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Ceremonial dance at southwestern Japan shrine

A "kagura" Shinto ritual ceremonial dance is performed in front of tourists at Takachiho Shrine in Takachiho, Miyazaki Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on the night of April 16, 2025.

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Ceremonial dance at southwestern Japan shrine

A "kagura" Shinto ritual ceremonial dance is performed in front of tourists at Takachiho Shrine in Takachiho, Miyazaki Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on the night of April 16, 2025.

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Ceremonial dance at southwestern Japan shrine

A "kagura" Shinto ritual ceremonial dance is performed in front of tourists at Takachiho Shrine in Takachiho, Miyazaki Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on the night of April 16, 2025.

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[Breaking News]Ritual at southwestern Japan shrine

TAKACHIHO, Japan Kyodo - Takachiho-no-Yokagura, a ritual designated as Important Intangible Folk-cultural Property of Japan, is performed at Takachiho Shrine in Miyazaki Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on the night of Nov. 23, 2023. (Kyodo)

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Ritual at southwestern Japan shrine

Takachiho-no-Yokagura, a ritual designated as Important Intangible Folk-cultural Property of Japan, is performed at Takachiho Shrine in Miyazaki Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on the night of Nov. 23, 2023.

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Ritual at southwestern Japan shrine

Takachiho-no-Yokagura, a ritual designated as Important Intangible Folk-cultural Property of Japan, is performed at Takachiho Shrine in Miyazaki Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on the night of Nov. 23, 2023.

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Ritual at southwestern Japan shrine

Takachiho-no-Yokagura, a ritual designated as Important Intangible Folk-cultural Property of Japan, is performed at Takachiho Shrine in Miyazaki Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on the night of Nov. 23, 2023.

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Ritual at southwestern Japan shrine

Takachiho-no-Yokagura, a ritual designated as Important Intangible Folk-cultural Property of Japan, is performed at Takachiho Shrine in Miyazaki Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on the night of Nov. 23, 2023.

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Takachiho Koheki's signboard and logo

Takachiho Koheki's signboard and logo=Date:October 13, 2023, Place:Tokyo

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Takachiho Koheki's signboard and logo

Takachiho Koheki's signboard and logo=Date:October 13, 2023, Place:Tokyo

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Takachiho Koheki's signboard and logo

Takachiho Koheki's signboard and logo=Date:October 13, 2023, Place:Tokyo

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Fattening cattle in southwestern Japan

File photo taken on Nov. 26, 2022, shows fattening cattle in Takachiho in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Miyazaki.

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Fattening cattle in southwestern Japan

File photo taken on Nov. 26, 2022, shows fattening cattle in Takachiho in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Miyazaki.

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Tourists wait for tram ride on old railway line

MIYAZAKI, Japan - People wait in front of an old station in Takachiho in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Miyazaki on Aug. 12, 2014, to ride a tram pulled by a pickup-turned locomotive on the Takachiho Line that went out of service in 2008.

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Tram passes old railway station in southwestern Japan

MIYAZAKI, Japan - A tram with tourists aboard, converted from a pickup, passes the now defunct Amanoiwato Station of an old railway line in Takachiho in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Miyazaki on Aug. 12, 2014. The line went out of service in 2008.

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Tourists enjoy tram ride on old railway line

MIYAZAKI, Japan - Tourists enjoy a ride on a tram pulled by a pickup-remodeled locomotive on Aug. 12, 2014, on an old railway line in Takachiho in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Miyazaki. The Takachiho Line went out of service in 2008.

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Tram runs on iron bridge in southwestern Japan

MIYAZAKI, Japan - A tram with tourists aboard, converted from a pickup, runs past the Takachiho Iron Bridge on an old railway line in Takachiho in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Miyazaki on Aug. 12, 2014. The line went out of service in 2008.

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Cow auction resumes in disease-hit Miyazaki

TAKACHIHO, Japan - Potential buyers participate in a cow auction in Takachiho, Miyazaki Prefecture, on Aug. 29, 2010, after it resumed for the first time since April due to the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease which hit the livestock industry in the southwestern Japan region.

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Cow auction resumes in disease-hit Miyazaki

TAKACHIHO, Japan - Potential buyers participate in a cow auction in Takachiho, Miyazaki Prefecture, on Aug. 29, 2010, after it resumed for the first time since April due to the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease which hit the livestock industry in the southwestern Japan region.

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Cow auction resumes in disease-hit Miyazaki

TAKACHIHO, Japan - Potential buyers participate in a cow auction in Takachiho, Miyazaki Prefecture, on Aug. 29, 2010, after it resumed for the first time since April due to the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease which hit the livestock industry in the southwestern Japan region.

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Cargo ship involved in fishing boat collision

TOKYO, Japan - Members of the Japan Coast Guard examine the bow of the 3,891-ton freighter Takachiho, which collided with and capsized the 9.1-ton tuna fishing boat Yukiyoshi Maru off Miyazaki Prefecture on Feb. 9, at Ariake Pier in Tokyo on Feb. 15.

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Typhoon Nabi causes damage

IWAKUNI, Japan - A cow is buried in Takachiho in Miyazaki Prefecture, on Sept. 7 in slide of rocks and mud that hit a local house on Sept. 17 as Typhoon Nabi moved northeast over the Sea of Japan heading toward Japan's main northern island of Hokkaido.

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Death toll from Typhoon Nabi rises to 9, 14 missing

TAKACHIHO, Japan - Firefighters are in work to rescue the missing from houses buried by landslide in the town of Takachiho, Miyazaki Prefecture, on Sept. 7. The death toll from Typhoon Nabi rose to nine, with 14 people missing mainly in western and southwestern Japan.

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Woman stabs teacher at Tokyo kindergarten

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Takachiho Kindergarten in Tokyo's Suginami Ward where a knife-wielding woman stabbed a young female teacher June 19. The woman fled after the attack, police said.

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6 people found dead in southwestern Japan

Photo taken Nov. 26, 2018, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a house with blue sheet where three men and three women were found dead in Takachiho, southwestern Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Typhoon Nabi causes damage

IWAKUNI, Japan - A cow is buried in Takachiho in Miyazaki Prefecture, on Sept. 7 in slide of rocks and mud that hit a local house on Sept. 17 as Typhoon Nabi moved northeast over the Sea of Japan heading toward Japan's main northern island of Hokkaido. (Kyodo)

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Death toll from Typhoon Nabi rises to 9, 14 missing

TAKACHIHO, Japan - Firefighters are in work to rescue the missing from houses buried by landslide in the town of Takachiho, Miyazaki Prefecture, on Sept. 7. The death toll from Typhoon Nabi rose to nine, with 14 people missing mainly in western and southwestern Japan. (Kyodo)

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Cargo ship involved in fishing boat collision

TOKYO, Japan - Members of the Japan Coast Guard examine the bow of the 3,891-ton freighter Takachiho, which collided with and capsized the 9.1-ton tuna fishing boat Yukiyoshi Maru off Miyazaki Prefecture on Feb. 9, at Ariake Pier in Tokyo on Feb. 15. (Kyodo)

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Cow auction resumes in disease-hit Miyazaki

TAKACHIHO, Japan - Potential buyers participate in a cow auction in Takachiho, Miyazaki Prefecture, on Aug. 29, 2010, after it resumed for the first time since April due to the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease which hit the livestock industry in the southwestern Japan region. (Kyodo)

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Cow auction resumes in disease-hit Miyazaki

TAKACHIHO, Japan - Potential buyers participate in a cow auction in Takachiho, Miyazaki Prefecture, on Aug. 29, 2010, after it resumed for the first time since April due to the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease which hit the livestock industry in the southwestern Japan region. (Kyodo)

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Cow auction resumes in disease-hit Miyazaki

TAKACHIHO, Japan - Potential buyers participate in a cow auction in Takachiho, Miyazaki Prefecture, on Aug. 29, 2010, after it resumed for the first time since April due to the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease which hit the livestock industry in the southwestern Japan region. (Kyodo)

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Tram passes old railway station in southwestern Japan

MIYAZAKI, Japan - A tram with tourists aboard, converted from a pickup, passes the now defunct Amanoiwato Station of an old railway line in Takachiho in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Miyazaki on Aug. 12, 2014. The line went out of service in 2008. (Kyodo)

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Multiple murder case in Japan

Divers enter the Gokase River in Takachiho, southwestern Japan, on Nov. 27, 2018, to recover the body of a man found the previous day. Three kilometers from the site, six bodies were discovered the previous day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Multiple murder case in Japan

Divers enter the Gokase River in Takachiho, southwestern Japan, on Nov. 27, 2018, to recover the body of a man found the previous day. Three kilometers from the site, six bodies were discovered the previous day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Multiple murder case in Japan

Investigators and divers head to the site where a dead man was found at the Gokase River in Takachiho, southwestern Japan, on Nov. 27, 2018. Three kilometers from the site, six bodies were discovered the previous day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Multiple murder case in Japan

Investigators and divers head to the site where a dead man was found at the Gokase River in Takachiho, southwestern Japan, on Nov. 27, 2018. Three kilometers from the site, six bodies were discovered the previous day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Multiple murder case in Japan

Investigators and divers head to the site where a dead man was found at the Gokase River in Takachiho, southwestern Japan, on Nov. 27, 2018. Three kilometers from the site, six bodies were discovered the previous day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Multiple murder case in Japan

Investigators visit an elementary school in Takachiho, southwestern Japan, on Nov. 27, 2018, after a 7-year-old pupil of the school was found dead at her home in the town the previous day with five other bodies. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Multiple murder case in Japan

Investigators head to the Gokase River in Takachiho, southwestern Japan, on Nov. 27, 2018, after a dead man was found there. Three kilometers from the site, six bodies were discovered the previous day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Multiple murder case in Japan

A police officer cordons off a path leading to the house in Takachiho, southwestern Japan, where six bodies including a 7-year-old girl's were discovered the previous day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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6 people found dead in southwestern Japan

Photo taken Nov. 26, 2018, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a house with blue sheet where three men and three women were found dead in Takachiho, southwestern Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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6 people found dead in southwestern Japan

Photo taken Nov. 26, 2018, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a house with blue sheet where three men and three women were found dead in Takachiho, southwestern Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tokyo Olympic torch relay

People gather to watch the Tokyo Olympic torch relay in Takachiho in Miyazaki Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on April 25, 2021.

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Tokyo Olympic torch relay

A Tokyo Olympic torch relay participant departs from Takachiho shrine in Takachiho in Miyazaki Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on April 25, 2021. (Pool photo)

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Tokyo Olympic torch relay

A Tokyo Olympic torch relay participant departs from Takachiho shrine in Takachiho in Miyazaki Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on April 25, 2021. (Pool photo)

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Tokyo Olympic torch relay

A Tokyo Olympic torch relay participant departs from Takachiho shrine in Takachiho in Miyazaki Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on April 25, 2021. (Pool photo)

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Woman stabs teacher at Tokyo kindergarten

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Takachiho Kindergarten in Tokyo's Suginami Ward where a knife-wielding woman stabbed a young female teacher June 19. The woman fled after the attack, police said.