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(230806) -- CHENGDU, Aug. 6, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Imoto Ikki of Team Japan competes during the swimming men's 4x200m freestyle relay final at the 31st FISU Summer World University Games in Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Aug. 6, 2023. (Xinhua/Zhang Long)

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(Chengdu Universiade)CHINA-CHENGDU-WORLD UNIVERSITY GAMES-SWIMMING(CN)

(230801) -- CHENGDU, Aug. 1, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Bronze medalist Imoto Ikki of Japan celebrates during the awarding ceremony of the Men's 400m Freestyle of swimming at the 31st FISU Summer World University Games in Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Aug. 1, 2023. (Xinhua/Zhang Long)

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TV personality Imoto's photo exhibition starts in Tottori Pref.

YONAGO, Japan - Popular TV personality Ayako Imoto's photo exhibition starts on Oct. 29, 2014, at Shoji Ueda Museum of Photography in her hometown of Hoki, Tottori Prefecture, western Japan.

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U.S. insurance firm moves some HQ functions to Fukuoka

FUKUOKA, Japan - Mitsuru Imoto (C), president of MassMutual Life Insurance Co., poses with Gov. Hiroshi Ogawa (2nd from L) of Fukuoka Prefecture and Fukuoka Mayor Soichiro Takashima in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, on June 26, 2014, at a press conference to announce a plan to move some headquarters functions of the U.S. firm's Japanese subsidiary from Tokyo in August as part of disaster preparedness.

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Garden designer Sasaki holds 'Kaze no Denwa' picture book

TOKYO, Japan - Garden designer Itaru Sasaki in February 2014 holds picture book "Kaze no Denwa" (The Phone of the Wind), themed after a phone booth he built to provide a place to mourn for people who lost their loved ones in the March 2011 disaster, in the town of Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture. Visitors talk with their missing or deceased family members or friends in their heart at the booth. The book was written by children's book author Yoko Imoto.

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Governors call for legislation favoring Ariake fisheries

TOKYO, Japan - Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Tsutomu Takebe (C) meets with four prefectural governors -- Kumamoto Gov. Yoshiko Shiotani (L), Saga Gov. Isamu Imoto (2nd from L), Fukuoka Gov. Wataru Aso (2nd from R) and Nagasaki Gov. Genjiro Kaneko -- at the farm ministry in Tokyo on May 18. The governors, whose prefectures are being affected by the poor ''nori'' seaweed harvest in the Ariake Sea, southwestern Japan, asked Takebe for legislation to conserve the area's ecology.

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Civil group collecting remains of Japanese WWII dead in Myanmar

Katsuyuki Imoto (R) listens to an elderly ethnic-minority man near Tedium in western Myanmar in this photo taken on Dec. 3, 2014. Imoto, who has engaged in the transfer of farming skills to minority people in Myanmar, leads activities by a Japanese civilian group to collect and bring back to Japan the remains of Japanese soldiers who died in the Southeast Asian nation during World War II. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ethnic people in Myanmar help Japan group recover remains of WWII dead

Katsuyuki Imoto (R) listens on Dec. 2, 2014, to a man of the Zomi ethnic minority in Myanmar talk about the discovery of the remains of Japanese soldiers who died in Tedium in the western part of the Southeast Asian nation during World War II. Imoto leads a Japanese civilian group recovering such remains in Myanmar in cooperation with local people. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Civil group collecting remains of Japanese WWII dead in Myanmar

Katsuyuki Imoto (R) listens to an elderly ethnic-minority man near Tedium in western Myanmar in this photo taken on Dec. 3, 2015. Imoto, who has engaged in the transfer of farming skills to minority people in Myanmar, leads activities by a Japanese civilian group to collect and bring back to Japan the remains of Japanese soldiers who died in the Southeast Asian nation during World War II. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Olympic flame handed to Japan

Former swimmer Naoko Imoto (2nd from L), who competed for Japan in the 1996 Atlanta Games and now lives in Greece, prepares for the Olympic flame handover ceremony on March 19, 2020, at Panathenaic Stadium in central Athens, a venue used during both the 1896 and 2004 Olympics. The ceremony marking the flame's transfer, from Hellenic Olympic Committee President Spyros Capralos (L) to Imoto, was held without spectators amid the spread of the new coronavirus, ahead of the start of the Japanese leg of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic torch relay. (Pool photo) (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Olympic flame handed over to Japan

Former swimmer Naoko Imoto (R), who competed for Japan in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and now lives in Greece, poses for a photo with the Olympic flame during the flame handover ceremony on March 19, 2020, at Panathenaic Stadium in central Athens, a venue used during both the 1896 and 2004 Olympics. The ceremony marking the handover of the Olympic flame, from Hellenic Olympic Committee President Spyros Capralos (L) to Imoto, was held behind closed doors amid the spread of the new coronavirus, ahead of the start of the Japanese leg of the Tokyo Olympic torch relay. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Olympic flame handed over to Japan

Former swimmer Naoko Imoto, who competed for Japan in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and now lives in Greece, poses for a photo with the Olympic flame during the flame handover ceremony on March 19, 2020, at Panathenaic Stadium in central Athens, a venue used during both the 1896 and 2004 Olympics. The ceremony marking the handover of the Olympic flame, from Hellenic Olympic Committee President Spyros Capralos to Imoto, was held behind closed doors amid the spread of the new coronavirus, ahead of the start of the Japanese leg of the Tokyo Olympic torch relay. (Pool photo) (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Olympic flame handed over to Japan

Former swimmer Naoko Imoto (R), who competed for Japan at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and now lives in Greece, receives the Olympic flame during the frame handover ceremony on March 19, 2020, at Panathenaic Stadium in central Athens, a venue used during both the 1896 and 2004 Olympics. The ceremony marking the handover of the Olympic flame, from Hellenic Olympic Committee President Spyros Capralos (L) to Imoto, was held behind closed doors amid the spread of the new coronavirus, ahead of the start of the Japanese leg of the Tokyo Olympic torch relay. (Pool photo) (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Olympic flame handed over to Japan

Former swimmer Naoko Imoto (R), who competed for Japan at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and now lives in Greece, receives the Olympic flame during the frame handover ceremony on March 19, 2020, at Panathenaic Stadium in central Athens, a venue used during both the 1896 and 2004 Olympics. The ceremony marking the handover of the Olympic flame, from Hellenic Olympic Committee President Spyros Capralos (L) to Imoto, was held behind closed doors amid the spread of the new coronavirus, ahead of the start of the Japanese leg of the Tokyo Olympic torch relay. (Pool photo) (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Olympic flame handed over to Japan

Former swimmer Naoko Imoto (R), who competed for Japan at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and now lives in Greece, receives the Olympic flame during the frame handover ceremony on March 19, 2020, at Panathenaic Stadium in central Athens, a venue used during both the 1896 and 2004 Olympics. The ceremony marking the handover of the Olympic flame, from Hellenic Olympic Committee President Spyros Capralos (L) to Imoto, was held behind closed doors amid the spread of the new coronavirus, ahead of the start of the Japanese leg of the Tokyo Olympic torch relay. (Pool photo) (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Olympic flame handed over to Japan

Former swimmer Naoko Imoto (R), who competed for Japan at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and now lives in Greece, receives the Olympic flame during the frame handover ceremony on March 19, 2020, at Panathenaic Stadium in central Athens, a venue used during both the 1896 and 2004 Olympics. The ceremony marking the handover of the Olympic flame, from Hellenic Olympic Committee President Spyros Capralos (L) to Imoto, was held behind closed doors amid the spread of the new coronavirus, ahead of the start of the Japanese leg of the Tokyo Olympic torch relay. (Pool photo) (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Governors call for legislation favoring Ariake fisheries

TOKYO, Japan - Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Tsutomu Takebe (C) meets with four prefectural governors -- Kumamoto Gov. Yoshiko Shiotani (L), Saga Gov. Isamu Imoto (2nd from L), Fukuoka Gov. Wataru Aso (2nd from R) and Nagasaki Gov. Genjiro Kaneko -- at the farm ministry in Tokyo on May 18. The governors, whose prefectures are being affected by the poor ''nori'' seaweed harvest in the Ariake Sea, southwestern Japan, asked Takebe for legislation to conserve the area's ecology.