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Santa Claus decoration in Kobe

Photo taken on Nov. 19, 2025, shows a Christmas decoration featuring Santa Claus posing as the Osaka expo's official mascot Myaku-Myaku (bottom) alongside Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Roki Sasaki (top, far R), Dodgers pitcher and World Series MVP Yoshinobu Yamamoto (top, 2nd from R) raising the MVP trophy, Dodgers two-way player Shohei Ohtani (top, 3rd from R) holding his newborn baby, Japan's first female Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi (top, 2nd from L) and farm minister Shinjiro Koizumi carrying a sack of rice, on top of the Uroko no Ie building in the historical Kitano Ijinkan district of the western Japan city of Kobe.

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Rice for undernourished children in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan, Nov. 14 Kyodo - Young monks at Tokyo's Zojoji temple prepare to send collected rice to undernourished children in the city on Aug. 11, 1930. (Photo by Japan Telegraphic Communication Co.)

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Parade of historical figures in Kyoto

KYOTO, Japan, Oct. 22 Kyodo - People impersonating historical figures from various eras leave the Heian Jingu shrine in the ancient capital of Kyoto on Oct. 22, 2025, during the annual Jidai Matsuri parade dating back to 1895.

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Crown princess visits historical site in northeastern Japan

Japanese Crown Princess Kiko visits an ancient historical site in Tagajo in the northeastern Japan prefecture of Miyagi on July 15, 2025.

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Crown princess visits historical site in northeastern Japan

Japanese Crown Princess Kiko visits an ancient historical site in Tagajo in the northeastern Japan prefecture of Miyagi on July 15, 2025.

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Historical Village of Hokkaido

Photo taken on Dec. 10, 2022, shows a booth introducing the popular Japanese manga series "Golden Kamuy" at the Historical Village of Hokkaido, an open-air museum featuring relocated and restored buildings from 1868 to 1920, in Sapporo, Hokkaido, in northern Japan. Many of the buildings at the museum are featured in the manga written and illustrated by Satoru Noda as the story is set in Hokkaido in the aftermath of the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905).

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Japan's Princess Kako in Brazil

Japan's Princess Kako visits the Historical Museum of Japanese Immigration in Brazil in Sao Paulo on June 6, 2025, during her official visit to the country.

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Japan's Princess Kako in Brazil

Japan's Princess Kako visits the Historical Museum of Japanese Immigration in Brazil in Sao Paulo on June 6, 2025, during her official visit to the country.

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CORRECTED: Japan's Princess Kako in Brazil

Japan's Princess Kako visits the Historical Museum of Japanese Immigration in Brazil in Sao Paulo on June 6, 2025, during her official visit to the country.

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President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy honors memory of Holocaust victims

KYIV, UKRAINE - JANUARY 26, 2025 - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Lithuania to Ukraine Inga Stanyte-Tolockiene, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the State of Israel to Ukraine Michael Brodsky, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to Ukraine Bridget Brink, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of France to Ukraine Gael Veyer, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Italy to Ukraine Carlo Formosa, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to Ukraine Masashi Nakagome (L to R) place candles at the Menorah monument during the ceremony to commemorate the victims of mass shootings in Nazi-occupied Kyiv during World War II, dedicated to the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, on the territory of the Babyn Yar National Historical and Memorial Reserve, Kyiv, capital of Ukraine (Photo by Pavlo Bahmut/Ukrinform)

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President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy honors memory of Holocaust victims

KYIV, UKRAINE - JANUARY 26, 2025 - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Lithuania to Ukraine Inga Stanyte-Tolockiene, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the State of Israel to Ukraine Michael Brodsky, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to Ukraine Bridget Brink, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of France to Ukraine Gael Veyer, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Italy to Ukraine Carlo Formosa, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to Ukraine Masashi Nakagome (L to R) place candles at the Menorah monument during the ceremony to commemorate the victims of mass shootings in Nazi-occupied Kyiv during World War II, dedicated to the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, on the territory of the Babyn Yar National Historical and Memorial Reserve, Kyiv, capital of Ukraine (Photo by Pavlo Bahmut/Ukrinform)

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Ohtani-themed Santa Claus in Kobe

Photo taken Nov. 20, 2024, shows a Christmas decoration featuring Santa Claus practicing the signature hit celebration of Los Angeles Dodgers slugger Shohei Ohtani (top, blue and white) alongside Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (2nd from L), U.S. President-elect Donald Trump (3rd from L) and others sitting on top of the chimney of a building in the historical Kitano Ijinkan district of the western Japan city of Kobe. The Santa display on the former foreign residence is an annual event.

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Ohtani-themed Santa Claus in Kobe

Photo taken Nov. 20, 2024, shows a Christmas decoration featuring Santa Claus practicing the signature hit celebration of Los Angeles Dodgers slugger Shohei Ohtani (top, blue and white) alongside Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (2nd from L), U.S. President-elect Donald Trump (3rd from L) and others sitting on top of the chimney of a building in the historical Kitano Ijinkan district of the western Japan city of Kobe. The Santa display on the former foreign residence is an annual event.

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Jidai Matsuri festival in Kyoto

KYOTO, Japan, Oct. 22 Kyodo - People in historical costumes leave the Kyoto Gyoen National Garden in Kyoto during the Jidai Matsuri (Festival of the Ages) parade on Oct. 22, 2024. (Kyodo)

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Reconstructed model of Minatogawa man

Photo taken on Jan. 27, 2016, shows a reconstructed model of the Minatogawa man at Kyushu Historical Museum in Ogori, Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan.

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Japanese Princess Aiko at historical experience hall

Japanese Princess Aiko picks up seashells while watching local children experience a traditional shell-matching game once played by aristocrats at the Itsukinomiya Hall for Historical Experience in Meiwa in the central Japan prefecture of Mie on March 27, 2024. (Pool photo)

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Japanese Princess Aiko visits museum

Japanese Princess Aiko views an exhibit at the Saiku Historical Museum in Meiwa in the central Japan prefecture of Mie on March 27, 2024. (Pool photo)

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Japanese Princess Aiko visits museum

Japanese Princess Aiko views an exhibit at the Saiku Historical Museum in Meiwa in the central Japan prefecture of Mie on March 27, 2024. (Pool photo)

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JAPAN-OSAKA-NANJING MASSACRE-GATHERING

(231210) -- OSAKA, Dec. 10, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Tamaki Matsuoka, founder of the "Connecting Memories of Nanjing" civil group, delivers a speech during a gathering in Osaka, Japan, Dec. 9, 2023. A local civil group has held the gathering urging the Japanese public to reflect on the historical lessons and contemporary significance of the Nanjing Massacre in light of the current global situation, emphasizing the importance of not forgetting history in building peace. (Xinhua/Zhang Xiaoyu)

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JAPAN-OSAKA-NANJING MASSACRE-GATHERING

(231210) -- OSAKA, Dec. 10, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Attendees watch a documentary film featuring late U.S. physician Robert O. Wilson during a gathering held by the "Connecting Memories of Nanjing" civil group in Osaka, Japan, Dec. 9, 2023. A local civil group has held the gathering urging the Japanese public to reflect on the historical lessons and contemporary significance of the Nanjing Massacre in light of the current global situation, emphasizing the importance of not forgetting history in building peace. (Xinhua/Zhang Xiaoyu)

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Baseball-themed Santa Claus in Kobe

Photo taken on Nov. 21, 2023, shows a Santa Claus figure wearing a Hanshin Tigers baseball jersey atop the Uroko no Ie in the historical Kitano Ijinkan district of the western Japan city of Kobe. The annual "Sesou" Santa display highlights the year's notable events.

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Baseball-themed Santa Claus in Kobe

Photo taken on Nov. 21, 2023, shows a Santa Claus figure wearing a Hanshin Tigers baseball jersey atop the Uroko no Ie in the historical Kitano Ijinkan district of the western Japan city of Kobe. The annual "Sesou" Santa display highlights the year's notable events.

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Historical ship replica sails from Busan to Japan

A replica of a wooden ship that carried a diplomatic mission from the Joseon dynasty on the Korean Peninsula to Japan's Tokugawa shogunate during the Edo period (17-19 century) departs a port in the southern South Korean city of Busan for Tsushima, Nagasaki Prefecture in southwestern Japan on Aug. 1, 2023. The ship reproduced in 2018 traces the sea route the Korean emissaries took in the old days.

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Historical ship replica sails from Busan to Japan

A replica of a wooden ship that carried a diplomatic mission from the Joseon dynasty on the Korean Peninsula to Japan's Tokugawa shogunate during the Edo period (17-19 century) departs a port in the southern South Korean city of Busan for Tsushima, Nagasaki Prefecture in southwestern Japan on Aug. 1, 2023. The ship reproduced in 2018 traces the sea route the Korean emissaries took in the old days.

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CHINA-LIAONING-SHENYANG-CITY VIEWS (CN)

(230614) -- SHENYANG, June 14, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A bullet train runs past the 9.18 Historical Museum, a museum for the September 18 Incident that marked the start of Japan's invasion of China, in Shenyang, capital of northeast China's Liaoning Province, June 6, 2023. Shenyang, a city with a history of more than 2,000 years, is an important manufacturing and transportation hub in northeast China. (Xinhua/Yang Qing)

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CHINA-LIAONING-SHENYANG-CITY VIEWS (CN)

(230614) -- SHENYANG, June 14, 2023 (Xinhua) -- People attend a ceremony about the September 18 Incident that marked the start of Japan's invasion of China, at the 9.18 Historical Museum in Shenyang, capital of northeast China's Liaoning Province, Sept. 18, 2019. Shenyang, a city with a history of more than 2,000 years, is an important manufacturing and transportation hub in northeast China. (Xinhua/Long Lei)

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Japan's former emperor, empress in Nara

Japan's former Emperor Akihito (L) and former Empress Michiko visit Nara Prefecture Historical and Artistic Culture Complex in the western Japan city of Nara, on May 17, 2023, and see a model of Yakushiji temple's West Pagoda, which completed its restoration work in February. (Pool photo)

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Japan's former emperor, empress in Nara

Japan's former Emperor Akihito (2nd from L) and former Empress Michiko visit Nara Prefecture Historical and Artistic Culture Complex in the western Japan city of Nara, on May 17, 2023, and see a model of Yakushiji temple's West Pagoda, which completed its restoration work in February. (Pool photo)

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Japan's former emperor, empress in Nara

Japan's former Emperor Akihito (L) and former Empress Michiko visit Nara Prefecture Historical and Artistic Culture Complex in the western Japan city of Nara, on May 17, 2023, and see a model of Yakushiji temple's West Pagoda, which completed its restoration work in February. (Pool photo)

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Japan's former emperor, empress in Nara

Japan's former Emperor Akihito (2nd from L) and former Empress Michiko visit Nara Prefecture Historical and Artistic Culture Complex in the western Japan city of Nara, on May 17, 2023. (Pool photo)

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Oharai-machi near Japan's Ise Jingu shrine

Photo taken in January 2022 shows Oharai-machi, a street lined with historical buildings, souvenir shops and restaurants that leads to Ise Jingu shrine in Ise, Mie Prefecture, central Japan.

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Historical artifacts loaned from Taiwan on display as planned

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese and Taiwanese media members wait for the start of a private viewing for an exhibition at the Tokyo National Museum in Tokyo of historical Chinese artifacts on loan from Taiwan's National Palace Museum on June 23, 2014, following the Japanese side's apology for having omitted the word "National" on posters and other materials and the reinstatement of the official name.

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Same type of pistol Sakamoto Ryoma used to carry

KOCHI, Japan - This undated photo shows a Model 2 Army Revolver by Smith & Wesson, the same type of pistol which Takasugi Shinsaku gave to Sakamoto Ryoma, two historical figures who contributed to modernizing feudal Japan. The pistol was donated to the Sakamoto Ryoma Memorial Museum in Kochi City operated by the Kochi prefectural government and will be shown in an exhibition in late August 2010.

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Supporters of former sex slaves urge gov't to apologize, compensate

TOKYO, Japan - Representatives from the Center for Research and Documentation on Japan's War Responsibility, Women's Active Museum on War and Peace, and Violence Against Women in War-Network Japan meet the press in Tokyo on July 31, after submitting a joint proposal to the government urging Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to clearly apologize and compensate the victims of Japan's sexual enslavement during World War II. The move came a day after the U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution urging Japan to ''formally acknowledge, apologize and accept historical responsibility in a clear and unequivocal manner'' over the sex slave issue.

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Scroll shows sword-wielding skill license given to historical hero

KYOTO, Nov. 12 Kyodo - Photo taken in Kyoto, western Japan, on Nov. 7, 2015, shows a scroll certifying the skill in wielding a "naginata" long-handled sword given to historical hero Sakamoto Ryoma in the waning years of the Edo period (1603-1867). The name of his lover, Chiba Sana, is among a list of names that also includes Chiba Shusaku, founder of the Hokushin Ittoryu school of swordsmanship.

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Award-winning novelist Tomiko Miyao dies at 88

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in July 2008 shows award-winning novelist Tomiko Miyao. Miyao, who is known for her autobiographical and historical novels, died of natural causes on Dec. 30, 2014, her family said on Jan. 7, 2015. She was 88.

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Art museum adorned with figures mimicking newsmakers

KOBE, Japan - Christmas decorations mimicking newsmakers in 2014 are put up at "Uroko no Ie" (House of Fish Scales), a Western-style house museum in the historical Kitano district of Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, on Nov. 20, 2014. The centerpiece Santa Claus figure was modeled on a former assemblyman in the western Japan prefecture whose hysterical weeping at a press conference was widely circulated on the Internet.

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Art museum decorated with figures mimicking newsmakers

KOBE, Japan - Visitors take pictures of Christmas decorations mimicking newsmakers in 2014 at "Uroko no Ie" (House of Fish Scales), a Western-style house museum in the historical Kitano district of Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, on Nov. 20, 2014. The centerpiece Santa Claus figure was modeled on a former assemblyman in the western Japan prefecture whose hysterical weeping at a press conference was widely circulated on the Internet.

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Descendants of Domyoji battle warlords gather in Osaka Pref.

TONDABAYASHI, Japan - Three men, descended from warlords who fought in the battle of Domyoji, a battle in 1615 in western Japan between the armies of the Tokugawa and Toyotomi factions, join hands in Fujiidera, Osaka Prefecture, on Nov. 18, 2014, in front of a newly erected monument for the historical battle.

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People join hands to link two Ryoma statues

KOCHI, Japan - Some 750 people join hands to link two statues of Sakamoto Ryoma, around 540 meters apart, in Kochi on Nov. 16, 2014. Ryoma is a historical figure known for his contribution to Japan's modernization marked by the end of the feudal government.

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Annual 'Festival of Ages' parade held in Kyoto

KYOTO, Japan - A cow draws a carriage in the annual "Jidai Matsuri" (Festival of the Ages) parade in Kyoto, western Japan, on Oct. 22, 2014, to commemorate the foundation of the ancient Japanese capital, with participants dressed in costumes from almost every period of Japanese history as well as posing as famous historical figures.

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'Festival of Ages' parade leaves Kyoto Imperial Palace

KYOTO, Japan - The "Jidai Matsuri" (Festival of the Ages) parade of people dressed in historical attire leaves the Kyoto Imperial Palace in the western Japan city on Oct. 22, 2014, in an annual event commemorating the foundation of the ancient Japanese capital.

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Annual 'Festival of Ages' procession begins in Kyoto

KYOTO, Japan - The "Jidai Matsuri" (Festival of the Ages) procession of people dressed in historical attire leaves the Heian Jingu shrine in Kyoto, western Japan, on Oct. 22, 2014, in an annual event commemorating the foundation of the ancient Japanese capital.

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Annual 'Festival of Ages' parade starts in Kyoto

KYOTO, Japan - The "Jidai Matsuri" (Festival of the Ages) parade of people clad in historical costumes leaves the Heian Jingu shrine in Kyoto, western Japan, on Oct. 22, 2014, in an annual event commemorating the foundation of the ancient Japanese capital.

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China greets 83rd anniversary of incident staged by Japan

SHENYANG, China - A woman holds two Chinese flags in front of the 9.18 Historical Museum in Shenyang, northeastern China, on Sept. 18, 2014. China, which is promoting patriotism, marked the 83rd anniversary that day of the 1931 Liutiaohu Incident staged by Japanese troops.

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China marks anniv. of Japan's attack

SHENYANG, China - Police officers keep citizens away from the 9.18 Historical Museum in Shenyang in China's Liaoning Province in the early morning of Sept. 18, 2014, the venue of a ceremony later in the day to commemorate the 83rd anniversary of the 1931 Mukden Incident that led to Japan's occupation of northeastern China.

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China marks anniv. of Japan's attack

SHENYANG, China - A man (C) spreads a piece of cloth with the message "Don't forget the national disgrace" near the 9.18 Historical Museum in Shenyang in China's Liaoning Province on Sept. 18, 2014, the venue of a ceremony later in the day to commemorate the 83rd anniversary of the 1931 Mukden Incident that led to Japan's occupation of northeastern China.

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China marks anniv. of Japan's attack

SHENYANG, China - Police officers stand guard in front of the 9.18 Historical Museum in Shenyang in China's Liaoning Province in the early morning of Sept. 18, 2014, the venue of a ceremony later in the day to commemorate the 83rd anniversary of the 1931 Mukden Incident that led to Japan's occupation of northeastern China.

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French researcher finds historical papers for Tomioka Silk Mill

MAEBASHI, Japan - Christian Polak, a French researcher of Franco-Japanese relations, points to trademarks of silk products from the Tomioka Silk Mill, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan, at a museum in Yokohama south of Tokyo in June 2014. He discovered in southeastern France historical papers containing the design of silk-reeling machines used at the early stage of the mill.

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HD images of murals in Takamatsuzuka, Kitora tombs

KASHIHARA, Japan - High-definition images of murals in the Takamatsuzuka and Kitora tombs are shown on a screen installed at the Asuka Historical Museum of Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties in the village of Asuka, Nara Prefecture, western Japan, on Aug. 22, 2014. The system is called "Mural Navigation."