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Art Of Elysium's Heaven Gala - LA

Meredith Salenger, Nikka Costa At The Art Of Elysium's 2024 HEAVEN Gala at The Wiltern in Los Angeles, CA, USA on December 6 2024. Photo by Fati S/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Art Of Elysium's Heaven Gala - LA

Meredith Salenger, Nikka Costa At The Art Of Elysium's 2024 HEAVEN Gala at The Wiltern in Los Angeles, CA, USA on December 6 2024. Photo by Fati S/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Art Of Elysium's Heaven Gala - LA

Meredith Salenger, Nikka Costa At The Art Of Elysium's 2024 HEAVEN Gala at The Wiltern in Los Angeles, CA, USA on December 6 2024. Photo by Fati S/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Art Of Elysium's Heaven Gala - LA

Meredith Salenger, Nikka Costa At The Art Of Elysium's 2024 HEAVEN Gala at The Wiltern in Los Angeles, CA, USA on December 6 2024. Photo by Fati S/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Art Of Elysium's Heaven Gala - LA

Meredith Salenger, Nikka Costa At The Art Of Elysium's 2024 HEAVEN Gala at The Wiltern in Los Angeles, CA, USA on December 6 2024. Photo by Fati S/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Art Of Elysium's Heaven Gala - LA

Nikka Costa At The Art Of Elysium's 2024 HEAVEN Gala at The Wiltern in Los Angeles, CA, USA on December 6 2024. Photo by Fati S/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Art Of Elysium's Heaven Gala - LA

Nikka Costa At The Art Of Elysium's 2024 HEAVEN Gala at The Wiltern in Los Angeles, CA, USA on December 6 2024. Photo by Fati S/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Art Of Elysium's Heaven Gala - LA

Nikka Costa At The Art Of Elysium's 2024 HEAVEN Gala at The Wiltern in Los Angeles, CA, USA on December 6 2024. Photo by Fati S/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Art Of Elysium's Heaven Gala - LA

Nikka Costa At The Art Of Elysium's 2024 HEAVEN Gala at The Wiltern in Los Angeles, CA, USA on December 6 2024. Photo by Fati S/ABACAPRESS.COM

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People visit whisky distillery, inspired by TV drama

TOKYO, Japan - Visitors stroll through the grounds of Nikka Whisky Distilling Co.'s distillery in Yoichi on Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido on Dec. 1, 2014. The distillery has seen an increase in visitor numbers due to public broadcaster NHK's television drama series featuring the life of Masataka Taketsuru, the founder of Nikka who is known as the father of Japan's whisky industry, and his Scottish wife Jessie Roberta Cowan.

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Comedian Nishikawa, actress Natsuki before 'Massan' tram

OSAKA, Japan - Comedian Kiyoshi Nishikawa (L) and actress Yoko Natsuki stand in front of a Hankai Tramway Co. streetcar made in the 1920s on Oct. 9, 2014, in Osaka, western Japan. The streetcar sports logos and images of public broadcaster NHK's morning serial drama "Massan" in which the two play roles. The drama is based on the life story of Masataka Taketsuru, founder of Nikka Whisky and considered the "Father of Japanese whisky," and his wife Rita.

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Asahi Breweries' 500,000 yen whisky

TOKYO, Japan - Asahi Breweries Ltd. announced Sept. 26, 2014, that it will release 700 bottles of "The Nikka 40 Years Old" whisky, priced for 500,000 yen each, to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the founding of Nikka Whisky Distilling Co.

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Nikka chief shows new whisky, brandy marking 80th anniv.

TOKYO, Japan - Keiichi Nakagawa, president of Nikka Whisky Distilling Co., shows off special versions of whisky (L) and brandy released to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the firm's establishment in Tokyo on July 2, 2014.

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Nikka unveils new whisky, brandy to mark 80th anniversary

TOKYO, Japan - Nikka Whisky Distilling Co. releases special versions of whisky (L) and brandy to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the firm's establishment in Tokyo on July 2, 2014.

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Leads of upcoming NHK drama interviewed in Hokkaido

SAPPORO, Japan - Japanese actor Tetsuji Tamayama (L) and U.S. actress Charlotte Kate Fox, a pair of leads in public broadcaster NHK's new serial morning drama "Massan," attend a press conference at a distillery of Nikka Whisky Distilling Co. in Yoichi, Hokkaido Prefecture, on June 2, 2014. The program, featuring the life of Japanese whiskey pioneer Masataka Taketsuru, will start in September.

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English-style suit liked by Nikka Whisky founder re-created

Kotaro Taketsuru, grandson of Nikka Whisky Distilling Co.'s founder Masataka Taketsuru, presents himself in an English-style suit liked by his grandfather in his later years at a press conference in Tokyo on March 25, 2015. Masataka, who learned how to make whisky in Scotland, is featured in a popular morning TV drama series aired by public broadcaster NHK. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Filming of NHK's television drama series "Massan" ends

American actress Charlotte Kate Fox (L) and Japanese actor Tetsuji Tamayama receive flowers at Nikka Whisky Distilling Co.'s distillery in Yoichi on Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido on Feb. 23, 2015, as filming ended the same day of public broadcaster NHK's television drama series featuring the life of Masataka Taketsuru, the founder of Nikka known as the father of Japan's whisky industry, and his Scottish wife Jessie Roberta "Rita" Cowan. In the drama series "Massan" to be broadcast until March 28, Fox stars as Ellie Kameyama, based on Rita, and Tamayama plays Masaharu Kameyama, based on Taketsuru. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Filming of NHK's television drama series "Massan" ends

American actress Charlotte Kate Fox (L) and Japanese actor Tetsuji Tamayama celebrate at Nikka Whisky Distilling Co.'s distillery in Yoichi on Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido on Feb. 23, 2015, as filming ended the same day of public broadcaster NHK's television drama series featuring the life of Masataka Taketsuru, the founder of Nikka known as the father of Japan's whisky industry, and his Scottish wife Jessie Roberta "Rita" Cowan. In the drama series "Massan" to be broadcast until March 28, Fox stars as Ellie Kameyama, based on Rita, and Tamayama plays Masaharu Kameyama, based on Taketsuru. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kyushu Univ. unveils gear for automatic blending of anticancer drugs

A robotic-arm device developed by Kyushu University and two Japanese companies is shown to the press on Oct. 15, 2015, in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan. Developed with industrial robot maker Yaskawa Electric Corp. and medical equipment manufacturer Nikka Micron Co., the device is the world's first of its kind that is capable of completing the entire unmanned process of automatically blending and bottling anticancer drugs, according to the national university. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kyushu Univ. unveils gear for automatic blending of anticancer drugs

A robotic-armed device developed by Kyushu University and two Japanese companies is shown to the press on Oct. 15, 2015, in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan. Developed with industrial robot maker Yaskawa Electric Corp. and medical equipment manufacturer Nikka Micron Co., the device is the world's first of its kind that is capable of completing the entire unmanned process of automatically blending and bottling anticancer drugs, according to the national university. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Comedian Nishikawa, actress Natsuki before 'Massan' tram

OSAKA, Japan - Comedian Kiyoshi Nishikawa (L) and actress Yoko Natsuki stand in front of a Hankai Tramway Co. streetcar made in the 1920s on Oct. 9, 2014, in Osaka, western Japan. The streetcar sports logos and images of public broadcaster NHK's morning serial drama "Massan" in which the two play roles. The drama is based on the life story of Masataka Taketsuru, founder of Nikka Whisky and considered the "Father of Japanese whisky," and his wife Rita. (Kyodo)

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Asahi Breweries' 500,000 yen whisky

TOKYO, Japan - Asahi Breweries Ltd. announced Sept. 26, 2014, that it will release 700 bottles of "The Nikka 40 Years Old" whisky, priced for 500,000 yen each, to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the founding of Nikka Whisky Distilling Co. (Kyodo)

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Disaster drill near nuclear power plant in north Japan

Foreign visitors to the Nikka Whisky distillery in the northern Japan town of Yoichi join an emergency drill on Nov. 14, 2016 that simulated a possible accident at Hokkaido Electric Power Co.'s Tomari nuclear plant. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo