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Japan: Storm System Brings Intense Lightning to Southwestern Region 2

The Japan Meteorological Agency issued weather alerts for Nagasaki and Kumamoto Prefectures in southwestern Japan on Wednesday, September 10, as a Linear Precipitation Band brought severe downpour to the area. Officials also warned residents across a wide area along the Sea of Japan coast for flooding in low-lying areas, and swelling and overflowing rivers due to heavy rain with lightning.

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Japan: Heavy Rains Trigger Severe Flooding, Landslide in Kumamoto 5

Bands of heavy rain lashed Kumamoto Prefecture in southwestern Japan from Sunday night, August 10, into Monday, August 11, triggering flash flooding across the region. The Japan Meteorological Agency issued a heavy rain emergency warning for the cities of Yatsushiro, Tamana, Kamiamakusa, Uki, and Amakusa, as well as the towns of Nagasu and Hikawa. In Kosa Town, a mother and her two children were rescued after a landslide struck their vehicle. A man who was outside the vehicle remains missing. In Tamana, a resident reported that one person had been swept away in the Sakaigawa River. This video shows a flooded parking lot at Suizenji Ezuko park in Higashi Ward, Kumamoto City.

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Japan: Heavy Rains Trigger Severe Flooding, Landslide in Kumamoto

Bands of heavy rain lashed Kumamoto Prefecture in southwestern Japan from Sunday night, August 10, into Monday, August 11, triggering flash flooding across the region. The Japan Meteorological Agency issued a heavy rain emergency warning for the cities of Yatsushiro, Tamana, Kamiamakusa, Uki, and Amakusa, as well as the towns of Nagasu and Hikawa. In Kosa Town, a mother and her two children were rescued after a landslide struck their vehicle. A man who was outside the vehicle remains missing. In Tamana, a resident reported that one person had been swept away in the Sakaigawa River.

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Buddhist ritual in Kyoto

Buddhist monks sway while chanting at Higashi Hongan-ji temple in Kyoto on Nov. 28, 2024, during a ritual to commemorate the death of Shinran, a famous 13th-century monk who founded the Jodo Shinshu school of Buddhism.

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Buddhist ritual in Kyoto

Buddhist monks sway while chanting at Higashi Hongan-ji temple in Kyoto on Nov. 28, 2024, during a ritual to commemorate the death of Shinran, a famous 13th-century monk who founded the Jodo Shinshu school of Buddhism.

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Buddhist ritual in Kyoto

Buddhist monks sway while chanting at Higashi Hongan-ji temple in Kyoto on Nov. 28, 2024, during a ritual to commemorate the death of Shinran, a famous 13th-century monk who founded the Jodo Shinshu school of Buddhism.

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[Breaking News]Baseball facility built by major leaguer Kikuchi

HANAMAKI, Japan, Nov. 19 Kyodo - Japanese major league pitcher and Hanamaki Higashi High School alumni Yusei Kikuchi throws in an indoor baseball facility built by him in Hanamaki in the northeastern Japan prefecture of Iwate on Nov. 17, 2024. Called King of the Hill, the facility houses a weight training area and a sauna room as well as batting and pitching areas, with a baseball clinic for children scheduled to open in December. (Kyodo)

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Baseball facility built by major leaguer Kikuchi

Japanese major league pitcher and Hanamaki Higashi High School alumni Yusei Kikuchi (C) attends a tape-cutting ceremony to mark the opening of an indoor baseball facility built by him in Hanamaki in the northeastern Japan prefecture of Iwate on Nov. 17, 2024. Called King of the Hill, the facility houses a weight training area and a sauna room as well as batting and pitching areas, with a baseball clinic for children scheduled to open in December.

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Baseball facility built by major leaguer Kikuchi

Japanese major league pitcher and Hanamaki Higashi High School alumni Yusei Kikuchi holds a press conference following a ceremony to mark the opening of an indoor baseball facility built by him in Hanamaki in the northeastern Japan prefecture of Iwate on Nov. 17, 2024. Called King of the Hill, the facility houses a weight training area and a sauna room as well as batting and pitching areas, with a baseball clinic for children scheduled to open in December.

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Baseball facility built by major leaguer Kikuchi

Japanese major league pitcher and Hanamaki Higashi High School alumni Yusei Kikuchi throws in an indoor baseball facility built by him in Hanamaki in the northeastern Japan prefecture of Iwate on Nov. 17, 2024. Called King of the Hill, the facility houses a weight training area and a sauna room as well as batting and pitching areas, with a baseball clinic for children scheduled to open in December.

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Baseball facility built by major leaguer Kikuchi

Japanese major league pitcher and Hanamaki Higashi High School alumni Yusei Kikuchi throws in an indoor baseball facility built by him in Hanamaki in the northeastern Japan prefecture of Iwate on Nov. 17, 2024. Called King of the Hill, the facility houses a weight training area and a sauna room as well as batting and pitching areas, with a baseball clinic for children scheduled to open in December.

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Baseball facility built by major leaguer Kikuchi

Photo taken on Nov. 17, 2024, shows an indoor baseball facility built by Japanese major league pitcher and Hanamaki Higashi High School alumni Yusei Kikuchi in Hanamaki in the northeastern Japan prefecture of Iwate. Called King of the Hill, the facility houses a weight training area and a sauna room as well as batting and pitching areas, with a baseball clinic scheduled to open in December.

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Baseball facility built by major leaguer Kikuchi

Photo taken on Nov. 17, 2024, shows an indoor baseball facility built by Japanese major league pitcher and Hanamaki Higashi High School alumni Yusei Kikuchi in Hanamaki in the northeastern Japan prefecture of Iwate. Called King of the Hill, the facility houses a weight training area and a sauna room as well as batting and pitching areas, with a baseball clinic scheduled to open in December.

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Higashi Otani (Otani Sobyo Mausoleum of Higashi Honganji Temple)

Higashi Otani (Otani Sobyo Mausoleum of Higashi Honganji Temple)==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6879]

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Japan: Intense Torrential Rain Causes Flash Flooding In Tokyo 3

Heavy rainfall hit the Tokyo metropolitan area on Wednesday, August 21 causing flash flooding on streets and underground. Train services were disrupted during evening rush hour due to the rain. Videos posted on social media shows water falling from ceilings like a waterfall inside stations and streets flooded like a river across the city.

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Japan: Intense Rain Hits Evening Rush Hour In Tokyo, Trains Suspended 7

Heavy rainfall hit the Tokyo metropolitan area on Wednesday, August 21 disrupting some train services during evening rush hour. Videos posted on social media shows water falling from ceilings like a waterfall inside stations and streets flooded like a river across the city.

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Kyoto temple's summer lanterns

Families visit their ancestors' graves at Otani Mausoleum of Higashi Honganji, a Buddhist temple in Kyoto, western Japan, on Aug. 14, 2024. The annual summer event featuring some 10,000 illuminated lanterns is called "Mantoue."

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Kyoto temple's summer lanterns

Families visit their ancestors' graves at Otani Mausoleum of Higashi Honganji, a Buddhist temple in Kyoto, western Japan, on Aug. 14, 2024. The annual summer event featuring some 10,000 illuminated lanterns is called "Mantoue."

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Kyoto temple's summer lanterns

Families visit their ancestors' graves at Otani Mausoleum of Higashi Honganji, a Buddhist temple in Kyoto, western Japan, on Aug. 14, 2024. The annual summer event featuring some 10,000 illuminated lanterns is called "Mantoue."

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Kyoto temple's summer lanterns

Lanterns illuminate the grounds of Higashi Honganji, a Buddhist temple in Kyoto, western Japan, on Aug. 14, 2024. Some 10,000 lanterns are featured in an annual summer event called "Mantoue."

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Kyoto temple's summer lanterns

Families visit their ancestors' graves at Otani Mausoleum of Higashi Honganji, a Buddhist temple in Kyoto, western Japan, on Aug. 14, 2024. The annual summer event featuring some 10,000 illuminated lanterns is called "Mantoue."

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CORRECTED: PM Kishida at chip factory construction site in Hokkaido

Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (2nd from R) is pictured with Rapidus Corp. Chairman Tetsuro Higashi on July 24, 2024, as he visits the construction site of a semiconductor factory in Chitose, Hokkaido, northern Japan, to be operated by a government-subsidized chip venture set up by Toyota Motor Corp. and seven other Japanese companies in 2022. (Pool photo)

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Baseball: Teenage slugger Sasaki

Japanese teenage slugger Rintaro Sasaki poses for a photo in front of journalists at Hanamaki Higashi High School -- which Los Angeles Dodgers two-way star Shohei Ohtani also attended -- in Hanamaki, Iwate Prefecture, on Feb. 20, 2024. Stanford University announced a week before that Sasaki, who hit 140 home runs in his high school career, will enroll at the school in April before joining its baseball team for the 2025 season.

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Baseball: Teenage slugger Sasaki

Japanese teenage slugger Rintaro Sasaki poses in front of journalists at Hanamaki Higashi High School -- which Los Angeles Dodgers two-way star Shohei Ohtani also attended -- in Hanamaki, Iwate Prefecture, on Feb. 20, 2024. Stanford University announced a week before that Sasaki, who hit 140 home runs in his high school career, will enroll at the school in April before joining its baseball team for the 2025 season.

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Baseball: Teenage slugger Sasaki

Japanese teenage slugger Rintaro Sasaki meets the press at Hanamaki Higashi High School -- which Los Angeles Dodgers two-way star Shohei Ohtani also attended -- in Hanamaki, Iwate Prefecture, on Feb. 20, 2024. Stanford University announced a week before that Sasaki, who hit 140 home runs in his high school career, will enroll at the school in April before joining its baseball team for the 2025 season.

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Snow-covered geisha district in central Japan

People walk on a snow-covered street lined with traditional teahouses in the Higashi Chaya geisha district in Kanazawa, central Japan, on Dec. 22, 2023.

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Snow-covered geisha district in central Japan

People walk on a snow-covered street lined with traditional teahouses in the Higashi Chaya geisha district in Kanazawa, central Japan, on Dec. 22, 2023.

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Snow-covered geisha district in central Japan

People walk on a snow-covered street lined with traditional teahouses in the Higashi Chaya geisha district in Kanazawa, central Japan, on Dec. 22, 2023.

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Folding screen picture drawn by Takehiko Inoue

KYOTO, Japan, Jan. 16 Kyodo - A folding screen picture drawn by manga artist Takehiko Inoue, titled "Shinran," the founder of the Jodo Shinshu school of Buddhism, is shown to the press at Higashi Honganji temple in Kyoto, western Japan, on March 26, 2011.

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Buddhist ritual in Kyoto

Buddhist monks sway their bodies while chanting at Higashi Hongan-ji temple in Kyoto on Nov. 28, 2023, during a ritual to commemorate the death of Shinran, a famous 13th-century monk and the founder of the Jodo Shinshu school of Buddhism.

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Buddhist ritual in Kyoto

Buddhist monks sway their bodies while chanting at Higashi Hongan-ji temple in Kyoto on Nov. 28, 2023, during a ritual to commemorate the death of Shinran, a famous 13th-century monk and the founder of the Jodo Shinshu school of Buddhism.

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Baseball: Ichiro as temporary high school team instructor

Former Seattle Mariners outfielder Ichiro Suzuki coaches players of Asahikawa Higashi High School's baseball club as a temporary instructor on Nov. 5, 2023, in Asahikawa in Hokkaido, northern Japan.

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Baseball: Ichiro as temporary high school team instructor

Former Seattle Mariners outfielder Ichiro Suzuki coaches players of Asahikawa Higashi High School's baseball club as a temporary instructor on Nov. 5, 2023, in Asahikawa in Hokkaido, northern Japan.

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Baseball: Ichiro as temporary high school team instructor

Former Seattle Mariners outfielder Ichiro Suzuki coaches players of Asahikawa Higashi High School's baseball club as a temporary instructor on Nov. 5, 2023, in Asahikawa in Hokkaido, northern Japan.

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Signage and logo of Tokyo Higashi Shinkin Bank

Signage and logo of Tokyo Higashi Shinkin Bank=Date:October 24, 2023, Place:Tokyo

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Baseball: High school slugger Rintaro Sasaki

Rintaro Sasaki, a baseball slugger who plays for MLB star Shohei Ohtani's alma mater Hanamaki Higashi High School, is pictured during a game in the southwestern Japan city of Kagoshima on Oct. 10, 2023. Sasaki revealed the same day his plan to forgo the upcoming Nippon Professional Baseball draft and pursue a college education in the United States.

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Baseball: High school slugger Rintaro Sasaki

Rintaro Sasaki, a baseball slugger who plays for MLB star Shohei Ohtani's alma mater Hanamaki Higashi High School, leaves the park after a game in the southwestern Japan city of Kagoshima on Oct. 10, 2023. Sasaki revealed the same day his plan to forgo the upcoming Nippon Professional Baseball draft and pursue a college education in the United States.

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Signage and logo of Tokyo Higashi Shinkin Bank

Signage and logo of Tokyo Higashi Shinkin Bank=Date:July 13, 2023,Place:Chiba pref.

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Signage and logo of Tokyo Higashi Shinkin Bank

Signage and logo of Tokyo Higashi Shinkin Bank=Date:July 13, 2023,Place:Chiba pref.

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MOVED BY AN IDEA

MOVED BY AN IDEA, Toyota Amlux, Toyota Auto Salon Amlux Tokyo, 1993 TOYOTA IDEA, Toyota Motor Corporation display showroom, interesting vehicles, Toyota Motor Corporation, Amlux Toyota, events, Japanese companies, Toyota Motor Corporation Ikebukuro Building, now Sunshine City Annex=Date:January 2, 1994, Place:Higashi-Ikebukuro, Toshima-ku, Tokyo,JAPAN

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850th anniv. of Shinran's birth

Buddhist monks hold a memorial service at Higashi Honganji temple in Kyoto on March 25, 2023, to mark the 850th anniversary of the birth of Shinran, founder of the Jodo Shinshu school of Buddhism.

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850th anniv. of Shinran's birth

Buddhist monks hold a memorial service at Higashi Honganji temple in Kyoto on March 25, 2023, to mark the 850th anniversary of the birth of Shinran, founder of the Jodo Shinshu school of Buddhism.

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850th anniv. of Shinran's birth

Buddhist monks hold a memorial service at Higashi Honganji temple in Kyoto on March 25, 2023, to mark the 850th anniversary of the birth of Shinran, founder of the Jodo Shinshu school of Buddhism.

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Year-end cleanup at Kyoto temple

People beat the dust out of the straw-mat floor during year-end cleaning at Higashi Honganji temple in Kyoto on Dec.20, 2022.

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Year-end cleanup at Kyoto temple

People beat the dust out of the straw-mat floor during year-end cleaning at Higashi Honganji temple in Kyoto on Dec.20, 2022.

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Ex-Taiwan President Lee wraps up Japan trip

KYOTO, Japan - Former Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui offers flowers at the tomb of the late Japanese author Ryotaro Shiba in Kyoto's Higashi Ward on Jan. 2 before wrapping up his weeklong visit to Japan.

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Arms confiscated from gangster who sold woman to brothel

UTSUNOMIYA, Japan - Three handguns and 23 bullets confiscated from a gangster who has been was arrested for allegedly selling a Japanese woman for prostitution are on display at the Utsunomiya Higashi Police Station in Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture on Sept. 13. The gangster, Wataru Kurihara, 26, allegedly sold a woman to a brothel for 1.5 million yen. Police say this is the first case where a Japanese woman has been sold in Japan for prostitution.

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Japanese painter, Egyptian children pose before mural

GIZA, Egypt - Japanese painter Shinichiro Higashi (R) and Egyptian children strike a pose in Giza near Cairo in front of his peace-advocating mural on Jan. 8, 2015.

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Egyptians gather before Japanese artist's peace mural

GIZA, Egypt - People gather in front of a mural drawn by Japanese painter Shinichiro Higashi to express his hope for peace in Giza near Cairo on Jan. 8, 2015.

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Monks at Kyoto Buddhist temple hold ritual

KYOTO, Japan - Monks at the Higashi Honganji Buddhist temple in Kyoto, western Japan, hold a ritual on Nov. 28, 2014, chanting sutras in chorus while intensively rocking their upper bodies.