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Football: Barcelona vs. Kobe

Lamine Yamal (L) of Barcelona and Katsuya Nagato of Vissel Kobe vie for the ball in the first half of a club international friendly at Noevir Stadium in Kobe, western Japan, on July 27, 2025.

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3rd anniv. of ex-Japan PM Abe's killing

Akie Abe, the widow of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, speaks during a memorial event in Nagato in Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan, on July 8, 2025, the third anniversary of his assassination in Nara Prefecture.

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Perseid meteor shower

Composite photo taken from the night of Aug. 12, 2024, to the early hours of the following day shows shooting stars during the Perseid meteor shower as observed in Nagato in the western Japan prefecture of Yamaguchi.

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Perseid meteor shower

A shooting star lights up the night sky over Nagato in the western Japan prefecture of Yamaguchi in the early hours of Aug. 13, 2024, as the annual summer Perseid meteor shower peaks.

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Perseid meteor shower

A shooting star lights up the night sky over Nagato in the western Japan prefecture of Yamaguchi on Aug. 12, 2024, as the annual summer Perseid meteor shower peaks.

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(SP)JAPAN-YOKOHAMA-FOOTBALL-AFC CHAMPIONS LEAGUE-YOKOHAMA F. MARINOS VS SHANDONG TAISHAN

(240313) -- YOKOHAMA, March 13, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Nagato Katsuya (4th R) of Yokohama F. Marinos receives a red card during the quarterfinal second leg match between Yokohama F. Marinos of Japan and Shandong Taishan of China at the 2023-2024 AFC Champions League in Yokohama, Japan, March 13, 2024. (Xinhua/Zhang Xiaoyu)

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Gathering for slain ex-Japan PM Abe

A gathering in memory of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is held in Nagato in Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan, on July 23, 2023, about a year after his assassination, with his widow Akie (L) attending.

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Gathering for slain ex-Japan PM Abe

A gathering in memory of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is held in Nagato in Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan, on July 23, 2023, about a year after his assassination, with his widow Akie (R) speaking.

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Gathering for slain ex-Japan PM Abe

A gathering in memory of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is held in Nagato in Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan, on July 23, 2023, about a year after his assassination, with his widow Akie (C) attending.

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Gathering for slain ex-Japan PM Abe

A gathering in memory of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is held in Nagato in Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan, on July 23, 2023, about a year after his assassination.

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Closure of ex-Japan PM Abe's offices in his constituency

Akie Abe, widow of slain former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, helps to take down a signboard at his office in Shimonoseki, his Yamaguchi Prefecture constituency, on Dec. 28, 2022, as the office was closed the same day. Another office in Nagato, also in his constituency, was closed the previous day.

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Closure of ex-Japan PM Abe's offices in his constituency

Akie Abe (L), widow of slain former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, helps to take down a signboard at his office in Shimonoseki, his Yamaguchi Prefecture constituency, on Dec. 28, 2022, as the office was closed the same day. Another office in Nagato, also in his constituency, was closed the previous day.

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Security heightened in Tokyo prior to 2nd day of Abe-Putin summit

TOKYO, Japan, Dec. 16 Kyodo - Riot policemen stand guard near the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Dec. 16, 2016, prior to the second day of a two-day summit meeting between Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Russian President Vladimir Putin. The two leaders will arrive in Tokyo later in the day from Nagato, Yamaguchi Prefecture.

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Akie Abe

TOKYO, Japan, April 17 Kyodo - Akie Abe, the wife of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, in this photo taken Dec. 15, 2016, lays flowers at a gravestone in Nagato, Yamaguchi Prefecture, for Russian soldiers who died in the 1904-1905 Russo-Japanese war.

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Bird flu virus detected in Yamaguchi, 3rd case of winter

TOKYO, Japan - Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Koya Nishikawa (C) speaks to reporters at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Dec. 30, 2014, after a meeting of ministers related to a bird flu outbreak in the western Japan prefecture of Yamaguchi. The prefectural government began culling about 37,000 chickens in the early morning of the same day at a poultry farm in the city of Nagato after bird flu was confirmed.

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Bird flu virus detected in Yamaguchi, 3rd case of winter

NAGATO, Japan - Local officials of the western Japan prefecture of Yamaguchi prepare to cull around 37,000 chickens before dawn on Dec. 30, 2014, at a farm where a bird flu outbreak was confirmed. It was the third avian influenza case of the winter at a chicken farm in Japan, after the city of Miyazaki in southwestern prefecture announced a confirmed case the previous day.

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Actor Isamu Nagato dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in September 2004 shows Japanese actor Isamu Nagato. Nagato died of old age on June 4, 2013. He was 81.

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Actor Nagato dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken on May 2010 shows veteran actor Hiroyuki Nagato, who died on May 21, 2011, at the age of 77.

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Whaling tradition in Japan communities

TOKYO, Japan - Men sing a song to console the souls of whales during a Buddhist service for whales at Kogan Temple on Oumi Island in Nagato, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on May 1, 2010. The local area previously lived on coastal whaling.

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Mosaic made of 120,000 smiling face photos sets Guinness record

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - In this photo taken Dec. 31, 2009, residents of the city of Nagato in Yamaguchi Prefecture celebrate the completion of a portrait of a poet from the prefecture made of 120,000 photos of smiling faces. The portrait was certified as the world's largest photo mosaic by the Guinness Book of World Records on Jan. 8, 2010.

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'Season of the Sun' actress Yoko Minamida dies at 76

TOKYO, Japan - Actor Hiroyuki Nagato, the husband of actress Yoko Minamida, addresses the press in Tokyo on Oct. 21 after his wife died earlier in the day at age 76. Minamida starred in the 1956 film ''Taiyo no Kisetsu'' (Season of the Sun) and various other movies and television dramas.

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World's longest grilled chicken skewer completed

AIZUWAKAMATSU, Japan - About 50 people take part in making the world's longest grilled chicken skewer in Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima Prefecture, on April 13. The grilled chicken skewer measured 20.85 meters, longer than the 20.71 meter one completed by people in Nagato, Yamaguchi Prefecture.

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Ancient whaling reenacted in Yamaguchi whaling festival

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - The ancient Japanese method of whaling is reenacted at a whaling festival in Kayoi, a former whaling town in Nagato, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on July 21. Using a 13-meter-long water-spouting whale model, participants in the festival showed how ancient Japanese whalers corner a whale with the use of nets and spears.

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Abe vows LDP presidential election bid before father's tomb

NAGATO, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe (L) pledges before his father's tomb in Yamaguchi Prefecture on Aug. 13 to achieve his father's unfulfilled ambition and become Japan's next prime minister. His father, former Foreign Minister Shintaro Abe, died in 1991. At right is Shinzo Abe's wife, Akie.

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Abe vows LDP presidential election bid before father's tomb

NAGATO, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe holds up a baby in his hometown of Nagato, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on Aug. 13. A day earlier, at a gathering of his supporters in the prefecture, Abe expressed his intention to run in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's presidential election in September.

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Japan's Abe, Russia's Putin in 2016

File photo taken in December 2016 shows Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) and Russian President Vladimir Putin shaking hands at the beginning of their talks in Nagato in Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan.

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Press Conference on the Resignation of the Top Management of the Three Japan Post Group Companies

Masatsugu Nagato, President and Representative Executive Officer of Japan Post, speaks at a press conference regarding the inappropriate sale of insurance by JPI. (December 27, 2019, Tokyo; Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun/Communications Images; Positions at time of press conference)

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Press Conference on the Resignation of the Top Management of the Three Japan Post Group Companies

Masatsugu Nagato, President and Representative Executive Officer of Japan Post, speaks at a press conference regarding the inappropriate sale of insurance by JPI. (December 27, 2019, Tokyo; Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun/Communications Images; Positions at time of press conference)

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Press Conference on the Resignation of the Top Management of the Three Japan Post Group Companies

(From right) Mitsuhiko Uehira, Director and Representative Executive Officer, President and CEO of JPI, Masatsugu Nagato, Director and Representative Executive Officer, Japan Post, and Kunio Yokoyama, Representative Director, President and Chief Executive Officer, Japan Post, at a press conference regarding the improper sale of insurance by JPI. (From right to left: Mitsuhiko Uehira, President and Representative Executive Officer, Japan Post; Masasugu Nagato, President and Representative Executive Officer, Japan Post; Kunio Yokoyama, President and Representative Executive Officer, Japan Post.

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Japan - Mutsu Dreadnought Battleship

The Mutsu - a dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) at the end of World War I - of the Nagato Class. Date: circa 1921

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FamilyMart, Japan Post tie up on delivery service to Asia

Japan Post Holdings Co. President Masatsugu Nagato (R) and FamilyMart Co. President Isamu Nakayama attend a press conference in Tokyo on April 5, 2016, announcing that the companies will begin a delivery service enabling foreign visitors to Japan to send packages from FamilyMart domestic stores for pickup at its stores elsewhere in Asia. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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FamilyMart, Japan Post tie up on delivery service to Asia

Japan Post Holdings Co. President Masatsugu Nagato (R) and FamilyMart Co. President Isamu Nakayama attend a press conference in Tokyo on April 5, 2016, announcing that the companies will begin a delivery service enabling foreign visitors to Japan to send packages from FamilyMart domestic stores for pickup at its stores elsewhere in Asia. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan Post announces replacement of ailing president

Masatsugu Nagato holds a press conference in Tokyo on March 16, 2016, after being appointed as Japan Post Holdings Co.'s president. His appointment to replace ailing President Taizo Nishimuro will take effect on April 1. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan Post announces replacement of ailing president

Masatsugu Nagato holds a press conference in Tokyo on March 16, 2016, after being appointed as Japan Post Holdings Co.'s president. His appointment to replace ailing President Taizo Nishimuro will take effect on April 1. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan Post, 2 units debut on TSE main section

(From L) Japan Post Insurance Co. President Masami Ishii, Japan Post Holdings Co. President Taizo Nishimuro and Japan Post Bank Co. President Masatsugu Nagato attend a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 4, 2015, as the three companies were listed on the main section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. The listings represent the final stage of the privatization of Japan's postal system, which kicked off with reforms enacted in 2005 under the administration of then Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan Post, 2 units debut on TSE main section

(From L) Japan Post Insurance Co. President Masami Ishii, Japan Post Holdings Co. President Taizo Nishimuro and Japan Post Bank Co. President Masatsugu Nagato attend a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 4, 2015, as the three companies were listed on the main section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. The listings represent the final stage of the privatization of Japan's postal system, which kicked off with reforms enacted in 2005 under the administration of then Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Abe visits father's grave

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe offers prayers with his wife Akie in front of the grave of his father, former Foreign Minister Shintaro Abe, in Nagato, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on Aug. 14, 2015. Abe is set to issue a statement later in the day to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, with Asian neighbors closely watching whether he will apologize over Japan's wartime actions. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Abe visits father's grave

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe answers reporters' questions after visiting the grave of his father, former Foreign Minister Shintaro Abe, in Nagato, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on Aug. 14, 2015. Abe is set to issue a statement later in the day to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, with Asian neighbors closely watching whether he will apologize over Japan's wartime actions. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Prime Minister Abe appears in fashion show

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife Akie walk on the catwalk during an event in Nagato, Abe's constituency in Yamaguchi Prefecture, on July 26, 2015, to show clothes for women engaged in agriculture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan Post Group chiefs

Japan Post Holdings Co. President Masatsugu Nagato (C), Japan Post Insurance Co. President Mitsuhiko Uehira (R) and Japan Post Co. President Kunio Yokoyama attend a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 27, 2019. Japan Post Holdings announced the three will resign to take responsibility for the scandal involving a huge number of faulty sales of insurance products. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Russian food served at schools on day of Abe-Putin summit

Borscht and pirozhki, famous Russian cuisines, are provided for school lunch at all 16 elementary and junior high schools in Nagato, Japan, on Dec. 15, 2016. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is scheduled to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the small city later in the day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Russian food served at schools on day of Abe-Putin summit

Borscht and pirozhki, famous Russian cuisines, are provided for school lunch at all 16 elementary and junior high schools in Nagato, Japan, on Dec. 15, 2016. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is scheduled to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the small city later in the day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan Post chief Nishimuro to quit, successor eyed in banking unit

Undated photo shows Japan Post Holdings Co. President Taizo Nishimuro. Nishimuro is set to step down for health reasons and the head of the postal group's banking unit, Masatsugu Nagato, will likely succeed him, sources close to the matter said on March 12, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan Post chief Nishimuro to quit, successor eyed in banking unit

Undated photo shows Japan Post Bank President Masatsugu Nagato. The Japanese government is likely to pick Nagato to succeed Taizo Nishimuro as Japan Post Holdings Co.'s president, sources close to the matter said on March 12, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan Post, 2 units debut on TSE, decade after privatization

(From R) Japan Post Holdings Co. President Taizo Nishimuro, Japan Post Bank Co. President Masatsugu Nagato, Japan Post Insurance Co. President Masami Ishii and Japan Post Co. President Toru Takahashi attend a ceremony marking the first three companies' listings on the main section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Nov. 4, 2015. The listings represented the final stage of the privatization of Japan's postal system, which kicked off with reforms enacted in 2005 under the administration of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Abe vows LDP presidential election bid before father's tomb

NAGATO, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe holds up a baby in his hometown of Nagato, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on Aug. 13. A day earlier, at a gathering of his supporters in the prefecture, Abe expressed his intention to run in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's presidential election in September. (Kyodo)

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Abe vows LDP presidential election bid before father's tomb

NAGATO, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe (L) pledges before his father's tomb in Yamaguchi Prefecture on Aug. 13 to achieve his father's unfulfilled ambition and become Japan's next prime minister. His father, former Foreign Minister Shintaro Abe, died in 1991. At right is Shinzo Abe's wife, Akie. (Kyodo)

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Ancient whaling reenacted in Yamaguchi whaling festival

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - The ancient Japanese method of whaling is reenacted at a whaling festival in Kayoi, a former whaling town in Nagato, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on July 21. Using a 13-meter-long water-spouting whale model, participants in the festival showed how ancient Japanese whalers corner a whale with the use of nets and spears.

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World's longest grilled chicken skewer completed

AIZUWAKAMATSU, Japan - About 50 people take part in making the world's longest grilled chicken skewer in Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima Prefecture, on April 13. The grilled chicken skewer measured 20.85 meters, longer than the 20.71 meter one completed by people in Nagato, Yamaguchi Prefecture. (Kyodo)

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'Season of the Sun' actress Yoko Minamida dies at 76

TOKYO, Japan - Actor Hiroyuki Nagato, the husband of actress Yoko Minamida, addresses the press in Tokyo on Oct. 21 after his wife died earlier in the day at age 76. Minamida starred in the 1956 film ''Taiyo no Kisetsu'' (Season of the Sun) and various other movies and television dramas. (Kyodo)