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Baseball: Japan Series

Hiroya Shimamoto of the Hanshin Tigers appears in relief against the Orix Buffaloes, getting the final out in the fifth inning in Game 7 of the Japan Series baseball championship at Kyocera Dome Osaka in Osaka, western Japan, on Nov. 5, 2023. ==Kyodo

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Suntory Yamazaki Distillery

Photo taken on Oct. 10, 2023, shows a stillroom at the Suntory Yamazaki Distillery in Shimamoto, Osaka Prefecture, western Japan.

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Suntory Yamazaki Distillery

Photo taken on Oct. 10, 2023, shows a tasting lounge at the renovated whisky museum in the Suntory Yamazaki Distillery in Shimamoto, Osaka Prefecture, western Japan.

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Suntory Yamazaki Distillery

Photo taken on Oct. 10, 2023, shows a tasting lounge at the renovated whisky museum in the Suntory Yamazaki Distillery in Shimamoto, Osaka Prefecture, western Japan.

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METI chief inspects next-generation solar cell development lab

Photo taken on June 17, 2023, shows a Japan-invented next-generation perovskite solar cell under development at a Sekisui Chemical Co. research lab in Shimamoto in Osaka Prefecture. Japanese Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura visited the lab the same day.

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METI chief inspects next-generation solar cell development lab

Japanese Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura meets the press after visiting a Sekisui Chemical Co. research lab in Shimamoto in Osaka Prefecture, on June 17, 2023, to check the progress in the development of the Japan-invented next-generation perovskite solar cell.

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Suntory's sheep-shaped whisky bottles

OSAKA, Japan - A manufacturing line of sheep-shaped whisky bottles is seen at Suntory Yamazaki Distillery in Shimamoto Town, Osaka Prefecture, on Oct. 27, 2014. 2015 is the Year of the Sheep.

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Suntory's sheep-shaped whisky bottles

OSAKA, Japan - Sheep-shaped whisky bottles move on a production line at Suntory Yamazaki Distillery in Shimamoto Town, Osaka Prefecture, on Oct. 27, 2014. The Japanese distiller will release the product in November since 2015 is the Year of the Sheep.

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Japanese breweries growing popular among foreign tourists

OSAKA, Japan - Foreign tourists and other visitors taste samples during a guided tour at the Suntory Yamazaki Distillery in Shimamoto, Osaka Prefecture, western Japan, on Feb. 27, 2014. Amid the rising global popularity of Japanese cuisine, overseas tourists are showing an increasing interest in guided tours of Japanese breweries and distilleries.

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Visitors to Suntory's distillery hear accounts of stills

OSAKA, Japan - Visitors to Suntory Yamazaki Distillery in Shimamoto Town in Osaka Prefecture hear a plant tour guide's accounts of stills on Feb. 27, 2014.

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Suntory researcher aiming to create deep-blue rose

SHIMAMOTO, Japan - Photo taken Dec. 25, 2013 shows Naoko Okitsu, a researcher at the Suntory Global Innovation Center in Shimamoto, Osaka Prefecture, who is aiming to develop the world's first deep-blue rose.

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Books on Constitution selling well

TOKYO, Japan - Shuji Shimamoto holds copies of Shogakukan Inc.'s long-selling book "The Constitution of Japan" on June 27, 2013 at the publishing company in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward. The book, first released in 1982, was the brainchild of Shimamoto, conceived when he was in his 30s on extended sick leave as an editor at publisher Shogakukan.

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Japan's Shimamoto places 9th in

London, Britain - Japan's Mami Shimamoto hoists 143 kilograms in the second clean and jerk of the women's weightlifting +75 kilogram class at the ExCeL Arena at the 2012 London Olympics on Aug. 5, 2012.

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Japan's Shimamoto places 9th in

London, Britain - Japan's Mami Shimamoto hoists 143 kilograms in the second clean and jerk during the women's weightlifting +75 kilogram class at the ExCeL Arena at the 2012 London Olympics on Aug. 5, 2012.

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Nara researchers identify protein as flowering signal in rice

OSAKA, Japan - Researchers at the Nara Institute of Science and Technology in Nara Prefecture have identified in rice a mobile flowering signal, they said in U.S. journal Science on April 19. Professor Ko Shimamoto says a protein (green area at the tip of a rice stem), identified in the research, may be the same flowering signal for all plants and that the findings could pave the way for the development of an agent that enables plant flowering at any time. Photo was provided by the institute. (Kyodo)

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Luxury sleeper train makes last run

Fans watch the Twilight Express luxury sleeper train in Shimamoto, Osaka Prefecture, on March 12, 2015, its final day of service after running for 26 years between Osaka and Sapporo. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Luxury sleeper train makes last run

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the Twilight Express luxury sleeper train in Shimamoto, Osaka Prefecture, on March 12, 2015, its final day of service after running for 26 years between Osaka and Sapporo. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Suntory's sheep-shaped whisky bottles

OSAKA, Japan - A manufacturing line of sheep-shaped whisky bottles is seen at Suntory Yamazaki Distillery in Shimamoto Town, Osaka Prefecture, on Oct. 27, 2014. 2015 is the Year of the Sheep. (Kyodo)

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Suntory's sheep-shaped whisky bottles

OSAKA, Japan - Sheep-shaped whisky bottles move on a production line at Suntory Yamazaki Distillery in Shimamoto Town, Osaka Prefecture, on Oct. 27, 2014. The Japanese distiller will release the product in November since 2015 is the Year of the Sheep. (Kyodo)

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Japanese luxury sleeper train

West Japan Railway Co.'s Twilight Express Mizukaze luxury sleeper train is seen in Shimamoto, Osaka Prefecture, in June 2017. The train runs between Osaka and Kyoto in western Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Dismembered body

Photo taken Feb. 26, 2018, from a Kyodo News helicopter, shows a mountainous area in Shimamoto, Osaka, western Japan, where severed body parts of a missing woman were found. The police suspect Yevgeniy Vasilievich Bayraktar, an American man, was involved in the case. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Dismembered body

Photo taken Feb. 26, 2018, shows a mountainous area in Shimamoto, Osaka, western Japan, where severed body parts of a missing woman were found. The police suspect Yevgeniy Vasilievich Bayraktar, an American man, was involved in the case. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Missing woman probe leads to more severed body parts in Japan

Photo taken on Feb. 26, 2018, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a mountainous area in Shimamoto, Osaka Prefecture, where severed body parts were found after police discovered a severed human head during a search for a missing Japanese woman last seen with an American man. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Mizukaze luxury sleeper train makes debut

West Japan Railway Co.'s Twilight Express Mizukaze luxury sleeper train runs on its first journey in Shimamoto, Osaka Prefecture, on June 17, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Mizukaze luxury sleeper train debuts

West Japan Railway Co.'s Twilight Express Mizukaze luxury sleeper train runs in the western Japan town of Shimamoto on June 17, 2017, when it made its debut. Traveling around western Japan, the fares range from 250,000 yen to 1.25 million yen per person. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo