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[Breaking News]Wolf escapes at western Tokyo zoo

TOKYO, Japan, Dec. 29 Kyodo - Video taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows an aerial view of the Tama Zoological Park in Hino, western Tokyo, shortly after noon on Dec. 28, 2025, where a wolf escaped from its enclosure. The European wolf was recaptured at around 2:20 p.m. after being spotted on a public pathway inside the zoo. (Kyodo)

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Wolf escapes at western Tokyo zoo

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows an aerial view of the Tama Zoological Park in Hino, western Tokyo, shortly after noon on Dec. 28, 2025, where a wolf escaped from its enclosure. The European wolf was recaptured at around 2:20 p.m. after being spotted on a public pathway inside the zoo.

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Wolf escapes at western Tokyo zoo

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows an aerial view of the Tama Zoological Park in Hino, western Tokyo, shortly after noon on Dec. 28, 2025, where a wolf escaped from its enclosure. The European wolf was recaptured at around 2:20 p.m. after being spotted on a public pathway inside the zoo.

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Wolf escapes at western Tokyo zoo

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows an aerial view of the Tama Zoological Park in Hino, western Tokyo, shortly after noon on Dec. 28, 2025, where a wolf escaped from its enclosure. The European wolf was recaptured at around 2:20 p.m. after being spotted on a public pathway inside the zoo.

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Wolf escapes at western Tokyo zoo

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows an aerial view of the Tama Zoological Park in Hino, western Tokyo, shortly after noon on Dec. 28, 2025, where a wolf escaped from its enclosure. The European wolf was recaptured at around 2:20 p.m. after being spotted on a public pathway inside the zoo.

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Wolf escapes at western Tokyo zoo

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows staff at the Tama Zoological Park in Hino, western Tokyo, setting up a net to recapture a wolf shortly after noon on Dec. 28, 2025, following its escape from an enclosure. The European wolf was caught at around 2:20 p.m.

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Wolf escapes at western Tokyo zoo

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows staff at the Tama Zoological Park in Hino, western Tokyo, setting up a net to recapture a wolf shortly after noon on Dec. 28, 2025, following its escape from an enclosure. The European wolf was caught at around 2:20 p.m.

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Wolf escapes at western Tokyo zoo

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows staff at the Tama Zoological Park in Hino, western Tokyo, setting up a net to recapture a wolf shortly after noon on Dec. 28, 2025, following its escape from an enclosure. The European wolf was caught at around 2:20 p.m.

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Japan: Tokyo Hit by Evening Downpours and Flooding After Extreme Heat

On the evening of August 18, heavy rain hit parts of Tokyo, flooding some roads. Severe rain and flood warnings were issued for eastern Tokyo’s Arakawa Ward and western Tama. Earlier the same day, the Kanto region experienced extreme heat, with temperatures soaring above body temperature in several areas, including 39°C recorded in Fuchu City. The intense heat caused highly unstable atmospheric conditions, leading to the rapid development of thunderstorms across the region by the evening.

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Saori Minami

Saori Minami=Date: November 2, 1971, Place: Japan

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Ken Takakura

Ken Takakura on the set of the movie “Abashiri Prison”=Date : December 10, 1971, Place : Sounkyo, Hokkaido

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Tomisaburo Wakayama

Tomisaburo Wakayama=Place: Akasaka, Japan

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Tetsuko Kuroyanagi

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Hammer attack at university in Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Jan. 10, 2025, shows an area near Hosei University's Tama Campus in Machida, western Tokyo, where eight students were injured earlier in the day in a hammer attack by a 22-year-old female student.

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Hammer attack at university in Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Jan. 10, 2025, shows an area near Hosei University's Tama Campus in Machida, western Tokyo, where eight students were injured earlier in the day in a hammer attack by a 22-year-old female student.

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Bigmotor outlet in Tokyo

Photo taken on Sept. 19, 2023, shows a Bigmotor Co. outlet in Tama, western Tokyo. Japan's financial watchdog began searches the same day at offices of the major used car dealer network Bigmotor and casualty insurer Sompo Japan Insurance Inc. as part of a high-profile insurance fraud investigation.

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Bigmotor outlet in Tokyo

Photo taken on Sept. 19, 2023, shows a Bigmotor Co. outlet in Tama, western Tokyo. Japan's financial watchdog began searches the same day at offices of the major used car dealer network Bigmotor and casualty insurer Sompo Japan Insurance Inc. as part of a high-profile insurance fraud investigation.

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FSA searches Bigmotor outlet over insurance fraud case

Officials of Japan's Financial Services Agency enter an outlet of Bigmotor Co. in Tama city, western Tokyo, on Sept. 19, 2023, as part of a high-profile car insurance fraud investigation involving the major used car dealer network.

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FSA searches Bigmotor outlet over insurance fraud case

Officials of Japan's Financial Services Agency enter an outlet of Bigmotor Co. in Tama city, western Tokyo, on Sept. 19, 2023, as part of a high-profile car insurance fraud investigation involving the major used car dealer network.

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Tama Home logo and signage

Tama Home logo and signage=Date:January 23, 2019,Place:Tokyo

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Logo, signage and exterior of Tama Home

Logo, signage and exterior of Tama Home=Date:January 23, 2019,Place:Tokyo

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Logo, signage and exterior of Tama Home

Logo, signage and exterior of Tama Home=Date:January 23, 2019,Place:Tokyo

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Heavy snow in Japan

A station staff member tries to remove snow from a pedestrian bridge in front of Tokyo Tama Intercity Monorail's Tachikawa-Minami Station in western Tokyo on Feb. 10, 2023.

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Typhoon rips through Tokyo metropolitan area

TOKYO, Japan - People put sandbags along the embankment of the swollen Tama River in Tokyo as Typhoon Fitow ripped through the metropolitan area and its vicinity early on Sept. 7. The season's No. 9 typhoon left one person dead and several others missing.

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Nestle Japan to sell new coffee maker on Oct. 1

TOKYO, Japan - Nestle Japan Ltd. unveils a new coffee maker in Tokyo on Aug. 27, 2014, for sale from on Oct. 1. The round-shaped "Nescafe Gold Blend Barista TAMA," developed jointly with Tokyo's Tama Art University, boasts a big water-feeding tank despite its small size.

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Man arrested over Benesse data theft

TOKYO, Japan - Police officers emerge from an office in Tama, Tokyo, of Synform Co., a customer data management unit of Benesse Holdings Inc., on July 17, 2014, after raiding the firm. The same day, a 39-year-old man was arrested over a massive customer data theft from Benesse, a major correspondence education provider for children, on suspicion of downloading and copying Benesse's customer data onto storage media at the Synform office.

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Japan cultural envoys

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in Tokyo on May 22, 2013, shows six of eight arts professionals whom Japan has selected as cultural ambassadors to help promote Japanese arts and culture overseas. They are (from L to R) calligrapher Souun Takeda, art unit Maywa Denki member Nobumichi Tosa, plaster artist Shuhei Hasado, Japanese-style gardener Masashi Hirao, dancer and choreographer Kaiji Moriyama, and "taiko" player Leonard Eto. The other two, actor Mirai Moriyama and Tama Art University professor Yuko Hasegawa, are not in the photo.

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Comic chat artist Maki dies

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Maruko Bridge over Tama River in Tokyo's Ota Ward on April 29, 2013. Ukulele-strumming comic chat artist Shinji Maki died the same day after jumping into the river from the bridge in an apparent suicide, police said. He was 78.

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Comic chat artist Maki dies

TOKYO, Japan - A November 2005 file photo shows ukulele-strumming comic chat artist Shinji Maki during a dinner show in Tokyo. Maki died on April 29, 2013, after jumping into the Tama River bordering Tokyo and Kanagawa Prefecture in an apparent suicide, police said. He was 78.

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Marijuana making inroads into university campuses

TOKYO, Japan - An aerial view taken Nov. 15 of Hosei University's Tama campus in Tokyo's Machida city. The library, where five students said they smoked and dealt marijuana, can be seen in the center of the photo.

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Tama Zoo celebrates 50th anniversary, opens giant bird cages

TOKYO, Japan - Tama Zoological Park in Hino, western Tokyo, opens two giant bird cages May 1. The bird cages, each about 8 meters high with a total area of 1,870 square meters, enable visitors to walk inside and view about 50 birds of five kinds. The zoo held a ceremony the same day ahead of its 50th anniversary on May 5.

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Princess Aiko visits Tama zoo

TOKYO, Japan - Princess Aiko, daughter of Crown Prince Naruhito and Princess Masako, arrives at Tama Zoological Park in Tokyo's Hino on Nov. 16 for an outing of the Gakushuin kindergarten. (Pool photo)

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Princess Aiko visits Tama zoo

TOKYO, Japan - Princess Aiko (R), accompanied by her mother, Princess Masako, arrives at Tama Zoological Park in Tokyo's Hino on Nov. 16 for an outing of the Gakushuin kindergarten. (Pool photo)

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50th anniversary of Sri Lankan elephant's arrival in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Prince and Princess Mikasa (L and C) pose for photos with Sri Lankan Minister of National Heritage Anura Bandaranaike (R) at Tama Zoo in Tokyo's Hino on May 12 in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the arrival of the elephant Anura (in background) in Japan. Anura was presented to Japan by Ceylon, the former name of Sri Lanka, in 1956 to commemorate the prince's visit to Ceylon.

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Princess Aiko goes on outing to zoo

TOKYO, Japan - Princess Aiko (L), accompanied by her mother Princess Masako, arrives at Tokyo's Tama Zoo on a Gakushuin Kindergarten school outing on Nov. 17. (Pool photo)

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Seal believed to be 'Tama-chan' seen in Saitama Pref.

KOSHIGAYA, Japan - A seal believed to be ''Tama-chan'' -- the seal that has gained nationwide fame since first being sighted last August in the Tama River, which borders Tokyo and Kanagawa Prefecture -- is spotted in the Naka River in Koshigaya, Saitama Prefecture, April 21. The elusive seal had been seen recently in the Katabira River in Yokohama but its whereabouts have not been known since mid-March.

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Abductee Hasuike visits old school

TOKYO, Japan - Kaoru Hasuike (R), one of five Japanese nationals who returned to Japan last year after being abducted to North Korea in 1978, eats with his wife Yukiko at his alma mater Chuo University on March 14. The couple toured its Tama campus in Tokyo's Hachioji at the invitation of a group created by students and alumni in 1998 to try to rescue Hasuike from the North.

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Animal rights group fails to capture 'Tama-chan'

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Members of the U.S.-based Marine Animal Lifeline emerge from the Katabira River in Yokohama's Nishi Ward on March 11 after failing to capture ''Tama-chan,'' the stray seal that appeared in Tokyo's Tama River last summer. The group rescues stranded animals and returns them to their natural habitat.

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'Tama-chan' seal registered as Yokohama 'resident'

YOKOHAMA, Japan - A kindergartner in Yokohama's Nishi Ward hands ward chief Michinosuke Kimizuka a registry application for ''Tama-chan,'' the seal that has been showing up along the banks of the Katabira River in the city. The seal, first sighted last August in the Tama River, which borders Tokyo and Kanagawa prefectures, was later seen in the Tsurumi River and then in the Katabira River in Kanagawa Prefecture in September.

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Yokohama ward to give 'Tama-chan' seal resident's card

YOKOHAMA, Japan - The Nishi Ward office in Yokohama said Feb. 6 it will give the ''Tama-chan'' seal (file photo) a special ''resident's card'' in response to requests from locals. The seal has often been seen in the Katabira River in the ward since September last year and was first spotted in the Tama River in Tokyo last August. Ward officials hope the seal will act as a mascot in a campaign for cleaner towns and rivers.

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''Tama-chan'' shows up again

YOKOHAMA, Japan - A seal believed to be ''Tama-chan'' is seen relaxed on the bank of the Katabira River in Yokohama's Nishi Ward on Dec. 24. Local people say Tama-chan last showed up there Oct. 11. The young seal was named ''Tama-chan'' after it was first spotted in the Tama River in Tokyo on Aug. 7.

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Gov't counts on help from 'Tama-chan' to clean up rivers

YOKOHAMA, Japan - The Land, Infrastructure and Transport Ministry's construction office in Yokohama said Nov. 12 it will prepare about 54,000 copies of a four-page pamphlet featuring a popular but elusive wild seal named ''Tama-chan'' (shown in photo) for help in a campaign to clean up rivers. The bearded seal was spotted in the Tama River, the Tsurumi River and the Katabira River in Tokyo and Kanagawa prefectures.

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'Tama-chan' spotted again in Yokohama's Katabira River

YOKOHAMA, Oct. 11 - A seal believed to be ''Tama-chan'' suns itself on the bank of the Katabira River in Yokohama's Nishi Ward on Oct. 11. Local people say Tama-chan showed up there Oct. 9. The young seal was first spotted in the Tama River in Tokyo on Aug. 7.

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'Tama-chan' seal spotted this time in Yokohama's Ooka River

YOKOHAMA, Japan - A seal believed to be ''Tama-chan,'' which disappeared from the public eyes on Sept. 13, is spotted again in the Ooka River in Yokohama on Sept. 15. Tama-chan was first spotted in the Tama River in Tokyo on Aug. 7 and then appeared in the Tsurumi River in Yokohama on Aug. 25. On Sept. 12, Tama-chan was discovered in Yokohama's Katabira River.

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Seal seen swimming in Tokyo's Tama River

TOKYO, Japan - A seal puppy is seen swimming in the Tama River near the Maruko Bridge in Tokyo's Ota Ward on Aug. 15. The seal, which is about one meter long, was first seen near the bridge about one week ago. An official at Kamogawa Seaworld in Kamogawa, Chiba Prefecture, said the seal, which usually inhabits the Arctic, may have mistakenly gone south to seek food and strayed into the river.

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Tama River overflows

TOKYO, Japan - The right half of the Tama River, which normally has playgrounds and parks, are flooded in the lower reaches in the wake of Typhoon Danas that buffeted central Tokyo and vicinity Sept. 11. The river separates Tokyo and Kanagawa prefectures.

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Houses inundated

TOKYO, Japan - Houses stand inundated in Kawasaki, south of Tokyo on Sept. 11, as the Tama River overflows in its lower reaches in the wake of Typhoon Danas that buffeted central Tokyo and vicinity.

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Tanaka meets advisory panel members on foreign policy

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka (R) addresses members of a new advisory panel to the minister which met for the first time Sept. 5 at her ministry. The members discussed issues related to Japan's foreign affairs to assist Tanaka in drawing up policies. The members include actress Tetsuko Kuroyanagi (L), a goodwill ambassador of the U.N. Children's Fund, and Tama University President Gregory Clark (C).

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(4)Two mil. Japanese take part in disaster-relief drills

TOKYO, Japan - A makeshift bridge is built across the Tama River in Chofu, western Tokyo, during a disaster simulation drill which was conducted Sept. 1 on the assumption a destructive, vertical-type earthquake had hit the southern Kanto region.

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Chimpanzee demonstrates ability to operate vending machine

TACHIKAWA, Japan - Chiko, a six-year-old female chimpanzee at the Tama Zoo in the city of Hino, Tokyo, on Feb. 9 demonstrates her ability to purchase drinks from a vending machine. Chiko learned how to insert coins into the machine to purchase the beverages as part of the zoo's research studies to assess the apes' learning abilities and further develop them.