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Incumbent Ito reelected Kagoshima governor

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - Incumbent Kagoshima Gov. Yuichiro Ito, who was reelected in the July 13 election, arrives at the prefectural office on July 14. Ito defeated former veteran prefectural assembly member Katsuko Iwaizako.

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Saruhashi, promoter of female scientists, dies at 87

TOKYO, Japan - Katsuko Saruhashi (file photo taken in May 2002), the first female member of the Science Council of Japan, who helped champion young female scientists, died Sept. 29 of pneumonia at her home in Tokyo, her family said Oct. 2. She was 87. Saruhashi is known as the founder of the ''Saruhashi Award'' to honor female scientists up to the age of 49 for outstanding research.

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Incumbent Ito reelected Kagoshima governor

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - Incumbent Kagoshima Gov. Yuichiro Ito, who was reelected in the July 13 election, arrives at the prefectural office on July 14. Ito defeated former veteran prefectural assembly member Katsuko Iwaizako. (Kyodo)

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Nagasaki A-bomb survivor remembers hard times of hiding her past

Katsuko Kanamori (L), a survivor of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, in 1945, walks on a street with her husband Kazuhiko in Gifu, central Japan, as seen in this file photo taken on Oct. 28, 2014. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nagasaki A-bomb survivor walks wheelchair-bound husband

Katsuko Kanamori (L), a survivor of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, in 1945, walks on a street with her husband Kazuhiko in Gifu, central Japan, as seen in this file photo taken on Oct. 28, 2014. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Univ. of Washington professor Torii gets Japan award for female scientists

University of Washington professor Keiko Torii, concurrently visiting professor at Nagoya University, meets the press after winning the 2015 "Saruhashi Award" in Tokyo on April 21, 2015, for elucidating the molecular mechanisms of stomatal development on a plant leaf. The award, named after the late Japanese geochemist Katsuko Saruhashi, is given to a female scientist every year. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Saruhashi, promoter of female scientists, dies at 87

TOKYO, Japan - Katsuko Saruhashi (file photo taken in May 2002), the first female member of the Science Council of Japan, who helped champion young female scientists, died Sept. 29 of pneumonia at her home in Tokyo, her family said Oct. 2. She was 87. Saruhashi is known as the founder of the ''Saruhashi Award'' to honor female scientists up to the age of 49 for outstanding research. (Kyodo)