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Tohoku Kizuna Festival in Sendai

Performers of Akita Prefecture's Kanto festival troupe hold up poles decorated with paper lanterns as they march through a street of downtown Sendai in Miyagi Prefecture during the Tohoku Kizuna Festival on June 9, 2024. The event features parades involving six northeastern Japan prefectures, with the aim of revitalizing the region following the 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster.

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Tohoku Kizuna Festival in Sendai

Dancers of Miyagi Prefecture's Sendai Suzume Odori (sparrow dance) troupe march through a street during the Tohoku Kizuna Festival in the prefecture's capital Sendai on June 9, 2024. The event features parades involving six northeastern Japan prefectures, with the aim of revitalizing the region following the 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster.

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Tohoku Kizuna Festival in Sendai

Performers of Iwate Prefecture's the Morioka Sansa dance festival troupe fill a street of downtown Sendai in Miyagi Prefecture during the Tohoku Kizuna Festival on June 9, 2024. The event features parades involving six northeastern Japan prefectures, with the aim of revitalizing the region following the 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster.

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Tohoku Kizuna Festival in Sendai

People of Fukushima Prefecture's Waraji festival group parade through a street carrying a gigantic waraji straw sandal during the Tohoku Kizuna Festival in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on June 9, 2024. The event features parades involving six northeastern Japan prefectures, with the aim of revitalizing the region following the 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster.

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Tohoku Kizuna Festival in Sendai

Dancers of Yamagata Prefecture's Hanagasa festival troupe fill a street of downtown Sendai in Miyagi Prefecture during the Tohoku Kizuna Festival on June 9, 2024. The event features parades involving six northeastern Japan prefectures, with the aim of revitalizing the region following the 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster.

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Tohoku Kizuna Festival in Sendai

A colorful paper lantern float from Aomori Prefecture's Nebuta summer festival is paraded through a street during the Tohoku Kizuna Festival in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on June 9, 2024. The event features parades involving six northeastern Japan prefectures, with the aim of revitalizing the region following the 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster.

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Festival celebrating famed Buddhist monk's birthday

Aoba Matsuri, a festival celebrating the birthday of Buddhist monk Kukai (774-835) -- posthumously known as Kobo Daishi and the founder of the Shingon school of Buddhism -- is held on June 9, 2024, in the Wakayama prefecture town of Koya, western Japan, where he opened the Kongobuji temple in 816.

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Festival celebrating famed Buddhist monk's birthday

Aoba Matsuri, a festival celebrating the birthday of Buddhist monk Kukai (774-835) -- posthumously known as Kobo Daishi and the founder of the Shingon school of Buddhism -- is held on June 9, 2024, in the Wakayama prefecture town of Koya, western Japan, where he opened the Kongobuji temple in 816.

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Festival celebrating famed Buddhist monk's birthday

Aoba Matsuri, a festival celebrating the birthday of Buddhist monk Kukai (774-835) -- posthumously known as Kobo Daishi and the founder of the Shingon school of Buddhism -- is held on June 9, 2024, in the Wakayama prefecture town of Koya, western Japan, where he opened the Kongobuji temple in 816.

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Festival celebrating famed Buddhist monk's birthday

Aoba Matsuri, a festival celebrating the birthday of Buddhist monk Kukai (774-835) -- posthumously known as Kobo Daishi and the founder of the Shingon school of Buddhism -- is held on June 9, 2024, in the Wakayama prefecture town of Koya, western Japan, where he opened the Kongobuji temple in 816.

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Rally in Taipei on 5th anniversary of Hong Kong protests

People protest in Taipei on June 9, 2024, marking the fifth anniversary of mass pro-democracy demonstrations in Hong Kong in June 2019.

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Anti-nuke sit-in in Nagasaki

Anti-nuclear protesters, including survivors of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki, stage the 500th sit-in in their 45-year history, held on the 9th of every month, in front of the Peace Statue at the Peace Park in the southwestern Japan city on June 9, 2024.

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Yosakoi Soran dance festival in Sapporo

The Hiragishi Tenjin troupe performs on June 9, 2024, the final day of the Yosakoi Soran Festival, a five-day competitive folk dance event in Sapporo in Hokkaido, northern Japan. The troupe won the top prize at the event in which around 255 teams and 25,000 people from home and abroad participated.

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Yosakoi Soran dance festival in Sapporo

Dancers fill a street in downtown Sapporo in Hokkaido, northern Japan, on June 9, 2024, the final day of the Yosakoi Soran Festival, a five-day competitive folk dance event in which around 255 teams and 25,000 people from home and abroad participated.

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Yosakoi Soran dance festival in Sapporo

The Hiragishi Tenjin troupe performs on June 9, 2024, the final day of the Yosakoi Soran Festival, a five-day competitive folk dance event in Sapporo in Hokkaido, northern Japan. The troupe won the top prize at the event in which around 255 teams and 25,000 people from home and abroad participated.

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Yosakoi Soran dance festival in Sapporo

Dancers fill a street in downtown Sapporo in Hokkaido, northern Japan, on June 9, 2024, the final day of the Yosakoi Soran Festival, a five-day competitive folk dance event in which around 255 teams and 25,000 people from home and abroad participated.

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Yosakoi Soran dance festival in Sapporo

Dancers fill a street in downtown Sapporo in Hokkaido, northern Japan, on June 9, 2024, the final day of the Yosakoi Soran Festival, a five-day competitive folk dance event in which around 255 teams and 25,000 people from home and abroad participated.

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Yosakoi Soran dance festival in Sapporo

Dancers fill a street in downtown Sapporo in Hokkaido, northern Japan, on June 9, 2024, the final day of the Yosakoi Soran Festival, a five-day competitive folk dance event in which around 255 teams and 25,000 people from home and abroad participated.

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Aftermath of strong earthquake in Taiwan

Taiwan Vice President Hsiao Bi-khim (front R) meets with a group of Japanese nationals living in Taiwan during their tour of Hualien County, eastern Taiwan, to promote local tourism in the earthquake-ravaged area on June 9, 2024.

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Japan-U.S. defense equipment collaboration

Japanese and U.S. defense officials hold the inaugural meeting of a bilateral framework, the Forum on Defense Industrial Cooperation, Acquisition and Sustainment, at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on June 9, 2024, to discuss bilateral cooperation in the production and maintenance of their defense equipment.

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Japan-U.S. defense equipment collaboration

Masaki Fukasawa (R), head of Japan's Acquisition, Technology and Logistics Agency, and his U.S. counterpart, Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment William LaPlante, shake hands during the inaugural meeting of a bilateral framework, the Forum on Defense Industrial Cooperation, Acquisition and Sustainment, at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on June 9, 2024, to discuss bilateral cooperation in the production and maintenance of their defense equipment.

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Tennis: French Open

Iga Swiatek of Poland smiles with the victor's trophy in Paris on June 9, 2024, a day after winning the women's singles title at the French Open tennis tournament.

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Tennis: French Open

Iga Swiatek of Poland kisses the victor's trophy in Paris on June 9, 2024, a day after winning the women's singles title at the French Open tennis tournament.

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Baseball: Dodgers vs. Yankees

Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Dodgers poses after hitting a double in the eighth inning of a baseball game against the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium in New York on June 9, 2024.

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Baseball: Dodgers vs. Yankees

Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Dodgers poses after hitting a double in the eighth inning of a baseball game against the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium in New York on June 9, 2024.

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Baseball: Dodgers vs. Yankees

Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Dodgers runs after hitting a double in the eighth inning of a baseball game against the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium in New York on June 9, 2024.

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Baseball: Dodgers vs. Yankees

Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Dodgers hits a double in the eighth inning of a baseball game against the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium in New York on June 9, 2024.

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Baseball: Dodgers vs. Yankees

Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Dodgers hits a double in the eighth inning of a baseball game against the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium in New York on June 9, 2024.

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Baseball: Dodgers vs. Yankees

Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Dodgers hits a double in the eighth inning of a baseball game against the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium in New York on June 9, 2024.

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Baseball: Dodgers vs. Yankees

Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Dodgers hits a double in the eighth inning of a baseball game against the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium in New York on June 9, 2024.

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Baseball: Dodgers vs. Yankees

Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Dodgers hits a double in the eighth inning of a baseball game against the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium in New York on June 9, 2024.

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Baseball: Dodgers vs. Yankees

Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Dodgers runs after hitting a double in the eighth inning of a baseball game against the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium in New York on June 9, 2024.

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Baseball: Dodgers vs. Yankees

Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Dodgers runs after hitting a double in the eighth inning of a baseball game against the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium in New York on June 9, 2024.

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Baseball: Dodgers vs. Yankees

Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Dodgers takes batting position in the fifth inning of a baseball game against the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium in New York on June 9, 2024.

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Baseball: Dodgers vs. Yankees

Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Dodgers hits a double in the eighth inning of a baseball game against the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium in New York on June 9, 2024.

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Golf: ShopRite LPGA Classic

Ayaka Furue of Japan smiles during a press conference after finishing second at the ShopRite LPGA Classic golf tournament at Seaview Golf Club in Galloway, New Jersey, on June 9, 2024.

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Tennis: French Open

Coco Gauff (L) of the United States and Katerina Siniakova of the Czech Republic kiss the trophy after winning the women's doubles title at the French Open tennis tournament in Paris on June 9, 2024.

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Tennis: French Open

Italy's Sara Errani (front) and Jasmine Paolini play against Coco Gauff of the United States and Katerina Siniakova of the Czech Republic in the women's doubles final at the French Open tennis tournament in Paris on June 9, 2024.

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Golf: Memorial Tournament

Scottie Scheffler of the United States poses for photos with golf legend Jack Nicklaus after winning the Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio, on June 9, 2024.

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Tennis: French Open

Coco Gauff (L) of the United States and Katerina Siniakova of the Czech Republic play against Italy's Sara Errani and Jasmine Paolini in the women's doubles final at the French Open tennis tournament in Paris on June 9, 2024.

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Golf: Memorial Tournament

Scottie Scheffler of the United States holds the victor's trophy after winning the Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio, on June 9, 2024.

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Golf: Memorial Tournament

Hideki Matsuyama of Japan finishes the final round of the Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio, on June 9, 2024.

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Golf: Memorial Tournament

Hideki Matsuyama of Japan hits out of a bunker on the second hole during the final round of the Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio, on June 9, 2024.

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Golf: Memorial Tournament

Hideki Matsuyama of Japan hits a shot on the fourth hole during the final round of the Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio, on June 9, 2024.

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Golf: ShopRite LPGA Classic

Ayaka Furue of Japan plays a shot during the final round of the ShopRite LPGA Classic golf tournament at Seaview Golf Club in Galloway, New Jersey, on June 9, 2024.

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Golf: ShopRite LPGA Classic

Mao Saigo of Japan hits a shot on the third hole during the final round of the ShopRite LPGA Classic golf tournament at Seaview Golf Club in Galloway, New Jersey, on June 9, 2024.

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Golf: ShopRite LPGA Classic

Yuna Nishimura of Japan hits a putt on the second hole during the final round of the ShopRite LPGA Classic golf tournament at Seaview Golf Club in Galloway, New Jersey, on June 9, 2024.

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Golf: ShopRite LPGA Classic

Hinako Shibuno of Japan plays a shot during the final round of the ShopRite LPGA Classic golf tournament at Seaview Golf Club in Galloway, New Jersey, on June 9, 2024.

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Golf: ShopRite LPGA Classic

Hinako Shibuno of Japan hits a putt on the first hole during the final round of the ShopRite LPGA Classic golf tournament at Seaview Golf Club in Galloway, New Jersey, on June 9, 2024.

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Tennis: French Open

Coco Gauff (L) of the United States and Katerina Siniakova of the Czech Republic pose with the trophy after winning the women's doubles title at the French Open tennis tournament in Paris on June 9, 2024.