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Japanese doll maker Kyugetsu employee Saeko Koyama, wearing a kimono dress, displays an ornamental wooden racket or “hagoita” decorated with a depiction of three Japanese Nobel laureate scientists (R) and Mixrosoft's Bill Gates (L) at the company's showroom in Tokyo on December 3, 2014. A hagoita is a wooden paddle used to play the new year hanetsuki game, where two players hit a shuttlecock back and forth. (Photo by Yoshikazu Tsuno/AFP Photo)
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