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Japan police chief in Fukushima

Japan's National Police Agency chief Yoshinobu Kusunoki addresses a meeting of senior officials of the Fukushima Prefectural Police at its headquarters in Fukushima, northeastern Japan, on Dec. 3, 2025.

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Japan police chief in Fukushima

Japan's National Police Agency chief Yoshinobu Kusunoki meets the press at the disaster-stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, straddling Futaba and Okuma in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Dec. 3, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Japan police chief in Fukushima

Japan's National Police Agency chief Yoshinobu Kusunoki offers flowers at a memorial for victims of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster in Namie in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Dec. 3, 2025.

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Japan: Dashcam Shows Inundated Underground Parking Lot After Torrential Rain

On Friday night, September 12, northern Mie Prefecture was hit by an intense, short-lived downpour. Rainfall peaked at 123.5 millimeters per hour, the highest ever recorded in the area. This dashcam video shows Kusunoki Parking, a large underground parking lot in central Yokkaichi, submerged in floodwaters, with dozens of cars damaged.

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Japan: Heavy Rain Hits Northern Mie Prefecture, Dozens of Cars Damaged in Yokkaichi

On Friday night, September 12, northern Mie Prefecture was hit by an intense, short-lived downpour. The rainfall reached a record 123.5 millimeters per hour, the highest ever recorded in the area. Near Kintetsu Yokkaichi Station, which was bustling on a weekend night, streets and shopping districts were flooded, leaving many vehicles stranded and causing chaos. In the city center, the large underground parking lot Kusunoki Parking was submerged, with dozens of cars damaged by the floodwaters.

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High school student becomes youngest 'Karuta' card champion

OTSU, Japan - Saki Kusunoki (L), a 15-year-old junior high school student from Oita Prefecture, becomes the youngest Japanese 'Karuta' card champion by beating 25-year-old housewife Yuri Arakawa from Nara Prefecture, who was the championship queen for the past two years.

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'Karuta' players compete for title of queen

OTSU, Japan - Saki Kusunoki (R) competes to defend her title of queen of the traditional ''karuta'' card game during a competition at the Omi shrine in Otsu, Shiga Prefecture, on Jan. 9, 2010. Kusunoki won the match, involving a set of 100 poem cards, for the sixth straight year.

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Tokyo Disneyland, DisneySea welcome 300 millionth visitor

CHIBA, Japan - Yoko Kusunoki (2nd from R) and her husband and children are joined by Disney mascots at Tokyo Disneyland in Urayasu, Chiba Prefecture, on Nov. 8 as she became the 300 millionth visitor to Tokyo Disneyland and DisneySea. Tokyo Disneyland opened in April 1983 and the number of visitors to it topped 200,000,000 in 1997. Tokyo DisneySea opened in September 2001, with the number of visitors exceeding 10,000,000 in July.

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2 univ. profs nabbed over exam questions leaks

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Kenji Kusunoki, a 54-year-old former professor of the private Ohu University in Fukushima Prefecture, leaves his home in the prefectural capital at 6:30 a.m. Jan. 6 before being arrested later in the day on charges of leaking and helping to leak questions on last year's National Dentistry Examination to his students. Itsuo Ueda, a 59-year-old Health Sciences University of Hokkaido professor who served on the national exam board and is suspected of providing the questions to Kusunoki, was also arrested by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police the same day.

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High school student becomes youngest 'Karuta' card champion

OTSU, Japan - Saki Kusunoki (L), a 15-year-old junior high school student from Oita Prefecture, becomes the youngest Japanese 'Karuta' card champion by beating 25-year-old housewife Yuri Arakawa from Nara Prefecture, who was the championship queen for the past two years. (Kyodo)

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Minatogawa Shrine at Kobe, Japan

Beautiful Japanese promotional postcard for the Toyo Kisen Kaisha Shipping Company which ran services between San Francisco, China and Japan. The mian image shows Kusunoki Masashige, a 14th-century samurai who fought for Emperor Go-Daigo, taking leave of his son at Sakurai-no-Eki before heading off to war. The inset image shows the Minatogawa Shrine at Kobe, Japan. Date: 14th century

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Kusunoki Masashige

OSAKA, Japan - Japan's 14th century warlord Kusunoki Masashige as depicted in a drawing owned by the Chihaya-Akasaka Village folk museum in Osaka Prefecture. (Kyodo)

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Minatogawa Shrine

Located about 200 meters north of JR Kobe Station in Chuo Ward, Minatogawa Shinto Shrine is dedicated to Kusunoki Masashige, who killed himself here after being defeated by the Ashikaga clan in the Battle of Minatogawa in 1336. The building in the centre is the praying hall, and the one behind it is the main hall. This photograph was apparently taken in the first half of the Meiji Period. A stone monument erected by Shogun Tokugawa Mitsukuni in 1692 still exists.==Date:unknown, Place:Kobe, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number90‐43‐0]

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A picture of General Kusunoki and his child parting at Sakurai Station

A picture of General Kusunoki and his child parting at Sakurai Station==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images)

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Statue of Nanko

The statue of Kusunoki Masashige riding a horse, located at the south eastern corner of the surroundings the Imperial Palace. It was built in 1897, and was called the three statues of Tokyo together with the statue of Omura Masujiro at Yasukuni Shrine and Saigo Takamori at Ueno park.==Date:unknown, Place:Tokyo, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number46‐149‐0]

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Minatogawa Shrine

The compounds of the Minatogawa Shrine with the tomb of the Lord Kusunoki.==Date:unknown, Place:Kobe, Photo:A. Farsari, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number23‐6‐0]

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Kusunokiko-dera Temple

The Bodaiji (family temple) of Kusunoki Masashige who died in the war of Minatogawa. The formal name of the temple is Kogenji. The photo shows many shops on both sides of the stone pavement leading to the main hall.==Date:unknown, Place:Kobe, Photo:Ogawa Kazumasa, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number10‐28‐0]

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'Karuta' players compete for title of queen

OTSU, Japan - Saki Kusunoki (R) competes to defend her title of queen of the traditional ''karuta'' card game during a competition at the Omi shrine in Otsu, Shiga Prefecture, on Jan. 9, 2010. Kusunoki won the match, involving a set of 100 poem cards, for the sixth straight year. (Kyodo)

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(3)3 nabbed for defrauding 13 mil. yen in 'imperial wedding' sca

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in Tokyo in April 2003 shows (from L to R) Harumi Sakamoto, Shinya Kusunoki and Yasuyuki Kitano, who were arrested Oct. 21 for allegedly defrauding guests at a fake ''imperial wedding'' out of 13 million yen worth of cash gifts. (Kyodo)

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Tokyo Disneyland, DisneySea welcome 300 millionth visitor

CHIBA, Japan - Yoko Kusunoki (2nd from R) and her husband and children are joined by Disney mascots at Tokyo Disneyland in Urayasu, Chiba Prefecture, on Nov. 8 as she became the 300 millionth visitor to Tokyo Disneyland and DisneySea. Tokyo Disneyland opened in April 1983 and the number of visitors to it topped 200,000,000 in 1997. Tokyo DisneySea opened in September 2001, with the number of visitors exceeding 10,000,000 in July. (Kyodo)

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2 univ. profs nabbed over exam questions leaks

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Kenji Kusunoki, a 54-year-old former professor of the private Ohu University in Fukushima Prefecture, leaves his home in the prefectural capital at 6:30 a.m. Jan. 6 before being arrested later in the day on charges of leaking and helping to leak questions on last year's National Dentistry Examination to his students. Itsuo Ueda, a 59-year-old Health Sciences University of Hokkaido professor who served on the national exam board and is suspected of providing the questions to Kusunoki, was also arrested by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police the same day.

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FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Kenji Kusunoki, a 54-year-old former professor of the private Ohu University in Fukushima Prefecture, leaves his home in the prefectural capital at 6:30 a.m. Jan. 6 before being arrested later in the day on charges of leaking and helping to leak questions on last year's National Dentistry Examination to his students. Itsuo Ueda, a 59-year-old Health Sciences University of Hokkaido professor who served on the national exam board and is suspected of providing the questions to Kusunoki, was also arrested by the Metropolitan Police Department the same day.