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Rite at Ise Jingu shrine in central Japan

ISE, Japan, May 2 Kyodo - Priests march during "Yamaguchi-sai," the first of a series of rites for the "Shikinen Sengu" shrine building reconstruction every 20 years at Ise Jingu shrine in Ise in Mie Prefecture, central Japan, on May 2, 2025. (Kyodo)

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Rite at Ise Jingu shrine in central Japan

Priests march during "Yamaguchi-sai," the first of a series of rites for the "Shikinen Sengu" shrine building reconstruction every 20 years at Ise Jingu shrine in Ise in Mie Prefecture, central Japan, on May 2, 2025.

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Rite at Ise Jingu shrine in central Japan

Priests and carpenters march during "Yamaguchi-sai," the first of a series of rites for the "Shikinen Sengu" shrine building reconstruction every 20 years at Ise Jingu shrine in Ise in Mie Prefecture, central Japan, on May 2, 2025.

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Rite at Ise Jingu shrine in central Japan

"Yamaguchi-sai," the first of a series of rites for the "Shikinen Sengu" ritual, or the construction every 20 years at an alternate site of a new "divine palace" hall at Ise Jingu shrine, is held at the shrine in Ise in Mie Prefecture, central Japan, on May 2, 2025, to pray for the safety of logging trees for timber for the new hall. (Pool photo)

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Rite at Ise Jingu shrine in central Japan

"Yamaguchi-sai," the first of a series of rites for the "Shikinen Sengu" ritual, or the construction every 20 years at an alternate site of a new "divine palace" hall at Ise Jingu shrine, is held at the shrine in Ise in Mie Prefecture, central Japan, on May 2, 2025, to pray for the safety of logging trees for timber for the new hall. (Pool photo)

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Rite at Ise Jingu shrine in central Japan

"Yamaguchi-sai," the first of a series of rites for the "Shikinen Sengu" ritual, or the construction every 20 years at an alternate site of a new "divine palace" hall at Ise Jingu shrine, is held at the shrine in Ise in Mie Prefecture, central Japan, on May 2, 2025, to pray for the safety of logging trees for timber for the new hall. (Pool photo)

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Rite at Ise Jingu shrine in central Japan

"Yamaguchi-sai," the first of a series of rites for the "Shikinen Sengu" ritual, or the construction every 20 years at an alternate site of a new "divine palace" hall at Ise Jingu shrine, is held at the shrine in Ise in Mie Prefecture, central Japan, on May 2, 2025, to pray for the safety of logging trees for timber for the new hall.

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Rite at Ise Jingu shrine in central Japan

"Yamaguchi-sai," the first of a series of rites for the "Shikinen Sengu" ritual, or the construction every 20 years at an alternate site of a new "divine palace" hall at Ise Jingu shrine, is held at the shrine in Ise in Mie Prefecture, central Japan, on May 2, 2025, to pray for the safety of logging trees for timber for the new hall.

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Rite at Ise Jingu shrine in central Japan

"Yamaguchi-sai," the first of a series of rites for the "Shikinen Sengu" ritual, or the construction every 20 years at an alternate site of a new "divine palace" hall at Ise Jingu shrine, is held at the shrine in Ise in Mie Prefecture, central Japan, on May 2, 2025, to pray for the safety of logging trees for timber for the new hall.

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Rite at Ise Jingu shrine in central Japan

"Yamaguchi-sai," the first of a series of rites for the "Shikinen Sengu" ritual, or the construction every 20 years at an alternate site of a new "divine palace" hall at Ise Jingu shrine, is held at the shrine in Ise in Mie Prefecture, central Japan, on May 2, 2025, to pray for the safety of logging trees for timber for the new hall.

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Rite at Ise Jingu shrine in central Japan

"Yamaguchi-sai," the first of a series of rites for the "Shikinen Sengu" ritual, or the construction every 20 years at an alternate site of a new "divine palace" hall at Ise Jingu shrine, is held at the shrine in Ise in Mie Prefecture, central Japan, on May 2, 2025, to pray for the safety of logging trees for timber for the new hall.

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Rite at Ise Jingu shrine in central Japan

"Yamaguchi-sai," the first of a series of rites for the "Shikinen Sengu" ritual, or the construction every 20 years at an alternate site of a new "divine palace" hall at Ise Jingu shrine, is held at the shrine in Ise in Mie Prefecture, central Japan, on May 2, 2025, to pray for the safety of logging trees for timber for the new hall.

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Rite at Ise Jingu shrine in central Japan

"Yamaguchi-sai," the first of a series of rites for the "Shikinen Sengu" ritual, or the construction every 20 years at an alternate site of a new "divine palace" hall at Ise Jingu shrine, is held at the shrine in Ise in Mie Prefecture, central Japan, on May 2, 2025, to pray for the safety of logging trees for timber for the new hall.

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Rite at Ise Jingu shrine in central Japan

"Yamaguchi-sai," the first of a series of rites for the "Shikinen Sengu" ritual, or the construction every 20 years at an alternate site of a new "divine palace" hall at Ise Jingu shrine, is held at the shrine in Ise in Mie Prefecture, central Japan, on May 2, 2025, to pray for the safety of logging trees for timber for the new hall.

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Rite at Ise Jingu shrine in central Japan

"Yamaguchi-sai," the first of a series of rites for the "Shikinen Sengu" ritual, or the construction every 20 years at an alternate site of a new "divine palace" hall at Ise Jingu shrine, is held at the shrine in Ise in Mie Prefecture, central Japan, on May 2, 2025, to pray for the safety of logging trees for timber for the new hall.

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'CNN Headline' newscaster Yamaguchi dies

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in March 1989 shows TV personality Mie Yamaguchi. Yamaguchi, who was a bilingual ''CNN Headline'' newscaster and acted as a career woman with a craving for Japanese ''shibazuke'' pickles in a well-known TV commercial in the late 1980s, was found dead at her home in Yokohama on March 8, 2012, her management office said the following day. She was 51.

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3rd municipality in Japan starts issuing same-sex partnership papers

Sakae Okamoto (2nd from R), the mayor of Iga in the central Japanese prefecture of Mie, and Shoichi Yamaguchi (3rd from L), an advocate of LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) rights from the prefecture, release balloons in front of the municipal office building on April 1, 2016. They were commemorating the city becoming the country's third municipality the same day with a system of issuing certificates recognizing same-sex partnership as being equivalent to marriage. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese governors discuss issues in raising children

Yamaguchi Gov. Tsugumasa Muraoka (L) and Mie Gov. Eikei Suzuki take a rickshaw ride in Hagi, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on March 15, 2016. The two youngest of Japan's governors, aged 43 and 41, respectively, exchanged views on issues the prefectures have faced in raising children. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo