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Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, makes a stump speech in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture in northeastern Japan, on July 19, 2025, a day before the House of Councillors election.

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Japan: Heavy Snowfall Hits Sea Of Japan Coast 4

Heavy snowfall has battered a wide area of Japan, especially the Hokuriku region along the Sea of Japan coast. This video shows blizzard conditions in the city Otaru, Hokkaido.

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Typhoon Shanshan – Storm Leaves Damage In Kyushu 3

Typhoon Shanshan left damage across Kyushu as it made landfall near Sendai, Kagoshima Prefecture Thursday morning, August 29. In Miyazaki City, gusty winds, apparently a tornado, caused damage to houses late Wednesday. More than 10 people were injured due to the winds, according to reports. This video shows damaged house roofs in Tsunehisa, Miyazaki City Thursday morning.

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US: Level 2 Evacuations Issued As Upper Cemetery Fire Sparks In Spokane

The Upper Cemetery Fire, previously called the Hills Fire, sparked near Greenwood Memorial Terrace in the Spokane Palisades Park area on Friday, July 26. The fire burned 90 acres, threatening more than 500 structures within hours, and level 2 evacuations were in place.

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Relative of N. Korean abduction victim loses in lower house election

SENDAI, Japan - Teruaki Masumoto, whose elder sister Rumiko is among Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea, speaks in Sendai, northeastern Japan, on the night of Dec. 14, 2014, after losing in the lower house election. Masumoto ran on the ticket of the small opposition Party for Future Generations.

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Foster home children write Xmas, New Year cards for inmates

TOKYO, Japan - Christmas and New Year cards for inmates sent to "Mother House," a nonprofit organization to support convicts and those released from prisons, from children at a foster home in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, in northeastern Japan, is shown at the NPO in Tokyo in 2014. (Photo by Toshihiro Ariyoshi)

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Lawmaker Inoki, Ultraman hold event in Tohoku in July

SENDAI, Japan - Japan's House of Councillors member Antonio Inoki (L) shouts during a press conference in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on June 24, 2014, where the professional wrestler-turned politician announced a plan to hold an event together with TV superhero Ultraman (C) in July to encourage victims of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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Lawmaker Inoki, Ultraman join hands in Tohoku event

SENDAI, Japan - Japan's House of Councillors member Antonio Inoki and TV superhero Ultraman strike the hero's signature "Specium Ray" pose during a press conference in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on June 24, 2014. The professional wrestler-turned politician announced a plan to hold an event together with Ultraman in July to encourage victims of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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Ishinomaki Rainbow House for 2011 disaster orphans

SENDAI, Japan - Ishinomaki Rainbow House, a support facility for children who lost their parents in the earthquake and tsunami of March 2011, is pictured in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 25, 2014. A completion ceremony was held on the same day.

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Plan for tsunami-hit Sendai to lease pandas from China hits snag

SENDAI, Japan - Photo taken in December 2013 shows zookeeper Toshikazu Abe pointing to the planned construction site of a panda house at the Yagiyama Zoological Park in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture.

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U.S. volunteers repair tsunami-hit buildings

SENDAI, Japan - American volunteer Steve Lengkeek (L) from Delaware works to remodel a building used to house a dentist as an accommodation facility in Yamamoto, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 13, 2012. A group of 35 Americans has been taking turns visiting Japan to repair buildings in coastal Miyagi Prefecture damaged by the massive March 2011 tsunami.

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6 months after Japan quake, tsunami

SENDAI, Japan - Photos of a residential district of Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, (from top) on March 11, June 3 and Sept. 6, 2011, show that the district was engulfed by tsunami on March 11 and that the only house remaining there on June 3 has been removed.

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Natori being hit by tsunami, and 3 months later

SENDAI, Japan - Combined photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a residential area in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, being struck by a tsunami on March 11, 2011 (top frame), and the same area on June 3, 2011 (bottom frame). Only one house remains nearly three months after the disaster.

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Zurich-based violinist hopes to perform in quake-hit area

ZURICH, Switzerland - Andreas Janke, a concertmaster of Tonhalle Orchestra, poses for a photo in Zurich on April 12, 2011. The orchestra, as well as the Zurich Opera House Orchestra and Zurich Chamber Orchestra, jointly held a charity concert in Zurich on April 12, 2011, for Japan victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. Janke, whose mother is Japanese, plans to perform in Sendai, an area hit by the disaster, in November.

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Message on a fence

SENDAI, Japan - Photo taken March 28, 2011, shows the fence of a house in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, displaying the message ''Gambaro,'' meaning, ''Hang in there.'' The area was devastated by a massive earthquake and tsunami March 11.

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Japan quake aftermath

SENDAI, Japan - A family stands in front of their collapsed house in the town of Onagawa in Miyagi Prefecture on March 18, 2011, a week after the massive earthquake and tsunami devastated the area.

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Megaquake aftermath in Japan

SENDAI, Japan - A crushed bus lies on the roof of a house after being swept up by tsunami in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on March 13, 2011, following the March 11 earthquake.

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Iwakuma presents children with Christmas gifts

SENDAI, Japan - Rakuten Eagles pitcher Hisashi Iwakuma poses for photos with children suffering from serious diseases at Sendai House, in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on Dec. 22, 2010 when he visited there to give them Christmas gifts.

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Woman in Miyagi sees dead tadpoles falling from sky

SENDAI, Japan - Haruko Kikkawa, 74, in the town of Taiwa in Miyagi Prefecture, shows on June 17 two of the roughly 50 dead tadpoles she saw falling on from the sky onto the roof and garden of her house around 5 p.m. on June 15.

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DPJ lawmaker Konno submits resignation to lower house

TOKYO, Japan - Democratic Party of Japan lawmaker Azuma Konno (L) hands a letter of resignation to House of Representatives Speaker Yohei Kono on April 28, a day after the Sendai High Court invalidated his victory in the 2003 general election because one of his campaign managers had been found guilty of illegal electioneering for the polls.

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(2)LDP wins in two by-elections, beating DPJ rivals

SENDAI, Japan - Liberal democratic Party candidate Kenya Akiba is congratulated by supporters as he becomes sure of his win in the House of Representatives by-election in Miyagi constituency on April 24.

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(1)3 strong quakes hit northeastern Japan

SENDAI, Japan - Self-Defense Forces personnel clear away a collapsed house in the town of Nango, Miyagi Prefecture, on July 26 following a series of strong earthquakes that jolted northeastern Japan.

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(3)2 strong quakes hit northeastern Japan, no deaths reported

SENDAI, Japan - The first floor of a house is seen crushed in the town of Nango, Miyagi Prefecture, on July 26 after two strong quakes struck various areas in northeastern Japan.

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(8)2 strong quakes hit northeastern Japan, no deaths reported

SENDAI, Japan - A house in the town of Nango, Miyagi Prefecture, collapsed on July 26 after two strong quakes hit the area.

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(5)2 strong quakes hit northeastern Japan, no deaths reported

SENDAI, Japan - Roof tiles of a house in the town of Kanami, Miyagi Prefecture, are seen fallen off on July 26 after two strong quakes hit northeastern Japan.

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Marubeni Chikusan offices searched over false labeling

SENDAI, Japan - Police officers enter the head office of Marubeni Chikusan Corp., a unit of trading house Marubeni Corp., in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on June 21 to search for evidence relating to the company's false labeling of at least 1,700 tons of chicken sold since 1999.

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Farm ministry raids Marubeni unit over labeling fraud

SENDAI, Japan - Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries officials enter the Sendai branch office of Marubeni Chikusan Corp., a subsidiary of major trading house Marubeni Corp., to inspect the office. On March 15, it admitted it passed off chicken imported from Brazil as higher-priced domestic chicken between 1999 and 2001.

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Marubeni arm passed off imported chicken as domestic

TOKYO, Japan - Hitoshi Nishizono, president of Marubeni Chikusan Corp., a subsidiary of trading house Marubeni Corp., tells reporters March 15 in Tokyo that his company's branch office in Sendai passed off imported chicken as higher-priced domestic chicken between 1999 and 2001.

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3 children die in predawn Sendai fire

SENDAI, Japan - Firefighters stand in front of a two-story house in Aoba Ward, Sendai, northern Japan, gutted by a predawn fire on Dec. 21. The three victims of the fire, which broke out around 5:20 a.m., are two daughters and a son of a man who runs a restaurant on the first floor of the wooden house.

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Ex-Japan PM Abe shot to death in Nara

Copies of an extra edition of newspaper are handed out in Sendai, northeastern Japan, on July 8, 2022 following the fatal shooting of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe by a gunman during a House of Councillors election stump speech in Nara, western Japan, earlier in the day.

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Ex-Japan PM Abe shot to death in Nara

Copies of an extra edition of newspaper are handed out in Sendai, northeastern Japan, on July 8, 2022 following the fatal shooting of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe by a gunman during a House of Councillors election stump speech in Nara, western Japan, earlier in the day.

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4th court rules Oct. election vote gap in unconstitutional state

A Japanese court ruled Tuesday that the vote weight disparity in last October's lower house election was "in a state of unconstitutionality" but stopped short of nullifying the outcome, becoming the fourth court to make such a decision. The ruling by the Akita branch of the Sendai High Court in northeastern Japan was the eighth to be handed down in a slew of lawsuits filed by groups of lawyers at 14 high courts and their branches nationwide over the 2.08-fold vote weight disparity in the Oct. 31 House of Representatives election. Among the seven high court rulings handed down by Monday, three ruled the results were "in a state of unconstitutionality" but stopped short of nullifying the outcome, while four dismissed the suits, saying the election was constitutional. All the high court rulings will be completed by March 9, after which the Supreme Court is expected to make a unified decision.

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Marubeni arm passed off imported chicken as domestic

TOKYO, Japan - Hitoshi Nishizono, president of Marubeni Chikusan Corp., a subsidiary of trading house Marubeni Corp., tells reporters March 15 in Tokyo that his company's branch office in Sendai passed off imported chicken as higher-priced domestic chicken between 1999 and 2001.

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Farm ministry raids Marubeni unit over labeling fraud

SENDAI, Japan - Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries officials enter the Sendai branch office of Marubeni Chikusan Corp., a subsidiary of major trading house Marubeni Corp., to inspect the office. On March 15, it admitted it passed off chicken imported from Brazil as higher-priced domestic chicken between 1999 and 2001.

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(2)LDP wins in two by-elections, beating DPJ rivals

SENDAI, Japan - Liberal democratic Party candidate Kenya Akiba is congratulated by supporters as he becomes sure of his win in the House of Representatives by-election in Miyagi constituency on April 24. (Kyodo)

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DPJ lawmaker Konno submits resignation to lower house

TOKYO, Japan - Democratic Party of Japan lawmaker Azuma Konno (L) hands a letter of resignation to House of Representatives Speaker Yohei Kono on April 28, a day after the Sendai High Court invalidated his victory in the 2003 general election because one of his campaign managers had been found guilty of illegal electioneering for the polls. (Kyodo)

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Abe makes stump speech for upper house election

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe makes a stump speech in the northeastern Japan city of Sendai on June 25, 2016, for the July 10 House of Councillors election. Abe said that his economic policies, dubbed "Abenomics," have boosted the Japanese economy and opposition parties have shown no alternative. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Mental illness supporters perform drama at U.N. confab workshop

Members of Urakawa Bethel's House, operator of homes for people with mental illness in Urakawa Town in Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido, perform a play during a workshop on March 17, 2015, at the United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Skatepark in tsunami-hit area

A skateboarder falls on Jan. 3, 2015, at the Carpe Diem Park in Sendai's Arahama district in northeastern Japan. The park, whose name means "seize the day" in Latin, was created by Shinji Kida, 34, on the site of his former house after the area was devastated by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Court delivers ruling on voting weight disparity

Lawyers hold a banner reading "one person one vote" on Oct. 19, 2016, in front of the Akita branch of the Sendai High Court, which ruled the maximum vote weight disparity in the July 2016 upper house election was "in a state of unconstitutionality." The court, however, rejected the lawsuit seeking that the election be invalidated. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Man stands on platform of JR Senseki Line's former station

Masanobu Sakamoto, a resident of Higashimatsuhima, Miyagi Prefecture, stands on the platform of the former Nobiru Station of the quake-hit JR Senseki Line linking Sendai and Ishinomaki on May 30, 2015. It now takes 30 minutes for Sakamoto to walk to the new Nobiru Station built on higher ground from his house. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Woman in Miyagi sees dead tadpoles falling from sky

SENDAI, Japan - Haruko Kikkawa, 74, in the town of Taiwa in Miyagi Prefecture, shows on June 17 two of the roughly 50 dead tadpoles she saw falling on from the sky onto the roof and garden of her house around 5 p.m. on June 15. (Kyodo)

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6 months after Japan quake, tsunami

SENDAI, Japan - Photos of a residential district of Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, (from top) on March 11, June 3 and Sept. 6, 2011, show that the district was engulfed by tsunami on March 11 and that the only house remaining there on June 3 has been removed. (Kyodo)

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Natori being hit by tsunami, and 3 months later

SENDAI, Japan - Combined photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a residential area in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, being struck by a tsunami on March 11, 2011 (top frame), and the same area on June 3, 2011 (bottom frame). Only one house remains nearly three months after the disaster. (Kyodo)

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Survivor finds daughter's fetus photos

SENDAI, Japan - Aya Hoshi smiles after finding a notebook containing ultrasound images of her then-unborn second daughter Namika retrieved from the wreckage of their house, found 1 kilometer from its original location, in the town of Shichigahama, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 4, 2011. ''Whatever it took, I really wanted to find this notebook,'' said Hoshi. (Kyodo)

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U.S. volunteers repair tsunami-hit buildings

SENDAI, Japan - American volunteer Steve Lengkeek (L) from Delaware works to remodel a building used to house a dentist as an accommodation facility in Yamamoto, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 13, 2012. A group of 35 Americans has been taking turns visiting Japan to repair buildings in coastal Miyagi Prefecture damaged by the massive March 2011 tsunami. (Kyodo)

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Quake aftermath in Sendai

SENDAI, Japan - A boy takes off his shoes in a space that used to be the front entrance of his house in Sendai's Wakabayashi Ward, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 13, 2011, over a month after the earthquake and tsunami disaster. (Kyodo)

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Zurich-based violinist hopes to perform in quake-hit area

ZURICH, Switzerland - Andreas Janke, a concertmaster of Tonhalle Orchestra, poses for a photo in Zurich on April 12, 2011. The orchestra, as well as the Zurich Opera House Orchestra and Zurich Chamber Orchestra, jointly held a charity concert in Zurich on April 12, 2011, for Japan victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. Janke, whose mother is Japanese, plans to perform in Sendai, an area hit by the disaster, in November. (Kyodo)

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Life after quake in Miyagi Pref.

SENDAI, Japan - Natsue Murakami, 92, is on her way home in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, carrying food and clothes provided by her friend on March 21, 2011, after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami disaster. Her house endured the disaster but she has a hard time obtaining basic necessities as neighboring shops have closed down after the disaster. (Kyodo)

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Message on a fence

SENDAI, Japan - Photo taken March 28, 2011, shows the fence of a house in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, displaying the message ''Gambaro,'' meaning, ''Hang in there.'' The area was devastated by a massive earthquake and tsunami March 11. (Kyodo)