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Actress Yoshinaga receives Tsubouchi Shoyo Award

GIFU, Japan - Actress Sayuri Yoshinaga makes a speech after receiving the Tsubouchi Shoyo Award in Minokamo, hometown of the renowned author (1859-1935) in Gifu Prefecture, central Japan, on Jan. 10, 2015. She said she wants to keep going strong in her acting career and in the peace movement.

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Actress Yoshinaga gets Tsubouchi Shoyo Award

GIFU, Japan - Actress Sayuri Yoshinaga receives the Tsubouchi Shoyo Award in Minokamo, hometown of the renowned author (1859-1935) in Gifu Prefecture, central Japan, on Jan. 10, 2015, for her long acting career and poetry readings against nuclear weapons.

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Police investigate Japan's youngest mayor over bribery

GIFU, Japan - Hiroto Fujii, the mayor of Minokamo in central Japan's Gifu Prefecture, meets reporters at the city hall on June 24, 2014, before police begin investigating Japan's youngest city mayor on suspicion of bribery. Fujii is 29 years old.

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Police investigate Japan's youngest mayor over bribery

GIFU, Japan - Hiroto Fujii, the mayor of Minokamo in central Japan's Gifu Prefecture, gets into a vehicle at city hall on June 24, 2014. Police began investigating the 29-year-old, Japan's youngest city mayor on suspicion of bribery.

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Police investigate Japan's youngest mayor over bribery

GIFU, Japan - Hiroto Fujii, the mayor of Minokamo in central Japan's Gifu Prefecture, meets reporters at the city hall on June 24, 2014, before police begin investigating Japan's youngest city mayor on suspicion of bribery. Fujii is 29 years old.

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Police investigate Japan's youngest mayor over bribery

GIFU, Japan - Hiroto Fujii (C), the mayor of Minokamo in central Japan's Gifu Prefecture, leaves the city hall on June 24, 2014, before police begin investigating Japan's youngest city mayor on suspicion of bribery. Fujii is 29 years old.

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Younger Japanese-Brazilians in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Jan. 31, 2014 shows Marcelo Watanabe, a third-generation Japanese Brazilian at his office in Minokamo, Gifu Prefecture, who compiled an almanac of immigration in the prefecture last year to mark its 100th anniversary.

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Helping foreigners become self-reliant

GIFU, Japan - Photo taken April 2, 2013 shows a Sony Corp. subsidiary's plant in Minokamo, Gifu Prefecture, which was shut down in the end of March.

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Training tour guides for Chinese visitors to Japan

GIFU, Japan - Sun Zhaohua (L), who is training to become a tour guide for Chinese tourists visiting Japan, speaks at the start of a training course in Minokamo, Gifu Prefecture, on Dec. 6, 2010. A real estate firm is providing the three-month program under a government job training program.

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Unmanned forklift trucks installed by Yamazaki Mazak at the Minokamo Plant No. 2.

Yamazaki Mazak has restructured and integrated the No. 1 and No. 2 plants of its mainstay Minokamo Plant (Minokamo City, Gifu Prefecture) from product-based to assembly and parts processing functions, and opened them to the press and customers. The company introduced its first radio frequency identification (RFID) tags for parts and unmanned forklift trucks (AGFLs), and also utilized the Internet of Things (IoT), automation, artificial intelligence (AI), and digital twins to increase the monthly production capacity to 350 units, a 50% increase over the previous capacity. The Minokamo Plant is responsible for 60% of Yamazaki Mazak's domestic production. The first and second plants are about 600 meters apart and were previously operated as separate factories. With the reorganization of Minokamo, the smartification of domestic factories has come full circle. Yamazaki Mazak's Minokamo Plant No. 2 in Minokamo, Gifu Prefecture, November 25, 2019. Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

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Japan's youngest mayor acquitted in bribery case

Thirty-year-old Hiroto Fujii, the mayor of Minokamo in Gifu Prefecture, central Japan, and Japan's youngest city mayor, speaks at a press conference in Nagoya on March 5, 2015, after the Nagoya District Court found him not guilty of receiving bribes from a groundwater supply company over the installation of a water-cleaning system in a public school. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's youngest mayor acquitted in bribery case

Thirty-year-old Hiroto Fujii, the mayor of Minokamo in Gifu Prefecture, central Japan, and Japan's youngest city mayor, speaks at a press conference in Nagoya on March 5, 2015, after the Nagoya District Court found him not guilty of receiving bribes from a groundwater supply company over the installation of a water-cleaning system in a public school. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's youngest mayor acquitted in bribery case

Thirty-year-old Hiroto Fujii, the mayor of Minokamo in Gifu Prefecture, central Japan, and Japan's youngest city mayor, speaks at a press conference in Nagoya on March 5, 2015, after the Nagoya District Court found him not guilty of receiving bribes from a groundwater supply company over the installation of a water-cleaning system in a public school. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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5 works by Higashiyama stolen from exhibition hall

GIFU, Japan - File photo is one of the five sketches and woodblock prints by Japanese artist Kaii Higashiyama which were stolen from an exhibition hall in the city of Minokamo, Gifu Prefecture. Police said Feb. 18 security guards dispatched to the exhibition site after alarms sounded found the works missing and a window on the first floor and the acrylic exhibition case both broken.

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Actress Yoshinaga gets Tsubouchi Shoyo Award

GIFU, Japan - Actress Sayuri Yoshinaga receives the Tsubouchi Shoyo Award in Minokamo, hometown of the renowned author (1859-1935) in Gifu Prefecture, central Japan, on Jan. 10, 2015, for her long acting career and poetry readings against nuclear weapons. (Kyodo)

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Japan's youngest mayor held on suspicion of bribery

MINOKAMO, Japan - Hiroto Fujii (L front), 29, mayor of Minokamo in Gifu Prefecture, meets the press at the municipal offices on June 24, 2014. Fujii, Japan's youngest city mayor, was arrested later that day on suspicion of taking bribes over the installation of a water-cleaning system at a public school. (Kyodo)

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Police investigate Japan's youngest mayor over bribery

GIFU, Japan - Hiroto Fujii (C), the mayor of Minokamo in central Japan's Gifu Prefecture, leaves the city hall on June 24, 2014, before police begin investigating Japan's youngest city mayor on suspicion of bribery. Fujii is 29 years old. (Kyodo)

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Training tour guides for Chinese visitors to Japan

GIFU, Japan - Sun Zhaohua (L), who is training to become a tour guide for Chinese tourists visiting Japan, speaks at the start of a training course in Minokamo, Gifu Prefecture, on Dec. 6, 2010. A real estate firm is providing the three-month program under a government job training program. (Kyodo)

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Outbreak of hog cholera in Japan

People in protective gear gather near a public livestock research institute in Minokamo, Gifu Prefecture, central Japan, on Dec. 5, 2018, following the detection of a hog cholera infection at the facility earlier in the day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Outbreak of hog cholera in Japan

People in protective gear gather near a public livestock research institute in Minokamo, Gifu Prefecture, central Japan, on Dec. 5, 2018, following the detection of a hog cholera infection at the facility earlier in the day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Youngest mayor in Japan resigns after conviction for taking bribes

Hiroto Fujii, the 32-year-old mayor of Minokamo, Gifu Prefecture, leaves his office in the central Japan city on Dec. 19, 2016, following his resignation after being convicted in November of taking bribes in 2013 while an assembly member. He became the youngest city mayor in Japan in June 2013. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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New hotel in central Japan

Photo taken in Minokamo, Gifu Prefecture, central Japan, Oct. 6, 2020, shows a guest room of Fairfield by Marriott Gifu Seiryu Satoyama Park, a newly opened hotel run by Sekisui House Ltd. and Marriott International Inc.

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New hotel in central Japan

Photo taken in Minokamo, Gifu Prefecture, central Japan, Oct. 6, 2020, shows a lobby at Fairfield by Marriott Gifu Seiryu Satoyama Park, a newly opened hotel run by Sekisui House Ltd. and Marriott International Inc.

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New hotel in central Japan

Photo taken in Minokamo, Gifu Prefecture, central Japan, Oct. 6, 2020, shows Fairfield by Marriott Gifu Seiryu Satoyama Park, a newly opened hotel run by Sekisui House Ltd. and Marriott International Inc.

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Yamazaki Mazak plant in Japan

Major Japanese machine tool builder Yamazaki Mazak Corp. unveils the inside of its plant in Minokamo, Gifu Prefecture, central Japan, on Nov. 25, 2019. The company introduced artificial intelligence, internet connectivity and other IT systems at the plant. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Yamazaki Mazak plant in Japan

Major Japanese machine tool builder Yamazaki Mazak Corp. unveils an unmanned forklift at its plant in Minokamo, Gifu Prefecture, central Japan, on Nov. 25, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hog cholera infection in Japan

Officials in hazmat suits work at a pig farm in Minokamo, Gifu Prefecture, on March 30, 2019, to prevent the spread of hog cholera, the 17th case of infection in Japan since September 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hog cholera infection in Japan

Officials in hazmat suits work at a pig farm in Minokamo, Gifu Prefecture, on March 30, 2019, to prevent the spread of hog cholera, the 17th case of infection in Japan since September 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hog cholera infection in Japan

Photo taken Dec. 5, 2018, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a public livestock research institute in Minokamo, central Japan, where the Gifu prefectural government began culling hogs after a hog cholera infection was discovered. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hog cholera infection in Japan

Photo taken Dec. 5, 2018, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a public livestock research institute in Minokamo, central Japan, where the Gifu prefectural government began culling hogs after a hog cholera infection was discovered. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hog cholera infection in Japan

Photo taken Dec. 5, 2018, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a public livestock research institute in Minokamo, central Japan, where the Gifu prefectural government began culling hogs after a hog cholera infection was discovered. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hog cholera infection in Japan

Photo taken Dec. 5, 2018, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a public livestock research institute in Minokamo, central Japan, where the Gifu prefectural government began culling hogs after a hog cholera infection was discovered. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hog cholera infection in Japan

Photo taken Dec. 5, 2018, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a public livestock research institute in Minokamo, central Japan, where the Gifu prefectural government began culling hogs after a hog cholera infection was discovered. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Outbreak of hog cholera in Japan

People in protective gear gather near a public livestock research institute in Minokamo, Gifu Prefecture, central Japan, on Dec. 5, 2018, following the detection of a hog cholera infection at the facility earlier in the day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Outbreak of hog cholera in Japan

People in protective gear gather near a public livestock research institute in Minokamo, Gifu Prefecture, central Japan, on Dec. 5, 2018, following the detection of a hog cholera infection at the facility earlier in the day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Outbreak of hog cholera in Japan

People in protective gear gather near a public livestock research institute in Minokamo, Gifu Prefecture, central Japan, on Dec. 5, 2018, following the detection of a hog cholera infection at the facility earlier in the day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Mayor standing bribery trial wins 3rd term uncontested

Hiroto Fujii (C), mayor of Minokamo who is appealing a high court conviction for bribery, celebrates in the city in Gifu Prefecture on May 14, 2017 on securing his third term after becoming the only person to file candidacy for the May 21 election by the start of the official campaign period. Fujii, 32, won uncontested just five months after stepping down as mayor and seeking a mandate following his conviction. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Former mayor wins re-election while appealing bribery conviction

Hiroto Fujii (C), the former mayor of Minokamo in central Japan, who stepped down after being convicted of bribery, is congratulated by his supporters in the Gifu Prefecture city on Jan. 29, 2017. Fujii was re-elected but could be forced to leave office again depending on his Supreme Court appeal against the conviction. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Former mayor wins re-election while appealing bribery conviction

Hiroto Fujii (R), the former mayor of Minokamo in central Japan, who stepped down after being convicted of bribery, shakes hands with a supporter in the Gifu Prefecture city on Jan. 29, 2017. Fujii was re-elected but could be forced to leave office again depending on his Supreme Court appeal against the conviction. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Former mayor wins re-election while appealing bribery conviction

Hiroto Fujii (C), the former mayor of Minokamo in Gifu Prefecture, who stepped down after being convicted of bribery, celebrates in the central Japan city on the night of Jan. 29, 2017, after winning back the post in an election earlier that day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Mayor convicted in bribery case says to resign and seek reelection

Hiroto Fujii, mayor of the central Japan city of Minokamo, is to attend a meeting of city assembly members on Dec. 7, 2016. Fujii expressed his readiness to step down to seek reelection after being convicted in November of taking bribes in 2013 while an assembly member. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Mayor convicted in bribery case says to resign and seek reelection

Hiroto Fujii, mayor of the central Japan city of Minokamo, tells the city assembly on Dec. 7, 2016, that he will step down to seek reelection after being convicted in November of taking bribes in 2013 while an assembly member. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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High court finds city mayor guilty in bribery case

Minokamo Mayor Hiroto Fujii heads to a press conference on Nov. 28, 2016, after the Nagoya High Court (back) sentenced the 32-year-old city mayor in Gifu Prefecture to one and a half years in prison, suspended for three years, for taking bribes, overturning an acquittal by a district court. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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High court finds city mayor guilty in bribery case

Minokamo Mayor Hiroto Fujii leaves the Nagoya High Court on Nov. 28, 2016, after the court sentenced the 32-year-old city mayor in Gifu Prefecture to one and a half years in prison, suspended for three years, for taking bribes, overturning an acquittal by a district court. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo