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Reproductive genetics scientist Hayashi

SUITA, Japan, July 31 Kyodo - Photo taken on Jan. 18, 2023, shows Osaka University Professor Katsuhiko Hayashi at a university campus in Suita, Osaka Prefecture. The reproductive genetics scientist's team succeeded in producing mice eggs using iPS cells. (Kyodo)

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Mouse born using iPS cell

FUKUOKA, Japan, July 31 Kyodo - Photo taken on Oct. 14, 2016, at a Kyushu University Hospital campus in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, shows Kyushu University professor Katsuhiko Hayashi, who specializes in reproductive genetics, with a baby mouse born using an egg produced from an iPS cell.(Kyodo)

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Delphine Ernotte and Katsuhiko Oku attending The History Of Sound Premiere in Cannes, France on May 21, 2025 as part of the 78th Cannes Film Festival. Photo by Aurore Marechal/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Delphine Ernotte and Katsuhiko Oku attending The History Of Sound Premiere in Cannes, France on May 21, 2025 as part of the 78th Cannes Film Festival. Photo by Aurore Marechal/ABACAPRESS.COM

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CHINA-GUANGDONG-WORLD MEDIA SUMMIT-LEADERS-MEETING (CN)

(231202) -- GUANGZHOU, Dec. 2, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Fu Hua, executive chairman of the World Media Summit (WMS) and president of Xinhua News Agency, meets with Sakai Katsuhiko, president and CEO of Japan's Jiji Press, in Guangzhou, south China's Guangdong Province, Dec. 2, 2023. The media leaders are in China to attend the 5th WMS. (Xinhua/Liu Bin)

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Tsurumaki dominates to win 74-kg nat'l title

TOKYO, Japan - Tsukasa Tsurumaki (back) attempts to throw his opponent Katsuhiko Nagata in a Greco-Roman 74-kilogram class match at the national championships at Yoyogi gymnasium annex in Tokyo on Dec. 22. Tsurumaki won the 74-kilogram class with a victory over defending champion Taichi Suga in the final to claim his first title.

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Miniature shogi board

GINAN, Japan, Oct. 20 Kyodo - Koki Engineering President Katsuhiko Fuseya shows on Oct. 6, 2020, in Ginan in Gifu Prefecture, central Japan, a miniature shogi board created by the local auto parts manufacturer. The length on each side is one-fourth the size of a regular board, resulting in a playing area one-16th the size. The smallest pieces measure 6.8 millimeters in height, 5.5 mm in width and 2.8 mm in thickness.

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Cano, Pujols, Jones, Puig to headline MLB tour in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - (from R to L) Hiroki Kokubo, manager of Japan's national baseball team called Samurai Japan, Katsuhiko Kumazaki, commissioner of Nippon Professional Baseball Organization, Jim Small, managing director of MLB Japan, and Yoshimitsu Ohashi, senior managing director of the Yomiuri Shimbun, pose for photos during a press conference at a hotel in Tokyo on Aug. 20, 2014. Small said MLB's all-star outfielders Adam Jones and Yasiel Puig, and infielders Robinson Cano and Albert Pujols will take part in an MLB team to play the Japan national team in a five-game series in November.

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Hokkaido Electric seeks to raise electricity bills

TOKYO, Japan - Katsuhiko Kawai, president of Hokkaido Electric Power Co., speaks with reporters after submitting an application to raise electricity bills for households by around 17 percent at the industry ministry in Tokyo on July 31, 2014.

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Singer Kato to release song about Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Japanese singer Tokiko Kato (C) talks with Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui (R) at Hiroshima City Hall on June 24, 2014, a day before releasing her song CD of a poem by Keiji Nakazawa, late cartoon artist from Hiroshima who wrote manga series "Barefoot Gen." On the left is Katsuhiko Yamamoto, who composed the music.

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Japanese A-bomb survivors to meet South Korean sufferers

NAGASAKI, Japan - Katsuhiko Ota, a member of an association promoting exchanges between Japanese and Korean survivors of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, speaks to reporters on March 13, 2014, in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, ahead of a visit to Seoul later in the month for a meeting with South Korean A-bomb sufferers.

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Japan to use top players in autumn games

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's national baseball team manager Hiroki Kokubo (R) shakes hands with Nippon Professional Baseball commissioner Katsuhiko Kumazaki in Tokyo on Jan. 22, 2014, after deciding to use top players in games slated for November.

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Kumazaki named next NPB commissioner

TOKYO, Japan - Former prosecutor Katsuhiko Kumazaki holds a press conference at a Tokyo hotel on Dec. 26, 2013, after he was confirmed as Nippon Professional Baseball's next commissioner earlier in the day at an extraordinary owners meeting.

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Sand dragon

SASEBO, Japan - Photo taken Feb. 5, 2013, shows a sand sculpture of a dragon at the entrance of theme park Huis Ten Bosch in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture. Sand sculptor Katsuhiko Chaen created the work using sand from Tottori Prefecture.

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Sand dragon

SASEBO, Japan - Photo taken Feb. 5, 2013, shows a sand sculpture of a dragon at the entrance of theme park Huis Ten Bosch in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture. Sand sculptor Katsuhiko Chaen created the work using sand from Tottori Prefecture.

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School baseball club member arrested for robbery

UTSUNOMIYA, Japan - Sakushin Gakuin High School principal Katsuhiko Hasegawa (R) bows during a press conference in Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture, on Aug. 18, 2012. The school and police said a member of the school's baseball club has been arrested on suspicion of assaulting and robbing a girl the previous week.

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Morning glory seeds

TOKYO, Japan - Children receive seeds of Japanese morning glory flowers brought back from space to Earth by astronaut Naoko Yamazaki from artist Katsuhiko Hibino (L) in an event in Tokyo on June 7, 2010. Hibino organized the event to plant the seeds.

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Tokyo police gear up for APEC

TOKYO, Japan - Riot police officers including those wearing anti-biochemical attack gear take part in an annual review of the Metropolitan Police Department in Tokyo on May 25, 2010. MPD chief Katsuhiko Ikeda told some 2,000 participants to brace for incidents including a possible terrorist attack occurring in the run-up to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum Japan hosts in November.

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Tokyo police gear up for APEC

TOKYO, Japan - Riot police officers march at an annual review of the Metropolitan Police Department in Tokyo on May 25, 2010. MPD chief Katsuhiko Ikeda told some 2,000 participants to brace for incidents including a possible terrorist attack occurring in the run-up to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum Japan hosts in November.

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Watanabe forms new group with independent lawmaker, experts

TOKYO, Japan - Former Cabinet minister Yoshimi Watanabe (2nd from L) joins hands with members of a new political group he has formed just three days after leaving the ruling Liberal Democratic Party at a news conference at the No. 2 House of Representatives lawmakers' building in Tokyo on Jan. 16. The group consists of Watanabe, independent lawmaker Kenji Eda (L), Taro Yayama (2nd from R), a renowned political analyst, and Katsuhiko Eguchi (R), president of the PHP research institute, who heads a government panel on reorganizing Japan's prefectural system.

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Maekawa inks minor league deal with Cardinals

NEW YORK, United States - Former Orix Buffaloes left-hander Katsuhiko Maekawa (in file photo) has signed a minor league deal with the St. Louis Cardinals, the team's official website said Dec. 19. Maekawa, 30, who will not receive an invitation to major league spring training, was fired by Orix in January 2007 due to a hit-and-run incident while driving without a license.

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Japanese, Madagascar zoos sign accord to protect rare species

SENDAI, Japan - Sendai Mayor Katsuhiko Umehara (R) and Madagascar President Marc Ravalomanana shake hands May 31 following the signing of an agreement by Yagiyama Zoological Park in the northern Japanese city and Tsimbazaza Zoo in the African nation to cooperate in protecting rare animal species and promoting nature education.

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Waseda, Peking universities to jointly set up graduate school

TOKYO, Japan - Xu Zhihong (L), president of Peking University, and Katsuhiko Shirai, president of Waseda University, shake hands at a hotel in Tokyo on May 8 after signing an accord to jointly set up a graduate school in the field of environmental and sustainable development studies.

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Kirin to acquire drugmaker Kyowa Hakko

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Kirin Pharma Co. President Katsuhiko Asano, Kirin Holdings Co. President Kazuyasu Kato and Kyowa Hakko Kogyo Co. President Yuzuru Matsuda join hands in Tokyo on Oct. 22. Kirin Holdings said the same day it will acquire major pharmaceutical firm Kyowa Hakko and launch a tender offer of 1,500 yen per Kyowa Hakko share on Oct. 31.

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Power firms going all-out to popularize electric-powered houses

OSAKA, Japan - Kyodo News reporter Katsuhiko Osamura and his family prepare a meal in the induction heating kitchen of the El PanaHome Shukugawa model house in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, in September.

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Sharp to promote Senior Executive Director Katayama to president

OSAKA, Japan - Sharp Corp.'s Corporate Senior Executive Director Mikio Katayama, 49, will become the company's president on April 1. He will replace Katsuhiko Machida, 63, who will become board chairman.

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Sharp to promote Senior Executive Director Katayama to president

OSAKA, Japan - Sharp Corp. President Katsuhiko Machida (R) congratulates his anointed successor, Corporate Senior Executive Director Mikio Katayama, at a news conference in Tokyo on Feb. 28. Katayama, 49, will assume the presidency on April 1, while Machida, 63, will become board chairman.

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Sharp aims to expand FY 2007 global LCD TV sales to 9 mil. units

TOKYO, Japan - Sharp Corp. President Katsuhiko Machida tells a prss conference in Tokyo on Jan. 22 that the Osaka-based company will try to expand its global sales of LCD TVs to 9 million units in fiscal 2007, up from its estimated sales of 6 million in fiscal 2006, by reinforcing its production capacity in Japan, Mexico and Poland.

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Sharp aims to expand FY 2007 global LCD TV sales to 9 mil. units

TOKYO, Japan - Sharp Corp. President Katsuhiko Machida introduces a new 108-type liquid crystal display TV set at a prss conference in Tokyo on Jan. 22. He said that the Osaka-based company will try to expand its global sales of LCD TVs to 9 million units in fiscal 2007, up from its estimated sales of 6 million in fiscal 2006, by reinforcing its production capacity in Japan, Mexico and Poland.

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Sharp sees record 1st-half sales on strong large LCD TV demand

OSAKA, Japan - Sharp Corp. President Katsuhiko Machida speak at a press conference in Osaka on Oct. 25. The company said its group sales in the April-September first half of fiscal 2006 gained 9.7 percent from a year earlier to an all-time high of 1.47 trillion yen, helped by strong demand for its Aquos large liquid crystal display TVs.

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Japan Tobacco to appoint Kimura new president

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Tobacco Inc. Director Hiroshi Kimura, who will be appointed president to succeed Katsuhiko Honda, speaks at a press conference at the company head office in Tokyo on April 13.

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Nobel laureate Maathai receives honorary doctorate

TOKYO, Japan - Wangari Maathai (R), the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, receives an honorary doctorate from Katsuhiko Shirai, president of Tokyo's Waseda University, for her contributions in the fields of democracy, human rights and environmental protection at the university on Feb. 13.

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Sharp to quadruple LCD panel output

TOKYO, Japan - Sharp Corp. President Katsuhiko Machida said in Tokyo on Jan. 11 that his company will spend an additional 200 billion yen to quadruple the production capacity of its liquid crystal display panel factory in Kameyama, Mie Prefecture. The capital spending will enable the factory to produce 22 million LCD panels a year, starting in fiscal 2008.

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Anglo-Japanese rugby match commemorates slain diplomat Oku

LONDON, England - Japanese Ambassador to Britain Yoshiji Nogami (L) hands a trophy to the captain of a British rugby team after a match played in western London on Nov. 26 to commemorate slain Japanese diplomat Katsuhiko Oku's contribution to friendship between the two countries. The match was held between a team of Japanese businessmen and students living in Britain and a team of British graduates of Oxford and Cambridge universities. Oku, who was killed in Iraq in 2003, was a rugby player when he studied at Oxford University.

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Sharp to invest 150 bil. yen in 2nd LCD plant in Kameyama

OSAKA, Japan - Sharp Corp. President Katsuhiko Machida speaks to reporters about the company's plan to invest 150 billion yen for the production of large-scale liquid crystal displays for LCD televisions at a hotel in Tokyo on Jan. 12.

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Ex-Mitsubishi Motors head pleads not guilty in fatal case

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi Motors Chairman Yoichiro Okazaki speaks at a press conference at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport in Tokyo on Oct. 6 after former Mitsubishi Motors Corp. President Katsuhiko Kawasoe pleaded not guilty to charges of concealing a defective clutch system in a truck built by the automaker in the first hearing of his trial.

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(1)Ex-Mitsubishi Motors head denies role in fatal accident

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Former Mitsubishi Motors Corp. President Katsuhiko Kawasoe arrives at the Yokohama District Court on Oct. 6 to appear in the first hearing of his trial. Kawasoe pleaded not guilty to allegations of concealing a defective clutch system in a truck built by the automaker and thereby failing to prevent a fatal accident in Yamaguchi Prefecture in 2002.

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Ex-president of scandal-tainted Mitsubishi Motors arrested

TOKYO, Japan - An official of the public relations department of Mitsubishi Motors Corp. reads a statement in front of the company's head office in Tokyo on June 10 after former President Katsuhiko Kawasoe and five other former executives were arrested on suspicion of professional negligence resulting in a fatal accident related to defective truck parts in 2002.

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Toyota, Nissan fully meet wage hike demands from labor unions

TOKYO, Japan - Katsuhiko Hagiwara, secretary general of the Confederation of Japan Automobile Workers' Union, speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on March 17 about management's replies to the trade union demands for new wages. Toyota Motor Corp. and Nissan Motor Co. fully met the demands, but for most electronics firms, bonuses will not reach the amounts demanded by their labor unions.

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Memorial service for slain diplomat held in London

LONDON, Britain - A memorial service is held for slain Japanese diplomat Katsuhiko Oku at the Japanese Embassy in London on Dec. 11. Oku, 45, a counselor dispatched to Iraq, was killed in northern Iraq on Nov. 29.

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(3)Funeral held for 2 Japanese diplomats killed in Iraq

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi speaks at a funeral for two Japanese diplomats -- Katsuhiko Oku and Masamori Inoue -- who were killed in Iraq last weekend at Aoyama Funeral Hall in Tokyo on Dec. 6. (Pool photo)

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(7)Funeral held for 2 Japanese diplomats killed in Iraq

TOKYO, Japan - Mourners see off two hearses carrying with coffins of the two slain Japanese diplomats, Katsuhiko Oku and Masamori Inoue, leaving Aoyama Funeral Hall on Dec. 6. The two were killed in northern Iraq last week.

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(4)Funeral held for 2 Japanese diplomats killed in Iraq

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi replies to questions from reporters at his official residence in Tokyo after attending a funeral at Aoyama Funeral Hall in Tokyo on Dec. 6. for the two Japanese diplomats -- Katsuhiko Oku and Masamori Inoue -- who were killed in Iraq last weekend. (Pool photo)

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(1)Funeral held for 2 Japanese diplomats killed in Iraq

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi attends a funeral at Aoyama Funeral Hall in Tokyo on Dec. 6 for the two Japanese diplomats -- Katsuhiko Oku and Masamori Inoue -- who were killed in Iraq last weekend. The funeral was organized by the Foreign Ministry and family members of the diplomats. (Pool photo)

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(5)Funeral held for 2 Japanese diplomats killed in Iraq

TOKYO, Japan - Mourners pray at a funeral for Katsuhiko Oku and Masamori Inoue, Japanese diplomats killed in Iraq last weekend, at Aoyama Funeral Hall in Tokyo on Dec. 6. (Pool photo)

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(2)Funeral held for 2 Japanese diplomats killed in Iraq

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi offers his condolences in front of photos of the two slain Japanese diplomats -- Katsuhiko Oku and Masamori Inoue -- at Aoyama Funeral Hall in Tokyo on Dec. 6. They were killed in Iraq last weekend. (Pool photo)

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(6)Funeral held for 2 Japanese diplomats killed in Iraq

TOKYO, Japan - People line up to sign a book of condolences for Katsuhiko Oku and Masamori Inoue, the two Japanese diplomats killed in Iraq last weekend, at Aoyama Funeral Hall in Tokyo on Dec. 6.

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(2)Foreign Ministry staff bid farewell to slain diplomats

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi (2nd from R) and her staff bow to offer their silent prayers as a hearse carrying one of the bodies of two slain diplomats, Katsuhiko Oku and Masamori Inoue, is driven past the Foreign Ministry building in Tokyo on Dec. 5.

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(3)Foreign Ministry staff bid farewell to slain diplomats

TOKYO, Japan - Led by a police car, a hearse carrying one of the bodies of two slain Japanese diplomats, Katsuhiko Oku and Masamori Inoue, is driven past the Foreign Ministry building in Tokyo on Dec. 5 to allow them to bid farewell to the place where they once worked.

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Foreign Ministry staff bid farewell to slain diplomats

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi (R fore) and her staff bow to offer their silent prayers as hearses carrying the bodies of the two slain diplomats, Katsuhiko Oku and Masamori Inoue, are driven past the Foreign Ministry building in Tokyo on Dec. 5.