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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan issued avalanche warnings on Friday as temperatures were forecast to rise in areas buried under a record snowfall that has been blamed for killing more than 80 people and injuring nearly 2,000, many of them elderly. Eighty-two people have already been killed in snow-related incidents over the past few weeks, Kyodo news agency reported. Public broadcaster NHK put the injury toll at about 1,900. About 80 percent of those who have died were over the age of 60, the...