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HOUSTON, United States, Jan. 5 Kyodo - Japanese right-handed pitcher Tatsuya Imai poses during his first press conference after joining the MLB's Houston Astros in Houston, Texas, on Jan. 5, 2026. (Kyodo)

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Baseball: Tatsuya Imai

Japanese right-handed pitcher Tatsuya Imai puts on his No. 45 jersey during his first press conference after joining the MLB's Houston Astros in Houston, Texas, on Jan. 5, 2026.

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Baseball: Tatsuya Imai

Japanese right-handed pitcher Tatsuya Imai puts on his No. 45 jersey during his first press conference after joining the MLB's Houston Astros in Houston, Texas, on Jan. 5, 2026.

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Baseball: Tatsuya Imai

Japanese right-handed pitcher Tatsuya Imai poses during his first press conference after joining the MLB's Houston Astros in Houston, Texas, on Jan. 5, 2026.

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Baseball: Tatsuya Imai

Japanese right-handed pitcher Tatsuya Imai poses during his first press conference after joining the MLB's Houston Astros in Houston, Texas, on Jan. 5, 2026.

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Baseball: Tatsuya Imai

Japanese right-handed pitcher Tatsuya Imai poses during his first press conference after joining the MLB's Houston Astros in Houston, Texas, on Jan. 5, 2026.

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Baseball: Tatsuya Imai

Japanese right-handed pitcher Tatsuya Imai poses during his first press conference after joining the MLB's Houston Astros in Houston, Texas, on Jan. 5, 2026.

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Baseball: Tatsuya Imai

Japanese right-handed pitcher Tatsuya Imai poses during his first press conference after joining the MLB's Houston Astros in Houston, Texas, on Jan. 5, 2026.

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Baseball: Tatsuya Imai

Japanese right-handed pitcher Tatsuya Imai puts on his No. 45 jersey during his first press conference after joining the MLB's Houston Astros in Houston, Texas, on Jan. 5, 2026.

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Baseball: Tatsuya Imai

Japanese right-handed pitcher Tatsuya Imai puts on his No. 45 jersey during his first press conference after joining the MLB's Houston Astros in Houston, Texas, on Jan. 5, 2026.

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Baseball: Tatsuya Imai

Japanese right-handed pitcher Tatsuya Imai poses during his first press conference after joining the MLB's Houston Astros in Houston, Texas, on Jan. 5, 2026.

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Baseball: Tatsuya Imai

Japanese right-handed pitcher Tatsuya Imai poses during his first press conference after joining the MLB's Houston Astros in Houston, Texas, on Jan. 5, 2026.

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Baseball: Tatsuya Imai

Japanese right-handed pitcher Tatsuya Imai attends his first press conference after joining the MLB's Houston Astros in Houston, Texas, on Jan. 5, 2026.

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Baseball: Tatsuya Imai

Japanese right-handed pitcher Tatsuya Imai attends his first press conference after joining the MLB's Houston Astros in Houston, Texas, on Jan. 5, 2026.

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Baseball: Tatsuya Imai

Japanese right-handed pitcher Tatsuya Imai attends his first press conference after joining the MLB's Houston Astros in Houston, Texas, on Jan. 5, 2026.

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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.