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Exhibition on manga history held in Taiwan

The opening ceremony of an exhibition tracking the history of manga in Japan and Taiwan is held at the National Taiwan Museum of Comics in Taichung on Aug. 16, 2025. Over 300 items, including those related to Japanese manga legend Osamu Tezuka, are on display at the exhibition, co-hosted by Japan's Kyoto International Manga Museum, for a run through Oct. 12.

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Japanese author Osamu Dazai's eldest daughter

Sonoko Tsushima, the eldest daughter of renowned Japanese author Osamu Dazai, speaks at a celebration marking the 109th anniversary of his birth in Goshogawara, Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on June 19, 2018.

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Japanese author Osamu Dazai

Undated file photo shows Japanese author Osamu Dazai, who lived from 1909 to 1948.

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Osamu Suzuki gets best father award

TOKYO, Japan, July 18 Kyodo - Former television writer Osamu Suzuki speaks in Tokyo on June 4, 2024, after receiving the Best Father Yellow Ribbon Award.(Kyodo)

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Scandal-hit Fuji Media Holdings logs loss

Fuji Television Network Inc. President Kenji Shimizu and Osamu Kanemitsu, president of its parent company Fuji Media Holdings Inc., attend a press conference in Tokyo on April 30, 2025, after Fuji Meida said it is projected to log a consolidated net loss of 20.1 billion yen (approx. $139.4 million) for fiscal 2024 following a scandal in which former TV personality Masahiro Nakai allegedly sexually assaulted a former Fuji TV employee that led sponsors to pull their commercials.

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Scandal-hit Fuji Media Holdings logs loss

Fuji Media Holdings Inc. President Osamu Kanemitsu speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on April 30, 2025, after the media group said it is projected to log a consolidated net loss of 20.1 billion yen (approx. $139.4 million) for fiscal 2024 following a scandal in which famed former TV personality Masahiro Nakai allegedly sexually assaulted a former employee of its subsidiary Fuji Television Network Inc. that has led sponsors to pull their commercials. Kanemitsu also announced his resignation.

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Fuji TV press conference

(From L) Fuji Media Holding Inc. Executive Vice President Kenji Shimizu, Fuji Television Network Inc. Vice Chairman Ryunosuke Endo, outgoing President Koichi Minato, outgoing Chairman Shuji Kano and Fuji Media Holding Inc. President Osamu Kanemitsu attend a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 27, 2025, following allegations that an employee of the broadcaster helped arrange a meal after which Japanese TV host Masahiro Nakai was accused of sexual misconduct.

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Fuji TV press conference

(From L) Fuji Media Holding Inc. Executive Vice President Kenji Shimizu, Fuji Television Network Inc. Vice Chairman Ryunosuke Endo, outgoing President Koichi Minato, outgoing Chairman Shuji Kano and Fuji Media Holding Inc. President Osamu Kanemitsu attend a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 27, 2025, following allegations that an employee of the broadcaster helped arrange a meal after which Japanese TV host Masahiro Nakai was accused of sexual misconduct.

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Suzuki Motor's former leader Osamu Suzuki dies at 94

Suzuki Motor Corp. Chairman and President Osamu Suzuki (far L) poses for a photo during a ceremony marking the 30th anniversary of the launch of the Alto commercial vehicle in Hamamatsu in the central Japan prefecture of Shizuoka in May 2009. Suzuki died of malignant lymphoma at age 94 on Dec. 25, 2024.

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Suzuki Motor's former leader Osamu Suzuki dies at 94

Photo taken on Feb. 14, 2020, shows Suzuki Motor Corp. Chairman Osamu Suzuki during an interview in Hamamatsu, the central Japan city where his company is based. Suzuki died of malignant lymphoma at age 94 on Dec. 25, 2024.

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Paris Paralympics: Badminton

Hiroshi Murayama (R) and Daiki Kajiwara of Japan pose for a photo after winning the men's badminton doubles WH1-WH2 bronze medal match against compatriots Takumi Matsumoto and Osamu Nagashima at the Paris Paralympics on Sept. 1, 2024, at La Chapelle Arena in Paris.

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Paris Paralympics: Badminton

Hiroshi Murayama (R) and Daiki Kajiwara of Japan react after winning the men's badminton doubles WH1-WH2 bronze medal match against compatriots Takumi Matsumoto and Osamu Nagashima at the Paris Paralympics on Sept. 1, 2024, at La Chapelle Arena in Paris.

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Paris Paralympics: Badminton

Hiroshi Murayama (R) and Daiki Kajiwara of Japan compete in the men's badminton doubles WH1-WH2 bronze medal match against compatriots Takumi Matsumoto and Osamu Nagashima at the Paris Paralympics on Sept. 1, 2024, at La Chapelle Arena in Paris.

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[Breaking News]New Tezuka Black Jack manga episode created using AI unveiled

TOKYO, Nov. 20 Kyodo - A new episode of Osamu Tezuka's famous "Black Jack" manga made with the help of artificial intelligence was unveiled Monday, with the creators saying that while the work reflected the spirit of the late legendary manga artist, its ability to depict human feelings remains an issue.(Kyodo)

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G.U. CEO Osamu Yunoki

Osamu Yunoki, CEO of Japanese casual wear retailer G.U. Co., speaks in Tokyo on Sept. 4, 2023, about the global expansion strategy of Uniqlo's sister brand.

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New "Black Jack" manga episode to be released using AI

Members of the TEZUKA2023 project, under which a new episode of the well-known Osamu Tezuka manga "Black Jack" will be created with the help of artificial intelligence, attend a press conference in Tokyo on June 12, 2023.

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LDP Tokyo assembly member admits sexist heckling

TOKYO, Japan - Osamu Yoshiwara, secretary general of the Liberal Democratic Party group in the Tokyo metropolitan assembly, attends a press conference in Tokyo on June 23, 2014. Yoshiwara said fellow LDP assembly member Akihiro Suzuki has admitted to having made a sexist remark while a female assembly member posed questions during a session on maternity support measures.

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Consumer affairs minister Yamaoka

TOKYO, Japan - Consumer affairs minister Kenji Yamaoka enters the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Jan. 6, 2012. Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura gave Yamaoka a verbal warning the same day over remarks he made on the possible collapse of the euro and the bursting of the Chinese economic ''bubble.''

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Mitsubishi Motors new president

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Mitsubishi Motors Corp. Managing Director Tetsuro Aikawa. The automaker plans to promote Aikawa to president on April 1, 2014, replacing Osamu Masuko, company sources said Jan. 31.

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Cartoonist Tezuka's characters aid Japan fencing

TOKYO, Japan - Women's sabre fencer Misaki Emura (L) poses as "Princess Sapphire," the protagonist in the popular comic series "Princess Knight" written by the late cartoonist Osamu Tezuka, in Tokyo on Jan. 12, 2015, together with the legendary manga character "Astro Boy" in a publicity blitz led by the Japan Fencing Federation to promote the sport.

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Cartoonist Tezuka's characters used to promote fencing

TOKYO, Japan - The Japan Fencing Federation unveils in Tokyo on Jan. 12, 2015, new characters produced jointly with Tezuka Productions Co., an animation production company created by the late cartoonist Osamu Tezuka, for use in a publicity blitz for the sport. The characters include "Astro Boy" while Yuki Ota, a two-time Olympic foil silver medalist, and six other medalists will also be drawn as Tezuka characters for the campaign.

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Suzuki Motor releases all-new Alto minicar in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Suzuki Motor Corp. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Osamu Suzuki stands by the Japanese automaker's all-new eighth-generation Alto in Tokyo on Dec. 22, 2014, the launch date of the minivehicle in Japan.

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Hokkaido Shinkansen bullet trains' nicknames unveiled

NANAE, Japan - Hokkaido Railway Co. President Osamu Shimada announces the nicknames "Hayabusa" and "Hayate" for the Hokkaido Shinkansen bullet trains in the town of Nanae, Hokkaido, the northernmost prefecture of Japan, on Nov. 20, 2014. The names, the same as the Tohoku Shinkansen bullet trains, were selected due to their familiarity.

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M'bishi Motors net profit surges 30% in April-Sept.

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi Motors Corp. Chairman Osamu Masuko attends a press conference in Tokyo, Japan, on Oct. 29, 2014. The company said while its group net profit for the April-September period surged 30.3 percent from a year earlier to 60.89 billion yen thanks to cost-cutting efforts and the yen's depreciation, it was downgrading its sales forecast for the entire fiscal 2014 to 2.18 trillion yen from the previously projected 2.3 trillion yen.

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Japan doctor checks Chinese man affected by chemical weapons

HARBIN, China - Japanese doctor Osamu Isono (R) examines a Chinese man suffering from effects of chemical weapons discarded in China by the now-defunct Japanese military at the end of World War II, in Harbin in the northeastern Chinese province of Heilongjiang on Oct. 27, 2014.

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1964 Tokyo Olympics: wrestling

TOKYO, Japan, July 18 Kyodo - Tokyo Olympics wrestling gold medalists from Japan (from L) Tsutomu Hanahara, Masamitsu Ichiguchi, Osamu Watanabe, Yoshikatsu Yoshida and Yojiro Uetake pose for a photo on Oct. 19, 1964.

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Russians invited to lunch in Hokkaido

SAPPORO, Japan - Osamu Nishida (R), president of a restaurant chain operator in Hokkaido, invites Russians who are visiting from Russian-administered islands claimed by Japan off Hokkaido under a visa-free exchange program, to lunch at one of his restaurants in Sapporo, Hokkaido, on Aug. 9, 2014.

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Dazai's 105th birthday commemorated

AOMORI, Japan - An admirer of the late Japanese novelist Osamu Dazai pays a floral tribute at his statue in his birthplace Goshogawahara, Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan, June 19, 2014, on the 105th anniversary of his birth.

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Hokkaido Shinkansen's 2 station names decided

SAPPORO, Japan - Hokkaido Railway Co. President Osamu Shimada announces the names of two stations of the planned Hokkaido Shinkansen bullet train line in Sapporo, northern Japan, on June 11, 2014. The name of one of the stations had been disputed by two relevant cities since the railway earlier unveiled a tentative name.

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Visitor to Tezuka museum views cartoonist's draft drawings

KOBE, Japan - A visitor to the Osamu Tezuka Manga Museum in Takarazuka, Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, views the legendary cartoonist's draft drawings, displayed along with selected pages of a completed version on May 24, 2014.

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JR Hokkaido's bullet train

SAPPORO, Japan - JR Hokkaido President Osamu Shimada, president of Hokkaido Railway Co., or JR Hokkaido, holds a press conference in Sapporo on April 16, 2014. Shimada said the company will connect southern Hokkaido and Tokyo in four hours and 10 minutes with a new bullet train line planned to begin operating in spring 2016.

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Tourism envoys promote Takarazuka, home to all-female troupe

KOBE, Japan - Yuka Jogan (L) and Mai Maeda, both serving as fourth-generation Tourism Ambassador Sapphire for the city of Takarazuka in Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, pose during an event in January 2014. They are named after the main character in the girls' manga series "Ribon no Kishi" (Princess Knight) by famed cartoonist Osamu Tezuka, who lived in the city for two decades and was a big fan of the all-female Takarazuka Revue company.

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Daughter finds Tezuka's drawings in locked desk

TOKYO, Japan - Rumiko Tezuka, daughter of famed Japanese manga creator Osamu Tezuka, speaks at Tezuka Productions' studio in Niiza, Saitama Prefecture, on April 1, 2014, about newly discovered drawings and other items found in her father's desk drawers that had remained locked since his death in 1989. The drawers of the desk, kept at the studio, were opened for the first time in 25 years on March 27.

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Japan-N. Korea talks

SHENYANG, China - Osamu Tasaka, director general of the International Department at the Japanese Red Cross Society, heads for the second day of a two-day meeting held by the Red Cross societies of Japan and North Korea in Shenyang, northeastern China, on March 20, 2014. Government officials from the two countries also attended the meeting.

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Japan-N. Korea Red Cross meeting

NARITA, Japan - Osamu Tasaka, director general of the International Department at the Japanese Red Cross Society, leaves Narita airport near Tokyo on March 19, 2014. He will attend a meeting of Red Cross societies of Japan and North Korea in Shenyang, northeastern China.

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Students gather around Tezuka's drawings

KUSHIRO, Japan - A group of students at Obihiro Kashiwa Elementary School in Obihiro, Hokkaido gather around a panel with original drawings by the late cartoonist Osamu Tezuka on Feb. 18, 2014. The panel was donated to the school by a former comic magazine editor.

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Japan, N. Korea hold Red Cross talks

SHENYANG, China - Osamu Tasaka, director general of the International Department at the Japanese Red Cross Society, answers reporters' questions after attending a meeting held by the Red Cross societies of Japan and North Korea in Shenyang, northeastern China, on March 3, 2014, with government officials from the two countries participating.

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Japan, N. Korea hold Red Cross talks

SHENYANG, China - Osamu Tasaka, director general of the International Department at the Japanese Red Cross Society, answers reporters' questions after attending a meeting held by the Red Cross societies of Japan and North Korea in Shenyang, northeastern China, on March 3, 2014, with government officials from the two countries participating.

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Japan, N. Korea hold Red Cross talks

SHENYANG, China - Osamu Tasaka (R), director general of the International Department at the Japanese Red Cross Society, and Keiichi Ono (C), director of the Northeast Asia Division of the Japanese Foreign Ministry, attend a meeting held by the Red Cross societies of Japan and North Korea in Shenyang, northeastern China, on March 3, 2014, with government officials from the two countries participating.

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Japan, N. Korea hold Red Cross meeting in China

SHENYANG, China - Osamu Tasaka (R), director general of the International Department at the Japanese Red Cross Society, and Keiichi Ono, director of the Northeast Asia Division of the Japanese Foreign Ministry, attend a meeting held by the Red Cross societies of Japan and North Korea in Shenyang, northeastern China, on March 3, 2014. Government officials from Japan and North Korea participated in the meeting.

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Japan, N. Korea hold Red Cross meeting in China

SHENYANG, China - The Red Cross societies of Japan and North Korea hold a meeting in Shenyang, northeastern China, on March 3, 2014, with government officials from the two countries participating. Osamu Tasaka (2nd from R), director general of the International Department at the Japanese Red Cross Society, and Ri Ho Rim (2nd from L), secretary general of the North Korean Red Cross Society, attended the meeting.

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Japan-N. Korea Red Cross meeting

SHENYANG, China - Osamu Tasaka, director general of the International Department at the Japanese Red Cross Society, arrives at an airport in Shenyang, China, on March 2, 2014, for a meeting of the Red Cross societies of Japan and North Korea.

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Japan-N. Korea Red Cross meeting

SHENYANG, China - Osamu Tasaka, director general of the International Department at the Japanese Red Cross Society, answers reporters' questions upon arrival at an airport in Shenyang, China, on March 2, 2014, for a meeting of the Red Cross societies of Japan and North Korea.

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Japan-N. Korea Red Cross meeting

NARITA, Japan - Osamu Tasaka, director general of the International Department at the Japanese Red Cross Society, answers reporters' questions at Narita airport near Tokyo on March 2, 2014, before leaving for Shenyang, China, where he will attend a meeting of the Red Cross societies of Japan and North Korea.

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Recreated 'Tokiwa So' apartment

OSAKA, Japan - A recreated version of the demolished "Tokiwa So" apartment, which was home to cartoonists such as Osamu Tezuka and Shotaro Ishinomori, is shown during a special exhibit at Osaka Museum of History in Osaka, western Japan, on Jan. 25, 2014. The exhibit runs through March 10.

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Suzuki's Hustler minivehicle

TOKYO, Japan - Osamu Suzuki, chairman of Suzuki Motor Corp., unveils the Hustler minivehicle in Tokyo on Dec. 24, 2013.

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Buzzword award

TOKYO, Japan - Combination photos show (from L) cram school teacher Osamu Hayashi, actress Rena Nonen and newscaster Christel Takigawa pictured during the 2013 buzzword award ceremony in Tokyo on Dec. 2, 2013.

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Breeding orphan elephants

TOBE, Japan - Osamu Shiina, an elephant breeder at the Tobe Zoological Park in Tobe, Ehime Prefecture, prepares feed for the animals, checking whether an apple has gone bad by cutting it in half on Nov. 21, 2013 at the zoo.

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Breeding orphan elephants

TOBE, Japan - Photo taken Nov. 21, 2013 shows breeder Osamu Shiina and African elephants at the Tobe Zoological Park in Tobe, Ehime Prefecture. The small elephant is Toa, a baby girl born in June 2013.

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Mitsubishi Motors announces public offering

TOKYO, Japan - Osamu Masuko, president of Mitsubishi Motors Corp., speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 6, 2013, at which he announced the company will raise up to 210 billion yen in a public offering as part of efforts to revitalize its business.