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Baseball: GM meetings in Las Vegas

Baseball agent Scott Boras meets the press as Major League Baseball's general manager meetings get under way in Las Vegas on Nov. 12, 2025. Boras said his client Tatsuya Imai, pitcher of Japan's Seibu Lions, will be posted for MLB teams on Nov. 19.

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Baseball: GM meetings in Las Vegas

San Diego Padres general manager A.J. Preller speaks to the press as Major League Baseball's general manager meetings get under way in Las Vegas on Nov. 11, 2025. Preller expressed interest in acquiring pitcher Tatsuya Imai of the Seibu Lions following the Japanese Pacific League team's announcement that it has begun the process of posting the 27-year-old right-hander to MLB.

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Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Muto meets with steel and aluminum industries

Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Muto meeting with steel and aluminum industries. Photo Shows Tadashi Imai, Chairman of the Japan Iron and Steel Federation (President and COO of Nippon Steel Corporation).=February 25,2025,Tokyo

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Event in Japan to push claim for islets

Eriko Imai, a Japanese Cabinet Office parliamentary vice minister, speaks at an annual event to mark Shimane Prefecture-designated "Takeshima Day" in Matsue, western Japan, on Feb. 22, 2025, held to push Japan's claim to a group of South Korea-controlled islets in the Sea of Japan.

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Press Conference on the Change of President of DENKA

DENKA President-elect press conference. Photo shows Ikuo Ishida (right), president-elect of DENKA, and Toshio Imai, president of DENKA, at the press conference.=February 7,2025,Chuo-ku, Tokyo

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Press Conference on the Change of President of DENKA

DENKA President-elect press conference. Photo shows Ikuo Ishida (right), president-elect of DENKA, and Toshio Imai, president of DENKA, shaking hands.=February 7,2025,Chuo-ku, Tokyo

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JCLP “Must Speak Up Now” Urgent Conference for 1.5 Degree Target

JCLP “We must speak up now” emergency press conference for the 1.5 degree target. Pictured from left to right: Masanori Imai, co-chairman of JCLP; Akira Nagakubo, Hayama Town Fishermen's Association; Yoshitaka Inoue, Furman representative director; Tomoko Irie, director of J League Sustainability Department; Takeo Fujiwara, professor of public health at Institute of Science Tokyo; Kenji Kono, professional skier.=December 3,2024,Tokyo

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'We must speak up now' Urgent press conference for 1.5 degree goal

“We must speak up now” Urgent press conference for the 1.5 degree target. Pictured from left to right: Masanori Imai, co-chairman of JCLP; Akira Nagakubo, Hayama Town Fishermen's Association; Yoshitaka Inoue, Furman representative director; Tomoko Irie, director of the J League Sustainability Department; Takeo Fujiwara, professor of public health at Institute of Science Tokyo; Kenji Kono, professional skier.”=December 3,2024,Tokyo

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Press conference on the change of the president of Nippon Steel Corporation

Press conference on the change of the president of Nippon Steel Corporation. Photo from right to left: Tadashi Imai, President and COO; currently, Executive Vice President and Representative Director; Eiji Hashimoto, Chairman and CEO; currently, President and Representative Director. =Date:January 12, 2024, Place: Tokyo

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Press conference on the change of the president of Nippon Steel Corporation

Press conference on the change of the president of Nippon Steel Corporation. Photo from right to left: Tadashi Imai, President and COO; currently, Executive Vice President and Representative Director; Eiji Hashimoto, Chairman and CEO; currently, President and Representative Director. =Date:January 12, 2024, Place: Tokyo

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Press conference on the change of the president of Nippon Steel Corporation

Press conference on the change of the president of Nippon Steel Corporation. Photo from right to left: Tadashi Imai, President and COO; currently, Executive Vice President and Representative Director; Eiji Hashimoto, Chairman and CEO; currently, President and Representative Director. =Date:January 12, 2024, Place: Tokyo

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Press conference on the change of the president of Nippon Steel Corporation

Press conference on the change of the president of Nippon Steel Corporation. Tadashi Imai Next President and COO Currently Executive Vice President and Representative Director =Date:January 12, 2024, Place: Tokyo

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Asia Professional Baseball Championship

Japan's starting pitcher Tatsuya Imai takes the mound against South Korea in the final of the Asia Professional Baseball Championship at Tokyo Dome on Nov. 19, 2023.

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Asia Professional Baseball Championship

Japan's starting pitcher Tatsuya Imai takes the mound against South Korea in the final of the Asia Professional Baseball Championship at Tokyo Dome on Nov. 19, 2023.

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Asian Games: Swimming

Japanese swimmer Runa Imai smiles after finishing third in the women's 200-meter breaststroke final at the Asian Games in Hangzhou, China, on Sept. 28, 2023.

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Asian Games: Swimming

Japanese swimmer Runa Imai smiles after finishing third in the women's 200-meter breaststroke final at the Asian Games in Hangzhou, China, on Sept. 28, 2023.

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

(230928) -- HANGZHOU, Sept. 28, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Gold Medalist Ye Shiwen (C) of China, Silver Medalist Kwon Sehyun (L) of South Korea and Bronze Medalist Imai Runa of Japan attend the awarding ceremony for Women's 200m Breaststroke of Swimming at the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, Sept. 28, 2023. (Xinhua/Xue Yuge)

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Asian Games: Swimming

Runa Imai of Japan poses with the bronze medal she won in the women's 200-meter breaststroke event at the Asian Games in Hangzhou, China, on Sept. 28, 2023.

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Asian Games: Swimming

Runa Imai of Japan poses with the bronze medal she won in the women's 200-meter breaststroke event at the Asian Games in Hangzhou, China, on Sept. 28, 2023.

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Asian Games: Swimming

Runa Imai of Japan swims in the final of the women's 200-meter breaststroke event at the Asian Games in Hangzhou, China, on Sept. 28, 2023.

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Asian Games: Swimming

Runa Imai of Japan swims in the final of the women's 200-meter breaststroke event at the Asian Games in Hangzhou, China, on Sept. 28, 2023.

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

(230927) -- HANGZHOU, Sept. 27, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Imai Maho of Japan competes during the Men's Daoshu & Gunshu All-Round Final of Wushu at the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, Sept. 27, 2023. (Xinhua/Li Yibo)

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

(230927) -- HANGZHOU, Sept. 27, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Imai Maho of Japan competes during the Men's Daoshu & Gunshu All-Round Final of Wushu at the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, Sept. 27, 2023. (Xinhua/Li Yibo)

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

(230927) -- HANGZHOU, Sept. 27, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Imai Maho of Japan competes during the Men's Daoshu & Gunshu All-Round Final of Wushu at the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, Sept. 27, 2023. (Xinhua/Li Yibo)

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

(230927) -- HANGZHOU, Sept. 27, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Imai Maho of Japan competes during the Men's Daoshu & Gunshu All-Round Final of Wushu at the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, Sept. 27, 2023. (Xinhua/Li Yibo)

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Students join job experience program in disaster-hit town

SENDAI, Japan - Marin Imai (extreme L) and other students of Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, western Japan, process seaweed at a fishery plant in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on Aug. 29, 2014, during a job experience program designed to support the town's reconstruction from the earthquake and tsunami that ravaged the northeastern Japan region in 2011.

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Finder of world's oldest fossilized bird eggshells

FUKUI, Japan - Dinosaur researcher Takuya Imai smiles in this undated file photo. Imai has determined that fossilized bird eggshells kept at Fukui Prefectural University's Dinosaur Research Institute in Eiheiji, western Japan, are the world's oldest.

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Kamenoi Shuzo wins Sake-1 Grand Prix

KYOTO, Japan - Toshinori Imai of Kamenoi Shuzo, a brewer from Tsuruoka, Yamagata Prefecture, holds "Kudoki Jozu Jr. White," which won the first place in the "Miyabi" category of the Sake-1 Grand Prix, at Matsuo Taisha Shrine in Kyoto, western Japan, on May 25, 2014. Kamenoi Shuzo won the grand prize of the contest with the "Super Kudoki Jozu."

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Ig Nobel award

CAMBRIDGE, United States - Shinsuke Imai (C), a senior researcher at Japan's House Foods Corp., and Ishikawa Prefectural University President Hidehiko Kumagai (L) attend an award ceremony at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Sept. 12, 2013. Their group won the spoof Ig Nobel chemistry prize for researching the possibility of a tear-free, yet flavorful, onion.

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Japan, U.S. comprehensive dialogue on cybersecurity

TOKYO, Japan - Osamu Imai (L), Japanese ambassador in charge of cyberpolicy, and Christopher Painter (R), coordinator for cyber issues at the U.S. State Department, head for the first comprehensive dialogue of the two countries on issues relating to cyberspace at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on May 9, 2013. The two-day meeting started the same day with the aim of determining countermeasures and international rules in relation to cyberattacks.

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Taiwan, Japan officials meet

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Tadashi Imai (L), president of the Interchange Association, Japan's de facto mission, and Taiwan Foreign Minister Timothy Yang shake hands in Taipei on Sept. 25, 2012. In their talks Japan and Taiwan failed to reach agreement on when to reopen talks on fishing in contested waters in the East China Sea

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Civic group seeking referendums on nuclear power

TOKYO, Japan - Hajime Imai, secretary general of civic group Let's Decide Together/Citizen-initiated National Referendum on Nuclear Power, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 9, 2012. The group seeking a referendum on whether to keep nuclear power plants said it has collected enough signatures to ask the Tokyo metropolitan government to hold a plebiscite on the issue.

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Japan's Imai at Rostelecom Cup

MOSCOW, Russia - Japan's Haruka Imai performs on Nov. 25, 2011, during the women's short program at the Rostelecom Cup in Moscow, the last of six events in the Grand Prix series. Imai finished sixth in the short program.

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Japan's Imai finishes 4th at Skate America

ONTARIO, United States - Japan's Haruka Imai performs her free program at Skate America in Ontario, California, on Oct. 23, 2011. The 18-year-old finished fourth with a total of 142.94 points, her career-best result in a Grand Prix series event.

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Japan's Imai finishes 4th at Skate America

ONTARIO, United States - Japan's Haruka Imai performs her free program at Skate America in Ontario, California, on Oct. 23, 2011. The 18-year-old finished fourth with a total of 142.94 points, her career-best result in a Grand Prix series event.

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'Wasabi fire alarm' wins Ig Nobel prize

CAMBRIDGE, United States - Yukinobu Tajima (L), head of the Fragrance Marketing Association, and Makoto Imai, assistant professor of Shiga University of Medical Science, speak with reporters at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts on Sept. 29, 2011 shortly before attending the award ceremony there for the 2011 Ig Nobel prizes. Seven Japanese researchers including Tajima and Imai were awarded the prize in chemistry for inventing a fire alarm device which informs people with hearing impediments of a fire by emitting a pungent ''wasabi'' horseradish smell.

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Taipei's Songshan-Haneda flights resume after 3 decades

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Taiwan Premier Wu Den-yi (5th from R in rear row) and Japan's representative to Taiwan, Tadashi Imai (4th from R in rear row), attend a ceremony at Taipei's inner-city Songshan airport on Oct. 31, 2010, marking the resumption of flight services between Songshan and Tokyo's Haneda airport after almost 32 years.

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Imai named top representative to Taiwan

TOKYO, Japan - This file photo shows Tadashi Imai, former Japanese ambassador to Israel and Malaysia, who has been named the country's top representative to Taiwan, replacing Masaki Saito, sources close to Japan-Taiwan relations said Dec. 5, 2009. Saito has stirred controversy over his remarks on the island's international status.

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NHK starts on-demand Internet distribution of TV programs

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) NHK Vice Chairman Yoshinori Imai, actor Kazuki Kitamura, actress Takako Tokiwa, actor Satoshi Tsumabuki and NHK Chairman Shigeo Fukuchi are seen at a launching ceremony for on-demand distribution of TV programs at the headquarters of Japan Broadcasting Corp., better known as NHK, in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward on Dec. 1. The public broadcaster now distributes its TV programs on demand for a fee over the Internet.

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Hiroshima marks 63rd anniversary of atomic bombing

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Honoka Imai (L), 11, and Sota Hondo (R), 12, read a Pledge for Peace during a memorial service marking the 63rd anniversary of the wartime atomic bombing at the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on Aug. 6.

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FAO picks Shin Imai as Myanmar representative

ROME, Italy - Shin Imai, the newly appointed Food and Agriculture Organization representative for Myanmar, speaks to reporters in Rome on May 23 after FAO announced his appointment. Imai was formerly Asian regional coordinator of the United Nations agency.

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NHK appoints former newscaster Imai as new vice president

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshinori Imai (R), a former newscaster of Japan Broadcasting Corp., meets the press in Tokyo on Jan. 29 after he was named as a new vice president of the public broadcaster known as NHK. At left is new NHK President Shigeo Fukuchi.

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Japanese astronaut Mohri in Antarctica

SHOWA BASE, Antarctica - Japanese astronaut Mamoru Mohri (L) and author Wahei Tatematsu pose with a colony of penguins found 20 kilometers away from the Japanese Antarctic base Showa on Jan. 12 during a visit there together with Japanese mountaineer Michiko Imai. The trio arrived at Showa Base on Jan. 7 as part of events to mark the 50th founding anniversary of the Antarctic research base. (Pool photo by Kyodo)

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Astronaut Mohri, others arrive at Showa Base

SHOWA BASE, Antarctica - Japanese astronaut Mamoru Mohri poses for photos at Japan's Showa Base in Antarctica on Jan. 7. Mohri, together with climber Michiko Imai and writer Wahei Tatematsu, arrived at the base the same day as part of events to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the base's founding. (Pool photo)

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Astronaut Mohri leaves for Antarctic

NARITA, Japan - (From L to R) Japanese astronaut Mamoru Mohri, writer Wahei Tatematsu and mountaineer Michiko Imai prepare to leave Narita airport, east of Tokyo, on Jan. 3 for the Antarctic to observe Japanese activities at the Showa Base as part of events marking the 50th anniversary of the opening of the base.

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Man sent to prosecutors over attempted murder at Kanagawa condo

KAWASAKI, Japan - A car carrying Kenji Imai, arrested April 1 on suspicion of attempting to kill a female janitor at a condominium building, leaves Tama Police Station in Kanagawa Prefecture on April 2.

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Ace Imai fails to advance to final in women's halfpipe

BARDONECCHIA, Italy - Japanese ace Melo Imai in the women's halfpipe tumbled in the second run, failing to advance to the final at the Turin Olympics in Italy's Bardonecchia on Feb. 13.

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Japan's snowboarders test Olympic course

TURIN, Italy - Japan's Melo Imai practices on the Bardonecchia halfpipe track on Feb. 7. Japanese halfpipe snowboarders got the feel of Turin's extended 150-meter Olympic course with an official practice session head of the upcoming Winter Games.

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Mazda launches remodeled MPV minivan in Japan

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Mazda Motor Corp. President Hisakazu Imai stands by the company's fully remodeled version of its MPV minivan during a presentation at a hotel in Tokyo on Feb. 2. Powered by a 2.3-liter engine, the new model features a dynamic driving performance and greater maneuverability, based on opinions of customers, Imaki said.

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Imai third in men's 1,000 meters

COLLALBO, Italy - Japanese speed skater Yusuke Imai (R) who finished third in the men's 1,000 poses on the podium with gold medal winner Shani Davis (C) and silver medal winner Cheek (L), both of the United States.