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Baseball: Rehabbing Sasaki pitches against Triple-A team

Los Angeles Dodgers right-hander Roki Sasaki, now under rehabilitation due to right shoulder impingement, meets the press after pitching against the Sugar Land Space Cowboys in Sugar Land, Texas, on Sept. 2, 2025, as a member of the Oklahoma City Comets, the Triple-A affiliate of the Dodgers.

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Baseball: Rehabbing Sasaki pitches against Triple-A team

Los Angeles Dodgers right-hander Roki Sasaki, now under rehabilitation due to right shoulder impingement, pitches against the Sugar Land Space Cowboys in Sugar Land, Texas, on Sept. 2, 2025, as a member of the Oklahoma City Comets, the Triple-A affiliate of the Dodgers.

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Baseball: Rehabbing Sasaki pitches against Triple-A team

Los Angeles Dodgers right-hander Roki Sasaki, now under rehabilitation due to right shoulder impingement, pitches against the Sugar Land Space Cowboys in Sugar Land, Texas, on Sept. 2, 2025, as a member of the Oklahoma City Comets, the Triple-A affiliate of the Dodgers.

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Baseball: Rehabbing Sasaki pitches against Triple-A team

Los Angeles Dodgers right-hander Roki Sasaki, now under rehabilitation due to right shoulder impingement, pitches against the Sugar Land Space Cowboys in Sugar Land, Texas, on Sept. 2, 2025, as a member of the Oklahoma City Comets, the Triple-A affiliate of the Dodgers.

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Osaka Metro station connected to World Expo venue

OSAKA, Japan, Jan. 19 Kyodo - A tape-cutting ceremony is held in Osaka on Jan. 19, 2025, to mark the opening of new Osaka Metro Chuo Line station Yumeshima, directly connected to the venue of the 2025 World Exposition starting in April on an artificial island called Yumeshima in the western Japan city. (Kyodo)

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Self-driving bus begins commercial service in Ehime Pref.

MATSUYAMA, Japan, Dec. 25 Kyodo - A self-driving bus begins operating on a public road in Matsuyama in the western Japan prefecture of Ehime on Dec. 25, 2024. (Kyodo)

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Drone quadcopter tested for use in bridge maintenance

HACHIOJI, Japan - A camera drone with four propellers, developed by a Tohoku University research team, is tested for the maintenance of infrastructure by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism on Nov. 17, 2014, at a river bank in Hachioji, Tokyo, as it flies to check the condition of a bridge.

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Tohoku region eyes smartphone app to boost tourism

SENDAI, Japan - The first meeting by entities concerned toward developing "Guide Tohoku," a smartphone application that will provide tourist information on the Tohoku region and archives on the March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, is held in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on Oct. 27, 2014. Six northeastern Japan prefectures and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism's Tohoku Regional Bureau announced the plan the same day.

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JR Tokai seeks go-ahead for maglev train line project

TOKYO, Japan - Mamoru Uno (L), an executive officer at Central Japan Railway Co. known as JR Tokai, presents an application to an official in charge at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism in Tokyo on Aug. 26, 2014, for approval of a plan to launch work on a 290-km magnetically levitated train line between the Japanese capital and Nagoya for completion in 2027.

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Vertical telescopic breakwater under development

OSAKA, Japan - The vertical telescopic breakwater, a buoyancy-driven vertical piling breakwater system under development in defense against tsunami, is seen in Kainan, Wakayama Prefecture, in March 2013. It was learned on June 19, 2014, that the breakwater, expected to be implemented as the world's first such system by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism's Kinki Regional Development Bureau, may not function properly due to a lack of strength.

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Plane's abnormal descent near Naha airport likely human error

TOKYO, Japan - Satoru Endo (back), head of the general planning department of Peach Aviation Ltd., a budget airline, and Yasunobu Funai, chief of the company's operational section, bow in apology at the Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Ministry in Tokyo on April 30, 2014, a day after a company Airbus A320-200 descended dangerously close to the sea near Naha airport in Okinawa Prefecture.

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JR Hokkaido finds 170 more unrepaired rail defects

SAPPORO, Japan - Officials of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism arrive at the head office of Hokkaido Railway Co. in Sapporo, Hokkaido, on Sept. 25, 2013, for inspections. JR Hokkaido said the same day it has found 170 more unrepaired rail defects, bringing to 267 the total uncovered so far in its investigation into the previous week's cargo train derailment.

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Hawaiian Airlines plane mistakenly enters runway

KANSAI AIRPORT, Japan - Three inspectors of the Japan Transport Safety Board, an arm of the Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Ministry, head for an office of the ministry at Kansai airport near Osaka on Oct. 13, 2011 to investigate an incident that occurred the previous night at the airport. A Honolulu-bound Hawaiian Airlines passenger plane mistakenly entered a runway, just minutes before a cargo jet was due to land. No one was injured in the incident, which involved two Boeing 767 planes.

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ANA unit urged to devise steps following belly-up incident

TOKYO, Japan - Futoshi Osada (far L), director general of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism's Civil Aviation Bureau, gives a written directive to Koichi Uchizono (2nd from L), president of Air Nippon Co., a unit of All Nippon Airways Co., at the ministry in Tokyo on Oct. 5, 2011. The ministry ordered the company to take steps to prevent a recurrence of an in-flight operational error that caused one of its aircraft to briefly fly almost belly up when traveling from Okinawa to Tokyo in September.

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PM Kan meets next IMO chief Sekimizu

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan (R) and Koji Sekimizu, incoming chief of the International Maritime Organization, shake hands at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on July 20, 2011. Sekimizu vowed to tackle piracy in the Indian Ocean during a press conference at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism the same day.

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Japan, U.S. ink 'open skies' accord

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese transport minister Sumio Mabuchi (R) and U.S. Ambassador to Japan John Roos shake hands after signing the ''open skies'' accord on Oct. 25, 2010 at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism in Tokyo. The accord, to take effect in mid-November, is aimed at fully liberalizing civil aviation markets of the two countries.

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Japan, U.S. ink 'open skies' accord

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese transport minister Sumio Mabuchi (R) and U.S. Ambassador to Japan John Roos sign the ''open skies'' accord on Oct. 25, 2010 at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism in Tokyo. The accord, to take effect in mid-November, is aimed at fully liberalizing civil aviation markets of the two countries.

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Japan gov't sets up cabin attendant inspection team

FUKUOKA, Japan - Photo taken in September 2006 at Tokyo's Haneda airport shows Japan Airlines cabin attendants undergo training at a mock-up airplane galley. Japan's Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Ministry has launched a team of experts to inspect cabin attendants' operations in the wake of a series of errors leading to passenger injuries.

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Japan gov't sets up cabin attendant inspection team

BANGKOK, Thailand - Photo taken in August 2007 in Bangkok shows trainees of JALways Co., a subsidiary of Japan Airlines Corp., listen to an instructor (2nd from R). Japan's Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Ministry has launched a team of experts to inspect cabin attendants' operations in the wake of a series of errors leading to passenger injuries.

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Ministry tells Skymark Airlines to improve work practices

TOKYO, Japan - A senior official from the Ministry of Land, Transport, Infrastructure and Tourism hands Skymark Airlines President Shinichi Nishikubo (C) documents instructing the company to improve work practices on April 6, 2010, at the transport ministry in Tokyo. The ministry found problems during a recent inspection including pilots' noncompliance with the rule that they must wear an oxygen mask in flight.

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Toyota announces global recall of Prius, other hybrid models

TOKYO, Japan - Toyota Motor Co. President Akio Toyoda (L) bows to transport minister Seiji Maehara (R) at the Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Ministry in Tokyo on Feb. 9, 2010. Toyota announced the same day a global recall of about 400,000 of four of its hybrid models including its best-selling Prius.

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Toyota announces global recall of Prius, other hybrid models

TOKYO, Japan - Toyota Motor Co. President Akio Toyoda (L) bows to transport minister Seiji Maehara (R) at the Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Ministry in Tokyo on Feb. 9, 2010. Maehara said after the meeting with Toyoda that the automaker had failed to see things from the customer's viewpoint and act promptly. Toyota announced the same day a global recall of about 400,000 of four of its hybrid models including its best-selling Prius.

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Toyota files for recall in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Toyota Motor Corp.'s managing officer Hiroyuki Yokoyama (R), bows after submitting a formal recall notice to Ryuji Masuno (L), director-general of the Road Transport Bureau of the Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Ministry, at the ministry in Tokyo, on Feb. 9, 2010. Toyota recalled more than 223,000 vehicles in four hybrid models in Japan to repair brake problems.

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Transport ministry warns manufacturer over faked safety data

TOKYO, Japan - Takashi Kakegawa (C), president of Koito Industries Ltd., and other company executives bow during a press conference at the Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Ministry in Tokyo on Feb. 8, 2010, after being instructed by the ministry to improve the company's business operations. The company has fabricated fire resistance and strength data on 150,000 seats for planes for 32 carriers in 24 countries and territories.

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Transport ministry warns manufacturer over faked safety data

TOKYO, Japan - Takashi Kakegawa (L), president of Koito Industries Ltd., receives instructions to improve the company's business operations from Ryuhei Maeda, director general of the Civil Aviation Bureau at the Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Ministry in Tokyo on Feb. 8, 2010. The company has fabricated fire resistance and strength data on 150,000 seats for planes for 32 carriers in 24 countries and territories.

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ANA calls for 'fair' competition on JAL turnaround

TOKYO, Japan - All Nippon Airways Co. President Shinichiro Ito speaks to reporters at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism on Jan. 20, 2010. Ito said he called for a ''fair'' environment for competition referring to a state-supervised rehabilitation of Japan Airlines Corp.

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JAL to seek revival under state direction

TOKYO, Japan - Transport minister Seiji Maehara speaks at a press conference at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism on Oct. 29, 2009. JAL said the same day that it will seek to turn itself around under state direction.

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JAL to seek revival under state direction

TOKYO, Japan - Transport minister Seiji Maehara (R) receives a report on a plan to reconstruct Japan Airlines Corp. from Shinjiro Takagi who heads a governmental task force on the struggling airline's revival at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism on Oct. 29, 2009. JAL said the same day that it will seek to turn itself around under state direction.

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JAL to seek revival under state direction

TOKYO, Japan - Transport minister Seiji Maehara speaks at a press conference at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism on Oct. 29, 2009. JAL said the same day that it will seek to turn itself around under state direction.

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Transport ministry annuls firm's license to operate ''km'' taxis

TOKYO, Japan - Kokusai Motorcars Co.'s President Shinichi Sugawara (L) receives a notification from a Japanese Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Ministry official (R) of its revoked business license in Yokohama on Sept. 2. Kokusai Motorcars, operating its ''km'' taxis, reached the threshold for nullification with more than 80 penalty points in three years by repeatedly binding drivers to work over the legal limit of 21 hours in two days.

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Senior land ministry official nabbed for suspected bid rigging

TOKYO, Japan - Watched by TV camera crews and news photographers, agents from the Sapporo District Prosecutors Office investigating a bid-rigging case involving a senior official of the Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Ministry carry away boxes of documents after a search for incriminating evidence at the ministry's Hokkaido Bureau in Tokyo on June 16. Mamoru Shinagawa, 58, who heads the Hokkaido bureau, is suspected of playing a leading role in collusion to award the contract for the public works project to a specific contractor between 2005 and 2007.

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Senior land ministry official nabbed for suspected bid rigging

TOKYO, Japan - File photo of Mamoru Shinagawa, 58, head of the Hokkaido Bureau of the Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Ministry. Shinaga is suspected of playing a leading role in collusion to award a contract for the public works project to a specific contractor between 2005 and 2007, prosecutors said.

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Liquefaction test carried out by simulating earthquake

SAPPORO, Japan - Engineers from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport and the Port and Airport Research Institute created a state of liquefaction (photo) by simulating an earthquake at an experimental airfield in Otaru, Hokkaido, on Oct. 27. The earthquake was simulated by sequential blasts over two minutes of 1.8 tons of explosives buried in 580 locations, according to engineers who took part in the project. The experiment showed that there were no signs of liquefaction in areas injected with water-solidifying chemicals, they said.

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H.K. movie star Fiona Sit named as Japan's tourism ambassador

TOKYO, Japan - Hong Kong movie star Fiona Sit (L) poses with Japan's Land, Infrastructure and Transport Minister Tetsuzo Fuyushiba at the Land, Infrastructure and Transport Ministry on June 18 after she is named Japan's tourism goodwill ambassador to publicize the Japanese government's ''Visit Japan Campaign.'' Japan has also appointed tourism envoys from South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, the United States and Canada during the current fiscal year. Officials say Sit will feature in tourism commercials and other publicity events the Japanese government plans to launch in Hong Kong, the fifth largest source of tourists to Japan after South Korea, Taiwan, the United States, and mainland China.

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Bombardier apologizes to transport ministry for plane trouble

TOKYO, Japan - Bombardier Inc. Vice President Todd Young (L) visits Yasuhisa Tani, a Land, Infrastructure and Transport Ministry official in Tokyo on March 16, apologizing after one of the Canadian aircraft manufacturer's planes made an emergency landing at a Japanese local airport earlier this week after a landing-gear failure.

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U.S. agrees to return part of airspace near Haneda airport to Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Members of the civil aviation subcommittee of the Japan-U.S. Joint Committee hold a meeting at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport on Oct. 27. The United States agreed to return to Japan around 40 percent of the airspace adjacent to Tokyo's Haneda airport that has been under the control of the U.S. Air Force's Yokota base in suburban Tokyo.

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Toyota submits measures to improve recall operations

TOKYO, Japan - Masatami Takimoto (L), vice president of Toyota Motor Corp., presents a report on measures to improve its management of vehicle defects to Takuji Iwasaki, director general of the Road Transport Bureau at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, on Aug. 3.

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Gov't tells Toyota to improve management of defects

TOKYO, Japan - Masatami Takimoto, vice president of Toyota Motor Corp., speaks to reporters at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport in Tokyo on July 21 after receiving a written instruction urging Toyota to improve its management of vehicle defects from the ministry.

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Gov't tells Toyota to improve management of defects

TOKYO, Japan - Masatami Takimoto (L), vice president of Toyota Motor Corp., receives a written instruction from Sadaji Iwasaki, director general of the Road Transport Bureau at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, in Tokyo on July 21 urging Toyota to improve its management of vehicle defects.

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Toyota offers apology over vehicle defect

TOKYO, Japan - Masatami Takimoto, vice president of Toyota Motor Corp., speaks at a press conference at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport in Tokyo on July 20 after submitting a report on the defect in Toyota Hilux Surf sport utility vehicles to the ministry.

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Big underground floodway completed in eastern Saitama

SAITAMA, Japan - The Land, Infrastructure and Transport Ministry held a ceremony at Kasukabe in Saitama Prefecture on June 10 to open one of the world's largest underground flood control channels expected to drastically reduce flood damage in low-lying eastern Saitama Prefecture. The photo, taken with a fisheye lens, shows lasers simulating about 100,000 tons of flood water rising to the height of about 10 meters inside the tank.

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JAL, Skymark heads testify at Diet over flight troubles

TOKYO, Japan - Skymark Airlines Co. President Shinichi Nishikubo testifies as an unsworn witness at a session of the House of Representatives' Committee on Land, Infrastructure and Transport on April 11.

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JAL, Skymark heads testify at Diet over flight troubles

TOKYO, Japan - Haruka Nishimatsu, president-designate of Japan Airlines Corp., testifies as an unsworn witness at a session of the House of Representatives' Committee on Land, Infrastructure and Transport on April 11, with current company President Toshiyuki Shimmachi sitting by him.

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Huser chief called for delay in revealing quake data fabrication

TOKYO, Japan - Masakazu Inoue, head of Space One design office, testifies as an unsworn witness at the Committee of Land, Infrastructure and Transport of the House of Representatives on Jan. 19.

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Buyers of condos with fake quake data call for state support

TOKYO, Japan - Katsutoshi Shimizu (R), a representative of buyers of condominiums developed by Huser Ltd. with fabricated quake-resistance data, speaks at a session of the House of Councillors Land, Infrastructure and Transport Committee on Jan. 19. Shimizu called on the government to extend support for reconstructing the defective buildings.

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LDP lawmaker denies arranging meeting over defective buildings

TOKYO, Japan - Former state minister Kosuke Ito speaks at a press conference at the Liberal democratic Party headquarters in Tokyo on Jan. 19. Ito, who served as state minister and director general of the National Land Agency from November 1996 to September 1997, denied allegations that he arranged a meeting between the head of a property developer accused of selling earthquake-vulnerable condominiums and senior officials of the Land, Infrastructure and Transport Ministry on Nov. 15, two days before the ministry revealed a building-code violation scandal.

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Huser head admits to consulting with Abe's secretary over data scam

TOKYO, Japan - Susumu Ojima, president of condominium developer Huser Ltd., raises his hand before testifying under oath at the Committee of Land, Infrastructure and Transport of the House of Representatives on Jan. 17. Ojima refused to testify on details of key points, saying thatdoing so could lead to his criminal prosecution.

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Huser head consulted with Abe's secretary over data scam

TOKYO, Japan - Susumu Ojima, president of condominium developer Huser Ltd., listens to his aide before testifying under oath at at the Committee of Land, Infrastructure and Transport of the House of Representatives on Jan. 17. Ojima refused to testify on details of key points, saying thatdoing so could lead to his criminal prosecution.

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Huser head admits to consulting with Abe's secretary

TOKYO, Japan - Susumu Ojima, president of condominium developer Huser Ltd., reads out his oath at a session of the Committee of Land, Infrastructure and Transport of the House of Representatives in Tokyo on Jan. 17 before testifying.

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Uchikawa testifies at Diet panel

TOKYO, Japan - Takeshi Uchikawa, head of Tokyo-based consulting firm General Management Consultant, testifies at a session of the Committee of Land, Infrastructure and Transport of the House of Representatives on Dec. 14. He flatly denied his involvement in the quake-resistance data fabrication scandal.