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The Great Bell, Hokoji Temple

The Great Bell, Hokoji Temple

The Great Bell, Hokoji Temple==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6884]

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Fushimi Inari Shrine

Fushimi Inari Shrine

Fushimi Inari Shrine==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6889]

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Maruyama Yaami Hotel

Maruyama Yaami Hotel

Maruyama Yaami Hotel==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6876]

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Nishi Otani (Otani Honbyo Mausoleum of Honganji Temple)

Nishi Otani (Otani Honbyo Mausoleum of Honganji Temple)

Nishi Otani (Otani Honbyo Mausoleum of Honganji Temple)==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6883]

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Tsutenbashi bridge at tofukuji temple

Tsutenbashi bridge at tofukuji temple

Tsutenbashi bridge at tofukuji temple==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6887]

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Sanjusangendo

Sanjusangendo

Sanjusangendo==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6886]

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The stage of Kiyomizudera Temple,Kyoto

The stage of Kiyomizudera Temple,Kyoto

The stage of Kiyomizudera Temple,Kyoto==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6882]

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Nanzenji Temple

Nanzenji Temple

Nanzenji Temple==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6873]

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Hall at Enryakuji Temple, Mt Hiei

Hall at Enryakuji Temple, Mt Hiei

Hall at Enryakuji Temple, Mt Hiei==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6866]

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Higashi Otani (Otani Sobyo Mausoleum of Higashi Honganji Temple)

Higashi Otani (Otani Sobyo Mausoleum of Higashi Honganji Temple)

Higashi Otani (Otani Sobyo Mausoleum of Higashi Honganji Temple)==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6879]

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TOYOKUNI SHRINE

TOYOKUNI SHRINE

TOYOKUNI SHRINE==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6885]

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Sen-yuji temple

Sen-yuji temple

Sen-yuji temple==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6888]

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Maruyama

Maruyama

Maruyama==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6877]

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Eikan-do Temple

Eikan-do Temple

Eikan-do Temple==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6872]

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Five-Story Pagoda of Yasaka

Five-Story Pagoda of Yasaka

Five-Story Pagoda of Yasaka==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6881]

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Yasaka Shrine, Gion, Kyoto

Yasaka Shrine, Gion, Kyoto

Yasaka Shrine, Gion, Kyoto==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6878]

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Rows of houses seen from Higashiyama,Kyoto

Rows of houses seen from Higashiyama,Kyoto

Rows of houses seen from Higashiyama,Kyoto==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6875]

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Tokugawa Akitake

Tokugawa Akitake

Tokugawa Akitake==Date:1867, Place:Japan, Photo:Other photographers ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:7097]

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Koudaiji Temple

Koudaiji Temple

Koudaiji Temple==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6880]

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Foreign man

Foreign man

Foreign man==Date:unknown, Place:Nagasaki, Photo:Ueno Hikoma ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:7095]

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Tokugawa Yoshinobu

Tokugawa Yoshinobu

Tokugawa Yoshinobu==Date:unknown, Place:Japan, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:7100]

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Chion-in Temple

Chion-in Temple

Chion-in Temple==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6874]

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Portrait of a man

Portrait of a man

Portrait of a man==Date:unknown, Place:Japan, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:7101]

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Sanjo Sanetomi

Sanjo Sanetomi

Sanjo Sanetomi==Date:unknown, Place:Japan, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:7099]

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Prince Fushimi Sadanaru

Prince Fushimi Sadanaru

Prince Fushimi Sadanaru==Date:unknown, Place:Japan, Photo:Uchida Kuichi ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:7102]

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Foreign man

Foreign man

Foreign man==Date:1875, Place:Nagasaki, Photo:Ueno Hikoma ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:7096]

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Foreign man

Foreign man

Foreign man==Date:1873, Place:Nagasaki, Photo:Ueno Hikoma ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:7093]

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Foreign man

Foreign man

Foreign man==Date:unknown, Place:Nagasaki, Photo:Ueno Hikoma ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:7094]

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Tokugawa Iesato ?

Tokugawa Iesato ?

Tokugawa Iesato ?==Date:unknown, Place:Japan, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:7103]

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Portrait of a man

Portrait of a man

Portrait of a man==Date:unknown, Place:Japan, Photo:Kitaniwa Tsukuba ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:7105]

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28th anniversary of Great Hanshin Earthquake

28th anniversary of Great Hanshin Earthquake

Flowers are placed at a memorial event at Kobe University in Kobe in Hyogo Prefecture on Jan. 17, 2023, the 28th anniversary of the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake that struck the western Japan port city and its vicinity, killing more than 6,000 people.

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Haruko Obokata

Haruko Obokata

KOBE, Japan - Haruko Obokata, a scientist at Riken's Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe, speaks at a press conference in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, on Jan. 28, 2014, on "stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency," or STAP, a method of generating pluripotent cells. A team of scientists led by Obokata has discovered, in research conducted by scientists at the state-backed Riken institute and Harvard University, that by simply exposing body cells to acidic liquids, the cells can be reprogrammed to grow into any type of mature tissue.

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Haruko Obokata

Haruko Obokata

KOBE, Japan - Photo shows Haruko Obokata, a scientist at Riken's Center for Developmental Biology, at its laboratory in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, on Jan. 28, 2014. A team of scientists led by Obokata has discovered, in research conducted by scientists at the state-backed Riken institute and Harvard University, that by simply exposing body cells to acidic liquids, the cells can be reprogrammed to grow into any type of mature tissue.

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Haruko Obokata

Haruko Obokata

KOBE, Japan - Haruko Obokata, a scientist at Riken's Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe, speaks on "stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency," or STAP, a method of generating pluripotent cells, in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, on Jan. 28, 2014. A team of scientists led by Obokata has discovered, in research conducted by scientists at the state-backed Riken institute and Harvard University, that by simply exposing body cells to acidic liquids, cells can be reprogrammed to grow into any type of mature tissue.

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New method for reprogramming body cells

New method for reprogramming body cells

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Haruko Obokata, a scientist at Riken's Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe. A team of scientists led by Obokata has discovered, in research conducted by scientists at the state-backed Riken institute and Harvard University, that by simply exposing body cells to acidic liquids, the cells can be reprogrammed to grow into any type of mature tissue. They named the method of generating pluripotent cells, or cells that can grow into any type of mature tissues in the body, "stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency," or STAP. The discovery was announced in the Jan. 30, 2014 issue of Nature.

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New method for reprogramming body cells

New method for reprogramming body cells

KOBE, Japan - Photo shows Haruko Obokata, a scientist at Riken Center for Developmental Biology, at its laboratory in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, on Jan. 28, 2014. A team of scientists led by Obokata has discovered, in research conducted by scientists at the state-backed Riken institute and Harvard University, that by simply exposing body cells to acidic liquids, the cells can be reprogrammed to grow into any type of mature tissue. They named the method of generating pluripotent cells, or cells that can grow into any type of mature tissues in the body, "stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency," or STAP. The discovery was announced in the Jan. 30, 2014 issue of Nature.

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16th-century shogun Hideyoshi's letter unveiled

16th-century shogun Hideyoshi's letter unveiled

KOBE, Japan - Kobe University in western Japan releases on Dec. 8, 2014, a sealed letter sent by 16th-century shogun Toyotomi Hideyoshi to a clan leader in Toba, Mie Prefecture, to thank him for his assistance in Hideyoshi's aggression of the Korean Peninsula.

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Letters by medieval warlords Nobunaga, Hideyoshi found

Letters by medieval warlords Nobunaga, Hideyoshi found

KOBE, Japan - Kobe University in western Japan unveils on Dec. 8, 2014, sealed letters sent by warlords Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi to a clan in Toba, Mie Prefecture, in the 16th century. A woman in her 40s in Kobe had kept the letters after inheriting them from her grandfather, and asked the university to use them for research.

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Univ. students volunteer to help post-disaster work

Univ. students volunteer to help post-disaster work

OSAKA, Japan - Female students of Kobe Shukugawa Gakuin University volunteer to help post-disaster work in Tamba, Hyogo Prefecture, on Nov. 24, 2014, hit by landslides caused by torrential rains in August. The students participated in the work before the 20th anniversary of the Great Hanshin Earthquake that devastated the western Japan prefecture in 1995.

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Prof. Geller observes wharf damaged by 1995 quake

Prof. Geller observes wharf damaged by 1995 quake

TOKYO, Japan - University of Tokyo professor Robert Geller looks at part of the Meriken wharf damaged by the Great Hanshin Earthquake of January 1995 and preserved at the Port of Kobe Earthquake Memorial Park in Kobe, Japan, on June 15, 2014.

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'Manga' to teach danger of asbestos in quakes

'Manga' to teach danger of asbestos in quakes

KOBE, Japan - A young man and woman hold copies of a "manga" explanatory book created by Kobe University and Kyoto Seika University to teach the risks of being exposed to asbestos in the event of an earthquake at Kobe University in Kobe, western Japan, on March 26, 2014. Students from the universities have contributed to producing the book by interviewing people affected by the March 2011 earthquake in Ishinomaki and the town of Onagawa in Miyagi Prefecture in the summer of 2013.

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Kobe Univ. professor Wang

Kobe Univ. professor Wang

KOBE, Japan - Wang Ke, a professor of modern Chinese political thought at Kobe University's Graduate School of Intercultural Studies, holds a press conference in Kobe, western Japan, on March 25, 2014. He had been missing since traveling to China earlier in March and arrived back in Japan on March 24. Wang also focuses on ethnic minorities in China including the Uyghurs.

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STAP cell research paper questioned

STAP cell research paper questioned

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in January 2014 in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, shows Haruko Obokata (L), a scientist at the Riken Center for Developmental Biology, and University of Yamanashi professor Teruhiko Wakayama, at a press conference on "stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency," or STAP, a method of generating pluripotent cells. Wakayama said March 10, 2014, he has told his co-authors including Obokata that their research paper on STAP cells should be retracted, citing the lack of credibility of some data used in the research.

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New method for reprogramming body cells

New method for reprogramming body cells

KOBE, Japan - Photo shows Haruko Obokata, a scientist at Riken Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe, wearing an apron given to her by her grandmother at its laboratory in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, on Jan. 28, 2014. A team of scientists led by Obokata has discovered, in research conducted by scientists at the state-backed Riken institute and Harvard University, that by simply exposing body cells to acidic liquids, the cells can be reprogrammed to grow into any type of mature tissue. They named the method of generating pluripotent cells, or cells that can grow into any type of mature tissues in the body, "stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency," or STAP. The discovery was announced in the Jan. 30, 2014 issue of Nature.

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New method for reprogramming body cells

New method for reprogramming body cells

KOBE, Japan - Haruko Obokata, a scientist at Riken's Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe, answers a question at a press conference in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, on Jan. 28, 2014, on "stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency," or STAP, a method of generating pluripotent cells. A team of scientists led by Obokata has discovered, in research conducted by scientists at the state-backed Riken institute and Harvard University, that by simply exposing body cells to acidic liquids, the cells can be reprogrammed to grow into any type of mature tissue.

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New method for reprogramming body cells

New method for reprogramming body cells

KOBE, Japan - Haruko Obokata, a scientist at Riken's Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe, speaks on "stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency," or STAP, a method of generating pluripotent cells, in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, on Jan. 28, 2014. A team of scientists led by Obokata has discovered, in research conducted by scientists at the state-backed Riken institute and Harvard University, that by simply exposing body cells to acidic liquids, cells can be reprogrammed to grow into any type of mature tissue.

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NPO in Osaka organizes egg drop contest

NPO in Osaka organizes egg drop contest

KOBE, Japan - A high school student is about to drop a raw egg covered by a protector created by his three-member team during the Kansai western Japan regional competition of the Egg Drop Koshien on Nov. 3, 2013 on the Ritsumeikan University campus in Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture.

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NPO in Osaka organizes egg drop contest

NPO in Osaka organizes egg drop contest

KOBE, Japan - High school students create a device to protect a raw egg from a 10-meter fall during the Kansai western Japan regional competition of the Egg Drop Koshien on Nov. 3, 2013 on the Ritsumeikan University campus in Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture.

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Giving dream to old men of playing baseball at Koshien

Giving dream to old men of playing baseball at Koshien

KOBE, Japan - Photo taken Oct. 24, 2013, shows Makoto Chogahara, an associate professor at Kobe University's Graduate School of Human Development and Environment, standing in front of Hanshin Koshien Stadium in Hyogo Prefecture. Chogahara founded in 2004 the Masters Baseball in Koshien and serves as director of the organizing committee.

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Universities producing increasing numbers of manga majors

Universities producing increasing numbers of manga majors

TOKYO, Japan - Iku Sakurabe (R), who graduated from the "Cartoon Course" at Kyoto Seika University, receives training from a supervisor in serving tea at luxury Japanese-style inn Nakanobo Zui-en in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, on July 18, 2013.

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