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Princess Kako at manga artist's museum near Tokyo

Princess Kako at manga artist's museum near Tokyo

Japanese Princess Kako (L) visits a museum for the famous late manga artist Fujiko F. Fujio in Kawasaki near Tokyo on Nov. 1, 2024.

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Princess Kako at manga artist's museum near Tokyo

Princess Kako at manga artist's museum near Tokyo

Japanese Princess Kako visits a museum for the famous late manga artist Fujiko F. Fujio in Kawasaki near Tokyo on Nov. 1, 2024.

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Princess Kako at manga artist's museum near Tokyo

Princess Kako at manga artist's museum near Tokyo

Japanese Princess Kako visits a museum for the famous late manga artist Fujiko F. Fujio in Kawasaki near Tokyo on Nov. 1, 2024.

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Pianist Fujiko Hemming dies at 92

Pianist Fujiko Hemming dies at 92

File photo taken in April 2018 shows pianist Ingrid Fujiko Hemming. She died at age 92 on April 21, 2024, her foundation said on May 2.

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Pianist Fujiko Hemming dies at 92

Pianist Fujiko Hemming dies at 92

File photo taken in Tokyo in April 2018 shows pianist Ingrid Fujiko Hemming. She died at age 92 on April 21, 2024, her foundation said on May 2.

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Pianist Fujiko Hemming dies at 92

Pianist Fujiko Hemming dies at 92

File photo shows pianist Ingrid Fujiko Hemming giving an interview in Tokyo in December 2014. She died at age 92 on April 21, 2024, her foundation said on May 2.

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TV series Doraemon to be broadcast in U.S.

TV series Doraemon to be broadcast in U.S.

LOS ANGELES, United States - Yoshihiko Shinoda, an executive at Fujiko Pro Co., poses with a Doraemon character at a promotional event near Los Angeles on June 20, 2014. A total of 26 episodes of children's anime TV series Doraemon will be broadcast by Disney XD, a digital cable and satellite television channel, in the United States from July 7.

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Popular comic doll helps boost business in Toyama Pref.

Popular comic doll helps boost business in Toyama Pref.

TOYAMA, Japan - Children have their picture taken on a shopping street in Himi, Toyama Prefecture, central Japan, on Aug. 12, 2014, together with a doll character that appears in the popular "Ninja Hattori-kun" (Little Ninja Hattori) comic series. The city, where its author Fujiko Fujio was born, is trying to boost the number of tourists as a new "Shinkansen" bullet train line is set to open next spring.

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Snapshots with Doraemon figures outside Hakata station

Snapshots with Doraemon figures outside Hakata station

FUKUOKA, Japan - Children have their pictures taken with figures of the popular manga and anime series character Doraemon in front of JR Hakata Station in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, on May 4, 2014. Twenty figures of Doraemon were placed there to promote an exhibition on cartoonist Fujiko F Fujio in the city.

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Doraemon birthday

Doraemon birthday

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Photo taken in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Sept. 3, 2012, shows a "special resident certificate" for comic and animation character Doraemon (L) that was issued by the Kawasaki city government. In the comics, created by cartoonist and Kawasaki resident Fujiko F Fujio, Doraemon is said to have been born on Sept. 3, 2112.

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Doraemon train

Doraemon train

TOYAMA, Japan - A train featuring comic and animation character Doraemon is shown to reporters in Takaoka, Toyama Prefecture, on Sept. 4, 2012. The train will be operated from Sept. 8, 2012, to Aug. 31, 2013, in the hometown of the comics' creator, Fujiko F Fujio. The train will be run in a project to commemorate Doraemon's birthday, which the comics say is Sept. 3, 2112.

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Doraemon birthday

Doraemon birthday

KAWASAKI, Japan - Kawasaki Mayor Takao Abe (front R) and Zensho Ito (front L), director of Fujiko F Fujio Museum in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, hold a "special resident certificate" for comic and animation character Doraemon (C) issued by the Kawasaki city government on Sept. 3, 2012. In the comics created by cartoonist Fujiko F Fujio, who was a Kawasaki resident, Doraemon is said to have been born on Sept. 3, 2112.

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Doraemon birthday

Doraemon birthday

KAWASAKI, Japan - Kawasaki Mayor Takao Abe (front R) and Zensho Ito (front L), director of Fujiko F Fujio Museum in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, hold a "special resident certificate" for comic and animation character Doraemon (C) issued by the Kawasaki city government on Sept. 3, 2012. In the comics created by cartoonist Fujiko F Fujio, who was a Kawasaki resident, Doraemon is said to have been born on Sept. 3, 2112.

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Director of Doraemon museum

Director of Doraemon museum

TOKYO, Japan - Zensho Ito, director of the Fujiko F Fujio Museum, dedicated to the legacy of the creator of the "Doraemon" cartoon series, speaks at the museum in the city of Kawasaki, southwest of Tokyo, in June 2012.

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Happy birthday Gian

Happy birthday Gian

KAWASAKI, Japan - A ''birthday party'' is held for Gian, a bully character in the comic and animation series Doraemon, at Fujiko F. Fujio Museum in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, on May 31, 2012.

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Museum for Doraemon cartoonist opens in Kawasaki

Museum for Doraemon cartoonist opens in Kawasaki

KAWASAKI, Japan - Visitors play in an open space created on the rooftop of the Fujiko F. Fujio Museum in Kawasaki, south of Tokyo, on Sept. 3, 2011, the opening day of the museum. The museum is dedicated to the creator of the popular ''Doraemon'' cartoon series.

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Museum for Doraemon cartoonist opens in Kawasaki

Museum for Doraemon cartoonist opens in Kawasaki

KAWASAKI, Japan - People line up to enter the Fujiko F. Fujio Museum in Kawasaki, south of Tokyo, on Sept. 3, 2011, the opening day of the museum. The museum is dedicated to the creator of the popular ''Doraemon'' cartoon series.

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Doraemon cartoonist's museum

Doraemon cartoonist's museum

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on Aug. 22, 2011, shows the reproduced atelier of late Fujiko F. Fujio, the creator of the ''Doraemon'' cartoon series, at Fujiko F. Fujio Museum in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture. The three-story museum, featuring around 50,000 of his original drawings, is scheduled to open to the general public on Sept. 3.

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Museum for Doraemon cartoonist in Kawasaki

Museum for Doraemon cartoonist in Kawasaki

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows the inside of Fujiko F. Fujio Museum, dedicated to the legacy of the creator of the ''Doraemon'' cartoon series, in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Aug. 22, 2011. The three-story museum, featuring around 50,000 of Fujiko F. Fujio's original drawings, is scheduled to open to the general public on Sept. 3.

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Doraemon train in Tokyo

Doraemon train in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Odakyu Electric Railway Co.'s ''F-Train'' arrives at Shinjuku Station in Tokyo on its test run for the media on Aug. 2, 2011. The colorful 10-car train, decorated on the outside with popular characters created by cartoonist Fujiko F Fujio such as Doraemon and Perman, and with posters of his works displayed inside, is scheduled to enter service the following day.

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Doraemon train in Tokyo

Doraemon train in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Workers of Odakyu Electric Railway Co. greet the Doraemon character at an open door of ''F-Train'' at Shinjuku Station in Tokyo on Aug. 2, 2011. The colorful 10-car train, decorated on the outside with popular characters created by cartoonist Fujiko F Fujio such as Doraemon and Perman, and with posters of his works displayed inside, was shown to reporters that day and scheduled to enter service the following day.

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Doraemon train in Tokyo

Doraemon train in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Doraemon, a character created by cartoonist Fujiko F Fujio, poses for reporters near ''F-Train'' of the Odakyu Electric Railway Co. at Shinjuku Station in Tokyo on Aug. 2, 2011. The colorful 10-car train, decorated on the outside with popular characters created by Fujiko such as Doraemon and Perman, and with posters of his works displayed inside, is scheduled to enter service the following day.

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Countdown to Doraemon museum

Countdown to Doraemon museum

KAWASAKI, Japan - A countdown signboard is set up at a railway station in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Sept. 3, 2010. The signboard installed on a monument featuring Doraemon's ''Wherever Door'' marks one year to the opening of the Fujiko F. Fujio Museum.

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Doraemon cartoonist museum groundbreaking ceremony

Doraemon cartoonist museum groundbreaking ceremony

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Masako Fujimoto, the widow of ''manga'' cartoon artist Fujiko F. Fujio who created the feline robot series ''Doraemon,'' participates in a groundbreaking ceremony for a museum dedicated to the cartoonist in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, on April 12, 2010. The three-story museum is scheduled to open in September 2011.

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'Doraemon' author's museum to feature 50,000 original drawings

'Doraemon' author's museum to feature 50,000 original drawings

TOKYO, Japan - Masako Fujimoto (2nd from L), the widow of Fujiko F. Fujio who created ''Doraemon,'' poses for photographs during a press conference at a hotel in Tokyo on March 29, 2010, at which the outlines of a museum dedicated to the cartoonist were unveiled. The Fujiko F. Fujio Museum is scheduled to open on Sept. 3, 2011, in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, the city where he spent more than three decades until his death in 1996.

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50th anniversary of 2 manga weeklies for boys celebrated

50th anniversary of 2 manga weeklies for boys celebrated

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Cartoonists Takao Saito, Fujio Fujiko, Tetsuya Chiba and others gather at a party in Tokyo on March 17 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Japan's two pioneer manga weeklies for boys, Shonen Magazine and Shonen Sunday, published by Kodansha Ltd. and Shogakukan Inc. respectively.

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Popular Japanese cartoonist Fujiko A. Fujio dies at 88

Popular Japanese cartoonist Fujiko A. Fujio dies at 88

Photo taken on April 7, 2022, shows a manga museum in Tokyo that houses recreated rooms of a demolished Tokiwaso apartment building that was home to legendary Japanese cartoonists such as Osamu Tezuka and Shotaro Ishinomori during the 1950s and 1960s. Fujiko A. Fujio, who also resided there, has died at his home in Kawasaki, near Tokyo, at 88, police said April 7.

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Late movie director Ozu's monument unveiled in ceremony

Late movie director Ozu's monument unveiled in ceremony

Actress Fujiko Yamamoto (far R) and other people concerned attend an unveiling ceremony for a monument dedicated to the late famed movie director Yasujiro Ozu in Tsu, Mie Prefecture, western Japan, on March 24, 2015. Ozu frequented Tsu in his boyhood days. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Advocacy center for child abuse victims

Advocacy center for child abuse victims

Fujiko Yamada, head of NPO Child Maltreatment Prevention Network, explains about a facility for abused children that opened in Isehara, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Feb. 7, 2015. It will eliminate repeated interviews of children, as investigators can watch a monitor while a victim is interviewed by an expert at the center. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Countdown to Doraemon museum

Countdown to Doraemon museum

KAWASAKI, Japan - A countdown signboard is set up at a railway station in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Sept. 3, 2010. The signboard installed on a monument featuring Doraemon's ''Wherever Door'' marks one year to the opening of the Fujiko F. Fujio Museum. (Kyodo)

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'Doraemon' author's museum to feature 50,000 original drawings

'Doraemon' author's museum to feature 50,000 original drawings

TOKYO, Japan - Masako Fujimoto (2nd from L), the widow of Fujiko F. Fujio who created ''Doraemon,'' poses for photographs during a press conference at a hotel in Tokyo on March 29, 2010, at which the outlines of a museum dedicated to the cartoonist were unveiled. The Fujiko F. Fujio Museum is scheduled to open on Sept. 3, 2011, in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, the city where he spent more than three decades until his death in 1996. (Kyodo)

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50th anniversary of 2 manga weeklies for boys celebrated

50th anniversary of 2 manga weeklies for boys celebrated

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Cartoonists Takao Saito, Fujio Fujiko, Tetsuya Chiba and others gather at a party in Tokyo on March 17 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Japan's two pioneer manga weeklies for boys, Shonen Magazine and Shonen Sunday, published by Kodansha Ltd. and Shogakukan Inc. respectively. (Kyodo)

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Doraemon cartoonist museum groundbreaking ceremony

Doraemon cartoonist museum groundbreaking ceremony

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Masako Fujimoto, the widow of ''manga'' cartoon artist Fujiko F. Fujio who created the feline robot series ''Doraemon,'' participates in a groundbreaking ceremony for a museum dedicated to the cartoonist in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, on April 12, 2010. The three-story museum is scheduled to open in September 2011. (Kyodo)

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Woman rescued

Woman rescued

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Fujiko Chiba (C) is guided by rescue workers in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 15, 2011, after being rescued from a location where she had been isolated since the March 11 killer quake and tsunami that struck northeastern Japan. (Kyodo)

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Museum for Doraemon cartoonist opens in Kawasaki

Museum for Doraemon cartoonist opens in Kawasaki

KAWASAKI, Japan - People line up to enter the Fujiko F. Fujio Museum in Kawasaki, south of Tokyo, on Sept. 3, 2011, the opening day of the museum. The museum is dedicated to the creator of the popular ''Doraemon'' cartoon series. (Kyodo)

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Museum for Doraemon cartoonist opens in Kawasaki

Museum for Doraemon cartoonist opens in Kawasaki

KAWASAKI, Japan - Visitors play in an open space created on the rooftop of the Fujiko F. Fujio Museum in Kawasaki, south of Tokyo, on Sept. 3, 2011, the opening day of the museum. The museum is dedicated to the creator of the popular ''Doraemon'' cartoon series. (Kyodo)

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Museum for Doraemon cartoonist in Kawasaki

Museum for Doraemon cartoonist in Kawasaki

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows the inside of Fujiko F. Fujio Museum, dedicated to the legacy of the creator of the ''Doraemon'' cartoon series, in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Aug. 22, 2011. The three-story museum, featuring around 50,000 of Fujiko F. Fujio's original drawings, is scheduled to open to the general public on Sept. 3. (Kyodo)

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Doraemon cartoonist's museum

Doraemon cartoonist's museum

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on Aug. 22, 2011, shows the reproduced atelier of late Fujiko F. Fujio, the creator of the ''Doraemon'' cartoon series, at Fujiko F. Fujio Museum in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture. The three-story museum, featuring around 50,000 of his original drawings, is scheduled to open to the general public on Sept. 3. (Kyodo)

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Doraemon train in Tokyo

Doraemon train in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Odakyu Electric Railway Co.'s ''F-Train'' arrives at Shinjuku Station in Tokyo on its test run for the media on Aug. 2, 2011. The colorful 10-car train, decorated on the outside with popular characters created by cartoonist Fujiko F Fujio such as Doraemon and Perman, and with posters of his works displayed inside, is scheduled to enter service the following day. (Kyodo)

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Doraemon train in Tokyo

Doraemon train in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Workers of Odakyu Electric Railway Co. greet the Doraemon character at an open door of ''F-Train'' at Shinjuku Station in Tokyo on Aug. 2, 2011. The colorful 10-car train, decorated on the outside with popular characters created by cartoonist Fujiko F Fujio such as Doraemon and Perman, and with posters of his works displayed inside, was shown to reporters that day and scheduled to enter service the following day. (Kyodo)

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Doraemon train in Tokyo

Doraemon train in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Doraemon, a character created by cartoonist Fujiko F Fujio, poses for reporters near ''F-Train'' of the Odakyu Electric Railway Co. at Shinjuku Station in Tokyo on Aug. 2, 2011. The colorful 10-car train, decorated on the outside with popular characters created by Fujiko such as Doraemon and Perman, and with posters of his works displayed inside, is scheduled to enter service the following day. (Kyodo)

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Popular comic doll helps boost business in Toyama Pref.

Popular comic doll helps boost business in Toyama Pref.

TOYAMA, Japan - Children have their picture taken on a shopping street in Himi, Toyama Prefecture, central Japan, on Aug. 12, 2014, together with a doll character that appears in the popular "Ninja Hattori-kun" (Little Ninja Hattori) comic series. The city, where its author Fujiko Fujio was born, is trying to boost the number of tourists as a new "Shinkansen" bullet train line is set to open next spring. (Kyodo)

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FUJIKO TACHIZAKI, JESSICA JISLOVA

FUJIKO TACHIZAKI, JESSICA JISLOVA

From left FUJIKO TACHIZAKI of Japan and Czech JESSICA JISLOVA during the mixed relay at the Biathlon World Cup in Nove Mesto na Morave, Czech Republic, March 14, 2021. (CTK Photo/Lubos Pavlicek)

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Fujiko F. Fujio Museum in Japan's Kawasaki

Fujiko F. Fujio Museum in Japan's Kawasaki

Children play on the rooftop of the Fujiko F. Fujio Museum in the suburbs of Kawasaki near Tokyo on its opening day Sept. 3, 2011. Fujiko F. Fujio is known as the creator of the popular "Doraemon" manga series about a robotic cat from the 22nd century who travels back in time to help a boy named Nobita Nobi. The museum has on its rooftop a replica of the "open ground" that often appears in the manga series as a place for Doraemon characters to gather. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fujiko F. Fujio Museum in Japan's Kawasaki

Fujiko F. Fujio Museum in Japan's Kawasaki

The Fujiko F. Fujio Museum opens in the suburbs of Kawasaki near Tokyo on Sept. 3, 2011. Fujiko F. Fujio is the creator of many popular manga series, including "Doraemon," a robotic cat from the 22nd century who travels back in time to help a boy named Nobita Nobi. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese actress Fujiko Yamamoto

Japanese actress Fujiko Yamamoto

File photo taken on July 11, 1960, shows Japanese actress Fujiko Yamamoto. Yamamoto won the first Miss Nippon Contest in 1950 before making her film debut in 1953. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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