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US: EF-1 Tornado Touches Down In Athens, AL, Leaving Devastating Damage

The National Weather Service in Huntsville has confirmed that an EF-1 tornado touched down in downtown Athens, Alabama, on Saturday night, December 28.

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Parade during Nagasaki lantern festival

Parade during Nagasaki lantern festival

Police officers manage traffic during a Nagasaki lantern festival parade in the southwestern Japan city on Feb. 17, 2024, as singer Masaharu Fukuyama, a native of Nagasaki Prefecture, takes part in the parade posing as a Qing dynasty Chinese emperor

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Parade during Nagasaki lantern festival

Parade during Nagasaki lantern festival

Police officers manage traffic during a Nagasaki lantern festival parade in the southwestern Japan city on Feb. 17, 2024, as singer Masaharu Fukuyama, a native of Nagasaki Prefecture, takes part in the parade posing as a Qing dynasty Chinese emperor.

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Kyoto gubernatorial election

Kyoto gubernatorial election

KYOTO, Japan, April 9 Kyodo - Kazuhito Fukuyama, a 57-year-old lawyer, speaks in front of his supporters in Kyoto city after losing the gubernatorial election in Kyoto Prefecture on April 8, 2018. Former bureaucrat Takatoshi Nishiwaki won the election, fought between newcomers.

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Anne Frank exhibit

Anne Frank exhibit

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Makoto Otsuka (C), director of the Holocaust Education Center, holds a press conference at the Hiroshima prefectural government hall in the city of Hiroshima, western Japan, on March 10, 2014. The museum in Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture, will host an exhibit to mark the 85th anniversary of Anne Frank's birth.

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AKB48 pop group member sings 'enka' song in Hiroshima

AKB48 pop group member sings 'enka' song in Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Misaki Iwasa, a member of the popular pop group AKB48, performs a Japanese "enka" ballad, "Tomonoura Elegy," outside the city hall of Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture, on Feb. 18, 2014. Tomonoura, a scenic spot in the Seto Insland Sea of Japan, is famous for being the setting for Hayao Miyazaki's animated film "Ponyo."

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Screens depicting 19th century Korean delegation unveiled

Screens depicting 19th century Korean delegation unveiled

FUKUYAMA, Japan - A screen depicting Korean delegation members interacting with their Japanese hosts is unveiled to the media at the former Taichoro reception hall, which used to accommodate senior members of Korean delegations, in Fukuyama City, Hiroshima Prefecture, on Sept. 15, 2010. The screen is believed to have been made during the Bunka period (1804-1818).

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Screens depicting 19th century Korean delegation unveiled

Screens depicting 19th century Korean delegation unveiled

FUKUYAMA, Japan - A screen depicting Korean delegation members interacting with their Japanese hosts is unveiled to the media at the former Taichoro reception hall, which used to accommodate senior members of Korean delegations, in Fukuyama City, Hiroshima Prefecture, on Sept. 15, 2010. The screen is believed to have been made during the Bunka period (1804-1818).

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Screens depicting 19th century Korean delegation unveiled

Screens depicting 19th century Korean delegation unveiled

FUKUYAMA, Japan - A screen depicting the scenic Tomonoura area of Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture, near the Seto Inland Sea, believed to have been made during the Bunka period (1804-1818), is unveiled to the media in Fukuyama City, Hiroshima Prefecture, on Sept. 15, 2010. The screen, discovered in a private home, is paired with one depicting a visiting Korean delegation.

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Singer Fukuyama to invite 50,000 to 'free hometown concert'

Singer Fukuyama to invite 50,000 to 'free hometown concert'

NAGASAKI, Japan - Singer Masaharu Fukuyama speaks at a press conference at the Nagasaki city assembly hall on June 29.

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Fukuyama Castle in Hiroshima Pref.

Fukuyama Castle in Hiroshima Pref.

Fukuyama Castle in the Hiroshima Prefecture city of Fukuyama, western Japan, reopens to the public on Aug. 28, 2022, the 400th anniversary of its completion in 1622, after large-scale repair work was finished.

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Fukuyama Castle in Hiroshima Pref.

Fukuyama Castle in Hiroshima Pref.

Fukuyama Castle in the Hiroshima Prefecture city of Fukuyama, western Japan, reopens to the public on Aug. 28, 2022, the 400th anniversary of its completion in 1622, after large-scale repair work was finished.

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Gymnasium in Hiroshima Prefecture city of Fukuyama

Gymnasium in Hiroshima Prefecture city of Fukuyama

Photo taken May 18, 2021, shows Fukuyama City Gymnasium in Hiroshima Prefecture, western Japan. The Tokyo Olympic torch relay was carried out on the premises of the gymnasium the same day without spectators amid the coronavirus pandemic.

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Scenic area in Hiroshima Prefecture city of Fukuyama

Scenic area in Hiroshima Prefecture city of Fukuyama

Photo taken in June 2012 shows Tomonoura, a coastal scenic area in Fukuyama in Hiroshima Prefecture, western Japan.

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Demonstration room for Omiya Kogyo's semiconductor and electronic component manufacturing equipment

Demonstration room for Omiya Kogyo's semiconductor and electronic component manufacturing equipment

Omiya Industries (Fukuyama City, Hiroshima Prefecture) has remodeled its demonstration room for semiconductor and electronic parts manufacturing equipment in its Okayama Plant (Kasaoka City, Okayama Prefecture). The area of the room has been increased by 4.8 times compared to the previous one. This will allow customers to check and evaluate the operability, productivity, and maintainability of the actual equipment, which will lead to the introduction of the equipment. In order to maintain confidentiality, customers are increasingly bringing in their own samples for testing, and we have established a system that allows us to concentrate on testing. Omiya Kogyo develops and manufactures equipment for attaching and peeling off protective tapes for silicon wafers, ultraviolet (UV) irradiation equipment for curing films, wafer expanders, and dryers for cleaned wafers. Omiya Industries Okayama Plant, Kasaoka City, Okayama Prefecture, July 11, 2019. Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

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Heavy rain hits western Japan

Heavy rain hits western Japan

Photo taken June 23, 2016, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows cars getting stuck on flooded streets in the western Japan city of Fukuyama. Western Japan areas have been hit by heavy rain, which caused landslides and caving of roads. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kyoto gubernatorial election

Kyoto gubernatorial election

Kazuhito Fukuyama, a 57-year-old lawyer, speaks in front of his supporters in Kyoto city after losing the gubernatorial election in Kyoto Prefecture on April 8, 2018. Former bureaucrat Takatoshi Nishiwaki won the election, fought between newcomers. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Women pose by train carrying popular singer's image in Nagasaki

Women pose by train carrying popular singer's image in Nagasaki

Women pose beside Kyushu Railway Co.'s express train "Kamome" (seagull) bearing an image of popular Japanese singer/actor Masaharu Fukuyama at Nagasaki Station in the southwestern Japanese city on Aug. 23, 2015. The railway operator is running the special train until Oct. 16 to mark the 25th anniversary of the Nagasaki native's debut as a singer. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Singer Fukuyama to invite 50,000 to 'free hometown concert'

Singer Fukuyama to invite 50,000 to 'free hometown concert'

NAGASAKI, Japan - Singer Masaharu Fukuyama speaks at a press conference at the Nagasaki city assembly hall on June 29. (Kyodo)

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Screens depicting 19th century Korean delegation unveiled

Screens depicting 19th century Korean delegation unveiled

FUKUYAMA, Japan - A screen depicting Korean delegation members interacting with their Japanese hosts is unveiled to the media at the former Taichoro reception hall, which used to accommodate senior members of Korean delegations, in Fukuyama City, Hiroshima Prefecture, on Sept. 15, 2010. The screen is believed to have been made during the Bunka period (1804-1818). (Kyodo)

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Screens depicting 19th century Korean delegation unveiled

Screens depicting 19th century Korean delegation unveiled

FUKUYAMA, Japan - A screen depicting Korean delegation members interacting with their Japanese hosts is unveiled to the media at the former Taichoro reception hall, which used to accommodate senior members of Korean delegations, in Fukuyama City, Hiroshima Prefecture, on Sept. 15, 2010. The screen is believed to have been made during the Bunka period (1804-1818). (Kyodo)

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Screens depicting 19th century Korean delegation unveiled

Screens depicting 19th century Korean delegation unveiled

FUKUYAMA, Japan - A screen depicting the scenic Tomonoura area of Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture, near the Seto Inland Sea, believed to have been made during the Bunka period (1804-1818), is unveiled to the media in Fukuyama City, Hiroshima Prefecture, on Sept. 15, 2010. The screen, discovered in a private home, is paired with one depicting a visiting Korean delegation. (Kyodo)

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Tokyo Olympic torch relay

Tokyo Olympic torch relay

People standing behind a fence watch the Tokyo Olympic torch relay in the Hiroshima Prefecture city of Fukuyama on May 18, 2021. The torch relay was taken off public roads in the western Japan prefecture with a coronavirus state of emergency in place.

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Tokyo Olympic torch relay

Tokyo Olympic torch relay

People standing behind a fence watch the Tokyo Olympic torch relay at a municipal park in the Hiroshima Prefecture city of Fukuyama on May 18, 2021. The torch relay was taken off public roads in the western Japan prefecture with a coronavirus state of emergency in place.

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Former Japan farm minister's bribery scandal

Former Japan farm minister's bribery scandal

Photo taken July 4, 2020, shows major egg producer Akita Foods Co.'s head office in the Hiroshima Prefecture city of Fukuyama in western Japan. Former Japanese farm minister Takamori Yoshikawa is suspected of receiving several million yen from a former representative of the company in return for favors for the egg farming industry.

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A-bombed tree in Nagasaki

A-bombed tree in Nagasaki

File photo taken in May 2014 shows a camphor tree at Sanno Shrine in Nagasaki city, southwestern Japan, which survived the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing. Japanese singer Masaharu Fukuyama, a native of Nagasaki, has collected about 4.5 million yen in donations to help the city conserve the tree. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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