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Manga artist Leiji Matsumoto dies at 85

A man and a child sit near a statue of Maetel, a lead character in renowned Japanese cartoonist Leiji Matsumoto's famous "Galaxy Express 999" comic series, in front of JR Kokura Station in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture in southwestern Japan, on Feb. 20, 2023. Matsumoto died of acute heart failure on Feb. 13, 2023, at age 85, his production studio said.

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Manga artist Leiji Matsumoto dies at 85

A man and a child sit near a statue of Maetel, a lead character in renowned Japanese cartoonist Leiji Matsumoto's famous "Galaxy Express 999" comic series, in front of JR Kokura Station in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture in southwestern Japan, on Feb. 20, 2023. Matsumoto died of acute heart failure on Feb. 13, 2023, at age 85, his production studio said.

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Japan's Kokura fabrics promoted overseas

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - Dyeing and weaving artist Noriko Tsuiki shows off a strip of hand-woven Kokura-ori fabric at her atelier in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, on Dec. 17, 2009.

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Japan's Kokura fabrics promoted overseas

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - A woman arranges machine-woven Kokura-ori fabrics at a Kokura Creation Inc. shop in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, on Dec. 15, 2009. The Kitakyushu Chamber of Commerce and Industry has boosted its promotion of the products overseas after seeing the fabrics draw attention in Europe.

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Horse Racing: Take sets new JRA all-time record

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - Top jockey Yutaka Take holds a commemorative saddle after he set an all-time record in Japanese horse racing when he rode to three victories at the Kokura Racecourse in Fukuoka Prefecture on July 21, increasing his career total to 2,944 wins in races organized by the Japan Racing Association.

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(2)Dantani files for voluntary bankruptcy

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - Housing materials maker Dantani Corp. filed for voluntary bankruptcy with a district court April 19, leaving liabilities totaling 31.8 billion yen. Dantani, listed on the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, said the Kokura branch of the Fukuoka District Court accepted the request and declared it bankrupt the same day.

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JR West's president speaks after inspecting tunnel

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - Shojiro Nanya, president of West Japan Railway Co. (JR West), speaks to reporters Oct. 16 at Kokura Station in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, after inspecting a tunnel on the Sanyo Shinkansen Line where a block of concrete weighing 226 kilograms fell from the wall Oct. 9.

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Aftermath of fire at southwestern Japan market

A man looks at the burned-out Kokura Showakan, an old movie theater near the Tanga market, in Kitakyushu, southwestern Japan, on Aug. 16, 2022. A fire broke out at the market on the night of Aug. 10.

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CNC Turning Center Installed by Tobata Ironworks

Tobata Ironworks (Kokura Minami-ku, Kitakyushu City) has introduced a large computer numerical control (CNC) turning center with a table diameter of 4,000 mm. The company had been using separate machines for turning and drilling, but as the workpieces have become larger and the time required for moving and processing them has increased, the company has decided to use a single machine to improve efficiency. Recently, the company has also been focusing on machining, and President Yasuda said, "There are few casting manufacturers that have such large machining equipment. We expect to differentiate ourselves from the competition and increase added value by reducing man-hours. A turning center is a numerically controlled (NC) machine tool that is a combination of a lathe. A turning center is a numerically controlled (NC) machine tool that is a combination of a lathe. (September 3, 2019, Kokura-minami Ward, Kitakyushu City; Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images)

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Horse Racing: Take sets new JRA all-time record

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - Top jockey Yutaka Take holds a commemorative saddle after he set an all-time record in Japanese horse racing when he rode to three victories at the Kokura Racecourse in Fukuoka Prefecture on July 21, increasing his career total to 2,944 wins in races organized by the Japan Racing Association. (Kyodo)

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Smokescreen created over Yawata mill before A-bombing of Nagasaki

Satoru Miyashiro, a former worker at the Yawata Steel Works in Fukuoka Prefecture, gives an interview at his home in Oita, southwestern Japan, in February 2015. He said he was one of the workers who burned coal tar to create a smokescreen at the steel works to avoid air raids on Aug. 9, 1945, during World War II. The B-29 Bockscar was diverted from its first target, Kokura, due to low visibility and the atomic bomb was dropped on the secondary target, Nagasaki, the same day, though the role of the intentional smokescreen in averting the attack remains unclear as the visibility of the area was obscured partly by smoke from a conventional air raid the previous day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fukuoka court acquits woman of murder of brother, arson

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - Mitsuko Katagishi, 60, of Fukuoka, who has been charged of killing her brother Shunichi Koga, 58, in 2004 and torching his house, speaks to reporters in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, on March 5 after the Kokura branch of the Fukuoka District Court acquitted her of the murder and arson charges. The court sentenced her to one year and six months in prison, suspended for three years, on separate charges of theft and forcible obstruction of business. (Kyodo)

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Japan's Kokura fabrics promoted overseas

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - Dyeing and weaving artist Noriko Tsuiki shows off a strip of hand-woven Kokura-ori fabric at her atelier in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, on Dec. 17, 2009. (Kyodo)

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Japan's Kokura fabrics promoted overseas

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - A woman arranges machine-woven Kokura-ori fabrics at a Kokura Creation Inc. shop in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, on Dec. 15, 2009. The Kitakyushu Chamber of Commerce and Industry has boosted its promotion of the products overseas after seeing the fabrics draw attention in Europe. (Kyodo)

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Horse racing: Female jockey Fujita

Jockey Nanako Fujita poses at Kokura Racecourse in Kitakyushu, southwestern Japan, on Feb. 14, 2019, in front of a poster for the February Stakes. Fujita will ride in the Feb. 17 race in Tokyo, becoming the first female Japan Racing Association jockey to compete in a Grade One event. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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(2)Dantani files for voluntary bankruptcy

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - Housing materials maker Dantani Corp. filed for voluntary bankruptcy with a district court April 19, leaving liabilities totaling 31.8 billion yen. Dantani, listed on the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, said the Kokura branch of the Fukuoka District Court accepted the request and declared it bankrupt the same day.

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Japan after coronavirus state-of-emergency lifting

Kokura Castle in Kitakyushu, southwestern Japan, is closed again on May 28, 2020 in the wake of a renewed surge in coronavirus infections. Twenty-one virus infections were confirmed in Kitakyushu on May 28, three days after the May 25 full lifting of Japan's state of emergency over the virus. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan after coronavirus state-of-emergency lifting

Photo taken on May 27, 2020, shows people walking near JR Kokura Station in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture. Coronavirus infections have risen in the southwestern Japan city after a state of emergency over the virus was entirely lifted in Japan on May 25. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Typhoon Krosa

Few travelers are seen at JR Hakata Station on Aug. 15, 2019, as shinkansen bullet train operations are halted for the day between Kokura and Shin-Osaka stations in western Japan due to powerful Typhoon Krosa. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Typhoon Krosa

A signboard set up at JR Kokura Station in Kitakyushu, southwestern Japan, on Aug. 14, 2019, says all Sanyo Shinkansen bullet train runs will be suspended the following day due to typhoon Krosa. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Typhoon Krosa

A signboard set up at JR Kokura Station in Kitakyushu, southwestern Japan, on Aug. 14, 2019, says all Sanyo Shinkansen bullet train runs will be suspended the following day due to typhoon Krosa. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Horse racing: Female jockey Fujita

Jockey Nanako Fujita attends a press conference at Kokura Racecourse in Kitakyushu, southwestern Japan, on Feb. 14, 2019, ahead of the February Stakes in Tokyo on Feb. 17, in which she will become the first female Japan Racing Association jockey to compete in a Grade One race. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Shinkansen bullet train kills man on tracks

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on June 14, 2018, shows a Nozomi shinkansen bullet train with cracks on its bonnet at JR Shin-Shimonoseki Station in Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan. The train hit and killed a man on the tracks between Hakata and Kokura stations in Fukuoka Prefecture earlier in the day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Shinkansen bullet train kills man on tracks

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on June 14, 2018, shows a Nozomi shinkansen bullet train with cracks on its bonnet at JR Shin-Shimonoseki Station in Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan. The train hit and killed a man on the tracks between Hakata and Kokura stations in Fukuoka Prefecture earlier in the day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Shinkansen bullet train kills man on tracks

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on June 14, 2018, shows a Nozomi shinkansen bullet train with cracks on its bonnet at JR Shin-Shimonoseki Station in Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan. The train hit and killed a man on the tracks between Hakata and Kokura stations in Fukuoka Prefecture earlier in the day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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JR West's president speaks after inspecting tunnel

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - Shojiro Nanya, president of West Japan Railway Co. (JR West), speaks to reporters Oct. 16 at Kokura Station in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, after inspecting a tunnel on the Sanyo Shinkansen Line where a block of concrete weighing 226 kilograms fell from the wall Oct. 9.