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Holder of 5 women's shogi titles back to competition

Professional shogi player Kana Fukuma, holder of five titles in the women's category, is pictured after beating Kei Kato in a round-robin match at the Hakurei women's championship in Takatsuki, Osaka, on Feb. 14, 2025. She returned to competition after being sidelined between Nov. 17, 2024, and Feb. 12, 2025, due to pregnancy.

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Campaigning for Japan general election

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, head of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, makes a stump speech in Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture, on Oct. 21, 2024, ahead of the Oct. 27 general election.

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Watanabe wins Game 3 of shogi Meijin series

Defending champion Akira Watanabe (facing camera) reviews his match against Sota Fujii after winning Game 3 of a best-of-seven series for shogi's Meijin title at an art theater in Takatsuki in Osaka Prefecture, western Japan, on May 14, 2023, following losses in the first two games. If Fujii, 20, wins the series, he will hold seven out of shogi's eight titles and become the youngest holder of the prestigious Meijin title, which dates back to the early 1600s.

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Watanabe wins Game 3 of shogi Meijin series

Sota Fujii (facing camera) reviews his match against defending champion Akira Watanabe after losing Game 3 of a best-of-seven series for shogi's Meijin title at an art theater in Takatsuki in Osaka Prefecture, western Japan, on May 14, 2023, following victories in the first two games. If Fujii, 20, wins the series, he will hold seven out of shogi's eight titles and become the youngest holder of the prestigious Meijin title, which dates back to the early 1600s.

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Habu wins Game 2 of shogi's Osho series

Defending champion Sota Fujii (L) concedes defeat to challenger Yoshiharu Habu in Game 2 of a historic best-of-seven series for shogi's Osho title at a Japanese hotel in Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture, on Jan. 22, 2023, following a win in Game 1. If Habu, 52, captures the Osho title from 20-year-old Fujii, holder of four other major titles, it would be his 100th title, an unprecedented achievement. (Pool photo)

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Habu wins Game 2 of shogi's Osho series

Defending champion Sota Fujii (L) and challenger Yoshiharu Habu reflect on Game 2 of a historic best-of-seven series for shogi's Osho title after Habu tied the series by beating Fujii at a Japanese hotel in Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture, on Jan. 22, 2023. If Habu, 52, captures the Osho title from 20-year-old Fujii, holder of four other major titles, it would be his 100th title, an unprecedented achievement. (Pool photo)

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Habu wins Game 2 of shogi's Osho series

Defending champion Sota Fujii (L) and challenger Yoshiharu Habu reflect on Game 2 of a historic best-of-seven series for shogi's Osho title after Habu tied the series by beating Fujii at a Japanese hotel in Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture, on Jan. 22, 2023. If Habu, 52, captures the Osho title from 20-year-old Fujii, holder of four other major titles, it would be his 100th title, an unprecedented achievement. (Pool photo)

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Habu wins Game 2 of shogi's Osho series

Veteran shogi player Yoshiharu Habu reflects on Game 2 of a historic best-of-seven series for shogi's Osho title after evening the series by beating defending champion Sota Fujii at a Japanese hotel in Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture, on Jan. 22, 2023. If Habu, 52, captures the Osho title from 20-year-old Fujii, holder of four other major titles, it would be his 100th title, an unprecedented achievement. (Pool photo)

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Ex-Taiwan President Lee pays New Year's visit to temple in Shiga

SHIGA, Japan - Former Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui speaks to Taiwan media during his new year's visit to Doganji Temple in the town of Takatsuki, Shiga Prefecture, on Jan. 1. Lee and his family will return home on Jan. 2 after a weeklong tour in Japan.

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DPJ's Tsujimoto retains lower house seat

OSAKA, Japan - Kiyomi Tsujimoto of the opposition Democratic Party of Japan speaks to commuters in front of Takatsuki Station in Takatsuki, Osaka, on Dec. 15, 2014, a day after winning her lower house seat in the Osaka No. 10 single-seat constituency.

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1 tomato seed bears over 6,000 tomatoes in Osaka

OSAKA, Japan - A huge tomato plant, grown from a seed, and which has yielded more than 6,000 tomatoes at an experimental farm house of Kyowa Co., a plastics production firm in Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture, is photographed on May 20, 2014. The seed was planted last August.

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Octopus "predicts" how many Olympic medals Japan will win in London

OSAKA, Japan - An octopus "predicts" how many medals Japanese athletes will win at the London Olympics, during an event in Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture, on June 27, 2012. The event was modeled after Paul, the octopus that gained international attention for foretelling Germany's wins and losses at the 2010 World Cup soccer tournament.

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Octopus "predicts" how many Olympic medals Japan will win in London

OSAKA, Japan - An octopus "predicts" how many medals Japanese athletes will win at the London Olympics, during an event in Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture, on June 27, 2012. The event was modeled after Paul, the octopus that gained international attention for foretelling Germany's wins and losses at the 2010 World Cup soccer tournament.

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109-yr woman successfully undergoes surgery for appendicitis

OSAKA, Japan - Ai Onishi (C), a 109-year-old woman in Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture, is pictured with her family and medical staff in the city on March 8, 2012. She successfully underwent surgery for appendicitis at the Daiichi Towakai hospital in the city on Feb. 22. To the left is the surgeon, Atsushi Okita.

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Self-propelled endoscope

OSAKA, Japan - A woman holds a self-propelled, remote-controlled capsule endoscope in Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture, on June 21, 2011. A research team in western Japan has successfully captured images inside a human stomach and colon using the endoscope, about 1 centimeter in diameter and 4.5 cm in length. The team that developed the device consists of researchers from such institutes as Ryukoku University and Osaka Medical College.

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Self-propelled endoscope

OSAKA, Japan - A man holds a self-propelled, remote-controlled capsule endoscope in Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture, on June 21, 2011. A research team in western Japan has successfully captured images inside a human stomach and colon using the endoscope, about 1 centimeter in diameter and 4.5 cm in length. The team that developed the device consists of researchers from such institutes as Ryukoku University and Osaka Medical College.

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Gigantic billboard for chocolate bar contends for world record

OSAKA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Feb. 8, 2011, shows a big billboard -- about 166 meters in width and 28 m in height -- in the form of a chocolate bar in Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture. Confectionery maker Meiji Seika Kaisha Ltd. set up the billboard along the outer surface of its factory ahead of Valentine's Day on Feb. 14 when it is customary in Japan for women to give chocolates to men. The company has applied to Guinness World Records for the billboard to be registered as the world's biggest advertising board made of plastic.

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Man apparently kills self after questioning over woman's body

MAIZURU, Japan - Kyoto prefectural police officers examine a car in Maizuru, Kyoto Prefecture, on May 18, 2010, in which a 39-year-old man was found dead following questioning over the death of Tsuyuko Uno, whose body was discovered in a plastic bag last month in Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture. The man, Uno's adoptive father, apparently killed himself, according to police.

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2 cab drivers assaulted in Osaka

OSAKA, Japan - Police investigators examine the taxi of a driver who was assaulted by an unidentified man on a street in Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture, in the early morning of Jan. 6. Another taxi driver was attacked by a purported temp worker, who was later arrested, in nearby Neyagawa the same day. The incidents followed two recent fatal taxi holdups in the prefecture.

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Marudai to recall 5 products that may contain tainted milk

TAKATSUKI, Japan - Photo shows five products which Marudai Food Co. in Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture, said on Sept. 20 it has begun recalling. The five are suspected of containing milk tainted with the toxin melamine that was imported from a major Chinese dairy firm.

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Marudai to recall 5 products that may contain tainted milk

TAKATSUKI, Japan - Photo taken Sept. 20, 2008, shows the headquarters of Marudai Food Co. in Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture. The company said the same day it has begun recalling five of its products suspected of containing milk tainted with the toxin melamine that was imported from a major Chinese dairy firm.

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1,000 10,000-yen bills in cooking pot found in garbage depot

OSAKA, Japan - One thousand 10,000-yen bills that were stashed inside a metal pot and found in a garbage depot in Osaka are displayed at the Takatsuki Police Station in Osaka Prefecture on April 4. Police say the money was found by a garbage collector while sorting garbage in the city of Takatsuki on March 25. Under Japanese law, the money will go to the person who found it if no owner shows up in three months.

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U.S. beef served in Japan for first time in 2 years

OSAKA, Japan - U.S. beef is served at a restaurant in Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture, on Dec. 19 after the Japanese government on Dec. 12 conditionally lifted a two-year-old ban it had imposed on U.S. and Canadian beef because of mad cow disease.

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Convicted ex-SDP lawmaker Tsujimoto assured of Diet seat

OSAKA, Japan - Kiyomi Tsujimoto, a convicted former Social Democratic Party lawmaker, celebrates at her election campaign office in Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture, on Sept. 12 after learning she was assured of regaining a parliamentary seat in the Sept. 11 House of Representatives election.

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Party leaders on the stumping

TAKATSUKI, Japan - Democratic Socialist Party leader Mizuho Fukushima gets a hug from one of her supporters during her stumping tour in Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture, on Sept. 3.

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Imashirozuka Tomb believed to have been emperor's grave

OSAKA, Japan - What looks like a drainage pipe-like system features a large keyhole-shaped tomb mound in Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture. Tha Takatsuki education board said on Feb. 17 that the tomb, apparently built in the early 6th century, is believed to be the grave of an emperor, judging by the sophisticated method used to protect burial accessories. The drainage system that prevented water from building up in its chamber and damaging burial accessories, it said.

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(9)Campaigning for upper house election starts

TAKATSUKI, Japan - Former Social Democratic Party lawmaker Kiyomi Tsujimoto (R) shakes hands with a supporter in Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture on June 24 as she began campaigning for the July upper house election. Tsujimoto, once a rising star in the opposition party, was convicted of defrauding the state of secretaries' salaries.

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Experts believe Osaka tomb artifact largest of its kind

OSAKA, Japan - An official at a cultural assets center in Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture, on May 23 points to what researchers believe is Japan's largest tomb artifact in the shape of a temple. The artifact was unearthed last September from the ruins of a sixth-century burial mound in northern Osaka.

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95.6% support no-confidence motion: street poll

OSAKA, Japan - A street poll, conducted in a square in front of JR Takatsuki Station in Osaka Prefecture, western Japan, on Nov. 19, shows 95.6% support for a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori be submitted by the opposition camp at the House of Representatives on Nov. 20. About 230 citizens took part in the 40-minute street survey, sponsored by opposition Social Democratic Party lawmaker Kiyomi Tsujimoto. The photo shows a passerby preparing to put a red seal on either the 'confidence' (left) or 'no-confidence' (right) side of the board.

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Police search room where Red Army's Shigenobu stayed

OSAKA, Japan - Police on Nov. 14 walk to a hotel in Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture, to search a room where Japanese Red Army leader Fusako Shigenobu spent the night before she was arrested last week after almost 30 years on the run.

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Shigenobu arrested outside Osaka hotel

OSAKA, Japan - This is a hotel in Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture, in front of which Fusako Shigenobu, founder of the Japanese Red Army, was arrested on the morning of Nov. 8.

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Masako Takatsuki

Masako Takatsuki, the first Japanese female professional boxer to play against American lady tiger (Marian Trimiar) in her professional boxing debut (welterweight). The match lost the judgment of Takatsuki=October 1, 1976 (Japan time), Grand Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles, USA,Credit:Masako Takatsuki/Kyodo News Images

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Masako Takatsuki

Masako Takatsuki, the first Japanese female professional boxer to play against American lady tiger (Marian Trimiar) in her professional boxing debut (welterweight). The match lost the judgment of Takatsuki=October 1, 1976 (Japan time), Grand Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles, USA,Credit:Masako Takatsuki/Kyodo News Images

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Masako Takatsuki

Masako Takatsuki, the first Japanese female professional boxer to play against American lady tiger (Marian Trimiar) in her professional boxing debut (welterweight). The match lost the judgment of Takatsuki=October 1, 1976 (Japan time), Grand Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles, USA,Credit:Masako Takatsuki/Kyodo News Images

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Masako Takatsuki

Masako Takatsuki, the first Japanese female professional boxer to play against American lady tiger (Marian Trimiar) in her professional boxing debut (welterweight). The match lost the judgment of Takatsuki=October 1, 1976 (Japan time), Grand Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles, USA,Credit:Masako Takatsuki/Kyodo News Images

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Masako Takatsuki

Masako Takatsuki, the first Japanese female professional boxer to play against American lady tiger (Marian Trimiar) in her professional boxing debut (welterweight). The match lost the judgment of Takatsuki=October 1, 1976 (Japan time), Grand Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles, USA,Credit:Masako Takatsuki/Kyodo News Images

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Masako Takatsuki

Masako Takatsuki, the first Japanese female professional boxer to play against American lady tiger (Marian Trimiar) in her professional boxing debut (welterweight). The match lost the judgment of Takatsuki=October 1, 1976 (Japan time), Grand Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles, USA,Credit:Masako Takatsuki/Kyodo News Images

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Masako Takatsuki

Masako Takatsuki, the first Japanese female professional boxer to play against American lady tiger (Marian Trimiar) in her professional boxing debut (welterweight). The match lost the judgment of Takatsuki=October 1, 1976 (Japan time), Grand Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles, USA,Credit:Masako Takatsuki/Kyodo News Images

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Masako Takatsuki

Masako Takatsuki, the first Japanese female professional boxer to play against American lady tiger (Marian Trimiar) in her professional boxing debut (welterweight). The match lost the judgment of Takatsuki=October 1, 1976 (Japan time), Grand Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles, USA,Credit:Masako Takatsuki/Kyodo News Images

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Masako Takatsuki

Masako Takatsuki, the first Japanese female professional boxer to play against American lady tiger (Marian Trimiar) in her professional boxing debut (welterweight). The match lost the judgment of Takatsuki=October 1, 1976 (Japan time), Grand Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles, USA,Credit: Masako Takatsuki/Kyodo News Images

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Masako Takatsuki

Masako Takatsuki, the first Japanese female professional boxer to play against American lady tiger (Marian Trimiar) in her professional boxing debut (welterweight). The match lost the judgment of Takatsuki = October 1, 1976 (Japan time), Grand Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles, USA,Credit:Masako Takatsuki/Kyodo News Images

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Masako Takatsuki

Masako Takatsuki, the first Japanese female professional boxer to play against American lady tiger (Marian Trimiar) in her professional boxing debut (welterweight). The match lost the judgment of Takatsuki=October 1, 1976 (Japan time), Grand Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles, USA,Credit:Masako Takatsuki/Kyodo News Images

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Masako Takatsuki

Masako Takatsuki, the first Japanese female professional boxer to play against American lady tiger (Marian Trimiar) in her professional boxing debut (welterweight). The match lost the judgment of Takatsuki=October 1, 1976 (Japan time), Grand Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles, USA,Credit:Masako Takatsuki/Kyodo News Images

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Masako Takatsuki

Masako Takatsuki, the first Japanese female professional boxer to play against American lady tiger (Marian Trimiar) in her professional boxing debut (welterweight). The match lost the judgment of Takatsuki = October 1, 1976 (Japan time), Grand Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles, USA,Credit:Masako Takatsuki/Kyodo News Images

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Masako Takatsuki

Masako Takatsuki, the first Japanese female professional boxer to play against American lady tiger (Marian Trimiar) in her professional boxing debut (welterweight). The match lost the judgment of Takatsuki=October 1, 1976 (Japan time), Grand Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles, USA,Credit:Masako Takatsuki/Kyodo News Images

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Masako Takatsuki

Masako Takatsuki, the first Japanese female professional boxer to play against American lady tiger (Marian Trimiar) in her professional boxing debut (welterweight). The match lost the judgment of Takatsuki=October 1, 1976 (Japan time), Grand Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles, USA,Credit: Masako Takatsuki/Kyodo News Images

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Masako Takatsuki

Masako Takatsuki, the first Japanese female professional boxer to play against American lady tiger (Marian Trimiar) in her professional boxing debut (welterweight). The match lost the judgment of Takatsuki=October 1, 1976 (Japan time),Grand Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles,USA,Credit:Masako Takatsuki/Kyodo News Images

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Masako Takatsuki

Masako Takatsuki, the first Japanese female professional boxer to play against American lady tiger (Marian Trimiar) in her professional boxing debut (welterweight). The match lost the judgment of Takatsuki=October 1, 1976 (Japan time), Grand Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles, USA,Credit:Masako Takatsuki/Kyodo News Images

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Ex-Taiwan President Lee pays New Year's visit to temple in Shiga

SHIGA, Japan - Former Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui speaks to Taiwan media during his new year's visit to Doganji Temple in the town of Takatsuki, Shiga Prefecture, on Jan. 1. Lee and his family will return home on Jan. 2 after a weeklong tour in Japan. (Kyodo)

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Imashirozuka Tomb believed to have been emperor's grave

OSAKA, Japan - What looks like a drainage pipe-like system features a large keyhole-shaped tomb mound in Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture. Tha Takatsuki education board said on Feb. 17 that the tomb, apparently built in the early 6th century, is believed to be the grave of an emperor, judging by the sophisticated method used to protect burial accessories. The drainage system that prevented water from building up in its chamber and damaging burial accessories, it said. (Kyodo)