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Ex-Japan governor sent sexually harassing texts to staff

Photo taken Jan. 7, 2026, in Nagoya shows a list of sexually harassing texts that former Fukui Gov. Tatsuji Sugimoto sent to female prefectural government staff, in an investigative report published the same day by external lawyers. The central Japan governor, who stepped down the previous month, sent approximately 1,000 inappropriate messages to multiple female staff members and also touched female staff members' bodies several times.

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Ex-Japan governor sent sexually harassing texts to staff

Photo taken Jan. 7, 2026, in Nagoya shows a list of sexually harassing texts that former Fukui Gov. Tatsuji Sugimoto sent to female prefectural government staff, in an investigative report published the same day by external lawyers. The central Japan governor, who stepped down the previous month, sent approximately 1,000 inappropriate messages to multiple female staff members and also touched female staff members' bodies several times.

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Ex-Japan governor sent sexually harassing texts to staff

File photo shows Fukui Gov. Tatsuji Sugimoto speaking at a press conference in Fukui, central Japan, on Dec. 4, 2025, after the prefectural parliament approved his resignation over a sexual harassment allegation. An investigative report by external lawyers said on Jan. 7, 2026, that he sent some 1,000 sexually harassing texts to multiple female staff of the local government and touched female staff members' bodies several times.

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Japan Princess Hisako visits ceramic museum

Japanese Princess Hisako looks at ceramic dogs she donated to the Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum in Seto in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, on Dec. 12, 2025. The princess donated over 200 ceramic dogs for the exhibition that will run from Dec. 13 through July 26, 2026.

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Japan Princess Hisako visits ceramic museum

Japanese Princess Hisako looks at ceramic dogs she donated to the Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum in Seto in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, on Dec. 12, 2025. The princess donated over 200 ceramic dogs for the exhibition that will run from Dec. 13 through July 26, 2026.

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Japan Princess Hisako visits ceramic museum

Japanese Princess Hisako looks at ceramic dogs she donated to the Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum in Seto in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, on Dec. 12, 2025. The princess donated over 200 ceramic dogs for the exhibition that will run from Dec. 13 through July 26, 2026.

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Japan Princess Hisako visits ceramic museum

Japanese Princess Hisako speaks at a ceremony on Dec. 12, 2025, marking the start the following day of a ceramics exhibition at the Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum in Seto in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan. Over 200 ceramic dogs donated by the princess are on display at the exhibition that runs through July 26, 2026.

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Japan Princess Hisako visits ceramic museum

Japanese Princess Hisako speaks at a ceremony on Dec. 12, 2025, marking the start the following day of a ceramics exhibition at the Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum in Seto in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan. Over 200 ceramic dogs donated by the princess are on display at the exhibition that runs through July 26, 2026.

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Japan Princess Hisako visits ceramic museum

Japanese Princess Hisako looks at ceramic dogs she donated to the Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum in Seto in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, on Dec. 12, 2025. The princess donated over 200 ceramic dogs for the exhibition that will run from Dec. 13 through July 26, 2026.

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Japan Princess Hisako visits ceramic museum

Japanese Princess Hisako looks at ceramic dogs she donated to the Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum in Seto in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, on Dec. 12, 2025. The princess donated over 200 ceramic dogs for the exhibition that will run from Dec. 13 through July 26, 2026.

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Japan police chief in Fukushima

Japan's National Police Agency chief Yoshinobu Kusunoki addresses a meeting of senior officials of the Fukushima Prefectural Police at its headquarters in Fukushima, northeastern Japan, on Dec. 3, 2025.

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Landfill work begins for U.S. base transfer within Okinawa

Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki meets the press at the prefectural headquarters in Naha on Nov. 28, 2025, as work gets under way to dump landfill into Oura Bay off the Henoko coastal area in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, for the relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station within the southern Japan island prefecture.

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Winners of the 101 Women Entrepreneurs - Strasbourg

Jacques Witkowski, Prefect of the Grand Est region, invited the press to the Prefectural Hotel for the inauguration of an exhibition dedicated to the ten winners of the “101 Women Entrepreneurs” award for the Grand Est region. The exhibition highlights the careers, commitments, and successes of these women entrepreneurs from various professional backgrounds. It pays tribute to the diversity, creativity, and determination of women who contribute to the country's economic and social dynamism through their projects and businesses. November 21, 2025, Strasbourg, Eastern France. Photo by Nicolas Roses/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Winners of the 101 Women Entrepreneurs - Strasbourg

Jacques Witkowski, Prefect of the Grand Est region, invited the press to the Prefectural Hotel for the inauguration of an exhibition dedicated to the ten winners of the “101 Women Entrepreneurs” award for the Grand Est region. The exhibition highlights the careers, commitments, and successes of these women entrepreneurs from various professional backgrounds. It pays tribute to the diversity, creativity, and determination of women who contribute to the country's economic and social dynamism through their projects and businesses. November 21, 2025, Strasbourg, Eastern France. Photo by Nicolas Roses/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Winners of the 101 Women Entrepreneurs - Strasbourg

Jacques Witkowski, Prefect of the Grand Est region, invited the press to the Prefectural Hotel for the inauguration of an exhibition dedicated to the ten winners of the “101 Women Entrepreneurs” award for the Grand Est region. The exhibition highlights the careers, commitments, and successes of these women entrepreneurs from various professional backgrounds. It pays tribute to the diversity, creativity, and determination of women who contribute to the country's economic and social dynamism through their projects and businesses. November 21, 2025, Strasbourg, Eastern France. Photo by Nicolas Roses/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Winners of the 101 Women Entrepreneurs - Strasbourg

Jacques Witkowski, Prefect of the Grand Est region, invited the press to the Prefectural Hotel for the inauguration of an exhibition dedicated to the ten winners of the “101 Women Entrepreneurs” award for the Grand Est region. The exhibition highlights the careers, commitments, and successes of these women entrepreneurs from various professional backgrounds. It pays tribute to the diversity, creativity, and determination of women who contribute to the country's economic and social dynamism through their projects and businesses. November 21, 2025, Strasbourg, Eastern France. Photo by Nicolas Roses/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Winners of the 101 Women Entrepreneurs - Strasbourg

Jacques Witkowski, Prefect of the Grand Est region, invited the press to the Prefectural Hotel for the inauguration of an exhibition dedicated to the ten winners of the “101 Women Entrepreneurs” award for the Grand Est region. The exhibition highlights the careers, commitments, and successes of these women entrepreneurs from various professional backgrounds. It pays tribute to the diversity, creativity, and determination of women who contribute to the country's economic and social dynamism through their projects and businesses. November 21, 2025, Strasbourg, Eastern France. Photo by Nicolas Roses/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Winners of the 101 Women Entrepreneurs - Strasbourg

Jacques Witkowski, Prefect of the Grand Est region, invited the press to the Prefectural Hotel for the inauguration of an exhibition dedicated to the ten winners of the “101 Women Entrepreneurs” award for the Grand Est region. The exhibition highlights the careers, commitments, and successes of these women entrepreneurs from various professional backgrounds. It pays tribute to the diversity, creativity, and determination of women who contribute to the country's economic and social dynamism through their projects and businesses. November 21, 2025, Strasbourg, Eastern France. Photo by Nicolas Roses/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Winners of the 101 Women Entrepreneurs - Strasbourg

Jacques Witkowski, Prefect of the Grand Est region, invited the press to the Prefectural Hotel for the inauguration of an exhibition dedicated to the ten winners of the “101 Women Entrepreneurs” award for the Grand Est region. The exhibition highlights the careers, commitments, and successes of these women entrepreneurs from various professional backgrounds. It pays tribute to the diversity, creativity, and determination of women who contribute to the country's economic and social dynamism through their projects and businesses. November 21, 2025, Strasbourg, Eastern France. Photo by Nicolas Roses/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Winners of the 101 Women Entrepreneurs - Strasbourg

Jacques Witkowski, Prefect of the Grand Est region, invited the press to the Prefectural Hotel for the inauguration of an exhibition dedicated to the ten winners of the “101 Women Entrepreneurs” award for the Grand Est region. The exhibition highlights the careers, commitments, and successes of these women entrepreneurs from various professional backgrounds. It pays tribute to the diversity, creativity, and determination of women who contribute to the country's economic and social dynamism through their projects and businesses. November 21, 2025, Strasbourg, Eastern France. Photo by Nicolas Roses/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Winners of the 101 Women Entrepreneurs - Strasbourg

Jacques Witkowski, Prefect of the Grand Est region, invited the press to the Prefectural Hotel for the inauguration of an exhibition dedicated to the ten winners of the “101 Women Entrepreneurs” award for the Grand Est region. The exhibition highlights the careers, commitments, and successes of these women entrepreneurs from various professional backgrounds. It pays tribute to the diversity, creativity, and determination of women who contribute to the country's economic and social dynamism through their projects and businesses. November 21, 2025, Strasbourg, Eastern France. Photo by Nicolas Roses/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Winners of the 101 Women Entrepreneurs - Strasbourg

Jacques Witkowski, Prefect of the Grand Est region, invited the press to the Prefectural Hotel for the inauguration of an exhibition dedicated to the ten winners of the “101 Women Entrepreneurs” award for the Grand Est region. The exhibition highlights the careers, commitments, and successes of these women entrepreneurs from various professional backgrounds. It pays tribute to the diversity, creativity, and determination of women who contribute to the country's economic and social dynamism through their projects and businesses. November 21, 2025, Strasbourg, Eastern France. Photo by Nicolas Roses/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Winners of the 101 Women Entrepreneurs - Strasbourg

Jacques Witkowski, Prefect of the Grand Est region, invited the press to the Prefectural Hotel for the inauguration of an exhibition dedicated to the ten winners of the “101 Women Entrepreneurs” award for the Grand Est region. The exhibition highlights the careers, commitments, and successes of these women entrepreneurs from various professional backgrounds. It pays tribute to the diversity, creativity, and determination of women who contribute to the country's economic and social dynamism through their projects and businesses. November 21, 2025, Strasbourg, Eastern France. Photo by Nicolas Roses/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Winners of the 101 Women Entrepreneurs - Strasbourg

Jacques Witkowski, Prefect of the Grand Est region, invited the press to the Prefectural Hotel for the inauguration of an exhibition dedicated to the ten winners of the “101 Women Entrepreneurs” award for the Grand Est region. The exhibition highlights the careers, commitments, and successes of these women entrepreneurs from various professional backgrounds. It pays tribute to the diversity, creativity, and determination of women who contribute to the country's economic and social dynamism through their projects and businesses. November 21, 2025, Strasbourg, Eastern France. Photo by Nicolas Roses/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Winners of the 101 Women Entrepreneurs - Strasbourg

Jacques Witkowski, Prefect of the Grand Est region, invited the press to the Prefectural Hotel for the inauguration of an exhibition dedicated to the ten winners of the “101 Women Entrepreneurs” award for the Grand Est region. The exhibition highlights the careers, commitments, and successes of these women entrepreneurs from various professional backgrounds. It pays tribute to the diversity, creativity, and determination of women who contribute to the country's economic and social dynamism through their projects and businesses. November 21, 2025, Strasbourg, Eastern France. Photo by Nicolas Roses/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Niigata gov. OKs TEPCO's 1st nuclear reactor restart since Fukushima

Members of a citizens group rally in front of the Niigata prefectural government office in Niigata, northwest of Tokyo, on Nov. 21, 2025, in protest over Niigata Gov. Hideyo Hanazumi's decision the same day to approve the restart of the No. 6 reactor at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in the prefecture, the first for its operator Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. since the 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis.

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Niigata gov. OKs TEPCO's 1st nuclear reactor restart since Fukushima

Members of a citizens group rally in front of the Niigata prefectural government office in Niigata, northwest of Tokyo, on Nov. 21, 2025, in protest over Niigata Gov. Hideyo Hanazumi's decision the same day to approve the restart of the No. 6 reactor at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in the prefecture, the first for its operator Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. since the 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis.

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Niigata gov. OKs TEPCO's 1st nuclear reactor restart since Fukushima

Members of a citizens group rally in front of the Niigata prefectural government office in Niigata, northwest of Tokyo, on Nov. 21, 2025, in protest over Niigata Gov. Hideyo Hanazumi's decision the same day to approve the restart of the No. 6 reactor at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in the prefecture, the first for its operator Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. since the 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis.

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Saitama Prefectural Government sign and logo

Saitama Prefectural Government sign and logo=November 12,2025,Saitama

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Saitama Prefectural Government sign and logo

Saitama Prefectural Government sign and logo=November 12,2025,Saitama

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Saitama Prefectural Government sign and logo

Saitama Prefectural Government sign and logo=November 12,2025,Saitama

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Japanese startup for art by people with disabilities

Fumito Matsuda (2nd from R), co-CEO of Heralbony Co., a Japanese start-up commercializing artwork by people with disabilities, and his elderly brother Shota (4th from R) pose for a photo on June 25, 2025, during their visit to meet Iwate Gov. Takuya Tasso (C) at the Iwate prefectural government office in Morioka in the northeastern Japan prefecture. The brothers visited the office to tell the governor that the company won the Gold prize in the "Glass: The Lion for Change" category of the Cannes Lions Awards.

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Japanese startup for art by people with disabilities

Fumito Matsuda (L), co-CEO of Heralbony Co., a Japanese start-up commercializing artwork by people with disabilities, and his elderly brother Shota pose for a photo on June 25, 2025, during their visit to the Iwate prefectural government office in Morioka in the northeastern Japan prefecture. The two visited the office to tell Iwate Gov. Takuya Tasso that the company won the Gold prize in the "Glass: The Lion for Change" category of the Cannes Lions Awards.

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Japanese startup for art by people with disabilities

Fumito Matsuda (L), co-CEO of Heralbony Co., a Japanese start-up commercializing artwork by people with disabilities, and his elderly brother Shota pose for a photo on June 25, 2025, during their visit to the Iwate prefectural government office in Morioka in the northeastern Japan prefecture. The two visited the office to tell Iwate Gov. Takuya Tasso that the company won the Gold prize in the "Glass: The Lion for Change" category of the Cannes Lions Awards.

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Exterior of Aichi Prefectural Government Building

Exterior of Aichi Prefectural Government Building=October 20,2025,Aichi

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Exterior of Aichi Prefectural Government Building

Exterior of Aichi Prefectural Government Building=October 20,2025,Aichi

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Aichi Prefectural Government Sign

Aichi Prefectural Government Sign=October 20,2025,Aichi

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Aichi Prefectural Government Sign

Aichi Prefectural Government Sign=October 20,2025,Aichi

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JIP chief Yoshimura

Hirofumi Yoshimura, Osaka gov. and chief of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's new coalition partner Japan Innovation Party, holds a press conference at the prefectural headquarters in Osaka on Oct. 22, 2025, a day after Sanae Takaichi was elected Japan's first female prime minister in parliament with the backing of the JIP.

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JIP chief Yoshimura

Hirofumi Yoshimura, Osaka gov. and chief of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's new coalition partner Japan Innovation Party, holds a press conference at the prefectural headquarters in Osaka on Oct. 22, 2025, a day after Sanae Takaichi was elected Japan's first female prime minister in parliament with the backing of the JIP.

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Princess Kako in Shiga

Japanese Princess Kako chats with high school students participating in the calligraphy club at Shiga Prefectural Ibuki High School in Maibara, in the western Japan prefecture of Shiga on Oct. 8, 2025.

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Magewappa exhibition in Rome

An opening event for an exhibition to promote magewappa wooden boxes, a traditional craft of the Akita prefectural city of Odate in northeastern Japan, is held in Rome on Oct. 2, 2025. The exhibition will run through Oct. 31.

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Japanese emperor's family in Nagasaki

Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako look at an exhibition of artwork by disabled people at Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum in the southwestern Japan city of Nagasaki on Sept. 13, 2025.

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Japanese emperor's family in Nagasaki

Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako look at an exhibition of artwork by disabled people at Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum in the southwestern Japan city of Nagasaki on Sept. 13, 2025.

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Japanese emperor's family in Nagasaki

Japanese Emperor Naruhito (2nd from R) and Empress Masako look at an exhibition of artwork by disabled people at Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum in the southwestern Japan city of Nagasaki on Sept. 13, 2025.

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Japanese emperor's family in Nagasaki

Japanese Emperor Naruhito (far R) and Empress Masako visit Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum in the southwestern Japan city of Nagasaki on Sept. 13, 2025.

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Police sent to Cambodia to transport Japanese scam suspects

Officers from Japan's Aichi prefectural police are pictured at Chubu Centrair International Airport in Tokoname in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, on Aug. 19, 2025, before departure to Cambodia. About 80 officers are tasked with transporting to Japan 29 Japanese men and women detained in Phnom Penh for suspected involvement in a fraud scheme in Poipet, northwestern Cambodia. ==Kyodo

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Japanese scam suspects in Cambodia deported to Japan

A chartered Malaysia Airlines plane carrying 29 Japanese men and women suspected of involvement in a fraud scheme in Poipet, northwestern Cambodia, takes off from an airport in Phnom Penh on Aug. 20, 2025, for deportation to Japan. About 80 officers from Japan's Aichi prefectural police were recently sent to Cambodia to transport the 29 Japanese, detained by local authorities in May 2025.

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Japanese scam suspects in Cambodia deported to Japan

A chartered Malaysia Airlines plane carrying 29 Japanese men and women suspected of involvement in a fraud scheme in Poipet, northwestern Cambodia, prepares to take off from an airport in Phnom Penh on Aug. 20, 2025, for deportation to Japan. About 80 officers from Japan's Aichi prefectural police were recently sent to Cambodia to transport the 29 Japanese, detained by local authorities in May 2025.

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Japanese scam suspects in Cambodia to be deported to Japan

A bus carrying 29 Japanese men and women suspected of involvement in a fraud scheme in Poipet, northwestern Cambodia, leaves a detention facility in Phnom Penh on Aug. 20, 2025, for deportation to Japan. About 80 officers from Japan's Aichi prefectural police were sent to Cambodia to transport the 29 Japanese, detained by local authorities in May 2025, on a chartered Malaysia Airlines plane.