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Goodwill ambassador for Okinawa Kuninaka

NAHA, Japan, July 31 Kyodo - Japanese actor Ryoko Kuninaka, a native of Okinawa, gives an interview at a hotel in the southern Japan island prefecture on March 10, 2004. Kuninaka was named goodwill ambassador for Okinawa earlier in the month.(Kyodo)

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Japan launches Hayabusa2 space probe

TANEGASHIMA, Japan - Hitoshi Kuninaka, a professor at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, smiles in front of a model of the Hayabusa2 asteroid explorer at the Tanegashima Space Center in southwestern Japan on Dec. 3, 2014, after an H-2A rocket carrying the probe was successfully launched. Kuninaka is in charge of the Hayabusa2 program in which the probe is set to travel to an asteroid 300 million kilometers from Earth to collect rock samples before returning in late 2020.

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JAXA says Hayabusa2's ion engines functioning normally

Hitoshi Kuninaka, project manager of the Hayabusa2 asteroid explorer at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, attends a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 28, 2015. Kuninaka said the four ion engines installed on the Hayabusa2 launched in December 2014 are functioning normally. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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New project manager of Hayabusa2 meets press

Yuichi Tsuda, associate professor at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, speaks to reporters as the new manager of JAXA's Hayabusa2 asteroid probe project in Tokyo on April 27, 2015. Tsuda took over the mission from his predecessor Hitoshi Kuninaka as the asteroid probe has been stably flying since its launch. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan launches Hayabusa2 space probe

TANEGASHIMA, Japan - Hitoshi Kuninaka, a professor at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, smiles in front of a model of the Hayabusa2 asteroid explorer at the Tanegashima Space Center in southwestern Japan on Dec. 3, 2014, after an H-2A rocket carrying the probe was successfully launched. Kuninaka is in charge of the Hayabusa2 program in which the probe is set to travel to an asteroid 300 million kilometers from Earth to collect rock samples before returning in late 2020. (Kyodo)

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Hayabusa2 capsule returns to Japan

Hitoshi Kuninaka, vice president of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, speaks at a press conference after the arrival of a capsule from the Hayabusa2 space probe at JAXA's Sagamihara Campus near Tokyo on Dec. 8, 2020. The capsule landed in an Australian desert two days earlier.

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Hayabusa2 capsule returns to Earth

Yuichi Tsuda (L), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Hayabusa2 project manager, and Hitoshi Kuninaka, a director general of the agency, attend a press conference with a model (R) of its Hayabusa2 space probe on Dec. 6, 2020, in Sagamihara, near Tokyo, following the landing in an Australian desert of a capsule from the probe earlier in the day.

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Hayabusa2 capsule returns to Earth

Hitoshi Kuninaka, a director general of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, poses with a model of its Hayabusa2 space probe on Dec. 6, 2020, in Sagamihara, near Tokyo, following the landing in an Australian desert of a capsule from the probe earlier in the day.

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Hayabusa2 capsule returns to Earth

Yuichi Tsuda (L), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Hayabusa2 project manager, and Hitoshi Kuninaka, a director general of the agency, pose with a model of its Hayabusa2 space probe on Dec. 6, 2020, during a press conference in Sagamihara, near Tokyo, following the landing in an Australian desert of a capsule from the probe earlier in the day.