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Reserve rice warehouse in eastern Japan

YOKOHAMA, Japan, May 30 Kyodo - Japanese Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Shinjiro Koizumi visits a warehouse stockpiling the government's reserve rice in Kanagawa Prefecture, eastern Japan, on May 30, 2025. (Kyodo)

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[Breaking News]Reserve rice released from government stockpiles

OSAKA, Japan, June 2 Kyodo - Bags of reserve rice released from government stockpiles through direct contracts with retailers hit the shelves at an Aeon supermarket in the western Japan city of Osaka on June 2, 2025. (Kyodo)

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Marine parade near Osaka expo

OSAKA, Japan, June 2 Kyodo - A marine parade is held near the Yumeshima artificial island, the venue of the World Exposition in Osaka, on May 31, 2025. Some 50 ships including sail training ship the Nippon Maru took part in the 8-kilometer cruise in Osaka Bay. (Kyodo)

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Reserve rice hits store shelves

SENDAI, Japan, June 2 Kyodo - Bags of reserve rice released from government stockpiles through direct contracts with retailers hit the shelves at a supermarket in Sendai, northeastern Japan, on May 31, 2025. (Kyodo)

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[Breaking News]Japan-U.S. tariff negotiations

TOKYO, Japan, June 2 Kyodo - Japan's chief tariff negotiator Ryosei Akazawa speaks to reporters at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo on June 1, 2025, after briefing Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba about the fourth round of Japan-U.S. tariff negotiations in Washington. (Kyodo)

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World Exposition in Osaka

OSAKA, Japan, May 30 Kyodo - The Universal Studios Japan hosts a dance event at the Osaka Healthcare Pavilion at the World Exposition in Osaka on May 30, 2025. (Kyodo)

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Lilac flowers in Hokkaido

SAPPORO, Japan, May 14 Kyodo - Lilac flowers are in full bloom at the Odori Park in Sapporo in Hokkaido, northern Japan, on May 14, 2025. (Kyodo)

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[Breaking News]Japan's top business lobby chief Tsutsui

TOKYO, Japan, May 30 Kyodo - Yoshinobu Tsutsui, new chairman of the Japan Business Federation, holds a press conference in Tokyo on May 29, 2025. (Kyodo)

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Explosions at Tokyo construction site

TOKYO, Japan, May 27 Kyodo - Video taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on May 27, 2025, shows a construction site in Tokyo's Edogawa Ward where explosions occurred earlier in the day. The explosions, which left 10 people slightly injured, were apparently sparked by a gas leak from a pipe damaged during work to pave the foundation of a condominium. (Kyodo)

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[Breaking News]Britain's day at Osaka expo

OSAKA, Japan, May 22 Kyodo - Performers dance at the World Exposition in Osaka, western Japan, on May 22, 2025, marking the event's Britain day. (Kyodo)

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New farm minister Koizumi

TOKYO, Japan, May 23 Kyodo - Japan's new Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Shinjiro Koizumi meets the press during a visit to a rice retail shop in Tokyo on May 23, 2025, amid rice shortages and surging prices. (Kyodo)

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[Breaking News]2 arrested over break-in at Tokyo school

TOKYO, Japan, May 8 Kyodo - A police officer stands guard at the entrance of a public elementary school in Tachikawa, western Tokyo, on May 8, 2025, after two men were arrested for breaking into the school and injuring five teachers. (Kyodo)

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[Breaking News]Koizumi picked as Japan's new farm minister

OKYO, Japan, May 21 Kyodo - Shinjiro Koizumi speaks to reporters at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on May 21, 2025. Koizumi said he was appointed as Japan's new farm minister, after Taku Eto stepped down over his controversial remarks about rice earlier in the day. (Kyodo)

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Japan's new farm minister Koizumi

TOKYO, Japan, May 23 Kyodo - Japan's Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Shinjiro Koizumi speaks at a press conference at his ministry in Tokyo on May 23, 2025, after attending his first cabinet meeting in his new role. (Kyodo)

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Lower-priced reserve rice released

WATARI, Japan, May 29 Kyodo - Rice stockpiles are delivered to household equipment maker Iris Ohyama Inc.'s rice polishing plant in Watari in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on May 29, 2025. The Japanese government launched a new scheme to release lower-priced reserve rice harvested in 2021 and 2022 via direct contracts with retailers -- not by the previous auction-based method -- to curb elevated rice prices. (Kyodo)

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[Breaking News]Hungary day at Osaka expo

OSAKA, Japan, May 25 Kyodo - Hungarian National Dance Ensemble performs folk dances at the World Exposition in Osaka on May 24, 2025, marking the expo's Hungary day. (Kyodo)

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Premium melons from Hokkaido

SAPPORO, Japan, May 26 Kyodo - A pair of premium melons, produced in Yubari in Hokkaido, fetches 1 million yen ($7,000) at the first auction of the year in Sapporo, the capital of the northern Japan prefecture, on May 26, 2025. (Kyodo)

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Moss phlox at Hokkaido park

OZORA, Japan, May 23 Kyodo - Video taken on May 23, 2025, shows moss phlox, or shibazakura in Japanese, in full bloom at Higashimokoto Shibazakura Park in Ozora on Japan's northern island of Hokkaido. (Kyodo)

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Abductees' families hold rally

TOKYO, Japan, May 25 Kyodo - Families of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea decades ago and their supporters hold a rally in Tokyo on May 24, 2025, with about 800 people, including Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, attending. (Kyodo)

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Traditional horse festival in Fukushima Prefecture

MINAMISOMA, Japan, May 25 Kyodo - People dressed as armored warriors compete in a horse race during the annual "Soma-Nomaoi" traditional horse festival in the Fukushima Prefecture city of Minamisoma, northeastern Japan, on May 25, 2025. (Kyodo)

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Japan's new farm minister Koizumi

TOKYO, Japan, May 26 Kyodo - Japan's new Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Shinjiro Koizumi holds a press conference at his ministry on May 26, 2025, as Japan began sales of government rice stockpiles via direct contracts, aiming to slash soaring prices after he pledged to bring them down to about 2,000 yen ($14) per 5 kilograms by early June. (Kyodo)

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Japan's new farm minister

TOKYO, Japan, May 22 Kyodo - Japan's new Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Shinjiro Koizumi attends his first press conference at his ministry in Tokyo on May 21, 2025. (Kyodo)

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[Breaking News]SDF trainer jet crashes

TOKYO, Japan, May 15 Kyodo - Gen. Hiroaki Uchikura, chief of staff of Japan's Air Self-Defense Force, speaks at a press conference at the ministry in Tokyo on May 14, 2025, after a training jet with two personnel aboard crashed into a reservoir in Inuyama in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan. (Kyodo)

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Airing of Hiroshima A-bomb victims list

HIROSHIMA, Japan, May 22 Kyodo - Hiroshima city officials air out books listing the names of victims of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city after removing them from a stone chamber beneath the cenotaph for the victims at the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on May 22, 2025. The officials also turned each page to check the condition of the 128 books, which contain a total of 344,306 names, ahead of the rainy season. (Kyodo)

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[Breaking News]Okinawa peace march

KADENA, Japan, May 17 Kyodo - People march near the U.S. Kadena Air Base (in the background) in the Okinawa Prefecture town of Kadena, southern Japan, on May 17, 2025, during a peace march calling for the burden on Okinawa from hosting U.S. forces to be reduced, two days after the 53rd anniversary of its reversion to Japan. Okinawa hosts about 70 percent of U.S. forces in Japan. (Kyodo)

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[Breaking News]Nissan plant

YOKOSUKA, Japan, May 15 Kyodo - Video taken on May 15, 2025, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a Nissan Motor Co. plant in Yokosuka and in Hiratuka in the eastern Japan prefecture of Kanagawa.

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Disaster recovery exhibition at Osaka expo

OSAKA, Japan, May 20 Kyodo - Turin Olympics figure skating gold medalist Shizuka Arakawa (far R) pitches fishery foods at a just-opened exhibition at the World Exposition in Osaka on May 19, 2025, highlighting the recovery of three northeastern Japan prefectures severely affected by the March 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster. (Kyodo)

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Honda to cut EV investment plan by 30%

TOKYO, Japan, May 20 Kyodo - Honda Motor Co. President Toshihiro Mibe attends a press conference on the company's electrification strategy in Tokyo on May 20, 2025, announcing a plan to curtail its investment in electric vehicle technology through fiscal 2030 by 30 percent from the initial plan. (Kyodo)

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SDF trainer jet crashes

INUYAMA, Japan, May 15 Kyodo - Personnel from Japan's Self-Defense Forces conduct a search on May 15, 2025, in a reservoir in Inuyama in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, for the two crew members of an Air Self-Defense Force trainer jet that crashed the previous day shortly after takeoff from Komaki Air Base, also in the prefecture. (Kyodo)

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[Breaking News]Netherlands' day at Osaka expo

OSAKA, Japan, May 22 Kyodo - Performers dance at the World Exposition in Osaka, western Japan, on May 21, 2025, marking the event's Netherlands' day. (Kyodo)

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Winner of world's first humanoid half marathon

BEIJING, China, May 16 Kyodo - A two-legged robot runs in front of the media in Beijing on May 16, 2025, after winning the world's first humanoid half marathon, held in the Chinese capital in April. The robot completed the 21-kilometer course in 2 hours and 40 minutes, outperforming around 20 other similar robots in the race. (Kyodo)

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SDF trainer jet crashes

INUYAMA, Japan, May 15 Kyodo - Video taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows an oil slick on a reservoir in Inuyama in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, on May 14, 2025, after an Air Self-Defense Force trainer jet with two personnel crashed earlier in the day shortly after takeoff from Komaki Air Base, also in the prefecture. Japanese Defense Minister Gen Nakatani speaks at a press conference at the ministry in Tokyo on May 14, 2025, after an Air Self-Defense Force training jet with two personnel aboard crashed into a reservoir in Inuyama in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, earlier in the day.(Kyodo)

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Search operation after Japan defense force jet's crash

INUYAMA, Japan, May 16 Kyodo - Search and rescue operations continue at a large reservoir in Inuyama, Aichi Prefecture, on May 16, 2025, after a T-4 jet, a Japan Air Self-Defense Force training aircraft, with two personnel aboard crashed there two days earlier. (Kyodo)

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Nissan unveils drastic streamlining plan

YOKOHAMA, Japan, May 18 Kyodo - Nissan Motor Co. CEO Ivan Espinosa attends a press conference in Yokohama on May 13, 2025, announcing a drastic restructuring package including closure of seven vehicle plants and a cut of 20,000 jobs globally as the company logged a massive net loss for fiscal 2024. (Kyodo)

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Stolen Buddha statue to be returned to Japan

SEOSAN, South Korea, May 5 Kyodo - Video taken at Buseok Temple in Seosan, South Korea, on May 10, 2025, shows a 14th-century Buddha statue (R) stolen from Japan's Kannonji temple in 2012. The statue, designated by Japan's Nagasaki Prefecture as a tangible cultural asset, will be returned to the Japanese temple in Tsushima in the southwestern Japan prefecture, on May 12, following a South Korean Supreme Court ruling in 2023 that Kannonji is its rightful owner. (Kyodo)

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Risen Christ displayed at Osaka expo

OSAKA, Japan, May 18 Kyodo - The Risen Christ, a marble sculpture by the Italy High Renaissance master Michelangelo, is displayed at Italy's pavilion at the World Exposition in Osaka, western Japan, on May 18, 2025. (Kyodo)

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Sanja festival in Tokyo's Asakusa

TOKYO, Japan, May 17 Kyodo - People participate in the Sanja festival near Kaminari-mon gate at Senso-ji temple in Tokyo's Asakusa area despite the rain on May 17, 2025. (Kyodo)

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Traditional outdoor Noh play in Nara

NARA, Japan, May 16 Kyodo - A traditional outdoor Noh play is performed at Kofuku-ji temple in the ancient capital of Nara, western Japan, on May 16, 2025. (Kyodo)

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[Breaking News]World Exposition in Osaka

OSAKA, Japan, May 14 Kyodo - Video shows the World Exposition's iconic Grand Ring on May 13, 2025, exactly one month after the event opened in Osaka, western Japan. (Kyodo)

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Aoi Festival in Kyoto

KYOTO, Japan, May 15 Kyodo - A woman playing the role of the Saio-dai priestess (far R), clad in a 12-layer traditional Japanese kimono, arrives at Kyoto's Shimogamo shrine during a parade in the annual Aoi Festival, one of the three main festivals of the ancient Japanese capital, on May 15, 2025. (Kyodo)

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World Exposition in Osaka

OSAKA, Japan, May 14 Kyodo - Models from South Korea take part in a fashion show at the World Exposition in Osaka on May 13, 2025, marking the event's South Korean day. (Kyodo)

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Service suspension on Tokyo's Yamanote loop line

TOKYO, Japan, May 23 Kyodo - A signage at JR Shimbashi Station in Tokyo notifies passengers of the suspension of the busy Yamanote Line on the morning of May 23, 2025, following problems with some pantographs the previous night. (Kyodo)

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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)

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[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)

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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)

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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)

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International trade fair in Pyongyang

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

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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)

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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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[Breaking News]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)