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Vatican: St. Peter’s Square Holds Rosary Prayer in Memory of Pope Francis 2

The Vatican held a rosary prayer at St. Peter’s Square on Monday, April 21, and Tuesday, April 22, following the death of Pope Francis. Thousands of Catholics gathered in prayer for the Holy Father, who died at age 88 earlier Monday morning.

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Japan Diet enacts law to compensate forced sterilization victims

Junko Mihara, Japanese minister for policies related to children, bows during a plenary session of the House of Councillors in Tokyo on Oct. 8, 2024, after the Diet enacted a law to pay 15 million yen ($101,000) each to victims of forced sterilization surgery under a now-defunct eugenics protection law.

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Japan lower house passes forced sterilization compensation bill

Junko Mihara, Japanese minister for policies related to children, stands at a House of Representatives plenary session in Tokyo on Oct. 7, 2024, after the passage of a bill requiring the government to compensate people who were forced to undergo sterilization surgery under a now-defunct eugenics protection law.

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Lineup of Japan PM Ishiba's Cabinet

Junko Mihara, who is set to become minister responsible for child policy in the Cabinet of new Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, arrives at the premier's office in Tokyo on Oct. 1, 2024, before her attestation in a ceremony at the Imperial Palace.

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Actress Mihara debuts as LDP candidate in upper house poll

TOKYO, Japan - Actress Junko Mihara speaks in front of Yurakucho Station in central Tokyo on June 24, 2010, as she is running as a candidate of the opposition Liberal Democratic Party for the July 11 House of Councillors election. Official campaigning got under way for the upper house the same day.

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Actress Mihara expresses willingness to run in election

TOKYO, Japan - Actress Junko Mihara addresses an event at the headquarters of the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party in Tokyo on April 8, 2010. Mihara expressed her willingness to run in the upcoming House of Councillors election for the LDP.

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Japan should follow prewar "world under 1 roof" concept: lawmaker

Junko Mihara, a House of Councillors member from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, speaks at a meeting of the upper house budgetary committee in Tokyo on March 16, 2015. At the meeting, the 50-year-old actress-turned-politician brought up "Hakko Ichiu," a prewar and wartime government slogan used to justify its overseas expansion at the time, and said Japan should act in line with the slogan which represents "values Japan has cherished since its founding." (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Actress Mihara expresses willingness to run in election

TOKYO, Japan - Actress Junko Mihara addresses an event at the headquarters of the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party in Tokyo on April 8, 2010. Mihara expressed her willingness to run in the upcoming House of Councillors election for the LDP. (Kyodo)

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Actress Mihara debuts as LDP candidate in upper house poll

TOKYO, Japan - Actress Junko Mihara speaks in front of Yurakucho Station in central Tokyo on June 24, 2010, as she is running as a candidate of the opposition Liberal Democratic Party for the July 11 House of Councillors election. Official campaigning got under way for the upper house the same day. (Kyodo)

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Japan senior vice health minister Mihara

Japanese Senior Vice Health, Labor and Welfare Minister Junko Mihara wearing a face mask due to the coronavirus pandemic speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 23, 2020. Mihara expressed her support for Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga's pledge to make fertility treatment eligible for coverage by national health insurance.