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Japanese speed skaters join Closing Ceremony for Sochi Games

SOCHI, Russia - Japanese speed skaters (from L) Maki Tabata, Shiho Ishizawa and Masako Hozumi smile during the Closing Ceremony for the Winter Olympics at the Fisht Olympic Stadium in Sochi, Russia, on Feb. 23, 2014.

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Japan's Ishizawa 12th in women's 5,000m speed skating

SOCHI, Russia - Shiho Ishizawa of Japan competes in the Winter Olympics women's 5,000-meter speed skating event at the Adler Arena Skating Center in Sochi, Russia, on Feb. 19, 2014. Ishizawa finished in 12th place with a time of 7 minutes, 11.54 seconds.

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Japan's Ishizawa 12th in women's 5,000m speed skating

SOCHI, Russia - Shiho Ishizawa of Japan competes in the Winter Olympics women's 5,000-meter speed skating event at the Adler Arena Skating Center in Sochi, Russia, on Feb. 19, 2014. Ishizawa finished in 12th place with a time of 7 minutes, 11.54 seconds.

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Japan's Ishizawa 12th in women's 5,000m speed skating

SOCHI, Russia - Shiho Ishizawa of Japan finishes her run in the Winter Olympics women's 5,000-meter speed skating event at the Adler Arena Skating Center in Sochi, Russia, on Feb. 19, 2014. Ishizawa finished in 12th place with a time of 7 minutes, 11.54 seconds.

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Japan's Ishizawa 12th in women's 5,000m speed skating

SOCHI, Russia - Shiho Ishizawa of Japan skates during the Winter Olympics women's 5,000-meter speed skating event at the Adler Arena Skating Center in Sochi, Russia, on Feb. 19, 2014. Ishizawa finished in 12th place with a time of 7 minutes, 11.54 seconds.

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Japan's Ishizawa prepares for women's 5,000m speed skating

SOCHI, Russia - Shiho Ishizawa of Japan gets a feel for the ice during practice at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, on Feb. 18, 2014, prior to the women's 5,000-meter speed skating event on Feb. 19.

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Japan's Ishizawa 9th in women's 3,000m speed skating

SOCHI, Russia - Shiho Ihizawa of Japan skates during the Winter Olympics women's 3,000-meter speed skating event at the Adler Arena Skating Center in Sochi, Russia, on Feb. 9, 2014. Ishizawa came in ninth place with a time of 4 minutes, 9.39 seconds.

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Japan's Ishizawa 9th in women's 3,000m speed skating

SOCHI, Russia - Shiho Ihizawa of Japan competes in the Winter Olympics women's 3,000-meter speed skating event at the Adler Arena Skating Center in Sochi, Russia, on Feb. 9, 2014. Ishizawa came in ninth place with a time of 4 minutes, 9.39 seconds.

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Japan's Ishizawa 9th in women's 3,000m speed skating

SOCHI, Russia - Shiho Ihizawa of Japan finishes ninth in the Winter Olympics women's 3,000-meter speed skating event at the Adler Arena Skating Center in Sochi, Russia, on Feb. 9, 2014. Ishizawa clocked 4 minutes, 9.39 seconds.

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Japan's Ishizawa 9th in women's 3,000m speed skating

SOCHI, Russia - Shiho Ihizawa of Japan competes in the Winter Olympics women's 3,000-meter speed skating event at the Adler Arena Skating Center in Sochi, Russia, on Feb. 9, 2014. Ishizawa came in ninth place with a time of 4 minutes, 9.39 seconds.

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Ishizawa 9th in women's 5,000m

RICHMOND, Canada - Japan's Shiho Ishizawa competes in the women's 5,000-meter speed skating event at the Vancouver Games at the Richmond Olympic Oval in Canada on Feb. 24, 2010. Ishizawa placed ninth with a time of 7 minutes, 12.23 seconds.

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Japanese speed skaters practice for Vancouver Olympics

RICHMOND, Canada - Japanese female speed skaters -- (from L to R) Shihomi Shinya, Shiho Ishizawa, Maki Tabata, Miho Takagi, Masako Hozumi and Eri Natori -- pose for photos at Richmond Olympic Oval in Richmond, Canada, on Feb. 6, 2010.

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Japan's women win team pursuit silver at World Cup meet

CALGARY, Canada - Japan's team -- (from L to R) Maki Tabata, Shiho Ishizawa and Masako Hozumi - compete in the women's pursuit at a World Cup speed skating meet at the Olympic Oval in Calgary, Canada, on Dec. 6, 2009. They clocked a national record time of 2 minutes, 59.79 seconds to win the silver medal.

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Japan's women win team pursuit silver at World Cup meet

CALGARY, Canada - (From L to R) Shiho Ishizawa, Maki Tabata and Masako Hozumi pose with their silver medals in the women's pursuit at a World Cup speed skating meet at the Olympic Oval in Calgary, Canada, on Dec. 6, 2009. They clocked a national record time of 2 minutes, 59.79 seconds.

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Japan-funded museum of Buddha statues opens near Angkor Wat

SIEM REAP, Cambodia - Cambodia's King Norodom Sihamoni (2nd R) and Yoshiaki Ishizawa, president of Sophia University in Tokyo, marvel at a Buddhist statue on exhibition at a newly built museum of Buddhist statues adjacent to Angkor Wat on Nov. 2. The Preah Norodom Sihanouk-Angkor Museum, built at a cost of more than U.S. $1 million with financial help from Japanese retailer Aeon Corp., exhibits 274 Buddhist statues excavated from the Banteay Kdei Temple in the northern province of Siem Reap in 2001 by the Sophia University Angkor International Mission.

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MM Catalyst, an auxiliary catalyst device developed by Haiba Iron Works in collaboration with Nichidai Filter

Haiba Iron Works (Kakegawa City, Shizuoka Prefecture), in cooperation with Nichidai Filter (Ujitawara Town, Kyoto Prefecture), a stainless steel diffusion bonding (sintering) company, has developed an auxiliary catalytic converter "MM catalyst" that shortens the activation time of the main catalyst for exhaust gas purification by about 40%. The MM catalyst is manufactured by loading precious metals onto a structure made of sintered stainless steel wire mesh. Compared to the honeycomb structure that is commonly used in catalysts, the reaction space is more complex and the contact efficiency of exhaust gas is improved. Noboru Ishizawa, director of the technology department at Haiba Iron Works, said, "We will further refine our technology through repeated tests using actual machines (for practical use). On July 10, 2019, the head office of Haruba Ironworks in Kakegawa City, Shizuoka Prefecture.

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Protracted displacement taking toll on Fukushima evacuees

Katsuichi Inoue (L), an evacuee from the Fukushima nuclear disaster, talks about his life with reconstruction support workers Shuei Ishizawa (C) and Shuichi Sato at his home in Kawaguchi, near Tokyo, on Feb. 16, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese speed skaters practice for Vancouver Olympics

RICHMOND, Canada - Japanese female speed skaters -- (from L to R) Shihomi Shinya, Shiho Ishizawa, Maki Tabata, Miho Takagi, Masako Hozumi and Eri Natori -- pose for photos at Richmond Olympic Oval in Richmond, Canada, on Feb. 6, 2010. (Kyodo)

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Ishizawa 9th in women's 5,000m

RICHMOND, Canada - Japan's Shiho Ishizawa competes in the women's 5,000-meter speed skating event at the Vancouver Games at the Richmond Olympic Oval in Canada on Feb. 24, 2010. Ishizawa placed ninth with a time of 7 minutes, 12.23 seconds. (Kyodo)

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Japan-funded museum of Buddha statues opens near Angkor Wat

SIEM REAP, Cambodia - Cambodia's King Norodom Sihamoni (2nd R) and Yoshiaki Ishizawa, president of Sophia University in Tokyo, marvel at a Buddhist statue on exhibition at a newly built museum of Buddhist statues adjacent to Angkor Wat on Nov. 2. The Preah Norodom Sihanouk-Angkor Museum, built at a cost of more than U.S. $1 million with financial help from Japanese retailer Aeon Corp., exhibits 274 Buddhist statues excavated from the Banteay Kdei Temple in the northern province of Siem Reap in 2001 by the Sophia University Angkor International Mission. (Kyodo)

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Japanese scholar receives 2017 Magsaysay Award

Japan's Yoshiaki Ishizawa holds a commemorative gift after receiving the Ramon Magsaysay Award, one of Asia's highest honors, in Manila, the Philippines, on Aug. 31, 2017. Ishizawa, 79, a former president of Sophia University who spent decades helping to restore Cambodia's Angkor Wat, is one of the year's six recipients of the prestigious honor regarded as Asia's Nobel Prize. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's women win team pursuit silver at World Cup meet

CALGARY, Canada - (From L to R) Shiho Ishizawa, Maki Tabata and Masako Hozumi pose with their silver medals in the women's pursuit at a World Cup speed skating meet at the Olympic Oval in Calgary, Canada, on Dec. 6, 2009. They clocked a national record time of 2 minutes, 59.79 seconds. (Kyodo)

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Japan's women win team pursuit silver at World Cup meet

CALGARY, Canada - Japan's team -- (from L to R) Maki Tabata, Shiho Ishizawa and Masako Hozumi - compete in the women's pursuit at a World Cup speed skating meet at the Olympic Oval in Calgary, Canada, on Dec. 6, 2009. They clocked a national record time of 2 minutes, 59.79 seconds to win the silver medal. (Kyodo)