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Women compete in kendo at Japan's martial arts Mecca for 1st time

Women compete in kendo at Japan's martial arts Mecca for 1st time

Mihiro Kondo (C, R) and Tai Watanabe (C, L) compete in the women's final at the national kendo championships at Tokyo's Nippon Budokan on Nov. 3, 2024. The Nippon Budokan, Japan's martial arts Mecca, hosted women's kendo competition for the first time at the tournament, which has been held annually since 1962.

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Families in tsunami-hit town then and now

Families in tsunami-hit town then and now

Combined photo shows (clockwise from top L) Yasufumi Oikawa, his wife Mika, and their children Momoka, Tamon and Mihiro on June 10, 2011 (top), standing in front of the family-run chrysanthemum farm in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, in northeastern Japan after it was reduced to piles of rubble by a massive tsunami three months earlier, and the Oikawa family on Feb. 15, 2017, standing in front of the rebuilt farm along with Shoko (back C) who was born three years after the disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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