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BOJ Governor Ueda in Osaka

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda makes a speech at a gathering of local business groups in Osaka, western Japan, on Oct. 3, 2025.

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BOJ Governor Ueda in Osaka

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda (far R) makes a speech at a gathering of local business groups in Osaka, western Japan, on Oct. 3, 2025.

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Welfare ministry official acquitted in postal abuse case

OSAKA, Japan, Aug. 24 Kyodo - Atsuko Muraki (L), former director general of the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry's Equal Employment, Children and Families Bureau, holds a press conference in Osaka on Sept. 10, 2010, with her lawyer Junichiro Hironaka after the Osaka District Court acquitted her of instructing a subordinate to fabricate and issue an official document for an organization in an attempt to abuse a mail discount system for people with disabilities.(Kyodo)

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Japanese tea ceremony master dies

File photo taken in April 2023 shows Sen Genshitsu, a former grand master of the Urasenke Japanese tea ceremony school, giving a lecture in Osaka, western Japan. He died on Aug. 14, 2025, at age 102.

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Court ruling on selective reduction

OSAKA, Japan, Aug. 7 Kyodo - Yahiro Netsu, a medical doctor who runs a maternity clinic in Nagano Prefecture, attends a press conference in Osaka on Jan. 28, 2020, after the Osaka District Court dismissed earlier in the day a damages lawsuit filed by a husband and wife who claimed that errors in selective reduction procedure carried out at an Osaka clinic when the woman was pregnant with quintuplets had led to her miscarriage, leaving her without any children. Netsu, who sides with the couple, calls for the central government to establish legal rules on multiple pregnancy to ensure selective reduction, or the practice of reducing the number of fetuses in a multiple pregnancy, is conducted safely.(Kyodo)

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Japan Casino School class

OSAKA, Japan, July 31 Kyodo - Prospective dealers attend a lesson at Japan Casino School in Osaka, western Japan, on April 23, 2022. (Kyodo)

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Yumeshima artificial island

OSAKA, Japan, July 31 Kyodo - File photo taken on June 21, 2024, shows the Yumeshima artificial island, including an area (C) earmarked for the venue of the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka. A project is under way to develop another area of the island into a resort complex including a casino facility, after the expo is over. (Kyodo)

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Tenjin festival in Osaka

Children take part in the "hokonagashi" spear-floating ritual of the annual Tenjin festival in Osaka, western Japan, on July 24, 2025.

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Tenjin festival in Osaka

Children take part in the "hokonagashi" spear-floating ritual of the annual Tenjin festival in Osaka, western Japan, on July 24, 2025.

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Tenjin festival in Osaka

Children take part in the "hokonagashi" spear-floating ritual of the annual Tenjin festival in Osaka, western Japan, on July 24, 2025.

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Twin actors starred in NHK drama series

OSAKA, Japan, July 18 Kyodo - Photo taken on Dec. 7, 2007, at public broadcaster NHK's Osaka studio shows Japanese twin actors Mana Mikura (L) and Kana Mikura ahead of the start of shooting for the television drama series "Dandan," which will starr the pair and will begin airing in September of the following year.(Kyodo)

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Passenger ferry resumes between Shanghai and 2 Japanese cities

Photo taken on June 28, 2025, shows a ferry at a port in Shanghai ahead of its departure to Osaka, Japan, with around 30 Chinese passengers aboard. Commercial services between Shanghai and Osaka, and between Shanghai and Kobe resumed the same day for the first time in about five years, following a hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Marketing analyst Harada

OSAKA, Japan, June 6 Kyodo - Marketing analyst Yohei Harada speaks at a national convention of the Japan-Newspaper Orikomi Advertising Agencies Association in the western Japan city of Osaka on Nov. 2, 2023.(Kyodo)

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Fireworks festival in Osaka

OSAKA, Japan, June 6 Kyodo - Video taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows fireworks lighting up the night sky of the western Japan city of Osaka on Aug. 27, 2022, during the Naniwa Yodogawa fireworks festival.(Kyodo)

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1922 national meeting by group to liberate "burakumin"

OSAKA, Japan, May 29 Kyodo - The National Levelers Association holds its ninth national meeting at a public hall in Osaka, western Japan, on Dec. 5, 1930. The association was founded in 1922 to protect the rights of "burakumin," people descended from the outcast communities of Japan's feudal era. (Photo taken by Japan Telegraphic Communication Co.)

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World Exposition in Osaka

Photo taken on April 20, 2025, shows what is believed to be a building stone from an ancient fortress in East Jerusalem -- occupied by Israel since the 1967 Arab-Israeli war -- on display at Israel's booth at the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka, western Japan.

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World Exposition in Osaka

Hiroyuki Ishige, secretary general of the Japan Association for the 2025 World Exposition, attends a press conference at the venue of the expo in Osaka, western Japan, on May 12, 2025, a day before the event's one-month mark.

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World Exposition in Osaka

Hiroyuki Ishige, secretary general of the Japan Association for the 2025 World Exposition, attends a press conference at the venue of the expo in Osaka, western Japan, on May 12, 2025, a day before the event's one-month mark.

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World Exposition in Osaka

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the World Exposition's iconic Grand Ring on May 13, 2025, exactly one month after the event opened in Osaka, western Japan.

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World Exposition in Osaka

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the World Exposition's iconic Grand Ring on May 13, 2025, exactly one month after the event opened in Osaka, western Japan.

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World Exposition in Osaka

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the World Exposition's iconic Grand Ring on May 13, 2025, exactly one month after the event opened in Osaka, western Japan.

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World Exposition in Osaka

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the World Exposition's iconic Grand Ring on May 13, 2025, exactly one month after the event opened in Osaka, western Japan.

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