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Japan PM Ishiba campaigning for general election

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, head of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, waves to voters in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, on Oct. 20, 2024, ahead of the Oct. 27 general election.

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Sharp's headquarters in Osaka

Photo taken on April 28, 2024, shows Sharp Corp.'s headquarters (R, back) and its subsidiary Sakai Display Products Corp. (front) in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture.

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Hydrogen tractor

Photo shows a prototype of an eco-friendly hydrogen-powered fuel cell tractor developed by Japanese farm machinery maker Kubota Corp., unveiled to the media in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, on March 28, 2024.

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Sumo: Terunofuji ahead of spring tournament

Sumo grand champion Terunofuji (facing camera) trains in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, on March 4, 2024, ahead of the Spring Grand Sumo Tournament starting in Osaka city on March 10.

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Sumo: Terunofuji ahead of spring tournament

Sumo grand champion Terunofuji (L) trains in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, on March 4, 2024, ahead of the Spring Grand Sumo Tournament starting in Osaka city on March 10.

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500 days to go to 2025 World Expo in Osaka

Photo taken at Nakamozu Station in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, on Nov. 30, 2023, shows Osaka Metro's trains with liveries for the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka. Osaka Metro started running the trains the same day marking 500 days to go to the opening of the event.

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500 days to go to 2025 World Expo in Osaka

Photo taken at Nakamozu Station in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, on Nov. 30, 2023, shows Osaka Metro's trains with liveries for the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka. Osaka Metro started running the trains the same day marking 500 days to go to the opening of the event.

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500 days to go to 2025 World Expo in Osaka

Photo taken at Nakamozu Station in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, on Nov. 30, 2023, shows Osaka Metro's trains with liveries for the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka. Osaka Metro started running the trains the same day marking 500 days to go to the opening of the event.

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Atletico Nacional, Kashima Antlers prepare for Club World Cup

OSAKA, Japan, Dec. 13 Kyodo - Players of Colombia's Atletico Nacional warm up during a training session at a field in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, on Dec. 13, 2016, a day before they play against Japan's Kashima Antlers in the semifinals of the FIFA Club World Cup tournament.

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World's longest cake roll made in Japan

OSAKA, Japan - People work on making the world's longest cake roll using 180 liters of fresh cream, 2,400 eggs, 72 kilograms of flour, 400 strawberries and other ingredients in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, on Nov. 8, 2014. They made a 140.62-meter-long cake, recognized by Guinness World Records as the world's longest cake roll, beating the previous record, a 130.68-meter-long cake, made in Tokyo in April 2013.

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Author looks 'Golgo 13' exhibits in Osaka Pref.

OSAKA, Japan - Takao Saito, a Japanese manga artist known for the "Golgo 13" series, views items displayed at a preview of an exhibition focused on the series held under his supervision in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, on Aug. 4, 2014.

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Factory fire in Osaka

OSAKA, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a factory of copper product maker Nippon Shindo Co. in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, after a fire on April 9, 2013. One man died and three others were injured.

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Factory fire in Osaka

OSAKA, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a factory of copper product maker Nippon Shindo Co. in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, after a fire on April 9, 2013. One man died and three others were injured.

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Muto wins Kansai Open Championship

SAKAI, Japan - Toshinori Muto holds the victor's trophy after winning the Kansai Open Championship with an 18-under 266 at Izumigaoka Country Club in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, on Aug. 19, 2012. In bagging his fifth career victory, Muto became the first golfer this season on the JGTO tour to lead from start to finish.

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Japan's largest solar cell power plant

SAKAI, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Sept. 7, 2011 shows a solar cell power generation plant of Kansai Electric Power Co. in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, which started generating power at full capacity the same day. Its capacity of 10,000 kilowatts makes the new plant Japan's largest solar cell generation plant in operation, the utility said.

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Sakai Solar Power Station

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows an aerial image of Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Sakai Solar Power Station in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, which began its commercial operation in October 2010. A U.S. think tank report released in 2011 indicated that global power generation by renewable energy sources, including wind turbines, biomass and waste-to-energy plants, and solar power outpaced that by nuclear energy for the first time in 2010.

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Young wrestlers compete in Hakuho Cup

SAKAI, Japan - Mongolian grand champion Hakuho speaks at the first Hakuho Cup, an event initiated by the yokozuna to promote exchanges between Japan and Mongolia, in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, on Dec. 19, 2010. Around 750 elementary and middle school students, including eight Mongolians, competed in the event.

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Young wrestlers compete in Hakuho Cup

SAKAI, Japan - Mongolian grand champion Hakuho (C) poses for photos with young contenders for the first Hakuho Cup, an event initiated by the yokozuna to promote exchanges between Japan and Mongolia, in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, on Dec. 19, 2010. Around 750 elementary and middle school students, including eight Mongolians, competed in the event.

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Pink grasshopper

OSAKA, Japan - A pink grasshopper is kept at a nursing home for the elderly in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, on Sept. 24, 2010, after it was caught on the premises.

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Sumo champ Hakuho turns 25

OSAKA, Japan - Sumo grand champion Hakuho holds a cake to celebrate his 25th birthday at the lodging of his Miyagino stable in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, on March 11, 2010. The Mongolian yokozuna is aiming to win the 13th title of his career at the upcoming spring tournament.

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Seawater coral aquarium makes debut in Fukui Pref.

SAKAI, Japan - A child looks at fishes through a 10-centimeter-thick acrylic, tempered glass frame of a newly-opened seawater coral aquarium built at the Echizen Matsushima Aquarium in Sasai, Fukui Prefecture.

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Seawater coral aquarium makes debut in Fukui Pref.

SAKAI, Japan - A child looks at fishes through a 10-centimeter-thick acrylic, tempered glass frame of a newly-opened seawater coral aquarium built at the Echizen Matsushima Aquarium in Sasai, Fukui Prefecture.

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DPJ's Nishimura arrested for violating Attorneys Law

OSAKA, Japan - Shingo Nishimura, a House of Representatives member of the opposition Democratic Party of Japan, leaves his home in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, on Nov. 28 to head for the Osaka prefectural police headquarters. Nishimura was later arrested for allegedly allowing a former employee at his law office to use his name as a lawyer in violation of the Attorneys Law.

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Lawmaker Nishimura admits to violating Attorneys Law

OSAKA, Japan - Opposition lawmaker and lawyer Shingo Nishimura speaks to reporters in front of his home in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, on Nov. 25. Nishimura, a member of the Democratic Party of Japan, admitted to allegations that he had allowed a former employee of his law firm to use his name as a lawyer in out-of-court settlement negotiations between 2002 and 2004 in violation of the Attorneys Law.

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(2)Foreign young guns moving up for spring sumo

OSAKA, Japan - Sumo wrestler Hakuho of Mongolia shows his joy in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, on Feb. 28 after being promoted to sekiwake, sumo's third-highest position, in the ranking list for the upcoming Spring Grand Sumo Tournament.

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Nomo visits Sakai mayor

SAKAI, Japan - Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Hideo Nomo (R) visits Sakai Mayor Keisuke Kihara in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, on Oct. 20. Nomo thanked Kihara for the city's help for the Nomo baseball club he established this spring.

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Vet checks cow farms

OSAKA, Japan - A veterinarian checks cows at a farm in Sakai, Osaka on Sept. 11, one day after after Japan reported its first-ever case of suspected mad cow disease in a dairy cow in Chiba, east of Tokyo.

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7 die from serratia infection in Osaka hospital

SAKAI, Japan - Photo, taken from a Kyodo News helicopter, shows the Mimihara General Hospital in Sakai, Osaka, where seven inpatients in their 60s to 90s died between May 7 and July 1 after becoming infected with serratia bacteria. Four men and three women died of infections caused by the bacteria, officials of Sakai city and the hospital told a press conference.

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Albanian family applies for refugee status in Japan

Smajil Djakolaj (C), his wife Remzije (R) and their three children file an application on June 29 with the Osaka Regional Immigration Bureau for official refugee status in Japan. The ethnic Albanian refugees from Kosovo are staying with relatives in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture. They arrived in Japan on May 12 on a 90-day visa.

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2 disaster-hit pianos played at concert

Two disaster-damaged pianos -- one (R) swept away by the March 2011 tsunami in the Fukushima Prefecture city of Iwaki and the other swallowed by a muddy stream after torrential rain in the Kumamoto Prefecture village of Kuma in July 2020 -- were played at a concert in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, on Sept. 10, 2022, after having been restored.