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Candidates at joint event in Japan's main opposition leadership race

Candidates contesting the leadership race of the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, (from L) former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, first-term lower house lawmaker Harumi Yoshida, the party's leader, Kenta Izumi, and former leader, Yukio Edano, hold up each other's hands during a joint campaign event in Sapporo on the northernmost Japanese main island of Hokkaido on Sept. 16, 2024, ahead of the Sept. 23 election.

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Condominiums in Tokyo

Photo taken on June 26, 2024, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a cluster of condominiums in Tokyo's Harumi area.

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Joe Biden meets with Kishida Fumio - Washington

Figure skaters Alex Hideo Shibutani, and sister Maia Harumi Shibutani, arrive to attend a state dinner in honor of Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio hosted by US President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden at the White House in Washington on April 10, 2024. Photo by Ting Shen/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Joe Biden meets with Kishida Fumio - Washington

Figure skaters Alex Hideo Shibutani, and sister Maia Harumi Shibutani, arrive to attend a state dinner in honor of Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio hosted by US President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden at the White House in Washington on April 10, 2024. Photo by Ting Shen/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Gold Meets Golden - LA

Maia Harumi Shibutani, At The 2024 Gold Meets Golden at Consulate General of France Residency in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA on March 9 2024. Photo by Fati S/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Gold Meets Golden - LA

Maia Harumi Shibutani, At The 2024 Gold Meets Golden at Consulate General of France Residency in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA on March 9 2024. Photo by Fati S/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Gold Meets Golden - LA

Maia Harumi Shibutani, Alex Shibutani, At The 2024 Gold Meets Golden at Consulate General of France Residency in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA on March 9 2024. Photo by Fati S/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Sakhalin governor

SAPPORO, Japan - Alexander Khoroshavin (L), governor of Russia's Sakhalin region, and Hokkaido Gov. Harumi Takahashi holds talks at the Hokkaido government hall in Sapporo on Jan. 30, 2014.

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Turkish warship Gediz arrives in Tokyo

TOKYO, June 5 Kyodo - Sailors and representatives stand in front of the Turkish frigate Gediz for commemorative photos at Tokyo's Harumi Pier on June 5, 2015. Before sailing to Tokyo to mark the 125th anniversary of the friendship between Turkey and Japan, Gediz stopped at Kushimoto town in Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan, for a commemorative ceremony for the victims of the Ottoman warship that sank due to a typhoon in 1890.

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Japanese icebreaker Shirase leaves for Antarctica

TOKYO, Japan - The Japanese icebreaker Shirase leaves Tokyo's Harumi Pier on Nov. 11, 2014, for Showa Station to assist the Antarctic research expedition, while family members of the crew see the ship off.

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MSDF repatriate remains of Japanese war dead from Pacific

TOKYO, Japan - The Maritime Self-Defense Force hands over the remains of 137 Japanese war dead repatriated from the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific to officials from the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare upon the MSDF training vessel Kashima's arrival at Harumi Pier in Tokyo on Oct. 24, 2014. It was the first time an MSDF vessel has transported the remains of Japanese war dead.

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Ex-China State Councillor Tang meets Hokkaido Gov.

BEIJING, China - Tang Jiaxuan (R), president of the China-Japan Friendship Association and former Chinese state Councillor, shakes hands with Hokkaido Gov. Harumi Takahashi in Beijing on Oct. 18, 2014.

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Actor named 'lucky' as special vice governor of Hokkaido

SAPPORO, Japan - Yo Oizumi (R), an actor from Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost prefecture, receives a letter of appointment as a special "fuku" (meaning both lucky and deputy in Japanese) governor from Hokkaido Governor Harumi Takahashi in Sapporo on Aug. 28, 2014.

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Japanese governor on casino study tour in Singapore

SENTOSA ISLAND, Singapore - Harumi Takahashi, governor of Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost prefecture, visits a hotel room with a view of an aquarium tank on Sentosa Island, Singapore, on Aug. 18, 2014. Takahashi toured the casino and hotels on the island to learn how such a resort complex is run, as Hokkaido is interested in hosting a casino once Japan's ban on them is lifted.

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Japanese governor on casino study tour in Singapore

SENTOSA ISLAND, Singapore - Harumi Takahashi (R), governor of Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost prefecture, is briefed on a casino at a resort facility on Sentosa Island, Singapore, on Aug. 18, 2014. Takahashi toured the casino and hotels on the island to learn how such a resort complex is run, as Hokkaido is interested in hosting a casino once Japan's ban on them is lifted.

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Japanese, Russian governors hold talks

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Vladimir Miklushevsky (far L), the governor of Maritime Province in the Russian Far East, and Harumi Takahashi (far R), the governor of Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost prefecture, hold talks in Vladivostok, Russia, on June 6, 2014. Takahashi asked Miklushevsky to cooperate in launching direct flights between Sapporo and Vladivostok to promote economic exchanges.

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Japanese, Russian governors hold talks

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Vladimir Miklushevsky (L), the governor of Maritime Province in the Russian Far East, and Harumi Takahashi, the governor of Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost prefecture, exchange presents after holding talks in Vladivostok, Russia, on June 6, 2014. Takahashi asked Miklushevsky to cooperate in launching direct flights between Sapporo and Vladivostok to promote economic exchanges.

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Hokkaido promoted in Vladivostok

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Hokkaido Gov. Harumi Takahashi gives an address at the "Hokkaido Showroom" event in Vladivostok, the Russian Far East, on June 5, 2014, to promote Hokkaido's agricultural products and tourism.

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Nobel laureate Yukawa's blackboard unveiled

OSAKA, Japan - Harumi Yukawa (L), son of first Japanese Nobel laureate Hideki Yukawa, and Yoichiro Nambu, a professor emeritus at the University of Chicago and recipient of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics, unveil a blackboard used by the late physicist at Columbia University in New York during a ceremony at the Toyonaka campus of Osaka University on May 13, 2014.

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Hokkaido honors Sochi ski jumping medalists

SAPPORO, Japan - Japan's ski jumping medalists at the Sochi Winter Olympic Games Daiki Ito (L), Noriaki Kasai (2nd from R) and Reruhi Shimizu (R) receive honorary certificates from Hokkaido Gov. Harumi Takahashi on March 26, 2014.

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Olympic Village site

TOKYO, Japan - Archive photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Aug. 28, 2013, shows the Harumi waterfront area in Tokyo where the Tokyo Olympic Village is scheduled to be built. Building contractors have become more receptive to accepting foreign workers as they experience labor shortages due to increased works for Olympic projects, as well as reconstruction and disaster mitigation after the 2011 quake and tsunami.

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Olympic Village site

TOKYO, Japan - Archive photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Aug. 28, 2013, shows the Harumi waterfront area in Tokyo where the Tokyo Olympic Village is scheduled to be built. Building contractors have become more receptive to accepting foreign workers as they experience labor shortages due to increased works for Olympic projects, as well as reconstruction and disaster mitigation after the 2011 quake and tsunami.

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Japanese icebreaker departs for Antarctica

TOKYO, Japan - The Japanese icebreaker Shirase leaves Harumi Wharf in Tokyo Bay on Nov. 8, 2013, for Antarctica to support Japan's 55th expedition team to be deployed there.

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Japanese icebreaker departs for Antarctica

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the Japanese icebreaker Shirase sailing near the Rainbow Bridge in Tokyo Bay on Nov. 8, 2013, shortly after its departure from Harumi Wharf for Antarctica on a mission to support the country's 55th expedition team to be deployed there.

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Japanese icebreaker departs for Antarctica

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the Japanese icebreaker Shirase passing under the Rainbow Bridge in Tokyo Bay on Nov. 8, 2013, shortly after its departure from Harumi Wharf for Antarctica on a mission to support the country's 55th expedition team to be deployed there.

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Japanese icebreaker departs for Antarctica

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the Japanese icebreaker Shirase passing under the Rainbow Bridge in Tokyo Bay on Nov. 8, 2013, shortly after its departure from Harumi Wharf for Antarctica on a mission to support the country's 55th expedition team to be deployed there.

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Athletes' village for 2020 Olympics

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Aug. 28, 2013 shows Harumi pier on Tokyo Bay, where the athletes' village for the 2020 Summer Olympics is planned. The Rainbow Bridge can be seen in the background.

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Athletes' village for 2020 Olympics

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Aug. 28, 2013 shows the Harumi district in Tokyo's Chuo Ward, where the athletes' village for the 2020 Summer Olympics is planned.

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Olympic anti-terrorism drill

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese police hold their first antiterrorism training exercise near the planned site of the athletes' village for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games in the capital's Harumi waterfront area on Sept. 12, 2013.

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Olympic anti-terrorism drill

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese police hold their first antiterrorism training exercise near the planned site of the athletes' village for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games in the capital's Harumi waterfront area on Sept. 12, 2013.

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Athletes' village for 2020 Olympics

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter in August 2013 shows the Harumi district in Tokyo's Chuo Ward, where the athletes' village for the 2020 Summer Olympics is planned.

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Japanese icebreaker Shirase departs for Antarctica

TOKYO, Japan - The Japanese icebreaker Shirase leaves Harumi Wharf in Tokyo Bay on Nov. 11, 2012, for Antarctica to support Japan's 54th expedition team to be deployed there. The 12,650-ton vessel was unable to dock at Japan's Showa Base the previous year, blocked by snow and thick ice, for the first time since 1994, meaning the expedition team had to reach the Antarctic base by air and land.

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Japanese icebreaker Shirase departs for Antarctica

TOKYO, Japan - The Japanese icebreaker Shirase leaves Harumi Wharf in Tokyo Bay on Nov. 11, 2012, for Antarctica to support Japan's 54th expedition team to be deployed there. The 12,650-ton vessel was unable to dock at Japan's Showa Base the previous year, blocked by snow and thick ice, for the first time since 1994, meaning the expedition team had to reach the Antarctic base by air and land.

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Nuclear disaster drill in Hokkaido

SAPPORO, Japan - Hokkaido Gov. Harumi Takahashi (2nd from L) is briefed on the screening for radioactive materials in the village of Akaigawa, Hokkaido, on Oct. 24, 2012, in an emergency drill simulating a nuclear accident in which 1,800 residents were evacuated from around the Tomari nuclear plant.

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Hokkaido governor visits disputed island

SAPPORO, Japan - Hokkaido Gov. Harumi Takahashi (L) visits a school on Shikotan, one of the disputed islands held by Russia, on Aug. 5, 2012. Takahashi said Aug. 6 after winding up a four-day visit to the island as a member of a Japanese delegation in a visa-free exchange program, that communities for Japanese and Russian residents to live together will be needed on those islands off Hokkaido once they are returned to Japan. (Pool photo)

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Hokkaido governor visits disputed island

SAPPORO, Japan - Hokkaido Gov. Harumi Takahashi (3rd from R) visits a Russian household on Shikotan, one of the disputed islands held by Russia, on Aug. 5, 2012. Takahashi said Aug. 6 after winding up a four-day visit to the island as a member of a Japanese delegation in a visa-free exchange program, that communities for Japanese and Russian residents to live together will be needed on those islands off Hokkaido once they are returned to Japan. (Pool photo)

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Free Japanese language paper in India

NEW DELHI, India - Harumi Shinsha holds ''Chalo,'' a free monthly paper in Japanese, in New Delhi on April 3, 2012.

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Rare metal exploration vessel

TOKYO, Japan - The marine resources exploration vessel Hakurei is unveiled to the media at Harumi wharf in Tokyo on March 21, 2012, after its completion in February. It will explore for various rare metals and other resources beneath the seabed.

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Rare metal exploration vessel

TOKYO, Japan - The marine resources exploration vessel Hakurei is unveiled to the media at Harumi wharf in Tokyo on March 21, 2012, after its completion in February. It will explore for various rare metals and other resources beneath the seabed.

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Japan's Icebreaker Shirase departs for Antarctica

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows Japanese icebreaker the Shirase passing under the Rainbow Bridge in Tokyo Bay on Nov. 11, 2011, shortly after its departure from Harumi Wharf for Antarctica on a mission to support the country's 53rd expedition team to be deployed there. The 12,650-ton Shirase also plans to help break the ice near Australia's Antarctic Mawson Base in response to the Australian government's request to secure supply routes.

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Japan's Icebreaker Shirase departs for Antarctica

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese icebreaker the Shirase leaves Harumi Wharf in Tokyo Bay on Nov. 11, 2011, for Antarctica on a mission to support the country's 53rd expedition team to be deployed there. The 12,650-ton Shirase also plans to help break the ice near Australia's Antarctic Mawson Base in response to the Australian government's request to secure supply routes.

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Japan's Icebreaker Shirase departs for Antarctica

TOKYO, Japan - A crew member of Japanese icebreaker the Shirase bids farewell to his family on board the 12,650-ton vessel on Nov. 11, 2011, shortly before leaving Harumi Wharf in Tokyo Bay for Antarctica on a mission to support the country's 53rd expedition team to be deployed there. The Shirase also plans to help break the ice near Australia's Antarctic Mawson Base in response to the Australian government's request to secure supply routes.

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Michelin Guide for Hokkaido

SAPPORO, Japan - Nihon Michelin Tire Co. President Bernard Delmas (R) pays a courtesy visit to Hokkaido Gov. Harumi Takahashi at the governor's official residence in Sapporo, Hokkaido, on Sept. 30, 2011. The Hokkaido version of the Michelin Guide, a world famous restaurant guide, will be released in April 2012, the Tokyo-based unit of French tire maker Michelin said the same day, offering the third regional version in Japan following the Tokyo and western Japan editions.

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Tomari reactor resumes commercial operation

SAPPORO, Japan - Hokkaido Gov. Harumi Takahashi speaks at a news conference at the Hokkaido government office in Sapporo on Aug. 17, 2011. The No. 3 reactor at the Tomari nuclear power plant in Hokkaido resumed commercial operation the same day after Takahashi officially gave her approval, becoming the first among reactors undergoing regular checkups to resume commercial operation in Japan in the wake of the Fukushima crisis.

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Hokkaido Gov. Takahashi

SAPPORO, Japan - Hokkaido Gov. Harumi Takahashi replies to questions from reporters in Sapporo, Hokkaido Prefecture, on Aug. 17, 2011, after seeking approval from the prefectural assembly for resuming commercial operation of the No. 3 reactor at the Tomari nuclear power plant in the prefecture.

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300-strong Taiwan tourism delegation visits Hokkaido

SAPPORO, Japan - Wang Jin-pyng (R), president of Taiwan's Legislative Yuan or parliament, and Hokkaido Gov. Harumi Takahashi shake hands in Sapporo, the capital of the northernmost island prefecture of Japan, on May 12, 2011. A 300-strong Taiwan tourism delegation led by Wang arrived in Hokkaido the same day to help rehabilitate Japan's tourism industry, which has been hit hard by the March 11 earthquake, tsunami and subsequent nuclear crisis. Taiwan is Hokkaido's top source of foreign tourists, accounting for almost a quarter of all foreign visitors.

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Regional elections across Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara smiles in his election campaign office in Tokyo on April 10, 2011, after securing his reelection. Hokkaido Gov. Harumi Takahashi, a fellow incumbent linked with the opposition Liberal Democratic Party, also won reelection.

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Regional elections across Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara speaks before his supporters in his election campaign office in Tokyo on April 10, 2011, after securing his reelection. Harumi Takahashi, a fellow incumbent linked with the opposition Liberal Democratic Party, also won reelection.

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Regional elections across Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara smiles in his election campaign office in Tokyo on April 10, 2011, after securing his reelection. Hokkaido Gov. Harumi Takahashi, a fellow incumbent linked with the opposition Liberal Democratic Party, also won reelection.

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Regional elections across Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara speaks before his supporters in his election campaign office in Tokyo on April 10, 2011, after securing his reelection. Harumi Takahashi, a fellow incumbent linked with the opposition Liberal Democratic Party, also won reelection.