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World Exposition in Osaka

Dimitri S. Kerkentzes, secretary general of the Bureau International des Expositions, attends a press conference in Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture, on Jan. 16, 2025, as a meeting of countries participating in the World Exposition in Osaka is held in the western Japan city ahead of the event starting in April.

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Centenarian woman to sing Choral for last time

KOBE, Japan - Centenarian Chiyoko Fujii (C) practices Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, with a choir in Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture, on Dec. 12, 2014, for her final performance the following day in the western Japan city. Her daughter Kazumi Tsukutani is on the right.

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Himeji power station awaits summer

OSAKA, Japan - Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Himeji No. 2 thermal power station in Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture, is shown to the press on June 3, 2014, after the completion of renewal works. It is expected to operate at full-capacity this summer to compensate for the suspended nuclear power plants.

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Tanker explosion

HIMEJI, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows black smoke rising from the tanker Shoko Maru, while firefighting is under way, in the Seto Inland Sea off Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture, in western Japan, after an explosion aboard the vessel on May 29, 2014. The captain of the 998-ton fuel tanker is missing and four crew members sustained severe injuries.

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Tanker explosion

HIMEJI, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows black smoke rising from the tanker Shoko Maru, while firefighting is under way, in the Seto Inland Sea off Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture, in western Japan, after an explosion aboard the vessel on May 29, 2014. The captain of the 998-ton fuel tanker is missing and four crew members sustained severe injuries.

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Tanker explosion

HIMEJI, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows black smoke rising from the tanker Shoko Maru, while firefighting is under way, in the Seto Inland Sea off Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture, in western Japan, after an explosion aboard the vessel on May 29, 2014. The captain of the 998-ton fuel tanker is missing and four crew members sustained severe injuries.

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Tanker explosion

HIMEJI, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows black smoke rising from the tanker Shoko Maru, while firefighting is under way, in the Seto Inland Sea off Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture, in western Japan, after an explosion aboard the vessel on May 29, 2014. The captain of the 998-ton fuel tanker is missing and four crew members sustained severe injuries.

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30 foreign applicants pass nursing examination in Japan

KOBE, Japan - Laraswaty Suyono, an Indonesian nurse, holds a press conference at a hospital in Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture, where she works on March 25, 2013. Suyono is among a total of 30 applicants from the Philippines and Indonesia who have passed an examination held in February qualifying them to work as nurses in Japan.

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Explosions at chemical plant in Hyogo Pref.

HIMEJI, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a burning fire engine (L center) at Nippon Shokubai Co.'s chemical plant in Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture on Sept. 29, 2012. A firefighter died and dozens of other people were injured after two explosions occurred as firefighters worked to control a fire that broke out at the plant around 2 p.m.

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Explosions at chemical plant in Hyogo Pref.

HIMEJI, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows black smoke billowing from Nippon Shokubai Co.'s chemical plant in Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture on Sept. 29, 2012. A firefighter died and dozens of other people were injured after two explosions occurred as firefighters worked to control a fire that broke out at the plant around 2 p.m.

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Explosions at chemical plant in Hyogo Pref.

HIMEJI, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows flames and black smoke billowing out of Nippon Shokubai Co.'s chemical plant in Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture on Sept. 29, 2012. A firefighter died and dozens of other people were injured after two explosions occurred as firefighters worked to control a fire that broke out at the plant around 2 p.m.

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Himeji Castle building could crumble in fairly powerful quake

HIMEJI, Japan - The main building of Himeji Castle (in file photo), designated as a world cultural heritage site and Japanese national treasure, in Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture, could collapse in a fairly powerful earthquake, the Architectural Research Association said on Feb. 10. It said the castle's main building, the Daitenshu, a six-story building about 46 meters high, could collapse above the third floor in an earthquake registering a high 5 on the Japanese seismic scale of 7.

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(2)Kyoto chicken farm charged over bird flu outbreak

HIMEJI, Japan - Reporters and photographers wait outside the head office of Asada Nosan Co. in Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture, on March 31. Later in the day, the farm ministry and Kyoto prefectural government filed a criminal complaint with police against the company and its President Hideaki Asada for failing to report a bird flue outbreak to the authorities in February.

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Asada Nosan executives meet press

HIMEJI, Japan - Hideaki Asada (L in center), president of Asada Nosan Co., and Chairman Hajimu Asada (R in center) are surrounded by reporters in Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture, on March 2 after they held a news conference about the outbreak of bird flu at the company's Funai farm in Tamba, Kyoto Prefecture.

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Nippon Steel steelworks in western Japan city+

HIMEJI, Japan, Oct. 12 Kyodo - File photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on June 24, 2021, shows Nippon Steel Corp.'s Setouchi steelworks in the Hirohata district of Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan.