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Tokyo-Hakone collegiate ekiden road relay

Aoyama Gakuin University anchor runner Sota Orita crosses the finish line in Tokyo's Otemachi business district on Jan. 3, 2026, securing the university's third consecutive year of victory in the two-day Tokyo-Hakone collegiate ekiden road relay.

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Tokyo-Hakone collegiate ekiden road relay

Aoyama Gakuin University anchor runner Sota Orita crosses the finish line in Tokyo's Otemachi business district on Jan. 3, 2026, securing the university's third consecutive year of victory in the two-day Tokyo-Hakone collegiate ekiden road relay.

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Tokyo-Hakone collegiate ekiden road relay

Aoyama Gakuin University anchor runner Sota Orita crosses the finish line in Tokyo's Otemachi business district on Jan. 3, 2026, securing the university's third consecutive year of victory in the two-day Tokyo-Hakone collegiate ekiden road relay.

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Tokyo-Hakone collegiate ekiden road relay

Aoyama Gakuin University anchor runner Sota Orita crosses the finish line in Tokyo's Otemachi business district on Jan. 3, 2026, securing the university's third consecutive year of victory in the two-day Tokyo-Hakone collegiate ekiden road relay.

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Tokyo-Hakone collegiate ekiden road relay

Aoyama Gakuin University anchor runner Sota Orita crosses the finish line in Tokyo's Otemachi business district on Jan. 3, 2026, securing the university's third consecutive year of victory in the two-day Tokyo-Hakone collegiate ekiden road relay.

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Baseball: Yu Darvish

Tohoku High School baseball club manager Masahiro Wako (L) consoles pitcher Yu Darvish after the team was defeated by Joso Gakuin in the final of the national high school baseball championship at Koshien Stadium in Nishinomiya, western Japan, on Aug. 23, 2003.

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Tokyo-Hakone collegiate ekiden road relay

Aoyama Gakuin University head coach Susumu Hara is tossed in the air by runners after they claimed victory in the two-day Tokyo-Hakone collegiate ekiden road relay on Jan. 3, 2025. (Pool photo)5. (Pool photo)

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Tokyo-Hakone collegiate ekiden road relay

Aoyama Gakuin University anchor Hikaru Ogawara crosses the finish line in Tokyo's Otemachi business district on Jan. 3, 2025, securing the university's eighth victory in the two-day Tokyo-Hakone collegiate ekiden road relay.

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Tokyo-Hakone collegiate ekiden road relay

Aoyama Gakuin University anchor Hikaru Ogawara crosses the finish line in Tokyo's Otemachi business district on Jan. 3, 2025, securing the university's eighth victory in the two-day Tokyo-Hakone collegiate ekiden road relay.

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Tokyo-Hakone collegiate ekiden road relay

Aoyama Gakuin University anchor Hikaru Ogawara crosses the finish line in Tokyo's Otemachi business district on Jan. 3, 2025, securing the university's eighth victory in the two-day Tokyo-Hakone collegiate ekiden road relay.

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Tokyo-Hakone ekiden road relay

Aoyama Gakuin University ekiden road relay head coach Susumu Hara (3rd from R) and players celebrate near the finish line of the two-day Tokyo-Hakone collegiate race in Tokyo's Otemachi business district on Jan. 3, 2024, after the team's victory, the first in two years and seventh overall.

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Tokyo-Hakone ekiden road relay

Aoyama Gakuin University anchor Shunya Udagawa crosses the finish line in Tokyo's Otemachi business district on Jan. 3, 2024, securing the university's seventh victory in the two-day Tokyo-Hakone collegiate ekiden road relay.

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Tokyo-Hakone ekiden road relay

Aoyama Gakuin University anchor Shunya Udagawa crosses the finish line in Tokyo's Otemachi business district on Jan. 3, 2024, securing the university's seventh victory in the two-day Tokyo-Hakone collegiate ekiden road relay.

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New evidence of Japanese germ warfare unit on exhibit

STORY: New evidence of Japanese germ warfare unit on exhibit DATELINE: June 3, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:43 LOCATION: HARBIN, China CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the exhibition 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Japanese): SEIYA MATSUNO, Researcher, Int'l Peace Research Institute, Meiji Gakuin University, Japan 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): JIN CHENGMIN, Curator, Museum of Evidence of War Crimes by the Japanese Army Unit 731 4. various of the exhibition STORYLINE: Some documents are on exhibit for the first time in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, testifying crimes against humanity by the notorious Japanese germ warfare army known as Unit 731 during World War II. Heilongjiang International University and the Museum of Evidence of War Crimes by the Japanese Army Unit 731 in Harbin, the provincial capital of Heilongjiang, jointly put on the exhibition at the International Peace Archives at the university on Friday. Among them is a copy of a roster of Unit 731, known for conducting heinous live germ and chemical war

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A-bomb survivor Thurlow's lecture in Japan

Atomic bomb survivor and peace advocate Setsuko Thurlow smiles while delivering a commemorative lecture at Kwansei Gakuin University in Nishinomiya in Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, on May 10, 2023, upon receiving an honorary doctorate from the university.

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A-bomb survivor Thurlow receives honorary doctorate in Japan

Atomic bomb survivor and peace advocate Setsuko Thurlow receives an honorary doctorate at Kwansei Gakuin University in Nishinomiya in Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, on May 10, 2023. Thurlow, who survived the 1945 U.S. atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima, was among those who accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017 on behalf of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.

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A-bomb survivor Thurlow's lecture in Japan

Atomic bomb survivor and peace advocate Setsuko Thurlow delivers a commemorative lecture at Kwansei Gakuin University in Nishinomiya in Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, on May 10, 2023, upon receiving an honorary doctorate from the university.

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A-bomb survivor Thurlow receives honorary doctorate in Japan

Atomic bomb survivor and peace advocate Setsuko Thurlow receives an honorary doctorate at Kwansei Gakuin University in Nishinomiya in Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, on May 10, 2023. Thurlow, who survived the 1945 U.S. atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima, was among those who accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017 on behalf of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.

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Baseball: High school championship

Yamanashi Prefecture's Yamanashi Gakuin Senior High School baseball club players celebrate after beating Hyogo Prefecture's Hotoku Gakuen 7-3 in the final of the 95th spring invitational high school championship on April 1, 2023, at Koshien Stadium in Nishinomiya, western Japan.

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Baseball: High school championship

Yamanashi Prefecture's Yamanashi Gakuin Senior High School baseball club players celebrate after beating Hyogo Prefecture's Hotoku Gakuen 7-3 in the final of the 95th spring invitational high school championship on April 1, 2023, at Koshien Stadium in Nishinomiya, western Japan.

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Baseball: High school championship

Yamanashi Prefecture's Yamanashi Gakuin Senior High School baseball club players celebrate after beating Hyogo Prefecture's Hotoku Gakuen 7-3 in the final of the 95th spring invitational high school championship on April 1, 2023, at Koshien Stadium in Nishinomiya, western Japan.

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Obic wins Rice Bowl

TOKYO, Japan - Defensive back Masashi Fujimoto (L) of the Obic Seagulls competes for the ball with wide receiver Shunsuke Wada (16) of Kwansei Gakuin University during the first quarter of the Rice Bowl at Tokyo Dome in Tokyo on Jan. 3, 2012. Obic of the corporate league won the game 38-28 for their second straight victory in the Rice Bowl, the Japanese championship of American football.

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Obic wins Rice Bowl

TOKYO, Japan - Wide receiver Ken Shimizu (C) of the Obic Seagulls is tackled by defensive backs Nobuhiro Shigeta (12) and Takehiro Ko (R) of Kwansei Gakuin University during the third quarter of the Rice Bowl at Tokyo Dome in Tokyo on Jan. 3, 2012. Obic of the corporate league won the game 38-28 for their second straight victory in the Rice Bowl, the Japanese championship of American football.

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Fujitsu wins first national title

TOKYO, Japan - Fujitsu running back Gino Gordon scores a touchdown in the second quarter of the Rice Bowl against collegiate champion Kwansei Gakuin University on Jan. 3, 2015, in Tokyo. The corporate champion won its first national championship in American football, and Gordon was named the game's MVP.

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Fujitsu wins first national title

TOKYO, Japan - Fujitsu running back Gino Gordon scores a touchdown in the fourth quarter of the Rice Bowl against collegiate champion Kwansei Gakuin University on Jan. 3, 2015, in Tokyo. The corporate champion won its first national championship in American football, and Gordon was named the game's MVP.

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Aoyama Gakuin wins 1st Hakone Ekiden title

TOKYO, Japan - Yuya Ando, anchor of Aoyama Gakuin University, finishes first in the Tokyo-Hakone collegiate ekiden in Tokyo on Jan. 3, 2015. The university earned the school's first championship in the classic road race.

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Unheralded Aoyama Gakuin on top in collegiate ekiden

TOKYO, Japan - Daichi Kamino of Aoyama Gakuin University takes a big lead over the other runners in the mountainous 23.2-kilometer fifth stage of the five-segment, 107.5 kilometer collegiate ekiden race between Tokyo's Otemachi business district and the spa town of Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture on Jan. 2, 2015. (Pool photo)

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Unheralded Aoyama Gakuin on top in collegiate ekiden

HAKONE, Japan - Daichi Kamino (top) of Aoyama Gakuin University is tossed into the air by his teammates after crossing the finish line first in Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture, of the annual collegiate ekiden race on Jan. 2, 2015. The university won the first day of the two-day road race between Tokyo's Otemachi business district and the spa town of Hakone for the first time ever, in 5 hours, 23 minutes, 58 seconds.

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Unheralded Aoyama Gakuin on top in collegiate ekiden

HAKONE, Japan - Daichi Kamino of Aoyama Gakuin University crosses the finish line in Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture, of the annual collegiate ekiden race on Jan. 2, 2015. The university won the first day of the two-day road race between Tokyo's Otemachi business district and the spa town of Hakone for the first time ever, in 5 hours, 23 minutes, 58 seconds.

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Unheralded Aoyama Gakuin on top in collegiate ekiden

TOKYO, Japan - Runners start the two-day, annual collegiate ekiden race in Tokyo's Otemachi business district on Jan. 2, 2015. Aoyama Gakuin University won the first day of the road race between Otemachi and the spa town of Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture, for the first time ever, in 5 hours, 23 minutes, 58 seconds.

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Univ. students volunteer to help post-disaster work

OSAKA, Japan - Female students of Kobe Shukugawa Gakuin University volunteer to help post-disaster work in Tamba, Hyogo Prefecture, on Nov. 24, 2014, hit by landslides caused by torrential rains in August. The students participated in the work before the 20th anniversary of the Great Hanshin Earthquake that devastated the western Japan prefecture in 1995.

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Astronaut Wakata looks back on space mission in lecture

KOFU, Japan - Astronaut Koichi Wakata, the first Japanese commander of the International Space Station, tells the audience of some 650 people at Yamanashi Gakuin University in Kofu, on Aug. 2, 2014, about his six-month space mission.

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Nguyen Duc high-fives with student in Osaka

OSAKA, Japan - Nguyen Duc, a Vietnamese man born as a conjoined twin, exchanges a high five with a student at Otemon Gakuin Otemae Junior High School in Osaka City on July 4, 2014. He gave a lecture on peace at the school.

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Obic captures 3rd straight Rice Bowl

TOKYO, Japan - Takuya Furutani (C) of Obic Seagulls scores a touchdown against Kwansei Gakuin University toward the end of the Rice Bowl at Tokyo Dome in Tokyo on Jan. 3, 2013. The Japan X-League's Obic defeated Kwansei 21-15, triumphing for the third straight year in the annual American Football national championship game between Japan's corporate and university champions.

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School baseball club member arrested for robbery

UTSUNOMIYA, Japan - Sakushin Gakuin High School principal Katsuhiko Hasegawa (R) bows during a press conference in Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture, on Aug. 18, 2012. The school and police said a member of the school's baseball club has been arrested on suspicion of assaulting and robbing a girl the previous week.

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Documentary film about Japanese-Brazilian youths

HAMAMATSU, Japan - (From L) Kimihiro Tsumura, professor at Hamamatsu Gakuin University, Pablo Nadayoshi, a Japanese-Brazilian living in Japan, and film director Mayu Nakamura pose for photos in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on March 20, 2012. They hold a poster of ''Kodoku na Tsubame tachi'' (lonely swallows), their documentary film about Japanese-Brazilian youths living in Japan.

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Nichidai Daisan wins national high school c'ship

NISHINOMIYA, Japan - Players celebrate as Tokyo's Nichidai Daisan High School beat Kosei Gakuin of Aomori Prefecture 11-0 in the final of the national high school baseball championship at Koshien Stadium in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, on Aug. 20, 2011.

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2nd day of high school baseball tournament in Koshien

KOSHIEN, Japan - A player of Yugakukan High School in Ishikawa Prefecture scores from third on a squeeze bunt during the sixth inning against Ichinoseki Gakuin in Iwate Prefecture in a second-day game of the National High School Baseball Invitational Tournament at Koshien Stadium in Hyogo Prefecture on Aug. 8, 2010. The high school baseball championship at Koshien Stadium is a signature summer sports event in Japan.

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Classes resume at last flu-hit high school in Kobe

KOBE, Japan - Students at Kobe Gakuin University High School arrive at school June 3 as classes resumed the same day. The school was the last in Kobe to remain closed due to new-influenza infections. A total of 11 students were infected with the flu.

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Waseda wins Tokyo-to-Hakone leg of New Year road race

HAKONE, Japan - Ryota Komano, anchor of Waseda University's ekiden team, touches the finishing line on the first day of the two-day Tokyo-Hakone-Tokyo New Year road race, as Waseda won the 108-kilometer Tokyo-to-Hakone leg on Jan. 2. Komazawa University, winner of the all-Japan university ekiden race last autumn, was second in the 20-team event, and Yamanashi Gakuin University was third.

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Exhibits from war tribunal confirm Japan military forced prostitution

TOKYO, Japan - Kanto Gakuin University professor Hirofumi Hayashi (L) holds copies of documents admitted in the 1946-1948 Tokyo war crimes tribunal that show the Japanese military forced women in occupied Asian regions into prostitution during a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on April 17. Seated right is Chuo University professor Yoshiaki Yoshimi.

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Kidnapped daughter of 'charismatic' surgeon rescued safely

TOKYO, Japan - Kanako Ikeda (R), 21, a senior at Tokyo's Meiji Gakuin University, leaves Shibuya Police Station in Tokyo on June 27 with her mother Yuko (L), a ''charismatic'' cosmetic surgeon, after she was kidnapped June 26 by men who, according to police, demanded 300 million yen in ransom and rescued June 27.

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Powell delivers lecture at Kwansei Gakuin Univ.

NISHINOMIYA, Japan - Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell gives a lecture at Kwansei Gakuin University in Hyogo Prefecture on July 15. (Pool photo)

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Rescuers airlift students stuck on peak

MATSUOKA, Japan - One of 14 Kwansei Gakuin University students who were stranded since Feb. 7 on a mountain between Fukui and Ishikawa prefectures is taken to Fukui University Hospital after a helicopter rescue Feb. 9.

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Clinton receives honorary doctorate

NAGOYA, Japan - Former U.S. President Bill Clinton receives an honorary doctorate at Aichi Gakuin University (AGU) from AGU President Tadataka Koide at the Nisshin Campus near Nagoya on Nov. 19.

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More than 1.2 mil. paper cranes sent to replace burned ones

NISHINOMIYA, Japan - Volunteers arrange 1.2 million paper cranes Aug. 27 which have been sent to Kwansei Gakuin University from around the country to replace paper cranes burned earlier this month, allegedly by a student of the university, at a monument to the victims of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima. A university student group delivered a batch of some 300,000 of the paper cranes Aug. 28 to the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, where the monument stands.

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(3)Joso Gakuin wins nat'l baseball tourney

NISHINOMIYA, Japan - Yukio Kiuchi (L), manager of Joso Gakuin of Ibaraki Prefecture, receives a game ball from team captain Yasunori Matsubayashi after winning the national high school baseball tournament by beating Tohoku of Miyagi Prefecture 4-2 at Koshien Stadium on Aug. 23. Kiuchi announced his plan in May to retire after this season.

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(2)Joso Gakuin wins nat'l baseball tourney

NISHINOMIYA, Japan - Yukio Kiuchi, manager of Joso Gakuin of Ibaraki Prefecture, is tossed into the air after his high school team beat Tohoku of Miyagi Prefecture 4-2 to win the national high school baseball tournament at Koshien Stadium on Aug. 23.

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(1)Joso Gakuin wins nat'l baseball tourney

NISHINOMIYA, Japan - Members of Joso Gakuin of Ibaraki Prefecture celebrate after winning the national high school baseball tournament by beating Tohoku of Miyagi Prefecture 4-2 at Koshien Stadium on Aug. 23.

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(4)Joso Gakuin wins nat'l baseball tourney

NISHINOMIYA, Japan - Yukio Kiuchi (C), manager of Joso Gakuin of Ibaraki Prefecture, and teammates run back to the bench after thanking supporters after winning the national high school baseball tournament by beating Tohoku of Miyagi Prefecture 4-2 at Koshien Stadium on Aug. 23. Kiuchi announced his plan in May to retire after this season.