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Ig Nobel prize ceremony

(From L) Kazato Oishi, an associate professor at Kyoto University, Tomoki Kojima, a researcher at the National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, and Sei Sato, section chief at the Aichi Livestock and Poultry Breeding Center, pose for photos in Boston on Sept. 18, 2025, after their team won the Ig Nobel prize in biology. Their experiment showing that painting zebra-like stripes on cattle significantly reduces the number of biting flies landing on them was recognized at a ceremony in Boston.

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Ig Nobel prize ceremony

(From L) Sei Sato, section chief at the Aichi Livestock and Poultry Breeding Center, Tomoki Kojima, a researcher at the National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, and Kazato Oishi, an associate professor at Kyoto University, attend an Ig Nobel prize ceremony in Boston on Sept. 18, 2025. Their experiment showing that painting zebra-like stripes on cattle significantly reduces the number of biting flies landing on them was recognized at a ceremony in Boston.

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Japan's nuke-bomb survivors group wins Nobel Peace Prize

Nagasaki Gov. Kengo Oishi meets the press in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on Oct. 11, 2024, after Japan's leading organization of atomic bomb survivors, Nihon Hidankyo, won the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize.

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Upper house lawmaker Oishi dies at 75

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in January 2007 shows Hisako Oishi, a House of Councillors member of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan. Oishi died of respiratory failure at a Tokyo hospital on Jan. 4, 2012, the party said. She was 75.

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Actor Matsudaira plays Oishi in Gishi-sai parade

KOBE, Japan - Japanese actor Ken Matsudaira walks with citizens in a parade at the Gishi-sai festival in Ako, Hyogo Prefecture, on Dec. 14, 2014, to honor the "Loyal Retainers of Ako." Matsudaira played Oishi Kuranosuke, leader of a group of 47 masterless samurai of Ako who avenged their lord's death in the 18th century.

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Actor Matsudaira leads Gishi-sai parade

KOBE, Japan - Japanese actor Ken Matsudaira leads a parade during the Gishi-sai festival in Ako, Hyogo Prefecture, on Dec. 14, 2014, to honor the "Loyal Retainers of Ako." Matsudaira played Oishi Kuranosuke, leader of a group of 47 masterless samurai of Ako who avenged their lord's death in the 18th century.

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Driver of 1st shinkansen train recalls ride 50 years ago

TOKYO, Japan - Kazutaro Oishi stands on platform No. 17 at JR Tokyo Station on Aug. 8, 2014, recalling his duty as a driver of Japan's first bullet train on the shinkansen line in October 1964.

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Driver of 1st shinkansen train recalls ride 50 years ago

TOKYO, Japan - Kazutaro Oishi, who drove Japan's first bullet train on the shinkansen line in October 1964, poses in the cockpit of the original "0 series" bullet train transferred to a special exhibition in Tokyo in July 2014, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the operation of the Tokaido Shinkansen Line.

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Bikini nuclear test marks 60th anniversary

MAJURO, Marshall Islands - Matashichi Oishi (C), a former crew member of the Japanese fishing boat Fukuryu Maru No. 5 that was contaminated by nuclear fallout from the 1954 U.S. H-bomb test at Bikini Atoll, shakes hands with a Marshallese survivor (L) in Majuro, the capital of the Marshall Islands republic, on March 1, 2014, the 60th anniversary of the test. To the right is Kaede Nagashima, a Japanese university student from Fukushima, home to the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

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Japanese survivor of H-bomb test meets U.S. official

MAJURO, Marshall Islands - Matashichi Oishi (L), a former crew member of the Japanese fishing boat Fukuryu Maru No. 5 that was contaminated by the nuclear fallout from the 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test on the Bikini Atoll, chats with Rose Gottemoeller, U.S. acting undersecretary of state for arms control and international security, in Majuro, the capital of the Marshall Islands on March 1, 2014.

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Japan fisherman exposed to Bikini nuke fallout recalls ordeal

MAJURO, Marshall Islands - Former Japanese fisherman Matashichi Oishi speaks of his exposure to nuclear fallout from the 1954 U.S. H-bomb test on Bikini Atoll at a school in Majuro, the capital of the Marshall Islands republic, on Feb. 27, 2014. He was aboard the Fukuryu Maru No.5 near the atoll at that time.

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Japanese survivor of Bikini nuclear test speaks 60 years on

MAJURO, Marshall Islands - Matashichi Oishi (R), a former crew member of the Japanese fishing boat Fukuryu Maru No. 5 that was contaminated by nuclear fallout from a 1954 U.S. H-bomb test at Bikini Atoll, speaks during a memorial ceremony marking the 60th anniversary of the test in Majuro, the capital of the Marshall Islands republic, on March 1, 2014.

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Bikini nuclear test 60th anniversary

MAJURO, Marshall Islands - Nerje Joseph (R), 65, a Marshallese survivor of the 1954 powerful nuclear test by the United States at Bikini Atoll, shakes hands with Matashichi Oishi (C), 80, a former crew member of the Japanese fishing boat Fukuryu Maru No. 5 that was contaminated by nuclear fallout from the bomb test, when they meet in Majuro, the capital of Marshall Islands, on Feb. 28, 2014.

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Japanese survivor of 1954 nuclear test

MAJURO, Marshall Islands - Matashichi Oishi (C), a former Japanese fisherman who survived a nuclear bomb test by the United States in 1954 in the South Pacific country of Marshall Islands, meets with students of a local school in the capital Majuro on Feb. 27, 2014.

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Bikini Atoll radiation survivor continues antinuclear fight

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Jan. 19, 2014 shows Matashichi Oishi (L), a former crew member of the Fukuryu Maru No. 5, and his daughter, Yoshiko Tanaka, standing in front of the trawler preserved and displayed at the Daigo Fukuryu Maru Exhibition Hall run by the Tokyo metropolitan government in Tokyo's Koto Ward. The tuna fishing boat was exposed to nuclear fallout from a U.S. hydrogen bomb test on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands on March 1, 1954, while fishing about 160 kilometers east of the atoll.

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Ex-mayor from Japan energizing remote Argentine region

SALTA, Argentina - Akitada Oishi (L), a former mayor of Hita, Oita Prefecture in Japan, and his superior at the Salta provincial government examine folk crafts at a market in Salta, northern Argentina, on Sept. 11, 2013. Oishi works for Salta as an aid volunteer dispatched by the Japan International Cooperation Agency.

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Ex-mayor from Japan energizing remote Argentine region

SALTA, Argentina - Akitada Oishi (2nd from L), a former mayor of Hita, Oita Prefecture in Japan, looks at a local tourist map in the government office of the northern Argentine province of Salta on Sept. 11, 2013, together with Salta government employees. Oishi works for Salta as an aid volunteer dispatched by the Japan International Cooperation Agency.

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Lavender in full bloom near Mt. Fuji

KOFU, Japan - Photo taken in the town of Fujikawaguchiko in Yamanashi Prefecture on July 8, 2013, shows lavender plants in full bloom in Oishi Park by Lake Kawaguchi near Mt. Fuji (back).

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Lavender in full bloom near Mt. Fuji

KOFU, Japan - Photo taken in the town of Fujikawaguchiko in Yamanashi Prefecture on July 8, 2013, shows lavender plants in full bloom in Oishi Park by Lake Kawaguchi near Mt. Fuji (back).

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Antinuclear rally

SHIZUOKA, Japan - Matashichi Oishi, a 78-year-old former crew member of the trawler Fukuryu Maru No. 5, speaks during a rally in Yaizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on March 1, 2012. Antinuclear activists called for an end to reliance on nuclear power at the rally on the 58th anniversary of the exposure of the tuna fishing boat to radiation from a U.S. hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll in the South Pacific in 1954.

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Ex-Lucky Dragon crewman Oishi with his new book

TOKYO, Japan - Matashichi Oishi, former crew member of Japanese trawler the Fukuryu Maru No. 5, or Lucky Dragon No. 5, holds his new book on war and the history of nuclear weapons titled ''Mujun'' (L), meaning contradiction, and the English translation of another of his books, ''The Day the Sun Rose in the West'' (R), in Tokyo in November 2011. The boat and crew members were exposed to radiation from a U.S. hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean in 1954.

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Pronuclear incumbent wins in Hokkaido mayoral election

IWANAI, Japan - Yuji Kamioka, the mayor of Iwanai town, Hokkaido, known as an advocate of restarting idled reactors at a nearby nuclear power plant, celebrates his reelection on Oct. 2, 2011, after seeing off the challenge of antinuclear candidate Miyuki Oishi. Kamioka secured a third four-year term after pledging stricter oversight of Hokkaido Electric Power Co.'s Tomari nuclear plant.

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Ex-crewman of irradiated Lucky Dragon No.5

TOKYO, Japan - Matashichi Oishi, a former crew member of the Japanese trawler Lucky Dragon No. 5 which was exposed to radiation from a U.S. hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific, speaks about his experience during a meeting in Tokyo on Feb. 26, 2011. Oishi said people should not forget about the terrors of nuclear weapons.

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3 star pitchers of Waseda University

TOKYO, Japan - Waseda University manager Atsuyoshi Otake (2nd from L) poses with pitchers Yuki Saito (L), Tatsuya Oishi and Yuya Fukui (R) at Jingu Stadium in Tokyo on Nov. 18, 2010, after the pitchers played their last game before joining professional clubs. Waseda became the first amateur baseball team from which three pitchers were selected as the No. 1 picks in the professional draft.

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Oishi, Seibu Lions' draft No. 1 pick

TOKYO, Japan - Tatsuya Oishi, a pitcher of Waseda University and the draft No. 1 pick of the Seibu Lions professional club, throws against Tokai University in the final of a university baseball tournament at Jingu Stadium in Tokyo on Nov. 18, 2010.

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Waseda University pitchers

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Waseda University pitchers Yuki Saito, Yuya Fukui and Tatsuya Oishi pose for photos with trophies on Nov. 3, 2010, at the Jingu Baseball Stadium in Tokyo, after defeating Keio University in a Tokyo Big6 Baseball League game to win the league title. The three have been selected by three professional baseball teams in the first round of the amateur draft.

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Waseda University pitcher Oishi

TOKYO, Japan - Waseda University right-hander Tatsuya Oishi throws against Keio University in a Tokyo Big6 Baseball League game at the Jingu Baseball Stadium in Tokyo on Nov. 3, 2010. Waseda won the title. The Seibu Lions have won the rights to negotiate a contract with Oishi in the first round of bids in the Japanese baseball draft.

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Lavender in full bloom near Mt. Fuji

FUJI-KAWAGUCHIKO, Japan - Tourists stroll through Oishi Park by Lake Kawaguchi near Mt. Fuji in the town of Fuji-Kawaguchiko in Yamanashi Prefecture, where some 12,000 lavender plants are in full bloom, on July 10, 2010.

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Minamata disease suit settled as mediation plan approved

KUMAMOTO, Japan - Toshio Oishi, the representative of unrecognized sufferers of Minamata mercury poisoning disease, speaks at a news conference in Kumamoto on March 29, 2010, after the sufferers agreed with the state, Kumamoto Prefecture and chemical maker Chisso Corp. to settle a damages suit in principle under a plan brokered by the Kumamoto District Court that includes lump-sum payments of 2.1 million yen per person.

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Ex-fisherman seeks antinuclear stone monument at Tsukiji Market

TOKYO, Japan - Matashichi Oishi, a former crewman of the Japanese trawler Fukuryu Maru No. 5, visits a section of Tokyo's Tsukiji Market where ''A-bomb maguro'' (tuna) is said to have been buried.

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Hisakazu Oishi

Hisakazu Oishi, president of the Japan Institute of Construction Engineering (photo taken on Nov. 15, 2007)

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Visitors to Expo top 10 million

NAGAKUTE, Japan - Mineo Oishi (L) is all smiles as he gets a 2-carat diamond from Sakha Republic Prime Minister Egor Borison (L) after becoming the 10 millionth person to visit 2004 World Exposition in Aichi Prefecture on July 4. ''It was a big surprise. I want to go home as soon as possible to tell my wife,'' 39-year-old Onishi from Nagoy said.

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Fans of 47 ronin mark 300th anniversary of vengeance

TOKYO, Japan - Former sumo sekiwake Terao (C, front), dressed as ronin Oishi Kuranosuke, leads a parade in Tokyo's Ginza district Dec. 14 to mark the 300th anniversary of the vengeance of Oishi and 46 other ronin. In 1702, the 47 avenged the death of their lord, who was ordered to kill himself for drawing his sword in the shogun's palace.

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Ex-Lucky Dragon crew member to visit Marshall Islands in Feb.

TOKYO, Japan - Matashichi Oishi, a former crew member of the Lucky Dragon No. 5, a Japanese fishing boat exposed to radiation during a 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test in the Pacific, tells reporters in Tokyo on Jan. 11 that he will visit the Marshall Islands, the site of the incident, in February to attend a memorial ceremony.

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Intellectuals protest nationalist-authored history text

TOKYO, Japan - Nobel literature prize winner Kenzaburo Oe (L) and Mutsuko Miki, widow of former Prime Minister Takeo Miki, speak at a press conference in Tokyo on March 16 about their statement urging the education ministry not to approve a junior high school history textbook written by nationalist academics. In addition to Oe and Miki, the statement had the support of novelist Hisashi Inoue, photographer Yoshino Oishi and Yoshikazu Sakamoto, professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo.

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Researchers decode plant genome for 1st time

TOKYO, Japan - Michio Oishi (R) and Satoshi Tabata (C), of the Kazusa DNA Research Institute in Kisarazu, Chiba Prefecture, speak at a news conference in Tokyo on Dec. 13. They and researchers in the United States, Britain, France and Germany have succeeded in decoding the genome of a plant for the first time.

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Monument to tuna contaminated by H-bomb test

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken April 14, 2000 shows a stone "tuna monument" erected in the yard of the Daigo Fukuryu Maru Exhibition Hall on Yumenoshima in Tokyo's Koto Ward and Matashichi Oishi, a former crew member of the Fukuryu Maru No. 5, a tuna fishing boat exposed to contamination by the 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll, who created the monument in 1999 as a reminder of the dreadful effects of the test and a symbol of peace.

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77th A-bomb anniversary in Nagasaki

Nagasaki Gov. Kengo Oishi delivers a speech at the Peace Park in Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 2022, during a ceremony marking the 77th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the southwestern Japan city in the closing days of World War II. (Pool photo)

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Ex-Lucky Dragon crew member to visit Marshall Islands in Feb.

TOKYO, Japan - Matashichi Oishi, a former crew member of the Lucky Dragon No. 5, a Japanese fishing boat exposed to radiation during a 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test in the Pacific, tells reporters in Tokyo on Jan. 11 that he will visit the Marshall Islands, the site of the incident, in February to attend a memorial ceremony.

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Brazilian woman arrested as 2 boys die in jet ski accident in Japan

Fabio Akira Oishi, 35, a Brazilian resident of Japan, meets the press on June 13, 2016, at a hospital in Ichinomiya, Aichi Prefecture, after sustaining serious injuries and losing his two sons in a collision between a jet ski and an inflatable boat carrying him and his children on a river the previous day. A Brazilian woman, who is an acquaintance of Oishi's and was riding the jet ski, was arrested. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese victims of 1954 U.S. H-bomb test enraged by N. Korea

Matashichi Oishi, a 81-year-old former crew member of the fishing boat Fukuryu Maru No. 5 that was exposed to radioactive fallout from a 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test in the Pacific, speaks in Tokyo on Jan. 7, 2015, about the alleged North Korean hydrogen bomb test. He said, "If (the bomb is) used, it is the end of humankind. I know the horror of it as a person who experienced it." (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Research reveals Great Buddha has only half of described hair curls

Photo taken Dec. 3, 2015, shows the head of the Great Buddha statue at Todaiji temple in the western Japanese city of Nara. A 3-D analysis using a laser scanning method, conducted by Takeshi Oishi, associate professor at the University of Tokyo's Institute of Industrial Science, revealed that the Buddha in fact only has 492 spiraling curls of hair on its bronze head, instead of 966 locks as described in ancient documents, the temple said the same day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-fisherman exposed to 1954 U.S. nuke test dies at 87

Photo taken in April 2015 shows Matashichi Oishi, a former crew member of the Japanese tuna fishing boat Fukuryu Maru No. 5 that was exposed to radioactive fallout from a 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific, at its exhibition hall in Tokyo. Oishi died of pneumonia on March 7, 2021.

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Former crew member of Lucky Dragon

Matashichi Oishi, a former crew member of the fishing boat Fukuryu Maru No. 5 that was exposed to radioactive fallout from a 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test in the Pacific, stands beside the ship, also known as the Lucky Dragon, at its exhibition hall in Tokyo in April 2015. (Photo by Tatsuya Hagiwara)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Aging H-bomb victim lobbies to bring antinuke monument to Tsukiji

People visit an antinuclear "Tuna Memorial" next to a Tokyo museum exhibiting the Japanese tuna fishing boat Fukuryu Maru No. 5, which was contaminated with radioactive fallout from a 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test in the Pacific, in April 2016. Former Fukuryu Maru crew member Matashichi Oishi, who led a fundraising campaign in the late 1990s to erect the monument, hopes to transfer it to the Tsukiji fish market site. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Aging H-bomb victim lobbies to bring antinuke monument to Tsukiji

Matashichi Oishi, an 82-year-old former crew member of the Japanese tuna fishing boat Fukuryu Maru No. 5 that was contaminated with radioactive fallout from a 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test in the Pacific, seeks support for his petition to set up an antinuclear "Tuna Memorial" at the Tsukiji fish market site, during a gathering in Tokyo on Sept. 22, 2016. The toxic tuna catch, unloaded from the Fukuryu Maru, was shipped to Tsukiji and buried there. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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40-yr-old museum on H-bomb test-hit boat continues nuke-free quest

Matashichi Oishi (R), 82, a former crew member of Japanese tuna fishing boat Fukuryu Maru No. 5, speaks in front of students at Miwada Girls' Junior and Senior High School in Tokyo on Jan. 22, 2016. Next to him is Mari Ichida, 48, a curator of the Daigo Fukuryu Maru Exhibition Hall. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Survivor hopes Obama to reflect on 1954 H-bomb test in Hiroshima visit

Matashichi Oishi, 82, speaks during an interview with Kyodo News in a hospital in Fuefuki, Yamanashi Prefecture, central Japan, on May 12, 2016. Oishi was a crew member aboard the Japanese tuna fishing boat Fukuryu Maru No. 5 when it was hit by radioactive fallout from a U.S. hydrogen bomb test in the Pacific in 1954. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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N. Korea needs to know horror of nukes: 1954 U.S. H-bomb test victim

Matashichi Oishi, 81, calls for abolishing nuclear weapons while speaking as a former crew member of a Japanese tuna fishing boat exposed to radioactive fallout from a 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test in the Pacific, at a private school in Tokyo on Jan. 22, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Visitors to Expo top 10 million

NAGAKUTE, Japan - Mineo Oishi (L) a is all smiles as he gets a 2-carat diamond from Sakha Republic Prime Minister Egor Borison (L) after becoming the 10 millionth person to visit 2004 World Exposition in Aichi Prefecture on July 4. ''It was a big surprise. I want to go home as soon as possible to tell my wife,'' 39-year-old Onishi from Nagoy said. (Kyodo)