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DMG MORI holds yacht race send-off party

DMG MORI holds a yacht race send-off party. Pictured are President Masahiko Mori (center right) and Kojiro Shiraishi (center left).=October 3,2024,Tokyo

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DMG MORI holds yacht race send-off party

DMG MORI holds a yacht race send-off party. Photo shows Kojiro Shiraishi.=October 3,2024,Tokyo

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DMG MORI holds yacht race send-off party

DMG MORI holds a yacht race send-off party. Photo shows Kojiro Shiraishi.=October 3,2024,Tokyo

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DMG MORI holds yacht race send-off party

DMG MORI holds a yacht race send-off party. Photo shows DMG Mori Seiki President Masahiko Mori.=October 3,2024,Tokyo

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DMG MORI holds yacht race send-off party

DMG MORI holds a yacht race send-off party. Photo shows President Masahiko Mori (right) and Kojiro Shiraishi (left).=October 3,2024,Tokyo

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DMG MORI holds yacht race send-off party

DMG MORI holds a yacht race send-off party. Photo shows DMG Mori Seiki President Masahiko Mori.=October 3,2024,Tokyo

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DMG MORI holds yacht race send-off party

DMG MORI holds a yacht race send-off party. Pictured are President Masahiko Mori (center right) and Kojiro Shiraishi (center left).=October 3,2024,Tokyo

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Osaka Expo promotion in ASEAN

Nararya Soeprapto (C), deputy secretary general of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, and Masahiko Kiya, ambassador of the mission of Japan to ASEAN, pose for a photo with Myaku-Myaku, the official mascot of the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka, at the ASEAN secretariat in Jakarta on Sept. 17, 2024. The Japanese ambassador visited the ASEAN secretariat to promote the six-month event in the western Japan city from mid-April 2025.

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Japanese Foreign Minister Komura addresses Afghan meeting

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura (R) gives an address at the opening of a two-day conference of international donors and the Afghan government at a Tokyo hotel on Feb. 5. At left is Afghan Foreign Minister Dadfar Spanta.

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Cabinet ministers meet over food poisoning incidents

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Health minister Yoichi Masuzoe, state minister in charge of quality-of-life policy affairs Fumio Kishida, Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura and Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura attend a meeting of Cabinet ministers at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Feb. 4 to discuss the recent poisoning incidents involving Chinese-made frozen ''gyoza'' dumplings.

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Gov't to seek way to restart SDF mission if refueling law nixed

TOKYO, Japan - Defense Minister Masahiko Komura gestures during an interview with Kyodo News and other media in Tokyo on Sept. 4. He says the government will try to find a way to resume Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force mission to refuel U.S.-led allied warships in the Indian Ocean even if the measure is voted down by the opposition.

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Japan, China hold defense minister talks in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Chinese Defense Minister Cao Gangchuan (L) and Japanese Defense Minister Masahiko Komura are in talks at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on Aug. 30.

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Japan, China hold defense minister talks in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Chinese Defense Minister Cao Gangchuan, accompanied by his Japanese counterpart Masahiko Komura, returns salute to the guards of honor during a welcome ceremony at the Defense Ministry on Aug. 30.

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Japan, China hold defense minister talks in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Chinese Defense Minister Cao Gangchuan (L) and Japanese Defense Minister Masahiko Komura pose for a photo prior to their talks at the Defense Ministry on Aug. 30.

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Chinese defense minister arrives in Japan for talks with Komura

TOKYO, Japan - Chinese Defense Minister Cao Gangchuan arrives at Narita airport, east of Tokyo, on Aug. 29 for a five-day visit featuring talks with his Japanese counterpart Masahiko Komura, the first meeting between defense ministers of the two countries in four years.

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Abe reshuffles Cabinet, party leadership with veteran lawmakers

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (C) is flanked by Defense Minister Masahiko Komura (L) and Chief Cabinet Secretary Kaoru Yosano (R) at the first meeting of his reshuffled Cabinet at his office on Aug. 27.

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Komura becomes defense minister returning to LDP mainstream

TOKYO, Japan - New defense Minister Masahiko Komura speaks at a press conference on Aug. 27. The veteran lawmaker, who heads a small Liberal Democratic Party faction, was forced out of the party's mainstream and held no posts after he lost in an LDP leadership election in 2003 to then Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.

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1995 Hanshin quake-surviving sauce put on sale

OSAKA, Japan - Products made from sauce condensate that survived the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake in western Japan are shown by Oliver Sauce Co. President Masahiko Doman in Kobe on Dec. 22, 2014. The sauce, marketed every five years since the disaster, is the last product from the original material.

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Shiseido to consolidate product brands in streamlining drive

TOKYO, Japan - Shiseido Co. President Masahiko Uotani announces in Tokyo on Dec. 17, 2014, a plan to consolidate 28 of some 120 product brands as part of efforts to streamline its business operations.

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Honda begins jet engine output in U.S.

BURLINGTON, United States - Masahiko Izumi (L), president of Honda Aero Inc., poses for photos with Pat McCrory, governor of North Carolina, on Nov. 12, 2014, during a ceremony to commemorate the launch of production of the company's new engine for HondaJet small aircraft in Burlington, North Carolina.

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Komura shakes hands with Russel, Kennedy

TOKYO, Japan - Masahiko Komura (R), vice president of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, shakes hands with Daniel Russel (L), U.S. assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, and U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy at the LDP's headquarters in Tokyo on Oct. 7, 2014.

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Japan's Toyama recognized as energy efficient city

NEW YORK, United States - Toyama Mayor Masashi Mori (R) and Masahiko Horie, Japanese ambassador for global environmental affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, pose for a photo in front of the U.N. Headquarters in New York on Sept. 22, 2014, follow the Sea of Japan coast city's recognition by a U.N.-led partnership as a municipality that has improved energy efficiency.

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LDP Vice President Komura

TOKYO, Japan - Masahiko Komura, vice president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, holds a press conference at LDP headquarters in Tokyo on Sept. 3, 2014, after the party endorsed the appointment of new executives. Komura retained his post.

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New LDP leadership launched

TOKYO, Japan - Members of the newly launched leadership of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party join hands for photos at LDP headquarters in Tokyo on Sept. 3, 2014. They are (from L) election strategy chief Toshimitsu Motegi, policy chief Tomomi Inada, Vice President Masahiko Komura, President Shinzo Abe, Secretary General Sadakazu Tanigaki and General Council chief Toshihiro Nikai.

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Shiseido chief speaks to customer at Osaka dept. store

OSAKA, Japan - Shiseido Co. President Masahiko Uotani (L) speaks to a customer in the cosmetics maker's product section at the Umeda flagship store of Hankyu Department Store in Osaka, western Japan, on July 30, 2014.

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PM Abe answers questions from LDP's Komura

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (standing) answers questions from Masahiko Komura, vice president of the Liberal Democratic Party, in Tokyo on July 14, 2014, during a House of Representatives Budget Committee meeting to discuss the issue of the right to collective self-defense.

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Ruling bloc eyes deal as gov't drafts decision on collective defense

TOKYO, Japan - Ruling bloc lawmakers -- (from R) Liberal Democratic Party Vice President Masahiko Komura, New Komeito party deputy chief Kazuo Kitagawa and New Komeito Secretary General Yoshihisa Inoue -- attend a meeting on June 27, 2014, in Tokyo to discuss Japan's exercise of the right to collective self-defense. The two parties are expected to reach an agreement after focusing on a review of Japan's legal constraints on the Self-Defense Forces under the pacifist Constitution.

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Senior ruling bloc lawmakers discuss collective self-defense

TOKYO, Japan - Senior lawmakers of Japan's ruling bloc attend a meeting on June 20, 2014, in Tokyo to discuss the proposed removal of the self-imposed ban on the right to collective self-defense. (From L) New Komeito party Secretary General Yoshihisa Inoue, New Komeito deputy chief Kazuo Kitagawa, Liberal Democratic Party Vice President Masahiko Komura and LDP Secretary General Shigeru Ishiba were among them.

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Senior ruling bloc lawmakers discuss collective self-defense

TOKYO, Japan - Liberal Democratic Party Vice President Masahiko Komura (R) attends a meeting of the ruling party lawmakers, together with the New Komeito party deputy chief Kazuo Kitagawa (C) and Secretary General Yoshihisa Inoue on June 20, 2014, in Tokyo. The LDP proposed Japan should participate in U.N. collective security operations that enable member states to defend each other against attacks, causing a backlash from the coalition partner against what would be a departure from the country's postwar policy.

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Ruling bloc apart on collective self-defense

TOKYO, Japan - New Komeito party deputy chief Kazuo Kitagawa (L) attends a meeting with Liberal Democratic Party Vice President Masahiko Komura (C) and LDP Secretary General Shigeru Ishiba in Tokyo on June 17, 2014, to discuss the government's drive to lift Japan's self-imposed ban on collective self-defense. The government set out on the day its draft overview of a Cabinet decision that would enable Japan to exercise the right to collective self-defense, but the ruling parties remained divided over Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's push for the major policy change.

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Japan World Cup squad on 1st day of training in Brazil

ITU, Brazil - Japan's Keisuke Honda (R) and Masahiko Inoha train near Itu, Brazil, on June 8, 2014, the first day of training in Brazil, ahead of their opening Group C game of the World Cup against the Ivory Coast on June 14.

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Deputy chief of ruling LDP, Putin aide hold talks in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Sergey Naryshkin, speaker of the lower house of the Russian parliament, responds to questions by reporters at the Russian Embassy in Tokyo on June 3, 2014. Naryshkin, a close aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin, held talks there with Liberal Democratic Party Vice President Masahiko Komura.

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Japan arrive in Tampa for World Cup camp

TAMPA, United States - (From L) Atsuto Uchida, Masahiko Inoha and Maya Yoshida are pictured as they and other members of the Japanese men's national soccer team arrive at Tampa international airport in Florida on May 29, 2014, for a training camp ahead of the World Cup finals in Brazil.

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Japanese lawmakers in China

BEIJING, China - Masahiko Komura (L), vice president of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, holds talks with Zhang Dejiang, chairman of the National People's Congress Standing Committee, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on May 5, 2014. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Japanese lawmakers in China

BEIJING, China - Masahiko Komura (L), vice president of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, shakes hands with Zhang Dejiang, chairman of the National People's Congress Standing Committee, ahead of talks at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on May 5, 2014. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Japanese lawmakers in China

BEIJING, China - Masahiko Komura (L), vice president of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, and Zhang Dejiang, chairman of the National People's Congress Standing Committee, head for talks at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on May 5, 2014. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Japan lawmakers in China

BEIJING, China - Masahiko Komura (2nd from front in right row), vice head of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, and former Chinese State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan (L) meet in Beijing on May 4, 2014. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Japanese lawmakers in China

BEIJING, China - Masahiko Komura (L), vice president of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, shakes hands with Li Xiaolin, the head of the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, ahead of talks in Beijing on May 5, 2014. (Pool photo)

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Japanese lawmakers in China

BEIJING, China - Masahiko Komura (far R), vice president of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, holds talks with Li Xiaolin (2nd from L), the head of the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, in Beijing on May 5, 2014. (Pool photo)

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Japanese school to help foster auto mechanics in Myanmar

YANGON, Myanmar - Masahiko Setogawa (L), president of the Okayama Institute of Science and Technology in Okayama, western Japan, holds a letter of intent with the head of a vocational school in Yangon calling for the offer of a training course by the institute for automobile mechanics in Myanmar.

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Shiseido chief Uotani explains new product

TOKYO, Japan - Masahiko Uotani, president of cosmetics maker Shiseido Co., speaks about a new product at a release event in Tokyo on April 8, 2014.

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Shiseido chief Uotani shows new product at release event

TOKYO, Japan - Masahiko Uotani, president of cosmetics maker Shiseido Co., shows a new product at a release event in Tokyo on April 8, 2014.

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Shiseido's next president

TOKYO, Japan - Masahiko Uotani, who is set to become president of cosmetics maker Shiseido Co. on April 1, 2014, is interviewed by Kyodo News in Tokyo on Feb. 25, 2014.

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Japanese coach instructs Jordanian women's soccer team

AMMAN, Jordan - Masahiko Okiyama, a Japanese who coaches the Jordanian women's national soccer team, gives instructions to team members during practice in Amman, Jordan, on Jan. 15, 2014.

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Tsunami-damaged railways

MORIOKA, Japan - Sanriku Railway Co. President Masahiko Mochizuki (C) holds a press conference in Morioka, Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Jan. 27, 2014. The railway operator will fully resume services on its two railway lines in Iwate Prefecture in April 2014, three years after the devastating March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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Shiseido names new president

TOKYO, Japan - Masahiko Uotani, outside chief marketing advisor of Shiseido Co., smiles during a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 24, 2013, after the cosmetics maker announced he will become its new president effective April 1, 2014, replacing Shinzo Maeda.

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Shiseido names new president

TOKYO, Japan - Masahiko Uotani (L), outside chief marketing advisor of Shiseido Co., shakes hands with the cosmetics maker's president, Shinzo Maeda, during a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 24, 2013. Shiseido announced that Uotani will become its new president effective April 1, 2014, replacing Maeda.

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Abe envoy in Iran

TEHRAN, Iran - Former Japanese Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura (L) and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani meet in Tehran on Sept. 8, 2013. Komura was in Iran as a special envoy of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

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Abe envoy in Iran

TEHRAN, Iran - Former Japanese Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura (L) and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani shake hands in Tehran on Sept. 8, 2013. Komura was in Iran as a special envoy of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

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Abe envoy in Iran

TEHRAN, Iran - Former Japanese Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura (L) and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif meet in Tehran on Sept. 7, 2013. Komura was in Iran as a special envoy of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.