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Maritime festival in southwestern Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows fishing boats parading in the Genkai Sea off Munakata in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Fukuoka on Oct. 1, 2025, during the Miare Festival, part of the autumn festivities at Munakata shrine to wish for a bountiful seafood catch and safety at sea.

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Maritime festival in southwestern Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows fishing boats parading in the Genkai Sea off Munakata in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Fukuoka on Oct. 1, 2025, during the Miare Festival, part of the autumn festivities at Munakata shrine to wish for a bountiful seafood catch and safety at sea.

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Maritime festival in southwestern Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows fishing boats parading in the Genkai Sea off Munakata in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Fukuoka on Oct. 1, 2025, during the Miare Festival, part of the autumn festivities at Munakata shrine to wish for a bountiful seafood catch and safety at sea.

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Maritime festival in southwestern Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows fishing boats parading in the Genkai Sea off Munakata in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Fukuoka on Oct. 1, 2025, during the Miare Festival, part of the autumn festivities at Munakata shrine to wish for a bountiful seafood catch and safety at sea.

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[Breaking News]Japan minesweeper sinks after catching fire

MUNAKATA, Japan, Nov. 11 Kyodo - Video taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Nov. 11, 2024, shows the area around where the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force minesweeper Ukushima sank off Munakata, Fukuoka Prefecture, after catching fire. (Kyodo)

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Maritime festival in southwestern Japan

Fishing boats parade in the Genkai Sea off Munakata in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Fukuoka on Oct. 1, 2024, during the Miare Festival, part of the autumn festival at Munakata shrine to wish for a bountiful seafood catch and safety at sea.

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Maritime festival in southwestern Japan

Fishing boats parade in the Genkai Sea off Munakata in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Fukuoka on Oct. 1, 2024, during the Miare Festival, part of the autumn festival at Munakata shrine to wish for a bountiful seafood catch and safety at sea.

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Maritime festival in southwestern Japan

Fishing boats parade in the Genkai Sea off Munakata in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Fukuoka on Oct. 1, 2024, during the Miare Festival, part of the autumn festival at Munakata shrine to wish for a bountiful seafood catch and safety at sea.

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[Breaking News]Fire breaks out on MSDF minesweeper

MUNAKATA, Japan, Nov. 10 Kyodo - Video taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Nov. 10, 2024, shows smoke rising from the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force minesweeper Ukushima after a fire broke out while it was off Munakata in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Fukuoka. (Kyodo)

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Japan minesweeper sinks after catching fire

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Nov. 11, 2024, shows Japan Coast Guard divers preparing to search following the sinking of a Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force minesweeper, Ukushima, off Munakata, Fukuoka Prefecture, after it caught fire.

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Japan minesweeper sinks after catching fire

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Nov. 11, 2024, shows the area around where the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force minesweeper Ukushima sank off Munakata, Fukuoka Prefecture, after catching fire.

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Japan minesweeper sinks after catching fire

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Nov. 11, 2024, shows Japan Coast Guard divers preparing to search following the sinking of a Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force minesweeper, Ukushima, off Munakata, Fukuoka Prefecture, after it caught fire.

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Japan minesweeper sinks after catching fire

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Nov. 11, 2024, shows the area around where the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force minesweeper Ukushima sank off Munakata, Fukuoka Prefecture, after catching fire.

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Fire breaks out on MSDF minesweeper

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Nov. 10, 2024, shows smoke rising from the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force minesweeper Ukushima (R) after a fire broke out while it was off Munakata in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Fukuoka.

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Fire breaks out on MSDF minesweeper

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Nov. 10, 2024, shows smoke rising from the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force minesweeper Ukushima (back) after a fire broke out while it was off Munakata in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Fukuoka.

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Fire breaks out on MSDF minesweeper

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Nov. 10, 2024, shows smoke rising from the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force minesweeper Ukushima (back) after a fire broke out while it was off Munakata in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Fukuoka.

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Fire breaks out on MSDF minesweeper

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Nov. 10, 2024, shows smoke rising from the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force minesweeper Ukushima (L) after a fire broke out while it was off Munakata in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Fukuoka.

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Fire breaks out on MSDF minesweeper

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Nov. 10, 2024, shows the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force minesweeper Ukushima (L) receiving water from a Japan Coast Guard ship after a fire broke out while it was off Munakata in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Fukuoka.

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Maritime ritual at southwestern Japan shrine

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows fishing boats parading through the Genkai Sea off Munakata in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Fukuoka on Oct. 1, 2023, during the Miare Festival, part of the autumn festival at Munakata shrine to wish for a bountiful seafood catch and safety at sea.

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Maritime ritual at southwestern Japan shrine

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows fishing boats parading through the Genkai Sea off Munakata in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Fukuoka on Oct. 1, 2023, during the Miare Festival, part of the autumn festival at Munakata shrine to wish for a bountiful seafood catch and safety at sea.

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Autumn festival at Munakata Shrine begins

FUKUOKA, Japan, Oct. 1 Kyodo - About 200 fishing boats parade in the Genkai Sea, the southwestern portion of the Sea of Japan, off the city of Munakata in Fukuoka Prefecture, western Japan, on Oct. 1, 2017, during the Miare Festival, part of the autumn festival at Munakata Shrine, a World Cultural Heritage site. The event is held to pray for the safety of sea traffic and a good haul.

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Cartoonist paints monk Shinran on folding screen

KYOTO, Japan - A painting by cartoonist Takehiko Inoue of Shinran, a famous 13th-century Buddhist monk, drawn on a "byobu" folding screen is shown to the press at a temple in Kyoto, western Japan, on Oct. 28, 2014. It will go on display at Kyoto's Higashi Honganji temple from Nov. 1 along with the famed late woodblock print artist Shiko Munakata's paintings on "fusuma" sliding doors.

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Munakata's 50-year-old paintings on sliding doors shown

KYOTO, Japan - The famed late woodblock print artist Shiko Munakata's paintings on "fusuma" sliding doors are shown to the press on Oct. 28, 2014. The paintings, drawn some 50 years ago on 44 doors, will be displayed at Kyoto's Higashi Honganji temple on Nov. 1-3 for the first time.

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Meditation, music help people know more about themselves

TOKYO, Japan - Participants of a program combining meditation and Bach's music pause to pray at the chapel of a Catholic church in Munakata, Fukuoka Prefecture, on June 1, 2013.

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Meditation, music help people know more about themselves

TOKYO, Japan - Father Takehiro Kunii delivers a lecture on June 1, 2013, to participants of a program combining meditation and Bach's music at a Catholic church in Munakata, Fukuoka Prefecture.

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Meditation, music help people know more about themselves

TOKYO, Japan - Participants of a program combining meditation and Bach's music pause before a cross on the grounds of a Catholic church in Munakata, Fukuoka Prefecture on June 2, 2013. The participants were on a walk through the woods, led by Father Katsunori Nakamura (far L), to ponder the footsteps of Jesus Christ carrying the cross.

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Mahathir speaks to Kyushu businesspeople

MUNAKATA, Japan - Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad speaks at a meeting of businesspeople from Kyushu, southwestern Japan, on July 31 in Munakata, Fukuoka Prefecture.

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Do-or-die for Musashimaru at Kyushu sumo

FUKUOKA, Japan - Yokozuna Musashimaru practices at his stable in Munakata, Fukuoka Prefecture, on Nov. 7 in preparation for the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament opening on Nov. 9. After missing all or most of the last six tournaments due to a chronic wrist injury, the 32-year-old Samoan-born grand champion could need a miracle to regain the power he once wielded.

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Musashimaru to sit out rest of Kyushu sumo tournament

FUKUOKA, Japan - Yokozuna Musashimaru speaks to reporters in front of his stable's dormitory in Munakata, Fukuoka Prefecture, on Nov. 15 after his withdrawal from the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament following an injury to his left wrist.

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Investigators probe train collision in Fukuoka

FUKUOKA, Japan - An investigator from the transport ministry's fact-finding committee examines damaged trains Feb. 23 in Munakata, Fukuoka Prefecture. More than 70 people were injured when an express train plowed into a stationary local train the previous night.

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Human error blamed for train collision in Fukuoka

FUKUOKA, Japan - Photo, taken Feb. 23, shows an express train (L) which plowed into a stationary local train the previous night in Munakata, Fukuoka Prefecture. More than 70 people were injured in an accident railway officials blamed on ''human error'' on the part of the express train driver.

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Yokozuna Musashimaru meets press one day after winning tourney

MUNAKATA, Japan - Yokozuna (grand champion) Musashimaru smiles at a press conference at his stable's lodging place in Munakata, Fukuoka Prefecture, on Nov. 26, one day after he won his ninth Emperor's Cup at the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament.

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Bid to add Munakata-Okinoshima monuments to World Heritage list

File photo taken July 25, 2015, shows a shrine pavilion in the southwestern Japan city of Munakata, part of the Munakata-Okinoshima monuments. On July 28, a government panel picked the monuments for inclusion on the UNESCO World Heritage list in 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Bid to add Munakata-Okinoshima monuments to World Heritage list

File photo taken July 25, 2015, shows a shrine pavilion in the southwestern Japan city of Munakata, part of the Munakata-Okinoshima monuments. On July 28, a government panel picked the monuments for inclusion on the UNESCO World Heritage list in 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Bid to add Munakata-Okinoshima monuments to World Heritage list

File photo taken July 11, 2015, shows Okinoshima Island in the southwestern Japan city of Munakata, Fukuoka Prefecture. The Council for Cultural Affairs decided on July 28 to pick the Munakata-Okinoshima monuments for inclusion on the UNESCO World Heritage list in 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Plan to recommend sacred island for UNESCO list sparks mixed feelings

Photo taken in November, 2015, shows the inside of Munakata Grand Shrine's Okitsu no Miya pavilion on Okinoshima Island off Fukuoka Prefecture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Plan to recommend sacred island for UNESCO list sparks mixed feelings

Photo taken in November, 2015, shows gold-copper dragon heads, designated a national treasure, displayed at the Munakata Grand Shrine museum in the city of Munakata, Fukuoka Prefecture. They were found in the remains of ritual structures on sacred Okinoshima Island off Fukuoka. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Plan to recommend sacred island for UNESCO list sparks mixed feelings

Photo taken in November, 2015, shows Munakata Grand Shrine's Okitsu no Miya pavilion on Okinoshima Island off Fukuoka Prefecture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Investigators probe train collision in Fukuoka

FUKUOKA, Japan - An investigator from the transport ministry's fact-finding committee examines damaged trains Feb. 23 in Munakata, Fukuoka Prefecture. More than 70 people were injured when an express train plowed into a stationary local train the previous night.

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Human error blamed for train collision in Fukuoka

FUKUOKA, Japan - Photo, taken Feb. 23, shows an express train (L) which plowed into a stationary local train the previous night in Munakata, Fukuoka Prefecture. More than 70 people were injured in an accident railway officials blamed on ''human error'' on the part of the express train driver.

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Volleyball: Masuko

File photo shows volleyball player Naomi Masuko (3) competing in Tokyo in February 1990. Former women's national volleyball player Masuko founded a volleyball tournament for elementary school students in the city of Munakata in Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan, in 2015 with one rule that cannot be broken: "Coaches must not get angry at players." (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Avian flu outbreak in southwestern Japan

Disinfection work is under way on a road in Munakata in Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Nov. 25, 2020, near a chicken farm where an outbreak of avian flu was confirmed.

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Avian flu outbreak in southwestern Japan

Photo taken Nov. 25, 2020, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows officials in protective suits working to cull more than 90,000 chickens at a chicken farm in Munakata in Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Nov. 25, 2020, after an outbreak of avian flu was confirmed there.

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Avian flu outbreak in southwestern Japan

Photo taken Nov. 25, 2020, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows officials in protective suits working to cull more than 90,000 chickens at a chicken farm in Munakata in Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Nov. 25, 2020, after an outbreak of avian flu was confirmed there.

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Avian flu outbreak in southwestern Japan

Photo taken Nov. 25, 2020, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows officials in protective suits working to cull more than 90,000 chickens at a chicken farm in Munakata in Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Nov. 25, 2020, after an outbreak of avian flu was confirmed there.

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Avian flu outbreak in southwestern Japan

Photo taken Nov. 25, 2020, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows officials in protective suits working to cull more than 90,000 chickens at a chicken farm in Munakata in Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Nov. 25, 2020, after an outbreak of avian flu was confirmed there.

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Avian flu outbreak in southwestern Japan

Disinfection work is under way on a road in Munakata in Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Nov. 25, 2020, near a chicken farm where an outbreak of avian flu was confirmed.

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Repair of World Heritage-listed shrine in Japan

Priests at World Heritage-listed Munakata Taisha shrine in Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan, pray on June 1, 2020, ahead of the planned repair of a main component of the shrine for the first time in about 50 years. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Repair of World Heritage-listed shrine in Japan

Priests at World Heritage-listed Munakata Taisha shrine in Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan, pray on June 1, 2020, ahead of the planned repair of a main component of the shrine for the first time in about 50 years. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Repair of World Heritage-listed shrine in Japan

Priests at World Heritage-listed Munakata Taisha shrine in Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan, pray on June 1, 2020, ahead of the planned repair of a main component of the shrine for the first time in about 50 years. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo