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Large thermometer in one of Japan's hottest cities

A 4-meter thermometer is set up in front of a department store on May 14, 2024, in Kumagaya, Saitama Prefecture, known as one of the hottest cities in Japan. In July 2018, the mercury hit 41.1 C in the eastern Japan city, which was the country's highest-ever temperature but was also recorded in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, in August 2020.

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Large thermometer in one of Japan's hottest cities

A 4-meter thermometer is set up in front of a department store on May 14, 2024, in Kumagaya, Saitama Prefecture, known as one of the hottest cities in Japan. In July 2018, the mercury hit 41.1 C in the eastern Japan city, which was the country's highest-ever temperature but was also recorded in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, in August 2020.

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Japan's lunar explorer robot successfully runs on dunes

HAMAMATSU, Japan - A lunar explorer robot developed by Hakuto, the only Japanese team competing for the Google Luna XPrize that is led by Tohoku University Professor Kazuya Yoshida, makes a successful test run on the Nakatajima Sand Dunes in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on Dec. 18, 2014. A total of 18 teams are competing in the contest, with a grand prize of 20 million dollars for the first team to land safely on the lunar surface, move 500 meters, and transmit high-definition images and video back to Earth.

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Myanmar commander-in-chief visits Japan

HAMAMATSU, Japan - Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, commander-in-chief of the Myanmar Defense Services, pays a floral tribute at a monument in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on Sept. 26, 2014. The monument was erected to commemorate the stay of General Aung San in the Japanese city 74 years ago.

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Former death-row inmate Hakamada hospitalized

NAGOYA, Japan - File photo shows Iwao Hakamada, a 78-year-old former death-row inmate who was released following a court decision in March 2014 to reopen the 1966 murder case that led to his conviction. Hakamada, a former professional boxer, has been hospitalized for pneumonia in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, his lawyers said Aug. 29, 2014.

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People see inside of 'Dr. Yellow' inspection train

HAMAMATSU, Japan - Children tour the inside of an inspection train for Shinkansen lines nick-named "Dr. Yellow" in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, on July 26, 2014, during an event to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Tokaido Shinkanen bullet train line operation.

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Hamamatsu event recognized as biggest theremin ensemble

HAMAMATSU, Japan - People play the "Matryomin" instrument, or theremin electronic musical instrument inside a container shaped like a Russian Matryoshka doll, during an event in Hamamatsu, central Japan, on July 20, 2013. The Guinness Book of Records said the same day it recognized the performance by 272 players as the largest theremin ensemble.

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Hamamatsu event recognized as biggest theremin ensemble

HAMAMATSU, Japan - People play the "Matryomin" instrument, or theremin electronic musical instrument inside a container shaped like a Russian Matryoshka doll, during an event in Hamamatsu, central Japan, on July 20, 2013. The Guinness Book of Records said the same day it recognized the performance by 272 players as the largest theremin ensemble.

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Japanese-Brazilian gets OK to return to Japan after lawsuit

SHIZUOKA, Japan - Lucas Futenma holds a certificate of eligibility for residence status for his wife Giullyane Futenma in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on May 29, 2013. Giullyane Futenma, a Brazilian woman of Japanese descent, has been given the green light to return to Japan after she filed a lawsuit against the Japanese government demanding she be allowed to re-enter and live in the country, her lawyer said the same day.

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Landslides in Shizuoka

HAMAMATSU, Japan - An April 25, 2013, photo shows a river swollen after being stemmed by a series of landslides that occurred two days before in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan. Part of a tea plantation on the upper side of the slope fell but nobody was injured.

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Landslides in Shizuoka

HAMAMATSU, Japan - An April 23, 2013, photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the site of a series of landslides that occurred earlier in the day in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan. Part of a tea plantation on the upper side of the slope fell but nobody was injured.

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Landslides in Shizuoka

HAMAMATSU, Japan - An April 23, 2013, photo shows the site of a series of landslides that occurred earlier in the day in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan. Part of a tea plantation on the upper side of the slope fell but nobody was injured.

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Landslides in Shizuoka

HAMAMATSU, Japan - An April 23, 2013, photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the site of a series of landslides that occurred earlier in the day in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan. Part of a tea plantation on the upper side of the slope fell but nobody was injured.

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Landslides in Shizuoka

HAMAMATSU, Japan - An April 23, 2013, photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the site of a series of landslides that occurred earlier in the day in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan. Part of a tea plantation on the upper side of the slope fell but nobody was injured.

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Landslides in Shizuoka

HAMAMATSU, Japan - An April 23, 2013, photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the site of a series of landslides that occurred earlier in the day in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan. Part of a tea plantation on the upper side of the slope fell but nobody was injured.

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Landslides in Shizuoka

HAMAMATSU, Japan - An April 23, 2013, photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the site of a series of landslides that occurred earlier in the day in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan. Part of a tea plantation on the upper side of the slope fell but nobody was injured.

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Roland founder

HAMAMATSU, Japan - Ikutaro Kakehashi, 82-year-old founder of Japanese electronic music instruments maker Roland Corp., answers reporters' questions in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on Jan. 11, 2013, after he was named a recipient of a technical Grammy award for contributing to the development of MIDI technology.

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Suzuki head office

NAGOYA, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the head office of Suzuki Motor Corp. in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on Nov. 6, 2012.

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Eel from Madagascar

HAMAMATSU, Japan - Photo shows a farmed eel imported from Madagascar by a trading house in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on July 19, 2012. Many Japanese eat eels as an energy-rich food in summer.

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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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Icicle gift to newlywed polar bear couple

OSAKA, Japan - Baffin, a 19-year-old female polar bear, bites into an icicle containing apples at Tennoji Zoo in Osaka in western Japan on July 23, 2011. The zoo gave four of the icicles to Baffin and her 6-year-old ''husband'' Gogo, who ''tied the knot'' in March when Baffin was transferred there from a zoo in Hamamatsu, central Japan, as part of a polar bear breeding program.

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Icicle gift to newlywed polar bear couple

OSAKA, Japan - Gogo, a 6-year-old male polar bear, plays with an icicle containing apples at Tennoji Zoo in Osaka in western Japan on July 23, 2011. The zoo gave four of the icicles to Gogo and his 19-year-old ''wife'' Baffin, who ''tied the knot'' in March when Baffin was transferred there from a zoo in Hamamatsu, central Japan, as part of a polar bear breeding program.

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Icicle gift to newlywed polar bear couple

OSAKA, Japan - Six-year-old male polar bear Gogo (L) and his 19-year-old ''wife'' Baffin, play with an icicle containing apples at Tennoji Zoo in Osaka in western Japan on July 23, 2011. The zoo gave four of the icicles to the bears, who ''tied the knot'' in March when Baffin was transferred there from a zoo in Hamamatsu, central Japan, as part of a polar bear breeding program.

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Ultracompact EV Miluira

TOKYO, Japan - Rikiya Takayanagi, president of industrial model maker Takayanagi Co. in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, demonstrates new single-seat ultracompact electric vehicle the Miluira in Tokyo on Dec. 1, 2010. The company began selling the 2.2-meter-long, open-top EV that day for 6.3 million yen.

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Ex-pitcher Kuwata's father dies in fire in Hamamatsu

SHIZUOKA, Japan - Masumi Kuwata, a former right-handed pitcher with the Central League's Yomiuri Giants baseball club, speaks to reporters in front of a hospital in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on Jan. 17, 2010, after identifying his father's body. Taiji Kuwata was killed in predawn a fire at his coffee shop and home in the city.

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Fire at mahjong parlor kills 4, injures 3 in Shizuoka

HAMAMATSU, Japan - A police officer inspects a mahjong parlor in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, that was gutted in a predawn fire on Nov. 17, 2009. The fire killed four people and injured three.

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Fire at mahjong parlor kills 4, injures 3 in Shizuoka

HAMAMATSU, Japan - Firefighters and police inspect a mah-jong parlor in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, that was gutted in a predawn fire on Nov. 17, 2009. The fire killed four people and injured three.

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Suzuki has credit, debt guarantees to GM affiliates

HAMAMATSU, Japan - Suzuki Motor Corp. President Osamu Suzuki speaks at a news conference in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on June 2. He said the company has 71.6 billion yen in credit, investment and debt guarantees to affiliates of failed U.S. automaker General Motors Corp. and plans to book loan-loss reserves if deemed necessary.

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Passenger numbers at Narita airport exceed 700 mil.

NARITA, Japan - Tomiko Nonomura (L) from Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, becomes the 700 millionth traveler passing through Narita International Airport in Chiba Prefecture on Nov. 25. To the right is her husband Yasutaka. The couple were returning from a trip to France and Germany to celebrate their silver wedding anniversary.

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PM Aso visits small companies in Shizuoka Pref.

HAMAMATSU, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso (C) is briefed by staffers at a bakery in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on Oct. 12. The bakery is one of two small companies Aso visited during the day. (Pool photo)

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'Next-generation' Shinkansen model on display

HAMAMATSU, Japan - A new Shinkansen model, the ''next-generation'' N-700 Series, on display in a press preview at the JR Tokai Hamamatsu plant in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecutre on April 10. According to JR engineers, a key N-700 technical feature is that the train, through the use of air spring, can bend at curves so that it does not have to decelerate when passing through curving passages. The N-700 Series, which will run in the Tokaido Sanyo Shinkansen line, can speed through curves at a maximum speed of 270 kilometers per hour in the Tokaido sector and 300 kph in the Sanyo sector, they say. As a result, the N-700 Series can travel between Tokyo and the Shin-Osaka station in Osaka in 2 hours and 25 minutes, down 5 minutes, and between Tokyo and the Hakata station in Fukuoka in 4 hours and 50 minutes.

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Tokaido Shinkansen bullet train services halted

HAMAMATSU, Japan - The head coach of the Nozomi No. 61 bullet train is seen damaged at JR Tokai's maintenance facility in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on Oct. 25 after the train hit a man as it passed through Shizuoka Station.

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Man arrested for killing acquaintance at hospital

NAGOYA, Japan - Tadashi Aizawa, 75, who is suspected of murdering a 61-year-old female patient at a hospital, has been found in a lodge (in photo) in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, police said Oct. 1.

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Greece beats Australia 72-69 at World Basketball Championships

HAMAMATSU, Japan - Australia's C. J. Bruton (R) is blocked by a Greek player during their first round game at the World Basketball Championships in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on Aug. 22. Greece won 72-69.

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Ex-bureaucrat Katayama wins in Shizuoka

HAMAMATSU, Japan - Former Finance Ministry bureaucrat Satsuki Katayama celebrates at her election campaign office in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on Sept. 12 after finding out she was certain to capture the Shizuoka No. 7 district seat in the Sept. 11 House of Representatives election.

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(2)2 Japanese-Brazilian brothers arrested for robbing gun

NAGOYA, Japan - Jorge Edgar de Souza Eguti, 26, one of two Japanese-Brazilians wanted by police on suspicion of robbing a police officer of a loaded gun, arrives at Tajimi Police Station in Gifu Prefecture, on June 5 after being arrested in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture.

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(1)2 Japanese-Brazilian brothers arrested for robbing gun

NAGOYA, Japan - Mauro de Souza Eguti, 22, one of two Japanese-Brazilians wanted by police on suspicion of robbing a police officer of a loaded gun, arrives at Tajimi Police Station in Gifu Prefecture, on June 5 after being arrested in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture.

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Int'l horticulture exhibition in Hamamatsu ends

SHIZUOKA, Japan - Hamamatsu Mayor Yasuyuki Kitawaki (C) declares the end of the Shizuoka International Garden and Horticulture Exhibition in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, on Oct. 11 during a closing ceremony. The exhibition, which opened April 8, drew some 5.44 million visitors.

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DPJ's Kumagai, 3 others sign letters of resignation

TOKYO, Japan - House of Representatives member Hiroshi Kumagai of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) meets the press in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on Dec. 19. Kumagai is considering forming a new party with members of the New Conservative Party (NCP) and three other DPJ members who are to leave their party.

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Ex-Yamaha Pres. Kawakami dies at 90

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Genichi Kawakami, a former president of Yamaha Corp., the world's largest manufacturer of musical instruments, who died of old age at a hospital in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on May 25. He was 90.

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Japan's ASDF holds air show in Hamamatsu

HAMAMATSU, Japan - Spectators watch a flight formation of Japan's Air Self-Defense Force ''Blue Impulse'' team at an air show at the ASDF Hamamatsu camp Nov. 14. Some 140,000 spectators enjoyed the show. The show was held in Hamamatsu, central Japan, for the first time since a Blue Impulse crash at the 1982 event.

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Court orders damages in discrimination case

HAMAMATSU, Japan, Oct. 12 Kyodo - Ana Bortz, a Brazilian TV reporter, speaks at a news conference in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, following a court ruling that ordered a jewelry store owner to pay 1.5 million yen in compensation for ejecting her from his shop because she was a foreigner. In her suit Bortz, 35, claimed the ejection violated the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.