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Yokozuna Hakuho mingles with Mongolian youths

TOKYO, Japan - Yokozuna Hakuho from Mongolia plays basketball at Takushoku University's Hachioji Campus in the suburbs of Tokyo in a cultural exchange event with Mongolian students on Dec. 21, 2014. Fellow Mongolian grand champion Kakuryu also attended.

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Event to promote seaberry

ASAHIKAWA, Japan - Mongolian yokozuna sumo wrestler Hakuho (L) takes part in the planting of a seaberry plant seedling on the campus of Takushoku University Hokkaido Junior College in Fukagawa, Hokkaido, on Oct. 18, 2012, in a ceremony to commemorate the start of a research program on how to mass produce the fruit in Japan. The fruit is common in central and northern Eurasia including Mongolia.

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Cabinet reshuffle

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Satoshi Morimoto, professor on security issues at Takushoku University Graduate School. Morimoto was appointed defense minister, replacing Naoki Tanaka and becoming Japan's first nonparliamentarian defense chief, as Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda reshuffled his Cabinet on June 4, 2012.

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Sakhalin restores Japanese cultural assets to attract tourists

YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, Russia - Photo shows the former branch of now-defunct Japanese bank Hokkaido Takushoku Bank, now a Sakhalin state museum, in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk in Russia, which was built before World War II. The provincial government of Sakhalin is restoring with the help of Japanese experts buildings and other cultural assets the Japanese left behind after the war with a view to attracting Japanese tourists to the southern region of the island north of Hokkaido which was ruled by Japan between 1905 and 1945.

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Thaksin appointed visiting professor at Takushoku Univ. in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Thailand's ousted former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra (L) and Toshio Watanabe, head of Takushoku University, speaks at a news conference at the university in Tokyo on June 7. Thaksin was appointed a visiting professor at the university.

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S. Korean scholar says Japan's 1905 annexation of islets imperialism

MATSUE, Japan - Choi Jang Geun (R), a full-time lecturer at South Korea's Daegu University, and Masao Shimojo, professor at Takushoku University in Tokyo, debate the territorial issue over a rocky islet chain in the Sea of Japan at a panel discussion organized by the the Shimane prefectural government in Matsue on July 25.

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East Timor President Gusmao honored by Takushoku University

TOKYO, Japan - East Timorese President Xanana Gusmao (L) is presented with a school medal after receiving an honorary doctorate from Takushoku University President Toshio Watanabe on Feb. 25.

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(2)Ex-Takugin presidents acquitted over shady loans

SAPPORO, Japan - Sadamasa Kawatani, former president of failed Hokkaido Takushoku Bank, is surrounded by reporters after the Sapporo District Court on Feb. 27 acquitted him in a case involving the bank's shady loans to a local business group.

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Takushoku Univ.'s Morishita to turn pro at Osaka sumo tourney

TOKYO, Japan - Takushoku University sumo wrestler Norikatsu Morishita (L) shakes hands with stablemaster Oguruma, former ozeki Kotokaze, after deciding to join the Oguruma Stable on Feb. 21. The 22-year-old Morishita, who stands 1.8 meters tall and weighs 135 kilograms, will turn professional in the upcoming Spring Grand Sumo Tournament that starts in Osaka on March 9.

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Civic groups protest Fujimori's lecture

TOKTO, Japan - Members of civic groups hold a banner outside Takushoku University in Tokyo on Jan. 10 in protest against a lecture given at the university by deposed Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori.

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Fujimori lectures at Takushoku University

TOKYO, Japan - Deposed Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori gives a lecture at the private Takushoku University in Tokyo on Jan. 10. Fujimori, who has become a visiting professor at the university, said terrorism is a problem that cannot be quickly solved and the fight against it will be a long-term process.

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Fujimori lectures at Takushoku University

TOKYO, Japan - Deposed Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori gives a lecture at the private Takushoku University in Tokyo on Jan. 10. Fujimori, who has become a visiting professor at the university, said terrorism is a problem that cannot be quickly solved and the fight against it will be a long-term process.

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East Timor President Gusmao honored by Takushoku University

TOKYO, Japan - East Timorese President Xanana Gusmao (L) is presented with a school medal after receiving an honorary doctorate from Takushoku University President Toshio Watanabe on Feb. 25. (Kyodo)

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Japanese bank turned into art museum on Russia's Sakhalin Island

Photo taken on Sept. 2, 2015, shows a former branch of now-defunct Hokkaido Takushoku Bank Ltd. that has been turned into the Sakhalin Art Museum in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk on the Russian Far East island of Sakhalin. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Sakhalin restores Japanese cultural assets to attract tourists

YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, Russia - Photo shows the former branch of now-defunct Japanese bank Hokkaido Takushoku Bank, now a Sakhalin state museum, in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk in Russia, which was built before World War II. The provincial government of Sakhalin is restoring with the help of Japanese experts buildings and other cultural assets the Japanese left behind after the war with a view to attracting Japanese tourists to the southern region of the island north of Hokkaido which was ruled by Japan between 1905 and 1945. (Kyodo)

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Ex-bankers sentenced to prison terms over bad loans

SAPPORO, Japan - The Sapporo High Court sentenced Hiroshi Yamauchi (L in file photo) and Sadamasa Kawatani (C), two former Hokkaido Takushoku Bank presidents, to two-and-a-half years in prison each on Aug. 31 for irresponsibly extending loans that led to the Sapporo-based bank's collapse in 1997. Yoichi Nakamura (R), the former head of a Sapporo-based resort hotel developer, received 18 months in prison. (Kyodo)

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S. Korean scholar says Japan's 1905 annexation of islets imperia

MATSUE, Japan - Choi Jang Geun (R), a full-time lecturer at South Korea's Daegu University, and Masao Shimojo, professor at Takushoku University in Tokyo, debate the territorial issue over a rocky islet chain in the Sea of Japan at a panel discussion organized by the the Shimane prefectural government in Matsue on July 25. (Kyodo)

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Thaksin appointed visiting professor at Takushoku Univ. in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Thailand's ousted former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra (L) and Toshio Watanabe, head of Takushoku University, speaks at a news conference at the university in Tokyo on June 7. Thaksin was appointed a visiting professor at the university. (Kyodo)

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Yokozuna Hakuho mingles with Mongolian youths

TOKYO, Japan - Yokozuna Hakuho from Mongolia plays basketball at Takushoku University's Hachioji Campus in the suburbs of Tokyo in a cultural exchange event with Mongolian students on Dec. 21, 2014. Fellow Mongolian grand champion Kakuryu also attended. (Kyodo)

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(2)Ex-Takugin presidents acquitted over shady loans

SAPPORO, Japan - Sadamasa Kawatani, former president of failed Hokkaido Takushoku Bank, is surrounded by reporters after the Sapporo District Court on Feb. 27 acquitted him in a case involving the bank's shady loans to a local business group. (Kyodo)

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(1)Ex-Takugin presidents acquitted over shady loans

SAPPORO, Japan - Hiroshi Yamauchi, former president of failed Hokkaido Takushoku Bank, leaves the Sapporo District Court on Feb. 27. Yamauchi was acquitted in a case involving the bank's shady loans to a business group. (Kyodo)

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Takushoku Univ.'s Morishita to turn pro at Osaka sumo tourney

TOKYO, Japan - Takushoku University sumo wrestler Norikatsu Morishita (L) shakes hands with stablemaster Oguruma, former ozeki Kotokaze, after deciding to join the Oguruma Stable on Feb. 21. The 22-year-old Morishita, who stands 1.8 meters tall and weighs 135 kilograms, will turn professional in the upcoming Spring Grand Sumo Tournament that starts in Osaka on March 9. (Kyodo)

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Two former bank chiefs arrested

Hiroshi Yamauchi (C), former president of the collapsed Hokkaido Takushoku Bank (Takugin), is flanked by policemen as he leaves his home in Sapporo on March 2. Yamauchi was arrested later in the day along with one of his former colleagues on suspicion of breach of trust by causing massive losses to the bank through illegal loans. ==Kyodo