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Digital experts meet in Gunma Pref.

Leading digital business executives, policymakers and other stakeholders attend a photo session for the so-call DX Summit in the Ikaho hot spring resort in Shibukawa, Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan, on April 28, 2023, on the eve of a meeting of the Group of Seven digital and technology ministers in Gunma's Takasaki.

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Digital experts meet in Gunma Pref.

Japanese Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura (2nd from L) speaks during a meeting of leading digital business executives, policymakers and other stakeholders in the Ikaho hot spring resort in Shibukawa, Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan, on April 28, 2023. The so-called DX summit was held on the eve of a meeting of the Group of Seven digital and technology ministers in Gunma's Takasaki.

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Digital experts meet in Gunma Pref.

Japanese digital reform minister Taro Kono (L) attends a photo session with his avatar during a meeting of leading digital business executives, policymakers and other stakeholders in the Ikaho hot spring resort in Shibukawa, Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan, on April 28, 2023. The so-called DX summit was held on the eve of a meeting of the Group of Seven digital and technology ministers in Gunma's Takasaki.

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Digital experts meet in Gunma Pref.

Leading digital business executives, policymakers and other stakeholders meet in the Ikaho hot spring resort in Shibukawa, Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan, on April 28, 2023, on the eve of a meeting of the Group of Seven digital and technology ministers in Gunma's Takasaki.

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Digital experts meet in Gunma Pref.

Japanese digital reform minister Taro Kono (L) attends a photo session with his avatar during a meeting of leading digital business executives, policymakers and other stakeholders in the Ikaho hot spring resort in Shibukawa, Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan, on April 28, 2023. The so-called DX summit was held on the eve of a meeting of the Group of Seven digital and technology ministers in Gunma's Takasaki.

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Digital experts meet in Gunma Pref.

Japanese Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura (2nd from L) speaks during a meeting of leading digital business executives, policymakers and other stakeholders in the Ikaho hot spring resort in Shibukawa, Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan, on April 28, 2023. The so-called DX summit was held on the eve of a meeting of the Group of Seven digital and technology ministers in Gunma's Takasaki.

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Digital experts meet in Gunma Pref.

Leading digital business executives, policymakers and other stakeholders meet in the Ikaho hot spring resort in Shibukawa, Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan, on April 28, 2023, on the eve of a meeting of the Group of Seven digital and technology ministers in Gunma's Takasaki.

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Digital experts meet in Gunma Pref.

Leading digital business executives, policymakers and other stakeholders attend a photo session for the so-call DX Summit in the Ikaho hot spring resort in Shibukawa, Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan, on April 28, 2023, on the eve of a meeting of the Group of Seven digital and technology ministers in Gunma's Takasaki.

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Pritzker prize-winning Japanese architect Arata Isozaki

File photo shows Japanese architect Arata Isozaki at his 88th birthday party in September 2019, at Hara Museum Arc in Shibukawa, Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan. The 2019 Pritzker laureate died on Dec. 28, 2022, aged 91.

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Campaigning starts for general election

SHIBUKAWA, Japan - Yuko Obuchi, who is running in the Dec. 14 general election with the backing of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, bows to her supporters in the central Japan city of Shibukawa on Dec. 2, 2014, the first day of the official campaigning. Obuchi gave up her trade minister post due to political fund scandal in October.

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Campaigning starts for general election

SHIBUKAWA, Japan - Yuko Obuchi, who is running in the Dec. 14 general election with the backing of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, makes a speech in the central Japan city of Shibukawa on Dec. 2, 2014, the first day of the official campaigning. Obuchi gave up her trade minister post due to political fund scandal in October.

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Toyota bids to attract fans with rally races

SHIBUKAWA, Japan - Photo taken in July 2013 shows a rally car Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda drove himself at the year's third round of the Toyota Racing Development Rally Challenge in Shibukawa, Gunma Prefecture.

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Children dressed as 'hina' dolls

MAEBASHI, Japan - Children dressed as Japanese ''hina'' dolls line up in Shibukawa, Gunma Prefecture, on March 3, 2012. The dolls are displayed in Japan to wish for the happiness of girls around the March 3 Girls' Day.

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39 people injured in sightseeing bus accident in Gunma

MAEBASHI, Japan - A sightseeing bus crashed through a center divider on an expressway in Shibukawa, Gunma Prefecture, on Jan. 2, 2010, injuring 39 people, according to police. A total of 46 people were aboard the bus, which was heading for Saitama Prefecture from Nagaoka, Niigata Prefecture.

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39 people injured in sightseeing bus accident in Gunma

MAEBASHI, Japan - A sightseeing bus crashed through a center divider on an expressway in Shibukawa, Gunma Prefecture, on Jan. 2, 2010, injuring 39 people, according to police. A total of 46 people were aboard the bus, which was heading for Saitama Prefecture from Nagaoka, Niigata Prefecture.

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Death toll in Gunma nursing home fire rises to 10

MAEBASHI, Japan - Police, fire fighters and other officials inspect on March 21 the site of a fire that gutted a nursing home for the elderly in Shibukawa, Gunma Prefecture in the late evening of March 19. The fire, which burned the three buildings of the Tamayura home, took the lives of 10 people.

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Children in kimono play dolls at Dolls Festival in Gunma

MAEBASHI, Japan - A group of children dressed in traditional Japanese costumes pose as ''dolls'' at a dolls festival at the Ikaho Onsen spa in Shibukawa, Gunma Prefecture on March 1. Japanese families with small children usually display Japanese dolls at home during the Dolls Festival, which falls on March 3.

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Children dress up as dolls in Japan's Doll Festival

MAEBASHI, Japan - Twenty-one kindergarten pupils dressed in ancient Japanese costumes duplicate the traditional display of Japanese dolls at the Japanese Doll Festival held at the Ikaho hot spring spa in Shibukawa, Gunma Prefecture on March 3.

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Norway's queen visits art museum

MAEBASHI, Japan - Norwegian Queen Sonja (L) arrives at the Hara Museum ARC in Shibukawa, Gunma Prefecture, on March 27 with Princess Nobuko (R), wife of Prince Tomohito of Mikasa, to attend an opening ceremony for an exhibition by Jan Groth, one of Norway's leading artists. King Harald V and Queen Sonja arrived in Japan on March 25 on a weeklong state visit.

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Obuchi's daughter shouts 'banzai'

SHIBUKAWA, Japan - Yuko Obuchi, daughter of the late Japanese Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi, shouts ''banzai'' at her election office in Shibukawa, Gunma Prefecture, on June 25 after it appeared certain she would win her father's former seat in the House of Representatives general election.

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Barrier-free map of Ikaho hot spring resort in Japan

Photo taken in October 2021 shows a barrier-free map of Japan's Ikaho hot spring resort in Shibukawa, Gunma Prefecture.

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Ikaho hot spring resort in Japan

People wearing face masks for protection against the coronavirus walk at the Ikaho hot spring resort in the Gunma Prefecture city of Shibukawa, eastern Japan, on Oct. 4, 2021.

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Tokyo Olympic torch relay

The Tokyo Olympic torch relay passes through a hot spring resort in Shibukawa, Gunma Prefecture, on March 31, 2021.

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Tokyo Olympic torch relay

The Tokyo Olympic torch relay passes through a hot spring resort in Shibukawa, Gunma Prefecture, on March 31, 2021.

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Soba making

Photo taken on Oct. 28, 2018, shows soba being harvested in Shibukawa, Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Soba making

Photo taken on Oct. 28, 2018, shows a field of soba flowers in Shibukawa, Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Children dress up as dolls in Japan's Doll Festival

MAEBASHI, Japan - Twenty-one kindergarten pupils dressed in ancient Japanese costumes duplicate the traditional display of Japanese dolls at the Japanese Doll Festival held at the Ikaho hot spring spa in Shibukawa, Gunma Prefecture on March 3. (Kyodo)

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Death toll in Gunma nursing home fire rises to 10

MAEBASHI, Japan - Police, fire fighters and other officials inspect on March 21 the site of a fire that gutted a nursing home for the elderly in Shibukawa, Gunma Prefecture in the late evening of March 19. The fire, which burned the three buildings of the Tamayura home, took the lives of 10 people. (Kyodo)

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Children in kimono play dolls at Dolls Festival in Gunma

MAEBASHI, Japan - A group of children dressed in traditional Japanese costumes pose as ''dolls'' at a dolls festival at the Ikaho Onsen spa in Shibukawa, Gunma Prefecture on March 1. Japanese families with small children usually display Japanese dolls at home during the Dolls Festival, which falls on March 3. (Kyodo)

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39 people injured in sightseeing bus accident in Gunma

MAEBASHI, Japan - A sightseeing bus crashed through a center divider on an expressway in Shibukawa, Gunma Prefecture, on Jan. 2, 2010, injuring 39 people, according to police. A total of 46 people were aboard the bus, which was heading for Saitama Prefecture from Nagaoka, Niigata Prefecture. (Kyodo)

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39 people injured in sightseeing bus accident in Gunma

MAEBASHI, Japan - A sightseeing bus crashed through a center divider on an expressway in Shibukawa, Gunma Prefecture, on Jan. 2, 2010, injuring 39 people, according to police. A total of 46 people were aboard the bus, which was heading for Saitama Prefecture from Nagaoka, Niigata Prefecture. (Kyodo)

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39 people injured in sightseeing bus accident in Gunma

MAEBASHI, Japan - A sightseeing bus crashed through a center divider on an expressway in Shibukawa, Gunma Prefecture, on Jan. 2, 2010, injuring 39 people, according to police. A total of 46 people were aboard the bus, which was heading for Saitama Prefecture from Nagaoka, Niigata Prefecture. (Kyodo)

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Children dressed as 'hina' dolls

MAEBASHI, Japan - Children dressed as Japanese ''hina'' dolls line up in Shibukawa, Gunma Prefecture, on March 3, 2012. The dolls are displayed in Japan to wish for the happiness of girls around the March 3 Girls' Day. (Kyodo)

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Tourist spot in Japan after state-of-emergency lifting

Far fewer visitors than usual are seen at the Ikaho hot spring resort in Shibukawa in Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan, on May 29, 2020, amid continued worries about the new coronavirus. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan car accident caused by elderly driver

Photo shows a car that smashed into a restaurant in Shibukawa in Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan, on July 10, 2019, injuring the 77-year-old male driver and three customers. The driver said he stepped on the accelerator pedal rather than the brake by mistake. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan car accident caused by elderly driver

Photo shows a car that smashed into a restaurant in Shibukawa in Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan, on July 10, 2019, injuring the 77-year-old male driver and three customers. The driver said he stepped on the accelerator pedal rather than the brake by mistake. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese hot spring resort

Photo taken at the Ikaho hot spring resort in Shibukawa, Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Feb. 1, 2019, shows hanging votive tablets featuring the long-selling "Peyoung" instant stir-fried noodles. A campaign to publicize Peyong, one of Japan's most popular instant stir-fried noodle brands, produced by local noodle maker Maruka Foods, began in December 2018 as part of the city's efforts to revitalize the Ikaho hot spring resort. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese hot spring resort

Photo taken at the Ikaho hot spring resort in Shibukawa, Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Feb. 1, 2019, shows a gondola lift painted with the design of the long-selling "Peyoung" instant stir-fried noodles. A campaign to publicize Peyong, one of Japan's most popular instant stir-fried noodle brands, produced by local noodle maker Maruka Foods, began in December 2018 as part of the city's efforts to revitalize the Ikaho hot spring resort. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese hot spring resort

Photo taken at the Ikaho hot spring resort in Shibukawa, Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Feb. 1, 2019, shows a gondola lift painted with the design of the long-selling "Peyoung" instant stir-fried noodles. A campaign to publicize Peyong, one of Japan's most popular instant stir-fried noodle brands, produced by local noodle maker Maruka Foods, began in December 2018 as part of the city's efforts to revitalize the Ikaho hot spring resort. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese hot spring resort

College students take a selfie in front of an object resembling the long-selling "Peyoung" instant stir-fried noodles at the Ikaho hot spring resort in Shibukawa, Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Feb. 1. 2019. The object was set up by the local tourist association and local noodle maker Maruka Foods, which produces Peyoung, one of Japan's most popular instant stir-fried noodle brands, to revitalize the Ikaho hot spring resort. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Missing giant tortoise found in mountains in Japan

Seiichi Tonai (L) and his son Akira pose for a photo with an Aldabra giant tortoise they found in the mountains in Okayama Prefecture, western Japan, on Aug. 16, 2017. The tortoise had been missing from Shibukawa Zoo in the Okayama city of Tamano since Aug. 1. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Missing giant tortoise found in mountains in Japan

Seiichi Tonai (L) and his son Akira pose for a photo with an Aldabra giant tortoise they found in the mountains in Okayama Prefecture, western Japan, on Aug. 16, 2017. The tortoise had been missing from Shibukawa Zoo in the Okayama city of Tamano since Aug. 1. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Norway's queen visits art museum

MAEBASHI, Japan - Norwegian Queen Sonja (L) arrives at the Hara Museum ARC in Shibukawa, Gunma Prefecture, on March 27 with Princess Nobuko (R), wife of Prince Tomohito of Mikasa, to attend an opening ceremony for an exhibition by Jan Groth, one of Norway's leading artists. King Harald V and Queen Sonja arrived in Japan on March 25 on a weeklong state visit.