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Activist building on her father's legacy to save wildcats

TAKETOMI, Japan - Photo taken May 26, 2014 shows volunteers from a "Wildcat Patrol" group urging drivers at night to slow down with lights and a signboard at the side of the road on Iriomote Island in Okinawa Prefecture. (Photo by Makoto Hori)

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Activist building on her father's legacy to save wildcats

TAKETOMI, Japan - Photo taken May 26, 2014 shows Kumi Togawa standing near water along Haemida beach on southern Iriomote Island in Okinawa Prefecture, where a sickly Iriomote wildcat was found in 1965. The remains of the cat, which soon died, became a specimen. (Photo by Makoto Hori)

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75% of world's coral reefs in danger

OAKLAND, United States - In a September 2007 file photo, a diver swims above bleached coral reefs in the waters off Taketomi Island in Okinawa Prefecture. International researchers warned on Feb. 23, 2011, that 75 percent of the world's coral reefs are threatened by global warming and environmental destruction, and that the world may lose most of the reefs by 2050 if no measures are taken.

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Ex-BTM exec Nakahara named to BOJ board

TOKYO, Japan - Shin Nakahara (file photo), former vice president of the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi (BTM), has been appointed to the Policy Board of the Bank of Japan (BOJ), the government announced June 18. Nakahara replaces Susumu Taketomi, whose term expired June 17.

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Ex-BTM exec Nakahara named to BOJ board

TOKYO, Japan - Shin Nakahara (file photo), former vice president of the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi (BTM), has been appointed to the Policy Board of the Bank of Japan (BOJ), the government announced June 18. Nakahara replaces Susumu Taketomi, whose term expired June 17.

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Kashiwa forward Taketomi fires shot against Shandong in ACL game

Forward Kosuke Taketomi (C) of Kashiwa Reysol fires a shot in the first half of an Asian Champions League Group E game against Shandong Luneng of China in Kashiwa, northeast of Tokyo, on March 17, 2015. The Japanese club won 2-1. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Soccer: Taketomi late show sees Reysol past Frontale

Kosuke Taketomi (R) celebrates after scoring a last-gasp winner past goalkeeper Jung Sung Ryong as Kashiwa Reysol beat Kawasaki Frontale 2-1 at home in the group phase of the Nabsico Cup on April 20, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Okinawa papers rap Abe's fellow lawmakers over anti-media remarks

Kazuhiko Taketomi (L), editor-in-chief of the Okinawa Times, and Yoshikazu Shiohira, editor-in-chief of The Ryukyu Shimpo, speak at a press conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on July 2, 2015. They also spoke at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan and rapped some lawmakers of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic Party for calling for pressure to be applied to media critical of the government, including the two Okinawa papers. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kashiwa remain unbeaten in 2015 as Wako scores injury-time header

Kashiwa Reysol's Kosuke Taketomi (L) and Li Wei of Shandong Luneng vie for the ball in a group stage match of the Asian Champions League in Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, on March 17, 2015. The Japanese side won 2-1. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kashiwa beat Jeonbuk to reach last 16 of ACL

Kosuke Taketomi (L) of Kashiwa Reysol scores his second goal in the first half of an Asian Champions League match against South Korea's Jeonbuk Motors on April 22, 2015, in Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. The home side won 3-2, securing a spot in the last 16 of this year's ACL. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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75% of world's coral reefs in danger

OAKLAND, United States - In a September 2007 file photo, a diver swims above bleached coral reefs in the waters off Taketomi Island in Okinawa Prefecture. International researchers warned on Feb. 23, 2011, that 75 percent of the world's coral reefs are threatened by global warming and environmental destruction, and that the world may lose most of the reefs by 2050 if no measures are taken. (Kyodo)

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Activist building on her father's legacy to save wildcats

TAKETOMI, Japan - Photo taken May 26, 2014 shows Kumi Togawa standing near water along Haemida beach on southern Iriomote Island in Okinawa Prefecture, where a sickly Iriomote wildcat was found in 1965. The remains of the cat, which soon died, became a specimen. (Photo by Makoto Hori)(Kyodo)

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Activist building on her father's legacy to save wildcats

TAKETOMI, Japan - Photo taken May 26, 2014 shows volunteers from a "Wildcat Patrol" group urging drivers at night to slow down with lights and a signboard at the side of the road on Iriomote Island in Okinawa Prefecture. (Photo by Makoto Hori)(Kyodo)

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Coral bleaching on Japan's largest coral reef

Photo taken in waters off Taketomi Island in Okinawa Prefecture in September 2016 shows coral bleaching in Japan's largest coral reef, which nestles in between the islands of Ishigaki and Iriomote in the southernmost Japanese prefecture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo