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    Baseball: Diamondbacks vs. Dodgers

    Baseball: Diamondbacks vs. Dodgers

    Los Angeles Dodgers designated hitter Shohei Ohtani strikes out swinging in the first inning of a baseball game against the Arizona Diamondbacks on May 21, 2025, at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.
      Baseball: Cubs vs. Marlins

      Baseball: Cubs vs. Marlins

      Seiya Suzuki of the Chicago Cubs hits an infield single in the sixth inning of a baseball game against the Miami Marlins on May 21, 2025, at loanDepot park in Miami, Florida.
        Foreign tourists hit record in April

        Foreign tourists hit record in April

        Foreign tourists walk on a street leading to Dazaifu Tenmangu shrine in Dazaifu in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Fukuoka on May 21, 2025. The number of foreign tourists to Japan hit a monthly record of 3,908,900 in April.
          Foreign tourists hit record high in April

          Foreign tourists hit record high in April

          Foreign tourists walk in Tokyo's Tsukiji area on May 21, 2025. The number of foreign tourists to Japan came to a monthly record 3,908,900 in April.
            Angola's expo pavilion closed

            Angola's expo pavilion closed

            Photo taken on May 22, 2025, shows Angola's pavilion at the World Exposition in Osaka. The pavilion has been shut since opening for just a short time on the first day of the expo on April 13, as it was found that the construction firm in charge of the pavilion built the facility without obtaining a construction permit from authorities.
              Vehicles customized for injured Ukrainian soldiers

              Vehicles customized for injured Ukrainian soldiers

              Photo taken in Kyiv on May 21, 2025, shows a Toyota Corolla specially customized for people without legs. Japan, together with the U.N. Development Program, donated four Corollas including the one in the picture to driving schools in Ukraine for injured soldiers.
                Ex-nuclear cruise missile launch site in Okinawa

                Ex-nuclear cruise missile launch site in Okinawa

                Photo taken on April 23, 2025, shows a former site of a Mace B nuclear-armed cruise missile launch base in the Okinawa Prefecture village of Onna, southern Japan. The site of the base, which had been operational during the U.S. occupation of Okinawa in the 1960s, is currently open to the general public.
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                  [Breaking News]World Exposition in Osaka

                  OSAKA, Japan, May 14 Kyodo - Hiroyuki Ishige, secretary general of the Japan Association for the 2025 World Exposition, attends a press conference at the venue of the expo in Osaka, western Japan, on May 12, 2025, a day before the event's one-month mark. (Kyodo)

                    [Breaking News]Princess Aiko visits Osaka expo

                    OSAKA, Japan, May 9 Kyodo - Japanese Princess Aiko visits Kenya's booth at the World Exposition in Osaka on May 9, 2025. (Pool photo) (Kyodo)

                      Giant panda gets Mother's Day gift

                      SHIRAHAMA, Japan, May 14 Kyodo - Giant panda Rauhin, a mother of 10, receives carrots and bamboo sprouts as a gift for Mother's Day on May 11, 2025, at Adventure World amusement park in Shirahama in Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan. (Kyodo)

                        World Exposition in Osaka

                        OSAKA, Japan, May 14 Kyodo - A parade replicating a diplomatic mission from the Joseon dynasty on the Korean Peninsula to Japan's Tokugawa shogunate during the Edo period (17th-19th century) is held at the World Exposition in Osaka on May 13, 2025, marking the event's South Korean day. (Kyodo)

                          International trade fair in Pyongyang

                          PYONGYANG, North Korea, May 13 Kyodo - An international trade fair is held in Pyongyang on May 12, 2025. (Kyodo)

                            Stolen Buddhist statue returned to Japan

                            TSUSHIMA, Japan, May 12 Kyodo - A 14th-century Buddhist statue of the Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva sits at Kannon Temple on Tsushima Island in Nagasaki Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on May 12, 2025. The statue, stolen in October 2012 and taken to South Korea, was returned to the temple the same day. (Kyodo)

                              IOC President Bach

                              TOKYO, Japan, May 8 Kyodo - International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach gives an interview in Tokyo on May 8, 2025. (Kyodo)
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                              EXPO2025 OSAKA

                              EXPO2025 OSAKA

                              From April 13, 2025 to October 13, 2025,Osaka/Kansai Expo 2025 (EXPO 2025 Osaka/Kansai) will be held on Yumeshima, an artificial island in Osaka City, with the main theme of "Designing a Future Society that Brightens Life." Expo)
                              World Athletics Championships

                              World Athletics Championships
                              80 years since the atomic bombing

                              80 years since the atomic bombing

                              ILG features many precious images of aftermath of Atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,during World War II (WWII).The photopragh gallery of atomic bombing is taken by Kikujiro Fukushima. There are many images about Nihon Hidankyo, which awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 2024.
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                              World Heritage in Japan

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                              Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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