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Hammer attack at university in Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Jan. 10, 2025, shows an area near Hosei University's Tama Campus in Machida, western Tokyo, where eight students were injured earlier in the day in a hammer attack by a 22-year-old female student.

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Hammer attack at university in Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Jan. 10, 2025, shows an area near Hosei University's Tama Campus in Machida, western Tokyo, where eight students were injured earlier in the day in a hammer attack by a 22-year-old female student.

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Citizens' group requests freezing of Sendai plant restart

TOKYO, Japan - Hosei University professor Harutoshi Funabashi, chairman of the Citizens' Commission on Nuclear Energy, calls for the freezing of the reactivation process of the two reactors at Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s Sendai nuclear plant in Kagoshima Prefecture at a press conference in Tokyo on July 9, 2014.

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Yokozuna Harumafuji visits Hosei Univ. as graduate student

TOKYO, Japan - Professional sumo's grand champion Harumafuji pays his first visit to Tokyo's Hosei University as a graduate school student on April 12, 2014.

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Kansai beats Hosei to win Koshien Bowl

KOSHIEN, Japan - Kansai University quarterback Daichi Haraguchi (top) tries to break tackles by Hosei University in the third quarter of the Koshien Bowl national collegiate championship at Koshien Stadium in Hyogo Prefecture on Dec. 13, 2009. Kansai University won the match 50-38 for the first time in 62 years.

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Kansai beats Hosei to win Koshien Bowl

KOSHIEN, Japan - Kansai University defensive player Hirokazu Kanehara (L) tackles Hosei University running back Takuto Hara (29) in the first quarter of the Koshien Bowl national collegiate championship at Koshien Stadium in Hyogo Prefecture on Dec. 13, 2009. Kansai University won the match 50-38 for the first time in 62 years.

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Kansai beats Hosei to win Koshien Bowl

KOSHIEN, Japan - Members of Kansai University celebrate after beating Hosei University at the Koshien Bowl national collegiate championship at Koshien Stadium in Hyogo Prefecture on Dec. 13, 2009. Kansai University won the match 50-38 for the first time in 62 years.

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Kansai beats Hosei to win Koshien Bowl

KOSHIEN, Japan - Members of Kansai University celebrate after beating Hosei University at the Koshien Bowl national collegiate championship at Koshien Stadium in Hyogo Prefecture on Dec. 13, 2009. Kansai University won the match 50-38 for the first time in 62 years.

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Kansai beats Hosei to win Koshien Bowl

KOSHIEN, Japan - Kansai University quarterback Daichi Haraguchi runs for a touchdown after breaking free from the Hosei University defense in the fourth quarter of the Koshien Bowl national collegiate championship at Koshien Stadium in Hyogo Prefecture on Dec. 13, 2009. Kansai University won the match 50-38 for the first time in 62 years.

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College course to train 'plant doctors' attracting students

TOKYO, Japan - Students compare sick and healthy broad bean plants during a class at Hosei University's Faculty of Bioscience and Applied Chemistry at the university's campus in Tokyo's Koganei on May 21.

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Marijuana making inroads into university campuses

TOKYO, Japan - An aerial view taken Nov. 15 of Hosei University's Tama campus in Tokyo's Machida city. The library, where five students said they smoked and dealt marijuana, can be seen in the center of the photo.

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New food service for athletes becoming popular

TOKYO, Japan - Members of Hosei University's swimming club in Tokyo's Hachioji city eat breakfast prepared by D-Athlete Communications, which offers a meal service for athletes.

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Kwansei downs Hosei at Koshien Bowl

KOSHIEN, Japan - Quarterback Yosuke Ozaki fends off a tackler and scores a touchdown to lead Kwansei Gakuin to a landslide 24-6 victory over defending champion Hosei University in the Koshien Bowl collegiate football championship at Koshien Stadium on Dec. 16. It was Kwansei Gakuin's first championship in two years.

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S. Koreans burn 'Norota effigy'

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean demonstrators burn an effigy of Japanese lawmaker Hosei Norota at a Seoul park Feb. 28 in protest over his controversial remarks. Norota told his supporters earlier this month that ''colonialism in Asia was rooted out thanks to the Greater East Asia War,'' the phrase employed by the Imperial Japanese Army in its bid to create a Great East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere during World War II.

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Resolution submitted against budget committee chief

TOKYO, Japan - Representatives of four main opposition parties (L) hand a resolution calling for the dismissal of the chairman of the House of Representatives Budget Committee to Fukumaru Tani (R), secretary general of the House of Representatives secretariat, on Feb. 21. The resolution was submitted over the manner in which Hosei Norota has run committee sessions as well as for his remarks over the weekend justifying Japan's wartime aggression.

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China, S. Korea slam former Japanese defense minister

TOKYO, Japan - Hosei Norota (R), a senior member of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), chairs the House of Representatives' Budget Committee session in the Diet on Feb. 19. China lashed out at comments made a day earlier by Norota, calling his justifications for Japan's wartime aggression ''ridiculous.'' Norota told LDP supporters that a U.S. ''scheme'' forced Japan to launch military campaigns in Asia in the 1930s and 1940s and that those campaigns are still appreciated for the positive role they play in Southeast Asia.

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Tanker capsizes after colliding with freighter in Yamaguchi

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - A small tanker capsizes Nov. 23 after colliding with a foreign freighter at a wharf in Tokuyama, Yamaguchi Prefecture. The tanker's three crew members were rescued and taken to hospital. Oil has been leaking from the 199-ton tanker Hosei Maru since the 11:30 a.m. collision with the 26,400-ton freighter Copilco.

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Takemoto 1st female Japanese in Tokyo Big-Six baseball

TOKYO, Japan - Hurler Megumi Takemoto, the first female Japanese player in the history of the Tokyo Big-Six Collegiate Baseball League and a fresher at the University of Tokyo, smiles Nov. 3 while warming up in a bullpen at the city's Jingu Stadium. The university's rookies beat Waseda University rookies 4-0 during the day although Takemoto, 18, did not get a chance to pitch. The other Big Six teams are Keio, Hosei, Meiji and Rikkyo universities.

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SDF can be sent to E. Timor if conditions met: Norota

TOKYO, Japan - Defense Agency chief Hosei Norota, speaking at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Sept. 14, says that Japan can dispatch Self-Defense Forces personnel to East Timor only if conditions for Japanese participation in U.N. peacekeeping operations, as stipulated in a domestic law, are met. Norota stressed Japan should first focus on humanitarian and financial assistance to the violence-torn territory.

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Cohen meets Norota

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Defense Agency Director General Hosei Norota (R) invites U.S. Defense Secretary William Cohen (L) to take seat for their talks in a Tokyo hotel July 28. Norota and Cohen agreed that a missile launch by North Korea is not imminent.

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Cabinet convened to discuss unidentified ships

Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi (C) and other cabinet members, including Defense Agency Director General Hosei Norota (R), head to a cabinet meeting March 24 to discuss the intrusion into Japanese territorial waters of two unidentified ships in the Sea of Japan.

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Japan-U.S. defense bills presented to Diet

Defense Agency Director General Hosei Norota presents government-sponsored bills for defense cooperation with the United States for deliberation in the House of Representatives on March 12 as Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi looks on.

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U.S. coordinator Perry meets Nonaka

Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiromu Nonaka (R) shakes hands with William Perry, U.S. policy coordinator for North Korea, at Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi's official residence on March 10 ahead of their meeting. Perry began talks with Japanese officials prior to finalizing a report due out later this month. After his talks with Nonaka, Perry will hold separate talks with Defense Agency Director General Hosei Norota, Prime Minister Obuchi and Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura.

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Top defense officials discuss N. Korea

Japan's Defense Agency Director-General Hosei Norota (C), presides over an inaugural session of the agency's intelligence council on Jan. 21 to discuss the North Korean situation. The council was established following North Korea's launch of a rocket on Aug. 31 last year, parts of which flew over Japan and plunged into the Pacific.

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Cohen meets Norota

U.S. Defense Secretary William Cohen and Japanese Defense Agency Director General Hosei Norota shakes hands prior to their talks at the Defense Agency on Jan. 13. They agreed to continue cooperation, along with South Korea, to prevent North Korea from possessing nuclear weapons.

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Defense Agency chief meets Okinawa Gov' in Naha

Defense Agency chief Hosei Norota (L) shakes hands with Okinawa Gov. Keiichi Inamine (R) Jan. 12 prior to talks at the prefectural gov't building in Naha. Norota visited Okinawa Prefecture for the 1st time after he was named to the defense agency director general in November.

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Japan's defense chief meets President Kim

Japanese Defense Agency Director General Hosei Norota (L) talks with South Korean President Kim Dae Jung at the presidential palace in Seoul on Jan. 8.

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Japan, S. Korea defense leaders meet in Seoul

Japanese Defense Agency Director General Hosei Norota (L) shakes hands with South Korea's Defense Minister Cheon Yong Taek on Jan. 7 prior to their talks in Seoul. Norota arrived in the South Korean capital Jan. 6.

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Japanese defense chief visits Panmunjom truce village

Hosei Norota, director general of the Japanese Defense Agency, visits the truce village of Panmunjom on the Korean military border in the afternoon of Jan. 7. The photo shows Norota inspecting the military border zone at the House of Freedom in Panmunjom. The Japanese defense chief arrived in Seoul on Jan. 6 for a three-day visit.

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Ritsumeikan University wins Koshien Bowl title

Members of the Ritsumeikan Panthers celebrate their second national college championship crown in American football at the Koshien Stadium, Nishinomiya, in Hyogo Prefecture on Dec. 19. The Kyoto school defeated Tokyo's Hosei University 25-17 in the 53rd Koshien Bowl.

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Vietnam defense minister, Japanese defense chief meet

Vietnamese Defense Minister Pham Van Tra (L), Defense Agency Director General Hosei Norota (R) shake hands Dec. 1 prior to bilateral defense talks at the Defense Agency.

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Defense Agency chief-in-waiting

File photo of Defense Agency Director General-designate Hosei Norota, who was named on Nov. 20 by Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi to succeed outgoing Defense Agency chief Fukushiro Nukaga. Nukaga resigned on Nov. 20 to take responsibility for the agency's cover-up of a procurement scandal. Norota, 69, a former agriculture minister, was elected five times to the House of Representatives and served one term in the House of Councillors.

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American football: Koshien Bowl

The Kwansei Gakuin University Fighters celebrate after winning the Koshien Bowl collegiate American football championship against Hosei University, for the fourth consecutive year, at Koshien Stadium in Nishinomiya, western Japan, on Dec. 19, 2021.

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American football: Koshien Bowl

The Kwansei Gakuin University Fighters celebrate after winning the Koshien Bowl collegiate American football championship against Hosei University, for the fourth consecutive year, at Koshien Stadium in Nishinomiya, western Japan, on Dec. 19, 2021.

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Kwansei downs Hosei at Koshien Bowl

KOSHIEN, Japan - Quarterback Yosuke Ozaki fends off a tackler and scores a touchdown to lead Kwansei Gakuin to a landslide 24-6 victory over defending champion Hosei University in the Koshien Bowl collegiate football championship at Koshien Stadium on Dec. 16. It was Kwansei Gakuin's first championship in two years.

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College course to train 'plant doctors' attracting students

TOKYO, Japan - Students compare sick and healthy broad bean plants during a class at Hosei University's Faculty of Bioscience and Applied Chemistry at the university's campus in Tokyo's Koganei on May 21. (Kyodo)

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Cabinet convened to discuss unidentified ships

Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi (C) and other cabinet members, including Defense Agency Director General Hosei Norota (R), head to a cabinet meeting March 24 to discuss the intrusion into Japanese territorial waters of two unidentified ships in the Sea of Japan.

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Cohen meets Norota

U.S. Defense Secretary William Cohen and Japanese Defense Agency Director General Hosei Norota shakes hands prior to their talks at the Defense Agency on Jan. 13. They agreed to continue cooperation, along with South Korea, to prevent North Korea from possessing nuclear weapons. ==Kyodo

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Japan-U.S. defense bills presented to Diet

Defense Agency Director General Hosei Norota presents government-sponsored bills for defense cooperation with the United States for deliberation in the House of Representatives on March 12 as Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi looks on. ==Kyodo

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Keio Univ.'s female pitcher appears in opening pitch ceremony

Ayano Kawasaki, the first female player for Keio University's baseball club, throws out the ceremonial first pitch during a game between Hosei and Meiji universities at the Jingu Stadium in Tokyo on Oct. 24, 2015. Kawasaki, currently the only female player in the Tokyo Big6 Baseball League, will work for a real estate firm after graduation, while aiming to join the national team. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Keio Univ.'s female pitcher appears in opening pitch ceremony

Ayano Kawasaki, the first female player for Keio University's baseball club, throws out the ceremonial first pitch during a game between Hosei and Meiji universities at the Jingu Stadium in Tokyo on Oct. 24, 2015. Kawasaki, currently the only female player in the Tokyo Big6 Baseball League, will work for a real estate firm after graduation, while aiming to join the national team. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Experts show different views on security bills

Hosei University Professor Jiro Yamaguchi attends a public hearing of the lower house special panel on the government-sponsored security bills on July 13, 2015, in Tokyo. While the ruling bloc aims to hold a vote on the controversial bills and ram them through the lower house soon, Yamaguchi said the bills are against the pacifist Constitution as they will lead Japan to deviate from its exclusively defense-oriented policy. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hosei University holds cancelled entrance ceremony for graduates

Seniors at Hosei University attend an entrance ceremony, which had been cancelled on April 3, 2011 due to the devastating earthquake and tsunami that struck northeastern Japan on March 11 that year, at the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo on March 24, 2015 prior to their graduation ceremony. The entrance ceremony was held for the 7,000 or so students who entered Hosei in 2011 but missed their entrance ceremony, with the aim of remembering the disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Sumo grand champion Harumafuji talks on Japanese people

Grand champion Harumafuji of Japan's professional sumo gives a lecture at the Hosei University Graduate School of Regional Policy Design in Tokyo on Feb. 9, 2015, after receiving an award for his contribution to regional rejuvenation. In his speech, the 30-year-old Mongolian sumo wrestler said he respects Japanese people and culture and that he wishes to tell his fellow countrymen the virtue of Japanese society which he believes is based on the principle of mutual support imbued with a sense of gratitude. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hosei University

File photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on June 1, 2018, shows the Ichigaya campus of Hosei University in Tokyo. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hosei University

File photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on June 1, 2018, shows the Ichigaya campus of Hosei University in Tokyo. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Olympic ceremonies should provide opportunity for youths: Nakagawa

TV personality Shoko Nakagawa (L) and Yuko Tanaka, president of Tokyo's Hosei University, pose for photos after they took part in an interview session in Tokyo on July 4, 2017, held by the organizing committee of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics to gather ideas about the opening and closing ceremonies. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Scientists concerned over military study subsidy program

Hosei University professor Atsushi Sugita, who heads a panel of the Science Council of Japan, attends a press conference in Tokyo on March 7, 2017, after the panel issued a draft statement expressing concern over the Defense Ministry's subsidy program for academic research on technology for military purposes. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Scientists concerned over military study subsidy program

Hosei University professor Atsushi Sugita, who heads a panel of the Science Council of Japan, attends a press conference in Tokyo on March 7, 2017, after the panel issued a draft statement expressing concern over the Defense Ministry's subsidy program for academic research on technology for military purposes. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Scientists concerned over military study subsidy program

Hosei University professor Atsushi Sugita, who heads a panel of the Science Council of Japan, attends a press conference in Tokyo on March 7, 2017, after the panel issued a draft statement expressing concern over the Defense Ministry's subsidy program for academic research on technology for military purposes. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo