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Actor Otaki dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows veteran actor Hideji Otaki, who died on Oct. 2, 2012, at age 87.

Japan faces shortage of high-tech-oriented Braille transcribers

MITO, Japan - Hideji Nagaoka, a professor of information education at Tsukuba University of Technology, explains examples of symbols in Braille.

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Vice METI minister faces 2-month pay cut over scandals

TOKYO, Japan - Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Shoichi Nakagawa speaks at a press conference on Aug. 29. He announced a 20 percent pay cut for two months for his vice minister Hideji Sugiyama over a series of public fund misuse scandals involving officials at the ministry.

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Senior METI official misused 24 mil. yen for stock trading

TOKYO, Japan - Vice Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Hideji Sugiyama speaks at a press conference at his ministry in Tokyo on June 23 about a 24 million-yen misappropriation case involving a senior METI official.

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Wife of late founder of temple in Hengchun at memorial service

Chiyoko Nakajima (2nd from L), the wife of the late Hideji Nakajima who returned alive from a sinking ship in the Bashi Channel during World War II, prays for dead Japanese military members during a memorial service at the Choonji temple in Hengchun, on the southern tip of Taiwan, on Aug. 2, 2015. Nakajima founded the temple with his own money in 1981. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Vice METI minister faces 2-month pay cut over scandals

TOKYO, Japan - Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Shoichi Nakagawa speaks at a press conference on Aug. 29. He announced a 20 percent pay cut for two months for his vice minister Hideji Sugiyama over a series of public fund misuse scandals involving officials at the ministry. (Kyodo)

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Senior METI official misused 24 mil. yen for stock trading

TOKYO, Japan - Vice Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Hideji Sugiyama speaks at a press conference at his ministry in Tokyo on June 23 about a 24 million-yen misappropriation case involving a senior METI official. (Kyodo)

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Japan fishing boat crew returns home after release by Russia

Hideji Kagami (2nd from L), captain of the Japanese crab-fishing boat Nishino Maru No. 68, speaks to the press after returning, along with nine other crew members, to the boat's home port in Sakaiminato, Tottori Prefecture, on March 3, 2019. The boat had been detained by Russian authorities since late January over alleged illegal fishing. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan fishing boat crew returns home after release by Russia

Hideji Kagami (R), captain of the Japanese crab-fishing boat Nishino Maru No. 68, is greeted after returning, along with nine other crew members, to the boat's home port in Sakaiminato, Tottori Prefecture, on March 3, 2019. The boat had been detained by Russian authorities since late January over alleged illegal fishing. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo