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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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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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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.