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Panasonic and YKK Joint Press Conference on Collaboration in Building Materials and Housing Equipment Business

Panasonic and YKK Joint Press Conference on Collaboration in Building Materials and Housing Equipment Business

Panasonic and YKK hold a press conference regarding their collaboration in the building materials and housing equipment business. photo shows, from left: Satoshi Honda, YKK Vice President and CFO; Hidemitsu Hori, YKK AP Chairman; Masashi Yamada, Panasonic Housing Solutions President and Executive Officer; Kazuyo Sumida, Panasonic Holdings Executive Officer and Group CSO.=November 17,2025,Tokyo

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Panasonic and YKK Joint Press Conference on Collaboration in Building Materials and Housing Equipment Business

Panasonic and YKK Joint Press Conference on Collaboration in Building Materials and Housing Equipment Business

Panasonic and YKK hold a press conference regarding their collaboration in the building materials and housing equipment business. photo shows Hidemitsu Hori, Chairman of YKK AP.=November 17,2025,Tokyo

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Panasonic and YKK Joint Press Conference on Collaboration in Building Materials and Housing Equipment Business

Panasonic and YKK Joint Press Conference on Collaboration in Building Materials and Housing Equipment Business

Panasonic and YKK hold a press conference regarding their collaboration in the building materials and housing equipment business. photo shows Hidemitsu Hori, Chairman of YKK AP, and Masashi Yamada, President and Executive Officer of Panasonic Housing Solutions, from left.=November 17,2025,Tokyo

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Panasonic and YKK Joint Press Conference on Collaboration in Building Materials and Housing Equipment Business

Panasonic and YKK Joint Press Conference on Collaboration in Building Materials and Housing Equipment Business

Panasonic and YKK hold a press conference regarding their collaboration in the building materials and housing equipment business. photo shows Hidemitsu Hori, Chairman of YKK AP, and Masashi Yamada, President and Executive Officer of Panasonic Housing Solutions, from left.=November 17,2025,Tokyo

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Panasonic and YKK Joint Press Conference on Collaboration in Building Materials and Housing Equipment Business

Panasonic and YKK Joint Press Conference on Collaboration in Building Materials and Housing Equipment Business

Panasonic and YKK hold a press conference regarding their collaboration in the building materials and housing equipment business. photo shows, from left: Satoshi Honda, YKK Vice President and CFO; Hidemitsu Hori, YKK AP Chairman; Masashi Yamada, Panasonic Housing Solutions President and Executive Officer; Kazuyo Sumida, Panasonic Holdings Executive Officer and Group CSO.=November 17,2025,Tokyo

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Panasonic and YKK Joint Press Conference on Collaboration in Building Materials and Housing Equipment Business

Panasonic and YKK Joint Press Conference on Collaboration in Building Materials and Housing Equipment Business

Panasonic and YKK hold a press conference regarding their collaboration in the building materials and housing equipment business. photo shows Hidemitsu Hori, Chairman of YKK AP, and Masashi Yamada, President and Executive Officer of Panasonic Housing Solutions, from left.=November 17,2025,Tokyo

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Osaka expo after subway disruption

Osaka expo after subway disruption

Motoharu Hori (R), head of operations at Osaka Metro, bows in apology during a press conference in Osaka on Aug. 14, 2025. The metro's Chuo Line, which offers sole access to the site of the World Exposition in Osaka and the city center, suspended its service the previous night due to a power failure, leaving some visitors stranded at the expo site all night.

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(SP)CHINA-SHAOXING-ASIAN GAMES-BASEBALL(CN)

(SP)CHINA-SHAOXING-ASIAN GAMES-BASEBALL(CN)

(231007) -- SHAOXING, Oct. 7, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Hori Makoto of Japan competes during the Men's Bronze Medal Match of Baseball between China and Japan at the 19th Asian Games in Shaoxing, east China's Zhejiang Province, Oct. 7, 2023. (Xinhua/Yang Guanyu)

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WWII survivor recalls wartime ordeal at peace park

WWII survivor recalls wartime ordeal at peace park

TOKYO, Japan - Ikuko Yasuda, 89, stands in front of the Peace Tower at Heiwadai Park in Miyazaki, southwestern Japan, on Aug. 15, 2014, recalling her experiences as a student during World War I, including being enlisted to help level the ground for the tower's construction and sending off "kamikaze" suicide attack squads. The tower was originally constructed in 1940 to celebrate the 2,600th anniversary of the ascension of Japan's mythical first emperor and bears the inscription "Hakko Ichiu," meaning "united under one roof," a phrase often used by imperialists rallying for Japanese reign in Asia during the war. (Photo by Makoto Hori)

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Children tour inside Peace Tower in southwestern Japan

Children tour inside Peace Tower in southwestern Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Children listen to a guide explain exhibits inside the Pease Tower at Heiwadai Park in Miyazaki, southwestern Japan, when it was opened to the public on the 69th anniversary on Aug. 15, 2014, of the end of to World War II. (Photo by Makoto Hori)

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Vietnamese woman married to South Korean works at cafe

Vietnamese woman married to South Korean works at cafe

TOKYO, Japan - Hien Lee (R), a Vietnamese woman married to a South Korean, works at a coffee chain outlet at the head office of Posco Co. in Seoul on Nov. 25, 2014. The chain supports foreign women who moved to South Korea as the result of an international marriage by hiring them as baristas. (Photo by Makoto Hori)

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Japanese poet recalls censorship of late friend's work

Japanese poet recalls censorship of late friend's work

TOKYO, Japan - Poet Kiyoko Horiba stands on a beach near her home in Onjuku, Chiba prefecture, east of Tokyo, on Oct. 15, 2014. She wonders why the postwar Allied occupation authorities had to cut a reference to the Japanese army's atrocities in Hiroshima A-bomb surviving poet Sadako Kurihara's poems in "Black Eggs" in 1946, if not the A-bomb part itself, as Horiba, also an A-bomb survivor, helped Kurihara publish the full original version in 1983. (Photo by Makoto Hori)

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'Halal' food products sold at Japanese store

'Halal' food products sold at Japanese store

TOKYO, Japan - A grocery store in Japan sells a halal-certified beef product, as seen in this photo taken in September 2014. In Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, there is a store mainly sellings halal-certified products. Halal food, fulfilling certain conditions, means it is permitted for consumption by Islamic law. (Photo by Makoto Hori)

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Muslim scholar lectures in Osaka Pref.

Muslim scholar lectures in Osaka Pref.

TOKYO, Japan - Egyptian Muslim scholar Mohsen Bayoumy gives a lecture at Osaka Ibaraki Mosque in Ibaraki, Osaka Prefecture, western Japan, in September 2014. (Photo by Makoto Hori)

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Activist building on her father's legacy to save wildcats

Activist building on her father's legacy to save wildcats

TAKETOMI, Japan - Photo taken May 26, 2014 shows volunteers from a "Wildcat Patrol" group urging drivers at night to slow down with lights and a signboard at the side of the road on Iriomote Island in Okinawa Prefecture. (Photo by Makoto Hori)

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Activist building on her father's legacy to save wildcats

Activist building on her father's legacy to save wildcats

TAKETOMI, Japan - Photo taken May 26, 2014 shows Kumi Togawa standing near water along Haemida beach on southern Iriomote Island in Okinawa Prefecture, where a sickly Iriomote wildcat was found in 1965. The remains of the cat, which soon died, became a specimen. (Photo by Makoto Hori)

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Taiwan's Lu wins Resort Trust Ladies Open golf

Taiwan's Lu wins Resort Trust Ladies Open golf

MIKI, Japan - Taiwan's Teresa Lu (L) holds the victory trophy together with the best amateur player Kotone Hori as Lu shot an 8-under 64 in the final round of the Resort Trust Ladies Open golf tournament with a total of a 15-under 201 at the Kansai Golf Club in Hyogo Prefecture on June 1, 2014. Hori was in a tie for eighth with a 6-under 210.

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Peasant writer

Peasant writer

BETSUKAI, Japan - Photo taken May 15, 2014 shows novelist Hiroshi Tamai walking on grassland at a dairy farm he ran until he gave up farming in Betsukai, Hokkaido. Seen at the back are a private library for local people (R), converted from his home, and a former cattle shed. (Photo by Makoto Hori)

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Peasant writer

Peasant writer

BETSUKAI, Japan - Photo taken May 15, 2014 shows one of the cattle farmers in Betsukai, Hokkaido who had a close relationship with novelist Hiroshi Tamai. (Photo by Makoto Hori)

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Ex-school teacher stays committed to antinuclear movement

Ex-school teacher stays committed to antinuclear movement

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken April 24, 2014 shows the birthplace of Nakae Kariyado (1854-1907), one of the leaders of movements for freedom and human rights in Fukushima Prefecture, surrounded by overgrown trees in Namie in the prefecture. (Photo by Makoto Hori)

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Ex-school teacher stays committed to antinuclear movement

Ex-school teacher stays committed to antinuclear movement

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken April 24, 2014 shows Hidefumi Owada, a former school teacher and antinuclear activist, holding a crane figurine belonging to the abandoned garden of his home in Namie, Fukushima Prefecture. The amount of radiation in the garden remains high, leaving no time for Owada, a devoted gardener, to attend to his once-proud garden. (Photo by Makoto Hori)

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Painter Miyatake keeps seeking light in darkness

Painter Miyatake keeps seeking light in darkness

YOKKAICHI, Japan - Photo taken March 27, 2014 shows painter Kikue Miyatake standing in front of a work in progress. To the right is a picture titled "Unwavering Resolve," which she painted in the immediate aftermath of the 2011 devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit northeastern Japan. Photo by Makoto Hori.

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Hori in final round of Honda LPGA in Thailand

Hori in final round of Honda LPGA in Thailand

PATTAYA, Thailand - Natsuka Hori of Japan tees off on the 6th hole during the final round of the Honda LPGA Thailand tournament at Siam Country Club on Feb. 23, 2014.

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Japan's Hori tees off at golf tourney in Thailand

Japan's Hori tees off at golf tourney in Thailand

PATTAYA, Thailand - Japan's Natsuka Hori tees off on the No. 1 hole in the third round of the Honda LPGA golf tournament at the Siam Country Club in Pattaya, Thailand, on Feb. 22, 2014.

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Hori at Honda LPGA tournament in Thailand

Hori at Honda LPGA tournament in Thailand

PATTAYA, Thailand - Natsuka Hori of Japan tees off on the No. 1 hole at the Siam Country Club in Thailand during the first round of the Honda LPGA Thailand tournament on Feb. 20, 2014.

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Japan vs Germany in women's ice hockey in Sochi

Japan vs Germany in women's ice hockey in Sochi

SOCHI, Russia - Japan defender Mika Hori shoots the puck during the second period of the women's ice hockey classifications game against Germany at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, on Feb. 18, 2014.

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Russia beats Japan in women's hockey at Winter Games

Russia beats Japan in women's hockey at Winter Games

SOCHI, Russia - Members of the Japanese women's ice hockey team - (from front to rear) Ami Nakamura, Rui Ukita, Miho Shishiuchi, Shiori Koike, Ayaka Toko, and Mika Hori - are seen after a 3-6 loss against Russia in the classifications round for fifth to eighth places at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, on Feb. 16, 2014.

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Japan players defend goal against Russia in women's ice hockey

Japan players defend goal against Russia in women's ice hockey

SOCHI, Russia - Japanese goalkeeper Nana Fujimoto (fore) and defender Mika Hori (No. 7) defend their goal against Russia in the first period of a game in the women's ice hockey preliminary round at the Sochi Winter Olympics in Russia on Feb. 11, 2014. Japan lost 2-1 to Russia in the lower-ranked Group B.

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Farmer still holds grudge against TEPCO

Farmer still holds grudge against TEPCO

IITATE, Japan - Photo taken Dec. 15, 2013 shows Nobuyoshi Ito, who describes himself as an "apprentice farmer," holding a dosimeter in front of snow-covered bags containing earth and sand resulting from decontamination work in the village of Iitate, Fukushima Prefecture. (Photo by Makoto Hori)

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Rock singer-like physicist stands in vanguard of neutrino experiments

Rock singer-like physicist stands in vanguard of neutrino experiments

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Oct. 18, 2013, shows Sho Tada, a physicist and assistant professor at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, explaining about elementary particles theory before people who gathered at a cafe in Tokyo's Ginza district. (Photo by Makoto Hori)

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Rock singer-like physicist stands in vanguard of neutrino experiments

Rock singer-like physicist stands in vanguard of neutrino experiments

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Oct. 17, 2013, shows Sho Tada, a physicist and assistant professor at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, standing in front of one of the electromagnetic horns at the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex. The complex known as J-PARC is a high intensity proton accelerator facility in the village of Tokai in Ibaraki Prefecture. (Photo by Makoto Hori)

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New generation of fishermen drawn to remote island

New generation of fishermen drawn to remote island

NISHINOSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken Sept. 10, 2013 shows a fleet of purse seine fishery, including the Ichimaru fishing boat (front), leaving Urago Port toward evening in Nishinoshima town on the island of Nishinoshima, part of the Oki Islands in the Sea of Japan, in Shimane Prefecture. (Photo by Makoto Hori)

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Niigata sake brewer

Niigata sake brewer

NAGAOKA, Japan - Brewers sterilize tools by hot water on Sept. 3, 2013, in Nagaoka, Niigata Prefecture, ahead of sake production starting in October. (Photo by Makoto Hori)

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Konotori flight director

Konotori flight director

TSUKUBA, Japan - Photo taken May 16, 2013 shows Takashi Uchiyama, one of the six flight directors for the Konotori cargo transporter, standing before his desk at the control room for the unmanned space vehicle at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Tsukuba Space Center in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture. (Photo by Makoto Hori)

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Hori wins Earth Mondahmin Cup

Hori wins Earth Mondahmin Cup

SODEGAURA, Japan - Japan's Natsuka Hori holds the victor's trophy after winning the Earth Mondahmin Cup at Camellia Hills Country Club in Chiba Prefecture on June 30, 2013. Hori finished at 21-under-par 267 to earn her second career title.

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Deaf bartender lures customers with friendly personality

Deaf bartender lures customers with friendly personality

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken April 23, 2013 shows a writing board at bar Bell Sign in Tokyo's Ginza district, for people without auditory difficulties to place orders and make inquiries. Hearing-impaired bartender Dai Igarashi manages the bar. (Photo by Makoto Hori)

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Magazine writer moonlights as Shinto priestess

Magazine writer moonlights as Shinto priestess

Tokyo, Japan - Photo taken April 16, 2013, shows the contents of a bag used by weekly magazine writer Kazuyo Kawamura. Kawamura occasionally gets away from the hustle and bustle of Tokyo to perform duties as a Shinto priestess in her ancestral home in Kochi Prefecture. (Photo by Makoto Hori)

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Middle-aged woman pursuing new career as porcelain artist

Middle-aged woman pursuing new career as porcelain artist

KANAZAWA, Japan - Ruri Takeuchi paints a plate on Feb. 26, 2013, at a "Kutani-yaki" craft center in Nomi, Ishikawa Prefecture. Takeuchi has begun pursuing a new career as a Kutani-yaki porcelain artist at a kiln she recently opened in Komatsu in the prefecture, after training for around nine years. (Photo by Makoto Hori)

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Middle-aged woman pursuing new career as porcelain artist

Middle-aged woman pursuing new career as porcelain artist

KANAZAWA, Japan - Photo taken Feb. 26, 2013, shows the painting process for "Kutani-yaki" porcelain by Ruri Takeuchi at a Kutani-yaki craft center in Nomi, Ishikawa Prefecture. Takeuchi has begun pursuing a new career as a Kutani-yaki porcelain artist at a kiln she recently opened in Komatsu in the prefecture, after training for around nine years. (Photo by Makoto Hori)

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Young woman helps elderly in depopulated town

Young woman helps elderly in depopulated town

TSU, Japan - Photo taken March 14, 2013 shows Mao Higashi's truck heading to the next destination of her mobile food sales in Kihoku, Mie Prefecture. (Photo by Makoto Hori)

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Young woman helps elderly in depopulated town

Young woman helps elderly in depopulated town

TSU, Japan - Mao Higashi (R) sells food items set out at the side of her truck while visiting a village on March 14, 2013 in Kihoku, Mie Prefecture. (Photo by Makoto Hori)

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Woman aims to mitigate deer damage to crops

Woman aims to mitigate deer damage to crops

KUSHIRO, Japan - Mayumi Ueno hunts deer with a rifle in the snow-covered mountains in Kushiro, Hokkaido, on March 30, 2013. Ueno, a chief researcher who works to mitigate damage to crops by "Ezo" deer, went hunting 11 times this season and shot six deer. (Photo by Makoto Hori)

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Woman aims to mitigate deer damage to crops

Woman aims to mitigate deer damage to crops

KUSHIRO, Japan - An "Ezo" deer and a fawn appear in the mountains in Kushiro, Hokkaido, during hunting on March 30, 2013. (Photo by Makoto Hori)

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Hori wins Axa Ladies

Hori wins Axa Ladies

MIYAZAKI, Japan - Japanese golfer Natsuka Hori holds the victor's trophy at UMK Country Club in Miyazaki Prefecture on March 31, 2013, after winning the Axa Ladies for the first title of her three-year career on the Japan LPGA Tour with a 14-under 202 total.

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American IT entrepreneur dreams of energizing rural Japan

American IT entrepreneur dreams of energizing rural Japan

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Carl Sundberg (4th from L front) poses for photos with staff members of his company Smart Technology Partners on Jan. 24, 2013 on the grounds of former elementary school in Aizumisato, Fukushima Prefecture. Sundberg opened the data center as part of a project to invigorate rural Japan by reusing abandoned school buildings for an information technology business and creating new jobs. (Photo by Makoto Hori)

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American IT entrepreneur dreams of energizing rural Japan

American IT entrepreneur dreams of energizing rural Japan

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Carl Sundberg (C) talks with staff members of his company Smart Technology Partners on Jan. 23, 2013 at its data center set up in the building of a former elementary school in Aizumisato, Fukushima Prefecture. Sundberg opened the data center as part of a project to invigorate rural Japan by reusing abandoned school buildings for an information technology business and creating new jobs. (Photo by Makoto Hori)

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Time-honored "koji" store thriving on magical ingredient

Time-honored "koji" store thriving on magical ingredient

OITA, Japan - Myoho Asari (R), her father Koichi (2nd from R) and her second son Ryotoku (L) prepare steamed rice for putting koji mold into it on Nov. 7, 2012, at their store Kojiya Honten in Saiki, Oita Prefecture. (Photo by Makoto Hori)

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Time-honored "koji" store thriving on magical ingredient

Time-honored "koji" store thriving on magical ingredient

OITA, Japan - Photo shows Kojiya Honten, a producer and retailer of "koji" fermented seasoning made from rice malt, at sundown on a street in Saiki, Oita Prefecture. The street is home to a number of long-established stores. Photo taken on Nov. 7, 2012. (Photo by Makoto Hori)

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Guarding Japan's satellites from space debris

Guarding Japan's satellites from space debris

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on Nov. 17, 2012 shows the Bisei spaceguard center in Ihara, Okayama Prefecture, where the Japan Spaceguard Association observes space debris and asteroids with the aid of optical telescopes and other devices. The image is not clear due to ultrasensitive photographing. (Photo by Makoto Hori)

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Guarding Japan's satellites from space debris

Guarding Japan's satellites from space debris

TOKYO, Japan - Noritsugu Takahashi (C), board chairman of the Japan Spaceguard Association, explains to children about the organization's work and telescope mechanisms at the Bisei spaceguard center in Ihara, Okayama Prefecture, on Nov. 17, 2012. (Photo by Makoto Hori)

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