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Comedian duo Woman Rush Hour

OSAKA, Japan, Jan. 23 Kyodo - Daisuke Muramoto (L) and Paradise Nakagawa of Japanese comedic duo Woman Rush Hour pose after winning the 43rd "manzai" standup comedy contest sponsored by public broadcaster NHK in Osaka, western Japan, on March 1, 2013. (Kyodo)

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Figure skating: Ice dance duo Muramoto, Takahashi retire

Japanese figure skating ice dance duo Kana Muramoto (L) and Daisuke Takahashi pose for photographers after their retirement press conference in Tokyo on May 2, 2023.

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Figure skating: Ice dance duo Muramoto, Takahashi retire

Japanese figure skating ice dance duo Kana Muramoto (L) and Daisuke Takahashi pose for photographers after their retirement press conference in Tokyo on May 2, 2023.

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Figure skating: Ice dance duo Muramoto, Takahashi retire

Japanese figure skating ice dance duo Kana Muramoto (L) and Daisuke Takahashi pose for photographers after their retirement press conference in Tokyo on May 2, 2023.

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Figure skating: Ice dance duo Muramoto, Takahashi retire

Japanese figure skating ice dance duo Kana Muramoto (L) and Daisuke Takahashi smile during a press conference in Tokyo on May 2, 2023, at which they announced their retirement from competitive skating.

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Figure skating: Ice dance duo Muramoto, Takahashi retire

Japanese figure skating ice dance duo Kana Muramoto (L) and Daisuke Takahashi smile during a press conference in Tokyo on May 2, 2023, at which they announced their retirement from competitive skating.

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Figure skating: Ice dance duo Muramoto, Takahashi retire

Japanese figure skating ice dance duo Kana Muramoto (L) and Daisuke Takahashi pose for photographers after their retirement press conference in Tokyo on May 2, 2023.

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Figure skating: Ice dance duo Muramoto, Takahashi retire

Japanese figure skating ice dance duo Kana Muramoto (L) and Daisuke Takahashi pose for photographers after their retirement press conference in Tokyo on May 2, 2023.

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Figure skating: Ice dance duo Muramoto, Takahashi retire

Japanese figure skating ice dance duo Kana Muramoto (L) and Daisuke Takahashi pose for photographers after their retirement press conference in Tokyo on May 2, 2023.

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Figure skating: World Team Trophy exhibition gala

Japanese ice dancers Kana Muramoto (R) and Daisuke Takahashi perform in the closing exhibition gala for the World Team Trophy figure skating competition at Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium on April 16, 2023.

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Figure skating: World Team Trophy exhibition gala

Japanese ice dancers Kana Muramoto (front) and Daisuke Takahashi perform in the closing exhibition gala for the World Team Trophy figure skating competition at Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium on April 16, 2023.

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Figure Skating: World Team Trophy

Japanese ice dancers Kana Muramoto (front) and Daisuke Takahashi perform their free dance in the six-nation World Team Trophy figure skating competition at Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium in Tokyo on April 14, 2023.

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Figure Skating: World Team Trophy

Japanese ice dancers Kana Muramoto (back) and Daisuke Takahashi perform their free dance in the six-nation World Team Trophy figure skating competition at Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium in Tokyo on April 14, 2023.

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Figure Skating: World Team Trophy

Japanese ice dancers Kana Muramoto (L) and Daisuke Takahashi perform their free dance in the six-nation World Team Trophy figure skating competition at Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium in Tokyo on April 14, 2023.

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Figure Skating: World Team Trophy

Japanese ice dancers Kana Muramoto (L) and Daisuke Takahashi perform their free dance in the six-nation World Team Trophy figure skating competition at Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium in Tokyo on April 14, 2023.

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Figure Skating: World Team Trophy

Japanese ice dancers Kana Muramoto (R) and Daisuke Takahashi perform their rhythm dance in the ISU World Team Trophy in Figure Skating at Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium in Tokyo on April 13, 2023.

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Figure Skating: World Championships

Japanese ice dancers Kana Muramoto (R) and Daisuke Takahashi perform during the exhibition gala at the world figure skating championships at Saitama Super Arena in the eastern Japan city of Saitama on March 26, 2023.

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Figure Skating: World Championships

Japanese ice dancers Kana Muramoto (L) and Daisuke Takahashi perform during the exhibition gala at the world figure skating championships at Saitama Super Arena in the eastern Japan city of Saitama on March 26, 2023.

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Figure Skating: World Championships

Japanese ice dancers Kana Muramoto (top) and Daisuke Takahashi perform during the exhibition gala at the world figure skating championships at Saitama Super Arena in the eastern Japan city of Saitama on March 26, 2023.

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Figure Skating: World Championships

Japanese ice dancers Kana Muramoto (L) and Daisuke Takahashi perform during the exhibition gala at the world figure skating championships at Saitama Super Arena in the eastern Japan city of Saitama on March 26, 2023.

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Figure Skating: World Championships

Japan's Kana Muramoto (up) and Daisuke Takahashi perform in the ice dance free dance program during the world figure skating championships at Saitama Super Arena in the eastern Japan city of Saitama on March 25, 2023.

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Figure Skating: World Championships

Japan's Kana Muramoto (L) and Daisuke Takahashi perform in the ice dance free dance program during the world figure skating championships at Saitama Super Arena in the eastern Japan city of Saitama on March 25, 2023.

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Figure Skating: World Championships

Japanese ice dancers Kana Muramoto (R) and Daisuke Takahashi perform their rhythm dance at the world figure skating championships at Saitama Super Arena in the eastern Japan city of Saitama on March 24, 2023.

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Figure Skating: World Championships

Japanese ice dancers Kana Muramoto (L) and Daisuke Takahashi perform their rhythm dance at the world figure skating championships at Saitama Super Arena in the eastern Japan city of Saitama on March 24, 2023.

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Figure skating: Four Continents

Japan's Kana Muramoto (L) and Daisuke Takahashi acknowledge spectators after performing in the ice dance rhythm dance at the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on Feb. 10, 2023.

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Figure skating: Four Continents

Japan's Kana Muramoto (L) and Daisuke Takahashi perform in the ice dance rhythm dance at the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on Feb. 10, 2023.

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Figure skating: Four Continents

Japanese ice dancers Kana Muramoto (front) and Daisuke Takahashi perform their free dance at the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on Feb. 12, 2023.

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Figure skating: Four Continents

Japanese ice dancers Kana Muramoto and Daisuke Takahashi (facing camera) perform their free dance at the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on Feb. 12, 2023. (Kyodo)

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Figure skating: Exhibition gala after Japan national c'ships

Ice dance duo Kana Muramoto (L) and Daisuke Takahashi perform during the exhibition gala at Towa Pharmaceutical Ractab Dome in the Osaka Prefecture city of Kadoma, western Japan, on Dec. 26, 2022, after the national figure skating championships.

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Figure skating: Exhibition gala after Japan national c'ships

Ice dance duo Kana Muramoto (top) and Daisuke Takahashi perform during the exhibition gala at Towa Pharmaceutical Ractab Dome in the Osaka Prefecture city of Kadoma, western Japan, on Dec. 26, 2022, after the national figure skating championships.

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Figure skating: Exhibition gala after Japan national c'ships

Ice dance duo Kana Muramoto (L) and Daisuke Takahashi perform during the exhibition gala at Towa Pharmaceutical Ractab Dome in the Osaka Prefecture city of Kadoma, western Japan, on Dec. 26, 2022, after the national figure skating championships.

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Figure skating: Exhibition gala after Japan national c'ships

Ice dance duo Kana Muramoto (L) and Daisuke Takahashi perform during the exhibition gala at Towa Pharmaceutical Ractab Dome in the Osaka Prefecture city of Kadoma, western Japan, on Dec. 26, 2022, after the national figure skating championships.

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Figure skating: Japanese national championships

Kana Muramoto (L) and Daisuke Takahashi pose after winning the ice dance competition of Japan's national figure skating championships at Towa Pharmaceutical Ractab Dome in the Osaka Prefecture city of Kadoma, western Japan, on Dec. 24, 2022.

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Figure skating: Japanese national championships

Kana Muramoto (L) and Daisuke Takahashi pose after winning the ice dance competition of Japan's national figure skating championships at Towa Pharmaceutical Ractab Dome in the Osaka Prefecture city of Kadoma, western Japan, on Dec. 24, 2022.

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Figure skating: Japanese national championships

Kana Muramoto (L) and Daisuke Takahashi wave to spectators after winning the ice dance competition of Japan's national figure skating championships at Towa Pharmaceutical Ractab Dome in the Osaka Prefecture city of Kadoma, western Japan, on Dec. 24, 2022.

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Figure skating: Japanese national championships

Kana Muramoto (L) and Daisuke Takahashi pose after winning the ice dance competition of Japan's national figure skating championships at Towa Pharmaceutical Ractab Dome in the Osaka Prefecture city of Kadoma, western Japan, on Dec. 24, 2022.

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Figure skating: Japanese national championships

Kana Muramoto (L) and Daisuke Takahashi perform in the ice dance free dance of Japan's national figure skating championships at Towa Pharmaceutical Ractab Dome in the Osaka Prefecture city of Kadoma, western Japan, on Dec. 24, 2022.

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Figure skating: Japanese national championships

Kana Muramoto (L) and Daisuke Takahashi are pictured after performing in the ice dance free dance of Japan's national figure skating championships at Towa Pharmaceutical Ractab Dome in the Osaka Prefecture city of Kadoma, western Japan, on Dec. 24, 2022.

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Figure skating: Japanese national championships

Kana Muramoto (L) and Daisuke Takahashi perform in the ice dance free dance of Japan's national figure skating championships at Towa Pharmaceutical Ractab Dome in the Osaka Prefecture city of Kadoma, western Japan, on Dec. 24, 2022.

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Figure skating: Japanese national championships

Kana Muramoto (top) and Daisuke Takahashi perform in the ice dance free dance of Japan's national figure skating championships at Towa Pharmaceutical Ractab Dome in the Osaka Prefecture city of Kadoma, western Japan, on Dec. 24, 2022.

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Figure skating: Japanese national championships

Kana Muramoto (L) and Daisuke Takahashi perform in the ice dance free dance of Japan's national figure skating championships at Towa Pharmaceutical Ractab Dome in the Osaka Prefecture city of Kadoma, western Japan, on Dec. 24, 2022.

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Figure skating: Japanese national championships

Kana Muramoto (L) and Daisuke Takahashi perform their rhythm dance in the ice dance competition of Japan's national figure skating championships at Towa Pharmaceutical Ractab Dome in the Osaka Prefecture city of Kadoma, western Japan, on Dec. 22, 2022.

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Figure skating: Japanese national championships

Kana Muramoto (R) and Daisuke Takahashi perform their rhythm dance in the ice dance competition of Japan's national figure skating championships at Towa Pharmaceutical Ractab Dome in the Osaka Prefecture city of Kadoma, western Japan, on Dec. 22, 2022.

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Figure skating: Japanese national championships

Kana Muramoto (L) and Daisuke Takahashi perform their rhythm dance in the ice dance competition of Japan's national figure skating championships at Towa Pharmaceutical Ractab Dome in the Osaka Prefecture city of Kadoma, western Japan, on Dec. 22, 2022.

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Ice dance pair Kana Muramoto and Chris Reed

CHOFU, Japan, Dec. 26 Kyodo - Japan's Kana Muramoto (L) and Chris Reed perform during the ice dance short dance program on the second day of the national figure skating championships at Musashino Forest Sport Plaza in Tokyo on Dec. 22, 2017.

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Thaksin supporters mark anniversary

BANGKOK, Thailand - The ''Red Shirt'' supporters of ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra hold a photograph of Hiroyuki Muramoto during a demonstration in Bangkok on April 10, 2011. Muramoto, a Japanese photojournalist, was among 89 people who died in bloody clashes between security forces and antigovernment protesters a year ago in Bangkok.

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CORRECTED Japan's foreign minister in Thailand

BANGKOK, Thailand - ADDING YEAR OF 2010 Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada offers a silent prayer Aug. 23, 2010, in front of a site in Bangkok where Japan-based Reuters television cameraman Hiroyuki Muramoto was shot in April amid violent clashes between security forces and antigovernment protesters. He is in Bangkok on the second leg of his tour of India and Thailand to discuss a probe into the death of the cameraman.

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Funeral held for Japanese cameraman killed in Bangkok clashes

TOKYO, Japan - David Schlesinger, editor-in-chief of Reuters, delivers a speech during a funeral for Hiroyuki Muramoto, a Japanese television cameraman for the news agency, in Tokyo on April 18, 2010. Muramoto was shot dead while filming violent clashes between security forces and protesters in Bangkok on April 10 that left more than a dozen others dead and over 800 injured. (Pool photo)

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Muramoto's body returns to Japan

NARITA, Japan - Narita airport workers pay their respects at the airport April 13, 2010, as a container carries the body of Hiroyuki Muramoto, a Japanese television cameraman for Reuters news agency, who died April 10 apparently from a gunshot wound during clashes between antigovernment protesters and security forces in Bangkok.

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Body of Japanese cameraman brought home from Thailand

NARITA, Japan - The camera that was used by Japanese TV cameraman Hiroyuki Muramoto is carried at Narita airport near Tokyo on April 13, 2010, by a colleague working in the Tokyo bureau of Reuters news agency after being brought back from Bangkok. The 43-year-old Muramoto was shot dead in Bangkok on April 10 during violent clashes between Thai troops and antigovernment protesters.