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(230805) -- TOKYO, Aug. 5, 2023 (Xinhua) -- People watch fireworks during the 64th Itabashi Fireworks Festival in Tokyo, Japan, Aug. 5, 2023. (Xinhua/Zhang Xiaoyu)

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(230805) -- TOKYO, Aug. 5, 2023 (Xinhua) -- People watch fireworks during the 64th Itabashi Fireworks Festival in Tokyo, Japan, Aug. 5, 2023. (Xinhua/Zhang Xiaoyu)

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'Green curtain' movement in vogue to save energy

TOKUSHIMA, Japan - Students at municipal Takashima No. 5 Elementary School in Tokyo's Itabashi Ward assemble at a flower bed to look after cucumbers and gourd-shaped loofahs.

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Princesses Kiko, Mako view drawings chosen at Bologna fair

TOKYO, Japan - Princess Kiko (L) and her daughter Mako (C) look at a collection of drawings of picture books selected by the Bologna Children's Book Fair in Italy at the Itabashi Art Museum in Tokyo, Japan, on July 16, 2014. Picture book author Satoe Tone (R), a prize winner at last year's Bologna fair, explains her own drawings to the princesses. (Pool photo)

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Princesses Kiko, Mako visit exhibit of Bologna drawings

TOKYO, Japan - Princess Kiko (C), wife of Prince Akishino, second in line to the imperial throne, and their first daughter Mako (R) visit an exhibition of original drawings of picture books selected by the Bologna Children's Book Fair in Italy at the Itabashi Art Museum in Tokyo on July 16, 2014. (Pool photo)

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Man arrested over shooting wife dead

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on the night of July 6, 2014, shows a cafe of a hotel in Tokyo's Ikebukuro district, shortly after a man allegedly shot his wife dead there. The man, a 54-year-old Chinese national living in Tokyo's Itabashi Ward, was seized by cafe employees and arrested at the scene by police.

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Temple master in Fukui Pref. plays with ex-stray cats

FUKUI, Japan - Temple master Koshu Itabashi plays with cats kept at his Gotanjoji Temple in Echizen, Fukui Prefecture, on June 17, 2014.

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Buddhist monastery of Myanmar in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - The building housing a Buddhist monastery of Myanmar nationals residing in Japan in Tokyo's Itabashi Ward is photographed on May 6, 2014. People from Myanmar in Japan often gather there and ask for advice.

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Radio waves connect religion with earthly life

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Feb. 28, 2014 shows a recording scene of the Cafe de Monk radio talk program at a studio of FM Sendai in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, with Keiko Itabashi (R), the show's host, in discussion with guest and cleric Masashi Sato.

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Hot weather in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Children play in a fountain at a park in Tokyo's Itabashi Ward as high temperatures continue in many areas of Japan on Aug. 7, 2013. Risshu, which marks the beginning of fall in the traditional East Asian calendar, fell on the same day.

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Algeria hostage crisis

TOKYO, Japan - The coffin of one of the Japanese victims of a recent hostage crisis in Algeria arrives at a funeral hall in Tokyo's Itabashi Ward on Jan. 25, 2013. A government plane carrying seven Japanese survivors and the bodies of nine Japanese victims of the hostage standoff arrived at Tokyo's Haneda airport earlier in the day.

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Armed GSDF troops march in Tokyo for drill

TOKYO, Japan - Rifle-carrying Ground Self-Defense Force troops in camouflage pass by local residents holding a banner that reads, "Thank you for helping the disaster-hit area. But don't conduct military training in urban areas," in Tokyo's Itabashi Ward as part of their training as rangers on June 12, 2012. It was the first time in 42 years for armed GSDF troops to march through urban areas of Tokyo, with the last such occasion taking place in 1970, according to the GSDF.

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Armed GSDF troops march in Tokyo for drill

TOKYO, Japan - Rifle-carrying Ground Self-Defense Force troops in camouflage march in an urban area of Tokyo's Itabashi Ward as part of their training as rangers on June 12, 2012. It was the first time in 42 years for armed GSDF troops to march through urban areas of Tokyo, with the last such occasion taking place in 1970, according to the GSDF.

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Armed GSDF troops march in Tokyo for drill

TOKYO, Japan - Rifle-carrying Ground Self-Defense Force troops in camouflage march in Tokyo's Itabashi Ward as part of their training as rangers on June 12, 2012. It was the first time in 42 years for armed GSDF troops to march through urban areas of Tokyo, with the last such occasion taking place in 1970, according to the GSDF.

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Empress Michiko visits museum

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Empress Michiko arrives at a museum in Tokyo's Itabashi Ward to see a picture book exhibit on March 9, 2012, with people (crouching) who have evacuated from areas affected by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami greeting her. (Pool photo)

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Convenience store cuts electricity use

TOKYO, Japan - The entrance of a convenience store in Tokyo's Itabashi Ward is dark on March 14, 2011, as the store reduced use of lighting to save electricity. Electricity supply is short for Tokyo and its vicinity after the March 11 devastating earthquake crippled nuclear power plants run by Tokyo Electric Power Co.

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DPJ Tokyo assembly member offers to resign over drunk driving

TOKYO, Japan - Mito Kakizawa, a Tokyo metropolitan assembly member from the Democratic Party of Japan, announces his resignation at a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 12. Kakizawa was allegedly driving drunk when he crashed his car into the median strip on the Metropolitan Expressway No. 5 route in Tokyo's Itabashi Ward on Feb. 9.

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Drumming in a circle helps emotionally distressed kids

TOKYO, Japan - Children attend a ''drum practice'' class at the Takashima No. 5 Elementary School in Tokyo's Itabashi Ward on May 27.

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Children getting lessons in cooking, appreciation

TOKYO, Japan - Children cut vegetables at the Kids Cooking class in Tokyo's Itabashi Ward on April 23.

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Scattering loved ones' ashes in sea getting popular

TOKYO, Japan - Toda Funeral Parlor Co. in Tokyo's Itabashi Ward develops a remains-pulverizing machine.

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4 stabbed to death in Tokyo bar

TOKYO, Japan - Police officers gather outside the bar New Sohara in Tokyo's Itabashi Ward on March 30, where four people were found stabbed to death. Emiko Oshima, the 41-year-old owner of the bar, was found dead by her husband, along with a woman and two men who were believed to be customers.

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4 Chinese men given fresh arrest warrant in theft

TOKYO, Japan - Displayed for the media at Itabashi Police Station in Tokyo on April 17 are wrist watches, jewerly, bags and personal computers which police say were stolen by four Chinese men from condomiums in Tokyo and Osaka. Wang Lin and three others, who had earlier been indicted on separate theft charges, have been given a fresh arrest warrant on suspicion of theft.

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Boy kidnapped, but released safely in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Mamoru Seto (R) and his wife Miho, whose son Yuta was released safely Oct. 15 about seven hours after he was kidnapped in Tokyo's Itabashi Ward, leave their home in the same ward to head for the Itabashi Police Station. Yuta, a 7-year-old elementary school boy, was released at Tokiwadai Station on the Tobu Tojo Line and recovered at around 4:05 p.m. near Oyama Station on the same line.

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Mayuko's father speaks to media

TOKYO, Japan - Tamio Ogawa, father of Mayuko, a 19-year-old student who was stabbed to death in April, speaks to the media outside his house in Tokyo's Itabashi on May 10 following the arrest of a suspect.

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Friends weep at Mayuko Ogawa's funeral

TOKYO, Japan - Friends of Mayuko Ogawa, a 19-year-old student who was stabbed to death in Tokyo's Taito Ward on April 30 by a man in his 20s or 30s, weep in sorrow at her funeral held in Itabashi Ward on May 6.

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Copper fiber sheet commercialized by Good Eye

Good Eye (Kiryu City, Gunma Prefecture) will release GUD Sheet, a copper fiber sheet with antibacterial and antiviral effects, in June. The company commercialized four types of masks, including one priced at 4,980 yen (excluding consumption tax). The GUD sheet is a polymer fiber covered with copper foil and coated with a visible light responsive photocatalyst. In an experiment on bacteriophage, a virus that infects bacteria, it was confirmed that rubbing a finger covered with the virus on the sheet for 30 seconds reduced the number of the virus to less than 1/1000.Professor Hideyuki Itabashi of the Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Gunma University, who also serves as the company's chairman, said, "We hope to start experiments in July. The photo shows copper fiber sheets commercialized as masks and chiefs. (Photo taken on May 19, 2020, location unknown, credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images)

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Beautician Suzuki left 8.8 bil. yen in assets to daughter

TOKYO, Japan - Diet and beauty adviser Sonoko Suzuki (file photo), who died last December at age 68 of pneumonia, left some 8.8 billion yen in taxable assets. The asset figures were released on Nov. 20 on the list of major local inheritance taxpayers by the Itabashi Taxation Office in Tokyo, in accordance with the Accessions Tax Law.

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4 Chinese men given fresh arrest warrant in theft

TOKYO, Japan - Displayed for the media at Itabashi Police Station in Tokyo on April 17 are wrist watches, jewerly, bags and personal computers which police say were stolen by four Chinese men from condomiums in Tokyo and Osaka. Wang Lin and three others, who had earlier been indicted on separate theft charges, have been given a fresh arrest warrant on suspicion of theft.

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Boy kidnapped, but released safely in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Mamoru Seto (R) and his wife Miho, whose son Yuta was released safely Oct. 15 about seven hours after he was kidnapped in Tokyo's Itabashi Ward, leave their home in the same ward to head for the Itabashi Police Station. Yuta, a 7-year-old elementary school boy, was released at Tokiwadai Station on the Tobu Tojo Line and recovered at around 4:05 p.m. near Oyama Station on the same line.

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Aeon opens new lifestyle-centered store in Tokyo's Itabashi

Retail giant Aeon Co. shows to the press on Nov. 17, 2015, its Aeon Style Itabashi Maenocho store to present lifestyles to customers. The new store, built on a former Izumiya store site, will open on Nov. 21. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Children getting lessons in cooking, appreciation

TOKYO, Japan - Children cut vegetables at the Kids Cooking class in Tokyo's Itabashi Ward on April 23. (Kyodo)

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DPJ Tokyo assembly member offers to resign over drunk driving

TOKYO, Japan - Mito Kakizawa, a Tokyo metropolitan assembly member from the Democratic Party of Japan, announces his resignation at a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 12. Kakizawa was allegedly driving drunk when he crashed his car into the median strip on the Metropolitan Expressway No. 5 route in Tokyo's Itabashi Ward on Feb. 9. (Kyodo)

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Imperial couple visit quake evacuees

TOKYO, Japan - Emperor Akihito (L, facing) and Empress Michiko (standing next to the emperor) visit a public housing complex in Itabashi Ward, Tokyo, on Aug. 8, 2011, to encourage people who evacuated from Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures due to the March earthquake and tsunami and subsequent nuclear emergency. (Pool photo)(Kyodo)

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Convenience store cuts electricity use

TOKYO, Japan - The entrance of a convenience store in Tokyo's Itabashi Ward is dark on March 14, 2011, as the store reduced use of lighting to save electricity. Electricity supply is short for Tokyo and its vicinity after the March 11 devastating earthquake crippled nuclear power plants run by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (Kyodo)

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Princesses Kiko, Mako visit exhibit of Bologna drawings

TOKYO, Japan - Princess Kiko (C), wife of Prince Akishino, second in line to the imperial throne, and their first daughter Mako (R) visit an exhibition of original drawings of picture books selected by the Bologna Children's Book Fair in Italy at the Itabashi Art Museum in Tokyo on July 16, 2014. (Pool photo) (Kyodo)

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Princesses Kiko, Mako view drawings chosen at Bologna fair

TOKYO, Japan - Princess Kiko (L) and her daughter Mako (C) look at a collection of drawings of picture books selected by the Bologna Children's Book Fair in Italy at the Itabashi Art Museum in Tokyo, Japan, on July 16, 2014. Picture book author Satoe Tone (R), a prize winner at last year's Bologna fair, explains her own drawings to the princesses. (Pool photo) (Kyodo)

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Man arrested over shooting wife dead

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on the night of July 6, 2014, shows a cafe of a hotel in Tokyo's Ikebukuro district, shortly after a man allegedly shot his wife dead there. The man, a 54-year-old Chinese national living in Tokyo's Itabashi Ward, was seized by cafe employees and arrested at the scene by police. (Kyodo)

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New coronavirus

Photo taken April 28, 2020, shows a shopping arcade in Tokyo's Itabashi Ward, with its roof opened to let in fresh air to help prevent coronavirus infections. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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New coronavirus

Photo taken April 28, 2020, shows a shopping arcade in Tokyo's Itabashi Ward, with its roof opened to let in fresh air to help prevent coronavirus infections. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's upper house election

People listen to a politician speaking in Tokyo's Itabashi Ward on July 8, 2019, ahead of the July 21 House of Councillors election. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's upper house election

People listen to a politician speaking in Tokyo's Itabashi Ward on July 8, 2019, ahead of the July 21 House of Councillors election. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's upper house election

People listen to a politician speaking in Tokyo's Itabashi Ward on July 8, 2019, ahead of the July 21 House of Councillors election. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan empress

Japanese Empress Michiko views items of an exhibition featuring products of Indian publisher Tara Books at Itabashi Art Museum in Tokyo on Dec. 22, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan empress

Japanese Empress Michiko views items of an exhibition featuring products of Indian publisher Tara Books at Itabashi Art Museum in Tokyo on Dec. 22, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Defense minister suggests SDF support candidate in Tokyo election

Japanese Defense Minister Tomomi Inada makes a campaign speech for a ruling Liberal Democratic Party candidate for the Tokyo metropolitan assembly election during a rally in the capital's Itabashi Ward on June 27, 2017. Inada called on voters to cast ballots for the candidate, saying that the request came from "the Defense Ministry, the SDF, the defense minister and the LDP." (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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4 stabbed to death in Tokyo bar

TOKYO, Japan - Police officers gather outside the bar New Sohara in Tokyo's Itabashi Ward on March 30, where four people were found stabbed to death. Emiko Oshima, the 41-year-old owner of the bar, was found dead by her husband, along with a woman and two men who were believed to be customers. (Kyodo)

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Kidnapped boy goes to school with father

TOKYO, Japan - Yuta Seto, the first-grader at an elementary school in Tokyo who was kidnapped and released unharmed Oct. 15, leaves his home in Tokyo's Itabashi Ward on Oct. 16 for school with his father Mamoru Seto (2nd from L).

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Mayuko's father speaks to media

TOKYO, Japan - Tamio Ogawa, father of Mayuko, a 19-year-old student who was stabbed to death in April, speaks to the media outside his house in Tokyo's Itabashi on May 10 following the arrest of a suspect.

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Friends weep at Mayuko Ogawa's funeral

TOKYO, Japan - Friends of Mayuko Ogawa, a 19-year-old student who was stabbed to death in Tokyo's Taito Ward on April 30 by a man in his 20s or 30s, weep in sorrow at her funeral held in Itabashi Ward on May 6.