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Baseball: U-18 World Cup

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's high school baseball national team attend the press conference at Tokyo's Haneda airport on Sept. 11, 2023, a day after winning the men's Under-18 Baseball World Cup in Taipei.

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Baseball: U-18 World Cup

Players toss Japan's high school baseball national team manager Shiro Mabuchi in the air in Taipei on Sept. 10, 2023, after winning the men's Under-18 Baseball World Cup for the first time.

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Ig Nobel winner makes commemorative speech on campus

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Kiyoshi Mabuchi, professor of Japan's Kitasato University and winner of this year's Ig Nobel Prize for physics, speaks at the university's Sagamihara campus in Kanagawa Prefecture, southwest of Tokyo, on Nov. 1, 2014, about his work measuring the extent of friction created when someone steps on a banana skin.

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Japan professor wins Ig Nobel for banana study

NEW YORK, United States - Kiyoshi Mabuchi, professor of Japan's Kitasato University, seen in this undated photo, was awarded the Ig Nobel Prize for physics in New York on Sept. 18, 2014, for his work measuring the friction created when someone steps on a banana skin.

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Banana peel slickness study nets Japanese team Ig Nobel award

CAMBRIDGE, United States - Kiyoshi Mabuchi (L front), a professor of Japan's Kitasato University, holds a banana speaking about the work by a group of researchers, including himself, measuring the friction that occurs when someone steps on a banana peel, which led to the winning of the spoof Ig Nobel Prize for physics in 2014, at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Sept. 18, 2014.

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Banana peel slickness study nets Japanese team Ig Nobel award

CAMBRIDGE, United States - Kiyoshi Mabuchi, a professor of Japan's Kitasato University, holds a bunch of bananas during an interview with Kyodo News at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Sept. 18, 2014. The work by a group of researchers, including himself, measuring the friction that occurs when someone steps on a banana peel, led to the winning of the spoof Ig Nobel Prize for physics in 2014, which was awarded the same day at the university.

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New DPJ leader

TOKYO, Japan - Former trade minister Banri Kaieda (R) and former former transport minister Sumio Mabuchi stand on the stage before making speeches prior to an election to pick the new leader of the Democratic Party of Japan at a meeting in Tokyo of DPJ lawmakers on Dec. 25, 2012. Kaieda was elected to replace Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda as party head.

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DPJ leadership election

TOKYO, Japan - Former Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Minister Sumio Mabuchi speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 23, 2012. Mabuchi said he will run in the upcoming election to pick the next leader of the Democratic Party of Japan in the wake of its crushing defeat in the general election.

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Workers at Mabuchi Motor plant in Vietnam

OSAKA, Japan - Factory workers inspect product parts at a Mabuchi Motor Co. plant in Danang, Vietnam, in November 2011. The Japanese small motor maker, based in Matsudo, Chiba Prefecture, built the plant in the central Vietnam city in 2005, with its workforce growing to around 4,800.

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Noda to succeed Kan as Japan PM

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda (3rd from L), outgoing Prime Minister Naoto Kan (3rd from R) and lawmakers who ran for the presidential election of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan -- former transport minister Sumio Mabuchi (L), farm minister Michihiko Kano (2nd from L), industry minister Banri Kaieda (2nd from R) and former Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara (R) -- shake hands at a hotel in Tokyo on Aug. 29, 2011, after Noda was elected as the DPJ president. Noda will also succeed Kan as the Japanese prime minister.

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Noda to succeed Kan as Japan PM

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda (3rd from L), outgoing Prime Minister Naoto Kan (3rd from R) and lawmakers who ran for the presidential election of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan -- former transport minister Sumio Mabuchi (L), farm minister Michihiko Kano (2nd from L), industry minister Banri Kaieda (2nd from R) and former Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara (R) -- shake hands at a hotel in Tokyo on Aug. 29, 2011, after Noda was elected as the DPJ president. Noda will also succeed Kan as the Japanese prime minister.

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DPJ leader election

TOKYO, Japan - Former Japanese transport minister Sumio Mabuchi (C) moves toward the podium to deliver his candidate's speech during a Democratic Party of Japan meeting in Tokyo on Aug. 29, 2011, where members will vote to pick a successor to outgoing Prime Minister Naoto Kan.

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DPJ presidential candidates

TOKYO, Japan - The five candidates for the Democratic Party of Japan's presidential election, whose winner will take over as Japan's prime minister, shake hands in a party-sponsored policy debate at a Tokyo hotel on Aug. 28, 2011, on the eve of the election. They are (from L to R) former Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara; former Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Minister Sumio Mabuchi; Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Banri Kaieda; Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda; and Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Michihiko Kano.

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Ex-transport minister Mabuchi

TOKYO, Japan - Former transport minister Sumio Mabuchi speaks during a press conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Aug. 27, 2011, after filing his candidacy for the ruling Democratic Party of Japan's presidential election slated for Aug. 29. Mabuchi said disaster reconstruction programs should be funded by construction bonds with a redemption period of 60 years, and was not positive about forming a grand coalition government.

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5 candidates vie for Japan's new leadership post

TOKYO, Japan - Five Democratic Party of Japan lawmakers -- (From L) former Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara, former transport minister Sumio Mabuchi, industry minister Banri Kaieda, Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda, and farm minister Michihiko Kano -- attend a press conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Aug. 27, 2011, after filing their candidacies for the ruling party's presidential election slated for Aug. 29.

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5 candidates vie for Japan's new leadership post

TOKYO, Japan - Five Democratic Party of Japan lawmakers -- (From L) former Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara, former transport minister Sumio Mabuchi, industry minister Banri Kaieda, Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda, and farm minister Michihiko Kano -- pose for photos before a press conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Aug. 27, 2011, after filing their candidacies for the ruling party's presidential election slated for Aug. 29.

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5 candidates to succeed PM Kan

TOKYO, Japan - Combination photo shows the five declared candidates for the Democratic Party of Japan's presidential election to be held on Aug. 29, 2011, which will pick a successor to outgoing Prime Minister Naoto Kan. They are (from L to R) former Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Minister Sumio Mabuchi, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Michihiko Kano, Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda, Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Banri Kaieda and former Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara.

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Former transport minister Sumio Mabuchi

TOKYO, Japan - Former Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Minister Sumio Mabuchi is pictured during a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 26, 2011, held to announce his candidacy for the Democratic Party of Japan's presidential election to be held on Aug. 29, 2011, which will pick a successor to outgoing Prime Minister Naoto Kan.

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Japan Cabinet reshuffle

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's new Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Minister Akihiro Ohata speaks in a press conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Jan. 14, 2011, after a Cabinet reshuffle by Prime Minister Naoto Kan on the same day. Ohata replaced Sumio Mabuchi.

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Opposition censure motions

TOKYO, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshito Sengoku speaks at the House of Representatives Budget Committee in the Diet in Tokyo on Nov. 25, 2010. The main opposition Liberal Democratic Party said the same day it will submit censure motions to the House of Councillors on Nov. 26 against Sengoku and transport minister Sumio Mabuchi over the handling of the leak of footage of maritime collisions in disputed waters.

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Senkaku ships collision video leakage

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese transport minister Sumio Mabuchi listens to a reporter's question in Tokyo on Nov. 5, 2010 on the suspected Internet leakage of footage of ship collisions taped by the Japan Coast Guard near the disputed Senkaku Islands. Mabuchi, whose ministry oversees the coast guard, refrained from stating where the footage came from.

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Senkaku ships collision video leakage

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese transport minister Sumio Mabuchi commented on a suspected Internet leakage of footage of ship collisions taped by the Japan Coast Guard near the disputed Senkaku Islands at a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 5, 2010. Mabuchi, whose ministry oversees the coast guard, refrained from stating where the footage came from.

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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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Hokkaido minister Mabuchi views Russian-held islands

TOKYO, Japan - Sumio Mabuchi (R), Japan's minister in charge of Hokkaido development, views disputed Russian-held islands off the Japanese northernmost main island of Hokkaido from a Coast Guard boat off Nemuro on Oct. 4, 2010. Mabuchi said the same day he intended to visit the islands that Japan has claimed under a visa-free exchange program. (Pool photo)

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Land minister Mabuchi and Okinawa Gov. Nakaima

NAHA, Japan - Sumio Mabuchi (L), state minister in charge of Okinawa and Northern Territories affairs, and Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima shake hands in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, on Oct. 2, 2010, after meeting to discuss a Japan-U.S. accord on relocating a key U.S. military base within Okinawa Prefecture. Nakaima called on the government to review the accord and move the base elsewhere.

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APEC releases tourism declaration

NARA, Japan - Japanese tourism minister Sumio Mabuchi (front, L), who chaired ministerial tourism talks at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, and other participants attend a press conference in Nara on Sept. 23, 2010, to wrap up the two-day meeting.

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APEC tourism ministers' meeting in Nara

NARA, Japan - Top tourism officials from Pacific Rim countries, including Japanese tourism minister Sumio Mabuchi (R, front), pose for photos on the first day of a two-day ministerial meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Nara on Sept. 22, 2010. Representatives of the 21 members of the forum are aiming to produce a ''Nara Declaration on Tourism'' at the end of the gathering.

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Japan, China at loggerheads

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshito Sengoku speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Sept. 21, 2010. Sengoku denied that tourism minister Sumio Mabuchi's cancellation of talks with China's Zhu Shanzhong on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum's tourism ministers' meeting in Nara was a countermeasure against China's suspension of exchanges.

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Japan's transport minister Mabuchi

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese transport and tourism minister Sumio Mabuchi smiles during a press conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Sept. 17, 2010.

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Japan's transport minister Mabuchi

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese transport and tourism minister Sumio Mabuchi speaks at a press conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Sept. 17, 2010, after taking the post in a reshuffle of Prime Minister Naoto Kan's Cabinet.

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New transport minister Mabuchi

TOKYO, Japan - Sumio Mabuchi, newly named land, infrastructure, transport and tourism minister, walks to the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Sept. 17, 2010. Mabuchi is also in charge of Okinawa and Northern Territories affairs as well as ocean policy.

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Japan-Australia softball preliminary in Olympics

BEIJING, China - Japan's Satoko Mabuchi hits a three-run home run in the first inning of a softball preliminary of the Beijing Olympics against Australia on Aug. 12. Japan beat Australia 4-3.

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2 Japanese firms fight takeover bids by U.S. fund

NAGOYA, Japan - Yoshiaki Mabuchi, president of Sotoh Co., a leading dyer-finisher of woolen fabrics based in Bisai, Aichi Prefecture, speaks at a news conference Jan. 15 on measures which his firm will take with Yushiro Chemical Industry Co., a Tokyo-based maker of metalworking oil, to fight hostile takeover bids by U.S. investment fund Steel Partners Japan Strategic Fund SPV-1 LLC.

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Ryuichi MABUCHI - President of Mabuchi Mortor (May 12, 1992)

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Japan-Australia softball preliminary in Olympics

BEIJING, China - Japan's Satoko Mabuchi hits a three-run home run in the first inning of a softball preliminary of the Beijing Olympics against Australia on Aug. 12. Japan beat Australia 4-3. (Kyodo)

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Land minister Mabuchi and Okinawa Gov. Nakaima

NAHA, Japan - Sumio Mabuchi (L), state minister in charge of Okinawa and Northern Territories affairs, and Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima shake hands in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, on Oct. 2, 2010, after meeting to discuss a Japan-U.S. accord on relocating a key U.S. military base within Okinawa Prefecture. Nakaima called on the government to review the accord and move the base elsewhere. (Kyodo)

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APEC releases tourism declaration

NARA, Japan - Japanese tourism minister Sumio Mabuchi (front, L), who chaired ministerial tourism talks at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, and other participants attend a press conference in Nara on Sept. 23, 2010, to wrap up the two-day meeting. (Kyodo)

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Japan Cabinet reshuffle

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's new Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Minister Akihiro Ohata speaks in a press conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Jan. 14, 2011, after a Cabinet reshuffle by Prime Minister Naoto Kan on the same day. Ohata replaced Sumio Mabuchi. (Kyodo)

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Hokkaido minister Mabuchi views Russian-held islands

TOKYO, Japan - Sumio Mabuchi (R), Japan's minister in charge of Hokkaido development, views disputed Russian-held islands off the Japanese northernmost main island of Hokkaido from a Coast Guard boat off Nemuro on Oct. 4, 2010. Mabuchi said the same day he intended to visit the islands that Japan has claimed under a visa-free exchange program. (Pool photo) (Kyodo)

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APEC tourism ministers' meeting in Nara

NARA, Japan - Top tourism officials from Pacific Rim countries, including Japanese tourism minister Sumio Mabuchi (R, front), pose for photos on the first day of a two-day ministerial meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Nara on Sept. 22, 2010. Representatives of the 21 members of the forum are aiming to produce a ''Nara Declaration on Tourism'' at the end of the gathering. (Kyodo)

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Japan's transport minister Mabuchi

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese transport and tourism minister Sumio Mabuchi speaks at a press conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Sept. 17, 2010, after taking the post in a reshuffle of Prime Minister Naoto Kan's Cabinet. (Kyodo)

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Japan's transport minister Mabuchi

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese transport and tourism minister Sumio Mabuchi smiles during a press conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Sept. 17, 2010. (Kyodo)

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New transport minister Mabuchi

TOKYO, Japan - Sumio Mabuchi, newly named land, infrastructure, transport and tourism minister, walks to the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Sept. 17, 2010. Mabuchi is also in charge of Okinawa and Northern Territories affairs as well as ocean policy. (Kyodo)

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Noda to succeed Kan as Japan PM

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda (3rd from L), outgoing Prime Minister Naoto Kan (3rd from R) and lawmakers who ran for the presidential election of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan -- former transport minister Sumio Mabuchi (L), farm minister Michihiko Kano (2nd from L), industry minister Banri Kaieda (2nd from R) and former Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara (R) -- shake hands at a hotel in Tokyo on Aug. 29, 2011, after Noda was elected as the DPJ president. Noda will also succeed Kan as the Japanese prime minister. (Kyodo)

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Noda to succeed Kan as Japan PM

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda (3rd from L), outgoing Prime Minister Naoto Kan (3rd from R) and lawmakers who ran for the presidential election of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan -- former transport minister Sumio Mabuchi (L), farm minister Michihiko Kano (2nd from L), industry minister Banri Kaieda (2nd from R) and former Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara (R) -- shake hands at a hotel in Tokyo on Aug. 29, 2011, after Noda was elected as the DPJ president. Noda will also succeed Kan as the Japanese prime minister. (Kyodo)

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DPJ leader election

TOKYO, Japan - Former Japanese transport minister Sumio Mabuchi (C) moves toward the podium to deliver his candidate's speech during a Democratic Party of Japan meeting in Tokyo on Aug. 29, 2011, where members will vote to pick a successor to outgoing Prime Minister Naoto Kan. (Kyodo)

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DPJ presidential candidates

TOKYO, Japan - The five candidates for the Democratic Party of Japan's presidential election, whose winner will take over as Japan's prime minister, shake hands in a party-sponsored policy debate at a Tokyo hotel on Aug. 28, 2011, on the eve of the election. They are (from L to R) former Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara; former Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Minister Sumio Mabuchi; Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Banri Kaieda; Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda; and Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Michihiko Kano. (Kyodo)

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5 candidates vie for Japan's new leadership post

TOKYO, Japan - Five Democratic Party of Japan lawmakers -- (From L) former Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara, former transport minister Sumio Mabuchi, industry minister Banri Kaieda, Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda, and farm minister Michihiko Kano -- pose for photos before a press conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Aug. 27, 2011, after filing their candidacies for the ruling party's presidential election slated for Aug. 29. (Kyodo)

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Ex-transport minister Mabuchi

TOKYO, Japan - Former transport minister Sumio Mabuchi speaks during a press conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Aug. 27, 2011, after filing his candidacy for the ruling Democratic Party of Japan's presidential election slated for Aug. 29. Mabuchi said disaster reconstruction programs should be funded by construction bonds with a redemption period of 60 years, and was not positive about forming a grand coalition government. (Kyodo)