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Surrogate arrangement for babies

TOKYO, Japan, July 31 Kyodo - Undated combined photo shows TV personality Aki Mukai and medical doctor Yahiro Netsu. Mukai's twin babies were born through a surrogate mother in the United States in 2003. Netsu said in 2001 his maternity clinic had made a surrogacy arrangement for a woman, becoming the first Japanese medical institution to officially announce such a procedure.(Kyodo)

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24th anniversary of Ehime Maru collision off Hawaii

Photo taken on Feb. 9, 2025, shows a cenotaph built in Hawaii's Honolulu in memory of those killed in a fatal collision between the Ehime Maru training boat of Uwajima Fisheries High School in Japan's Ehime Prefecture and a U.S. nuclear submarine off Hawaii in 2001. The collision claimed the lives of four students, two teachers and three crew members exactly 24 years earlier.

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24th anniversary of Ehime Maru collision off Hawaii

Fumiaki Okahara, mayor of Uwajima, a western Japan city, prays at a memorial ceremony held in Hawaii's Honolulu on Feb. 9, 2025, to mark the 24th anniversary of a fatal collision between the Ehime Maru training boat of Uwajima Fisheries High School and a U.S. nuclear submarine off Hawaii in 2001. The collision claimed the lives of four students, two teachers and three crew members.

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"Doctor Yellow" track-testing bullet train retires

TOKYO, Japan, Jan. 29 Kyodo - The "Doctor Yellow" T4 edition track-testing bullet train for Japan's high-speed shinkansen lines arrives at JR Tokyo Station in the Japanese capital after making its final run on Jan. 29, 2025, as train enthusiasts wait to take photos of the train. Owned by JR Central, the T4 made its debut in 2001 and will not be replaced as the N700S passenger trains will carry test and observation equipment from 2027. (Kyodo)

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"Doctor Yellow" track-testing bullet train retires

The "Doctor Yellow" T4 edition track-testing bullet train for Japan's high-speed shinkansen lines makes its final run in Fuji, Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, on January 29, 2025, with Mt. Fuji in the background. Owned by JR Central, the T4 made its debut in 2001 and will not be replaced as the N700S passenger trains will carry test and observation equipment from 2027.

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"Doctor Yellow" track-testing bullet train retires

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Jan. 29, 2025, shows the "Doctor Yellow" T4 edition track-testing bullet train for Japan's high-speed shinkansen lines making its final run with a five-story pagoda at the World Heritage-listed Toji temple in Kyoto in the background. Owned by JR Central, the T4 made its debut in 2001 and will not be replaced as the N700S passenger trains will carry test and observation equipment from 2027.

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"Doctor Yellow" track-testing bullet train retires

The "Doctor Yellow" T4 edition track-testing bullet train for Japan's high-speed shinkansen lines arrives at JR Tokyo Station in the Japanese capital after making its final run on Jan. 29, 2025, as train enthusiasts wait to take photos of the train. Owned by JR Central, the T4 made its debut in 2001 and will not be replaced as the N700S passenger trains will carry test and observation equipment from 2027.

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"Doctor Yellow" track-testing bullet train retires

The "Doctor Yellow" T4 edition track-testing bullet train for Japan's high-speed shinkansen lines makes its final run in Obu, Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, on Jan. 29, 2025. Owned by JR Central, the T4 made its debut in 2001 and will not be replaced as the N700S passenger trains will carry test and observation equipment from 2027.

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"Doctor Yellow" track-testing bullet train retires

The "Doctor Yellow" T4 edition track-testing bullet train for Japan's high-speed shinkansen lines makes its final run in Fuji, Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, on January 29, 2025, with Mt. Fuji in the background and train enthusiasts taking pictures of the train. Owned by JR Central, the T4 made its debut in 2001 and will not be replaced as the N700S passenger trains will carry test and observation equipment from 2027.

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"Doctor Yellow" track-testing bullet train retires

The "Doctor Yellow" T4 edition track-testing bullet train for Japan's high-speed shinkansen lines makes its final run in Fuji, Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, on January 29, 2025, with Mt. Fuji in the background. Owned by JR Central, the T4 made its debut in 2001 and will not be replaced as the N700S passenger trains will carry test and observation equipment from 2027.

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Hot spring in Yamanashi

Photo taken on June 25, 2001, shows an open air hot spring bath in Yamanashi, capital of Yamanashi Prefecture, with Japan's highest mountain Mt. Fuji visible from the bath.

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Hot spring in Yamanashi

Photo taken on June 25, 2001, shows an open air hot spring bath in Yamanashi Prefecture, with Japan's highest mountain Mt. Fuji visible from the bath.

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Etsuko Takano dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in November 2001 shows Etsuko Takano, general manager of Iwanami Hall, a Tokyo movie theater famous for screenings of foreign art films. Takano died of colon cancer at a Tokyo hospital on Feb. 9, 2013, the 45th anniversary of the founding of Iwanami Hall. She was 83 years old.

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Former volleyball coach Matsudaira dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in July 2001 shows former Japan men's national volleyball team head coach Yasutaka Matsudaira. Matsudaira, who steered the country to the gold medal at the 1972 Munich Olympics, died from a lung condition at a Tokyo hospital on Dec. 31, 2011, the Japan Volleyball Association said Jan. 5, 2012. He was 81.

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Euro tumbles against yen

TOKYO, Japan - A display at the Tokyo office of money broker Gaitame.com Co. shows the euro trading at the 100 yen level on the morning of Dec. 29, 2011. The euro briefly fell to 100.35 yen in Tokyo the same day, the lowest since June 2001.

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Conductor Albrecht dies

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in December 2001 shows German conductor Gerd Albrecht. Albrecht died Feb. 2, 2014, in Berlin from an illness at the age of 78. He led the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra as principal conductor from 1998 to 2007 after serving as music director of Germany's Hamburg State Opera and chief conductor of the Czech Philharmonic.

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U.S. envoy remembers Japanese 9/11 victims at Mizuho Financial

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Thomas Schieffer (C) offers flowers to the 9/11 monument at the head office of Mizuho Financial Group Inc. in memory of the bank group's 23 employees and local staff killed in the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attack on the World Trade Center in New York.

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Ryozo Kato to become longest-serving Japan ambassador to U.S.

WASHINGTON, United States - File photo of Ryozo Kato, who will become the longest-serving Japanese ambassador to the United States on Sunday, having carried out his duties in Washington for over five years and nine months. Kato, 65, who was appointed ambassador in September 2001 and assumed his duties in late October that year, will break the previous record set by Koichiro Asakai from 1957 to 1963.

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Public bath, inspiration for building in film "Spirited Away"

TOKYO, Japan, Nov. 22 Kyodo - Photo taken March 27, 2003, shows the Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum's Kodakara-yu public bathhouse, which became the inspiration for a building that featured in "Spirited Away," the 2001 Oscar-winning animated film by Hayao Miyazaki.

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Umbrellas with kids' smiles mark 20th anniv. of Kobe quake

KOBE, Japan - Umbrellas printed with photos of smiling children are displayed at the "Merry in Kobe" event in Kobe, western Japan, on Jan. 17, 2015, the 20th anniversary of the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake. In the background is the statue of Gigantor, the "Ironman No.28" featured in a comic series. The smiling photos were taken in Kobe in 2001 and 2002 by Tokyo-based art director Koji Mizutani to document the city's reconstruction after the disaster.

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Obokata failed to replicate "STAP cell" creation

TOKYO, Japan - Riken President Ryoji Noyori, a 2001 Nobel laureate in chemistry, is surrounded by reporters at the science ministry in Tokyo on Dec. 19, 2014, as the Japanese research institute announced that embattled scientist Haruko Obokata has failed in experiments to produce the cells that she previously claimed to have created.

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Famed economist Uzawa dies at 86

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in November 2001 shows Hirofumi Uzawa, professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo, who died of pneumonia on Sept. 18, 2014. The theoretical economist also taught at Stanford University and the University of Chicago, both in the United States.

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Halloween season at Universal Studio Japan

OSAKA, Japan - Children pack a handful of treats into bags at a Halloween campaign event unveiled to the press in advance at Universal Studio Japan (USJ) in Osaka, western Japan, on Sept. 11, 2014. USJ aims to break the current record annual visitor turnout of 11 million achieved in fiscal 2001 taking advantage of the event, officially launched on Sept. 12, and other attractions.

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Japan, N. Korea kids' art exhibition

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Pupils at Rungra elementary school in Pyongyang look at pictures drawn by Japanese and North Korean children that depict their desire for peace on Aug. 25, 2014. The exhibition was organized by a group comprising Japanese nongovernmental organizations and other entities that started holding exhibitions of pictures drawn by children from Japan, and both North and South Korea in 2001.

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USJ may see largest monthly visitor turnout in August

OSAKA, Japan - The number of visitors to Universal Studios Japan in Osaka, western Japan, in August may surpass the monthly record of some 1.31 million, registered in August 2001, due to the popularity of a new attraction based on the Harry Potter film franchise that opened on July 15. The photo was taken on Aug. 7, 2014.

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Japan PM Abe pledges to spread benefit of economic recovery

TOKYO, Japan - People raise their fists during a May Day gathering hosted by the Japanese Trade Union Confederation also known as Rengo at Tokyo's Yoyogi Park on April 26, 2014. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attended the gathering, the first prime from the Liberal Democratic Party to do so since 2001.

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Japan PM Abe pledges to spread benefit of economic recovery

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) shakes hands with Nobuaki Koga, president of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation also known as Rengo, at a May Day gathering at Tokyo's Yoyogi Park on April 26, 2014, after ending his speech. Abe is the first prime minister from the Liberal Democratic Party since 2001 to attend the May Day event hosted by Rengo.

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Japan PM Abe pledges to spread benefit of economic recovery

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) delivers a speech at a May Day gathering in Tokyo's Yoyogi Park on April 26, 2014, with Nobuaki Koga (2nd from L), president of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation also known as Rengo, listening to him. Abe is the first prime minister from the Liberal Democratic Party since 2001 to attend the May Day event hosted by Rengo.

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Japan PM Abe pledges to spread benefit of economic recovery

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe delivers a speech at a May Day gathering in Tokyo's Yoyogi Park on April 26, 2014. Abe is the first prime minister from the Liberal Democratic Party since 2001 to attend the May Day event hosted by the Japanese Trade Union Confederation also known as Rengo.

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Japanese baseball legend Kawakami dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo from January 2001 shows Japanese baseball legend Tetsuharu Kawakami. The former Yomiuri Giants slugger and manager died aged 93 at a hospital in western Tokyo on Oct. 28, 2013.

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Sept. 11 memorial in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Charge d'Affaires ad interim Kurt Tong speaks during a memorial of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo on Sept. 11, 2013.

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9/11 monument in Fukushima

KORIYAMA, Japan - Visitors including a group of relatives of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks on the United States gather around a monument in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, on Aug. 3, 2013. The group donated the monument featuring a large steel replica of a paper crane of atomic bombing victim Sadako Sasaki. The replica was made from a portion of the steel frame of the collapsed World Trade Center in New York.

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9/11 monument in Fukushima

KORIYAMA, Japan - Visitors including a group of relatives of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks on the United States pose for photos near a monument in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, on Aug. 3, 2013. The group donated the monument featuring a large steel replica of a paper crane of atomic bombing victim Sadako Sasaki. The replica was made from a portion of the steel frame of the collapsed World Trade Center in New York.

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9/11 monument in Fukushima

KORIYAMA, Japan - Visitors including a group of relatives of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks on the United States pose for photos near a monument in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, on Aug. 3, 2013. The group donated the monument featuring a large steel replica of a paper crane of atomic bombing victim Sadako Sasaki. The replica was made from a portion of the steel frame of the collapsed World Trade Center in New York.

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Japan doctor offers medical relief abroad

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuko Kurosaki, president of the Japanese arm of Doctors without Borders, speaks on May 21, 2013 at the entity's office in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward. Kurosaki, who assumed her current position in March 2010, has offered humanitarian medical aid as a volunteer surgeon on a total of 11 missions to such countries as Sri Lanka, Somalia and Jordan since 2001. Most recently she was in Syria for about a month from mid-April.

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2001 fatal stampede

KOBE, Japan - (From front) Kiyoshi Miki, Seiji Shimomura and Masaharu Arima, who lost relatives in a 2001 stampede in Akashi, Hyogo Prefecture, attend a press conference in Kobe on Feb. 20, 2013. The Kobe District Court earlier the same day dismissed a case against a former senior police officer over the stampede on a bridge that was overcrowded with fireworks spectators on July 21, 2001, in which 11 people died and 247 were injured. The court ruled the statute of limitations had expired.

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Writer Yasuoka dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows prizewinning writer Shotaro Yasuoka at his Tokyo home in October 2001, when he was recognized by the Japanese government as a Person of Cultural Merit. Yasuoka died on Jan. 26, 2013. He was 92.

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Japanese sushi chef who had cooked for Kim Jong Il

TOKYO, Japan - The Japanese sushi chef who cooked for the late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il between 1989 and 2001 holds a press conference in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward on Nov. 26, 2012. The 65-year-old is known by the alias Kenji Fujimoto.

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Japanese sushi chef who had cooked for Kim Jong Il

TOKYO, Japan - The Japanese sushi chef who cooked for the late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il between 1989 and 2001 is interviewed by Kyodo News in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward on Nov. 26, 2012. The 65-year-old is known by the alias Kenji Fujimoto.

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Japanese sushi chef who had cooked for Kim Jong Il

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a newly released book, "Hikisakareta Yakusoku (a torn promise)," by the Japanese sushi chef who cooked for the late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il between 1989 and 2001. The 65-year-old is known by the alias Kenji Fujimoto.

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Japanese sushi chef who had cooked for Kim Jong Il

TOKYO, Japan - The Japanese sushi chef who cooked for the late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il between 1989 and 2001 places his recently published book and a letter into an envelope during a press conference in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward on Nov. 26, 2012. The 65-year-old, known by the alias Kenji Fujimoto, said he will mail them to the current North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, one of the sons of Kim Jong Il.

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USJ has 100 millionth guest

OSAKA, Japan - Yumiko Yamashita from Tokyo holds a number plate at Universal Studios Japan in Osaka on Oct. 29, 2012, upon becoming the 100 millionth visitor to the U.S.-originated Hollywood movie theme park since its opening in March 2001.

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USJ has 100 millionth guest

OSAKA, Japan - Yumiko Yamashita from Tokyo holds a number plate at Universal Studios Japan in Osaka on Oct. 29, 2012, upon becoming the 100 millionth visitor to the U.S.-originated Hollywood movie theme park since its opening in March 2001.

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9/11 group seeks continued support for Tohoku disaster victims

TOKYO, Japan - Lee Ielpi (far L), head of the September 11th Families' Association, meets reconstruction minister Tatsuo Hirano (R) in Tokyo on Oct. 26, 2012. Bereaved families of the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States called for continued support for survivors of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami that hit eastern and northeastern Japan in their meeting with the Japanese minister.

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9/11 group gives monument to Japanese city

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken Oct. 25, 2012, in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, shows a monument (front) in the shape of a crane, with a wing span of 80 centimeters, made from debris of the World Trade Center, which collapsed in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. An association of bereaved families of victims of the attacks donated the monument the same day to the city as a symbol of its recovery efforts from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan.

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USJ visitors to reach 100 million

OSAKA, Japan - Many people visit Universal Studios Japan in Osaka on Oct. 10, 2012. The number of visitors to the Hollywood-themed amusement park since its opening in 2001 is expected to reach 100 million as early as the end of October 2012.

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Ex-Asahi Breweries President Higuchi dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in September 2001 shows former Asahi Breweries Ltd. President Hirotaro Higuchi. Higuchi, who launched the brewer's mega-hit beer Asahi Super Dry in 1987, died of acute cardiac failure at a hospital in Tokyo on Sept. 16, 2012. He was 86.

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Doctor to help Japan quake victims with 9/11 experience

NEW YORK, United States - Photo taken on Sept. 3, 2012, shows Robert Takahiro Yanagisawa, an associate professor at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, in front of the New York medical institute. Yanagisawa has treated those affected by the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks for more than 10 years and wants to use insights gained from the experience to treat Japan's quake victims, particularly in the area of mental health care.

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Ex-LDP lawmaker Koichi Hamada dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in 2001 shows Koichi Hamada, former House of Representatives lawmaker. Hamada, who served seven terms as a Liberal Democratic Party legislator and was known as an outspoken member of parliament, died of heart failure on Aug. 5, 2012, at his home. He was 83.

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Actress Isuzu Yamada dies at 95

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in February 2001 shows actress Isuzu Yamada in Tokyo holding the badge of the Order of Culture she received the previous year. Yamada, known for a variety of theater and film roles including some under legendary director Akira Kurosawa, died of multiple organ failure at a Tokyo hospital on July 9, 2012. She was 95.