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Aeon board member Kawato to be Daiei chairman

TOKYO, Japan - Aeon Mall Co. President Yoshiharu Kawato (R), who has been named as chairman of Daiei Inc., speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on March 20 together with Daiei President Toru Nishimi (C) and Fumiko Hayashi (L), the current Daiei chairman who will stand down as Daiei vice chairman.

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Novel by Japanese diplomat on changing Russia a hit

MOSCOW, Russia - Photo shows the covers of the Russian-language novel written by Akio Kawato, a minister at the Japanese Embassy in Moscow, that depicts the turbulent era before and after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The novel with the title provisionally translated into English as ''The Land Far Away'' is proving popular since its release in Russian bookstores in December.

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Dancing robot unveiled

A human-shaped robot dances by imitating the movements of a researcher of the Kawato Dynamic Brain project team in Seika, Kyoto Prefecuture, on June 24. The 185-cm-tall, 80-kg robot developed by the project team moves in response to information from a built-in camera and microphones. The team belongs to the government-affiliated Japan Science and Technology Corp.

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Novel by Japanese diplomat on changing Russia a hit

MOSCOW, Russia - Photo shows the covers of the Russian-language novel written by Akio Kawato, a minister at the Japanese Embassy in Moscow, that depicts the turbulent era before and after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The novel with the title provisionally translated into English as ''The Land Far Away'' is proving popular since its release in Russian bookstores in December.

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Aeon board member Kawato to be Daiei chairman

TOKYO, Japan - Aeon Mall Co. President Yoshiharu Kawato (R), who has been named as chairman of Daiei Inc., speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on March 20 together with Daiei President Toru Nishimi (C) and Fumiko Hayashi (L), the current Daiei chairman who will stand down as Daiei vice chairman. (Kyodo)

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Robot mimics monkey walking on treadmill

KYOTO, Japan - A 1.55-meter-tall humanoid robot mimics the walk of a monkey on a treadmill (background) in an experiment conducted at a laboratory in Kyoto on Jan. 15. Electrical impulses in the monkey's brain were transmitted to the robot via a high-speed Internet connection from Duke University in North Carolina, directing the robot to mimic the monkey's motion. The experiment, conducted jointly by the Japan Science and Technology Agency and Duke University, demonstrates that human beings may be able to command robotic motion in the future simply by using brain impulses, according to Mitsuo Kawato, a senior member of the Japanese research team. (Kyodo)

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Auditors find 157 bil. yen in wasteful spending by gov't in FY 2014

Teruhiko Kawato, who heads the Board of Audit of Japan, submits a report to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo on Nov. 6, 2015. According to the report, the board has found some 156.8 billion yen ($1.3 billion) in wasteful spending by the government and affiliated bodies in fiscal 2014. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan enacts law to allow 1st abdication of emperor in 200 years

Japanese Emperor Akihito (C) has lunch at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on June 9, 2017 with Teruhiko Kawato (R), president of the Board of Audit of Japan, and Nahomi Ichimiya, president of the National Personnel Authority. Japan's parliament enacted a law the same day to allow the emperor to pass the throne to his elder son, Crown Prince Naruhito. (Pool photo)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Three Japanese envoys named

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi announced on July 26 named (from L to R) Hiroharu Koike as ambassador to the Netherlands, Yutaka Iimura as ambassador to Indonesia and Akio Kawato as ambassador to Uzbekistan. (Kyodo)

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Dancing robot unveiled

A human-shaped robot dances by imitating the movements of a researcher of the Kawato Dynamic Brain project team in Seika, Kyoto Prefecuture, on June 24. The 185-cm-tall, 80-kg robot developed by the project team moves in response to information from a built-in camera and microphones. The team belongs to the government-affiliated Japan Science and Technology Corp.

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Dancing robot unveiled

A human-shaped robot dances by imitating the movements of a researcher of the Kawato Dynamic Brain project team in Seika, Kyoto Prefecuture, on June 24. The 185-cm-tall, 80-kg robot developed by the project team moves in response to information from a built-in camera and microphones. The team belongs to the government-affiliated Japan Science and Technology Corp.