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Mural featuring "One Piece" characters

Kumamoto Gov. Takashi Kimura (2nd from L), poses for photos with Kumamon, the official black bear mascot of the southwestern Japan prefecture, during a ceremony to unveil a mural featuring characters from the best-selling Japanese manga series "One Piece," at Kumamoto airport on Dec. 2, 2024. The mural was produced as part of a project to help Kumamoto, where the pirate manga's author Eiichiro Oda is from, recover from the April 2016 earthquakes.

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Mural featuring "One Piece" characters

Kumamon, the official black bear mascot of the southwestern Japan prefecture of Kumamoto, poses during a ceremony to unveil a mural featuring characters from the best-selling Japanese manga series "One Piece" at Kumamoto airport on Dec. 2, 2024. The mural was produced as part of a project to help Kumamoto, where the pirate manga's author Eiichiro Oda is from, recover from the April 2016 earthquakes.

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U.S. ambassador to Japan visits Ishigaki Island

Ishigaki,Okinama,May 17 Kyodo -U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel and Deputy Ishigaki Mayor Eiichiro Chinen visit a bay on Ishigaki Island in the southern Japan prefecture of Okinawa on May 17, 2024.(Kyodo)

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U.S. ambassador to Japan visits Ishigaki Island

U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel (front, L) and Deputy Ishigaki Mayor Eiichiro Chinen (front, R) visit a bay on Ishigaki Island in the southern Japan prefecture of Okinawa on May 17, 2024.

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JSDA head to accept request to serve 2nd term

TOKYO, Japan - Eiichiro Okumoto (in file photo), chairman of the Japan Securities Dealers Association (JSDA), said April 17 he will serve a second term after top managers of major brokerages rejected JSDA requests to assume the post. Okumoto is also an adviser to the Daiwa Institute of Research (DIR), a research arm of Daiwa Securities Co.

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Nagashima takes up post as Olympic team developer

SAPPORO, Japan - Baseball Federation of Japan (BFJ) president Eiichiro Yamamoto said April 15 his organization has named former Yomiuri Giants manager Shigeo Nagashima (file photo) as head of player development for the Japanese national team. The BFJ will announce the appointment April 22, when the 66-year-old will attend a meeting of amateur and professional officials on the formation of the national team in the lead-up to the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens.

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Wall panel featuring "One Piece" characters

Kumamoto Gov. Ikuo Kabashima (R), accompanied by the southwestern Japan prefecture's official black bear mascot Kumamon, speaks on Dec. 4, 2021, during a ceremony to unveil a wall panel featuring characters from the best-selling Japanese manga series "One Piece," set up at Kumamoto airport. The panel was produced as part of a project to help Kumamoto, the hometown of the pirate manga's author Eiichiro Oda, recover from the April 2016 earthquakes.

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Wall panel featuring "One Piece" characters

Kumamoto Gov. Ikuo Kabashima (L) poses with the southwestern Japan prefecture's official black bear mascot Kumamon on Dec. 4, 2021, during a ceremony to unveil a wall panel featuring characters from the best-selling Japanese manga series "One Piece," set up at Kumamoto airport. The panel was produced as part of a project to help Kumamoto, the hometown of the pirate manga's author Eiichiro Oda, recover from the April 2016 earthquakes.

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Nagashima takes up post as Olympic team developer

SAPPORO, Japan - Baseball Federation of Japan (BFJ) president Eiichiro Yamamoto said April 15 his organization has named former Yomiuri Giants manager Shigeo Nagashima (file photo) as head of player development for the Japanese national team. The BFJ will announce the appointment April 22, when the 66-year-old will attend a meeting of amateur and professional officials on the formation of the national team in the lead-up to the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens.

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JSDA head to accept request to serve 2nd term

TOKYO, Japan - Eiichiro Okumoto (in file photo), chairman of the Japan Securities Dealers Association (JSDA), said April 17 he will serve a second term after top managers of major brokerages rejected JSDA requests to assume the post. Okumoto is also an adviser to the Daiwa Institute of Research (DIR), a research arm of Daiwa Securities Co.

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Manga "One Piece" sets Guinness record for no. of published copies

Yoshihisa Heishi (4th from L), editor in chief of the Weekly Shonen Jump comic magazine, poses for photos with characters from the popular Japanese manga series "One Piece" in Tokyo on June 15, 2015, after the series was officially recognized by Guinness World Records the same day as the comic series by a cartoonist with the largest number of copies published to date. Shueisha Inc. had published roughly 320,866,000 copies of Eiichiro Oda's cartoon in 77 volumes by the end of 2014. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hiroshima, Nagasaki urge Japan to sign, ratify U.N. nuke ban treaty

Eiichiro Washio (R), senior vice foreign minister of Japan, receives a letter in Tokyo on Nov. 20, 2020, from Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue (C) and Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui urging the government to sign and ratify a U.N treaty banning nuclear weapons set to enter into force in January 2021.

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Hiroshima, Nagasaki urge Japan to sign, ratify U.N. nuke ban treaty

Eiichiro Washio (R), senior vice foreign minister of Japan, receives a letter in Tokyo on Nov. 20, 2020, from Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui (C) and Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue urging the government to sign and ratify a U.N treaty banning nuclear weapons set to enter into force in January 2021.

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Statue of "One Piece" character in earthquake-hit Kumamoto town

A statue of Sanji, a character from the best-selling Japanese manga series "One Piece," is unveiled on Dec. 7, 2019, in the southwestern Japan town of Mashiki, which was hit hard by an earthquake in Kumamoto Prefecture in 2016. Eiichiro Oda, author of the pirate manga, is from Kumamoto. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Statue of "One Piece" character in earthquake-hit Kumamoto town

A statue of Sanji, a character from the best-selling Japanese manga series "One Piece," is unveiled on Dec. 7, 2019, in the southwestern Japan town of Mashiki, which was hit hard by an earthquake in Kumamoto Prefecture in 2016. Eiichiro Oda, author of the pirate manga, is from Kumamoto. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan asks U.N. disarmament forum to take up N. Korea abduction issue

Minoru Kiuchi (C), chairman of Japan's House of Representatives special committee on North Korean abductions, Yasuhide Nakayama (R) of the Liberal Democratic Party and Eiichiro Washio of the Democratic Party attend a press conference in Geneva on Aug. 30, 2017. The three lawmakers requested that the U.N. Conference on Disarmament also take up the issue of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea in the 1970s and 1980s as the forum works to address Pyongyang's nuclear and missile programs. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo