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Tokyo-Hakone collegiate ekiden road relay

Aoyama Gakuin University anchor runner Sota Orita crosses the finish line in Tokyo's Otemachi business district on Jan. 3, 2026, securing the university's third consecutive year of victory in the two-day Tokyo-Hakone collegiate ekiden road relay.

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Tokyo-Hakone collegiate ekiden road relay

Aoyama Gakuin University anchor runner Sota Orita crosses the finish line in Tokyo's Otemachi business district on Jan. 3, 2026, securing the university's third consecutive year of victory in the two-day Tokyo-Hakone collegiate ekiden road relay.

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Tokyo-Hakone collegiate ekiden road relay

Aoyama Gakuin University anchor runner Sota Orita crosses the finish line in Tokyo's Otemachi business district on Jan. 3, 2026, securing the university's third consecutive year of victory in the two-day Tokyo-Hakone collegiate ekiden road relay.

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Tokyo-Hakone collegiate ekiden road relay

Aoyama Gakuin University anchor runner Sota Orita crosses the finish line in Tokyo's Otemachi business district on Jan. 3, 2026, securing the university's third consecutive year of victory in the two-day Tokyo-Hakone collegiate ekiden road relay.

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Tokyo-Hakone collegiate ekiden road relay

Aoyama Gakuin University anchor runner Sota Orita crosses the finish line in Tokyo's Otemachi business district on Jan. 3, 2026, securing the university's third consecutive year of victory in the two-day Tokyo-Hakone collegiate ekiden road relay.

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Ex-Obuchi aide says funds discrepancies "clerical errors"

MAEBASHI, Japan - Photo taken Oct. 31, 2014 shows the Nakanojo municipal government offices in Gunma Prefecture, which was raided by prosecutors the same day in connection with discrepancies in political funds reports linked to former industry minister Yuko Obuchi. Kenichiro Orita, a former aide to Obuchi and a former mayor of Nakanojo, told prosecutors the discrepancies were caused by "clerical errors," sources with knowledge of the matter said.

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Prosecutors launch probe into ex-minister's funds irregularities

MAEBASHI, Japan - Special investigators from the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office enter the home of Kenichiro Orita, a former secretary to former trade and industry minister Yuko Obuchi, in the town of Nakanojo, Gunma Prefecture, on Oct. 30, 2014, as they launched a formal investigation into irregularities in the political funds reports of groups related to Obuchi.

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Prosecutors launch probe into ex-minister's funds irregularities

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Kenichiro Orita, a former secretary to former trade and industry minister Yuko Obuchi. For decades, Orita served as a secretary to former Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi, and after his death in 2000, to his daughter, Yuko, who succeeded her father in representing a constituency in Gunma Prefecture in the House of Representatives.

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Treatment of people exposed to Fukushima radiation changing

KAWAUCHI, Japan - Makiko Orita (R), a graduate student at Nagasaki University and health nurse, visits shop owner Yoshiyuki Yanai in Kawauchi, Fukushima Prefecture, to offer health consultations on July 31, 2013.

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Japanese police officers return from E. Timor

NARITA, Japan - Yasunori Orita (C), chief superintendent of Japan's National Police Agency, and other Japanese police officers arrive at Narita airport on Sept. 9 from E. Timor, where they took part in the U.N. Mission in East Timor (UNAMET) for the historic Aug. 30 referendum.

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Japan tells nationals in E. Timor to leave

DILI, East Timor - Yasunori Orita, a chief superintendent of the National Police Agency, dispatched to East Timor, is busy contacting Japanese residents there Sept. 5 after the Japanese Foreign Ministry urged Japanese nationals to leave. The territory is now rated ''level 5'' on the ministry's five-level danger scale. Orita is also to depart from Dili on a Japanese government-chartered flight Sept. 6.

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Three Japanese police officers arrive in E. Timor

DILI, East Timor, - Three Japanese police officers arrived at Dili, the East Timor capital, on July 10 to join a United Nations peacekeeping team, assisting in the implementation of a referendum, scheduled next month. The three officers at Dili airport are Chief Superintendent Yasunori Orita, 46, (C) from the National Police Agency, Senior Inspector Masayuki Mikata, 46, (L) from Fukuoka Prefecture, western Japan, and Superintendent Norihisa Shiiya, 47, (R) from Hyogo Prefecture.

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3 Japanese police officers leave for E. Timor training

NARITA, Japan - Three Japanese police officers leave for Australia on July 4 for a training program in Brisbane before taking part in the U.N. Mission in East Timor (UNAMET) for an August referendum there. Being seen off at Narita airport were National Police Agency members (from L to R) Yasunori Orita, 46, chief superintendent, Norihisa Shiiya, 47, inspector, and Masayuki Mikata, 46, captain.

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Japan to send 3 police officers to E. Timor

Japan's National Police Agency (NPA) has decided to send three officers to East Timor to assist with the implementation of an August ballot on the future of the former Portuguese colony. Meeting reporters at a news conference in Tokyo on June 29 are (from L to R) Norihisa Shiiya, inspector, 47, Yasunori Orita, chief superintendent, 46, and Masayuki Mikata, captain, 46.

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Ex-aides of lawmaker Obuchi indicted over falsified funds reports

Combined photo shows Kenichiro Orita (L), former mayor of the town of Nakanojo in Gunma Prefecture, and Yuko Obuchi, a lawmaker who resigned as industry minister in 2014. On April 28, 2015, prosecutors indicted two former secretaries of Obuchi, including Orita, over suspected falsification of political funds reports from her funds management body. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Prosecutors launch probe into ex-minister's funds irregularities

MAEBASHI, Japan - Special investigators from the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office enter the home of Kenichiro Orita, a former secretary to former trade and industry minister Yuko Obuchi, in the town of Nakanojo, Gunma Prefecture, on Oct. 30, 2014, as they launched a formal investigation into irregularities in the political funds reports of groups related to Obuchi. (Kyodo)

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Prosecutors launch probe into ex-minister's funds irregularities

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Kenichiro Orita, a former secretary to former trade and industry minister Yuko Obuchi. For decades, Orita served as a secretary to former Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi, and after his death in 2000, to his daughter, Yuko, who succeeded her father in representing a constituency in Gunma Prefecture in the House of Representatives. (Kyodo)

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Japanese police officers return from E. Timor

NARITA, Japan - Yasunori Orita (C), chief superintendent of Japan's National Police Agency, and other Japanese police officers arrive at Narita airport on Sept. 9 from E. Timor, where they took part in the U.N. Mission in East Timor (UNAMET) for the historic Aug. 30 referendum.

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Japan tells nationals in E. Timor to leave

DILI, East Timor - Yasunori Orita, a chief superintendent of the National Police Agency, dispatched to East Timor, is busy contacting Japanese residents there Sept. 5 after the Japanese Foreign Ministry urged Japanese nationals to leave. The territory is now rated ''level 5'' on the ministry's five-level danger scale. Orita is also to depart from Dili on a Japanese government-chartered flight Sept. 6.

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Three Japanese police officers arrive in E. Timor

DILI, East Timor, - Three Japanese police officers arrived at Dili, the East Timor capital, on July 10 to join a United Nations peacekeeping team, assisting in the implementation of a referendum, scheduled next month. The three officers at Dili airport are Chief Superintendent Yasunori Orita, 46, (C) from the National Police Agency, Senior Inspector Masayuki Mikata, 46, (L) from Fukuoka Prefecture, western Japan, and Superintendent Norihisa Shiiya, 47, (R) from Hyogo Prefecture.

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3 Japanese police officers leave for E. Timor training

NARITA, Japan - Three Japanese police officers leave for Australia on July 4 for a training program in Brisbane before taking part in the U.N. Mission in East Timor (UNAMET) for an August referendum there. Being seen off at Narita airport were National Police Agency members (from L to R) Yasunori Orita, 46, chief superintendent, Norihisa Shiiya, 47, inspector, and Masayuki Mikata, 46, captain.

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Japan to send 3 police officers to E. Timor

Japan's National Police Agency (NPA) has decided to send three officers to East Timor to assist with the implementation of an August ballot on the future of the former Portuguese colony. Meeting reporters at a news conference in Tokyo on June 29 are (from L to R) Norihisa Shiya, inspector, 47, Yasunori Orita, chief superintendent, 46, and Masayuki Mikata, captain, 46.