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Princess Kako in Shiga

Japanese Princess Kako chats with high school students participating in the calligraphy club at Shiga Prefectural Ibuki High School in Maibara, in the western Japan prefecture of Shiga on Oct. 8, 2025.

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ALTRO - Pattinaggio - Street Skateboarding WST World Cup Rome 2025

Ibuki Matsumoto (JPN) - Women's Street Skateboarding Final WST World Cup Rome 2025 at Celio Park, on June 15, 2025 in Rome, Italy

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ALTRO - Pattinaggio - Street Skateboarding WST World Cup Rome 2025

Ibuki Matsumoto (JPN) - Women's Street Skateboarding Final WST World Cup Rome 2025 at Celio Park, on June 15, 2025 in Rome, Italy

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ALTRO - Pattinaggio - Street Skateboarding WST World Cup Rome 2025

Ibuki Matsumoto (JPN) - third placed - Women's Street Skateboarding Final WST World Cup Rome 2025 at Celio Park, on June 15, 2025 in Rome, Italy

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ALTRO - Pattinaggio - Street Skateboarding WST World Cup Rome 2025

Ibuki Matsumoto (JPN) - third placed - Women's Street Skateboarding Final WST World Cup Rome 2025 at Celio Park, on June 15, 2025 in Rome, Italy

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ALTRO - Pattinaggio - Street Skateboarding WST World Cup Rome 2025

Funa Nakayama (JPN) at left, Chloe Covell (AUS) at middle and Ibuki Matsumoto (JPN) during the award ceremony of Women's Street Skateboarding Final WST World Cup Rome 2025 at Celio Park, on June 15, 2025 in Rome, Italy

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ALTRO - Pattinaggio - Street Skateboarding WST World Cup Rome 2025

Funa Nakayama (JPN) at left, Chloe Covell (AUS) at middle and Ibuki Matsumoto (JPN) during the award ceremony of Women's Street Skateboarding Final WST World Cup Rome 2025 at Celio Park, on June 15, 2025 in Rome, Italy

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ALTRO - Pattinaggio - Street Skateboarding WST World Cup Rome 2025

Funa Nakayama (JPN) at left, Chloe Covell (AUS) at middle and Ibuki Matsumoto (JPN) during the award ceremony of Women's Street Skateboarding Final WST World Cup Rome 2025 at Celio Park, on June 15, 2025 in Rome, Italy

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ALTRO - Pattinaggio - Street Skateboarding WST World Cup Rome 2025

Ibuki Matsumoto (JPN) during the award ceremony of Women's Street Skateboarding Final WST World Cup Rome 2025 at Celio Park, on June 15, 2025 in Rome, Italy

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(SP)CHINA-HANGZHOU-ASIAN GAMES-FOOTBALL (CN)

(231004) -- HANGZHOU, Oct. 4, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Konno Ibuki (L) of Japan vies with Yu Jess Joy Yin of China's Hong Kong during the Men's Semifinal between China's Hong Kong and Japan at the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, Oct. 4, 2023. (Xinhua/Wang Peng)

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Ibuki retained after showing presence over education reform

TOKYO, Japan - Education, Culture, Sports, Science And Technology Minister Bummei Ibuki speaks at a press conference after retaining his post in Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's reshuffled Cabinet on Aug. 27. Ibuki showed his presence in the Abe government by realizing amendments to the basic education law.

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Ibuki to be retained as education minister

TOKYO, Japan - File photo of Bummei Ibuki, who is set to remain in the new Abe Cabinet as minister of education, culture, sports, science and technology.

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Koizumi, Matsuo win silver in 420-men's 2 person dinghy

INCHEON, South Korea - Photo shows Japan's Ibuki Koizumi (R) and Kotaro Matsuo, who won silver in the 420-men's two person dinghy sailing event at the Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea, on Sept. 30, 2014.

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Crown Prince Naruhito hikes up Mt. Ibuki

MAIBARA, Japan - Japan's Crown Prince Naruhito (R) enjoys the view from the peak of Mt. Ibuki located in Shiga and Gifu prefectures on Oct. 13, 2010.

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Former Mitsubishi Bank head Ibuki dies at 89

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuo Ibuki (file photo taken in April, 1988), former president of Mitsubishi Bank, one of the predecessors of the Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ, died of acute pneumonia at his home in Tokyo on Sept. 2, 2009. He was 89.

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Ex-LDP No. 2 man Ibuki narrowly secures reelection

KYOTO, Japan - Bummei Ibuki, a past secretary general of the Liberal Democratic Party, bows in Kyoto on Aug. 30 after losing in the No. 1 single-seat constituency of Kyoto Prefecture in the House of Representatives election. But Ibuki regained a lower house seat in the proportional representation block.

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Japan launches satellite to study Earth's greenhouse gases

TANEGASHIMA, Japan - The domestically built H-2A rocket was launched from the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture on Jan 23. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's rocket carried the Ibuki satellite to study the concentration of greenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere, as well as seven smaller satellites, including Maido No. 1 to observe the formation of thunder clouds which was developed mainly by nine small factories in Higashiosaka, Osaka Prefecture.

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Japan authorities hold 8 tril. yen in Fannie, Freddie debt

TOKYO, Japan - Finance Minister Bunmei Ibuki (standing) speaks at a meeting of the House of Councillors Committee on Financial Affairs in Tokyo on Sept. 19. Ibuki admitted that the Japanese government and the Bank of Japan hold a total of about 8 trillion yen ($74.5 billion) in debt issued by recently rescued U.S. mortgage agencies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

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Fukuda chooses new LDP leadership ahead of Cabinet reshuffle

TOKYO, Japan - Taro Aso (L), new secretary general of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, and Bunmei Ibuki, LDP's outgoing secretary general, shake hands at the LDP's headquarters in Tokyo on Aug. 1. Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda appointed new executives in the LDP ahead of reshuffling his Cabinet.

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Fukuda reshuffles his Cabinet

TOKYO, Japan - Bunmei Ibuki, who was appointed to his fourth Cabinet post as finance minister in the Cabinet reshuffle, arrives at the prime minister's office on Aug. 1.

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Fukuda to reshuffle Cabinet

TOKYO, Japan - Leaders of the Liberal Democratic Party and the LDP's junior coalition partner New Komeito (L-R: New Komeito Secretary General Kazuo Kitagawa, New Komeito chief Akihiro Ota, Prime Minister and LDP chief Yasuo Fukuda, LDP Secretary General Bunmei Ibuki, Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura of the LDP) gather at the prime minister's office Aug. 1. Ota said Fukuda sought New Komeito's cooperation in the reshuffling of his Cabinet later in the day.

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Fukuda to reshuffle Cabinet

TOKYO, Japan - Liberal Democratic Party Secretary General Bunmei Ibuki responds to questions from reporters about a meeting between Prime Minister and LDP chief Yasuo Fukuda and Akihiro Ota, head the LDP's junior coalition partner New Komeito, at the prime minister's office Aug. 1. Ibuki said Fukuda has decided to reshuffle his Cabinet later in the day.

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Gov't, LDP planning lower house re-vote on tax reform bill

TOKYO, Japan - Ruling Liberal Democratic Party Secretary General Bummei Ibuki speaks to reporters at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on April 22. Ibuki said the Japanese government and the LDP are planning to have the House of Representatives hold an overriding second vote April 30 on a tax reform bill that would restore provisionally raised gasoline and other road-related taxes.

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:Bummei Ibuki, LDP secretary general

TOKYO, Japan - Bummei Ibuki, secretary general of the Liberal Democratic Party, speaks to reporters at the LDP headquarters in Tokyo on Sept. 24 after he was appointed to the job. Ibuki, an LDP factional leader, backed Yasuo Fukuda, winner of the Sept. 23 LDP presidential election.

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:Premier-to-be Fukuda names senior LDP executives

TOKYO, Japan - Newly elected Liberal Democratic Party leader Yasuo Fukuda poses with the new lineup of top LDP executives he appointed on Sept. 24. From L to R: Masaaki Yamazaki, secretary general of the LDP House of Councillors caucus; Makoto Koga, chairman of the LDP election strategy committee; Bummei Ibuki, LDP secretary general; Fukuda; Toshihiro Nikai, chairman of the LDP General Council; Sadakazu Tanigaki, chairman of the LDP Policy Research Council; and Hidehisa Otsuji, head of the LDP House of Councillors caucus. Fukuda is expected to be elected prime minister by parliament on Sept. 25 as the LDP controls the House of Representatives.

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:Bummei Ibuki, LDP secretary general

TOKYO, Japan - Education Minister Bummei Ibuki shows up at the Liberal Democratic Party headquarters in Tokyo on Sept. 24 after he was named LDP Secretary general. Ibuki, an LDP factional leader, backed Yasuo Fukuda, winner of the Sept. 23 LDP presidential election.

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Cabinet approves education reform bill to instill patriotism

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (C) walks by education minister Bummei Ibuki as he prepares to preside over a regular Cabinet session at his official residence on March 30. The Cabinet later approved a bill to revise the School Education Law, featuring a provision citing instilling patriotism as a goal of compulsory education in Japan.

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Japan, Italy sign pact to jointly protect cultural heritage

TOKYO, Japan - Francesco Rutelli (L) and Bummei Ibuki, respectively cultural ministers of Italy and Japan, shake hands March 19 at a Tokyo hotel after signing an agreement to advance bilateral cooperation on preserving cultural heritage through joint research.

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Panel endorses enhanced central gov't role in education

TOKYO, Japan - Masakazu Yamazaki (R), chairman of the Central Council for Education, a government advisory panel, hands a report containing education reform proposals to Education Minister Bummei Ibuki on March 10. The report endorsed an increased involvement of the central government in education.

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Education, defense bills pass parliament

TOKYO, Japan - Education minister Bummei Ibuki bows in appreciation as the House of Councillors enacted a controversial bill to revise the nation's basic education law at a plenary session on Dec. 15.

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Education minister asks children to stop bullying

TOKYO, Japan - Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Minister Bummei Ibuki reads out a statement at his ministry in Tokyo on Nov. 17 calling on children to stop bullying, in the wake of a spate of suicides among children believed related to bullying.

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Deliberation on education law revisions resumed

TOKYO, Japan - Education minister Bunmei Ibuki answers an opposition question during a debate at a lower house committee on a government-sponsored bill to revise Japan's basic postwar education law on Oct. 30.

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Education panel mulls ways to rebuild Japan's education system

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (3rd from R) speaks during the first meeting of the Education Rebuilding Council, the newly created expert panel on education, at the prime minister's office on Oct. 18. The council aims to discuss specific ways to spur education reform, a key policy of Abe. Education minister Bummei Ibuki (R) and the panel head and Nobel Prize laureate Ryoji Noyori attended the meeting.

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Education minister Ibuki

TOKYO, Japan - New education minister Bummei Ibuki speaks at a press conference at the prime minister's office on Sept. 26.

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Ibuki attends funeral of railway track rescuer

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Bummei Ibuki (2nd from L), chairman of the National Public Safety Commission, leaves the funeral of Shiro Sekine, a Yokohama photographer, on Jan. 29. Sekine and Lee Su Hyon, a 26-year-old South Korean student, were both killed by an oncoming train after they jumped onto the tracks at JR Shin-Okubo Station in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward to rescue an apparently drunk man who had fallen off the platform.

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Gov't crisis-management liaison panel holds 1st meeting

TOKYO, Japan - Bummei Ibuki (C), minister in charge of disaster prevention and crisis management, addresses the first meeting of a government liaison panel on crisis management and disaster prevention Jan. 24. The panel is designed to improve disaster-response times for volcanic eruptions and earthquakes.

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Imperial conferment of decorations

Japanese Emperor Naruhito (L) confers the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Paulownia Flowers to former House of Representatives speaker Bunmei Ibuki at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on May 10, 2022. (Pool photo)

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Education panel mulls ways to rebuild Japan's education system

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (3rd from R) speaks during the first meeting of the Education Rebuilding Council, the newly created expert panel on education, at the prime minister's office on Oct. 18. The council aims to discuss specific ways to spur education reform, a key policy of Abe. Education minister Bummei Ibuki (R) and the panel head and Nobel Prize laureate Ryoji Noyori attended the meeting. (Kyodo)

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Deliberation on education law revisions resumed

TOKYO, Japan - Education minister Bunmei Ibuki answers an opposition question during a debate at a lower house committee on a government-sponsored bill to revise Japan's basic postwar education law on Oct. 30. (Kyodo)

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Letter foretelling suicide (2)

TOKYO, Japan - An official shows a copy of the letter in which an anonymous student foretells his imminent suicide. The letter is addressed to Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Minister Bummei Ibuki. The photo was taken on Nov. 7, 2006. (Kyodo)

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Education minister gets 2nd letter warning suicide

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a copy of the letter addressed to education minister Bummei Ibuki in which an anonymous female student threatens to commit suicide because she is being bullied. It follows a similar letter received on Nov. 6 from another student who appears to be a male. The copy is handed out to reporters at a press conference at the Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Ministry in Tokyo's Chiyoda ward. The photo was taken on Nov. 9, 2006. (Kyodo)

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Letter foretelling suicide

TOKYO, Japan - The file photo shows an envelope and a letter in which an anonymous student foretells his imminent suicide. The letter is addressed to Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Ministry Bummei Ibuki. The photo was taken on Nov. 7, 2006. (Kyodo)

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Education, defense bills pass parliament

TOKYO, Japan - Education minister Bummei Ibuki bows in appreciation as the House of Councillors enacted a controversial bill to revise the nation's basic education law at a plenary session on Dec. 15. (Kyodo)

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Panel endorses enhanced central gov't role in education

TOKYO, Japan - Masakazu Yamazaki (R), chairman of the Central Council for Education, a government advisory panel, hands a report containing education reform proposals to Education Minister Bummei Ibuki on March 10. The report endorsed an increased involvement of the central government in education. (Kyodo)

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Cabinet approves education reform bill to instill patriotism

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (C) walks by education minister Bummei Ibuki as he prepares to preside over a regular Cabinet session at his official residence on March 30. The Cabinet later approved a bill to revise the School Education Law, featuring a provision citing instilling patriotism as a goal of compulsory education in Japan. (Kyodo)

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Ibuki retained after showing presence over education reform

TOKYO, Japan - Education, Culture, Sports, Science And Technology Minister Bummei Ibuki speaks at a press conference after retaining his post in Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's reshuffled Cabinet on Aug. 27. Ibuki showed his presence in the Abe government by realizing amendments to the basic education law. (Kyodo)

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Ibuki to be retained as education minister

TOKYO, Japan - File photo of Bummei Ibuki, who is set to remain in the new Abe Cabinet as minister of education, culture, sports, science and technology. (Kyodo)

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Japan's LDP Secretary General Ibuki talks with Hu Jintao

BEIJING, China - Bummei Ibuki (L), secretary general of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party, talks with Chinese President Hu Jintao at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on April. 16. Ibuki visited China as a member of a delegation of Japan's ruling coalition parties. (Kyodo)

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Japan's LDP leader Ibuki hands Hu letter from Fukuda

BEIJING, China - Bummei Ibuki (L), secretary general of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party, shakes hands with Chinese President Hu Jintao after handing Hu a letter from Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on April 16. Hu met with a delegation of Japan's ruling coalition parties including Ibuki and Kazuo Kitagawa, Ibuki's counterpart from the New Komeito party. (Kyodo)

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Gov't, LDP planning lower house re-vote on tax reform bill

TOKYO, Japan - Ruling Liberal Democratic Party Secretary General Bummei Ibuki speaks to reporters at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on April 22. Ibuki said the Japanese government and the LDP are planning to have the House of Representatives hold an overriding second vote April 30 on a tax reform bill that would restore provisionally raised gasoline and other road-related taxes. (Kyodo)