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Pope Leo XIV Meets with Robert De Niro - Vatican

Pope Leo XIV meets with Robert De Niro in the Vatican on November 7, 2025. The famous two-time Oscar-winning 82-year-old actor is American but proudly of Italian descent. He spent forty-eight hours in Rome, where he received the Lupa Capitolina honor from Mayor of Rome. He visited the Vatican and met Pope Leo XIV for a brief exchange, where the pontiff gifted him a Rosary. He had wanted to conclude his 48-hour visit to Rome with a handshake from the Pope, his fellow countryman. A pontiff who, as many longtime friends from Chicago recall, has always loved going to the movies. Photo by (EV) Vatican Media/ ABACPRESS.COM

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Pope Leo XIV Meets with Robert De Niro - Vatican

Pope Leo XIV meets with Robert De Niro in the Vatican on November 7, 2025. The famous two-time Oscar-winning 82-year-old actor is American but proudly of Italian descent. He spent forty-eight hours in Rome, where he received the Lupa Capitolina honor from Mayor of Rome. He visited the Vatican and met Pope Leo XIV for a brief exchange, where the pontiff gifted him a Rosary. He had wanted to conclude his 48-hour visit to Rome with a handshake from the Pope, his fellow countryman. A pontiff who, as many longtime friends from Chicago recall, has always loved going to the movies. Photo by (EV) Vatican Media/ ABACPRESS.COM

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Pope Leo XIV Meets with Robert De Niro - Vatican

Pope Leo XIV meets with Robert De Niro in the Vatican on November 7, 2025. The famous two-time Oscar-winning 82-year-old actor is American but proudly of Italian descent. He spent forty-eight hours in Rome, where he received the Lupa Capitolina honor from Mayor of Rome. He visited the Vatican and met Pope Leo XIV for a brief exchange, where the pontiff gifted him a Rosary. He had wanted to conclude his 48-hour visit to Rome with a handshake from the Pope, his fellow countryman. A pontiff who, as many longtime friends from Chicago recall, has always loved going to the movies. Photo by (EV) Vatican Media/ ABACPRESS.COM

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Pope Leo XIV Meets with Robert De Niro - Vatican

Pope Leo XIV meets with Robert De Niro in the Vatican on November 7, 2025. The famous two-time Oscar-winning 82-year-old actor is American but proudly of Italian descent. He spent forty-eight hours in Rome, where he received the Lupa Capitolina honor from Mayor of Rome. He visited the Vatican and met Pope Leo XIV for a brief exchange, where the pontiff gifted him a Rosary. He had wanted to conclude his 48-hour visit to Rome with a handshake from the Pope, his fellow countryman. A pontiff who, as many longtime friends from Chicago recall, has always loved going to the movies. Photo by (EV) Vatican Media/ ABACPRESS.COM

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Pope Leo XIV Meets with Robert De Niro - Vatican

Pope Leo XIV meets with Robert De Niro in the Vatican on November 7, 2025. The famous two-time Oscar-winning 82-year-old actor is American but proudly of Italian descent. He spent forty-eight hours in Rome, where he received the Lupa Capitolina honor from Mayor of Rome. He visited the Vatican and met Pope Leo XIV for a brief exchange, where the pontiff gifted him a Rosary. He had wanted to conclude his 48-hour visit to Rome with a handshake from the Pope, his fellow countryman. A pontiff who, as many longtime friends from Chicago recall, has always loved going to the movies. Photo by (EV) Vatican Media/ ABACPRESS.COM

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China: Elderly Woman Battles Kitchen Gas Explosion in Shaoxing

An 82-year-old woman in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, faced a gas explosion head-on while cooking alone on October 13, 2025. Video shows flames erupting from her stove, but she calmly shut off the gas valve before breaking down in tears. The blast was caused by a detached gas pipe, and fortunately, she was not injured.

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Japan's nuke-bomb survivors group wins Nobel Peace Prize

Toshiyuki Mimaki, the 82-year-old head of the Hiroshima Prefectural Confederation of A-bomb Sufferers Organizations, speaks at a press conference in Hiroshima, western Japan, on Oct. 11, 2024, after Japan's leading organization of atomic bomb survivors, Nihon Hidankyo, won the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize.

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Japan's nuke-bomb survivors group wins Nobel Peace Prize

Toshiyuki Mimaki, the 82-year-old head of the Hiroshima Prefectural Confederation of A-bomb Sufferers Organizations, reacts in Hiroshima, western Japan, on Oct. 11, 2024, after Japan's leading organization of atomic bomb survivors, Nihon Hidankyo, won the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize.

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Japan's nuke-bomb survivors group wins Nobel Peace Prize

Toshiyuki Mimaki, the 82-year-old head of the Hiroshima Prefectural Confederation of A-bomb Sufferers Organizations, celebrates in Hiroshima, western Japan, on Oct. 11, 2024, after Japan's leading organization of atomic bomb survivors, Nihon Hidankyo, won the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize.

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Japan's nuke-bomb survivors group wins Nobel Peace Prize

Toshiyuki Mimaki, the 82-year-old head of the Hiroshima Prefectural Confederation of A-bomb Sufferers Organizations, reacts in Hiroshima, western Japan, on Oct. 11, 2024, after Japan's leading organization of atomic bomb survivors, Nihon Hidankyo, won the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize.

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Japan's nuke-bomb survivors group wins Nobel Peace Prize

Toshiyuki Mimaki, the 82-year-old head of the Hiroshima Prefectural Confederation of A-bomb Sufferers Organizations, smiles at a press conference in Hiroshima, western Japan, on Oct. 11, 2024, after Japan's leading organization of atomic bomb survivors, Nihon Hidankyo, won the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize.

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Cambodian patients hail traditional Chinese medicine for effective treatment of their illnesses

STORY: Cambodian patients hail traditional Chinese medicine for effective treatment of their illnesses DATELINE: Aug. 19, 2023 LENGTH: 00:03:50 LOCATION: Phnom Penh CATEGORY: HEALTH SHOTLIST: 1. various of patients waiting for treatment at the TCM clinic 2. various of TCM experts consulting with patients 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (Khmer): POR LON, Cambodian patient 4. various of Por Lon getting acupuncture 5. SOUNDBITE 2 (Khmer): KEO SORYA, Cambodian patient 6. various of doctors treating patients 7. SOUNDBITE 3 (Chinese): YUAN GENG, TCM expert team leader STORYLINE: For several years, Cambodian elderly woman Por Lon, who has been paralyzed after a stroke, has not been able to walk, but that changed when she received treatment using traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). The 82-year-old mother of three children said she sought TCM treatments after hearing from other patients that a team of Chinese TCM experts provided TCM treatment to patients at the Cambodia-China Friendship Preah Kossamak Hospital's Chinese Medi

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Ishihara to quit politics if unsuccessful in lower house election

NAGANO, Japan - Shintaro Ishihara, supreme adviser of the opposition Party for Future Generations and former Tokyo governor, speaks in Nagano, central Japan, on Dec. 5, 2014. The 82-year-old Ishihara said he will retire from politics if he is unsuccessful in the Dec. 14 lower house election.

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Roland founder

HAMAMATSU, Japan - Ikutaro Kakehashi, 82-year-old founder of Japanese electronic music instruments maker Roland Corp., answers reporters' questions in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on Jan. 11, 2013, after he was named a recipient of a technical Grammy award for contributing to the development of MIDI technology.

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Tokyo gubernatorial race

TOKYO, Japan - Former Miyazaki Gov. Hideo Higashikokubaru (L), 53, shakes hands with 82-year-old Yoshiro Nakamatsu, an inventor known as ''Dr. NakaMats,'' when they bump into each other while stumping in front of Shibuya train station in Tokyo on March 24, 2011, the first day of the official campaigning period for the April 10 election to choose the capital's governor. Higashikokubaru and Nakamatsu are among several high-profile candidates challenging 78-year-old incumbent Shintaro Ishihara.

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Residents of Yeonpyeong Island

YEONPYEONG ISLAND, South Korea - Lee Yu Song (R), a resident of South Korea's Yeonpyeong Island, chats with a friend at his home on Nov. 27, 2010. The 82-year-old Lee, who hails from an area now in North Korea, denounced the North's artillery attack on the island but insisted he will never leave.

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Myanmar junta releases Suu Kyi's aide

YANGON, Myanmar - Tin Oo, vice chairman of Aung San Suu Kyi's pro-democratic party, speaks to reporters in front of his house in Yangon on Feb. 13, 2010 after he was released from house arrest. The junta kept the 82-year-old under house detention for nearly seven years.

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Contradictory rulings on ex-Taiwan, S. Korean leprosy patients

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Chen Shih-shih, an 82-year-old former Taiwanese leprosy patient, speaks at a press conference in Taipei on Oct. 25 after the Tokyo District Court upheld a lawsuit filed by 25 former Taiwanese leprosy patients seeking compensation from the Japanese government for segregation at a leprosarium in Taiwan during Japanese colonial rule.

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Bangladesh Records 237 More Deaths From Covid-19 - Dhaka

Abdul Malek, an 82-year-old patient shows victory sign as he fully recovered after contracting the deadly coronavirus (COVID-19) and discharged from DNCC Dedicated Covid-19 hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh, August 11, 2021. Bangladesh registered 237 deaths from Covid-19 in 24 hours to 8am on Wednesday. With the latest development, the total number of deaths reached 23,398 in the country. During the same period, 10,420 people tested positive for the virus, taking the total number of infections to 1,386,742 in the country, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). Photo by Suvra Kanti Das/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Bangladesh Records 237 More Deaths From Covid-19 - Dhaka

Abdul Malek, an 82-year-old patient discharged from DNCC Dedicated Covid-19 hospital as he fully recovered after contracting the deadly coronavirus (COVID-19), in Dhaka, Bangladesh, August 11, 2021. Bangladesh registered 237 deaths from Covid-19 in 24 hours to 8am on Wednesday. With the latest development, the total number of deaths reached 23,398 in the country. During the same period, 10,420 people tested positive for the virus, taking the total number of infections to 1,386,742 in the country, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). Photo by Suvra Kanti Das/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Bangladesh Records 237 More Deaths From Covid-19 - Dhaka

Abdul Malek, an 82-year-old patient discharged from DNCC Dedicated Covid-19 hospital as he fully recovered after contracting the deadly coronavirus (COVID-19), in Dhaka, Bangladesh, August 11, 2021. Bangladesh registered 237 deaths from Covid-19 in 24 hours to 8am on Wednesday. With the latest development, the total number of deaths reached 23,398 in the country. During the same period, 10,420 people tested positive for the virus, taking the total number of infections to 1,386,742 in the country, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). Photo by Suvra Kanti Das/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Bangladesh Records 237 More Deaths From Covid-19 - Dhaka

Abdul Malek, an 82-year-old patient discharged from DNCC Dedicated Covid-19 hospital as he fully recovered after contracting the deadly coronavirus (COVID-19), in Dhaka, Bangladesh, August 11, 2021. Bangladesh registered 237 deaths from Covid-19 in 24 hours to 8am on Wednesday. With the latest development, the total number of deaths reached 23,398 in the country. During the same period, 10,420 people tested positive for the virus, taking the total number of infections to 1,386,742 in the country, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). Photo by Suvra Kanti Das/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Bangladesh Records 237 More Deaths From Covid-19 - Dhaka

Abdul Malek, an 82-year-old patient discharged from DNCC Dedicated Covid-19 hospital as he fully recovered after contracting the deadly coronavirus (COVID-19), in Dhaka, Bangladesh, August 11, 2021. Bangladesh registered 237 deaths from Covid-19 in 24 hours to 8am on Wednesday. With the latest development, the total number of deaths reached 23,398 in the country. During the same period, 10,420 people tested positive for the virus, taking the total number of infections to 1,386,742 in the country, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). Photo by Suvra Kanti Das/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Emperor Akihito diagnosed as having flu

Undated photo shows Japanese Emperor Akihito. The Imperial Household Agency said on Feb. 29, 2016, that the 82-year-old emperor has been diagnosed as having contracted influenza with symptoms of fever of 37 to 38 C, sore throat and mild cough. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-Tokyo Gov. Ishihara leaves hospital

Former Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara speaks to reporters upon his arrival at Haneda airport in Tokyo on June 8, 2015. The 82-year-old retired politician, known for his hawkish views on foreign policy, was rushed to a hospital a day earlier in Shimane Prefecture, western Japan, after feeling faint while giving a speech. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-signboard artist paints portraits on cardboard canvas

Masaharu Onoda, an 82-year-old retired signboard artist who has worked on numerous movie advertising boards, paints a portrait on a handmade cardboard canvas at his atelier in his Nagoya home in central Japan on April 12, 2015. Displayed in his atelier are some 150 portraits of celebrities. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese emigrant to N. Korea yearns for improved bilateral ties

Yoshie Arai, a 82-year-old Japanese woman who moved to North Korea in 1960, is set to be interviewed by Kyodo News in North Korea's capital Pyongyang on April 16, 2015. Arai is one of about 1,800 Japanese women who accompanied their ethnic Korean husbands to North Korea in a 1959-1984 repatriation program managed by the Red Cross societies of the two countries. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese emigrant to N. Korea yearns for improved bilateral ties

Yoshie Arai, a 82-year-old Japanese woman who moved to North Korea in 1960, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in North Korea's capital Pyongyang on April 16, 2015. Arai is one of about 1,800 Japanese women who accompanied their ethnic Korean husbands to North Korea in a 1959-1984 repatriation program managed by the Red Cross societies of the two countries. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese emigrant to N. Korea yearns for improved bilateral ties

Yoshie Arai, a 82-year-old Japanese woman who moved to North Korea in 1960, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in North Korea's capital Pyongyang on April 16, 2015. Arai is one of about 1,800 Japanese women who accompanied their ethnic Korean husbands to North Korea in a 1959-1984 repatriation program managed by the Red Cross societies of the two countries. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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82-year-old DJ puts unique spin on Tokyo's club scene

Eighty-two-year-old DJ Sumiko Iwamuro cooks at a family-run dumpling restaurant on May 2, 2017. She works there in daytime before hitting the stage at night and says the multitasking of cooking and spinning turntables is similar. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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82-year-old DJ puts unique spin on Tokyo's club scene

Sumiko Iwamuro, 82, spins her beats and rocks a wild crowd at a club in Tokyo's Kabukicho red-light district on May 27, 2017. The octogenarian DJ is proof that age never matters and says there is much more awaiting in life ahead. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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82-year-old DJ puts unique spin on Tokyo's club scene

Sumiko Iwamuro, 82, spins her beats and rocks a wild crowd at a club in Tokyo's Kabukicho red-light district on May 27, 2017. The octogenarian DJ is proof that age never matters and says there is much more awaiting in life ahead. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Aging H-bomb victim lobbies to bring antinuke monument to Tsukiji

Matashichi Oishi, an 82-year-old former crew member of the Japanese tuna fishing boat Fukuryu Maru No. 5 that was contaminated with radioactive fallout from a 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test in the Pacific, seeks support for his petition to set up an antinuclear "Tuna Memorial" at the Tsukiji fish market site, during a gathering in Tokyo on Sept. 22, 2016. The toxic tuna catch, unloaded from the Fukuryu Maru, was shipped to Tsukiji and buried there. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan gov't eyes Oct. launch of expert panel on emperor abdication

Photo taken Sept. 11, 2016, shows Japanese Emperor Akihito (L) and Empress Michiko in Sakata, Yamagata Prefecture attending an event aimed at creating a bountiful sea. The Japanese government is preparing to appoint an expert panel from mid-October to discuss the potential abdication of the 82-year-old emperor, according to a government source. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan gov't mulls special legislation over emperor's abdication

Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko attend an event in Tokyo on Sept. 2, 2016, to mark the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Illuminating Engineering Institute of Japan. The government is considering special legislation to enable the abdication of the country's 82-year-old emperor before discussing possible amendments to the Imperial House Law, according to government sources. (Pool photo)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's 82-year-old emperor indicates readiness to abdicate

File photo taken in January 2016 shows Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko offering flowers at a monument in honor of Japanese who died in the Philippines in World War II, in Caliraya, southeast of Manila. The emperor indicated his readiness to abdicate in a rare video message to the public on Aug. 8, voicing concern that he could one day become unable to fulfill his role as the symbol of the state because of his age. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's 82-year-old emperor indicates readiness to abdicate

Undated file photo shows Japanese Crown Princess Masako, who is recovering from a stress-induced illness. The 82-year-old emperor indicated on Aug. 8, 2016 in a rare video message to the public his readiness to abdicate, voicing concern over his advanced age and the emperor's role as a symbol of the state. Crown Prince Naruhito, her husband who turned 56 in February 2016, is expected to ascend to the Chrysanthemum throne if the emperor abdicates. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's 82-year-old emperor indicates readiness to abdicate

Japanese Emperor Akihito, seen in this undated photo, indicates his readiness to abdicate in a rare video message to the public on Aug. 8, 2016, voicing concern that he could one day become unable to fulfill his role as the symbol of the state because of his age. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's 82-year-old emperor indicates readiness to abdicate

Undated file photo shows Japanese Crown Prince Naruhito, who is expected to ascend to the Chrysanthemum throne if Emperor Akihito abdicates. The 82-year-old emperor indicated on Aug. 8, 2016 in a rare video message to the public his readiness to abdicate, voicing concern over his advanced age and the emperor's role as a symbol of the state. The crown prince turned 56 in February, a year older than the age at which his father was enthroned. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Contradictory rulings on ex-Taiwan, S. Korean leprosy patients

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Chen Shih-shih, an 82-year-old former Taiwanese leprosy patient, speaks at a press conference in Taipei on Oct. 25 after the Tokyo District Court upheld a lawsuit filed by 25 former Taiwanese leprosy patients seeking compensation from the Japanese government for segregation at a leprosarium in Taiwan during Japanese colonial rule. (Kyodo)

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Tokyo gubernatorial race

TOKYO, Japan - Former Miyazaki Gov. Hideo Higashikokubaru (L), 53, shakes hands with 82-year-old Yoshiro Nakamatsu, an inventor known as ''Dr. NakaMats,'' when they bump into each other while stumping in front of Shibuya train station in Tokyo on March 24, 2011, the first day of the official campaigning period for the April 10 election to choose the capital's governor. Higashikokubaru and Nakamatsu are among several high-profile candidates challenging 78-year-old incumbent Shintaro Ishihara. (Kyodo)

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Ishihara to quit politics if unsuccessful in lower house election

NAGANO, Japan - Shintaro Ishihara, supreme adviser of the opposition Party for Future Generations and former Tokyo governor, speaks in Nagano, central Japan, on Dec. 5, 2014. The 82-year-old Ishihara said he will retire from politics if he is unsuccessful in the Dec. 14 lower house election. (Kyodo)

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Residents of Yeonpyeong Island

YEONPYEONG ISLAND, South Korea - Lee Yu Song (R), a resident of South Korea's Yeonpyeong Island, chats with a friend at his home on Nov. 27, 2010. The 82-year-old Lee, who hails from an area now in North Korea, denounced the North's artillery attack on the island but insisted he will never leave. (Kyodo)

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Murder of 82-year-old woman on remote island in Japan

Investigators get on a ferry in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, on April 30, 2020, bound for Genkai Island after an 82-year-old woman was found dead with head and neck injuries at a school building on the island. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Murder of 82-year-old woman on remote island in Japan

Photo taken April 30, 2020, shows a school building on Genkai Island off Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, where an 82-year-old woman was found dead with head and neck injuries. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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82-year old Japanese app developer speaks at U.N.

Masako Wakamiya, an 82-year-old Japanese programmer known for creating the Hinadan app, a smartphone game based on Japan's traditional festival Hinamatsuri, or Doll's Day, meets the press after delivering a keynote speech at a U.N. meeting on digital technology in New York on Feb. 2, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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A-bomb survivors start global tour

Seiichiro Mise (L), an atomic-bomb survivor from Nagasaki, attends a press conference in Yokohama, near Tokyo, on April 12, 2017, before going on a cruise around the world to seek the termination of nuclear weapons. The 82-year-old Mise, together with other hibakusha and peace campaigners, will travel to 22 countries in Asia and Europe to share their experiences before returning home on July 25. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Panel likely to back one-off legislation for emperor's abdication

A Japanese government panel of experts agrees at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Dec. 14, 2016, not to set permanent conditions for an emperor to abdicate, a move that would support the government's plan for one-off legislation to enable 82-year-old Emperor Akihito to relinquish the throne. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Emperor hopes to see abdication system introduced, friend says

Image taken from a video shot Nov. 30, 2016, shows 82-year-old Mototsugu Akashi, an old friend of Japanese Emperor Akihito, giving an interview to Kyodo News. Akashi said the emperor hopes to see a system put in place enabling an emperor to abdicate, out of concern the imperial court may be split into factions in the event a regent is appointed. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan gov't panel mulls emperor's abdication with legal experts

A Japanese government advisory panel holds its third and final session on Nov. 30, 2016 in Tokyo to hear opinions from various experts on 82-year-old Emperor Akihito's possible abdication, this time solely from academics specializing in the Constitution. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo