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Crown Princess Victoria, Prince Daniel and Princess Takamado at a reception at Hotel Okura organized by the Swedish Embassy in Tokyo, Japan, on October 13, 2025. The Crown Princess poses for a photograph together with Nobel laureates Simon Sakaguchi, Susumu Kitagawa and Ryoji Noyori. Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria and Prince are on an official visit to Japan and South Korea from October 9 to 15.Photo: Jessica Gow / TT / Code 10070

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CROWN PRINCESS IN TOKYO

Crown Princess Victoria, Prince Daniel and Princess Takamado at a reception at Hotel Okura hosted by the Swedish Embassy in Tokyo, Japan on October 13, 2025. Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria and Prince are on an official visit to Japan and South Korea from October 9 to 15.Photo: Jessica Gow/TT/Code 10070

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CROWN PRINCESS IN TOKYO

Crown Princess Victoria, Prince Daniel and Princess Takamado at a reception at Hotel Okura organized by the Swedish Embassy in Tokyo, Japan, on October 13, 2025. The Crown Princess poses for a photograph together with Nobel laureates Simon Sakaguchi, Susumu Kitagawa and Ryoji Noyori. Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria and Prince are on an official visit to Japan and South Korea from October 9 to 15.Photo: Jessica Gow / TT / Code 10070

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CROWN PRINCESS IN TOKYO

Crown Princess Victoria and Prince Daniel at a reception at Hotel Okura hosted by the Swedish Embassy in Tokyo, Japan, on October 13, 2025. Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria and Prince are on an official visit to Japan and South Korea from October 9 to 15.Photo: Jessica Gow / TT / Code 10070

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CROWN PRINCESS IN TOKYO

Crown Princess Victoria delivers a speech at a reception at Hotel Okura hosted by the Swedish Embassy in Tokyo, Japan, on October 13, 2025. Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria and Prince are on an official visit to Japan and South Korea from October 9 to 15.Photo: Jessica Gow / TT / Code 10070

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CROWN PRINCESS IN TOKYO

Princess Takamado speaks at a reception hosted by the Swedish Embassy at Hotel Okura in Tokyo, Japan, on October 3, 2025, during the visit of Sweden’s Crown Princess Victoria. The Crown Princess and Prince Daniel are on an official visit to Japan and South Korea from October 9 to 15.Photo: Jessica Gow / TT / Code 10070

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CROWN PRINCESS IN TOKYO

Crown Princess Victoria delivers a speech at a reception at Hotel Okura hosted by the Swedish Embassy in Tokyo, Japan, on October 13, 2025. Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria and Prince are on an official visit to Japan and South Korea from October 9 to 15.Photo: Jessica Gow / TT / Code 10070

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CROWN PRINCESS IN TOKYO

Princess Takamado speaks at a reception hosted by the Swedish Embassy at Hotel Okura in Tokyo, Japan, on October 3, 2025, during the visit of Sweden’s Crown Princess Victoria. The Crown Princess and Prince Daniel are on an official visit to Japan and South Korea from October 9 to 15.Photo: Jessica Gow / TT / Code 10070

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CROWN PRINCESS IN TOKYO

Crown Princess Victoria delivers a speech at a reception at Hotel Okura hosted by the Swedish Embassy in Tokyo, Japan, on October 13, 2025. Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria and Prince are on an official visit to Japan and South Korea from October 9 to 15.Photo: Jessica Gow / TT / Code 10070

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CROWN PRINCESS IN TOKYO

Crown Princess Victoria at a reception at Hotel Okura hosted by the Swedish Embassy in Tokyo, Japan, on October 13, 2025. Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria and Prince are on an official visit to Japan and South Korea from October 9 to 15.Photo: Jessica Gow / TT / Code 10070

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CROWN PRINCESS IN TOKYO

TOKYO, JAPAN 20251013Crown Princess Victoria delivers a speech at a reception at Hotel Okura hosted by the Swedish Embassy in Tokyo, Japan, on October 13, 2025. Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria and Prince are on an official visit to Japan and South Korea from October 9 to 15.Photo: Jessica Gow/TT/Code 10070

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CROWN PRINCESS IN TOKYO

Crown Princess Victoria, Prince Daniel and Princess Takamado at a reception at Hotel Okura in Tokyo hosted by the Swedish Embassy during their visit to Japan on October 13, 2025. Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria and Prince are on an official visit to Japan and South Korea from October 9 to 15.Photo: Jessica Gow/TT/Code 10070

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CROWN PRINCESS IN TOKYO

TOKYO, JAPAN 20251013Crown Princess Victoria delivers a speech at a reception at Hotel Okura hosted by the Swedish Embassy in Tokyo, Japan, on October 13, 2025. Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria and Prince are on an official visit to Japan and South Korea from October 9 to 15.Photo: Jessica Gow/TT/Code 10070

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CROWN PRINCESS IN TOKYO

Crown Princess Victoria, Prince Daniel and Princess Takamado at a reception at Hotel Okura in Tokyo hosted by the Swedish Embassy during their visit to Japan on October 13, 2025. Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria and Prince are on an official visit to Japan and South Korea from October 9 to 15.Photo: Jessica Gow/TT/Code 10070

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CROWN PRINCESS IN TOKYO

TOKYO, JAPAN 20251013Crown Princess Victoria delivers a speech at a reception at Hotel Okura hosted by the Swedish Embassy in Tokyo, Japan, on October 13, 2025. Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria and Prince are on an official visit to Japan and South Korea from October 9 to 15.Photo: Jessica Gow/TT/Code 10070

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CROWN PRINCESS IN TOKYO

Crown Princess Victoria, Prince Daniel and Princess Takamado at a reception at Hotel Okura in Tokyo hosted by the Swedish Embassy during their visit to Japan on October 13, 2025. Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria and Prince are on an official visit to Japan and South Korea from October 9 to 15.Photo: Jessica Gow/TT/Code 10070

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CROWN PRINCESS IN TOKYO

TOKYO, JAPAN 20251013Crown Princess Victoria delivers a speech at a reception at Hotel Okura hosted by the Swedish Embassy in Tokyo, Japan, on October 13, 2025. Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria and Prince are on an official visit to Japan and South Korea from October 9 to 15.Photo: Jessica Gow/TT/Code 10070

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New Year's Greeting Party of Five Automobile Organizations

New Year's Greeting Party of Five Automobile Associations. Photo shows, from left, Atsushi Osaki (President and CEO, SUBARU Corporation), Director, Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association, Toshihiro Mibe (Director, President and CEO, Honda Motor Co., Ltd.), Vice Chairman, Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association, Kouji Sato (President and CEO, Toyota Motor Corporation).=January 7,2025,The Okura Tokyo (Toranomon, Minato-ku, Tokyo)

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New Year's Greeting Party of Five Automobile Organizations

New Year's Greeting Party of Five Automobile Manufacturers' Associations. Photo shows Mr. Masanori Katayama, Chairman of the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association (JAMA), addresses the gathering.=January 7,2025,The Okura Tokyo (Toranomon, Minato-ku, Tokyo)

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New Year's Greeting Party of Five Automobile Organizations

New Year's Greeting Party of Five Automobile Associations. Photo shows, from left, Atsushi Osaki (President and CEO, SUBARU Corporation), Director, Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association, Toshihiro Mibe (Director, President and CEO, Honda Motor Co., Ltd.), Vice Chairman, Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association, Kouji Sato (President and CEO, Toyota Motor Corporation).=January 7,2025,The Okura Tokyo (Toranomon, Minato-ku, Tokyo)

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Heavy rain in northeastern Japan

A police car is overturned in Okura, Yamagata Prefecture, on July 26, 2024, after heavy rain hit the northeastern Japan area. The car is believed to have been swept away from the nearby city of Shinjo.

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Heavy snow in northeastern Japan

A car drives on a snow-covered street in the northeastern Japan village of Okura in Yamagata Prefecture on Dec. 19, 2022, following heavy snowfall.

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Heavy snow in northeastern Japan

A car drives on a snow-covered street in the northeastern Japan village of Okura in Yamagata Prefecture on Dec. 19, 2022, following heavy snowfall.

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Musician-actor Johnny Okura dies at 62

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in Tokyo in July 1982 shows Japanese musician and actor Johnny Okura (far L) attending a press conference to announce production of the film "Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence," with the director of the film, Nagisa Oshima (2nd from R) and costars, including comedian-actor Beat Takeshi (far R) and musician-actor Ryuichi Sakamoto (2nd from L). Okura died of pneumonia on Nov. 19, 2014, at a Tokyo hospital. He was 62.

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Musician-actor Johnny Okura dies at 62

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in Tokyo in September 1974 shows the members of Japanese four-man rock band Carol, led by Eikichi Yazawa (2nd from R). A guitarist and vocalist of the band, Johnny Okura (far L), who subsequently became an actor, died of pneumonia on Nov. 19, 2014, at a Tokyo hospital. He was 62.

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Musician-actor Johnny Okura dies at 62

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in February 1990 shows Japanese musician and actor Johnny Okura. Okura, who shot to fame in Japan in the 1970s as a guitarist and vocalist in seminal rock band Carol, died of pneumonia on Nov. 19, 2014, at a Tokyo hospital. He was 62.

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Hotel Okura to reconstruct main building

TOKYO, Japan - An illustration supplied by Hotel Okura Co. on May 23, 2014, shows an image of Hotel Okura Tokyo after its planned reconstruction. The hotel operator said it will rebuild the main building of its flagship hotel to upgrade its facilities and services, with an eye to attracting more foreign guests in preparation for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

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'Memories of Sadako'

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Photo shows ''Memories of Sadako,'' the English version of a Japanese picture book on A-bomb victim Sadako Sasaki of Hiroshima, who died at the age of 12, 10 years after the bombing. The English version published in December 2010 depicts Sadako's life in a hospital as the author Kiyo Okura, who died in 2008, stayed in the same hospital room with Sadako for about three months. It was translated by Okura's acquaintance Keiko Miyamoto and others.

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High-end and merry, takeout food replacing restaurant dinners

TOKYO, Japan - A chef smiles holding a roast beef Christmas dish priced at 24,150 yen, which can be ordered for takeout, at Chef's Garden Terrace restaurant at Hotel Okura in Tokyo on Dec. 1, 2009. Food corners in department stores as well as restaurants are seeing solid sales of takeout food this holiday season as more people are deciding to celebrate Christmas at home to save money and avoid the new flu.

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Hirafuku folding screen returns to Japan after 70 years

TOKYO, Japan - A visitor watches a folding screen presented to Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini by the late Japanese industrialist Kishichiro Okura before World War II which was shown to the media Aug. 3 at a Tokyo hotel after almost 70 years abroad. The screen, called ''Araiso'' (Rocky Beach) and painted by Japanese artist Hyakusui Hirafuku (1877-1933), was presented to Mussolini after being displayed at an exhibition in Rome of Japanese art organized by Okura in 1930. It depicts a bird on a bare rock against a gold background.

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Heavy snow continues to hit areas facing Sea of Japan

KANAZAWA, Japan - Nurses clear the way outside their hospital in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Jan. 16 as snow continues falling in wide areas along the Sea of Japan coast. Before dawn Jan. 16, the snowfall was 2.81 meters deep in the village of Okura in Yamagata Prefecture and 2.52 meters deep in the town of Tsunan in Niigata Prefecture.

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Japanese workers commemorate century's last business day

TOKYO, Japan - Finance Ministry officials pose for commemorative photographs in front of the sign at the main entrance of the ministry in Tokyo on Dec. 28., the last business day of the century for both employees of private companies and public organizations. The ministry's Japanese name ''Okura-sho'' will change to ''Zaimu-sho'' in January to reflect its new designation as Treasury Ministry.

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French chef Lecomte dies in Tokyo at 68

TOKYO, Japan - Andre Lecomte, a French chef in Tokyo who counted visiting world leaders among his customers, died of a heart attack in Tokyo on Aug. 6, his family says on Aug. 8. He was 68. A native of the Loire Department in central France, Lecomte comes to Japan in 1963 to work as a chef at the Hotel Okura in Tokyo. The Kyodo News file photo shows Lecomte (R) poses with French President Jacques Chirac (L) during his official visit at the French Embassy in Tokyo on April 28,1998.

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Main building of Hotel Okura closed

Staff at Tokyo's long-established Hotel Okura pose for commemorative photos on Sept. 1, 2015, as its main building, built in 1962, was closed the previous day for reconstruction. The new building will open in 2019, prior to the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hotel Okura unveils plan to open outlet in Cappadocia, Turkey

Toshihiro Ogita, president of Hotel Okura Co., speaks to reporters in Tokyo on June 8, 2015, about the company's plan to open a hotel in 2017 in Cappadocia, a popular tourist spot and UNESCO World Heritage site in central Turkey. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Suite bathroom features decorations of animation hero Anpanman

The bathroom of a suite decorated with a drawing of popular animation hero Anpanman is shown to the press at Hotel Okura Kobe in Kobe, western Japan, on Jan. 28, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hotel offers suite filled with animation hero Anpanman goods

A hotel staffer clad in the costume of popular animation hero Anpanman shows the press a suite filled with Anpanman goods and decorations at Hotel Okura Kobe in Kobe, western Japan, on Jan. 28, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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FEATURE: Japanese women "being the change" they wish to see

Philanthropist Atsuko Toko Fish poses for a photo following an interview at the Hotel Okura Tokyo on Oct. 13, 2016. Fish is founder of the Japanese Women's Leadership Initiative program, a Boston-based four-week program for Japanese women that provides training on nonprofit leadership and management with successful U.S. organizations. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ueno Park

In 1717, the 8th Shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune planted 100 cherry trees along the Mukojima riverbank, and the spot became popular for cherry blossom viewing. In 1883, when Okura Kihachiro planted an additional 1,000 trees here, the riverbank became full of cherry blossoms. Many simple teahouses were built along the riverbank for the use of visitors.==Date:unknown, Place:Tokyo, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number47‐8‐0]

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Musician-actor Johnny Okura dies at 62

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in Tokyo in September 1974 shows the members of Japanese four-man rock band Carol, led by Eikichi Yazawa (2nd from R). A guitarist and vocalist of the band, Johnny Okura (far L), who subsequently became an actor, died of pneumonia on Nov. 19, 2014, at a Tokyo hospital. He was 62. (Kyodo)

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'Memories of Sadako'

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Photo shows ''Memories of Sadako,'' the English version of a Japanese picture book on A-bomb victim Sadako Sasaki of Hiroshima, who died at the age of 12, 10 years after the bombing. The English version published in December 2010 depicts Sadako's life in a hospital as the author Kiyo Okura, who died in 2008, stayed in the same hospital room with Sadako for about three months. It was translated by Okura's acquaintance Keiko Miyamoto and others. (Kyodo)

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Heavy rain in northeastern Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News plane shows flooded houses and agricultural fields in the city of Shinjo (foreground) and the village of Okura (background) in Yamagata Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on July 29, 2020, after the Mogami River overflowed due to heavy rain.

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Heavy rain in northeastern Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News plane shows flooded houses and agricultural fields in Okura in Yamagata Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on July 29, 2020, after the Mogami River overflowed due to heavy rain.

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Heavy rain in northeastern Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News plane shows flooded houses and agricultural fields in Okura in Yamagata Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on July 29, 2020, after the Mogami River overflowed due to heavy rain.

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Heavy rain in northeastern Japan

Photo taken July 29, 2020, shows a flooded residential area in Okura in Yamagata Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on July 29, 2020, after the Mogami River overflowed due to heavy rain.

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Heavy rain in northeastern Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News plane shows a flooded residential area in Okura in Yamagata Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on July 29, 2020, after the Mogami River overflowed due to heavy rain.

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Heavy rain in northeastern Japan

Photo taken July 29, 2020, from a Kyodo News plane shows drainage work under way in a flooded farm area in Okura in Yamagata Prefecture, northeastern Japan, after the Mogami River overflowed due to heavy rain.

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Heavy rain in northeastern Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News plane shows a flooded residential area in Okura in Yamagata Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on July 29, 2020, after the Mogami River overflowed due to heavy rain.

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Heavy rain in northeastern Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News plane shows a flooded residential area in Okura in Yamagata Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on July 29, 2020, after the Mogami River overflowed due to heavy rain.

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Heavy rain in northeastern Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News plane shows a flooded residential area in Okura in Yamagata Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on July 29, 2020, after the Mogami River overflowed due to heavy rain.