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M6.6 earthquake hits western Japan

Photo shows the site of a rock fall in Ozu in Ehime Prefecture, western Japan, on the morning of April 18, 2024, after an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.6 hit Ehime and Kochi prefectures the previous night.

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Forest fire in western Japan

A helicopter drops water to extinguish a forest fire in Ozu, Ehime Prefecture, western Japan, on Nov. 2, 2023.

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Forest fire in western Japan

A helicopter drops water to extinguish a forest fire in Ozu, Ehime Prefecture, western Japan, on Nov. 2, 2023.

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(SP)THAILAND-PATTAYA-BEACH SOCCER-ASIAN CUP-CHN VS JPN

(230319) -- PATTAYA, March 19, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Wang Yu (R) of China vies with Ozu Moreira (C) of Japan during the Group C match between China and Japan at Beach Soccer Asian Cup 2023 in Pattaya, Thailand, March 19, 2023. (Xinhua/Wang Teng)

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Honda's cumulative motorbike output tops 300 mil. units

FUKUOKA, Japan - Takanobu Ito (4th from L in front row), president of Honda Motor Co., poses with other executives and workers of the Japanese automaker during a ceremony held at its plant in Ozu, Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Nov. 25, 2014, to mark the cumulative production of Honda motorcycles topping 300 million units.

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Honda's cumulative motorbike output tops 300 mil. units

FUKUOKA, Japan - Takanobu Ito, president of Honda Motor Co., address a ceremony at its plant in Ozu, Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Nov. 25, 2014, to mark the Japanese automaker's cumulative production of motorcycles topping 300 million units.

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Admission ticket bearing 'Kumamon' character on sale

KUMAMOTO, Japan - A railway station admission ticket featuring the "Kumamon" mascot character of the Kumamoto prefectural government is on sale at Kumamoto Station of Kyushu Railway Co. in the prefectural capital, southwestern Japan. The ticket, put on sale on Oct. 20, 2014, commemorates the centennial of the launch of the Hohi Line's service between the Kumamoto and Higo-ozu stations.

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Cats on island

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Photo shows cats on Ao Island in Ozu, Ehime Prefecture, on Nov. 23, 2013. Cat lovers lately have begun flocking to the island with 15 residents and more than 100 cats in the Seto Inland Sea.

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Diaries by film director Ozu, screenwriter

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Japanese film director Yasujiro Ozu (L) and his main screenwriter, Kogo Noda. A book based on diaries by Ozu and Noda that detail their collaborative process when they worked on movie scripts in Tateshina Kogen in Nagano Prefecture, will be published in late July 2013.

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Ozu to become Japan's top prosecutor

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken on Aug. 12, 2011, shows Hiroshi Ozu, chief of the Tokyo High Public Prosecutors Office. Ozu will be promoted to Japan's prosecutor-general, or chief of the Supreme Public Prosecutors Office, to replace Haruo Kasama, justice ministry and prosecution sources said on July 4, 2012.

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Yoji Yamada to shoot film based on 'Tokyo Story'

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese film director Yoji Yamada takes part in a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 13, 2010. The 79-year-old director, who will mark 50 years next year since his debut, said he will shoot a film ''Tokyo Kazoku (family)'' based on Yasujiro Ozu's masterpiece ''Tokyo Story,'' shifting the setting to the present day.

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Ozu's movies shown at N.Y. film festival

NEW YORK, United States - Japanese actress Kyoko Kagawa speaks at a news conference Oct. 4, the same day Yasujiro Ozu's movies were shown at the 41st New York Film Festival at the Lincoln Center to mark 100 years since the late Japanese director was born. Kagawa appeared in Tokyo Story, one of his movies.

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Craft beer

A glass of craft beer is pictured in the Ehime Prefecture city of Ozu, western Japan, on July 29, 2022.

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Tokyo Story film (1953)

Movie Scene Film: Tokyo Story (1957) Director: Yasujiro Ozu 03 November 1953 Die Reise nach Tokio (Tokio monogatari, JP 1953, Regie: Yasujiro Ozu) Szene, Japan, Japaner, in japanischem japanisches Restaurant, Kimono Date: 03-Nov-53

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Five Dir Abbas Kiarostami Iran-France 2003 SOURCE CREDIT -

Five Dir Abbas Kiarostami Iran-France 2003 SOURCE CREDIT - British Film Institute FIVE DEDICATED TO OZU aka FIVE Date: 2003

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YASUJIRO OZU JAPANESE FILM DIRECTOR

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Aftermath of massive quakes in southwestern Japan

Evacuees line up in heavy rain to receive lunch in Ozu, Kumamoto Prefecture on April 21, 2016, a week after the first of a series of strong quakes hit the southwestern Japanese prefecture. The rain forced the suspension of search operations for two people still missing since the disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Honda discloses process of special motorcycle production

Honda Motor Co. engineers assemble the RC213V-S, a street version of the racing model RC213V, in a rare public display of the production process at a factory in the southwestern Japanese town of Ozu, Kumamoto Prefecture, on Nov. 27, 2015. The hand-assembled limited model, produced at a pace of one motorcycle per day, is tagged with a suggested retail price of 21.9 million yen. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Honda opens process of special motorcycle assembly to public

A Honda Motor Co. engineer assembles the engine of the RS213V-S, a street version of the racing model RC213V, in a rare public display of the production process at a factory in the southwestern Japanese town of Ozu, Kumamoto Prefecture, on Nov. 27, 2015. The hand-assembled limited model, produced at a pace of one motorcycle per day, is tagged with a suggested retail price of 21.9 million yen. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Acting legend Setsuko Hara of Ozu film "Tokyo Story" dies at 95

Photo taken Nov. 26, 2015, shows a stand set up at a movie theater in Tokyo screening a film featuring deceased Setsuko Hara. It was reported the previous day the legendary actress, who starred in "Tokyo Story" and other films by Yasujiro Ozu and other prominent Japanese directors, died in September at the age of 95. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese film industry mourns acting legend Setsuko Hara

Photo taken Nov. 26, 2015, shows Takemuraya, a Japanese-style inn in the western Japanese city of Onomichi, where the legendary actress Setsuko Hara stayed while filming for "Tokyo Story," a 1953 Yasujiro Ozu movie. Hara died of pneumonia on Sept. 5, 2015, at a hospital in Kanagawa Prefecture at age 95. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Acting legend Setsuko Hara of Ozu film "Tokyo Story" dies at 95

Photo taken Nov. 26, 2015, shows a special section of publications related to the late actress Setsuko Hara at a Tokyo bookstore. It was reported the previous day the legendary actress, who starred in "Tokyo Story" and other films by Yasujiro Ozu and other prominent Japanese directors, died in September at the age of 95. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Acting legend Setsuko Hara of Ozu film "Tokyo Story" dies at 95

Photo taken in 1960 shows legendary actress Setsuko Hara, who starred in the Yasujiro Ozu movie "Tokyo Story." Hara died of pneumonia on Sept. 5, 2015, at a hospital in Kanagawa Prefecture at age 95, according to her family. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Late movie director Ozu's monument unveiled in ceremony

Actress Fujiko Yamamoto (far R) and other people concerned attend an unveiling ceremony for a monument dedicated to the late famed movie director Yasujiro Ozu in Tsu, Mie Prefecture, western Japan, on March 24, 2015. Ozu frequented Tsu in his boyhood days. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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"Starting station" of "Galaxy Express 999" on display

Volunteer group leader Koichi Otsuka salutes in Ozu, Ehime Prefecture, western Japan, on Feb. 6, 2015, by a sign for the "starting station" of "Galaxy Express 999," a popular comic series written by Reiji Matsumoto who once lived in the area. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Mural of ''Galaxy Express 999'' installed at school in western Japan

A mural depicting a scene of the popular comic series "Galaxy Express 999" written by Reiji Matsumoto is seen on Feb. 6, 2015, at Niiya Elementary School in Ozu, Ehime Prefecture, western Japan. Titled "A journey from my hometown," the mural is based on the assumption that the Niiya area is considered the place of a starting station for the express as Matsumoto attended the school in 1944. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nobel laureate Nakamura becomes honorary citizen of Japanese city

Shuji Nakamura (R), a 2014 Nobel physics prize laureate, receives an Honorary Citizen award of Ozu in Ehime Prefecture on Feb. 3, 2015, from Mayor Hiroshi Shimizu. Nakamura, a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, spent his high-school days in the western Japanese city. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tokyo Olympic torch relay

A Tokyo Olympic torch relay runner crosses a bridge in Ozu in Ehime Prefecture, western Japan, on April 22, 2021.

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Tokyo Olympic torch relay

A Tokyo Olympic torch relay runner crosses a bridge in Ozu in Ehime Prefecture, western Japan, on April 22, 2021.

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Tokyo Olympic torch relay

A Tokyo Olympic torch relay runner crosses a bridge in Ozu in Ehime Prefecture, western Japan, on April 22, 2021.

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Tokyo Olympic torch relay

A Tokyo Olympic torch relay runner crosses a bridge in Ozu in Ehime Prefecture, western Japan, on April 22, 2021.

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Chef uses burning passion for smoked food to stoke unique business

Photo taken March 10, 2016 shows chef and owner Kosuke Nagai holding smoked scones in front of the oven at his smoke-cooked cake shop "Ozu Smoke Lab" in Sapporo, Hokkaido. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Chef uses burning passion for smoked food to stoke unique business

Photo taken March 10, 2016 shows chef and owner Kosuke Nagai setting out smoked cheese cakes and smoked scones at his smoke-cooked cake shop "Ozu Smoke Lab" in Sapporo, Hokkaido. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese film industry mourns acting legend Setsuko Hara

Photo taken in February 1959 shows legendary actress Setsuko Hara who died of pneumonia on Sept. 5, 2015, at a hospital in Kanagawa Prefecture at age 95. She was the heroine in golden-age Japanese movies including the Yasujiro Ozu works "Tokyo Story" in 1953 and "Late Spring" in 1949, as well as in "The Green Mountains" directed by Tadashi Imai in 1949, "El Idiota" by Akira Kurosawa in 1951 and "Repast" by Naruse Mikio in 1951. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Honda's cumulative motorbike output tops 300 mil. units

FUKUOKA, Japan - Takanobu Ito (4th from L in front row), president of Honda Motor Co., poses with other executives and workers of the Japanese automaker during a ceremony held at its plant in Ozu, Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Nov. 25, 2014, to mark the cumulative production of Honda motorcycles topping 300 million units. (Kyodo)

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Honda's cumulative motorbike output tops 300 mil. units

FUKUOKA, Japan - Takanobu Ito, president of Honda Motor Co., address a ceremony at its plant in Ozu, Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Nov. 25, 2014, to mark the Japanese automaker's cumulative production of motorcycles topping 300 million units. (Kyodo)

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Admission ticket bearing 'Kumamon' character on sale

KUMAMOTO, Japan - A railway station admission ticket featuring the "Kumamon" mascot character of the Kumamoto prefectural government is on sale at Kumamoto Station of Kyushu Railway Co. in the prefectural capital, southwestern Japan. The ticket, put on sale on Oct. 20, 2014, commemorates the centennial of the launch of the Hohi Line's service between the Kumamoto and Higo-ozu stations. (Kyodo)

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Hotel converted from old residential house

Photo taken during a media-viewing session on July 18, 2020, shows the interior of Nipponia Hotel in Ozu in Ehime Prefecture, western Japan, which was converted from an old residential house under the business renovation project by the Osaka-based consulting firm Value Management. The hotel will open on July 23.

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Hotel converted from old residential house

Photo taken during a media-viewing session on July 18, 2020, shows the interior of Nipponia Hotel in Ozu in Ehime Prefecture, western Japan, which was converted from an old residential house under the business renovation project by the Osaka-based consulting firm Value Management. The hotel will open on July 23.

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Hotel converted from old residential house

Photo taken during a media-viewing session on July 18, 2020, shows Nipponia Hotel in Ozu in Ehime Prefecture, western Japan, which was converted from an old residential house under the business renovation project by the Osaka-based consulting firm Value Management. The hotel will open on July 23.

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Sake brewed in memory of Kumamoto earthquake victim

Photo taken in Ozu, Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Aug. 3, 2019, shows sake made from rice planted by Hikaru Yamato, a 22-year-old college student who was killed in the April 2016 earthquake that hit his hometown in Aso, Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern Japan, just before the tragedy. Takuya Yamato and his wife Shinobu developed the sake in memory of their son as well as to thank people who engaged in the search for him after the earthquake. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Sake brewed in memory of Kumamoto earthquake victim

Takuya Yamato and his wife Shinobu, whose 22-year-old son Hikaru was killed in the April 2016 earthquake that hit their hometown in Aso, Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern Japan, hold on Aug. 3, 2019, in Ozu in the same prefecture sake that was made from rice planted by the son just before the quake. The parents developed the sake in memory of Hikaru as well as to thank people who engaged in the search for him after the earthquake. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Anniversary of western Japan rain disaster

A memorial service is held in Ozu, Ehime Prefecture, on July 7, 2019, marking the first anniversary of flooding and mudslides triggered by torrential rain in western Japan that claimed the lives of 275 people in 14 prefectures. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Anniversary of western Japan rain disaster

A memorial service is held in Ozu, Ehime Prefecture, on July 7, 2019, marking the first anniversary of flooding and mudslides triggered by torrential rain in western Japan that claimed the lives of 275 people in 14 prefectures. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Anniversary of western Japan rain disaster

A memorial service is held in Ozu, Ehime Prefecture, on July 7, 2019, marking the first anniversary of flooding and mudslides triggered by torrential rain in western Japan that claimed the lives of 275 people in 14 prefectures. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Coming-of-age ceremony in disaster-hit western Japan

Women pose for photos after their coming-of-age ceremony in Ozu, Ehime Prefecture, on Jan. 13, 2019. The western Japan city was hit by flooding following torrential rains that hit a wide area of the region in July 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Jellyfish sting cream

Photo taken on July 30, 2018 in Ozu, Ehime Prefecture, Japan, shows a tube containing a trial jellyfish sting inhibitor cream which was developed by students of the Nagahama high school. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nagatomo in rain-hit area in Japan

Japan national football team player Yuto Nagatomo signs autographs during an event at a school in Ozu, Ehime Prefecture, on July 18, 2018, a city near his hometown Saijo that was hit hard by deadly torrential rains. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nagatomo in rain-hit area in Japan

Japan national football team player Yuto Nagatomo speaks to children during an event at a school in Ozu, Ehime Prefecture, on July 18, 2018, a city near his hometown Saijo that was hit hard by deadly torrential rains. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Torrential rains in western Japan

Photo taken on July 9, 2018, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a bridge on the Hiji River in Ozu, Ehime Prefecture, destroyed following torrential rains that hit a wide area of western Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo