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Cannes - La Venue de l'Avenir Screening JD

Kyoko Saito attend the red carpet and screening of La Venue de l'Avenir in Cannes, France, on May 22, 2025, as part of the Cannes Film Festival. Photo by Jerome Domine/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Cannes - La Venue de l'Avenir Screening JD

Kyoko Saito attend the red carpet and screening of La Venue de l'Avenir in Cannes, France, on May 22, 2025, as part of the Cannes Film Festival. Photo by Jerome Domine/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Cannes - Colours Of Time Red Carpet

Kyoko Saito attends the "La Venue De L'avenir" (Colours Of Time) red carpet at the 78th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 22, 2025 in Cannes, France. Photo by Shootpix/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Cannes - Colours Of Time Red Carpet

Kyoko Saito attends the "La Venue De L'avenir" (Colours Of Time) red carpet at the 78th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 22, 2025 in Cannes, France. Photo by Shootpix/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Cannes - La Venue de l'Avenir (Colours Of Time) Red Carpet

Kyoko Saito attends the "La Venue De L'avenir" (Colours Of Time) red carpet at the 78th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 22, 2025 in Cannes, France. Photo by Jerome Domine/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Japanese singer Koizumi and actor Nagase

TOKYO, Japan, March 5 Kyodo - Japanese singer and actress Kyoko Koizumi and actor Masatoshi Nagase attend a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 22, 1995, to announce their marriage.

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Japanese novelist Mishima

TOKYO, Japan, Oct. 11 Kyodo - Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima talks with actress Kyoko Kishida of Bungakuza, a major Tokyo theater company, in the Japanese capital in March 1960. Kishida made her breakthrough in Mishima's stage production of Oscar Wilde's "Salome" the same year.

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PFW - Chloe Photocall

Kyoko Hasegawa attends the Chloe Womenswear Spring/Summer 2024 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on September 28, 2023 in Paris, France. Photo by Laurent Zabulon/ABACAPRESS.COM

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PFW - Chloe Photocall

Kyoko Hasegawa attends the Chloe Womenswear Spring/Summer 2024 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on September 28, 2023 in Paris, France. Photo by ABACAPRESS.COM

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PFW - Chloe Photocall

Kyoko Hasegawa attends the Chloe Womenswear Spring/Summer 2024 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on September 28, 2023 in Paris, France. Photo by Laurent Zabulon/ABACAPRESS.COM

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PFW - Chloe Photocall

Kyoko Hasegawa attends the Chloe Womenswear Spring/Summer 2024 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on September 28, 2023 in Paris, France. Photo by Laurent Zabulon/ABACAPRESS.COM

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PFW - Chloe Photocall

Kyoko Hasegawa attends the Chloe Womenswear Spring/Summer 2024 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on September 28, 2023 in Paris, France. Photo by Laurent Zabulon/ABACAPRESS.COM

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PFW - Chloe Photocall

Kyoko Hasegawa attends the Chloe Womenswear Spring/Summer 2024 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on September 28, 2023 in Paris, France. Photo by Laurent Zabulon/ABACAPRESS.COM

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PFW - Chloe Photocall

Kyoko Hasegawa attends the Chloe Womenswear Spring/Summer 2024 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on September 28, 2023 in Paris, France. Photo by Laurent Zabulon/ABACAPRESS.COM

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PFW - Chloe Photocall

Kyoko Hasegawa attends the Chloe Womenswear Spring/Summer 2024 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on September 28, 2023 in Paris, France. Photo by Laurent Zabulon/ABACAPRESS.COM

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PFW - Chloe Photocall

Kyoko Hasegawa attends the Chloe Womenswear Spring/Summer 2024 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on September 28, 2023 in Paris, France. Photo by ABACAPRESS.COM

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PFW - Chloe Photocall

Kyoko Hasegawa attends the Chloe Womenswear Spring/Summer 2024 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on September 28, 2023 in Paris, France. Photo by ABACAPRESS.COM

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PFW - Chloe Photocall

Kyoko Hasegawa attends the Chloe Womenswear Spring/Summer 2024 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on September 28, 2023 in Paris, France. Photo by Laurent Zabulon/ABACAPRESS.COM

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PFW - Chloe Photocall

Kyoko Hasegawa attends the Chloe Womenswear Spring/Summer 2024 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on September 28, 2023 in Paris, France. Photo by Laurent Zabulon/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Negroponte reaffirms support for Japan on N. Korea abductions

TOKYO, Japan - Visiting U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte (L) talks with Kyoko Nakayama (R), Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's special adviser in charge of abductions of Japanese nationals by North Korea, at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Aug. 3.

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Anti-U.S. base relocation bloc gains majority in Okinawa assembly

NAHA, Japan, June 6 Kyodo - Kyoko Higa (center L) celebrates with supporters after winning a seat in the Okinawa prefectural assembly election on June 5, 2016. Candidates opposed to a plan to relocate a key U.S. military base within Okinawa, including Higa, gained a majority in the election, giving a boost to Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga's efforts to block construction of the new base in the island prefecture.

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Softbank's 'Pepper' robot sells Nestle coffee machine

TOKYO, Japan - Nestle Japan Ltd. holds an event at which Softbank Corp.'s robot "Pepper" sells Nestle's coffee machines for households at Bic Camera consumer electronics retailer in Tokyo's Yurakucho district on Dec. 1, 2014. TV announcer Kyoko Uchida also took part in the event.

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Woman promotes award-winning Ryugasaki croquettes

TSUKUBA, Japan - Kyoko Yoshida from Ryugasaki, Ibaraki Prefecture, eastern Japan, shows Ryugasaki croquettes, a local dish she has been promoting for years. The croquettes won Yahoo Japan Corp.'s local food popularity contest in 2014.

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Brother calls for early return of abduction victims

TOTTORI, Japan - Hajime Matsumoto, brother of Kyoko Matsumoto abducted by North Korea in 1977, calls for the return of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea without delay at a lecture meeting in the town of Kotoura, Tottori Prefecture, on Sept. 30, 2014.

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Downtown Kyoto seen from wooden stage at temple

KYODO, Japan - Downtown Kyoko is seen from a wooden stage under construction for the Seiryuden praying hall at Shoren-in temple in Kyoto, western Japan, on Sept. 3, 2014.

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Head of Tokyo Children's Library gets cultural award

TOKYO, Japan - Kyoko Matsuoka, director of the Tokyo Children's Library in the capital's Nakano Ward, is all smiles at her office in this file photo taken on Aug. 16, 2014. She received the 2014 TonenGeneral Children's Award in recognition of her role in the promotion of reading among children.

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Kin of abductee watches news on easing of sanctions on N. Korea

TOTTORI, Japan - Hajime Matsumoto, whose younger sister Kyoko was abducted by North Korean agents in the 1970s, watches TV news on the government's decision to partially lift sanctions against Pyongyang at his home in Yonago, Tottori Prefecture, western Japan, on July 3, 2014.

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Traditional storytelling on Buddhism

OSAKA, Japan - Kyoko Okazawa, a storyteller to help laypersons understand Buddhism, explains about a "Nehan" painting of Buddha's deathbed and grieving followers and animals during her performance at a temple in Osaka's Tennoji Ward on Oct. 9, 2013.

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Japanese abductee's son sent back to N. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Kyoko Matsumoto, abducted by North Korea in 1977 at age 29. Her son was among the group of nine defectors recently sent from Laos back to the reclusive country, a South Korean daily reported May 30, 2013. The Japanese government officially designated Matsumoto as an abductee of the North Korean authority, but Pyongyang has denied she ever entered North Korea.

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Hamaguchi loses to Kazakhstan's Manyurova in women's wrestling

LONDON, Britain - Japan's Kyoko Hamaguchi (C) is stunned after losing to Kazakhstan's Guzel Manyurova in the second round of the women's wrestling 72-kilogram class at the ExCeL venue at the 2012 London Olympics on Aug. 9, 2012.

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Hamaguchi loses to Kazakhstan's Manyurova in women's wrestling

LONDON, Britain - Japan's Kyoko Hamaguchi (L) reacts after losing to Kazakhstan's Guzel Manyurova in the second round of the women's wrestling 72-kilogram class at the ExCeL venue at the 2012 London Olympics on Aug. 9, 2012.

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Japan held by S. Africa, finish 2nd in Group F

CARDIFF, Wales - Japan's Homare Sawa (L) exchanges high-fives with Kyoko Yano (12) and her teammates after a women's soccer Group F match against South Africa at Millennium Stadium at the 2012 London Olympics on July 31, 2012. Japan and South Africa drew 0-0. Sawa did not play the day's match.

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Nadeshiko Japan beat Australia in Olympic sendoff

TOKYO, Japan - Women's World Player of the Year Homare Sawa (10) of Japan's national women's soccer team celebrates with teammates Yuki Ogimi (L), Kyoko Yano (2nd from L), Saki Kumagai (3rd from R) and Mizuho Sakaguchi (2nd from R), after scoring the team's third goal in the second half of an Olympic sendoff match against Australia at National Stadium in Tokyo on July 11, 2012. Japan won 3-0.

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Antinuclear protest in U.S.

LOS ANGELES, United States - Sendai residents Hirohide Sakuma (L) and Kyoko Sugasawa (C) address the crowd at an antinuclear protest near the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (back) on the California coast on March 11, 2012, the first anniversary of the massive earthquake and tsunami in Japan that triggered the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Residents near the two-reactor San Onofre plant say its location puts it in danger of earthquakes and possible tsunamis.

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N.Z. quake anniversary

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand - Kuniaki Kawabata (C) from Japan attends a memorial ceremony in Christchurch, New Zealand, on Feb. 22, 2012, to mark the first anniversary of a major earthquake that struck the city. His daughter Kyoko died in the disaster at the age of 20.

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Asada set for emotional return at national c'ships

OSAKA, Japan - Former two-time world champion Mao Asada speaks during a press conference in Kadoma, Osaka Prefecture, on Dec. 22, 2011. She has vowed to pull out all the stops in what is set to be a highly emotional return to the rink at the national championships getting under way the following day, after the recent death of her mother Kyoko.

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Asada set for emotional return at national c'ships

OSAKA, Japan - Former two-time world champion Mao Asada practices in Kadoma, Osaka Prefecture, on Dec. 22, 2011. She has vowed to pull out all the stops in what is set to be a highly emotional return to the rink at the national championships getting under way the following day, after the recent death of her mother Kyoko.

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Asada withdraws from Grand Prix Final

NARITA, Japan - Vancouver Olympic figure skating silver medalist Mao Asada arrives at Narita airport east of Tokyo on Dec. 9, 2011, as she hastily returned to Japan after withdrawing from the Grand Prix Final in Canada because her mother Kyoko is in a critical condition. Asada's 48-year-old mother is suffering from visceral disease, according to her management company IMG.

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Women's Wrestling World Cup

LIEVAN, France - Kyoko Hamaguchi (R) of Japan competes against a Canadian opponent in the 72-kilogram class competition for third place at the Women's Wrestling World Cup in Lievan, France, on March 6, 2011. Japan won bronze for the fourth consecutive tournament.

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Chief of Japanese police in Tottori Pref.

YONAGO, Japan - National Police Agency Commissioner General Takaharu Ando (C) conducts an inspection in Yonago, Tottori Prefecture, on March 4, 2011, near a beach from where Kyoko Matsumoto is believed to have been abducted by North Korea in 1977.

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Hamaguchi wins bronze at wrestling world championships

MOSCOW, Russia - Japan's Kyoko Hamaguchi in the 72-kilogram class holds a bronze medal after beating a Spanish wrestler at the world wrestling championships in Moscow on Sept. 10, 2010.

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Akazome wins Akutagawa award, Naoki Prize goes to Nakajima

TOKYO, Japan - Authors Akiko Akazome (L) and Kyoko Nakajima pose for photo in Tokyo on July 15, 2010. Akazome was awarded the 143rd Akutagawa Prize for up-and-coming authors for her work ''Otome no Mikkoku'' (The Anonymous Tip of a Virgin), while Nakajima was awarded the 143rd Naoki Prize for seasoned writers of popular fiction for her work ''Chiisai Ouchi'' (Small Home).

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Nakajima wins Naoki Prize

TOKYO, Japan - Author Kyoko Nakajima holds up her book ''Chiisai Ouchi'' (Small Home) in Tokyo on July 15, 2010, after being awarded the 143rd Naoki Prize for seasoned writers of popular fiction for her work.

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Nakajima wins Naoki Prize

TOKYO, Japan - Author Kyoko Nakajima speaks to reporters in Tokyo on July 15, 2010, after being awarded the 143rd Naoki Prize for seasoned writers of popular fiction for her work ''Chiisai Ouchi'' (Small Home).

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Ex-abduction minister Nakayama, husband join Sunrise Party of Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Kyoko Nakayama (R), former minister in charge of the issue of North Korea's abductions of Japanese nationals, said in Tokyo on June 21, 2010, that she and her husband, former transport minister Nariaki Nakayama (L), have joined the Sunrise Party of Japan. The party was formed in April this year by defectors from the Liberal Democratic Party.

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Ex-abduction minister Nakayama, husband join Sunrise Party of Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Kyoko Nakayama (R), former minister in charge of the issue of North Korea's abductions of Japanese nationals, said in Tokyo on June 21, 2010, that she and her husband, former transport minister Nariaki Nakayama (L), have joined the Sunrise Party of Japan. The party was formed in April this year by defectors from the Liberal Democratic Party.

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Freed engineer expresses joy over reunion with wife

TOKYO, Japan - Takeo Mashimo (R), a Japanese engineer who was abducted in Yemen, gives a press conference at Tokyo's Haneda airport on Nov. 27, 2009. ''Joy welled up in my heart,'' Mashimo said, recalling the moment when he was reunited with his wife Kyoko (L).

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Family members of the abducted engineer feel relieved

TOKYO, Japan - Kyoko Mashimo (L) speaks to reporters in front of her house in Tokyo on Nov. 24, 2009, after her husband Takeo, who had been kidnapped in Yemen on Nov. 15, was freed, with her son Gen standing next to her. Takeo Mashimo, a 63-year-old engineer, and his Yemeni driver were seized by armed tribesmen while traveling to the town of Arhab, several dozen kilometers north of the capital Sanaa.

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Figure skating: Japan's Kozuka 5th at world c'ships

LOS ANGELES California, March 25 Kyodo - Yuko Kawaguchi - Yuko Kawaguchi, a Japanese-born skater who took Russian citizenship in January, and Russian Alexander Smirnov perform in the pairs' free skating to win the bronze medal at the World Figure Skating Championships on March 25. Kawaguchi became the first Japanese-born skater to win a pairs medal at the worlds since Kyoko Ina in 2002.

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Mondale assures Nakayama of help on N. Korea abduction issue

WASHINGTON, United States - Kyoko Nakayama, special adviser to Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso on North Korea's abductions of Japanese nationals, speaks at a news conference in Washington on Jan. 9. Nakayama said former U.S. Ambassador to Japan Walter Mondale assured her that he will relay Tokyo's concern about the issue to his friends joining the next administration of President-elect Barack Obama.