of the season in this photo taken from a Mainichi helicopter on the morning of Oct. 3, 2011. The appearance of the snow came five days earlier than usual and 24 days earlier than last year. The temperature in Murodo, a 2,450-meter-high area of the mountain, was 0.1 degrees Celsius below zero at 7 a.m. on Oct.3. (Mainichi)

People stand on a monument titled "Wakai Taiyo no To" (Tower of the young sun), created 42 years ago by Japanese artist Taro Okamoto (1911-1996), after it was opened to the public for the first time in eight years at Japan Monkey Park in Inuyama, Aichi Prefecture, on Oct. 1. The 26-meter-high exhibit was closed in 2003 due to aging, but work to restore it began in May this year to mark the 100th anniversary of Okamoto's birth. Okamoto is also known for producing the "Taiyo no To" (Tower of the sun) exhibit that was built for the 1970 World Exposition in Osaka. (Mainichi)

Takashi Udagawa, 15, a high school student, joins his hands in prayer after laying a bouquet of flowers to pay tribute to Steve Jobs, the Apple founder and former CEO, in front of an Apple Store in the Ginza shopping district in Tokyo on Thursday.

Ground staff clean the court at the end of the day’s play Wednesday at the Japan Open men’s tennis tournament in Tokyo.

Murata Seisaku-kun (Murata Boy) rides a bike on a narrow rail during a demonstration by Murata Manufacturing Co at CEATEC, Japan’s biggest consumer electronics show, in Chiba, on Tuesday. The new model has an energy-saving sensor and communication technology, using wireless modules.

PHOTO of the DAY (JAPAN) Dial up warning

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