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Tokyo - At least four deaths were recorded through Wednesday in Tokyo from eating a traditional Japanese New Year's treat, sticky rice cakes called mochi, a news report said. The men who choked to death were aged 59 to 83 and another 10 people, all over
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Shogatsu , Japanese New Year, will be celebrated on the UNK campus from 6-8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 2, in the Nebraskan Student Union Ponderosa Room (E). There is no charge to attend this celebration.
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It was ... customary to play many New Year's games. These include hanetsuki, takoage (kite flying), koma (top), sugoroku, fukuwarai (whereby a blindfolded person places paper parts of a face, such as eyes, eyebrows, a nose and a mouth, on a paper face), karuta, and others.
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The lunisolar Chinese calendar determines Chinese New Year dates. The calendar is ... used in countries that have adopted or have been influenced by Han culture (notably the Koreans, Japanese and Vietnamese) and may have a common ancestry with the similar New Years festivals outside East Asia (such as Tibet, Iran, and historically, the Bulgars lands).
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