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Conran claims 1st tour win at Hisamitsu-KBC Augusta

FUKUOKA, Japan - Australia's Steven Conran holds up his trophy at the Keya Golf Club in Fukuoka Prefecture on Aug. 29 after winning the Hisamitsu-KBC Augusta Golf Tournament for his first title on the Japanese tour.

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Tajima wins career 1st at Hisamitsu-KBC Augusta

SHIMA, Japan - Soshi Tajima kisses his cup after winning his first victory on the tour at the Hisamitsu-KBC Augusta Golf Tournament at Keya Golf Club in Fukuoka Prefecture on Aug. 31.

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Yuhara wins Hisamitsu-KBC Augusta golf match

SHIMA, Japan - Nobumitsu Yuhara clenches his fist as he eagles the 13th hole before winning the Hisamitsu-KBC Augusta golf tournament in Shima, Fukuoka Prefecture, on Sept. 1.

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Hiraishi wins career 1st with Hisamitsu-KBC victory

SHIMA, Japan - Takenori Hiraishi, 41, wins the Hisamitsu-KBC Augusta Golf Tournament for the first victory in his 18-year career after he birdied the fourth extra hole in a three-man playoff at the Keya Club course in Fukuoka Prefecture on Aug. 26.

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Upper house president quits over Diet turmoil

TOKYO, Japan - House of Councillors President Juro Saito (C) is surrounded by reporters in the Diet on Oct. 18 while walking toward upper house Vice President Hisamitsu Sugano to offer a letter of resignation. Saito resigned after failing to mediate a drawn-out row between the ruling and opposition parties over a plan to revise the upper house's electoral system.

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Diet turmoil continues as talks for compromise fail

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's ruling (R) and opposition parties (L) fail to reach a compromise Oct. 17 on a bill to revise the House of Councillors electoral system that would end the opposition's two-week-old boycott of the Diet in protest against the bill. The two camps failed to bridge their differences in a meeting presided over by Vice President Hisamitsu Sugano (C).

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Dentsu admits responsibility in 'karoshi' case

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's largest ad agency, Dentsu Inc., on June 23 admitted its liability in the 1991 suicide from overwork of a 24-year-old employee, Ichiro Oshima, and will pay some 168 million yen in compensation to the man's parents in an out-of-court settlement. Oshima's father, Hisamitsu, 71, tells a press conference the same day, ''My son's dignity was fully restored. I'm satisfied with the settlement.'' His lawyers said this is the first ''karoshi'' (death from overwork) case in which a company admitted its liability and reached an out-of-court settlement.

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Conran claims 1st tour win at Hisamitsu-KBC Augusta

FUKUOKA, Japan - Australia's Steven Conran holds up his trophy at the Keya Golf Club in Fukuoka Prefecture on Aug. 29 after winning the Hisamitsu-KBC Augusta Golf Tournament for his first title on the Japanese tour. (Kyodo)

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Hiraishi wins career 1st with Hisamitsu-KBC victory

SHIMA, Japan - Takenori Hiraishi, 41, wins the Hisamitsu-KBC Augusta Golf Tournament for the first victory in his 18-year career after he birdied the fourth extra hole in a three-man playoff at the Keya Club course in Fukuoka Prefecture on Aug. 26.

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Diet turmoil continues as talks for compromise fail

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's ruling (R) and opposition parties (L) fail to reach a compromise Oct. 17 on a bill to revise the House of Councillors electoral system that would end the opposition's two-week-old boycott of the Diet in protest against the bill. The two camps failed to bridge their differences in a meeting presided over by Vice President Hisamitsu Sugano (C).

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Counting compensation money for murder of Mr Richardson

Sketches in Japan: Counting the compensation money for the murder of Mr Richardson. Charles Lennox Richardson was a Yokohama based merchant who was killed by a large armed retinue of Shimazu Hisamitsu, the regent and father of Shimazu Tadayoshi, the daimyo of Satsuma. The Namamugi Incident, (also known sometimes as the Kanagawa Incident, and as the Richardson Affair) was a samurai assault on foreign nationals in Japan on September 14, 1862, which resulted in the August 1863 bombardment of Kagoshima, during the Late Tokugawa shogunate. In Japanese the bombardment is described as a war between the United Kingdom and Satsuma domain, the Anglo-Satsuma War. The picture shows the Japanese paying out compensation in the aftermath of the war. Date: 1863

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New coronavirus

Eiheiji Mayor Hisamitsu Kawai disinfects his hands at the town office on May 19, 2020, with disinfectants made by sake breweries in the Fukui prefectural town amid the coronavirus pandemic. Eiheiji requested all breweries in the town to make high-proof alcohol as an alternative for disinfectants so that it can buy all of them to distribute to medical organizations and others in need. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Yuhara wins Hisamitsu-KBC Augusta golf match

SHIMA, Japan - Nobumitsu Yuhara clenches his fist as he eagles the 13th hole before winning the Hisamitsu-KBC Augusta golf tournament in Shima, Fukuoka Prefecture, on Sept. 1. (Kyodo)

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Upper house president quits over Diet turmoil

TOKYO, Japan - House of Councillors President Juro Saito (C) is surrounded by reporters in the Diet on Oct. 18 while walking toward upper house Vice President Hisamitsu Sugano to offer a letter of resignation. Saito resigned after failing to mediate a drawn-out row between the ruling and opposition parties over a plan to revise the upper house's electoral system.

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Dentsu admits responsibility in 'karoshi' case

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's largest ad agency, Dentsu Inc., on June 23 admitted its liability in the 1991 suicide from overwork of a 24-year-old employee, Ichiro Oshima, and will pay some 168 million yen in compensation to the man's parents in an out-of-court settlement. Oshima's father, Hisamitsu, 71, tells a press conference the same day, ''My son's dignity was fully restored. I'm satisfied with the settlement.'' His lawyers said this is the first ''karoshi'' (death from overwork) case in which a company admitted its liability and reached an out-of-court settlement.

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Top court says Dentsu at fault in overwork suicide case

TOKYO, Japan - Hisamitsu Oshima, holding the necklace his son Ichiro used to wear, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on March 24 after the Supreme Court ruled that Dentsu Inc., Japan's largest advertising agency, was responsible for the son's suicide due to overwork. Ichiro was one of Dentsu employees. The top court sent the case back to a lower court to reconsider compensation for his parents.