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Japanese ocean adventurer Kenichi Horie

NISHINOMIYA, Japan, Sept. 9 Kyodo - Japanese ocean adventurer Kenichi Horie smiles as he meets the press in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, on Sept. 8, 2026. Horie, 88, said he plans to sail solo and nonstop across the Pacific Ocean on a yacht next spring, in an attempt to break the world record he set four years earlier for the oldest person to accomplish the feat. (Kyodo)

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Japanese baseball great Harimoto dies

Japanese baseball great Isao Harimoto is pictured during a baseball game featuring former Japanese professional players in Tokyo on July 27, 2026. Harimoto, a Japanese Baseball Hall of Famer who set the Nippon Professional Baseball career hits record with 3,085 hits in 2,752 games, died on Sept. 9, at age 86.

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Japanese baseball great Harimoto dies

Japanese baseball great Isao Harimoto celebrates after being inducted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame in Tokyo in January 1990, in front of the plaque of fellow Hall of Famer Shigeru Mizuhara. Harimoto, who set the Nippon Professional Baseball career hits record with 3,085 hits in 2,752 games, died on Sept. 9, 2026, aged 86.

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Japanese baseball great Harimoto dies

Japanese baseball great Isao Harimoto (R), is pictured with Shohei Ohtani of the Nippon Ham Fighters in February 2013 in Kunigami, Okinawa Prefecture. Harimoto, a Japanese Baseball Hall of Famer who set the Nippon Professional Baseball career hits record with 3,085 hits in 2,752 games, died on Sept. 9, 2026, aged 86.

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Japanese baseball great Harimoto dies

Japanese baseball great Isao Harimoto (R), is pictured with Shohei Ohtani of the Nippon Ham Fighters in February 2013 in Kunigami, Okinawa Prefecture. Harimoto, a Japanese Baseball Hall of Famer who set the Nippon Professional Baseball career hits record with 3,085 hits in 2,752 games, died on Sept. 9, 2026, aged 86.

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Japanese baseball great Harimoto dies

Isao Harimoto of the Lotte Orions hit his 3,000th career hit in a baseball game against the Hankyu Braves in Kawasaki Stadium in Kawasaki, near Tokyo, on May 28, 1980. The Japanese Baseball Hall of Famer, who set the Nippon Professional Baseball career hits record with 3,085 hits in 2,752 games, died on Sept. 9, 2026, aged 86.

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Japanese baseball great Harimoto dies

Photo taken in Tokyo in December 2022 shows Isao Harimoto, a Japanese baseball great and survivor of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima. The Japanese Baseball Hall of Famer, who set the Nippon Professional Baseball career hits record with 3,085 hits in 2,752 games, died on Sept. 9, 2026, aged 86.

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Japan: Traffic Cone Drifts Upright Down Flooded Nagoya Street

On the afternoon of Tuesday, September 8, torrential rain flooded roads across Nagoya, and footage captured a traffic cone gracefully drifting upright along a flooded street.

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Japan: Tokai Region Battered by Torrential Rain, Nagoya Sees Record Hourly Rainfall 9

Torrential rain pounded Japan's Tokai region, including Aichi and Gifu prefectures, on Tuesday afternoon, September 8, flooding roads across the area. Nagoya recorded 104.5 millimeters of rainfall in one hour, the highest ever recorded in the city, and the downpour forced widespread train suspensions that stranded commuters, including a temporary halt to Tokaido Shinkansen bullet train services.

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RECAP: Record Rain Swamps Nagoya, Central Japan

Torrential rain pounded Japan's Tokai region, including Nagoya, on Tuesday afternoon, September 8, flooding roads across the city. The capital of Aichi Prefecture recorded 104.5 millimeters of rainfall in one hour, the highest ever recorded in the city, and the downpour forced widespread train suspensions that stranded commuters. An underpass at Nagoya Dome-mae Yada subway station was completely flooded, with floodwater cascading down a staircase, and columns of water were seen shooting several stories into the air after floodwater pressure forced open manhole covers.

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Japanese ocean adventurer Kenichi Horie

Japanese ocean adventurer Kenichi Horie smiles as he meets the press in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, on Sept. 8, 2026. Horie, 88, said he plans to sail solo and nonstop across the Pacific Ocean on a yacht next spring, in an attempt to break the world record he set four years earlier for the oldest person to accomplish the feat.

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Japanese ocean adventurer Kenichi Horie

Japanese ocean adventurer Kenichi Horie speaks during a press conference in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, on Sept. 8, 2026. Horie, 88, plans to sail solo and nonstop across the Pacific Ocean on a yacht next spring, in an attempt to break the world record he set four years earlier for the oldest person to accomplish the feat.

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Japanese ocean adventurer Kenichi Horie

Japanese ocean adventurer Kenichi Horie speaks during a press conference in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, on Sept. 8, 2026. Horie, 88, plans to sail solo and nonstop across the Pacific Ocean on a yacht next spring, in an attempt to break the world record he set four years earlier for the oldest person to accomplish the feat.

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Japan: Tokai Region Battered by Torrential Rain, Nagoya Sees Record Hourly Rainfall 3

Torrential rain pounded Japan's Tokai region, including Aichi and Gifu prefectures, on Tuesday afternoon, September 8, flooding roads across the area. Nagoya recorded 101.5 millimeters of rainfall in one hour, the highest ever recorded in the city, and the downpour forced widespread train suspensions that stranded commuters, including a temporary halt to Tokaido Shinkansen bullet train services.

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Japan: Tokai Region Battered by Torrential Rain, Nagoya Sees Record Hourly Rainfall 4

Torrential rain pounded Japan's Tokai region, including Aichi and Gifu prefectures, on Tuesday afternoon, September 8, flooding roads across the area. Nagoya recorded 101.5 millimeters of rainfall in one hour, the highest ever recorded in the city, and the downpour forced widespread train suspensions that stranded commuters, including a temporary halt to Tokaido Shinkansen bullet train services.

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Japan: Tokai Region Battered by Torrential Rain, Nagoya Sees Record Hourly Rainfall 5

Torrential rain pounded Japan's Tokai region, including Aichi and Gifu prefectures, on Tuesday afternoon, September 8, flooding roads across the area. Nagoya recorded 101.5 millimeters of rainfall in one hour, the highest ever recorded in the city, and the downpour forced widespread train suspensions that stranded commuters, including a temporary halt to Tokaido Shinkansen bullet train services.

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Japan: Tokai Region Battered by Torrential Rain, Nagoya Sees Record Hourly Rainfall 7

Torrential rain pounded Japan's Tokai region, including Aichi and Gifu prefectures, on Tuesday afternoon, September 8, flooding roads across the area. Nagoya recorded 101.5 millimeters of rainfall in one hour, the highest ever recorded in the city, and the downpour forced widespread train suspensions that stranded commuters, including a temporary halt to Tokaido Shinkansen bullet train services.

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Japan: Tokai Region Battered by Torrential Rain, Nagoya Sees Record Hourly Rainfall 6

Torrential rain pounded Japan's Tokai region, including Aichi and Gifu prefectures, on Tuesday afternoon, September 8, flooding roads across the area. Nagoya recorded 101.5 millimeters of rainfall in one hour, the highest ever recorded in the city, and the downpour forced widespread train suspensions that stranded commuters, including a temporary halt to Tokaido Shinkansen bullet train services.

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Japan: Water Gushes From Manholes Amid Record Rainfall in Nagoya

Torrential rain pounded Japan's Tokai region, including Aichi and Gifu prefectures, on the afternoon of Tuesday, September 8, flooding roads across the area. Footage from Nagoya, which recorded 101.5 millimeters of rainfall in one hour, the highest ever recorded in the city, showed water gushing forcefully out of manholes.

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Japan: Water Gushes From Manholes Amid Record Rainfall in Nagoya 2

Torrential rain pounded Japan's Tokai region, including Aichi and Gifu prefectures, on the afternoon of Tuesday, September 8, flooding roads across the area. Footage from Nagoya, which recorded 101.5 millimeters of rainfall in one hour, the highest ever recorded in the city, showed water gushing forcefully out of manholes.

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Japan: Tokai Region Battered by Torrential Rain, Nagoya Sees Record Hourly Rainfall 2

Torrential rain pounded Japan's Tokai region, including Aichi and Gifu prefectures, on Tuesday afternoon, September 8, flooding roads across the area. Nagoya recorded 101.5 millimeters of rainfall in one hour, the highest ever recorded in the city, and the downpour forced widespread train suspensions that stranded commuters, including a temporary halt to Tokaido Shinkansen bullet train services.

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Japan: Tokai Region Battered by Torrential Rain, Nagoya Sees Record Hourly Rainfall

Torrential rain pounded Japan's Tokai region, including Aichi and Gifu prefectures, on Tuesday afternoon, September 8, flooding roads across the area. Nagoya recorded 101.5 millimeters of rainfall in one hour, the highest ever recorded in the city, and the downpour forced widespread train suspensions that stranded commuters, including a temporary halt to Tokaido Shinkansen bullet train services.

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Japan: Torrential Rain and Flooding Batter Eastern Pacific Coast

Torrential rain triggered by Typhoon Krovanh and a stalled rain front continued to hit Japan's eastern Pacific coast on Monday, September 7, causing flooding in the area.

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Japan: Typhoon Krovanh Brings Heavy Rain, High Waves to Hachijojima

Torrential rain triggered by Typhoon Krovanh and a stalled rain front hit areas across Japan on Sunday, September 6. Rain intensified overnight in the southern Izu Islands, including Hachijojima, where authorities recorded roughly 110 millimeters of rain in one hour and issued a record short-term heavy rain advisory, along with warnings for strong winds and high waves.

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Canada: Nova Scotia Declares Emergency as Flooding Batters Cape Breton

Record rainfall caused severe flooding on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, on Saturday, September 5, damaging roads, culverts and bridges and prompting local states of emergency in Inverness, Richmond and Victoria counties. A woman's death has also been reported, possibly linked to the flooding.

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Boxing: WBA minimumweight title match

Japanese boxer Takeshi Ishii (C) poses for a photo with his championship belt after knocking out Wilfredo Mendez of Puerto Rico in the first round of their WBA minimumweight world title match at Yokohama Buntai in Yokohama, near Tokyo, on Sept. 2, 2026. Ishii rewrote Naoya Inoue's record for the fastest knockout by a Japanese male boxer in a world title bout.

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Boxing: WBA minimumweight title match

Japanese boxer Takeshi Ishii raises his championship belt after knocking out Wilfredo Mendez of Puerto Rico in the first round of their WBA minimumweight world title match at Yokohama Buntai in Yokohama, near Tokyo, on Sept. 2, 2026. Ishii rewrote Naoya Inoue's record for the fastest knockout by a Japanese male boxer in a world title bout.

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Boxing: WBA minimumweight title match

Japanese boxer Takeshi Ishii (R) celebrates after knocking out Wilfredo Mendez of Puerto Rico in the first round of their WBA minimumweight world title match at Yokohama Buntai in Yokohama, near Tokyo, on Sept. 2, 2026. Ishii rewrote Naoya Inoue's record for the fastest knockout by a Japanese male boxer in a world title bout.

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Boxing: WBA minimumweight title match

Japanese boxer Takeshi Ishii (C) celebrates after knocking out Wilfredo Mendez of Puerto Rico in the first round of their WBA minimumweight world title match at Yokohama Buntai in Yokohama, near Tokyo, on Sept. 2, 2026. Ishii rewrote Naoya Inoue's record for the fastest knockout by a Japanese male boxer in a world title bout.

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Boxing: WBA minimumweight title match

Japanese boxer Takeshi Ishii (C) celebrates after knocking out Wilfredo Mendez of Puerto Rico in the first round of their WBA minimumweight world title match at Yokohama Buntai in Yokohama, near Tokyo, on Sept. 2, 2026. Ishii rewrote Naoya Inoue's record for the fastest knockout by a Japanese male boxer in a world title bout.

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Boxing: WBA minimumweight title match

Japanese boxer Takeshi Ishii celebrates after knocking out Wilfredo Mendez of Puerto Rico in the first round of their WBA minimumweight world title match at Yokohama Buntai in Yokohama, near Tokyo, on Sept. 2, 2026. Ishii rewrote Naoya Inoue's record for the fastest knockout by a Japanese male boxer in a world title bout.

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Boxing: WBA minimumweight title match

Japanese boxer Takeshi Ishii (R) lands a punch on Wilfredo Mendez of Puerto Rico in the first round of their WBA minimumweight world title match at Yokohama Buntai in Yokohama, near Tokyo, on Sept. 2, 2026. Ishii rewrote Naoya Inoue's record for the fastest knockout by a Japanese male boxer in a world title bout. ==Kyodo

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Japan: Record Rain Triggers Highest-Level Emergency Warning in Fukui 2

Japan's weather agency issued a Level 5 Emergency Warning for Heavy Rain, its highest alert level, for the cities of Fukui, Ono and Katsuyama in Fukui Prefecture on Sunday, August 30, as record rainfall caused flooding, swollen rivers and landslides across the region. Katsuyama recorded 350.5mm of rain over 24 hours. The warning was later downgraded to Level 4. This video shows swollen river and flooded streets in Fukui City.

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Japan: Record Rain Triggers Highest-Level Emergency Warning in Fukui

Japan's weather agency issued a Level 5 Emergency Warning for Heavy Rain, its highest alert level, for the cities of Fukui, Ono and Katsuyama in Fukui Prefecture on Sunday, August 30, as record rainfall caused flooding, swollen rivers and landslides across the region. Katsuyama recorded 350.5mm of rain over 24 hours. The warning was later downgraded to Level 4.

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