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Hot air balloon festival in southwestern Japan

SAGA, Japan, Oct. 30 Kyodo - Hot air balloons prepare to fly over the southwestern Japan city of Saga on Oct. 30, 2025, as the five-day Saga International Balloon Fiesta begins. (Kyodo)

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[Breaking News]BOJ policy-setting meeting

TOKYO, Japan, Oct. 30 Kyodo - Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda holds a press conference at the central bank's headquarters in Tokyo on Oct. 30, 2025, following the BOJ's two-day policy-setting meeting. (Kyodo)

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Japan auto show

TOKYO, Japan, Oct. 29 Kyodo - Japan Mobility Show opens to the media at Tokyo Big Site in Tokyo on Oct. 29, 2025, with over 500 companies and organizations taking part in the event that runs from Oct. 30 through Nov. 9. (Kyodo)

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[Breaking News]Japan-U.S. summit meeting

TOKYO, Japan, Oct. 29 Kyodo - Air Force One, with U.S. President Donald Trump on board, departs from Tokyo's Haneda airport on Oct. 29, 2025, heading to South Korea, following his three-day visit to Japan. (Kyodo)

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[Breaking News]Hot air balloon festival in southwestern Japan

SAGA, Japan, Oct. 30 Kyodo - Hot air balloons prepare to fly over the southwestern Japan city of Saga on Oct. 30, 2025, as the five-day Saga International Balloon Fiesta begins. (Kyodo)

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[Breaking News]Trial of shooter of ex-Japan PM Abe

NARA, Japan, Oct. 28 Kyodo - A car (white) apparently carrying the man accused of shooting and killing former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe enters the Nara District Court in Nara on Oct. 28, 2025, before the first hearing of his trial. Tetsuya Yamagami was indicted for fatally shooting Abe during an election stump speech in the western Japan city in 2022. (Kyodo)

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[breaking News]Trump in Japan

TOKYO, Japan, Oct. 27 Kyodo - U.S. President Donald Trump is pictured in a vehicle in central Tokyo on Oct. 27, 2025, as he leaves the Imperial Palace after his meeting with Japan's Emperor Naruhito. (Kyodo)

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[Breaking News]Trial of shooter of ex-Japan PM Abe

NARA, Japan, Oct. 28 Kyodo - Journalists gather near the Nara District Court in Nara on Oct. 28, 2025, as the first hearing is held of the trial of a man indicted for fatally shooting former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during an election stump speech in the western Japan city in 2022. (Kyodo)

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Nikkei stock index ends above 50,000 for 1st time

TOKYO, Japan, Oct. 27 Kyodo - A financial data monitor in Tokyo shows the 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average closing at 50,512.32, a new all-time high, on Oct. 27, 2025, ending above the 50,000-point mark for the first time as investors welcomed progress in U.S.-China trade talks. (Kyodo)

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Nikkei stock index closes at all-time high

TOKYO, Japan, Oct. 21 Kyodo - A financial data monitor in Tokyo on Oct. 21, 2025, shows the 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average at an all-time closing high of 49,316.06. Stock buying was spurred by optimism for fresh economic steps as ruling Liberal Democratic Party head Sanae Takaichi was elected Japan's first female prime minister in parliament earlier in the day. (Kyodo)

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[Breaking News]Bear shows up in urban area

MORIOKA, Japan, Oct. 23 Kyodo - A bear is pictured on a riverbank in the city center of Morioka in Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Oct. 23, 2025. (Kyodo)

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[Breaking News]New Japan PM Takaichi meets abductees' relatives

TOKYO, Japan, Oct. 23 Kyodo - New Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi holds a meeting with relatives of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea in the 1970s and 1980s at her office in Tokyo on Oct. 23, 2025. (Kyodo)

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Parade of historical figures in Kyoto

KYOTO, Japan, Oct. 22 Kyodo - People impersonating historical figures from various eras leave the Heian Jingu shrine in the ancient capital of Kyoto on Oct. 22, 2025, during the annual Jidai Matsuri parade dating back to 1895.

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[Breaking News]Japan's new PM Takaichi holds press conference

TOKYO, Japan, Oct. 22 Kyodo - Japan's new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi speaks during her first press conference at the premier's office in Tokyo after the inauguration of her Cabinet on Oct. 21, 2025. (Kyodo)

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Japan launches new unmanned cargo spacecraft bound for ISS

MINAMITANE, Japan, Oct. 27 Kyodo - An H3 rocket carrying the first HTV-X unmanned cargo spacecraft bound for the International Space Station soars through the sky after lifting off from the Tanegashima Space Center in Minamitane in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Kagoshima on Oct. 26, 2025. (Kyodo)

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[Breaking News]Snowcap on Japan's Mt. Fuji

TOKYO, Japan, Oct. 23 Kyodo - Video taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Oct. 23, 2025, shows the season's first snowcap on Mt. Fuji, Japan's highest mountain located on the borders of Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures. (Kyodo)

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[Breaking News]Construction site for TSMC plant in Japan

KIKUYO, Japan, Oct. 24 Kyodo - Video taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Oct. 24, 2025, shows the construction site for Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.'s second Japanese plant in Kikuyo in Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern Japan. The first TSMC plant in the country can be seen in the background. (Kyodo)

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Japan party leaders hold talks in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan, Oct. 15 Kyodo - Japan's new ruling Liberal Democratic Party President Sanae Takaichi holds talks in Tokyo with Hirofumi Yoshimura and Fumitake Fujita, co-leaders of the second-largest opposition party the Japan Innovation Party on Oct. 15, 2025, amid uncertainty over whether Takaichi will be able to win enough votes to become premier during an extraordinary parliamentary session starting Oct. 21. (Kyodo)

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Peace mural on Hiroshima airport exterior wall

MIHARA, Japan, Oct. 16 Kyodo - Mexican sibling artists Adry del Rocio and Carlos Alberto pose for a photo with Toshiyuki Mimaki , a representative of Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading organization of atomic bomb survivors and winner of the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, on Oct. 15, 2025, at a ceremony marking the completion of a mural depicting a world free of nuclear weapons, on an exterior wall of Hiroshima airport's terminal building in Mihra, Hiroshima Prefecture, western Japan. (Kyodo)

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[Breaking News]Nikkei index hits record closing high

TOKYO, Japan, Oct. 20 Kyodo - A financial board in Tokyo on Oct. 20, 2025, shows the 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average closing at an all-time high of 49,185.50, ending above 49,000 for the first time. (Kyodo)

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[Breaking News]Gaza-bound aid truck after ceasefire

KEREM SHALOM, Israel, Oct. 16 Kyodo - Trucks carrying aid wait at the Israeli side of the Kerem Shalom border crossing to southern Gaza on Oct. 15, 2025, after a ceasefire agreement came into effect on Oct. 10. (Kyodo)

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[Breaking News]Japan Innovation Party lawmakers' meeting

TOKYO, Japan, Oct. 16 Kyodo - Fumitake Fujita, co-leader of the Japan Innovation Party, speaks at a meeting of his party's lawmakers from both houses of the parliament held in Tokyo on Oct. 16, 2025, following the second largest opposition party's agreement with the ruling Liberal Democratic Party the day before to begin policy talks on forming a coalition government. (Kyodo)

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Final day of Osaka expo

OSAKA, Japan, Oct. 14 Kyodo - Fireworks explode above the venue of the World Exposition in Osaka on its final day on Oct. 13, 2025.

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[Breaking News]Traditional boat race

SHINGU, Japan, Oct. 16 Kyodo - Wooden "speedboats" rowed by shirtless men compete in a traditional boating race as part of the Mifune festival on the Kumano River running near World Heritage-listed Kumano Hayatama Taisha shrine in Shingu in the western Japan prefecture of Wakayama on Oct. 16, 2025. (Kyodo)

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[Breaking News]Japan PM Ishiba's ritual offering to Yasukuni shrine

TOKYO, Japan, Oct. 17 Kyodo - Video taken at the war-linked Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo on Oct. 17, 2025, shows the "masakaki" ritual offering sent by Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba for the Shinto shrine's three-day autumn festival. (Kyodo)

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[Breaking News]Trump's Gaza peace plan

TEL AVIV, Israel, Oct. 9 Kyodo - People celebrate in Tel Aviv, central Israel, on Oct. 9, 2025, after Israel and Hamas agreed to the first phase of U.S. President Donald Trump's peace plan in Gaza. (Kyodo)

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[Breaking News]Japan's LDP-Komeito leaders' talks

TOKYO, Japan, Oct. 10 Kyodo - Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party President Sanae Takaichi and Komeito leader Tetsuo Saito hold talks in Tokyo on Oct. 10, 2025. Komeito said it will end its coalition with the LDP. (Kyodo)

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[Breaking News]World Exposition ahead of closing

OSAKA, Japan, Oct. 12 Kyodo - The World Exposition in Osaka is packed with visitors on Oct. 11, 2025, ahead of the event's conclusion on Oct. 13. (Kyodo)

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Man acquitted of 1966 murder case files damages suit

SHIZUOKA, Japan, Oct. 9 Kyodo - Lawyers for Iwao Hakamata, a former death-row inmate acquitted in a 2024 retrial over a 1966 quadruple murder, head for the Shizuoka District Court in the central Japan city on Oct. 9, 2025, to file damages lawsuit against the state and Shizuoka Prefecture over fabricated evidence. The filing was performed by his lawyers as he has difficulty communicating due to post-incarceration syndrome. (Kyodo)

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[Breaking News]Nobel Prize in chemistry winner Kitagawa

KYOTO, Japan, Oct. 9 Kyodo - Kyoto University distinguished professor Susumu Kitagawa attends a press conference in the western Japan city on Oct. 9, 2025, a day after being named one of the three winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing porous materials that can store and release gases such as natural gas. (Kyodo)

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Nobel Prize in chemistry winner Kitagawa

KYOTO, Japan, Oct. 9 Kyodo - Kyoto University distinguished professor Susumu Kitagawa receives flowers from a university staff member in the western Japan city on Oct. 9, 2025, a day after being named one of the three winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing porous materials that can store and release gases such as natural gas. (Kyodo)

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Nobel Prize in chemistry winner Kitagawa

KYOTO, Japan, Oct. 9 Kyodo - Kyoto University distinguished professor Susumu Kitagawa attends a press conference in the western Japan city on Oct. 8, 2025, after being named one of the three winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry earlier in the day for developing porous materials that can store and release gases such as natural gas. (Kyodo)

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Astronaut Onishi meets press in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan, Oct. 3 Kyodo - Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi holds a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 3, 2025, following rehabilitation in the United States after his five-month space mission. Onishi returned to the earth in August after serving as commander of the International Space Station. (Kyodo)

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[Breaking News]Nobel Prize in medicine winner Sakaguchi

SUITA, Japan, Oct. 7 Kyodo - Shimon Sakaguchi, a distinguished professor at Osaka University, attends a press conference in Suita, Osaka Prefecture, western Japan, on Oct. 7, 2025, a day after being named the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with two American scientists for their "groundbreaking" discoveries on how the immune system is kept in check. (Kyodo)

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Nobel Prize in medicine winner Sakaguchi

TOKYO, Japan, Oct. 7 Kyodo - Shimon Sakaguchi, a distinguished professor at Osaka University, attends a press conference in Suita, Osaka Prefecture in western Japan, on Oct. 6, 2025, after the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute announced that he won this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with U.S. scientists Mary E. Brunkow and Fred Ramsdell, for their "groundbreaking" discoveries on how the immune system is kept in check. (Kyodo)

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[Breaking News]Baseball:Division Series between Dodgers and Phillies

PHILADELPHIA, United States, Oct. 3 Kyodo - Los Angeles Dodgers two-way player Shohei Ohtani attends a press conference in Philadelphia on Oct. 3, 2025, ahead of his start in Game 1 of the Division Series against the Philadelphia Phillies the following day. (Kyodo)

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Executives of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party

TOKYO, Japan, Oct. 7 Kyodo - New executives of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party --election strategy chief Keiji Furuya, General Council chair Haruko Arimura, Vice President Taro Aso, President Sanae Takaichi, Secretary General Shunichi Suzuki and policy council chief Takayuki Kobayashi -- pose for a photo at the party's headquarters in Tokyo on Oct. 7, 2025.(Kyodo)

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[breaking News]Yoshino re-elected as Rengo president

TOKYO, Japan, Oct. 8 Kyodo - Tomoko Yoshino raises her fist while delivering a speech at a regular meeting of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation in Tokyo on Oct. 8, 2025, after being re-elected for her third term as president of the country's largest labor organization, known as Rengo. (Kyodo)

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[Breaking news]Abductee Megumi Yokota's mother meets press

KAWASAKI, Japan, Oct. 2 Kyodo - Sakie Yokota, 89, whose daughter Megumi was abducted by North Korea in 1977 at age 13, meets the press in Kawasaki near Tokyo on Oct. 2, 2025, ahead of her 61st birthday on Oct. 5, while showing a book the mother read to the daughter when she was a child. (Kyodo)

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Baseball :Wild Card Series between Padres and Cubs

CHICAGO, United States, Oct. 1 Kyodo - San Diego Padres pitcher Yu Darvish speaks during a press conference ahead of Game 2 of the Wild Card Series against the Chicago Cubs on Oct. 1, 2025, at Wrigley Field in Chicago. (Kyodo)

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World Exposition opens in Osaka

OSAKA, Japan, April 13 Kyodo - Visitors sing Ode to Joy at the 2025 World Exposition's iconic Grand Ring on the opening day of the six-month event on an artificial island in Osaka, western Japan, on April 13, 2025. (Kyodo)

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World Exposition opens in Osaka

OSAKA, Japan, April 13 Kyodo - Video taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a large crowd lining up at an entrance gate of the 2025 World Exposition on the opening day of the six-month event in Osaka, western Japan, on April 13, 2025. (Kyodo)

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[Breaking News]World Exposition in Osaka

OSAKA, Japan, Sept. 30 Kyodo - Visitors pack the World Exposition in Osaka on Sept. 29, 2025, before the close of the six-month event on Oct. 13. (Kyodo)

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[Breaking News]N. Korean foreign minister off to China

PYONGYANG, North Korea, Sept. 28 Kyodo - North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui arrives at Pyongyang International Airport in Pyongyang on Sept. 27, 2025, for a four-day trip to China. (Kyodo)

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World Exposition in Osaka

OSAKA, Japan, April 12 Kyodo - Video shows the flag-bearers representing the participating countries and regions during the opening ceremony of the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka, western Japan, on April 12, 2025. (Kyodo)

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[Breaking News]Fire on Haneda airport premises

TOKYO, Japan, Sept. 29 Kyodo - Black smoke rises from a demolition site on the premises of Tokyo's Haneda airport on Sept. 29, 2025. (Kyodo)

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Ex-Suntory Chairman Niinami quits as business body chief

TOKYO, Japan, Sept. 30 Kyodo - Former Suntory Holdings Ltd. Chairman Takeshi Niinami speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 30, 2025, following his resignation as chief of a major business body, the Japan Association of Corporate Executives, known as Keizai Doyukai, after coming under police investigation over supplement purchases. (Kyodo)

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[Breaking News]Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament

TSUKUBA, Japan, Sept. 29 Kyodo - Yokozuna Onosato celebrates at a party in Tsukuba in Ibaraki Prefecture, eastern Japan, after winning the 15-day Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament on Sept. 28, 2025, his first victory since being promoted to sumo's highest rank of yokozuna in May 2025. (Kyodo)

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Flying car demo flight at World Expo venue in Osaka

Osaka, Japan, Sept. 30 Kyodo - Video taken on Sept. 30, 2025, shows a demonstration flight of the "flying car" developed by Joby Aviation Inc. at the World Exposition in Osaka. (Kyodo)

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[Breaking News]Scene of Tel Aviv

TEL AVIV, Israel, Oct. 5 Kyodo - A rally is held in Tel Aviv, central Israel, on Oct. 4, 2025, calling for the early release of hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Hamas agreed the previous day to most of U.S. President Donald Trump's proposals to end the war with Israel, including the release of all hostages, but added that some points need further negotiation. (Kyodo)