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Japan emperor, empress meet ex-residents of Iwoto Island

Japanese Emperor Naruhito (L) and Empress Masako (2nd from L) invite two former residents of Iwoto Island in the Pacific Ocean to an annex of an imperial villa in Nasu in Tochigi Prefecture, north of Tokyo, on Aug. 26, 2025. The imperial couple visited the remote Tokyo island, previously known as Iwojima, in April 2025 to commemorate the victims of the Japan-U.S. battle there during the final year of World War II. Currently residents of Nasu, the two, both in their 90s, were ordered to evacuate from the island in 1944.

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Japan emperor, empress meet ex-residents of Iwoto Island

Japanese Emperor Naruhito (L) and Empress Masako (2nd from L) invite two former residents of Iwoto Island in the Pacific Ocean to an annex of an imperial villa in Nasu in Tochigi Prefecture, north of Tokyo, on Aug. 26, 2025. The imperial couple visited the remote Tokyo island, previously known as Iwojima, in April 2025 to commemorate the victims of the Japan-U.S. battle there during the final year of World War II. Currently residents of Nasu, the two, both in their 90s, were ordered to evacuate from the island in 1944.

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Japan imperial family at villa in Tochigi Pref.

Japanese Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako (L) and their daughter, Aiko, take a stroll on the premises of an imperial villa in Nasu in Tochigi Prefecture, north of Tokyo, on July 18, 2025.

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Japan imperial family at villa in Tochigi Pref.

Japanese Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako (L) and their daughter, Princess Aiko, meet the press during a stroll on the premises of an imperial villa in Nasu in Tochigi Prefecture, north of Tokyo, on July 18, 2025.

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Japan imperial family stay at villa in Tochigi Pref.

Japanese Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako (L) and their daughter Aiko take a stroll on the premises of an imperial villa in Nasu in Tochigi Prefecture, north of Tokyo, on Sept. 12, 2024. (Pool photo)

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Japan imperial family stay at villa in Tochigi Pref.

Japanese Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako (L) and their daughter Aiko take a stroll on the premises of an imperial villa in Nasu in Tochigi Prefecture, north of Tokyo, on Sept. 12, 2024. (Pool photo)

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Japan imperial family stay at villa in Tochigi Pref.

Japanese Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako (L) and their daughter Aiko take a stroll on the premises of an imperial villa in Nasu in Tochigi Prefecture, north of Tokyo, on Sept. 12, 2024. (Pool photo)

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Japan imperial family stay at villa in Tochigi Pref.

Japanese Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako (L) and their daughter Aiko take a stroll on the premises of an imperial villa in Nasu in Tochigi Prefecture, north of Tokyo, on Sept. 12, 2024. (Pool photo)

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Japan imperial family stay at villa in Tochigi Pref.

Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako take a stroll on the premises of an imperial villa in Nasu in Tochigi Prefecture, north of Tokyo, on Aug. 21, 2024. (Pool photo)

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Japan imperial family stay at villa in Tochigi Pref.

Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako take a stroll on the premises of an imperial villa in Nasu in Tochigi Prefecture, north of Tokyo, on Aug. 21, 2024. (Pool photo)

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Paris Olympics: Parrot predicts Japan win against Spain

Parrot Olivia picks up a Japanese flag at Nasu Animal Kingdom in Tochigi Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Aug. 1, 2024, predicting Japan will beat Spain in a men's football quarterfinal match at the Paris Olympics.

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Paris Olympics: Parrot predicts Japan win against U.S.

Parrot Olivia picks up a Japanese flag at Nasu Animal Kingdom in Tochigi Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Aug. 1, 2024, predicting Japan will beat the United States in a women's football quarterfinal match at the Paris Olympics.

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Situation on the eastern border of Finland

The Finnish Army tracked articulated vehicle Sisu NA-110 (Nasu) seen near the Raja-Jooseppi international border crossing station in Inari, northern Finland, on November 25, 2023. Raja-Jooseppi in the far north of Finnish Lapland is the only crossing point open on the country's eastern border. Finland has closed seven checkpoints in response to Russian officials allowing increasing numbers of undocumented asylum seekers to pass through to the Finnish side of the border. LEHTIKUVA / EMMI KORHONEN - FINLAND OUT. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. (Credit:Emmi Korhonen/Lehtikuva/Kyodo News Images)

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4 die near trail on eastern Japan mountain

Photo taken Oct. 7, 2023, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows Mt. Asahi in Nasu, Tochigi Prefecture, eastern Japan. Four elderly hikers were found dead near a trail on the mountain the same day, following a distress call the previous day.

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Rugby: Parrot predicts Japan win against Argentina

Parrot Olivia picks up a Japanese flag at Nasu Animal Kingdom in Tochigi Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Oct. 6, 2023, predicting Japan will beat Argentina in a Rugby World Cup Pool D match on Oct. 8.

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Rugby: Parrot predicts Japan win against Argentina

Parrot Olivia picks up a Japanese flag at Nasu Animal Kingdom in Tochigi Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Oct. 6, 2023, predicting Japan will beat Argentina in a Rugby World Cup Pool D match on Oct. 8.

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Rugby: Parrot predicts Japan win against Argentina

Parrot Olivia picks up a Japanese flag at Nasu Animal Kingdom in Tochigi Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Oct. 6, 2023, predicting Japan will beat Argentina in a Rugby World Cup Pool D match on Oct. 8.

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Parrot predicts World Cup football game

Parrot Olivia picks up a tiny Japanese flag at an event held at Nasu Animal Kingdom in Tochigi Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Aug. 9, 2023, to predict the winner of the upcoming Women's World Cup quarterfinal match between Japan and Sweden.

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Parrot predicts World Cup football game

Parrot Olivia picks up a tiny Japanese flag at an event held at Nasu Animal Kingdom in Tochigi Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Aug. 9, 2023, to predict the winner of the upcoming Women's World Cup quarterfinal match between Japan and Sweden.

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(SP)KAZAKHSTAN-ASTANA-ATHLETICS-ASIAN INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS-WOMEN'S POLE VAULT

(230212) -- ASTANA, Feb. 12, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Silver medalist Pavithra Vengatesh of India, gold medalist Nasu Mayu of Japan and bronze medalist Rosy Meena Paulraj of India (L to R) pose during the awarding ceremony after the women's pole vault final at the 10th Asian Indoor Athletics Championships in Astana, Kazakhstan, Feb. 11, 2023. (Photo by Kalizhan Ospanov/Xinhua)

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(SP)KAZAKHSTAN-ASTANA-ATHLETICS-ASIAN INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS-WOMEN'S POLE VAULT

(230212) -- ASTANA, Feb. 12, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Nasu Mayu of Japan reacts during the women's pole vault final at the 10th Asian Indoor Athletics Championships in Astana, Kazakhstan, Feb. 11, 2023. (Photo by Kalizhan Ospanov/Xinhua)

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(SP)KAZAKHSTAN-ASTANA-ATHLETICS-ASIAN INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS-WOMEN'S POLE VAULT

(230212) -- ASTANA, Feb. 12, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Nasu Mayu of Japan celebrates after the women's pole vault final at the 10th Asian Indoor Athletics Championships in Astana, Kazakhstan, Feb. 11, 2023. (Photo by Kalizhan Ospanov/Xinhua)

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(SP)KAZAKHSTAN-ASTANA-ATHLETICS-ASIAN INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS-WOMEN'S POLE VAULT

(230212) -- ASTANA, Feb. 12, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Nasu Mayu of Japan celebrates during the awarding ceremony after the women's pole vault final at the 10th Asian Indoor Athletics Championships in Astana, Kazakhstan, Feb. 11, 2023. (Photo by Kalizhan Ospanov/Xinhua)

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(SP)KAZAKHSTAN-ASTANA-ATHLETICS-ASIAN INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS-WOMEN'S POLE VAULT

(230212) -- ASTANA, Feb. 12, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Silver medalist Pavithra Vengatesh of India, gold medalist Nasu Mayu of Japan and bronze medalist Rosy Meena Paulraj of India (L to R) attend the awarding ceremony after the women's pole vault final at the 10th Asian Indoor Athletics Championships in Astana, Kazakhstan, Feb. 11, 2023. (Photo by Kalizhan Ospanov/Xinhua)

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(SP)KAZAKHSTAN-ASTANA-ATHLETICS-ASIAN INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS-WOMEN'S POLE VAULT

(230212) -- ASTANA, Feb. 12, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Nasu Mayu of Japan competes during the women's pole vault final at the 10th Asian Indoor Athletics Championships in Astana, Kazakhstan, Feb. 11, 2023. (Photo by Kalizhan Ospanov/Xinhua)

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(SP)KAZAKHSTAN-ASTANA-ATHLETICS-ASIAN INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS-WOMEN'S POLE VAULT

(230212) -- ASTANA, Feb. 12, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Nasu Mayu of Japan reacts during the women's pole vault final at the 10th Asian Indoor Athletics Championships in Astana, Kazakhstan, Feb. 11, 2023. (Photo by Kalizhan Ospanov/Xinhua)

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(SP)KAZAKHSTAN-ASTANA-ATHLETICS-ASIAN INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS-WOMEN'S POLE VAULT

(230212) -- ASTANA, Feb. 12, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Nasu Mayu of Japan competes during the women's pole vault final at the 10th Asian Indoor Athletics Championships in Astana, Kazakhstan, Feb. 11, 2023. (Photo by Kalizhan Ospanov/Xinhua)

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Emperor, empress release pheasants from Nasu summer villa

NASU, Japan - Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko set free a locally bred pheasant at the grounds of the imperial villa in Nasu, Tochigi Prefecture on Sept. 13. The imperial couple has taken up the hobby of releasing birds from the Nasu imperial grounds since the emperor's father, the late Emperor Hirohito, started the annual practice in 1967. (Pool photo)

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Emperor, empress visit farm

NASU, Japan - Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko are briefed at a farm in Nasu, Tochigi Prefecture, on Sept. 12 during their vacation in the area. (Pool photo)

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Emperor, empress visit apple farm

NASU, Japan - Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko pick apples at an apple farm in Nasu, Tochigi Prefecture, on Sept. 12 during their vacation in the area.

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Emperor, empress visit apple farm

NASU, Japan - Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko visit an apple farm in Nasu, Tochigi Prefecture, on Sept. 12 during their vacation in the area.

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Crown prince, princess on summer holidays

NASU-SHIOBARA, Japan - Crown Prince Naruhito, Crown Princess Masako and their daughter Princess Aiko respond to well-wishers as they arrive at JR Nasu-Shiobara Station to spend their summer holidays in Nasu, Tochigi Prefecture, on Aug. 17. (Pool photo)

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Urawa defender Nasu scores header in 2-1 win over Kofu

KOFU, Japan - Defender Daisuke Nasu (R) of Urawa Reds beats Ventforet Kofu defender Naoki Aoyama (C) to score in Kofu, eastern Japan, on May 28, 2014, in the J-League club's 2-1 victory in the first round of the Nabisco Cup soccer competition. The win gave Urawa a place in the last eight.

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Failed cattle farm case

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in August 2011 shows the headquarters of cattle farm Agura Bokujo in the town of Nasu, Tochigi Prefecture. Tokyo police arrested the former president and two other former executives of the failed company June 18, 2013, for allegedly soliciting investors based on misleading information before it went under in 2011.

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Emperor, empress visit Nasu exhibition

NASU, Japan - Japanese Emperor Akihito (R front) and Empress Michiko (behind the emperor) view exhibits on the nature of Nasu at a facility in the town of Nasu, Tochigi Prefecture, on July 24, 2012. (Pool photo)

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Emperor, empress visit Nasu exhibition

NASU, Japan - Japanese Emperor Akihito (2nd from R) and Empress Michiko (R) view exhibits on the nature of Nasu at a facility in the town of Nasu, Tochigi Prefecture, on July 24, 2012. (Pool photo)

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Crown prince, family in Tochigi

TOKYO, Japan - Crown Prince Naruhito (L), Crown Princess Masako (R) and their daughter Princess Aiko wave to a crowd upon arrival at JR Nasushiobara Station in Tochigi Prefecture on May 3, 2012. The family's visit was to spend the latter half of the Golden Week holiday period at the local Nasu Imperial Villa. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Crown prince, family in Tochigi

TOKYO, Japan - Crown Prince Naruhito (L), Crown Princess Masako (R) and their daughter Princess Aiko wave to a crowd upon arrival at JR Nasushiobara Station in Tochigi Prefecture on May 3, 2012. The family's visit was to spend the latter half of the Golden Week holiday period at the local Nasu Imperial Villa. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Hiroshima survivor writer encourages Fukushima children

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Children books writer Masamoto Nasu shake hands with students at Nakahata Elementary School in the town of Yabuki, Fukushima Prefecture on July 12, 2011. Nasu, who survived the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, encouraged the children not to live in irrational fear of the radiation released by the nearby Fukushima Daiichi Power Station, badly damaged by explosions after an earthquake and tsunami in March.

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Emperor, empress visit flower farm

NASU, Japan - Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko look at gentian flowers at a farm near the Nasu Imperial Villa in Tochigi Prefecture, north of Tokyo, on July 26, 2010.

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Alpaca sheared

UTSUNOMIYA, Japan - An alpaca is clipped by shearers from Peru as shearing begins at Nasu Alpaca Farm in Nasu, Tochigi Prefecture, on June 10, 2010. The shearers plan to clip about 350 alpacas at the farm to use the fur for carpets and other purposes and to improve the animals' health before summer weather.

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Japan breaks record for world's highest Lego tower

NASU, Japan - Photo shows the world's highest Lego tower in Nasu, Tochigi Prefecture, on April 3. Measuring 29.7 meters, the tower beat the previous record of 29.48 m held by a tower built in Vienna last October. The tower, constructed by about 800 town residents in an amusement park in Nasu using about 430,000 Lego blocks, has entered the Guinness Book of Records.

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Sapporo makes beer from barley descending from space grown plants

NASU, Japan - Staffers at Sapporo Breweries Ltd.'s Nasu plant in Tochigi Prefecture put into pots barley descending from plants grown in outer space on Oct. 2, beginning to produce beer using the barley in the world's first-ever such undertaking. The brew will be completed by early November.

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Half of imperial villa premises in Tochigi to open to public

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken June 19 2007 shows the premises of the Nasu Imperial Villa in Tochigi Prefecture and its vicinity. The Imperial Household Agency and the Environment Ministry said June 19 that they will permanently open to the public nearly half of the premises of the 1,200-hectare estate, possibly beginning in fiscal 2011 in response to Emperor Akihito's suggestion that it be used as a place where people can have contact with nature.

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Ueda tops Fudo in playoff to win Resort Trust Ladies

SHIRAKAWA, Japan - Momoko Ueda holds her cup in smile after beating six-time money title winner Yuri Fudo in a playoff to win the Resort Trust Ladies at Grandee Nasu Shirakawa Golf Club in Fukushima Prefecture on June 3.

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Emperor, empress visit pepper farm

NASU, Japan - Emperor Akihito (2nd from L) and Empress Michiko (R) visit a pepper farm during their recess in Nasu, Tochigi Prefecture, on Sept. 13.

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Emperor, empress to take rest in Nasu

NASUSHIOBARA, Japan - Emperor Akihito (L) and Empress Michiko wave as they arrive at Nasushiobara Station on the Tohoku Shinkansen Line in Tochigi Prefecture on Sept. 13 to take four-day rest at the Nasu Imperial Villa.

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Crown prince, family make holiday in Nasu

NASU-SHIOBARA, Japan - Princess Aiko, daughter of Crown Prince Naruhito and Princess Masako, waves to well-wishers at JR Nasu-Shiobara Station as she is driven to the resort town of Nasu with her parents on July 24. The royal family is to spend their holiday at their villa in the town. (Pool photo)

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Crown prince, family make holiday in Nasu

NASU-SHIOBARA, Japan - Princess Aiko, daughter of Crown Prince Naruhito and Princess Masako, waves to well-wishers at JR Nasu-Shiobara Station as she is driven to the resort town of Nasu with her parents on July 24. The royal family is to spend their holiday at their villa in the town. (Pool photo)

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Crown prince, family make holiday in Nasu

NASU-SHIOBARA, Japan - Crown Prince Naruhito (L) and Crown Princess Masako wave to well-wishers on arrival at JR Nasu-Shiobara Station with their daughter Princess Aiko to spend their holiday in the resort town of Nasu, Tochigi Prefecture, on July 24. (Pool photo)