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Ex-Osaka resident produces salt in western Japan mountains

Mitsutaka Matsuura, a 65-year-old former Osaka resident, watches boiling seawater in a giant iron pot at his salt-making factory in the depopulated Irokawa district of Nachikatsuura town on the Pacific coast on Feb. 4, 2015. The district started accepting immigrants from urban areas about 40 years ago, with these new residents now accounting for about 45% of its population. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Former urban resident produces salt in western Japan mountains

Mitsutaka Matsumura, a 65-year-old former urban resident, produces plum-flavored pink salt deep in the mountains in Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan, on Feb. 4, 2015. He moved from Osaka to the depopulated Irokawa district of Nachikatsuura town on the Pacific coast about 17years ago. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese man coaches Pakistan national baseball team

Toma Irokawa, Japanese coach of Pakistan's national baseball team, speaks to Kyodo News in Lahore, Pakistan, on Sept. 9, 2015. He assumed the post in June 2015 after leading Iran's national team to the runner-up spot in a West Asian baseball tournament earlier in the year. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo