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Baseball: Seibu Lions' Hirasawa

Taiga Hirasawa poses for photos at an introductory press conference in Tokorozawa in the eastern Japan prefecture of Saitama on Dec. 12, 2024, after joining the Seibu Lions from the Lotte Marines.

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Paintings on show to mark 20th anniv. of Teigin inmate's death

TOKYO, Japan - A painting by Sadamichi Hirasawa, who was sentenced to death over a 1948 mass-poisoning case known as the ''Teigin Incident,'' on display at a Tokyo art gallery on May 16 to mark the 20th anniversary of his death in prison. The exhibition shows about 50 works by the award-winning painter, who died in May 1987 at age 95 after he was first sentenced to death in 1950.

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New nutritious liquid for plants developed

OSAKA, Japan - Osaka City University Professor Eiji Hirasawa and his group said Sept. 16 they have developed nutritious liquid for plants that enables them to grow even with little sunshine. Photo shows a hibiscus (R), grown in a room with the new liquid, which contains sugar and citric acid, and the other (L) with conventional nutritious liquid.

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(1)LDP's Hirasawa criticized over trip for N. Korea talks

TOKYO, Japan - Katsuei Hirasawa, a lawmaker with the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, resigned April 2 as parliamentary secretary at the public management ministry after returning from a secret trip to China apparently to have talks with North Korean officials.

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(2)LDP's Hirasawa criticized over trip for N. Korea talks

TOKYO, Japan - Former Liberal Democratic Party Vice President Taku Yamasaki returns to Narita airport after a secret trip to China apparently to have talks with North Korean officials. He traveled with Katsuei Hirasawa, an LDP lawmaker, who resigned the same day as parliamentary secretary at the public management ministry after returning from the trip.

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Lawmakers group demands return of abductees in 1 month

TOKYO, Japan - Katsuei Hirasawa (standing), a House of Representatives legislator, speaks at a meeting in Tokyo on Oct. 4 of lawmakers supporting families of Japanese abducted to North Korea. The suprapartisan lawmakers urged Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to realize the return to Japan of surviving abductees within a month.

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New nutritious liquid for plants developed

OSAKA, Japan - Osaka City University Professor Eiji Hirasawa and his group said Sept. 16 they have developed nutritious liquid for plants that enables them to grow even with little sunshine. Photo shows a hibiscus (R), grown in a room with the new liquid, which contains sugar and citric acid, and the other (L) with conventional nutritious liquid. (Kyodo)

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Lawmakers group demands return of abductees in 1 month

TOKYO, Japan - Katsuei Hirasawa (standing), a House of Representatives legislator, speaks at a meeting in Tokyo on Oct. 4 of lawmakers supporting families of Japanese abducted to North Korea. The suprapartisan lawmakers urged Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to realize the return to Japan of surviving abductees within a month. (Kyodo)

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"Confession" expected to prove innocence of Teigin suspect

Sumio Hamada (C), professor emeritus at Nara Women's University, addresses a meeting of those working to exonerate a late death row inmate involved in the "Teigin" mass-poisoning case in Tokyo on May 28, 2016. Hamada said the interrogation records of Sadamichi Hirasawa show he lacked awareness of the crime, proving his innocence. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Appeal for retrial over Teigin Incident filed

Lawyers and supporters of deceased former death row inmate Sadamichi Hirasawa attend a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 24, 2015, after filing an appeal for a retrial in the hope of exonerating Hirasawa, accused of the 1948 Teigin Incident, one of the most mysterious mass-murder cases in postwar Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Lotte wins right to negotiate with infielder Hirasawa in NPB draft

Lotte Marines manager Tsutomu Ito (R) draws the "winning card" for securing the negotiating rights to Sendai Ikuei High School infielder Taiga Hirasawa in Nippon Professional Baseball's amateur draft in Tokyo on Oct. 22, 2015, as President Yozo Tachibana of the Rakuten Eagles, another Pacific League team, appears disappointed. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Paintings on show to mark 20th anniv. of Teigin inmate's death

TOKYO, Japan - A painting by Sadamichi Hirasawa, who was sentenced to death over a 1948 mass-poisoning case known as the ''Teigin Incident,'' on display at a Tokyo art gallery on May 16 to mark the 20th anniversary of his death in prison. The exhibition shows about 50 works by the award-winning painter, who died in May 1987 at age 95 after he was first sentenced to death in 1950. (Kyodo)

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Paintings of Teigin's Hirasawa to be featured in exhibition

TOKYO, Japan - This photo shows a watercolor painting that Sadamichi Hirasawa, who was given the death penalty for the Teigin Incident, drew at the age of 17. The painting titled ''Fukei,'' or landscape, will be displayed at the exhibition featuring Hirasawa at the Otaru City Museum of Art in Otaru, Hokkaido, from Feb. 27, 2010. (Photo courtesy of Takehiko Hirasawa) (Kyodo)

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25 yrs after Teigin convict's death

TOKYO, Japan - Takehiko Hirasawa, 53, speaks at a public gathering in Tokyo on May 10, 2012, to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the death of his father, Sadamichi Hirasawa, who was convicted over the 1948 mass-poisoning Teigin Incident. He is seeking a posthumous retrial, saying his father was innocent. (Kyodo)

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(2)LDP's Hirasawa criticized over trip for N. Korea talks

TOKYO, Japan - Former Liberal Democratic Party Vice President Taku Yamasaki returns to Narita airport after a secret trip to China apparently to have talks with North Korean officials. He traveled with Katsuei Hirasawa, an LDP lawmaker, who resigned the same day as parliamentary secretary at the public management ministry after returning from the trip. (Kyodo)

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(1)LDP's Hirasawa criticized over trip for N. Korea talks

TOKYO, Japan - Katsuei Hirasawa, a lawmaker with the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, resigned April 2 as parliamentary secretary at the public management ministry after returning from a secret trip to China apparently to have talks with North Korean officials. (Kyodo)

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New Japan PM Suga's Cabinet

Japanese Reconstruction Minister Katsuei Hirasawa speaks at a press conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo in the small hours of Sept. 17, 2020, after the launch of new Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga's Cabinet.

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Members of Japan PM Suga's Cabinet

Combined file photo shows (from L) Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato, who is also in charge of the abduction issue, Reconstruction Minister Katsuei Hirasawa and Hachiro Okonogi, chairman of the National Public Safety Commission and minister in charge of disaster management. Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga formed his Cabinet in Tokyo on Sept. 16, 2020.

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Japan's new Cabinet under PM Suga

Katsuei Hirasawa enters the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Sept. 16, 2020, after being named reconstruction minister in the Cabinet of Japan's new Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga.

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Evidence photos in 1948 Teigin murder case made public

TOKYO, Japan - About 200 photos of evidence in the 1948 ''Teigin (Teikoku Ginko) mass murder and robbery case,'' one of Japan's most sensational crimes in the aftermath of World War II, were made public Feb. 24 by the defense council for the late Sadamichi Hirasawa, the man convicted of the crime. In this photo taken by Masaaki Kato and released by the defense council, lawyer Makoto Endo examines the tea cups from which bank employees, 12 of whom died, drank a cyanide-laced ''antidote'' given to them by a man posing as a public health official.