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Seto Winter Festival

Seto Winter Festival

04.01.2026, Tartu. Tartu Christmas season closed with a traditional Seto "Talsipidu", including traditional leelo choirs ad the chance to learn about Seto dance traditions. Speeches were given by Seto ülembsootska Jalmar Vabarna and Mayor of Tartu Urmas Klaas. Photo Sille Annuk, Tartu Postimees

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Seto Winter Festival

Seto Winter Festival

04.01.2026, Tartu. Tartu Christmas season closed with a traditional Seto "Talsipidu", including traditional leelo choirs ad the chance to learn about Seto dance traditions. Speeches were given by Seto ülembsootska Jalmar Vabarna and Mayor of Tartu Urmas Klaas. Photo Sille Annuk, Tartu Postimees

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Seto Winter Festival

Seto Winter Festival

04.01.2026, Tartu. Tartu Christmas season closed with a traditional Seto "Talsipidu", including traditional leelo choirs ad the chance to learn about Seto dance traditions. Speeches were given by Seto ülembsootska Jalmar Vabarna and Mayor of Tartu Urmas Klaas. Photo Sille Annuk, Tartu Postimees

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Seto Winter Festival

Seto Winter Festival

04.01.2026, Tartu. Tartu Christmas season closed with a traditional Seto "Talsipidu", including traditional leelo choirs ad the chance to learn about Seto dance traditions. Speeches were given by Seto ülembsootska Jalmar Vabarna and Mayor of Tartu Urmas Klaas. Photo Sille Annuk, Tartu Postimees

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Seto Winter Festival

Seto Winter Festival

04.01.2026, Tartu. Tartu Christmas season closed with a traditional Seto "Talsipidu", including traditional leelo choirs ad the chance to learn about Seto dance traditions. Speeches were given by Seto ülembsootska Jalmar Vabarna and Mayor of Tartu Urmas Klaas. Photo Sille Annuk, Tartu Postimees

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Seto Winter Festival

Seto Winter Festival

04.01.2026, Tartu. Tartu Christmas season closed with a traditional Seto "Talsipidu", including traditional leelo choirs ad the chance to learn about Seto dance traditions. Speeches were given by Seto ülembsootska Jalmar Vabarna and Mayor of Tartu Urmas Klaas. Photo Sille Annuk, Tartu Postimees

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Seto Winter Festival

Seto Winter Festival

04.01.2026, Tartu. Tartu Christmas season closed with a traditional Seto "Talsipidu", including traditional leelo choirs ad the chance to learn about Seto dance traditions. Speeches were given by Seto ülembsootska Jalmar Vabarna and Mayor of Tartu Urmas Klaas. Photo Sille Annuk, Tartu Postimees

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Seto Winter Festival

Seto Winter Festival

04.01.2026, Tartu. Tartu Christmas season closed with a traditional Seto "Talsipidu", including traditional leelo choirs ad the chance to learn about Seto dance traditions. Speeches were given by Seto ülembsootska Jalmar Vabarna and Mayor of Tartu Urmas Klaas. Photo Sille Annuk, Tartu Postimees

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Seto Winter Festival

Seto Winter Festival

04.01.2026, Tartu. Tartu Christmas season closed with a traditional Seto "Talsipidu", including traditional leelo choirs ad the chance to learn about Seto dance traditions. Speeches were given by Seto ülembsootska Jalmar Vabarna and Mayor of Tartu Urmas Klaas. Photo Sille Annuk, Tartu Postimees

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Seto Winter Festival

Seto Winter Festival

04.01.2026, Tartu. Tartu Christmas season closed with a traditional Seto "Talsipidu", including traditional leelo choirs ad the chance to learn about Seto dance traditions. Speeches were given by Seto ülembsootska Jalmar Vabarna and Mayor of Tartu Urmas Klaas. Photo Sille Annuk, Tartu Postimees

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Japan Princess Hisako visits ceramic museum

Japan Princess Hisako visits ceramic museum

Japanese Princess Hisako looks at ceramic dogs she donated to the Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum in Seto in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, on Dec. 12, 2025. The princess donated over 200 ceramic dogs for the exhibition that will run from Dec. 13 through July 26, 2026.

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Japan Princess Hisako visits ceramic museum

Japan Princess Hisako visits ceramic museum

Japanese Princess Hisako looks at ceramic dogs she donated to the Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum in Seto in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, on Dec. 12, 2025. The princess donated over 200 ceramic dogs for the exhibition that will run from Dec. 13 through July 26, 2026.

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Japan Princess Hisako visits ceramic museum

Japan Princess Hisako visits ceramic museum

Japanese Princess Hisako looks at ceramic dogs she donated to the Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum in Seto in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, on Dec. 12, 2025. The princess donated over 200 ceramic dogs for the exhibition that will run from Dec. 13 through July 26, 2026.

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Japan Princess Hisako visits ceramic museum

Japan Princess Hisako visits ceramic museum

Japanese Princess Hisako speaks at a ceremony on Dec. 12, 2025, marking the start the following day of a ceramics exhibition at the Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum in Seto in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan. Over 200 ceramic dogs donated by the princess are on display at the exhibition that runs through July 26, 2026.

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Japan Princess Hisako visits ceramic museum

Japan Princess Hisako visits ceramic museum

Japanese Princess Hisako speaks at a ceremony on Dec. 12, 2025, marking the start the following day of a ceramics exhibition at the Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum in Seto in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan. Over 200 ceramic dogs donated by the princess are on display at the exhibition that runs through July 26, 2026.

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Japan Princess Hisako visits ceramic museum

Japan Princess Hisako visits ceramic museum

Japanese Princess Hisako looks at ceramic dogs she donated to the Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum in Seto in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, on Dec. 12, 2025. The princess donated over 200 ceramic dogs for the exhibition that will run from Dec. 13 through July 26, 2026.

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Japan Princess Hisako visits ceramic museum

Japan Princess Hisako visits ceramic museum

Japanese Princess Hisako looks at ceramic dogs she donated to the Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum in Seto in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, on Dec. 12, 2025. The princess donated over 200 ceramic dogs for the exhibition that will run from Dec. 13 through July 26, 2026.

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Crown princess visits welfare facility in western Japan

Crown princess visits welfare facility in western Japan

Japanese Crown Princess Kiko (far R) and her daughter Princess Kako (2nd from R) visit a welfare facility for mothers and children on a Seto Inland Sea island in the western Japan prefecture of Kagawa on Oct. 3, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Crown princess visits welfare facility in western Japan

Crown princess visits welfare facility in western Japan

Japanese Crown Princess Kiko (far R) and her daughter Princess Kako (2nd from R) visit a welfare facility for mothers and children on a Seto Inland Sea island in the western Japan prefecture of Kagawa on Oct. 3, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Crown princess visits welfare facility in western Japan

Crown princess visits welfare facility in western Japan

Japanese Crown Princess Kiko (R) and her daughter Princess Kako visit a welfare facility for mothers and children on a Seto Inland Sea island in the western Japan prefecture of Kagawa on Oct. 3, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Crown princess visits welfare facility in western Japan

Crown princess visits welfare facility in western Japan

Japanese Crown Princess Kiko (R) and her daughter Princess Kako visit a welfare facility for mothers and children on a Seto Inland Sea island in the western Japan prefecture of Kagawa on Oct. 3, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Crown princess visits welfare facility in western Japan

Crown princess visits welfare facility in western Japan

Japanese Crown Princess Kiko (C, R) and her daughter Princess Kako (C, L) visit a welfare facility for mothers and children on a Seto Inland Sea island in the western Japan prefecture of Kagawa on Oct. 3, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Crown princess visits welfare facility in western Japan

Crown princess visits welfare facility in western Japan

Japanese Crown Princess Kiko (C, R) and her daughter Princess Kako (C, L) visit a welfare facility for mothers and children on a Seto Inland Sea island in the western Japan prefecture of Kagawa on Oct. 3, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Crown princess visits leprosy sanatorium in western Japan

Crown princess visits leprosy sanatorium in western Japan

Japanese Crown Princess Kiko (L) and her daughter Princess Kako stand at a stone monument for deceased patients during a visit to a national leprosy sanatorium on a Seto Inland Sea island in Takamatsu in the western Japan prefecture of Kagawa on Oct. 3, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Crown princess visits leprosy sanatorium in western Japan

Crown princess visits leprosy sanatorium in western Japan

Japanese Crown Princess Kiko (C) and her daughter Princess Kako (R) visit a national leprosy sanatorium on a Seto Inland Sea island in Takamatsu in the western Japan prefecture of Kagawa on Oct. 3, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Wartime poison gas factory in Japan

Wartime poison gas factory in Japan

Photo taken on May 9, 2015, shows rabbits in front of a defunct facility on a tiny island in Takehara, Hiroshima Prefecture, that supplied electricity to a nearby poison gas factory run by the Imperial Japanese Army between 1929 and 1945. The rabbits, brought to the island in the Seto Inland Sea after World War II, draw many tourists.

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Wartime poison gas factory in Japan

Wartime poison gas factory in Japan

Photo taken on Oct. 20, 2023, shows a cenotaph built on a tiny island in Takehara, Hiroshima Prefecture, in memory of those who died after falling ill following their exposure to poison gas. Over 6,000 workers and students were mobilized to work at a poison gas factory on the island in the Seto Inland Sea run by the Imperial Japanese Army between 1929 and 1945.

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Tugboat, pleasure boat collide in western Japan sea

Tugboat, pleasure boat collide in western Japan sea

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Nov. 17, 2024, shows the area off Kudamatsu in the western Japan prefecture of Yamaguchi where a pleasure boat and a tugboat collided earlier in the day. The pleasure boat sank after the collision in the Seto Inland Sea, leaving three of the four people aboard dead.

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Tugboat, pleasure boat collide in western Japan sea

Tugboat, pleasure boat collide in western Japan sea

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Nov. 17, 2024, shows the area off Kudamatsu in the western Japan prefecture of Yamaguchi where a pleasure boat and a tugboat collided earlier in the day. The pleasure boat sank after the collision in the Seto Inland Sea, leaving three of the four people aboard dead.

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Tugboat, pleasure boat collide in western Japan sea

Tugboat, pleasure boat collide in western Japan sea

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Nov. 17, 2024, shows the area off Kudamatsu in the western Japan prefecture of Yamaguchi where a pleasure boat and a tugboat collided earlier in the day. The pleasure boat sank after the collision in the Seto Inland Sea, leaving three of the four people aboard dead.

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Seto Culture Week

Seto Culture Week

06.10.2024. Viljandi. Seto culture and customs are in the focus in the Seto culture week. A traditional village party, or kirmas. This freeform party is a good opportunity to hear Seto leelo songs and traditional music Photo: Elmo Riig/SAKALA

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Seto Culture Week

Seto Culture Week

06.10.2024. Viljandi. Seto culture and customs are in the focus in the Seto culture week. A traditional village party, or kirmas. This freeform party is a good opportunity to hear Seto leelo songs and traditional music Photo: Elmo Riig/SAKALA

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Seto Culture Week

Seto Culture Week

06.10.2024. Viljandi. Seto culture and customs are in the focus in the Seto culture week. A traditional village party, or kirmas. This freeform party is a good opportunity to hear Seto leelo songs and traditional music Photo: Elmo Riig/SAKALA

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Seto Culture Week

Seto Culture Week

06.10.2024. Viljandi. Seto culture and customs are in the focus in the Seto culture week. A traditional village party, or kirmas. This freeform party is a good opportunity to hear Seto leelo songs and traditional music Photo: Elmo Riig/SAKALA

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Seto Culture Week

Seto Culture Week

06.10.2024. Viljandi. Seto culture and customs are in the focus in the Seto culture week. A traditional village party, or kirmas. This freeform party is a good opportunity to hear Seto leelo songs and traditional music Photo: Elmo Riig/SAKALA

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Seto Culture Week

Seto Culture Week

06.10.2024. Viljandi. Seto culture and customs are in the focus in the Seto culture week. A traditional village party, or kirmas. This freeform party is a good opportunity to hear Seto leelo songs and traditional music Photo: Elmo Riig/SAKALA

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Seto Culture Week

Seto Culture Week

06.10.2024. Viljandi. Seto culture and customs are in the focus in the Seto culture week. A traditional village party, or kirmas. This freeform party is a good opportunity to hear Seto leelo songs and traditional music Photo: Elmo Riig/SAKALA

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Seto Culture Week

Seto Culture Week

06.10.2024. Viljandi. Seto culture and customs are in the focus in the Seto culture week. A traditional village party, or kirmas. This freeform party is a good opportunity to hear Seto leelo songs and traditional music Photo: Elmo Riig/SAKALA

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Seto Culture Week

Seto Culture Week

06.10.2024. Viljandi. Seto culture and customs are in the focus in the Seto culture week. A traditional village party, or kirmas. This freeform party is a good opportunity to hear Seto leelo songs and traditional music Photo: Elmo Riig/SAKALA

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Seto Culture Week

Seto Culture Week

06.10.2024. Viljandi. Seto culture and customs are in the focus in the Seto culture week. A traditional village party, or kirmas. This freeform party is a good opportunity to hear Seto leelo songs and traditional music Photo: Elmo Riig/SAKALA

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Japan Paralympic athletes return home from Paris

Japan Paralympic athletes return home from Paris

Yujiro Seto, Japan's gold medalist in the men's judo 73-kilogram J2 event at the Paris Paralympics, arrives at Haneda airport in Tokyo upon his return from France on Sept. 10, 2024.

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Baseball: Mariners vs. Dodgers

Baseball: Mariners vs. Dodgers

Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Dodgers plays catch alongside physical therapist Judy Seto ahead of a baseball game against the Seattle Mariners on Aug. 20, 2024, at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.

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Baseball: Mariners vs. Dodgers

Baseball: Mariners vs. Dodgers

Shohei Ohtani (2nd from L) of the Los Angeles Dodgers plays catch alongside physical therapist Judy Seto (far L) ahead of a baseball game against the Seattle Mariners on Aug. 20, 2024, at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.

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Paris Olympics: Swimming

Paris Olympics: Swimming

Japanese swimmer Daiya Seto (L) congratulates compatriot Tomoyuki Matsushita after Matsushita finished second in the men's 400-meter individual medley final at the Paris Olympics on July 28, 2024, at La Defense Arena in Nanterre, near Paris.

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XXXI Kingdom Day

XXXI Kingdom Day

Obinitsa, 03.08.2024 When the Seto people and their guests gather for the Seto Kingdom day in August, it is the culmination of the year in Setomaa. It is a chance to experience the Seto language, handicraft, music, and cuisine. Naturally, there is plenty of singing and dancing. Various Seto foods can be sampled and purchased to take home. Photo Arvo Meeks, Lõuna-Eesti Postimees

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XXXI Kingdom Day

XXXI Kingdom Day

Obinitsa, 03.08.2024 When the Seto people and their guests gather for the Seto Kingdom day in August, it is the culmination of the year in Setomaa. It is a chance to experience the Seto language, handicraft, music, and cuisine. Naturally, there is plenty of singing and dancing. Various Seto foods can be sampled and purchased to take home. Photo Arvo Meeks, Lõuna-Eesti Postimees

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XXXI Kingdom Day

XXXI Kingdom Day

Obinitsa, 03.08.2024 When the Seto people and their guests gather for the Seto Kingdom day in August, it is the culmination of the year in Setomaa. It is a chance to experience the Seto language, handicraft, music, and cuisine. Naturally, there is plenty of singing and dancing. Various Seto foods can be sampled and purchased to take home. Photo Arvo Meeks, Lõuna-Eesti Postimees

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XXXI Kingdom Day

XXXI Kingdom Day

Obinitsa, 03.08.2024 When the Seto people and their guests gather for the Seto Kingdom day in August, it is the culmination of the year in Setomaa. It is a chance to experience the Seto language, handicraft, music, and cuisine. Naturally, there is plenty of singing and dancing. Various Seto foods can be sampled and purchased to take home. Photo Arvo Meeks, Lõuna-Eesti Postimees

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XXXI Kingdom Day

XXXI Kingdom Day

Obinitsa, 03.08.2024 When the Seto people and their guests gather for the Seto Kingdom day in August, it is the culmination of the year in Setomaa. It is a chance to experience the Seto language, handicraft, music, and cuisine. Naturally, there is plenty of singing and dancing. Various Seto foods can be sampled and purchased to take home. Photo Arvo Meeks, Lõuna-Eesti Postimees

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XXXI Kingdom Day

XXXI Kingdom Day

Obinitsa, 03.08.2024 When the Seto people and their guests gather for the Seto Kingdom day in August, it is the culmination of the year in Setomaa. It is a chance to experience the Seto language, handicraft, music, and cuisine. Naturally, there is plenty of singing and dancing. Various Seto foods can be sampled and purchased to take home. Photo Arvo Meeks, Lõuna-Eesti Postimees

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