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National World Heritage tourism summit held in Japan

HASHIMOTO, Japan - Michiyo Kubo, a World Heritage site researcher, gives a lecture at a "summit" on national World Heritage tourism on Sept. 29, 2014, at Koyasan University in Koya, Wakayama Prefecture. Mt. Koya in the western Japan prefecture was registered on UNESCO's World Heritage list in 2004.

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Japanese snowboarders hoping to smoke Olympic pipe

SALT LAKE CITY, United States - Japanese women's snowboarding duo Yoko Miyake (L) and Michiyo Hashimoto smile at a press conference in Salt Lake City on Feb. 7, one day before the opening of the 19th Olympic Winter Games in the city.

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Actress Michiyo Aratama dies at 71

TOKYO, Japan - File photo, taken in 1985, shows veteran Japanese actress Michiyo Aratama, a popular figure in TV dramas and on stage, who died of heart failure at a Tokyo hospital March 17. She was 71. Her family announced her death on March 22.

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Man gets 18-year prison term for abduction, murder

People queue for a lottery to gain admission to the trial of Masato Okazaki, 25, whom the Nara District Court sentenced Oct. 19 to 18 years in prison for the May 1997 abduction and murder of a 13-year-old girl in western Japan. Presiding Judge Masayoshi Suzuki sentenced Okazaki for killing Michiyo Urakubo, an acquaintance of the defendant, on May 4 last year.

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Japanese snowboarders hoping to smoke Olympic pipe

SALT LAKE CITY, United States - Japanese women's snowboarding duo Yoko Miyake (L) and Michiyo Hashimoto smile at a press conference in Salt Lake City on Feb. 7, one day before the opening of the 19th Olympic Winter Games in the city.

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Evacuees visit homes within 3 km of Fukushima plant for 1st time

HIRONO, Japan - Michiyo Suzuki, 38, wearing radiation protection gear, returns to her home in Futaba, Fukushima Prefecture, within 3 kilometers of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, on Aug. 26, 2011. Suzuki was among nearly 150 evacuees from areas within 3 km of the plant who were allowed to visit their homes for the first time in five and a half months since the complex was crippled by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo)

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National World Heritage tourism summit held in Japan

HASHIMOTO, Japan - Michiyo Kubo, a World Heritage site researcher, gives a lecture at a "summit" on national World Heritage tourism on Sept. 29, 2014, at Koyasan University in Koya, Wakayama Prefecture. Mt. Koya in the western Japan prefecture was registered on UNESCO's World Heritage list in 2004. (Kyodo)

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Murderer dies after hanging self in prison

TOKYO, Japan - Masato Okazaki (file photo), who was serving a life sentence for murdering a 13-year-old girl, hanged himself in his prison cell earlier this month and died four days later, the government said Sept. 19. Okazaki, 29, was found guilty of murdering Michiyo Urakubo in May 1997 after deliberately hitting her with his car in the village of Tsukigase, Nara Prefecture.

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Actress Michiyo Aratama dies at 71

TOKYO, Japan - File photo, taken in 1985, shows veteran Japanese actress Michiyo Aratama, a popular figure in TV dramas and on stage, who died of heart failure at a Tokyo hospital March 17. She was 71. Her family announced her death on March 22.

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Man gets 18-year prison term for abduction, murder

People queue for a lottery to gain admission to the trial of Masato Okazaki, 25, whom the Nara District Court sentenced Oct. 19 to 18 years in prison for the May 1997 abduction and murder of a 13-year-old girl in western Japan. Presiding Judge Masayoshi Suzuki sentenced Okazaki for killing Michiyo Urakubo, an acquaintance of the defendant, on May 4 last year. ==Kyodo