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Japanese environment minister at COP29

Japanese Environment Minister Keiichiro Asao speaks to reporters in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Nov. 18, 2024, as a ministerial-level meeting opens the same day at the 29th Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, dubbed COP29.

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CORRECTED: Lineup of Japan PM Ishiba's Cabinet

Keiichiro Asao, who is set to become environment minister in the Cabinet of new Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, arrives at the premier's office in Tokyo on Oct. 1, 2024, before his attestation in a ceremony at the Imperial Palace.

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Japan: Blue Impulse Flies Over Kawasaki To Celebrate City’s 100th Anniversary

Blue Impulse, the aerobatic demonstration team of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF), flew over Kawasaki in Kanagawa Prefecture on Saturday, June 29, to celebrate the city's 100th anniversary.

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Opposition Your Party to disband amid internal strife

TOKYO, Japan - Keiichiro Asao, leader of the minor opposition Your Party, answers reporters' questions in Tokyo on Nov. 19, 2014, after a decision to disband on Nov. 28 was finalized by majority vote at a meeting of the party's Diet members. There has been internal strife in the party over whether to align with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic Party or the leading opposition Democratic Party of Japan.

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Your Party leader

TOKYO, Japan - Keiichiro Asao, the new leader of the minor opposition Your Party, gives a speech at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on April 21, 2014.

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Your Party picks Asao as new leader

TOKYO, Japan - Keiichiro Asao speaks in Tokyo after being chosen as the new leader of the minor opposition Your Party on April 11, 2014.

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Your Party picks Asao as new leader

TOKYO, Japan -Keiichiro Asao speaks in Tokyo after being chosen as the new leader of the minor opposition Your Party on April 11, 2014.

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Your Party splits up

TOKYO, Japan - Kenji Eda (front) and more than a dozen other lawmakers head to submit letters of resignation from Your Party to the party's secretary general, Keiichiro Asao, at the Diet building in Tokyo on Dec. 9, 2013.

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Chunichi pitcher Asao slides into home

NAGOYA, Japan - Chinichi Dragons pitcher Takuya Asao slides home to score from first base in the third inning of a game against the Hiroshima Carp at Nagoya Dome in Nagoya on May 6. The Dragons won 4-2.

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Asao changing landscape for women's beach volleyball in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Popular beach volleyball player Miwa Asao is active as a model and television personality when she is away from the beach.

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Asao changing landscape for women's beach volleyball in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Popular beach volleyball player Miwa Asao (R) and her teammate Takemi Nishibori strikes a pose at a news conference before the start of domestic competitions in Tokyo. .

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Ex-Defense Agency chief Mihara dies at 91

FUKUOKA, Japan - Former Defense Agency Director General Asao Mihara (file photo) died March 7 of multiple organ failure at a Fukuoka Prefecture hospital. He was 91. The former lawmaker of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party also held the posts of education minister and Okinawa Development Agency director general before retiring from politics in 1986.

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Chunichi pitcher Asao slides into home

NAGOYA, Japan - Chinichi Dragons pitcher Takuya Asao slides home to score from first base in the third inning of a game against the Hiroshima Carp at Nagoya Dome in Nagoya on May 6. The Dragons won 4-2. (Kyodo)

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Tokyo promoting new logo for 2020 Olympics

Officials of the Tokyo metropolitan government put up a poster of the new logo for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics on the wall at the government building in Tokyo on April 27, 2016. The navy-colored checkered design by Tokyo-based artist Asao Tokolo was selected by 2020 organizers two days earlier. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Olympics: Tokyo picks navy checkered design as official logo

Tokyo-based artist Asao Tokolo (C) poses for photos with his navy-colored checkered designs selected as the official logos of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics during a press conference in Tokyo on April 25, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Checkered logos to represent 2020 Tokyo Olympics/Paralympics

The organizing committee for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics unveils April 25, 2016, the logos for the Games, designed by Asao Tokolo, during a press event in the Japanese capital. The committee earlier selected logos in July 2015 but scrapped them amid plagiarism accusations. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Animation production studio to be set up in Fukushima town

Yoshinori Suzuki (2nd from L), mayor of Miharu, Fukushima Prefecture, and Yoshinori Asao (R), president of Gainax Co., join others in showing a letter of agreement on Jan. 19, 2015, to establish the animation production studio's outpost in the northeastern Japan town. Gainax, based in Tokyo, is known for popular TV animation works such as "Neon Genesis Evangelion." (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tokyo Olympic torch relay

Former pro beach volleyball player Miwa Asao runs in the Tokyo Olympic torch relay in Matsusaka in Mie Prefecture, central Japan, on April 8, 2021.

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Tokyo Olympic torch relay

Former pro beach volleyball player Miwa Asao runs in the Tokyo Olympic torch relay in Matsusaka in Mie Prefecture, central Japan, on April 8, 2021. (Pool photo)

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Tokyo Olympic torch relay

Former pro beach volleyball player Miwa Asao runs in the Tokyo Olympic torch relay in Matsusaka in Mie Prefecture, central Japan, on April 8, 2021. (Pool photo)

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Olympics: Tokyo picks navy checkered design as official logo

Tokyo-based artist Asao Tokolo speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on April 25, 2016, after his navy-colored checkered logo designs were selected for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fukushima Gainax to produce PR anime for Date City

Date Mayor Shoji Nishida (C) and Yoshinori Asao (2nd from R), president of Fukushima Gainax, join hands in Date, Fukushima Prefecture, on Nov. 19, 2015, at a press conference to announce that the firm will produce an animation to promote tourism in the northeastern Japanese city. The film will trace the life of warlord Date Masamune (1567-1636), the 17th head of the Date clan that has its roots in the area. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Opposition Your Party to disband amid internal strife

TOKYO, Japan - Keiichiro Asao, leader of the minor opposition Your Party, answers reporters' questions in Tokyo on Nov. 19, 2014, after a decision to disband on Nov. 28 was finalized by majority vote at a meeting of the party's Diet members. There has been internal strife in the party over whether to align with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic Party or the leading opposition Democratic Party of Japan. (Kyodo)