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Japan, U.S. hold joint military drill in Hiroshima, Yamaguchi

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Members of Japan's 13th Ground Self-Defense Force Regiment (foreground) based in Kaita, Hiroshima Prefecture, and U.S. Marines stand at attention at an initiation ceremony for joint security drills in Yamaguchi and Hiroshima at the U.S. Iwakuni Marine Corps Air Station in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on Nov. 13. The drills through Nov. 15 are part of joint Japan-U.S. military exercises that have been conducted in various areas of Japan since Nov. 5.

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Peruvian man denies he intended to kill Hiroshima girl

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Jose Manuel Torres Yagi, a Peruvian man accused of strangling Airi Kinoshita to death and abandoning her body in Hiroshima on Nov. 22 in 2005, leaves a police station in the town of Kaita, Hiroshima Prefecture, on May 15 to attend his first court hearing.

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Japan, U.S. hold joint military drill in Hiroshima, Yamaguchi

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Members of Japan's 13th Ground Self-Defense Force Regiment (foreground) based in Kaita, Hiroshima Prefecture, and U.S. Marines stand at attention at an initiation ceremony for joint security drills in Yamaguchi and Hiroshima at the U.S. Iwakuni Marine Corps Air Station in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on Nov. 13. The drills through Nov. 15 are part of joint Japan-U.S. military exercises that have been conducted in various areas of Japan since Nov. 5. (Kyodo)

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Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force troops

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Members of Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force leave the Kaita garrison in Hiroshima Prefecture for a humanitarian and reconstruction mission in Iraq. The photo was taken Jan. 6, 2005. (Kyodo)

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Bereaved kin unveil monument for 2014 Hiroshima mudslide victims

Toshihiko Kaita looks at the vacant plot of land where his home once stood in Hiroshima, western Japan, on July 19, 2015. The home was destroyed in a mudslide in August 2014 that killed 74 people, including his mother. A monument was unveiled the same day at a park nearby in memory of victims in the neighborhood. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Peruvian man sentenced to life over murder of Hiroshima girl

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Jose Manuel Torres Yagi leaves the Kaita Police Station in Hiroshima Prefecture July 4 for the Hiroshima District Court. Later in the day, he was sentenced to life in prison for sexually assaulting and killing Airi Kinoshita, 7, on Nov. 22. (Kyodo)

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Peruvian man denies he intended to kill Hiroshima girl

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Jose Manuel Torres Yagi, a Peruvian man accused of strangling Airi Kinoshita to death and abandoning her body in Hiroshima on Nov. 22 in 2005, leaves a police station in the town of Kaita, Hiroshima Prefecture, on May 15 to attend his first court hearing. (Kyodo)

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Japanese-Peruvian man arrested in murder of Hiroshima girl

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Juan Carlos Pizarro Yagi (covered face), a 30-year-old third-generation Japanese-Peruvian, arrives at the Hiroshima police's Kaita Police Station on Nov. 30 after being arrested in Suzuka, Mie Prefecture, earlier in the day by police on suspicion of strangling 7-year-old Airi Kinoshita on Nov. 22. He has denied the allegation. (Kyodo)

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Mazda rampage suspect copied 2008 Akihabara attack

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Toshiaki Hikiji leaves a police station in the town of Kaita, Hiroshima Prefecture, on June 23, 2010, to be sent to prosecutors, a day after he was arrested for allegedly killing one and injuring 10 others by hitting them with a car at a Mazda Motor Corp. plant in the city of Hiroshima. The former temporary worker at the plant reportedly told police investigators that he tried to copy a 2008 random attack in Tokyo's Akihabara district. (Kyodo)

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Drill conducted to prepare for N. Korea missile launch

Patriot Advanced Capability-3 missile interceptors are deployed at the Ground Self-Defense Force's base in the city of Kaita on Aug. 18, 2017, during an emergency drill in western Japan to prepare for a possible missile launch by Pyongyang. The area is beneath the likely flight path of a ballistic missile North Korea has recently threatened to launch toward Guam. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Drill conducted to prepare for N. Korea missile launch

Patriot Advanced Capability-3 missile interceptors are deployed at the Ground Self-Defense Force's base in the city of Kaita on Aug. 18, 2017, during an emergency drill in western Japan to prepare for a possible missile launch by Pyongyang. The area is beneath the likely flight path of a ballistic missile North Korea has recently threatened to launch toward Guam. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo