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South Korea: Fire Breaks Out at Seoul Convention Center, Prompting Evacuation

A fire broke out at the COEX convention center in Gangnam District, southern Seoul on Friday, April 25, prompting an evacuation of the building.

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Japan: Cherry Blossoms Reach Full Bloom Across Country 5

Cherry blossoms have begun to bloom all over Japan, and are expected to reach full bloom in many places this week. This video shows a weeping cherry tree at Maruyama Park in Kyoto.

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BMX: Rim Nakamura

BMX freestyle park rider Rim Nakamura of Japan meets the press in Uji in the western Japan prefecture of Kyoto on July 11, 2024, ahead of the Paris Olympics.

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BMX: Rim Nakamura

BMX freestyle park rider Rim Nakamura of Japan meets the press in Uji in the western Japan prefecture of Kyoto on July 11, 2024, ahead of the Paris Olympics.

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BMX: Rim Nakamura

BMX freestyle park rider Rim Nakamura of Japan practices in Uji in the western Japan prefecture of Kyoto on July 11, 2024, ahead of the Paris Olympics.

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BMX: Rim Nakamura

BMX freestyle park rider Rim Nakamura of Japan practices in Uji in the western Japan prefecture of Kyoto on July 11, 2024, ahead of the Paris Olympics.

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BMX: Rim Nakamura

BMX freestyle park rider Rim Nakamura of Japan practices in Uji in the western Japan prefecture of Kyoto on July 11, 2024, ahead of the Paris Olympics.

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Kyoto Park in Kyiv

Japanese Ambassador to Ukraine Kuninori Matsuda (L) joins hands with Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko (C) during a ceremony to complete the improvement of Kyoto Park in the Ukrainian capital on April 30, 2024. Kyoto Park was created in the 1980s following the establishment of a sister city affiliation between Kyiv and the western Japan city in 1971.

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Kyoto Park in Kyiv

KYIV, UKRAINE - APRIL 10, 2024 - People recreate in Kyoto Park, Kyiv, capital of Ukraine.

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Kyoto Park in Kyiv

KYIV, UKRAINE - APRIL 10, 2024 - People walk along Kyoto Park, Kyiv, capital of Ukraine.

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Kyoto Park in Kyiv

KYIV, UKRAINE - APRIL 10, 2024 - A flowering tree is seen in Kyoto Park, Kyiv, capital of Ukraine.

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Kyoto Park in Kyiv

KYIV, UKRAINE - APRIL 10, 2024 - A flowering tree is seen in Kyoto Park, Kyiv, capital of Ukraine.

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Kyoto Park in Kyiv

KYIV, UKRAINE - APRIL 10, 2024 - People recreate in Kyoto Park, Kyiv, capital of Ukraine.

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Kyoto Park in Kyiv

KYIV, UKRAINE - APRIL 10, 2024 - A woman takes a selfie next to a flowering tree in Kyoto Park, Kyiv, capital of Ukraine.

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Kyoto Park in Kyiv

KYIV, UKRAINE - APRIL 10, 2024 - A woman poses for a photo next to a flowering tree in Kyoto Park, Kyiv, capital of Ukraine.

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Kyoto Park in Kyiv

KYIV, UKRAINE - APRIL 10, 2024 - A woman takes a selfie next to a flowering tree in Kyoto Park, Kyiv, capital of Ukraine.

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Kyoto Park in Kyiv

KYIV, UKRAINE - APRIL 10, 2024 - People pose for a photo next to a flowering tree in Kyoto Park, Kyiv, capital of Ukraine.

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Kyoto Park in Kyiv

KYIV, UKRAINE - APRIL 10, 2024 - A woman is seen next to a flowering tree in Kyoto Park, Kyiv, capital of Ukraine.

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Kyoto Park in Kyiv

KYIV, UKRAINE - APRIL 10, 2024 - A flowering tree is seen in Kyoto Park, Kyiv, capital of Ukraine.

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Kyoto Park in Kyiv

KYIV, UKRAINE - APRIL 10, 2024 - A woman and a boy walk in Kyoto Park, Kyiv, capital of Ukraine.

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Kyoto Park in Kyiv

KYIV, UKRAINE - APRIL 10, 2024 - The blossom of a tree is seen in Kyoto Park, Kyiv, capital of Ukraine.

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Kyoto Park in Kyiv

KYIV, UKRAINE - APRIL 10, 2024 - The blossom of a tree is seen in Kyoto Park, Kyiv, capital of Ukraine.

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UGANDA-KAMPALA-TERRORIST COMMANDER-TOURIST MURDER CASE-CHARGES

(231114) -- KAMPALA, Nov. 14, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Abdul Rashid Kyoto, a camp commander for the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), is escorted away by prison officers after being accused of nine counts at the court of chief magistrate of the Nakawa area in Kampala, capital of Uganda, Nov. 13, 2023. A suspected terrorist commander has been detained here on charges of murdering two tourists and their local guide last month in Queen Elizabeth National Park, western Uganda, authorities said Monday. TO GO WITH "Uganda charges terrorist commander in tourist murder case" (Photo by Hajarah Nalwadda/Xinhua)

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UGANDA-KAMPALA-TERRORIST COMMANDER-TOURIST MURDER CASE-CHARGES

(231114) -- KAMPALA, Nov. 14, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Abdul Rashid Kyoto, a camp commander for the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), is escorted by counter-terrorism police officers during his arrival at the court of chief magistrate of the Nakawa area in Kampala, capital of Uganda, Nov. 13, 2023. A suspected terrorist commander has been detained here on charges of murdering two tourists and their local guide last month in Queen Elizabeth National Park, western Uganda, authorities said Monday. TO GO WITH "Uganda charges terrorist commander in tourist murder case" (Photo by Hajarah Nalwadda/Xinhua)

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Classic car rally begins in Japan

NAGOYA, Japan, April 14 Kyodo - Vintage cars leave Atsuta Shrine in the central Japan city of Nagoya on April 14, 2017, for the classic car rally "La Festa Primavera 2017." The rally, which takes place every year, will see around 60 vehicles travel some 1,100 kilometers across central and western Japan to finish at a park in Kyoto.

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Ex-S. Korea captain Park plays in Kyoto Sanga OB game

KYOTO, Japan - Former South Korean football star Park Ji Sung (L) plays in an old-timers' game of Kyoto Sanga in Kyoto on June 28, 2014, to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the J2 club. Park started his professional career with Kyoto Sanga.

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Ex-S. Korea captain Park plays in Kyoto Sanga OB game

KYOTO, Japan - Retired South Korean football star Park Ji Sung (C, front row) poses for a photo in Kyoto with former players of Kyoto Sanga, a football team of Japan's J-League second division, on June 28, 2014, before a game to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the founding of the club.

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InterFaith Ekiden in Kyoto

KYOTO, Japan - Participants of the InterFaith Ekiden start the road relay from Nishikyogoku Athletic Park in Kyoto, western Japan, on Feb. 16, 2014. The event, involving 40 people of various religions such as Buddhism and Christianity from Japan and Europe, is aimed at praying for world peace and for recovery from the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in eastern Japan.

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Former imperial residence in Kyoto

OSAKA, Japan - File photo taken in January 2013 shows Kyoto Gyoen in the city of Kyoto. Kyoto prefectural government officials said Jan. 29, 2014, that the park will be declared a base for the Self-Defense Forces, police and fire services in the event of natural disasters. The Kyoto Imperial Palace (upper L in the park) and the Kyoto State Guest House (upper R in the park) are exempt from the plan. The palace was the main imperial residence until Emperor Meiji shifted to Tokyo in 1869.

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Typhoon hits Japan

KYOTO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows Kyoto's flooded Arashiyama Park, a tourist spot, on Sept. 16, 2013, following heavy rain brought by Typhoon Man-yi.

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Fire burns down Toei film studio in Kyoto

OSAKA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on the afternoon of May 20, 2012, shows studios of film production company Toei Co. in Kyoto, western Japan, one of which is giving off smoke. Fire burned the studio down, leaving no one injured but causing the firm to ask visitors to its adjacent theme park to also evacuate, police and firefighters said.

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Emperor, empress visit Japanese garden in London

LONDON, Britain - Japanese Emperor Akihito (2nd from L) and Empress Michiko visit Kyoto Garden, a Japanese garden in Holland Park, west London, on May 17, 2012. The imperial couple were in Britain for Queen Elizabeth's diamond jubilee celebrations. (Pool photo)

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Emperor, empress visit Japanese garden in London

LONDON, Britain - Japanese Emperor Akihito (C) and Empress Michiko (next to emperor) visit Kyoto Garden, a Japanese garden in Holland Park, west London, on May 17, 2012. The imperial couple were in Britain for Queen Elizabeth's diamond jubilee celebrations. (Pool photo)

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Emperor, empress visit Japanese garden in London

LONDON, Britain - Japanese Emperor Akihito (L) and Empress Michiko speak with Japanese children living in Britain, while visiting Kyoto Garden, a Japanese garden in Holland Park, west London, on May 17, 2012. The imperial couple were in Britain for Queen Elizabeth's diamond jubilee celebrations. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Emperor, empress visit Japanese garden in London

LONDON, Britain - Japanese Emperor Akihito (L) and Empress Michiko visit Kyoto Garden, a Japanese garden in Holland Park, west London, on May 17, 2012. The imperial couple were in Britain for Queen Elizabeth's diamond jubilee celebrations. (Pool photo)

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Emperor, empress visit Japanese garden in London

LONDON, Britain - Japanese Emperor Akihito (L) and Empress Michiko visit Kyoto Garden, a Japanese garden in Holland Park, west London, on May 17, 2012. The imperial couple were in Britain for Queen Elizabeth's diamond jubilee celebrations. (Pool photo)

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'Scariest' haunted house attraction in Kyoto

KYOTO, Japan - A haunted house attraction at Toei Kyoto Studio Park in Kyoto, western Japan, is unveiled to the media on March 16, 2012, before its reopening the following day after renovation. The theme park is promoting it as being ''the scariest ever.''

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Paper strips with LED lights released from hot air balloon

OSAKA, Japan - Paper strips with light-emitting diodes of red, blue, white and green are released from a hot air balloon at Expo Park in Suita, Osaka Prefecture, on Dec. 4, 2010, during a ''Dream Seed Project'' event organized by artists from Kyoto.

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Paper strips with LED lights released from hot air balloon

OSAKA, Japan - Paper strips with light-emitting diodes of red, blue, white and green are released from a hot air balloon at Expo Park in Suita, Osaka Prefecture, on Dec. 4, 2010, during a ''Dream Seed Project'' event organized by artists from Kyoto.

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Paper strips with LED lights released from hot air balloon

OSAKA, Japan - Participants of the ''Dream Seed Project'', an event organized by artists from Kyoto, look at strips with light-emitting diodes of red, blue, white and green released from a hot air balloon during the event at Expo Park in Suita, Osaka Prefecture, on Dec. 4, 2010.

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Tainted Zhou Enlai monument

KYOTO, Japan - A section tainted by yellow paint is covered by cardboard (front R) at a poetic tablet of the late Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai at Arashiyama Park in Kyoto on Sept. 30, 2010. The monument was set up in 1979 to commemorate a bilateral peace treaty.

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(6)Bird flu scare in Japan

TAMBA, Japan - Epidemic prevention experts from the Ground Self-Defense Force base in Itami, Hyogo Prefecture, line up at a park in Tamba, Kyoto Prefecture, on March 4 after arriving there to help in disinfection work in the town.

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(1)Late Kurobe strike gives Kyoto 1st Emperor's Cup

TOKYO, Jan. 1 Kyodo - South Korean World Cup star Park Ji Sung reacts after scoring an equalizer for Kyoto Purple Sanga in the 50th minute of the Emperor's Cup final against Kashima Antlers at National Stadium on Jan. 1.

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Korean World Cup soccer star honored by Osaka univ.

OSAKA, Japan - Korean midfielder Park Ji Sung (C) is awarded a special honor July 31 by the Osaka University of Economics and Law for his achievements in this year's World Cup soccer finals co-hosted by Japan and South Korea. Park, 21, is a first-year law student at the university and plays for the J-League first-division team Kyoto Purple Sanga.

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Gion Matsuri reaches high point with Yamaboko

KYOTO, Japan - The Gion Festival, sponsored by Yasaka Shrine in Kyoto, reaches a high point on July 17 with a parade of Yamaboko (mountain spear) floats. The festival dates back to 869, when 66 tall spears were erected in the Imperial Park to fight a nationwide epidemic. The photo shows the Naginataboko (halberd spear) float leading the parade, which starts from the Shijyokarasuma section of the old Japanese capital.

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Cosmos park in Kyoto

Cosmos flowers are in full bloom at the Yume Cosmos En park in Kameoka in Kyoto, western Japan, on Oct. 18, 2021.

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Cosmos park in Kyoto

Cosmos flowers are in full bloom at the Yume Cosmos En park in Kameoka in Kyoto, western Japan, on Oct. 18, 2021.

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10 years after Great East Japan Earthquake

Three photos taken from a Kyoto News helicopter show an area hit hard by the March 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster in Rikuzentakata in Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan. The first photo (top) was taken June 10, 2011, while the second photo (middle) taken Sept. 1, 2014, shows a huge conveyor belt used for land elevation work, followed by the third photo (bottom), taken Feb. 12, 2021, showing a memorial park that was built in the area as a reminder of the disaster for future generations.

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Maruyama Yaami Hotel

View of the Higashiyama Mountains from the northeast side of Yasaka Shinto Shrine. On the left is the annex of the Yaami Hotel and the wall of the hotel's Western-style main building. The three-story building in the centre is the Yoshimizu Hot Spring where Akashi Hiroakira, promoter of the modernization of Kyoto, built a replica of the Golden Pavilion in 1873. Maruyama Park had not yet been completed, and vegetable fields stretched throughout the area.==Date:unknown, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number96‐92‐0]

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The city of Kyoto seen from a hill

View of the southern part of Kyoto City facing west from Yoshimizu Hot Springs in Maruyama. On the left, surrounded by an earthen wall, is the Otani Mausoleum of Higashi Otani. Its approach stretches to the west. The irimoya-style roof of Yasaka Shinto Shrine is visible on the far right. The restaurants and other buildings in the picture are in the area that would later become known as Maruyama Park. The Nishiyama Range is faintly visible in the background.==Date:unknown, Place:Kyoto, Photo:A. Farsari, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number82‐11‐0]