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Disney parade at farm village

Disney parade at farm village

NIIGATA, Japan - Characters from Tokyo Disney Resort hold a parade in a rural area during a festival in the farm village of Sekikawa, Niigata Prefecture, on Oct. 6, 2013.

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Dragons beat Giants

Dragons beat Giants

NAGOYA, Japan - Chunichi Dragons outfielder Koichi Sekikawa reacts on the third base after driving in the go-ahead run with a pinch-hitter triple to right-center in the bottom of the eighth inning against the Yomiuri Giants at Nagoya Dome on April 19. Chunichi beat Yomiuri 4-2.

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Aftermath of heavy rain in Japan

Aftermath of heavy rain in Japan

A street in Sekikawa in Niigata Prefecture, Japan, is seen blocked with driftwood, cars and other debris on Aug. 5, 2022, following torrential rain.

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Dragons beat Giants

Dragons beat Giants

NAGOYA, Japan - Chunichi Dragons outfielder Koichi Sekikawa reacts on the third base after driving in the go-ahead run with a pinch-hitter triple to right-center in the bottom of the eighth inning against the Yomiuri Giants at Nagoya Dome on April 19. Chunichi beat Yomiuri 4-2. (Kyodo)

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SNAPSHOT: 50 yrs since confirmation of Niigata Minamata Disease

SNAPSHOT: 50 yrs since confirmation of Niigata Minamata Disease

Tomoko Sekikawa, a doctor who has examined victims of Niigata Minamata Disease for more than 40 years, examines a man complaining of symptoms of the mercury-poisoning disease on May 22, 2015, at a clinic in the central Japan city of Niigata. A half century has passed since "the second Minamata disease" was officially confirmed, after a similar disease was detected in the southwestern prefecture of Kumamoto in 1956. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fukushima families invited to Italy

Fukushima families invited to Italy

ROME, Italy - Kaori Sekikawa (back R), 29, and her daughters arrive at an airport in Rome on July 25, 2011, escorted by an official of the Italian State Tourist Board. About 50 mothers and children in disaster-hit Fukushima Prefecture, including the Sekikawa family, have been invited by the Italian board to spend their summer holidays in Rome and Milan. (Kyodo)

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Straw cat house

Straw cat house

Photo taken Nov. 6, 2020, shows a hand-woven straw cat house called Nekochigura, a folkcraft of the Niigata Prefecture village of Sekikawa, northwest of Tokyo.

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Another bird flu outbreak suspected in Japan's Niigata Prefecture

Another bird flu outbreak suspected in Japan's Niigata Prefecture

Workers bury bags containing culled chickens at a poultry farm in Sekikawa in the Sea of Japan coastal prefecture of Niigata on Nov. 30, 2016, after a highly virulent H5 strain of a bird flu virus was detected. (Photo taken with a drone)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Another bird flu outbreak suspected in Japan's Niigata Prefecture

Another bird flu outbreak suspected in Japan's Niigata Prefecture

Hundreds of bags containing culled chickens are lined up at a poultry farm in Sekikawa in the Sea of Japan coastal prefecture of Niigata on Nov. 30, 2016, after a highly virulent H5 strain of a bird flu virus was detected. (Photo taken with a drone)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Another bird flu outbreak suspected in Japan's Niigata Prefecture

Another bird flu outbreak suspected in Japan's Niigata Prefecture

Hundreds of bags containing culled chickens are lined up at a poultry farm in Sekikawa in the Sea of Japan coastal prefecture of Niigata on Nov. 30, 2016, after a highly virulent H5 strain of a bird flu virus was detected. (Photo taken with a drone)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Bird flu-hit Japan prefecture stays alert

Bird flu-hit Japan prefecture stays alert

Officials of the Niigata prefectural government have their shoes disinfected in the village of Sekikawa, Japan, on Nov. 30, 2016, upon their return from a local poultry farm where a highly pathogenic H5 strain of bird flu virus was detected earlier in the week. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Culling of chickens continues in Niigata

Culling of chickens continues in Niigata

Local officials in protective gears stand at a sterilization point on Nov. 30, 2016, along a major road the village of Sekikawa in the Sea of Japan coastal prefecture of Niigata, where tests have confirmed the presence of the highly contagious strain of virus at a poultry farm. The local authorities are culling approximately 310,000 chickens at the farm. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Culling of chickens continues in Niigata

Culling of chickens continues in Niigata

Local officials sterilize vehicles on Nov. 30, 2016, in the village of Sekikawa in the Sea of Japan coastal prefecture of Niigata, where tests have confirmed the presence of the highly contagious strain of virus at a poultry farm. The local authorities are culling approximately 310,000 chickens at the farm. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Culling of chickens continues in Niigata

Culling of chickens continues in Niigata

Local officials in protective gears stand at a sterilization point on Nov. 30, 2016, along a major road in the village of Sekikawa in the Sea of Japan coastal prefecture of Niigata, where tests have confirmed the presence of the highly contagious strain of virus at a poultry farm. The local authorities are culling approximately 310,000 chickens at the farm. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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330,000 chickens, ducks culled as bird flu found in Niigata, Aomori

330,000 chickens, ducks culled as bird flu found in Niigata, Aomori

Self-Defense Force personnel gather near a poultry farm, where a highly pathogenic H5 strain of an avian flu virus was detected, in the village of Sekikawa in the Sea of Japan coastal prefecture of Niigata on Nov. 29, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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330,000 chickens, ducks culled as bird flu found in Niigata, Aomori

330,000 chickens, ducks culled as bird flu found in Niigata, Aomori

Local government officials disinfect a vehicle that returned from an operation at a poultry farm, where a highly pathogenic H5 strain of an avian flu virus was detected, in the village of Sekikawa in the Sea of Japan coastal prefecture of Niigata on Nov. 29, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Highly contagious bird flu strain detected at Niigata poultry farm

Highly contagious bird flu strain detected at Niigata poultry farm

Photo taken Nov. 29, 2016, from a Kyodo News airplane shows officials working for digging holes near a farm in the village of Sekikawa in the Sea of Japan coastal prefecture of Niigata, where tests have confirmed the presence of a highly contagious avian flu strain. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Highly contagious bird flu strain detected at Niigata poultry farm

Highly contagious bird flu strain detected at Niigata poultry farm

Photo taken Nov. 29, 2016, from a Kyodo News airplane shows officials working for culling chickens at a farm in the village of Sekikawa in the Sea of Japan coastal prefecture of Niigata, where tests have confirmed the presence of a highly contagious avian flu strain. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Highly contagious bird flu strain detected at Niigata poultry farm

Highly contagious bird flu strain detected at Niigata poultry farm

Photo taken Nov. 29, 2016, from a Kyodo News airplane shows officials working for culling chickens at a farm in the village of Sekikawa in the Sea of Japan coastal prefecture of Niigata, where tests have confirmed the presence of a highly contagious avian flu strain. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Highly contagious bird flu strain detected at Niigata poultry farm

Highly contagious bird flu strain detected at Niigata poultry farm

Photo taken Nov. 29, 2016, from a Kyodo News airplane shows a farm in the village of Sekikawa in the Sea of Japan coastal prefecture of Niigata, where tests have confirmed the presence of a highly contagious avian flu strain. The local government began culling the approximately 310,000 chickens at the farm. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Highly contagious bird flu strain detected at Niigata poultry farm

Highly contagious bird flu strain detected at Niigata poultry farm

Photo taken Nov. 29, 2016, from a Kyodo News airplane shows a farm in the village of Sekikawa in the Sea of Japan coastal prefecture of Niigata, where tests have confirmed the presence of a highly contagious avian flu strain. The local government began culling the approximately 310,000 chickens at the farm. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Highly contagious bird flu strain detected at Niigata poultry farm

Highly contagious bird flu strain detected at Niigata poultry farm

Self-Defense Forces personnel gather on Nov. 29, 2016, in the village of Sekikawa in the Sea of Japan coastal prefecture of Niigata, after tests have confirmed the presence of a highly contagious avian flu strain at a poultry farm there. The local government began culling the approximately 310,000 chickens at the farm. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Highly contagious bird flu strain detected at Japanese poultry farm

Highly contagious bird flu strain detected at Japanese poultry farm

Work is under way to cull chickens at a poultry farm in the Niigata Prefecture village of Sekikawa on the Sea of Japan coast, where tests have confirmed the presence of a highly contagious avian flu strain, in this photo taken Nov. 29, 2016, from a Kyodo News airplane. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Highly contagious bird flu strain detected at Japanese poultry farm

Highly contagious bird flu strain detected at Japanese poultry farm

Work is under way to cull chickens at a poultry farm in the Niigata Prefecture village of Sekikawa on the Sea of Japan coast, where tests have confirmed the presence of a highly contagious avian flu strain, in this photo taken Nov. 29, 2016, from a Kyodo News airplane. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Bird flu strain detected in Japan

Bird flu strain detected in Japan

An emergency meeting is held at the prefectural government building in Niigata, Japan, on Nov. 28, 2016, as about 40 chickens were found dead at a poultry farm in the Niigata village of Sekikawa. Tests have confirmed the presence of a highly contagious avian flu strain at the farm. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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