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Exterior, logo, and signage of APA Hotel & Resort Niigata Ekimae Odori

Exterior, logo, and signage of APA Hotel & Resort Niigata Ekimae Odori

Exterior, logo, and signage of APA Hotel & Resort Niigata Ekimae Odori=May 19,2026,Niigata

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APA Hotel signboard and logo

APA Hotel signboard and logo

APA Hotel signboard and logo=May 19,2026,Niigata

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APA Hotel signboard and logo

APA Hotel signboard and logo

APA Hotel signboard and logo=May 19,2026,Niigata

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Vietnam: Typhoon Kalmaegi Brings Damaging Winds and Heavy Rain to Central Region

Typhoon Kalmaegi made landfall in central Vietnam, bringing strong winds and heavy rain to regions already hit by recent floods. At least one person has died, several are missing, and homes and power lines were damaged. Flooding occurred in Dak Lak and thousands were evacuated as authorities remain on high alert for further floods and landslides.

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Vietnam: Typhoon Kalmaegi Brings Damaging Winds and Heavy Rain to Central Region 2

Typhoon Kalmaegi made landfall in central Vietnam, bringing strong winds and heavy rain to regions already hit by recent floods. At least one person has died, several are missing, and homes and power lines were damaged. Flooding occurred in Dak Lak and thousands were evacuated as authorities remain on high alert for further floods and landslides.

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ASDF chief justifies Japan's wartime aggression in China

ASDF chief justifies Japan's wartime aggression in China

TOKYO, Japan - Air Self-Defense Force Chief of Staff Gen. Toshio Tamogami (file photo) justifies Japan's military aggression in China before and during World War II in an essay released on Oct. 31, saying it is ''false'' to accuse Japan of having been an aggressor nation. The essay was made public by hotel and condominium developer Apa Group, which announced Tamogami had won the grand prix prize in a competition organized by it.

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2 Kyoto hotels banned from taking customers over quake weakness

2 Kyoto hotels banned from taking customers over quake weakness

TOKYO, Japan - Fumiko Motoya (L), president of Apa Hotel, and her husband Toshio Motoya, who heads the Apa Group, hold a news conference in Tokyo on Jan. 25 after the Kyoto city government banned two Apa hotels in Kyoto from accepting customers due to their vulnerability to earthquakes.

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2 Kyoto hotels banned from taking customers over quake weakness

2 Kyoto hotels banned from taking customers over quake weakness

KYOTO, Japan - The 11-story, 515-room Apa Hotel Kyoto-Eki-Horikawadori, one of two Kyoto hotels banned by the Kyoto city government on Jan. 25 from taking customers due to their vulnerability to earthquakes. The other hotel is the 10-story, 139-room Apa Villa Hotel Kyoto-Ekimae, which opened in 2004. Apa Hotel Kyoto-Eki-Horikawadori opened in 2005. The city government said construction of the two facilities was based on quakeproof data fabricated by Tamura Mizuochi Sekkei, a building planning firm based in Toyama.

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APA Hotel Logo

APA Hotel Logo

The APA Group was approached by the government and informed of its intention to accept asymptomatic and mildly ill people with the new coronavirus at its hotels. April 8, 2020, Kanda Ogawamachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

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APA Hotel Logo

APA Hotel Logo

The APA Group was approached by the government and informed of its intention to accept asymptomatic and mildly ill people with the new coronavirus at its hotels. April 8, 2020, Kanda Ogawamachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

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APA Hotel Logo

APA Hotel Logo

The APA Group was approached by the government and informed of its intention to accept asymptomatic and mildly ill people with the new coronavirus at its hotels. April 8, 2020, Kanda Ogawamachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

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APA Hotel Logo

APA Hotel Logo

The APA Group was approached by the government and informed of its intention to accept asymptomatic and mildly ill people with the new coronavirus at its hotels. April 8, 2020, Kanda Ogawamachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

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2 Kyoto hotels banned from taking customers over quake weakness

2 Kyoto hotels banned from taking customers over quake weakness

KYOTO, Japan - The 11-story, 515-room Apa Hotel Kyoto-Eki-Horikawadori, one of two Kyoto hotels banned by the Kyoto city government on Jan. 25 from taking customers due to their vulnerability to earthquakes. The other hotel is the 10-story, 139-room Apa Villa Hotel Kyoto-Ekimae, which opened in 2004. Apa Hotel Kyoto-Eki-Horikawadori opened in 2005. The city government said construction of the two facilities was based on quakeproof data fabricated by Tamura Mizuochi Sekkei, a building planning firm based in Toyama. (Kyodo)

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ASDF chief justifies Japan's wartime aggression in China

ASDF chief justifies Japan's wartime aggression in China

TOKYO, Japan - Air Self-Defense Force Chief of Staff Gen. Toshio Tamogami (file photo) justifies Japan's military aggression in China before and during World War II in an essay released on Oct. 31, saying it is ''false'' to accuse Japan of having been an aggressor nation. The essay was made public by hotel and condominium developer Apa Group, which announced Tamogami had won the grand prix prize in a competition organized by it. (Kyodo)

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APA Group holds grand opening of 1st hotel abroad in U.S.

APA Group holds grand opening of 1st hotel abroad in U.S.

Photo taken June 20, 2016, in Iselin, New Jersey, shows a grand opening of APA Hotel Woodbridge, the first property in Japanese hotel chain APA Group's planned overseas expansion. Open to guests since last November, the hotel is undergoing a series of renovations through the spring of 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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APA Group opens 1st hotel abroad in New Jersey

APA Group opens 1st hotel abroad in New Jersey

Executives of Japanese real estate and hotel concern APA Group, led by its president Toshio Motoya (C), pose for a photo at a press conference in New York on Nov. 12, 2015. The group said it will open an APA hotel in New Jersey the following day, its first outside Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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2 Kyoto hotels banned from taking customers over quake weakness

2 Kyoto hotels banned from taking customers over quake weakness

TOKYO, Japan - Fumiko Motoya (L), president of Apa Hotel, and her husband Toshio Motoya, who heads the Apa Group, hold a news conference in Tokyo on Jan. 25 after the Kyoto city government banned two Apa hotels in Kyoto from accepting customers due to their vulnerability to earthquakes. (Kyodo)

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New coronavirus

New coronavirus

Photo taken in Fukushima, northeastern Japan, on April 23, 2020, shows a room of a hotel operated by APA Hotels & Resorts, earmarked to accommodate coronavirus patients with mild symptoms. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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New coronavirus

New coronavirus

Photo taken in front of JR Fukushima Station in northeastern Japan on April 23, 2020, shows a hotel operated by APA Hotels & Resorts, earmarked to accommodate coronavirus patients with mild symptoms. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Protest staged in Tokyo against controversy-linked hotel chain

Protest staged in Tokyo against controversy-linked hotel chain

About 100 people, many of them Chinese, stage a protest in Tokyo on Feb. 5, 2017, against the APA hotel chain, which has placed in its guest rooms a controversial history book asserting that the 1937 Nanjing Massacre, which China says resulted in the deaths of more than 300,000 people, was fabricated. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Protest staged in Tokyo against controversy-linked hotel chain

Protest staged in Tokyo against controversy-linked hotel chain

About 100 people, many of them Chinese, stage a protest in Tokyo on Feb. 5, 2017, against the APA hotel chain, which has placed in its guest rooms a controversial history book asserting that the 1937 Nanjing Massacre, which China says resulted in the deaths of more than 300,000 people, was fabricated. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Chinese athletes to not stay at Nanjing-denial book distributing hotel

Chinese athletes to not stay at Nanjing-denial book distributing hotel

Photo taken Jan. 31, 2017, shows an APA hotel in Sapporo. Chinese athletes are considering not residing at the hotel during their stay for the Feb. 19-26 Asian Winter Games in Sapporo due to the hotel placing a book denying the 1937 Nanjing Massacre in each room. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's tourism industry braces for fallout from Nanjing denial book

Japan's tourism industry braces for fallout from Nanjing denial book

Photo taken Jan. 26, 2017, in Tokyo shows a book denying the 1937 Nanjing Massacre written in Japanese and English under a pen name by Toshio Motoya, chief executive of the major Japanese hotel chain operator APA Group. A furor over the hotel chain's decision to place the book in its rooms is rattling Japan's tourism industry as the money-making Lunar New Year holidays get under way. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's tourism industry braces for fallout from Nanjing denial book

Japan's tourism industry braces for fallout from Nanjing denial book

Photo taken in December 2008 shows Toshio Motoya, chief executive of the major Japanese hotel chain operator APA Group, who wrote a book denying the 1937 Nanjing Massacre. A furor over the hotel chain's decision to place his book in its rooms is rattling Japan's tourism industry as the money-making Lunar New Year holidays get under way. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's tourism industry braces for fallout from Nanjing denial book

Japan's tourism industry braces for fallout from Nanjing denial book

File photo taken in November 2015 shows Toshio Motoya (R), chief executive of the major Japanese hotel chain operator APA Group, and his wife Fumiko, the head of the group's hotel business. A furor over the hotel chain's decision to place a book denying the 1937 Nanjing Massacre, written by the husband, in its rooms is rattling Japan's tourism industry as the money-making Lunar New Year holidays get under way. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's tourism industry braces for fallout from Nanjing denial book

Japan's tourism industry braces for fallout from Nanjing denial book

Photo taken Jan. 26, 2017, in a room of a hotel in Tokyo's Shinjuku district operated by APA Group shows a book denying the 1937 Nanjing Massacre written in Japanese and English under a pen name by Toshio Motoya, chief executive of the major Japanese hotel chain operator. A furor over the hotel chain's decision to place the book in its rooms is rattling Japan's tourism industry as the money-making Lunar New Year holidays get under way. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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