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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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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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Paris Olympics: Swimming

Paris Olympics: Swimming

Daiya Seto of Japan competes in the men's 200-meter individual medley final at the Paris Olympics on Aug. 2, 2024, at La Defense Arena in Nanterre, near Paris.

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Paris Olympics: Swimming

Paris Olympics: Swimming

Daiya Seto of Japan competes in the men's 200-meter individual medley final at the Paris Olympics on Aug. 2, 2024, at La Defense Arena in Nanterre, near Paris.

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Paris Olympics: Swimming

Paris Olympics: Swimming

Daiya Seto of Japan competes in the men's 200-meter individual medley final at the Paris Olympics on Aug. 2, 2024, at La Defense Arena in Nanterre, near Paris.

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Paris Olympics: Swimming

Paris Olympics: Swimming

Daiya Seto of Japan (front) is pictured with Leon Marchand of France after competing in the men's 200-meter individual medley semifinals at the Paris Olympics on Aug. 1, 2024, at La Defense Arena in Nanterre, near Paris.

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Paris Olympics: Swimming

Paris Olympics: Swimming

Daiya Seto of Japan competes in the men's 200-meter individual medley final at the Paris Olympics on Aug. 2, 2024, at La Defense Arena in Nanterre, near Paris.

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Paris Olympics: Swimming

Paris Olympics: Swimming

Daiya Seto of Japan (facing camera) congratulates Leon Marchand of France after competing in the men's 200-meter individual medley final at the Paris Olympics on Aug. 2, 2024, at La Defense Arena in Nanterre, near Paris.

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Paris Olympics: Swimming

Paris Olympics: Swimming

Daiya Seto of Japan is pictured after finishing seventh in the men's 200-meter individual medley final at the Paris Olympics on Aug. 2, 2024, at La Defense Arena in Nanterre, near Paris.

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Paris Olympics: Swimming

Paris Olympics: Swimming

Daiya Seto of Japan (R) and Leon Marchand of France shake hands after competing in the men's 200-meter individual medley semifinals at the Paris Olympics on Aug. 1, 2024, at La Defense Arena in Nanterre, near Paris.

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Paris Olympics: Swimming

Paris Olympics: Swimming

Swimmers, including Daiya Seto of Japan and Leon Marchand of France, start the men's 200-meter individual medley semifinals at the Paris Olympics on Aug. 1, 2024, at La Defense Arena in Nanterre, near Paris.

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Paris Olympics: Swimming

Paris Olympics: Swimming

Daiya Seto of Japan (L) and Leon Marchand of France compete in the men's 200-meter individual medley semifinals at the Paris Olympics on Aug. 1, 2024, at La Defense Arena in Nanterre, near Paris.

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(PARIS2024)FRANCE-PARIS-OLY-SWIMMING

(PARIS2024)FRANCE-PARIS-OLY-SWIMMING

(240801) -- PARIS, Aug. 1, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- Leon Marchand (L) of France and Seto Daiya of Japan shake hands after the men's 200m individual medley semifinals of swimming at Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France, on Aug. 1, 2024. Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Xue Yuge)

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Paris Olympics: Swimming

Paris Olympics: Swimming

Daiya Seto of Japan swims the breaststroke leg 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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Paris Olympics: Swimming

Paris Olympics: Swimming

Daiya Seto of Japan swims the breaststroke leg 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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Paris Olympics: Swimming

Paris Olympics: Swimming

Japanese swimmer Daiya Seto practices at La Defense Arena in Nanterre, near Paris, the venue for Paris Olympics swimming events, on July 23, 2024, ahead of the Games.

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Fujii earns lifetime status for Kisei title

Fujii earns lifetime status for Kisei title

People in the central Japan city of Seto, shogi star Sota Fujii's hometown, celebrate on July 1, 2024, after he earned lifetime status for the Kisei title by beating challenger Takayuki Yamasaki 3-0 in a best-of-five title defense in Nagoya. The 21-year old, who holds six other titles, became the youngest player to get lifetime status for a shogi title.

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Swimming race - LX Trofeo Sette Colli IP

Swimming race - LX Trofeo Sette Colli IP

SETO Daiya 200M Medley Final Men during the Swimming Internationals - LX Trofeo "Sette Colli" IP at Foro Italico Swimming Center in Rome, Italy on June 23th, 2024

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