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A-bombed Catholic church

NAGASAKI, Japan - Catholic Shigemi Fukahori stands in front of the former bell tower of the Urakami Cathedral (center, front) in Nagasaki, Nagasaki Prefecture, on July 17, 2013. Above him is the rebuilt Urakami Cathedral. The former bell tower will shortly be given cultural heritage status by the government, along with three other sets of remains in the city.

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JFE, IHI to merge shipbuilding units

TOKYO, Japan - Universal Shipbuilding Corp. President Shinjiro Mishima (L) and IHI Marine United Inc. President Shigemi Kurahara hold a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 30, 2012. The shipbuilding units of JFE Holdings Inc. and IHI Corp. will merge in October, becoming a shipbuilder comparable with industry leader Imabari Shipbuilding Co. in terms of production volume.

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Pro-nuclear plant mayor reelected

KAMINOSEKI, Japan - Shigemi Kashiwabara (C), mayor of Kaminoseki in Yamaguchi Prefecture, bows to supporters in the town after reelection to a third four-year term on Sept. 25, 2011. Kashiwabara, an advocate of a Chugoku Electric Power Co. proposal to build a nuclear power station in the town, defeated antinuclear challenger Sadao Yamato, who heads a civic group opposed to the plan.

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Sick skipper of seized boat returns home

KUSHIRO, Japan - Shigemi Fujimoto (R), the captain of the Hoyu Maru No. 31 which was seized by Russian border guards off the disputed Kunashiri Island on Dec. 13, returns to Nemuro port in Hokkaido on Dec. 20. The Japanese side had called for Fujimoto's early release because he suffers from diabetes and high blood pressure.

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Yumemi Shigemi (left), president of Yumemi, and Kubo, chairman and president of EDION

On April 23, EDION announced that it had acquired all shares of Yumemi (Yodogawa Ward, Osaka City), which operates a children's programming school called "Robodan," making it a subsidiary. The company said the shares were acquired from Akinori Shigemi, president of Yumemiru, and venture capitalists. In December 2018, EDION entered the robot programming education business for elementary and junior high school students, accelerating the expansion of the business in anticipation of making programming education compulsory in elementary schools from fiscal 2008. The amount of the stock acquisition is estimated to be around 1 billion yen. Photo taken on December 23, 2019, location unknown, credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

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96-year-old Japanese man recognized as world's oldest graduate

Shigemi Hirata, a 96-year-old man from Takamatsu, western Japan, poses for a photo at his home on June 3, 2016, with a Guinness World Records certificate recognizing him as the world's oldest graduate. Hirata received a Bachelor of Arts degree in March aged 96 years 200 days from the Kyoto University of Art and Design, having taken 11 years to complete its ceramic arts course. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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State forest in Yamagata Pref. to be used for biomass fuel

Shigemi Takahashi (L), mayor of the town of Mogami in Yamagata Prefecture, shakes hands with an official of the Forestry Agency's Yamagata forest management office on April 6, 2015, in the northeastern Japan town after signing a deal to make use of trees in the Sugenosawa national forest for biomass fuel. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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FEATURE: Japanese man enters Guinness record book as oldest college graduate

Shigemi Hirata, a 96-year-old man from Takamatsu, western Japan, poses for a photo at his home on June 3, 2016, with a Guinness World Records certificate recognizing him as the world's oldest graduate. Hirata received a Bachelor of Arts degree in March aged 96 years 200 days from the Kyoto University of Art and Design, having taken 11 years to complete its ceramic arts course. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Sick skipper of seized boat returns home

KUSHIRO, Japan - Shigemi Fujimoto (R), the captain of the Hoyu Maru No. 31 which was seized by Russian border guards off the disputed Kunashiri Island on Dec. 13, returns to Nemuro port in Hokkaido on Dec. 20. The Japanese side had called for Fujimoto's early release because he suffers from diabetes and high blood pressure. (Kyodo)

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Pro-nuclear plant mayor reelected

KAMINOSEKI, Japan - Shigemi Kashiwabara (C), mayor of Kaminoseki in Yamaguchi Prefecture, bows to supporters in the town after reelection to a third four-year term on Sept. 25, 2011. Kashiwabara, an advocate of a Chugoku Electric Power Co. proposal to build a nuclear power station in the town, defeated antinuclear challenger Sadao Yamato, who heads a civic group opposed to the plan. (Kyodo)

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JFE, IHI to merge shipbuilding units

TOKYO, Japan - Universal Shipbuilding Corp. President Shinjiro Mishima (L) and IHI Marine United Inc. President Shigemi Kurahara hold a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 30, 2012. The shipbuilding units of JFE Holdings Inc. and IHI Corp. will merge in October, becoming a shipbuilder comparable with industry leader Imabari Shipbuilding Co. in terms of production volume. (Kyodo)

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75th A-bomb anniversary in Nagasaki

Shigemi Fukahori, an 89-year-old representative of survivors of the U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki, delivers a speech during the annual ceremony at Peace Park in the southwestern Japan city on Aug. 9, 2020. (Pool photo)

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Edion buys programming school chain

Home appliances retailor Edion Corp. President Masataka Kubo (R) and programming school chain Youmemiru Inc. head Akinori Shigemi pose at a press conference in Osaka, western Japan, on Dec. 23, 2019. Edion announced it has bought a 100 percent equity stake in the programing school chain, which operates about 100 classes across the nation. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo