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Baseball: Japan vs. Netherlands

Japan's Ryuhei Sotani throws in the second game of a two-game baseball exhibition series against the Netherlands at Kyocera Dome Osaka in Osaka, western Japan, on March 6, 2025.

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Suu Kyi receives UNESCO award

YANGON, Myanmar - Ryuhei Hosoya (L), executive director of the Office of the UNESCO Director General, hands a trophy to Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung Sang Suu Kyi in Yangon on Feb. 10, 2012. Suu Kyi was chosen as the 2002 winner of the UNESCO-Madanjeet Singh Prize for the Promotion of Tolerance and Non-Violence, but had been unable to receive the award as she had been under house arrest on and off from 1989 to 2010.

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Transport ministry warns manufacturer over faked safety data

TOKYO, Japan - Takashi Kakegawa (L), president of Koito Industries Ltd., receives instructions to improve the company's business operations from Ryuhei Maeda, director general of the Civil Aviation Bureau at the Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Ministry in Tokyo on Feb. 8, 2010. The company has fabricated fire resistance and strength data on 150,000 seats for planes for 32 carriers in 24 countries and territories.

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Court upholds guilty verdict for health official over AIDS death

TOKYO, Japan - Ryuhei Kawada, an independent member of the House of Councillors who was one of the plaintiffs in HIV damages suits, welcomed Japan's Supreme Court decision on March 4 over an AIDS patient's death. The top court upheld the same day a suspended prison sentence for Akihito Matsumura, a former senior health ministry official who was convicted for failing to prevent the use of HIV-contaminated blood products in the 1980s that resulted in the death of the patient.

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Activist Kawada set to win seat in upper house

TOKYO, Japan - Ryuhei Kawada, an activist known for his fight against the state and a pharmaceutical company in a lawsuit over tainted blood products given to hemophiliacs like himself, waves to supporters in Tokyo on July 29 after becoming assured of winning a House of Councillors seat in the day's election.

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(2)Thai champ Yodsanan defends WBA title

GIFU, Japan - Champion Yodsanan 3-K Battery of Thailand (R) celebrates his victory over Japanese challenger Ryuhei Sugita in the World Boxing Association Super Featherweight title match at Gifu Memorial Center in Gifu Feb. 8 as Australian referee Derek Milham calls a stop to the bout in the seventh round.

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(1)Thai champ Yodsanan defends WBA title

GIFU, Japan - Champion Yodsanan 3-K Battery of Thailand knocks down Japanese challenger Ryuhei Sugita in the second round of the World Boxing Association Super Featherweight title match at Gifu Memorial Center in Gifu Feb. 8. Yodsanan stopped Sugita in the seventh round to retain the title.

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Sugita to fight WBA superfeatherweight champ Yodsanan

NAGOYA, Japan - Japan's Ryuhei Sugita (R) said Dec. 1 he will challenge World Boxing Association (WBA) superfeatherweight champion Yodsanan 3K Battery of Thailand in a world title match on Feb. 8, 2004. Fifteenth-ranked Sugita will meet Yodsanan at Gifu Memorial Center.

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HIV patients' advocate Kawada wins lower house Tokyo by-election

TOKYO, Japan - Etsuko Kawada shakes hands with her hemophiliac son Ryuhei (L) on Oct. 22 after winning in a House of Representatives by-election in Tokyo's No. 21 single-seat constituency. A 51-year-old independent and longtime supporter of people with HIV, Kawada garnered 51,008 votes, beating three rivals including Sekiichi Kato of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, who won 48,883. Kawada will fill a seat vacated by disgraced 38-year-old lawmaker Joji Yamamoto, who resigned from the Diet last month over fraud allegations.

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March against Government

Demonstraton against the- government by hemophiliacs who were infected with HIV through contaminated imported blood products. A victim (Ryuhei KAWADA) and his mother. (Photo taken in Tokyo on July 24, 1995)

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Tokyo Sonata (2008)

Teruyuki Kagawa Characters: Ryuhei Sasaki Film: Tokyo Sonata (2008) Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa 17 May 2008 Date: 17 May 2008

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Tokyo Sonata (2008)

Teruyuki Kagawa Characters: Ryuhei Sasaki Film: Tokyo Sonata (2008) Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa 17 May 2008 Date: 17 May 2008

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Tokyo Sonata (2008)

Teruyuki Kagawa Characters: Ryuhei Sasaki Film: Tokyo Sonata (2008) Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa 17 May 2008 Date: 17 May 2008

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Tokyo Sonata (2008)

Teruyuki Kagawa Characters: Ryuhei Sasaki Film: Tokyo Sonata (2008) Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa 17 May 2008 Date: 17 May 2008

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GOHATTO

GOHATTO English title: Taboo] Tadanobu Asano and Ryuhei Matsuda Date: 1999

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GOHATTO

GOHATTO Enlish title: Taboo Tadanobu Asano and Ryuhei Matsuda picture form the Ronald Grant Archive Date: 1999

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GOHATTO

GOHATTO Ryuhei Matsuda and Tadanobu Asano Date: 1999

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GOHATTO

GOHATTO [JAPAN 1999] ENGLISH LANGUAGE TITLE: TABOO 'BEAT' TAKESHI AND RYUHEI MATSUDA Date: 1999

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GOHATTO

GOHATTO Enlish title: Taboo Ryuhei Matsuda Date: 1999

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Actor, film director greet fans at Yubari film fiesta

Actor Ryuhei Matsuda (L) and film director Suzuki Matsuo greet the audience before screening movies, including those of the late actor Ken Takakura, at the Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival in Yubari in Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido on Feb. 19, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Activist Kawada set to win seat in upper house

TOKYO, Japan - Ryuhei Kawada, an activist known for his fight against the state and a pharmaceutical company in a lawsuit over tainted blood products given to hemophiliacs like himself, waves to supporters in Tokyo on July 29 after becoming assured of winning a House of Councillors seat in the day's election. (Kyodo)

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Court upholds guilty verdict for health official over AIDS death

TOKYO, Japan - Ryuhei Kawada, an independent member of the House of Councillors who was one of the plaintiffs in HIV damages suits, welcomed Japan's Supreme Court decision on March 4 over an AIDS patient's death. The top court upheld the same day a suspended prison sentence for Akihito Matsumura, a former senior health ministry official who was convicted for failing to prevent the use of HIV-contaminated blood products in the 1980s that resulted in the death of the patient. (Kyodo)

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Transport ministry warns manufacturer over faked safety data

TOKYO, Japan - Takashi Kakegawa (L), president of Koito Industries Ltd., receives instructions to improve the company's business operations from Ryuhei Maeda, director general of the Civil Aviation Bureau at the Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Ministry in Tokyo on Feb. 8, 2010. The company has fabricated fire resistance and strength data on 150,000 seats for planes for 32 carriers in 24 countries and territories. (Kyodo)

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Suu Kyi receives UNESCO award

YANGON, Myanmar - Ryuhei Hosoya (L), executive director of the Office of the UNESCO Director General, hands a trophy to Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung Sang Suu Kyi in Yangon on Feb. 10, 2012. Suu Kyi was chosen as the 2002 winner of the UNESCO-Madanjeet Singh Prize for the Promotion of Tolerance and Non-Violence, but had been unable to receive the award as she had been under house arrest on and off from 1989 to 2010. (Kyodo)

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(1)Thai champ Yodsanan defends WBA title

GIFU, Japan - Champion Yodsanan 3-K Battery of Thailand knocks down Japanese challenger Ryuhei Sugita in the second round of the World Boxing Association Super Featherweight title match at Gifu Memorial Center in Gifu Feb. 8. Yodsanan stopped Sugita in the seventh round to retain the title. (Kyodo)

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(2)Thai champ Yodsanan defends WBA title

GIFU, Japan - Champion Yodsanan 3-K Battery of Thailand (R) celebrates his victory over Japanese challenger Ryuhei Sugita in the World Boxing Association Super Featherweight title match at Gifu Memorial Center in Gifu Feb. 8 as Australian referee Derek Milham calls a stop to the bout in the seventh round. (Kyodo)

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Hiroshima clinches 1st Central League championship since 1991

Ryuhei Matsuyama of the Hiroshima Carp slugs a solo homer off Yomiuri Giants right-hander Miles Mikolas, giving his team the lead, in the fourth inning of a game at Tokyo Dome on Sept. 10, 2016. The Carp won 6-4 and clinched their first Central League championship since 1991. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Sugita to fight WBA superfeatherweight champ Yodsanan

NAGOYA, Japan - Japan's Ryuhei Sugita (R) said Dec. 1 he will challenge World Boxing Association (WBA) superfeatherweight champion Yodsanan 3K Battery of Thailand in a world title match on Feb. 8, 2004. Fifteenth-ranked Sugita will meet Yodsanan at Gifu Memorial Center. (Kyodo)

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HIV patients' advocate Kawada wins lower house Tokyo by-election

TOKYO, Japan - Etsuko Kawada shakes hands with her hemophiliac son Ryuhei (L) on Oct. 22 after winning in a House of Representatives by-election in Tokyo's No. 21 single-seat constituency. A 51-year-old independent and longtime supporter of people with HIV, Kawada garnered 51,008 votes, beating three rivals including Sekiichi Kato of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, who won 48,883. Kawada will fill a seat vacated by disgraced 38-year-old lawmaker Joji Yamamoto, who resigned from the Diet last month over fraud allegations.