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Cooking expert Hattori

Yukio Hattori, head of Hattori Nutrition College, is pictured at the college in Tokyo on Jan. 14, 2009. The cooking expert best known as a commentator on the television show Iron Chef died of illness on Oct. 4, 2024, aged 78.

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Toyota to withdraw from Formula 1

NAGOYA, Japan - Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda (R) is seen visiting the pit for a Toyota team in Formula One's Japanese Grand Prix at the Suzuka Circuit in Mie Prefecture on Oct. 4, 2009. Toyoda, who is himself a motorcar racer with an international C-class license, announced Nov. 4 that his company will withdraw from Formula One at the end of the current season.

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Toyota to withdraw from Formula 1

NAGOYA, Japan - File photo taken Oct. 4, 2009, shows a Toyota car racing in Formula One's Japanese Grand Prix at the Suzuka Circuit in Mie Prefecture.

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Toyota to withdraw from Formula 1

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken Oct. 4, 2009, shows Toyota driver Jarno Trulli racing in Formula One's Japanese Grand Prix at the Suzuka Circuit in Mie Prefecture. Automaker Toyota Motor Corp. announced Nov. 4 that it will withdraw from the sport.

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Mariners' Ichiro 1-for-3 against Rangers in season's last game

SEATTLE, United States - Seattle Mariners outfielder Ichiro Suzuki waves to fans at Safeco Field in Seattle on Oct. 4, 2009, after he went 1-for-3 in the team's last game against the Texas Rangers. Ichiro ended the regular season with a batting average of .352.

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Mariners' Ichiro 1-for-3 against Rangers in season's last game

SEATTLE, United States - Seattle Mariners leadoff batter Ichiro Suzuki hits a single to center in the fifth inning of the team's last game against the Texas Rangers at Safeco Field in Seattle on Oct. 4, 2009. Ichiro went 1-for-3, ending the regular season with a batting average of .352.

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N.Y. Yankees' Matsui 1-for-2 in season's last game

ST. PETERSBURG, United States - New York Yankees designated hitter Hideki Matsui hits a single to center in the sixth inning of a game against the Tampa Bay Rays at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg on Oct. 4, 2009. Matsui went 1-2 in the team's last game of the regular season as the Yankees won 10-2.

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China's Wen arrives in Pyongyang

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (L in center) waves from a car as he arrives in Pyongyang on Oct. 4, 2009.

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China's Wen arrives in Pyongyang

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (R in front) is presented with a red scarf from a female student as he arrives in Pyongyang on Oct. 4, 2009.

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Female knuckleballer Yoshida throws last pitch in Kobe uniform

SUITA, Japan - Female knuckleballer Eri Yoshida of the Kobe 9 Cruise pitches in an all-star game of the Kansai Independent League at a Suita ballpark in Osaka Prefecture on Oct. 4, 2009, for her last performance wearing the Kobe uniform. Yoshida, the first woman to play professional baseball alongside male players in Japan, is scheduled to leave the financially troubled club when her contract expires at the end of this month.

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U.S. Ambassador Roos visits Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan John Roos (C) and Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba (L) pray for the victims of the atomic bombing at the Memorial Cenotaph for A-Bomb Victims at Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on Oct. 4, 2009.

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U.S. Ambassador Roos visits Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan John Roos (R) offers a wreath at the Memorial Cenotaph for A-Bomb Victims at Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on Oct. 4, 2009.

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S. Korea's Song wins Japan Women's Open

ABIKO, Japan - South Korea's Song Bo Bae holds the victory trophy she captured in the Japan Women's Open at Abiko Golf Club in Chiba Prefecture on Oct. 4, 2009. Song beat Japan's Sakura Yokomine in a playoff.

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Ishikawa gets 4th win of year at Tokai Classic

MIYOSHI, Japan - Japan's Ryo Ishikawa holds up the trophy for his win at the Coca-Cola Tokai Classic by one stroke over little-known Takeshi Kajikawa at Miyoshi Country Club in Aichi Prefecture on Oct. 4, 2009.

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Japanese fact-finding team arrives in quake-hit Indonesia

PADANG, Indonesia - A team of 11 officials of the Japanese Defense Ministry arrive in Indonesia's Padang, the capital of quake-hit West Sumatra Province, on Oct. 4, 2009, to conduct a fact-finding investigation in the area.

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Ex-Finance Minister Nakagawa found dead at Tokyo home

TOKYO, Japan - Liberal Democratic Party President Sadakazu Tanigaki responds to questions from reporters in Tokyo on Oct. 4, 2009, over the death of former Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa. Nakagawa, an LDP member, was found dead at his home in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward earlier in the day.

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Megumi's parents attend meeting to help abductees

KAWASAKI, Japan - Shigeru Yokota (L) and his wife, Sakie, whose daughter Megumi was abducted by North Korean agents more than 30 years ago, sing a song at a citizens forum in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Oct. 4, 2009, ahead of Megumi's 45th birthday on Oct. 5.

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Crown prince attends tree planting festival in Nagasaki

UNZEN, Japan - Crown Prince Naruhito (R) cuts a branch of a cypress tree planted by Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko in 1990 at Hyakkadai forest park in Unzen, Nagasaki Prefecture, on Oct. 4, 2009. The prince later attended this year's national tree planting ceremony at prefectural Hyakkadai park.

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Ceremony for 'Tetsujin 28-go' statue held in Kobe

KOBE, Japan - A ceremony marking the completion of a statue of ''Tetsujin 28-go,'' or Iron Man No. 28, is held in Kobe's Nagata Ward in Hyogo Prefecture on Oct. 4, 2009. The iron statue, which is modeled after the character from the ''Tetsujin 28-go'' comic series written by the late Mitsuteru Yokoyama from Kobe, was constructed as part of efforts to help revitalize local areas hardest hit by the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake.

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Ishihara back to Tokyo after Tokyo's failed Olympic bid

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara meets the press at the Tokyo metropolitan government office Oct. 4, 2009, after the Japanese capital failed to be chosen by the International Olympic Committee as host of the 2016 Summer Games.

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Ex-Finance Minister Nakagawa found dead at Tokyo home

TOKYO, Japan - This file photo shows then Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa replying to questions from the floor at a House of Councilors session in February 2009. Nakagawa was found dead at his home in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward on Oct. 4, 2009.

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Ex-Finance Minister Nakagawa found dead at Tokyo home

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on Oct. 4, 2009, shows the home of former Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward. Nakagawa was found dead at his home earlier in the day.

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Ex-Finance Minister Nakagawa found dead at Tokyo home

TOKYO, Japan - This undated file photo shows former Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa, who was found dead at his home in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward on Oct. 4, 2009. Nakagawa's political career went downhill after a press conference in Rome in February 2009, at which he appeared to be drunk.