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Kitajima wins 1st race since Asian Games

LONG BEACH, United States - Japanese Olympic gold medalist Kosuke Kitajima takes part in a swimming competition in Long Beach, California, on Jan. 16, 2011. He clocked 1 minute, 53.44 seconds to win the 200-yard breaststroke in his first race since failing to medal at the Asian Games last November.

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Kitajima consoles teammate at Pan Pacs

LONG BEACH, United States - Breaststroke champion Kosuke Kitajima (L) consoles Yumi Kida (R) who finished last in the women's 10-kilometer open water race during the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships on Aug. 22, 2010, in Long Beach, California. Kitajima, two-time Olympic breaststroke champion, won the 100-meter and 200-meter breaststroke titles in the championships.

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Kitajima wins 100-yard breaststroke at California Grand Prix

LOS ANGELES, United States - Japan's two-time Olympic breaststroke champion Kosuke Kitajima speaks to reporters after winning a 100-yard breaststroke final at the Southern California Grand Prix in Long Beach, United States. Kitajima called the 2012 London Games his ''ultimate target.''

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Kitajima ends year on high with a win

LONG BEACH, United States - Two-time double Olympic breaststroke champion Kosuke Kitajima of Japan (C) poses with participants in the California-Nevada Winter Championship at the Belmont Plaza Olympic Pool in Long Beach, California, on Dec. 22, 2009, after winning the 100 yards breaststroke in 52.73 seconds at the short-course.

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Japanese comedian Hazama arrives in Long Beach

LOS ANGELES, United States - Japanese comedian Kampei Hazama (L) is greeted by his wife Mitsuyo after arriving by yacht in Long Beach, California, on March 10 as he runs and sails around the world. Hazama departed Osaka in western Japan on Dec. 17, 2008, on a journey that will cover 20,000 kilometers on land and 16,000 km at sea.

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Japanese comedian Hazama arrives in Long Beach

LOS ANGELES, United States - Japanese comedian Kampei Hazama poses on his yacht as he arrives in Long Beach, California, on March 10 on a two-and-a-half year, round-the-world trip combining running and yachting. Hazama departed Osaka in western Japan on Dec. 17, 2008, on a journey that will cover 20,000 kilometers on land and 16,000 km at sea.

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Rare Asian coins to go under hammer in U.S.

NEW YORK, United States - This Japanese 20-yen gold coin, minted in 1906, will feature in an auction of rare Asian coins to be held by U.S. rare-coin dealer Heritage Numismatic Auctions Inc. on June 8-9 in Long Beach, California. Also featured will be rare coins from Korea and China from the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Obuchi makes nostalgic tour of Queen Mary

Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi (L), together with his wife Chizuko (C) and his second eldest daughter Yuko (R), makes a nostalgic visit April 29 to the Queen Mary, the luxury ocean liner that brought him to the United States when he first visited the country as a graduate student in 1963. Obuchi made the visit to the liner, now permanently berthed in Long Beach, California, after arriving in Los Angeles earlier in the day on the first stopover in his weeklong tour of the U.S.