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Demon Slayer Kimetsu no Yaiba - The Movie: Infinity Castle China Premiere Ceremony

SHANGHAI, CHINA - NOVEMBER 10, 2025 - Demon Slayer Kimetsu no Yaiba - The Movie: Infinity Castle China Premiere Ceremony, Japanese director Sotozaki Haruo and fans gather and exchange ideas, Shanghai, China on November 10, 2025.

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Demon Slayer Kimetsu no Yaiba - The Movie: Infinity Castle China Premiere Ceremony

SHANGHAI, CHINA - NOVEMBER 10, 2025 - Demon Slayer Kimetsu no Yaiba - The Movie: Infinity Castle China Premiere Ceremony, Japanese director Sotozaki Haruo and fans gather and exchange ideas, Shanghai, China on November 10, 2025.

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Demon Slayer Kimetsu no Yaiba - The Movie: Infinity Castle China Premiere Ceremony

SHANGHAI, CHINA - NOVEMBER 10, 2025 - Demon Slayer Kimetsu no Yaiba - The Movie: Infinity Castle China Premiere Ceremony, Japanese director Sotozaki Haruo and fans gather and exchange ideas, Shanghai, China on November 10, 2025.

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Demon Slayer Kimetsu no Yaiba - The Movie: Infinity Castle China Premiere Ceremony

SHANGHAI, CHINA - NOVEMBER 10, 2025 - Demon Slayer Kimetsu no Yaiba - The Movie: Infinity Castle China Premiere Ceremony, Japanese director Sotozaki Haruo and fans gather and exchange ideas, Shanghai, China on November 10, 2025.

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Demon Slayer Kimetsu no Yaiba - The Movie: Infinity Castle China Premiere Ceremony

SHANGHAI, CHINA - NOVEMBER 10, 2025 - Demon Slayer Kimetsu no Yaiba - The Movie: Infinity Castle China Premiere Ceremony, Japanese director Sotozaki Haruo and fans gather and exchange ideas, Shanghai, China on November 10, 2025.

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Demon Slayer Kimetsu no Yaiba - The Movie: Infinity Castle China Premiere Ceremony

SHANGHAI, CHINA - NOVEMBER 10, 2025 - Demon Slayer Kimetsu no Yaiba - The Movie: Infinity Castle China Premiere Ceremony, Japanese director Sotozaki Haruo and fans gather and exchange ideas, Shanghai, China on November 10, 2025.

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Rekanemab NHI drug price listing Eisai press conference

Rekanemab NHI drug price listing Eisai press conference. Haruo Naito, Representative Executive Officer and CEO of Eisai Co.=Date:December 13, 2023, Place:Tokyo

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Rekanemab NHI drug price listing Eisai press conference

Rekanemab NHI drug price listing Eisai press conference. Haruo Naito, Representative Executive Officer and CEO of Eisai Co.=Date:December 13, 2023, Place:Tokyo

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Rekanemab NHI drug price listing Eisai press conference

Rekanemab NHI drug price listing Eisai press conference. Haruo Naito, Representative Executive Officer and CEO of Eisai Co.=Date:December 13, 2023, Place:Tokyo

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Anti-Alzheimer's drug lecanemab

Haruo Naito, CEO of Japanese pharmaceutical company Eisai Co., attends a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 13, 2023, as the company's anti-Alzheimer's drug lecanemab is set to be launched on Dec. 20, following a health ministry advisory body's approval of its coverage by the Japanese public insurance scheme.

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Anti-Alzheimer's drug lecanemab

Haruo Naito, CEO of Japanese pharmaceutical company Eisai Co., attends a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 13, 2023, as the company's anti-Alzheimer's drug lecanemab is set to be launched on Dec. 20, following a health ministry advisory body's approval of its coverage by the Japanese public insurance scheme.

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Japan's discharge of radioactive wastewater is a matter of survival: Fukushima fisherman

STORY: Japan's discharge of radioactive wastewater is a matter of survival: Fukushima fisherman DATELINE: Aug. 24, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:06 LOCATION: SHINCHI, Japan CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT SHOTLIST: 1. various of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant 2. various of the fisherman fishing 3. SOUNDBITE (Japanese): ONO HARUO, Fisherman in Shinchi town, Fukushima County STORYLINE: Japan started releasing the first batch of nuclear-contaminated wastewater from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the Pacific Ocean on Thursday. This extremely selfish and irresponsible disposal of the radioactive water has aroused strong opposition from neighboring countries, Pacific island countries and local fishermen. The 71-year-old fisherman Ono Haruo lives in Shinchi town, Fukushima Prefecture. He started fishing since he was 15 years old. He has expressed deep concern over his livelihood in the future. SOUNDBITE (Japanese): ONO HARUO, Fisherman in Shinchi town, Fukushima Prefecture "The fishery

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JAPAN-FUKUSHIMA-NUKE WASTEWATER DISCHARGE-FISHERY

(230824) -- FUKUSHIMA, Aug. 24, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Fisherman Ono Haruo arranges fishes at Tsurishihama Fishing Port in Shinchi Town, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, Aug. 23, 2023. Japan started releasing nuclear-contaminated wastewater from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the Pacific Ocean on Thursday, despite raging opposition from both at home and abroad. Japan's Fisheries Agency said it will monitor concentration levels of radioactive materials in fish caught within a 10-km radius of the power plant. The first results are expected to be released on the agency's website no sooner than Saturday. (Xinhua/Zhang Xiaoyu)

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JAPAN-FUKUSHIMA-NUKE WASTEWATER DISCHARGE-FISHERY

(230824) -- FUKUSHIMA, Aug. 24, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Fisherman Ono Haruo sits at Tsurishihama Fishing Port after fishing in Shinchi Town, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, Aug. 23, 2023. Japan started releasing nuclear-contaminated wastewater from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the Pacific Ocean on Thursday, despite raging opposition from both at home and abroad. Japan's Fisheries Agency said it will monitor concentration levels of radioactive materials in fish caught within a 10-km radius of the power plant. The first results are expected to be released on the agency's website no sooner than Saturday. (Xinhua/Zhang Xiaoyu)

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Eisai Receives Official U.S. FDA Approval for Recanemab for the Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease Press Conference

Eisai Receives Official U.S. FDA Approval for Recanemab for the Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease. Photo shows Haruo Naito, Eisai Representative Executive Officer, at the press conference.=Date:July 7, 2023,Place:Tokyo

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Eisai Receives Official U.S. FDA Approval for Recanemab for the Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease Press Conference

Eisai Receives Official U.S. FDA Approval for Recanemab for the Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease. Photo shows Haruo Naito, Eisai Representative Executive Officer, at the press conference.=Date:July 7, 2023,Place:Tokyo

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Eisai Receives Official U.S. FDA Approval for Recanemab for the Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease Press Conference

Eisai Receives Official U.S. FDA Approval for Recanemab for the Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease. Photo shows Haruo Naito, Eisai Representative Executive Officer, at the press conference.=Date:July 7, 2023,Place:Tokyo

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Eisai CEO Naito

Haruo Naito, CEO of Japanese pharmaceutical company Eisai Co., speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on July 7, 2023, after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted full approval for Eisai and Biogen Inc.'s anti-Alzheimer's drug lecanemab.

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Eisai CEO Naito

Haruo Naito, CEO of Japanese pharmaceutical company Eisai Co., speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on July 7, 2023, after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted full approval for Eisai and Biogen Inc.'s anti-Alzheimer's drug lecanemab.

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Eisai CEO Naito

Haruo Naito, CEO of Japanese pharmaceutical company Eisai Co., speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on July 7, 2023, after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted full approval for Eisai and Biogen Inc.'s anti-Alzheimer's drug lecanemab.

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Eisai CEO Naito

Haruo Naito, CEO of Japanese pharmaceutical company Eisai Co., speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on July 7, 2023, after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted full approval for Eisai and Biogen Inc.'s anti-Alzheimer's drug lecanemab.

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U.S. regulators OK Alzheimer's drug developed by Japan's Eisai

Japanese pharmaceutical maker Eisai Co. CEO Haruo Naito holds a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 7, 2023, a day after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved lecanemab, an Alzheimer's drug developed by his company and U.S. firm Biogen Inc. for treatment in the early stage of the fatal, brain-robbing disease.

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U.S. regulators OK Alzheimer's drug developed by Japan's Eisai

Japanese pharmaceutical maker Eisai Co. CEO Haruo Naito holds a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 7, 2023, a day after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved lecanemab, an Alzheimer's drug developed by his company and U.S. firm Biogen Inc. for treatment in the early stage of the fatal, brain-robbing disease.

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U.S. regulators OK Alzheimer's drug developed by Japan's Eisai

Japanese pharmaceutical maker Eisai Co. CEO Haruo Naito holds a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 7, 2023, a day after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved lecanemab, an Alzheimer's drug developed by his company and U.S. firm Biogen Inc. for treatment in the early stage of the fatal, brain-robbing disease.

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Japan teen wins int'l ballet competition

LAUSANNE, Switzerland - Haruo Niyama, a 17-year-old Japanese boy, receives applause after winning an international ballet competition in Lausanne, Switzerland, on Feb. 1, 2014, for teenagers aiming to dance professionally.

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Japan teen wins int'l ballet competition

LAUSANNE, Switzerland - Photo shows Haruo Niyama, a 17-year-old Japanese boy, who won an international ballet competition in Lausanne, Switzerland, on Feb. 1, 2014, for teenagers aiming to dance professionally.

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Japan teen wins int'l ballet competition

LAUSANNE, Switzerland - Photo shows Haruo Niyama, a 17-year-old Japanese boy, who won an international ballet competition in Lausanne, Switzerland, on Feb. 1, 2014, for teenagers aiming to dance professionally.

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Japan teen wins int'l ballet competition

LAUSANNE, Switzerland - Photo shows Haruo Niyama (C), a 17-year-old Japanese boy, who won an international ballet competition in Lausanne, Switzerland, on Feb. 1, 2014, for teenagers aiming to dance professionally. At left is Sae Maeda, who was second, and at right is Mikio Kato, who was sixth in the competition.

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Conductor Ozawa performs with Niyama

MATSUMOTO, Japan - Haruo Niyama, a 17-year-old high school student who won an international ballet competition in Lausanne, Switzerland, in February, performs to Mozart's Minuet conducted by Seiji Ozawa (L) during the Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto in the city of Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, on Sept. 6, 2014. The annual festival, which is one of the premier classical music festivals in Japan, will be renamed the Seiji Ozawa Matsumto Festival from next year.

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Conductor Ozawa performs with Niyama

MATSUMOTO, Japan - Haruo Niyama, a 17-year-old high school student who won an international ballet competition in Lausanne, Switzerland, in February, performs to Mozart's Minuet conducted by Seiji Ozawa (R) during the Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto in the city of Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, on Sept. 6, 2014. The annual festival, which is one of the premier classical music festivals in Japan, will be renamed the Seiji Ozawa Matsumto Festival from next year.

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Conductor Ozawa performs with Niyama

MATSUMOTO, Japan - Haruo Niyama, a 17-year-old high school student who won an international ballet competition in Lausanne, Switzerland, in February, performs to Mozart's Minuet conducted by Seiji Ozawa (L) during the Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto in the city of Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, on Sept. 6, 2014. The annual festival, which is one of the premier classical music festivals in Japan, will be renamed the Seiji Ozawa Matsumto Festival from next year.

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New genus, species of titanosaur found in Hyogo

KOBE, Japan - Haruo Saegusa, chief researcher at the Museum of Nature and Human Activities, Hyogo in Sanda, Hyogo Prefecture, holds fossil remains on Aug. 7, 2014, of a partial skeleton of a titanosaur dating from the Lower Cretaceous period that were unearthed in the prefecture. The dinosaur represents a new genus and species of titanosauriform sauropods.

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Conductor Ozawa, dancer Niyama paired for music festival

MATSUMOTO, Japan - World-renowned conductor Seiji Ozawa (L) and Prix de Lausanne dance contest winner Haruo Niyama pose at a press conference in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, on June 2, 2014. The pair is scheduled to appear jointly during an annual music festival in the eastern Japan city.

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Japanese wins int'l youth ballet meet in N.Y.

NEW YORK, United States - Haruo Niyama (R), a 17-year-old Japanese ballet dancer, holds a trophy after winning top prize in a division for men aged 15 to 19 in the Youth America Grand Prix in New York on April 11, 2014. Niyama won the prize on April 10, while compatriot Natsuki Yamada (L) placed fourth in a division for women aged 17 to 19.

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Japanese dancer wins prize at int'l youth ballet competition

TOKYO, Japan -File photo shows Japanese ballet dancer Haruo Niyama performing in a ceremony before a professional baseball game at Tokyo Dome in March 2014. It was announced April 10, 2014, that the 17-year-old had won the first prize in the men's senior age division between 15 and 19 at the Youth America Grand Prix ballet competition in New York.

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Japanese dancer wins prize at int'l youth ballet competition

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Japanese ballet dancer Haruo Niyama performing in a ceremony before a professional baseball game at Tokyo Dome in March 2014. It was announced April 10, 2014, that the 17-year-old had won the first prize in the men's senior age division between 15 and 19 at the Youth America Grand Prix ballet competition in New York.

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Japanese dancer wins prize at int'l youth ballet competition

TOKYO, Japan - Undated photo shows Japanese ballet dancer Haruo Niyama. It was announced April 10, 2014, that the 17-year-old had won the first prize in the men's senior age division between 15 and 19 at the Youth America Grand Prix ballet competition in New York.

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Project under way to see inside reactors with "muons"

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Jan. 31, 2014 in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, shows Haruo Miyadera, a Toshiba Corp. researcher who is engaged in a project to see into the interior of reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant which suffered meltdowns due to the earthquake and tsunami in March 2011 using elementary particles called "muons."

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Japanese A-bomb illness expert

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken Jan. 31, 2014, in the city of Hiroshima shows Nobuo Takeichi, a thyroid specialist, speaking about his late teacher Haruo Ezaki's report on a 1972 inspection of a U.S. medical survey team's activities in the Marshall Islands to check on the effects of the 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test on Bikini Atoll.

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Lausanne ballet competition winner Niyama returns home

NARITA, Japan - Haruo Niyama, who won the prestigious Prix de Lausanne, an international competition for young ballet dancers, on Feb. 1, smiles as he arrives at Narita International Airport, northeast of Tokyo on Feb. 5, 2014. The 17-year-old high school student from Nagano Prefecture earned the highest marks among the 20 finalists at the competition.

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Lausanne ballet competition winner Niyama returns home

NARITA, Japan - Haruo Niyama, who won the prestigious Prix de Lausanne, an international competition for young ballet dancers, on Feb. 1, arrives at Narita International Airport, northeast of Tokyo on Feb. 5, 2014. The 17-year-old high school student from Nagano Prefecture earned the highest marks among the 20 finalists at the competition.

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Lausanne ballet competition winner Niyama returns home

NARITA, Japan - Haruo Niyama (C), winner of the prestigious Prix de Lausanne international competition for young ballet dancers, smiles as he is greeted by supporters upon arrival at Narita International Airport, northeast of Tokyo, on Feb. 5, 2014. The 17-year-old high school student from Nagano Prefecture earned the highest mark among the 20 finalists at the Feb. 1 competition.

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Postwar model train magazine publishes 800th edition

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Jan. 16, 2014 shows Haruo Ishibashi, editor in chief of the monthly magazine "Tetsudo Mokei Shumi" (model railway hobby), at the office of its publisher Kigei Publishing Co. in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward. Launched in 1947, the magazine issued its 800th edition in January 2014.

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Niigata marks 5th anniversary of fatal Chuetsu quake

NIIGATA, Japan - Haruo Motoi, who lost his mother in a 2007 earthquake, speaks during a memorial ceremony on July 16, 2012, in Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture, which was held to mark the fifth anniversary of the magnitude 6.8 earthquake that hit the coast of the Chuetsu region in the prefecture claiming 15 lives.

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Ozu to become Japan's top prosecutor

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken on Aug. 12, 2011, shows Hiroshi Ozu, chief of the Tokyo High Public Prosecutors Office. Ozu will be promoted to Japan's prosecutor-general, or chief of the Supreme Public Prosecutors Office, to replace Haruo Kasama, justice ministry and prosecution sources said on July 4, 2012.

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Kasama appointed as Japan's top prosecutor

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Haruo Kasama, who was appointed as prosecutor general, chief of the Supreme Public Prosecutors Office, on Dec. 24, 2010. Kasama succeeds Hiroshi Obayashi, who is to step down over an evidence-tampering scandal involving senior Osaka prosecutors.

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Emperor, empress host autumn garden party

TOKYO, Japan - Emperor Akihito (2nd from L) talks to Haruo Sato (2nd from R in front) who contributed to the protection of the Japanese crested ibis during an autumn garden party the emperor and Empress Michiko (L in background) hosted at the Akasaka Imperial Garden in Tokyo on Oct. 23.

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JVC, Kenwood announce Oct. 1 merger

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Hidetoshi Yoshida, an executive of Victor Co. of Japan Ltd., Victor President Kunihiko Sato, Kenwood Corp. Chairman Haruo Kawahara and Kenwood President Kazuo Shiohata join hands at a Tokyo hotel on May 12 after the two companies announced they will merge under a joint holding company called JVC Kenwood Holdings Inc. on Oct. 1, aiming to enhance their competitive edge in the consumer electronics market.

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Relatives of missing fishermen visit accident site

CHIBA, Japan - The families and relatives of two fishermen, who went missing after their boat collided with a Maritime Self-Defense Force Aegis-equipped destroyer, visit the accident site in the Pacific off Chiba Prefecture on Feb. 23. Some 30 relatives of Haruo Kichisei, 58, and his 23-year-old son Tetsuhiro of the 7.3-ton Seitoku Maru visited the site.

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Search continues for missing fishermen

KATSUURA, Japan - Friends and relatives of Haruo Kichisei, 58, and his son Tetsuhito, 23, who went missing Feb. 19 after their fishing boat was hit by a Japanese destroyer, gather at the Kawatsu fishing port in Katsuura, Chiba Prefecture, Feb. 20 to pray for their safe return. The Japan Coast Guard continued searching for the pair in the Pacific off the Chiba coast Feb. 20.