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Japanese businessmen share a smile as they read omikuji, or written oracles, at Kanda Myoujin Shrine in Tokyo Friday, Jan. 4, 2002, their first business day of the year following the three-day New Year's holiday. The shrine that honors the deities of commerce and industry expects about 100,000 businessmen, bankers and securities company workers from 1,500 companies visit the shrine to have evil spirits exorcised in the New Year's Shinto rite amid the global slowdown. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)