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Japanese crown prince at sports event for disabled

Japanese Crown Prince Fumihito and his wife Crown Princess Kiko attend the opening ceremony of a national sports festival for people with disabilities in Kagoshima, southwestern Japan, on Oct. 28, 2023.

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Japanese crown prince at sports event for disabled

Japanese Crown Prince Fumihito and his wife Crown Princess Kiko attend the opening ceremony of a national sports festival for people with disabilities in Kagoshima, southwestern Japan, on Oct. 28, 2023.

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Japanese crown prince at sports event for disabled

Japanese Crown Prince Fumihito and his wife Crown Princess Kiko attend the opening ceremony of a national sports festival for people with disabilities in Kagoshima, southwestern Japan, on Oct. 28, 2023.

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Japanese crown prince at sports event for disabled

Japanese Crown Prince Fumihito speaks during the opening ceremony of a national sports festival for people with disabilities in Kagoshima, southwestern Japan, on Oct. 28, 2023.

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Japanese crown prince at sports event for disabled

Japanese Crown Prince Fumihito speaks during the opening ceremony of a national sports festival for people with disabilities in Kagoshima, southwestern Japan, on Oct. 28, 2023.

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Crown Prince Fumihito at cultural festival

Japanese Crown Prince Fumihito (R) and his son Prince Hisahito are greeted by high school students during a national high school cultural festival in Kagoshima, southwestern Japan, on July 30, 2023. (Pool photo)

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Crown Prince Fumihito at cultural festival

Japanese Crown Prince Fumihito (C) and his son Prince Hisahito (L) are greeted by high school students during a national high school cultural festival in Kagoshima, southwestern Japan, on July 30, 2023. (Pool photo)

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Crown Prince Fumihito at cultural festival

Japanese Crown Prince Fumihito (front, R) and his son Prince Hisahito (front, L) visit a national high school cultural festival in Kagoshima, southwestern Japan, on July 30, 2023. (Pool photo)

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Crown Prince Fumihito at cultural festival

Japanese Crown Prince Fumihito (R) and his son Prince Hisahito visit a national high school cultural festival in Kagoshima, southwestern Japan, on July 30, 2023. (Pool photo)

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Crown Prince Fumihito at cultural festival

Japanese Crown Prince Fumihito speaks during the opening ceremony of a national high school cultural festival in Kagoshima, southwestern Japan, on July 29, 2023.

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Crown prince Fumihito at cultural festival

Japanese Crown Prince Fumihito (L) and his son Prince Hisahito attend the opening ceremony of a national high school cultural festival in Kagoshima, southwestern Japan, on July 29, 2023.

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Crown Prince Fumihito at cultural festival

Japanese Crown Prince Fumihito (L) and his son Prince Hisahito attend the opening ceremony of a national high school cultural festival in Kagoshima, southwestern Japan, on July 29, 2023.

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Crown prince Fumihito at cultural festival

Japanese Crown Prince Fumihito (L) and his son Prince Hisahito arrive at the venue of the opening ceremony of a national high school cultural festival in Kagoshima, southwestern Japan, on July 29, 2023. (Pool photo)

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Crown prince Fumihito at cultural festival

Japanese Crown Prince Fumihito (L) and his son Prince Hisahito arrive at the venue of the opening ceremony of a national high school cultural festival in Kagoshima, southwestern Japan, on July 29, 2023. (Pool photo)

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Crown prince Fumihito at cultural festival

Japanese Crown Prince Fumihito (L) and his son Prince Hisahito attend the opening ceremony of a national high school cultural festival in Kagoshima, southwestern Japan, on July 29, 2023.

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Crown prince Fumihito at cultural festival

Japanese Crown Prince Fumihito (front, L) and his son Prince Hisahito (front, R) watch a parade during a national high school cultural festival in Kagoshima, southwestern Japan, on July 29, 2023.

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Crown prince Fumihito at cultural festival

Japanese Crown Prince Fumihito (L) and his son Prince Hisahito attend the opening ceremony of a national high school cultural festival in Kagoshima, southwestern Japan, on July 29, 2023.

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Crown prince Fumihito at cultural festival

Japanese Crown Prince Fumihito (front, L) and his son Prince Hisahito (front, R) watch a parade during a national high school cultural festival in Kagoshima, southwestern Japan, on July 29, 2023.

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Resumption of Sendai plant approved

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - Photo shows the extraordinary session of the prefectural assembly approving the resumption of operations of two reactors of the Sendai nuclear plant in Kagoshima, southwestern Japan, on Nov. 7, 2014. Kagoshima Gov. Yuichiro Ito will approve their restart on the same day to complete the process of securing local approval.

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Students build extra-small satellite to orbit Sun

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - Extra-small satellite Shin'en 2 is displayed at Kagoshima University in the city of Kagoshima, Japan, on Oct. 17, 2014. The satellite was built by students at the university and the Kyushu Institute of Technology in Kitakyushu to elliptically orbit the Sun in order to experiment on long-distance communication technologies.

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Kagoshima mascot characters become golf club covers

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - Golf club head covers in the shape of Kagoshima Prefecture's pig mascot character "Guribu" and his wife "Sakura" are released in Kagoshima, southwestern Japan, on June 14, 2014. The Guribu cover is for a driver and the Sakura cover for a spoon.

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Teen pro golf tourney winner meets Kagoshima governor

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - Kagoshima High School student Minami Katsu, who became the youngest winner at 15 on the Japan Ladies Professional Golf Association tour on April 20, 2014, meets Kagoshima Gov. Yuichiro Ito at his office in Kagoshima, southwestern Japan, on April 23.

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Sakurajima eruption

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - The Sakurajima volcano on the island of Kyushu in southwestern Japan erupts on Sept. 4, 2013.

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Cleaning up volcanic ash

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - A vehicle cleans up ash from the Sakurajima volcano on streets in Kagoshima City in Kagoshima Prefecture on Aug. 19, 2013, the day after 1,117-meter volcano had a major eruption.

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Japan launches radar, optical satellites

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - An H-2A rocket ascends leaving a trail of white smoke at 1:40 p.m. on Jan. 27, 2013, after its launch at the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. launched an information-gathering radar satellite and an optical satellite using the H-2A rocket.

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White tiger cubs at Kagoshima zoo

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken on Feb. 10, 2012, shows white tiger cubs shown to the public for the first time at Hirakawa Zoological Park in the city of Kagoshima, southwestern Japan. The male and female cubs were born in November the previous year.

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White tiger cubs at Kagoshima zoo

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken Dec. 8, 2011, shows two white tiger cubs, male(L) and female, which were born on Nov. 18, 2011, at the Hirakawa Zoological Park in the city of Kagoshima, southwestern Japan. The zoo plans to show them to the public from around February.

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White tiger cubs at Kagoshima zoo

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken Dec. 8, 2011, shows a male white tiger cub, one of the two surviving felines that were born on Nov. 18, 2011, at the Hirakawa Zoological Park in the city of Kagoshima, southwestern Japan. The zoo plans to show them to the public from around February. Two other cubs were born the same day but died shortly afterward.

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White tigers on display at Kagoshima zoo

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - A male white tiger is put on public display at Hirakawa Zoological Park in the city of Kagoshima, southwestern Japan, on May 26, 2011. The zoo on the same day began showing it and a female white tiger alternately.

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White tigers on display at Kagoshima zoo

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - A male white tiger is put on public display at Hirakawa Zoological Park in the city of Kagoshima, southwestern Japan, on May 26, 2011. The zoo on the same day began showing it and a female white tiger alternately.

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Volcanic eruptions in southwestern Japan

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - A lava dome can be seen inside the crater of Mt. Shinmoe in the Kirishima mountain range straddling Miyazaki and Kagoshima prefectures in southwestern Japan in this photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Jan. 31, 2011. The Miyazaki Local Meteorological Observatory said the lava dome on the 1,421-meter volcano has been rising.

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Volcanic eruptions in southwestern Japan

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - A lava dome can be seen inside the crater of Mt. Shinmoe in the Kirishima mountain range straddling Miyazaki and Kagoshima prefectures in southwestern Japan in this photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Jan. 31, 2011. The Miyazaki Local Meteorological Observatory said the lava dome on the 1,421-meter volcano has been rising.

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Volcanic eruptions continue in southwestern Japan

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a continuing volcanic eruption of Mt. Shinmoe in the Kirishima mountain range, running through the border of Kagoshima and Miyazaki prefectures, on Jan. 31, 2011. Local officials in Takaharu in Miyazaki Prefecture recommended the previous day that about 500 households evacuate, citing the danger of avalanches of earth and rocks occurring around the mountain.

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Ash from volcano

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - An intersection in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Miyazaki is clouded with ash falling from erupting Mt. Shinmoe on Jan. 29, 2011.

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Tokunoshima islanders step up U.S. base opposition

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - (From 2nd L) Isen Mayor Akira Okubo, Amagi Mayor Kosuke Ohisa and Tokunoshima Mayor Hideki Takaoka from Tokunoshima Island, Kagoshima Prefecture, protest against Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's proposal that the island host some functions of a U.S. Marine base in nearby Okinawa during a rally May 8, 2010, in Kagoshima. Some 5,000 people took part in the protest a day after the mayors rejected the idea in a meeting with Hatoyama in Tokyo.

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Tokunoshima islanders step up U.S. base opposition

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - (From L) Isen Mayor Akira Okubo, Amagi Mayor Kosuke Ohisa and Tokunoshima Mayor Hideki Takaoka from Tokunoshima Island, Kagoshima Prefecture, protest against Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's proposal that the island host some functions of a U.S. Marine base in nearby Okinawa during a rally May 8, 2010, in Kagoshima. Some 5,000 people took part in the protest a day after the mayors rejected the idea in a meeting with Hatoyama in Tokyo.

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Zeppelin NT flies over Kagoshima

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - The Zeppelin NT is seen flying over the city of Kagoshima against the backdrop of Sakurajima on March 11, 2010, as Japan Airship Corp. began a sightseeing flight service until March 14.

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Polar bear given 'cool' present as midsummer gift

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - With the mercury rising in early summer, a polar bear at Hirakawa Zoo in Japan's southwestern prefecture of Kagoshima enjoys a block of ice on July 20 given by local ice cream makers as a traditional midsummer gift in Japan.

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New 800-series Shinkansen train 'runs' on street

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - The new 800-series Shinkansen bullet train car is towed by a trailer from a port to a train depot in Satsumasendai in the southwestern Japanese prefecture of Kagoshima on the early morning of June 24. The high-speed train will make its debut on a line operated by Kyushu Railway Co. between Shinyatsushiro and Kagoshimachuo stations this summer.

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Polar bear in zoo presented with block of ice

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - With mercury rising in early summer, a polar bear at Hirakawa Zoo in Japan's southwestern prefecture of Kagoshima is presented with a block of ice July 21.

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Patissier applicants increasing due to flamboyant image

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - This food theme park run by Namco Ltd. in Kagoshima City features various confectioneries from across the country.

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Japan's solar observation satellite 'Hinode' goes into orbit

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - The M-5 solid-fuel rocket carrying a solar observation satellite was successfully launched from the Uchinoura Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture on Sept. 23, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency said.

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Strong typhoon approaching Kyushu

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - The port of Kushikino in Kagoshima Prefecture is washed by waves as a powerful typhoon approaches Japan's southwestern island of Kyushu on Sept. 17.

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Over 100 injured after ferry apparently collides with whale

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - More than 100 people were injured when the hydrofoil Toppy-4 ferry, now moored at port in Ibusuki, Kagoshima Prefecture, collided with a submerged object, possibly a whale, in the East China Sea off the prefecture on April 9, the ferry's operator said April 10.

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Experiment under way to introduce broadband on remote

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - An experiment has gotten under way to introduce broadband with a super-high-frequency radio system on Dec. 3 on Koshiki Islands in the city of Satsuma-Sendai, Kagoshima Prefecture.

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Heavy snowfall hits southwestern Japan

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - A junior high school boy walks to school in the city of Kagoshima on Dec. 22 as the southern Honshu city is hit by the heaviest snowfall for the month of December.

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Strong typhoon approaches southern Japan

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - A pedestrian toils to cross a flooded road in the city of Kagoshima as powerful Typhoon Nabi heads toward Japan's southern main island of Kyushu on Sept. 6.

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Japan launches astronomy satellite

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - An M-5 rocket lifts off from Uchinoura Space Center in Kimotsuki, Kagoshima Prefecture, on July 10 to deliver a 1.7-ton X-ray astronomy satellite into orbit to study black holes and other astronomical phenomena.

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5 unsupervised children die in Kagoshima house fire

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - Five unsupervised children died in a fire on the night of March 31 at a two-story wooden house in the town of Hayato, Kagoshima Prefecture, while their parents were out playing pachinko and shopping, police said.

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(1)Typhoon Chaba hits Kyushu

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - A signboard at a bus stop in Kagoshima leans after being bent over by the winds of the large and powerful Typhoon Chaba in southwestern Japan on Aug. 30.