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FIS World Cup Ruka Nordic

Shogo Azegami of Japan competes during 7,5 km Cross-Country Skiing of Nordic Combined Individual Compact at the FIS World Cup Ruka Nordic in Kuusamo, Finland on November 28, 2025. LEHTIKUVA / RONI REKOMAA - FINLAND OUT. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. (Credit:Roni Rekomaa/Lehtikuva/Kyodo News Images)

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FIS World Cup Ruka Nordic

Shogo Azekami of Japan competes during the men's Nordic Combined ski jumping Individual Compact Large Hill HS142 competition at the FIS World Cup Ruka Nordic 2025 in Kuusamo, Finland, on November 28, 2025. LEHTIKUVA / VESA MOILANEN - FINLAND OUT. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. (Credit:Vesa Moilanen/Lehtikuva/Kyodo News Images)

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FIS World Cup Ruka Nordic

Shogo Azekami of Japan competes during the men's Nordic Combined ski jumping Individual Compact Large Hill HS142 competition at the FIS World Cup Ruka Nordic 2025 in Kuusamo, Finland, on November 28, 2025. LEHTIKUVA / VESA MOILANEN - FINLAND OUT. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. (Credit:Vesa Moilanen/Lehtikuva/Kyodo News Images)

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SPORT INVERNALI - Pattinaggio sul Ghiaccio - ISU World Tour Short Track - Milano 2025

Shogo Miyata of Japan seen in action during Day One ISU Short Track World Tour #6 Milan at Unipol Forum

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SPORT INVERNALI - Pattinaggio sul Ghiaccio - ISU World Tour Short Track - Milano 2025

Shogo Miyata of Japan seen in action during Day One ISU Short Track World Tour #6 Milan at Unipol Forum

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Baseball: Premier12

Japan's Shogo Sakakura hits a solo home run in the sixth inning of a Super Round game against Venezuela at the Premier12 baseball tournament at Tokyo Dome in Tokyo on Nov. 22, 2024.

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Baseball: Premier12

Japan's Shogo Sakakura hits an RBI double in the fifth inning of a Super Round game against the United States at the Premier12 baseball tournament at Tokyo Dome in Tokyo on Nov. 21, 2024.

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Baseball: Premier12

Japan's Shogo Sakakura hits an RBI double in the fifth inning of a Super Round game against the United States at the Premier12 baseball tournament at Tokyo Dome in Tokyo on Nov. 21, 2024.

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Baseball: Premier12

Shogo Sakakura (C) and Kotaro Kurebayashi (R) of Japan high-five after they both scored on an error in the fourth inning of the opening game of Group B at the Premier12 baseball tournament against Australia on Nov. 13, 2024, at Vantelin Dome Nagoya in central Japan.

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Football: World Cup qualifier

Australia takes the lead with an own goal by Japan's Shogo Taniguchi in the second half of a 2026 football World Cup final-round Asian qualifier at Saitama Stadium in Saitama near Tokyo on Oct. 15, 2024.

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(SP)CHINA-HANGZHOU-ASIAN GAMES-SWIMMING (CN)

(230926) -- HANGZHOU, Sept. 26, 2023 (Xinhua) -- (From L-R) Silver medallist Kim woomin of South Korea, gold medallist Fei Liwei of China and bronze medallist Takeda Shogo of Japan attend the awarding ceremony of the men's 1500m freestyle swimming at the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, Sept. 26, 2023. (Xinhua/Xue Yuge)

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MFW - Emporio Armani Front Row

Rihito, Hiroto, Shogo, INI attend the Emporio Armani fashion show during the Milan Fashion Week Womenswear Spring/Summer 2024 on September 21, 2023 in Milan, Italy. Photo by Marco Piovanotto/ABACAPRESS:COM

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MFW - Emporio Armani Front Row

Rihito, Hiroto, Shogo, INI attend the Emporio Armani fashion show during the Milan Fashion Week Womenswear Spring/Summer 2024 on September 21, 2023 in Milan, Italy. Photo by Marco Piovanotto/ABACAPRESS:COM

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MFW - Emporio Armani Front Row

Rihito, Hiroto, Shogo, INI attend the Emporio Armani fashion show during the Milan Fashion Week Womenswear Spring/Summer 2024 on September 21, 2023 in Milan, Italy. Photo by Marco Piovanotto/ABACAPRESS:COM

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MFW - Emporio Armani Front Row

Nicolas Maupas, Cara Delevingne, Rihito, Hiroto, Shogo, INI, Nani, Hirunkit Changkham, Nikola Mirotic attend the Emporio Armani fashion show during the Milan Fashion Week Womenswear Spring/Summer 2024 on September 21, 2023 in Milan, Italy. Photo by Marco Piovanotto/ABACAPRESS:COM

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MFW - Emporio Armani Front Row

Nicolas Maupas, Cara Delevingne, Rihito, Hiroto, Shogo, INI, Nani, Hirunkit Changkham, Nikola Mirotic attend the Emporio Armani fashion show during the Milan Fashion Week Womenswear Spring/Summer 2024 on September 21, 2023 in Milan, Italy. Photo by Marco Piovanotto/ABACAPRESS:COM

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MFW - Emporio Armani Front Row

Nicolas Maupas, Cara Delevingne, Rihito, Hiroto, Shogo, INI, Nani, Hirunkit Changkham attend the Emporio Armani fashion show during the Milan Fashion Week Womenswear Spring/Summer 2024 on September 21, 2023 in Milan, Italy. Photo by Marco Piovanotto/ABACAPRESS:COM

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MFW - Emporio Armani Front Row

Nicolas Maupas, Cara Delevingne, Rihito, Hiroto, Shogo, INI, Nani attend the Emporio Armani fashion show during the Milan Fashion Week Womenswear Spring/Summer 2024 on September 21, 2023 in Milan, Italy. Photo by Marco Piovanotto/ABACAPRESS:COM

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MFW - Emporio Armani Front Row

Nicolas Maupas, Cara Delevingne, Rihito, Hiroto, Shogo, INI, Nani attend the Emporio Armani fashion show during the Milan Fashion Week Womenswear Spring/Summer 2024 on September 21, 2023 in Milan, Italy. Photo by Marco Piovanotto/ABACAPRESS:COM

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MFW - Emporio Armani Front Row

Nicolas Maupas, Cara Delevingne, Rihito, Hiroto, Shogo, INI, Nani attend the Emporio Armani fashion show during the Milan Fashion Week Womenswear Spring/Summer 2024 on September 21, 2023 in Milan, Italy. Photo by Marco Piovanotto/ABACAPRESS:COM

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MFW - Emporio Armani Front Row

Rihito, Hiroto, Shogo, INI attend the Emporio Armani fashion show during the Milan Fashion Week Womenswear Spring/Summer 2024 on September 21, 2023 in Milan, Italy. Photo by Marco Piovanotto/ABACAPRESS:COM

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MFW - Emporio Armani Front Row

Nicolas Maupas, Cara Delevingne, Rihito, Hiroto, Shogo, INI, Nani, Hirunkit Changkham, Nikola Mirotic attend the Emporio Armani fashion show during the Milan Fashion Week Womenswear Spring/Summer 2024 on September 21, 2023 in Milan, Italy. Photo by Marco Piovanotto/ABACAPRESS:COM

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MFW - Emporio Armani Front Row

Nicolas Maupas, Cara Delevingne, Rihito, Hiroto, Shogo, INI, Nani attend the Emporio Armani fashion show during the Milan Fashion Week Womenswear Spring/Summer 2024 on September 21, 2023 in Milan, Italy. Photo by Marco Piovanotto/ABACAPRESS:COM

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Football World Cup in Qatar

DOHA, Qatar, Sept. 6 Kyodo - Shogo Taniguchi of Japan celebrates after Japan's 2-1 win over Spain in a World Cup Group E football match at Khalifa International Stadium in Doha, Qatar, in the early hours of Dec. 2, 2022. (Kyodo)

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Rugby World Cup - Japan Team Training - Toulouse

Japan player Shogo Nakano from the Japanese rugby team trains at the Ernest-Wallon stadium ahead of the 2023 rugby World Cup in Toulouse, France. Photo by Timo Claeys/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Football: Japan-El Salvador friendly

Japan's Shogo Taniguchi (R) celebrates with teammates after opening the scoring with a header in the first half of an international football friendly against El Salvador on June 15, 2023, at Toyota Stadium in Toyota in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan.

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Football: Japan-El Salvador friendly

Japan's Shogo Taniguchi (top) celebrates with teammates after opening the scoring with a header in the first half of an international football friendly against El Salvador on June 15, 2023, at Toyota Stadium in Toyota in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan.

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Football: Japan-El Salvador friendly

Japan's Shogo Taniguchi (2nd from R) celebrates with teammates after opening the scoring with a header in the first half of an international football friendly against El Salvador on June 15, 2023, at Toyota Stadium in Toyota in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan.

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Football: Japan-El Salvador friendly

Japan's Shogo Taniguchi (top, R) opens the scoring with a header in the first half of an international football friendly against El Salvador on June 15, 2023, at Toyota Stadium in Toyota in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan.

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Football: Japan-El Salvador friendly

Japan's Shogo Taniguchi (top, R) opens the scoring with a header in the first half of an international football friendly against El Salvador on June 15, 2023, at Toyota Stadium in Toyota in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan.

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Football: Japan-El Salvador friendly

Japan's Shogo Taniguchi (top, R) opens the scoring with a header in the first half of an international football friendly against El Salvador on June 15, 2023, at Toyota Stadium in Toyota in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan.

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Football: Japan-El Salvador friendly

Japan's Shogo Taniguchi (top, R) opens the scoring with a header in the first half of an international football friendly against El Salvador on June 15, 2023, at Toyota Stadium in Toyota in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan.

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Football: Japan-El Salvador friendly

Japan's Shogo Taniguchi (top) opens the scoring with a header in the first half of an international football friendly against El Salvador on June 15, 2023, at Toyota Stadium in Toyota in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan.

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FIS Nordic World Cup - Lahti Ski Games 2023

Shogo Azegami of Japan II competes during men's Nordic Combined Team Sprint 2ä7,5 km event at the FIS Nordic World Cup Lahti Ski Games in Lahti, Finland, on March 24, 2023. Lahti Ski Games was organized for the first time in 1923 - a year before the first official Winter Olympics. LEHTIKUVA / ANTTI HÄMÄLÄINEN - FINLAND OUT. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. (Credit:Antti Hämäläinen/Lehtikuva/Kyodo News Images)

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Scientist holds model of 'Hayabusa' asteroid explorer

ASAHIKAWA, Japan - Shogo Tachibana, an associate professor at a Hokkaido University graduate school, holds a model of the "Hayabusa" (falcon) unmanned space probe that brought back dust particles from the asteroid Itokawa in 2010 in this file photo taken in Sapporo in Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido on Sept. 18, 2014. The Hayabusa 2 asteroid explorer is set to be launched into space on Nov. 30.

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3 Japanese gymnasts book spots for world championships

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese gymnasts -- (from L to R) Ryohei Kato, Shogo Nonomura and Kohei Uchimura -- smile at Tokyo's National Stadium in Japan on June 8, 2014, after winning third, second and first places respectively in the NHK Cup, booking tickets to the world championships in Nanning, China, in October.

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Dharamsala dormitory

DHARAMSALA, India - Children stand in front of ''Shogo Home'' in Dharamsala, northern India, in September 2012. The dormitory for the children of Tibetans in exile was built next to a Tibetan school some 20 years ago by financial contributions from Japanese musician Shogo Hamada.

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Japan men's 4x200 freestyle relay swimmers qualify for London

SHANGHAI, China - Japan's Sho Uchida (upper L), Yoshihiro Okumura (upper C), Takeshi Matsuda (upper R) and Shogo Hihara gather after swimming in the preliminary round race of the men's 4x200 freestyle relay at the world swimming championships in Shanghai on July 29, 2011. The team finished second (7:10.46) of all competitors to advance to the final and secure Japan's Olympic berth for London 2012.

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Japanese men's relay team qualify for London Olympics

SHANGHAI, China - Members of the Japanese men's 4x100 freestyle relay team -- (from L) Takuro Fujii, Yoshihiro Okumura, Shogo Hihara and Takeshi Matsuda (in water) -- celebrate during the world championships in Shanghai on July 24, 2011, after qualifying for next year's London Olympics.

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Fencing match at Asian Games

GUANGZHOU, China - Shogo Nishida of Japan vents his frustration after allowing a point to Li Guojie of China in a semifinal of the men's epee at the Asian Games in Guangzhou, China, on Nov. 18, 2010.

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China's Hu visits Nara on last leg of official visit to Japan

NARA, Japan - Chinese President Hu Jintao (L) meets with Nara Gov. Shogo Arai (R) in Nara Prefecture on May 10.

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China's Hu visits Nara on last leg of official visit to Japan

NARA, Japan - Chinese President Hu Jintao (L) poses for photos with Nara Gov. Shogo Arai (2nd from L) and transport minister Tetsuzo Fuyushiba (R) in Nara, Nara Prefecture, on May 10 after presenting the prefecture with a bust of Jingzhen, a Chinese Buddhist priest, known as Ganjin in Japanese. The Chinese priest traveled to Japan to teach Buddhist precepts and founded Toshodaiji Temple in the prefecture in 759.

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Arai assured of victory in Nara governor poll

NARA, Japan - Shogo Arai, backed by the ruling coalition, celebrates with his wife and supporters at his campaign office in Nara after being elected Nara governor in the poll on April 8.

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Veteran actor Shogo Shimada dies at 98

TOKYO, Japan - Veteran actor Shogo Shimada (file photo) died on Nov. 26 at his Tokyo home after suffering from a stroke. He was 98. Shimada was a key member of the now-defunct modern drama troupe Shinkokugeki (New National Theater) from 1923 until it was disbanded in 1987.

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Japan aiming to exploit Fiji's weaknesses in Rugby World Cup

TOWNSVILLE, Australia - Members of the Japan rugby team practice in Townsville, Queensland, on Oct. 21 ahead of their third Rugby World Cup match against Fiji. Coach Shogo Mukai said Japanese technicians have identified weaknesses in Fiji's game and will exploit them to beat the islanders when they meet on Oct. 23.

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Kanagawa Univ. wins 1st day of Tokyo-Hakone ekiden relay

HAKONE, Japan - Shogo Yoshimura of Kanagawa University, running the final section of the 107.2-km Tokyo-Hakone collegiate ekiden road relay, cuts the tape at Lake Ashinoko on Jan. 2 to give his team a first-day victory. Yoshimura turned a deficit of 1:13 into a 23-second advantage for his university at the start of the return trip to Tokyo on Jan. 3, which will decide the overall winner of the annual New Year event.

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Mukai named as Japan rugby national coach

TOKYO, Japan - Shogo Mukai (R), new coach of the Japanese national team, and Hiroaki Shukuzawa, new chief of the Japan Rugby Football Union's technical committee supervising the national team, shake hands at a news conference in Tokyo on Dec. 29. Mukai takes over from Seiji Hirao, who resigned in November.

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Pacific coast guards to team up against poachers, drugs, guns

TOKYO, Japan - National coast guard chiefs from Japan, South Korea, Russia and the United States shake hands after a two-day meeting in Tokyo on Dec. 21. They agreed to team up to fight crimes such as drug and gun smuggling and poaching in their territorial waters. (From L to R) South Korean National Maritime Police Agency Commissioner Lee Gyu Sik, Japan Coast Guard Commandant Shogo Arai, Russian Federal Border Service Commandant Konstantin Totskii and U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Adm. James Loy. China canceled plans to attend the meeting.

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Football World Cup in Qatar

Japan player Shogo Taniguchi speaks to reporters in Doha, Qatar, on Dec. 6, 2022, a day after the team's 3-1 penalty shootout loss to Croatia in a World Cup round of 16 football match.

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Football World Cup in Qatar

Japan's Shogo Taniguchi (L) and Croatia's Mario Pasalic vie for the ball during the second half of a World Cup round of 16 football match at Al Janoub Stadium in Al Wakrah, Qatar, on Dec. 5, 2022.