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The Great Bell, Hokoji Temple

The Great Bell, Hokoji Temple

The Great Bell, Hokoji Temple==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6884]

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Fushimi Inari Shrine

Fushimi Inari Shrine

Fushimi Inari Shrine==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6889]

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Maruyama Yaami Hotel

Maruyama Yaami Hotel

Maruyama Yaami Hotel==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6876]

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Nishi Otani (Otani Honbyo Mausoleum of Honganji Temple)

Nishi Otani (Otani Honbyo Mausoleum of Honganji Temple)

Nishi Otani (Otani Honbyo Mausoleum of Honganji Temple)==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6883]

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Tsutenbashi bridge at tofukuji temple

Tsutenbashi bridge at tofukuji temple

Tsutenbashi bridge at tofukuji temple==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6887]

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Sanjusangendo

Sanjusangendo

Sanjusangendo==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6886]

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The stage of Kiyomizudera Temple,Kyoto

The stage of Kiyomizudera Temple,Kyoto

The stage of Kiyomizudera Temple,Kyoto==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6882]

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Nanzenji Temple

Nanzenji Temple

Nanzenji Temple==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6873]

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Hall at Enryakuji Temple, Mt Hiei

Hall at Enryakuji Temple, Mt Hiei

Hall at Enryakuji Temple, Mt Hiei==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6866]

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Higashi Otani (Otani Sobyo Mausoleum of Higashi Honganji Temple)

Higashi Otani (Otani Sobyo Mausoleum of Higashi Honganji Temple)

Higashi Otani (Otani Sobyo Mausoleum of Higashi Honganji Temple)==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6879]

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TOYOKUNI SHRINE

TOYOKUNI SHRINE

TOYOKUNI SHRINE==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6885]

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Sen-yuji temple

Sen-yuji temple

Sen-yuji temple==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6888]

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Maruyama

Maruyama

Maruyama==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6877]

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Eikan-do Temple

Eikan-do Temple

Eikan-do Temple==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6872]

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Five-Story Pagoda of Yasaka

Five-Story Pagoda of Yasaka

Five-Story Pagoda of Yasaka==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6881]

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Yasaka Shrine, Gion, Kyoto

Yasaka Shrine, Gion, Kyoto

Yasaka Shrine, Gion, Kyoto==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6878]

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Rows of houses seen from Higashiyama,Kyoto

Rows of houses seen from Higashiyama,Kyoto

Rows of houses seen from Higashiyama,Kyoto==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6875]

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Tokugawa Akitake

Tokugawa Akitake

Tokugawa Akitake==Date:1867, Place:Japan, Photo:Other photographers ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:7097]

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Koudaiji Temple

Koudaiji Temple

Koudaiji Temple==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6880]

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Foreign man

Foreign man

Foreign man==Date:unknown, Place:Nagasaki, Photo:Ueno Hikoma ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:7095]

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Tokugawa Yoshinobu

Tokugawa Yoshinobu

Tokugawa Yoshinobu==Date:unknown, Place:Japan, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:7100]

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Chion-in Temple

Chion-in Temple

Chion-in Temple==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6874]

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Portrait of a man

Portrait of a man

Portrait of a man==Date:unknown, Place:Japan, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:7101]

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Sanjo Sanetomi

Sanjo Sanetomi

Sanjo Sanetomi==Date:unknown, Place:Japan, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:7099]

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Prince Fushimi Sadanaru

Prince Fushimi Sadanaru

Prince Fushimi Sadanaru==Date:unknown, Place:Japan, Photo:Uchida Kuichi ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:7102]

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Foreign man

Foreign man

Foreign man==Date:1875, Place:Nagasaki, Photo:Ueno Hikoma ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:7096]

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Foreign man

Foreign man

Foreign man==Date:1873, Place:Nagasaki, Photo:Ueno Hikoma ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:7093]

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Foreign man

Foreign man

Foreign man==Date:unknown, Place:Nagasaki, Photo:Ueno Hikoma ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:7094]

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Tokugawa Iesato ?

Tokugawa Iesato ?

Tokugawa Iesato ?==Date:unknown, Place:Japan, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:7103]

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Portrait of a man

Portrait of a man

Portrait of a man==Date:unknown, Place:Japan, Photo:Kitaniwa Tsukuba ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:7105]

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Osaka hospital succeeds in novel heart valve transplant

Osaka hospital succeeds in novel heart valve transplant

OSAKA, Japan - Osaka University professor Yoshiki Sawa (L) speaks at a press conference in Suita, Osaka Prefecture, on Oct. 27, 2014, about the first successful transplant surgery in Japan to replace a heart valve with a decelluraized one from a deceased donor. The 35-year-old patient (R) underwent the surgery at the Osaka University Hospital on Oct. 16 and has recovered steadily.

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Cell sheet successfully transplanted to girl's heart

Cell sheet successfully transplanted to girl's heart

OSAKA, Japan - Yoshiki Sawa, a professor in the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery at Osaka University Hospital, talks in Suita, Osaka Prefecture, western Japan, on July 23, 2014, about his team's successful transplant of a sheet of cells to the heart of an 11-year-old girl, stricken with a grave heart disease, and subsequent improvement in her heart's functions. The cells were cultivated after being taken from the girl's own calf muscle tissue. It is believed to be the world's first such surgery performed on a child.

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Success of new treatment for pancreatitis

Success of new treatment for pancreatitis

OSAKA, Japan - Toshinori Ito, professor at Osaka University, Graduate School of Medicine, holds a press conference in Suita, Osaka Prefecture, on Aug. 21, 2013. Doctors at Osaka University Hospital in July successfully removed a chronically inflamed pancreas from a pancreatitis patient before separating the organ's insulin-producing islets and transplanting them back into the patient, marking a new form of treatment, Ito said.

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Surgeons begin extracting organs from brain-dead boy for transplant

Surgeons begin extracting organs from brain-dead boy for transplant

TOYAMA, Japan - A cooler box containing the heart extracted from a brain-dead boy is loaded onto a vehicle at Toyama University Hospital in Toyama on June 15, 2012. Three surgical teams began extracting the heart, liver and kidneys from the boy at the hospital. The heart will be transplanted to a girl in Osaka Prefecture.

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Brain-dead boy's organs to be transplanted

Brain-dead boy's organs to be transplanted

OSAKA, Japan - File photo taken in August 2010 shows Osaka University Hospital in Suita, Osaka Prefecture. A boy aged between 10 and 14 was declared brain-dead with family consent for the first time in Japan on April 12, 2011. The boy's heart is set to be transplanted to a male patient aged under 20 at the Osaka hospital.

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Woman with 2 artificial hearts

Woman with 2 artificial hearts

OSAKA, Japan - A woman in her 30s, only identified as Kaori (R), smiles as she leaves Osaka University Hospital in Suita, Osaka Prefecture, on May 18, 2010, after a successful operation to implant two artificial hearts while she awaits a heart transplant. Her surgeon Yoshiki Sawa (L) said the heart of the mother of two daughters had stopped functioning.

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Actor Fujita dies at 76

Actor Fujita dies at 76

TOKYO, Japan - This file photo, taken in May 2009, at a studio in Kyoto, shows popular actor Makoto Fujita in kimono costume playing samurai Nakamura Mondo in the ''Hissatsu'' (Kill) TV period drama. Fujita died of arterial bleeding at Osaka University Hospital in Suita, Osaka Prefecture, on Feb. 17, 2010. He was 76.

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1st combined heart-lung transplant in Japan successfully held

1st combined heart-lung transplant in Japan successfully held

SUITA, Japan - Osaka University professor Yoshiki Sawa speaks at a news conference at the hospital in Suita, Osaka Prefecture, on Jan. 17, after successfully completing the first combined transplantation of a heart and lungs in Japan using organs from a man who had been certified as brain dead.

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1st combined heart-lung transplant in Japan starts in Osaka

1st combined heart-lung transplant in Japan starts in Osaka

KOBE, Japan - Doctors transport a cool box containing the heart and lungs removed from a man in his 30s, who had been certified as brain dead on Jan. 16 at Hyogo Emergency Medical Center in Kobe, to Osaka University Hospital on Jan. 17.

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Noted economist Morishima dies at 80

Noted economist Morishima dies at 80

TOKYO, Japan - Renowned economist Michio Morishima (file photo), professor emeritus at the University of London and Osaka University, died of old age at a hospital in Britain on July 13, Osaka University said on July 15. He was 80. Morishima, who was from Kobe, western Japan, and resided in Brentwood, Essex, made contributions to the progress in theoretical economics and was a one-time candidate for a Nobel Prize in economics.

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Iraqi doctor seeks medical aid from Japan

Iraqi doctor seeks medical aid from Japan

OSAKA, Japan - Iraqi doctor Janan Ghalib Hassan urges Japanese to provide medical supplies to patients in Iraq in a meeting in Osaka on June 16. Janan, an expert on children's cancer working at a hospital in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, is currently looking after an Iraqi boy at Nagoya University Hospital in Nagoya.

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Iraqi doctor arrives in Japan for training

Iraqi doctor arrives in Japan for training

OSAKA, Japan - Iraqi doctor Hussam Mahmood Salih arrives at Kansai airport near Osaka on April 23 for six months of training at Hiroshima University Hospital. He shakes hands with Atsuko Oe, head of a group helping Iraqi children at the airport.

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Hospital helper robot planned to make debut next spring

Hospital helper robot planned to make debut next spring

OSAKA, Japan - Matsushita Electric Works Ltd. said July 10 it plans to introduce next spring a robot that can work in hospitals delivering small materials such as patient files and X-ray films. With the cooperation of the Shiga University of Medical Science Hospital in Shiga Prefecture, the robot is now being tested for practical use. The 120-kilogram robot is 1.3-meters high, 0.6-meter wide and 0.75-meter in depth.

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Children taken to hospitals

Children taken to hospitals

OSAKA, Japan - Rescuers bring into Ikeda Hospital a child injured by a knife-wielding man June 8 at Ikeda Elementary School, attached to Osaka Kyoiku University in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture. At least eight children were killed and 21 others, including three teachers, were injured by the man, who barged into the school's classrooms.

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Pioneering lung transplant recipient leaves hospital

Pioneering lung transplant recipient leaves hospital

OSAKA, Japan - A man (R), who received Japan's first transplant of both lungs from a brain-dead donor, holds a news conference with doctors at Osaka University Hospital on May 18 before leaving the hospital the same day. The man in his 30s, whose name was withheld, suffered from pulmonary hypertension. He said, ''It is like a dream that I can walk outside on my own feet. I feel happy to be alive.''

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Emperor, empress attend New Year's lecture

Emperor, empress attend New Year's lecture

TOKYO, Japan - Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko (both at center left) listen to a lecture by Nobuaki Kumagai, professor emeritus in electronic communication at Osaka University, in an annual New Year's lecture at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Jan 10. Other lecturers were Tatsuo Nishida, professor emeritus in linguistics at Kyoto University and Kumao Toyoshima, head of Sumitomo Hospital and an expert on oncology and virology.(Pool photo)

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Heart from brain-dead donor arrives in Osaka

Heart from brain-dead donor arrives in Osaka

Doctors arrive at Osaka airport by helicopter, carrying an icebox containing a heart removed from a brain-dead donor in Kochi, western Japan, on Feb. 28. The heart was later transplanted into a patient at Osaka University Hospital, marking Japan's first heart transplant since a law permitting such operations took effect in October 1997.

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Capsule to isolate COVID-19 patients during ambulance transport

Capsule to isolate COVID-19 patients during ambulance transport

Photo taken in the Osaka Prefecture city of Suita, western Japan, on Dec. 11, 2021, shows a special capsule developed by Osaka University Hospital to transport COVID-19 patients aboard "doctor-car" ambulances while completely isolating them.

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1st combined heart-lung transplant in Japan starts in Osaka

1st combined heart-lung transplant in Japan starts in Osaka

KOBE, Japan - Doctors transport a cool box containing the heart and lungs removed from a man in his 30s, who had been certified as brain dead on Jan. 16 at Hyogo Emergency Medical Center in Kobe, to Osaka University Hospital on Jan. 17. (Kyodo)

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1st combined heart-lung transplant in Japan successfully held

1st combined heart-lung transplant in Japan successfully held

SUITA, Japan - Osaka University professor Yoshiki Sawa speaks at a news conference at the hospital in Suita, Osaka Prefecture, on Jan. 17, after successfully completing the first combined transplantation of a heart and lungs in Japan using organs from a man who had been certified as brain dead. (Kyodo)

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