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Traditional Japanese puppet show

Traditional Japanese puppet theater "Seiwa Bunraku" is performed in Washington on March 21, 2025.

Traditional Japanese puppet show

A person photographs puppets from the traditional Japanese Seiwa Bunraku puppet theater on March 21, 2025, in Washington.

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Opening of Yakumo Koizumi museum in Greece

LEFKADA, Greece - A Seiwa Bunraku puppet from Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern Japan, cuts the tape on July 4, 2014, to celebrate the opening of a memorial museum for Meiji-period writer Yakumo Koizumi, whose real name was Lafcadio Hearn, on Greece's Lefkada island where he was born in 1850. He moved to Japan and lived in such places as Kumamoto and Matsue.

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Japan Bunraku troupe to take part in Palermo puppet festival

KUMAMOTO, Japan - An amateur ''Seiwa Bunraku'' puppet troupe from Kumamoto Prefecture will take part in the Morgana Puppet Festival in Palermo, Italy on Dec. 14-16. This photo, taken Dec. 9, depicts a scene in a Seiwa Buraku performance held at the Seiwa Bunraku Museum in Yamato, Kumamoto. Seiwa Buraku, a local Kumamoto form of traditional Japanese puppet theater, is typically staged by three puppeteers in black costumes, their faces covered in hoods.

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Kyocera's Inamori sets up management school in N.Y.

NEW YORK, United State - Kyocera Corp.'s honorary chairman Kazuo Inamori makes a lecture at ''Seiwa Juku'' in New York on April 13 as he opened his management school for entrepreneurs. It is the 57th of his schools, which provide a forum for him to share his knowledge and experience with other entrepreneurs heading small or medium-size companies.

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Man held over kidnapping of girl in Nara, admits abduction

NARA, Japan - Kaoru Kobayashi, a 36-year-old employee at a Manichi Shimbun distribution outlet, leaves Seiwa Police Station in Nara Prefecture on Dec. 30 after being arrested on suspicion of kidnapping 7-year-old girl Kaede Ariyama whose body was found on Nov. 18. Police said he admitted to kidnapping her. (Kyodo)

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Kyocera's Inamori sets up management school in N.Y.

NEW YORK, United State - Kyocera Corp.'s honorary chairman Kazuo Inamori makes a lecture at ''Seiwa Juku'' in New York on April 13 as he opened his management school for entrepreneurs. It is the 57th of his schools, which provide a forum for him to share his knowledge and experience with other entrepreneurs heading small or medium-size companies. (Kyodo)

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Japan Bunraku troupe to take part in Palermo puppet festival

KUMAMOTO, Japan - An amateur ''Seiwa Bunraku'' puppet troupe from Kumamoto Prefecture will take part in the Morgana Puppet Festival in Palermo, Italy on Dec. 14-16. This photo, taken Dec. 9, depicts a scene in a Seiwa Buraku performance held at the Seiwa Bunraku Museum in Yamato, Kumamoto. Seiwa Buraku, a local Kumamoto form of traditional Japanese puppet theater, is typically staged by three puppeteers in black costumes, their faces covered in hoods. (Kyodo)