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Basketball: Hachimura visits Nagoya mayor

Los Angeles Lakers forward Rui Hachimura (L) poses for a photo with Nagoya Mayor Ichiro Hirosawa during a courtesy call at the city hall in Nagoya on Aug. 20, 2025. The newly built IG Arena in the central Japan city hosted Hachimura's three-day basketball camp for junior high and high school students from Aug. 18.

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World Cosplay Summit in Nagoya

Participants of the World Cosplay Summit pose for a photo as they meet Nagoya Mayor Ichiro Hirosawa (C, front row) on July 30, 2025, two days ahead of the event's opening in the central Japan city.

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Baseball proponents vow to reinstate sport as Olympic game

TOKYO, Japan - Some participants in Olympic baseball games in the past 30 years vow to make efforts to reinstate baseball as an official Olympic event in a talk show at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Tokyo on Aug. 7, 2014. The event, held to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Japan's win in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics as a demonstration event, was joined by (from L) former player Katsumi Hirosawa, and former managers Masatake Yamanaka, Reiichi Matsunaga, Yoshinobu Suzuki, Katsuji Kawashima and Kozo Otagaki.

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(2)Hanshin veteran Hirosawa calls it quits

NISHINOMIYA, Japan - Hanshin Tigers infielder Katsumi Hirosawa (R) is presented with flowers after announcing his retirement at a news conference at Koshien Stadium on Oct. 30.

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(1)Hanshin veteran Hirosawa calls it quits

NISHINOMIYA, Japan - Hanshin Tigers infielder Katsumi Hirosawa, the oldest active player in Japanese baseball, announces his retirement at a news conference in Nishinomiya on Oct. 30. ''Physically, I still feel I'm able (to continue playing) but I am a family man and I want to go home and do the kind of things regular fathers do with their kids,'' the 41-year-old Hirosawa told reporters at Koshien Stadium.

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Hirosawa hits two home runs

TOKYO, Japan - Hanshin Tigers slugger Katsumi Hirosawa (R) is greeted by teammate Shinjiro Hiyama after hitting a two-run homer, his second of the game, in the top of the seventh inning against the Yomiuri Giants at Tokyo Dome on Aug. 7

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Hirosawa hits two home runs

TOKYO, Japan - Hanshin Tigers slugger Katsumi Hirosawa (R) is greeted by teammate Shinjiro Hiyama after hitting a two-run homer, his second of the game, in the top of the seventh inning against the Yomiuri Giants at Tokyo Dome on Aug. 7

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Hirosawa Saneomi

Hirosawa Saneomi==Date:Early Meiji, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images)

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(2)Hanshin veteran Hirosawa calls it quits

NISHINOMIYA, Japan - Hanshin Tigers infielder Katsumi Hirosawa (R) is presented with flowers after announcing his retirement at a news conference at Koshien Stadium on Oct. 30. (Kyodo)

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(1)Hanshin veteran Hirosawa calls it quits

NISHINOMIYA, Japan - Hanshin Tigers infielder Katsumi Hirosawa, the oldest active player in Japanese baseball, announces his retirement at a news conference in Nishinomiya on Oct. 30. ''Physically, I still feel I'm able (to continue playing) but I am a family man and I want to go home and do the kind of things regular fathers do with their kids,'' the 41-year-old Hirosawa told reporters at Koshien Stadium. (Kyodo)

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Japan's 1st postwar plane

Photo taken July 11, 2020, shows Japan's first postwar mass-produced passenger plane, the YS-11, at Hirosawa City theme park in Chikusei, Ibaraki Prefecture. The reassembling process will be shown free of charge until July 26.

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Japan's 1st postwar plane

Visitors see the reassembling of Japan's first postwar mass-produced passenger plane, the YS-11, on July 11, 2020, at Hirosawa City theme park in Chikusei, Ibaraki Prefecture. The process will be shown free of charge until July 26.

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Japan's 1st postwar plane

Visitors see the reassembling of Japan's first postwar mass-produced passenger plane, the YS-11, on July 11, 2020, at Hirosawa City theme park in Chikusei, Ibaraki Prefecture. The process will be shown free of charge until July 26.

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YS-11 airplane

The first model of the YS-11 twin-propeller plane, which retired in 1998 and is now under disassembling, is unveiled to the media at Haneda airport in Tokyo on Jan. 15, 2020. The YS-11, the first passenger plane built in postwar Japan, will be transported to and reassembled at the Hirosawa City theme park in Chikusei in Ibaraki Prefecture, eastern Japan, for permanent display to the public. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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YS-11 airplane

The first model of the YS-11 twin-propeller plane, which retired in 1998 and is now under disassembling, is unveiled to the media at Haneda airport in Tokyo on Jan. 15, 2020. The YS-11, the first passenger plane built in postwar Japan, will be transported to and reassembled at the Hirosawa City theme park in Chikusei in Ibaraki Prefecture, eastern Japan, for permanent display to the public. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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YS-11 airplane

The first model of the YS-11 twin-propeller plane, which retired in 1998 and is now under disassembling, is unveiled to the media at Haneda airport in Tokyo on Jan. 15, 2020. The YS-11, the first passenger plane built in postwar Japan, will be transported to and reassembled at the Hirosawa City theme park in Chikusei in Ibaraki Prefecture, eastern Japan, for permanent display to the public. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo