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Red snow crab catch in central Japan

The season's first catch of red snow crab is auctioned after being landed at a fishing port in Imizu in Toyama Prefecture, central Japan, on Sept. 11, 2025.

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Red snow crab catch in central Japan

The season's first catch of red snow crab is lined up for an auction at a fishing port in Imizu in Toyama Prefecture, central Japan, on Sept. 11, 2025.

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Red snow crab catch in central Japan

The season's first catch of red snow crab is lined up for an auction at a fishing port in Imizu in Toyama Prefecture, central Japan, on Sept. 11, 2025.

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Toyama white shrimp harvest season begins

First white shrimp catch of the season is landed at a port in Imizu, Toyama Prefecture, central Japan, on April 1, 2025.

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Toyama white shrimp harvest season begins

First white shrimp catch of the season is landed at a port in Imizu, Toyama Prefecture, central Japan, on April 1, 2025.

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Toyama white shrimp harvest season begins

A white shrimp is pictured as the season's first catch of the seafood is landed at a port in Imizu, Toyama Prefecture, central Japan, on April 1, 2025.

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Japan: Strong Earthquake Strikes Off Western Ishikawa

An earthquake struck the Noto region in Ishikawa Prefecture on Tuesday evening, November 26. The epicenter was located off the western coast of Ishikawa. Shaking was also felt in other prefectures in central Japan.

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Red snow crab catch in central Japan

The season's first catch of red snow crab is landed at a fishing port in Imizu in Toyama Prefecture, central Japan, on Sept. 10, 2024.

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Red snow crab catch in central Japan

The season's first catch of red snow crab is auctioned after being landed at a fishing port in Imizu in Toyama Prefecture, central Japan, on Sept. 10, 2024.

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Red snow crab catch in central Japan

The season's first catch of red snow crab is auctioned after being landed at a fishing port in Imizu in Toyama Prefecture, central Japan, on Sept. 10, 2024.

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Red snow crab catch in central Japan

The season's first catch of red snow crab is landed at a fishing port in Imizu in Toyama Prefecture, central Japan, on Sept. 10, 2024.

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Red snow crab catch in central Japan

The season's first catch of red snow crab is landed at a fishing port in Imizu in Toyama Prefecture, central Japan, on Sept. 10, 2024.

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Toyama white shrimp harvest season begins

First white shrimp catch of the season is landed at a port in Imizu, Toyama Prefecture, central Japan, on April 1, 2024.

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Toyama white shrimp harvest season begins

First white shrimp catch of the season is landed at a port in Imizu, Toyama Prefecture, central Japan, on April 1, 2024.

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Aftermath of strong quake in central Japan

Photo taken on Jan. 2, 2024, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a damaged pier in Imizu in the central Japan prefecture of Toyama, following a strong earthquake that rocked a wide area on the Sea of Japan coast the previous day.

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Japan PM Kishida visits recycling plant in Toyama

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (L) is briefed about the recycling of electronic home appliances during a visit to a metal recycling factory in Imizu in Toyama Prefecture, central Japan, on Aug. 10, 2023. (Pool photo)

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Japan PM Kishida visits recycling plant in Toyama

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (R) is briefed about the recycling of electronic home appliances during a visit to a metal recycling factory in Imizu in Toyama Prefecture, central Japan, on Aug. 10, 2023. (Pool photo)

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Toyama white shrimp harvest season begins

Fishermen land the first catch of small white shrimps, known as "Toyama Bay jewelry" for their translucent pink color, at Shinminato fishing port in Imizu, Toyama Prefecture in central Japan, on April 1, 2023, as the harvest season begins.

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Giant squid dried, exhibited at eastern Japan mall

TOKYO, Japan - Visitors look at a dried giant squid at a shopping mall in Imizu, Toyama Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Jan. 7, 2015. The giant squid was more than 6 meters in length before being dried.

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Giant squid dried, displayed at Japan shopping mall

TOYAMA, Japan - A 4-meter-long dried giant squid, some 10 times the size of a normal dried squid, is displayed at a shopping mall in Imizu, Toyama Prefecture, central Japan, on Jan. 7, 2015.

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Man-powered airplane in Toyama Pref.

IMIZU, Japan - A man-powered airplane takes off toward Toyama Bay in Imizu, Toyama Prefecture, on Oct. 7, 2010. A Nippon University laboratory failed in an attempt to attain the world's longest flight record by a man-powered plane while the pilot sustained injuries upon landing in the sea.

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Police probing deaths of 7 elderly patients in Toyama

IMIZU, Japan - Hidetsugu Asanoi, head of the Imizu City Hospital in Toyama Prefecture, speaks at a press conference on March 25 after police began investigating the deaths of seven cancer patients from 2000 to 2005 at the hospital as cases of possible murder. The patients died after the hospital's surgery department head removed their respirators, the city government and the police said. Asanoi quoted the 50-year-old surgeon as saying he had removed respirators of the seven in their 50s to 90s with consent from their families but without consent from the patients themselves.

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Police probing deaths of 7 elderly patients in Toyama

IMIZU, Japan - Photo taken on March 25 shows Imizu City Hospital in Toyama Prefecture, where police have begun to investigate the deaths of seven elderly patients, all of whom died after their respirators were removed.

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Police raid offices of rival yakuza gangs over street parades

Police raid the office of the Hongo-gumi yakuza group in Imizu, Toyama Prefecture, central Japan, on Oct. 6, 2015. They also raided the office of rival yakuza gang Haga-gumi in the prefectural capital of Toyama the same day over suspected violation of road traffic laws after the gangs paraded through the streets of a downtown area in a show of power in late September. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kinki Univ. lab members check fertilized bluefin tuna eggs

Staff members of the Kinki University Fisheries Laboratory examine fertilized bluefin tuna eggs at its experimental facility in Imizu, Toyama Prefecture, central Japan, on July 24, 2015. The school in Higashiosaka, western Japan, has developed a way of raising bluefin tuna from eggs to maturity in aquaculture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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New Hokuriku Shinkansen bullet train service starts

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a bullet train on the Hokuriku Shinkansen Line, running in the countryside of Imizu, Toyama Prefecture on March 14, 2015, the day of the launch of the new bullet train service directly linking Tokyo with the Hokuriku region on the Sea of Japan coast. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Osaka housewife finds dried giant squid 'tastier than thought'

Satoko Ono, a housewife from Osaka Prefecture, tries a piece of dried grilled giant squid at a tasting event in Imizu, Toyama Prefecture, central Japan, on Feb. 22, 2015. Ono, the first person to eat the squid at the event, told reporters it was "tastier than thought." (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Dried giant squid grilled for tasting in Toyama Pref., central Japan

A dried giant squid is cut and grilled on a charcoal fire in Imizu, Toyama Prefecture, central Japan, at a tasting event on Feb. 22, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Sushi school to open in northwestern Japan town to lure tourists

Foreign students learn how to make sushi on Oct. 2, 2015, from a professional chef (L) during a lesson at a sushi school set to open in late November in the Shinminato district of Toyama Prefecture's Imizu city, northwestern Japan. Local store managers have founded the school to lure tourists for hands-on experience following the launch last March of the Hokuriku Shinkansen bullet train line linking Tokyo and Kanazawa via the prefecture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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New type sushi restaurant to open

Photo taken Nov. 2, 2015, in the city of Imizu on the coast of the Sea of Japan shows foreign students in Japan learning how to prepare sushi from a sushi chef at a new restaurant. After the restaurant opens in late November, customers will be allowed to make sushi using local sea products under the instruction of sushi chefs. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Police probing deaths of 7 elderly patients in Toyama

IMIZU, Japan - Hidetsugu Asanoi, head of the Imizu City Hospital in Toyama Prefecture, speaks at a press conference on March 25 after police began investigating the deaths of seven cancer patients from 2000 to 2005 at the hospital as cases of possible murder. The patients died after the hospital's surgery department head removed their respirators, the city government and the police said. Asanoi quoted the 50-year-old surgeon as saying he had removed respirators of the seven in their 50s to 90s with consent from their families but without consent from the patients themselves. (Kyodo)

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Police probing deaths of 7 elderly patients in Toyama

IMIZU, Japan - Photo taken on March 25 shows Imizu City Hospital in Toyama Prefecture, where police have begun to investigate the deaths of seven elderly patients, all of whom died after their respirators were removed. (Kyodo)

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Queen crab for school lunch

TOYAMA, Japan - The Shinminato fishermen cooperative in Imizu, a fishing town on the Sea of Japan coast in Toyama Prefecture, is offering free queen crabs to sixth graders as a treat to local primary school students. The coop, which launched the annual queen-crab-for-school-lunch program in 2003, plans to give one crab to each of the 900 sixth graders in 16 local primary schools this year as well. On Oct. 5, the 23 sixth graders at the municipal Shimomura Primary School each got a queen crab for their lunch on Oct. 5, the first day of the crab lunch program this year. Kyodo)

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Man-powered airplane in Toyama Pref.

IMIZU, Japan - A man-powered airplane takes off toward Toyama Bay in Imizu, Toyama Prefecture, on Oct. 7, 2010. A Nippon University laboratory failed in an attempt to attain the world's longest flight record by a man-powered plane while the pilot sustained injuries upon landing in the sea. (Kyodo)

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Giant squid dried, displayed at Japan shopping mall

TOYAMA, Japan - A 4-meter-long dried giant squid, some 10 times the size of a normal dried squid, is displayed at a shopping mall in Imizu, Toyama Prefecture, central Japan, on Jan. 7, 2015. (Kyodo)

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White shrimps in central Japan

First white shrimp catch of the season is landed at a port in Imizu, Toyama Prefecture, central Japan, on April 1, 2020. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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White shrimps in central Japan

First white shrimp catch of the season is landed at a port in Imizu, Toyama Prefecture, central Japan, on April 1, 2020. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Emperor Akihito indicates readiness to abdicate

File photo taken in October 2015 shows Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko releasing juvenile flounder at a national festival for making bountiful seas in Imizu, Toyama Prefecture. The emperor indicated his readiness to abdicate in a rare video message to the public on Aug. 8, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo