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Diet summons key figure in HIV scandal

Diet summons key figure in HIV scandal

TOKYO, Japan, Aug. 24 Kyodo - Takeshi Abe, former head of the Health and Welfare Ministry's AIDS study team and former vice president of Teikyo University, raises his hand to testify as unsworn witness at a House of Representatives committee session in Tokyo in April 1996 over his connection with HIV infections through tainted blood products in the early 1980s. An expert on hemophilia treatment, Abe is regarded as the key figure who influenced a ministry decision to continue the use of unheated blood products in 1984.(Kyodo)

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The Great Bell, Hokoji Temple

The Great Bell, Hokoji Temple

The Great Bell, Hokoji Temple==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6884]

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Fushimi Inari Shrine

Fushimi Inari Shrine

Fushimi Inari Shrine==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6889]

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Maruyama Yaami Hotel

Maruyama Yaami Hotel

Maruyama Yaami Hotel==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6876]

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Nishi Otani (Otani Honbyo Mausoleum of Honganji Temple)

Nishi Otani (Otani Honbyo Mausoleum of Honganji Temple)

Nishi Otani (Otani Honbyo Mausoleum of Honganji Temple)==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6883]

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Tsutenbashi bridge at tofukuji temple

Tsutenbashi bridge at tofukuji temple

Tsutenbashi bridge at tofukuji temple==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6887]

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Sanjusangendo

Sanjusangendo

Sanjusangendo==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6886]

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The stage of Kiyomizudera Temple,Kyoto

The stage of Kiyomizudera Temple,Kyoto

The stage of Kiyomizudera Temple,Kyoto==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6882]

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Nanzenji Temple

Nanzenji Temple

Nanzenji Temple==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6873]

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Hall at Enryakuji Temple, Mt Hiei

Hall at Enryakuji Temple, Mt Hiei

Hall at Enryakuji Temple, Mt Hiei==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6866]

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Higashi Otani (Otani Sobyo Mausoleum of Higashi Honganji Temple)

Higashi Otani (Otani Sobyo Mausoleum of Higashi Honganji Temple)

Higashi Otani (Otani Sobyo Mausoleum of Higashi Honganji Temple)==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6879]

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TOYOKUNI SHRINE

TOYOKUNI SHRINE

TOYOKUNI SHRINE==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6885]

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Sen-yuji temple

Sen-yuji temple

Sen-yuji temple==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6888]

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Maruyama

Maruyama

Maruyama==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6877]

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Eikan-do Temple

Eikan-do Temple

Eikan-do Temple==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6872]

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Five-Story Pagoda of Yasaka

Five-Story Pagoda of Yasaka

Five-Story Pagoda of Yasaka==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6881]

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Yasaka Shrine, Gion, Kyoto

Yasaka Shrine, Gion, Kyoto

Yasaka Shrine, Gion, Kyoto==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6878]

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Rows of houses seen from Higashiyama,Kyoto

Rows of houses seen from Higashiyama,Kyoto

Rows of houses seen from Higashiyama,Kyoto==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6875]

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Tokugawa Akitake

Tokugawa Akitake

Tokugawa Akitake==Date:1867, Place:Japan, Photo:Other photographers ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:7097]

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Koudaiji Temple

Koudaiji Temple

Koudaiji Temple==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6880]

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Foreign man

Foreign man

Foreign man==Date:unknown, Place:Nagasaki, Photo:Ueno Hikoma ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:7095]

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Tokugawa Yoshinobu

Tokugawa Yoshinobu

Tokugawa Yoshinobu==Date:unknown, Place:Japan, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:7100]

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Chion-in Temple

Chion-in Temple

Chion-in Temple==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6874]

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Portrait of a man

Portrait of a man

Portrait of a man==Date:unknown, Place:Japan, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:7101]

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Sanjo Sanetomi

Sanjo Sanetomi

Sanjo Sanetomi==Date:unknown, Place:Japan, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:7099]

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Prince Fushimi Sadanaru

Prince Fushimi Sadanaru

Prince Fushimi Sadanaru==Date:unknown, Place:Japan, Photo:Uchida Kuichi ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:7102]

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Foreign man

Foreign man

Foreign man==Date:1875, Place:Nagasaki, Photo:Ueno Hikoma ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:7096]

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Foreign man

Foreign man

Foreign man==Date:1873, Place:Nagasaki, Photo:Ueno Hikoma ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:7093]

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Foreign man

Foreign man

Foreign man==Date:unknown, Place:Nagasaki, Photo:Ueno Hikoma ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:7094]

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Tokugawa Iesato ?

Tokugawa Iesato ?

Tokugawa Iesato ?==Date:unknown, Place:Japan, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:7103]

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Portrait of a man

Portrait of a man

Portrait of a man==Date:unknown, Place:Japan, Photo:Kitaniwa Tsukuba ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:7105]

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Doctors prepping to keep Tokyo safe and healthy during 2020 Olympics

Doctors prepping to keep Tokyo safe and healthy during 2020 Olympics

TOKYO, Japan, Jan. 25 Kyodo - Undated file photo shows Yasufumi Miyake, a Teikyo University emergency medicine professor. He is a member of a panel set up within the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic organizing committee to study measures that can be taken to combat the anticipated high temperatures that athletes and spectators will have to endure during the games.

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Ig Nobel award

Ig Nobel award

CAMBRIDGE, United States - Teikyo University School of Medicine Associate Professor Masanori Niimi (C) poses for photos with co-awardees during an award ceremony at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Sept. 12, 2013. Their group won the spoof Ig Nobel medicine prize for studying how opera music affects mice heart transplants.

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Top court rules stories on Abe's HIV role not defamatory

Top court rules stories on Abe's HIV role not defamatory

TOKYO, Japan - Journalist Yoshiko Sakurai speaks with a smile during a news conference in Tokyo on June 16 after the Supreme Court ruled that stories written by her about HIV caused by tainted blood products used to treat hemophilia were not defamatory of the late hemophilia expert Takeshi Abe, former vice president of Teikyo University.

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Vice minister Miyaji quits post over influence scandal

Vice minister Miyaji quits post over influence scandal

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuaki Miyaji (C), senior vice minister at the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry, is surrounded by reporters at the ministry in Tokyo on July 15 after informing Health, Labor and Welfare Minister Chikara Sakaguchi of his intention to step down. Miyaji allegedly used his authority to help a supporter's grandson get into Teikyo University School of Medicine.

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Hemophilia expert Abe found innocent in HIV trial

Hemophilia expert Abe found innocent in HIV trial

TOKYO, Japan - Plaintiffs filing HIV suits meet the press in Tokyo on March 28 after the Tokyo District Court acquitted Takeshi Abe, once Japan's top hemophilia expert, of professional negligence resulting in the death of one of his patients from AIDS in 1991. The court said there was little possibility Abe, former vice president of Teikyo University, could have foreseen the scale of the tragedy.

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Former sumo wrestler Mainoumi steps up to lectern

Former sumo wrestler Mainoumi steps up to lectern

HACHIOJI, Japan - Former sumo wrestler Mainoumi, who now goes by his real name Shuhei Nagao, steps up to the lectern at Teikyo University on April 19, and was greeted with applause by his students as he readied for his lecture at the Tokyo school. Nagao will deliver a weekly lecture on ''sociology from the viewpoint of sumo'' as a part-time lecturer.

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Hospital head meets press after tuberculosis reports

Hospital head meets press after tuberculosis reports

The photo shows Kenji Mano (2nd from L), head of Teikyo University Hospital, meeting the press on June 27 after news reports that 37 medical workers at the Tokyo hospital may have contracted tuberculosis from a surgeon in his 30s.

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Vice minister Miyaji quits post over influence scandal

Vice minister Miyaji quits post over influence scandal

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuaki Miyaji (C), senior vice minister at the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry, is surrounded by reporters at the ministry in Tokyo on July 15 after informing Health, Labor and Welfare Minister Chikara Sakaguchi of his intention to step down. Miyaji allegedly used his authority to help a supporter's grandson get into Teikyo University School of Medicine.

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Top court rules stories on Abe's HIV role not defamatory

Top court rules stories on Abe's HIV role not defamatory

TOKYO, Japan - Journalist Yoshiko Sakurai speaks with a smile during a news conference in Tokyo on June 16 after the Supreme Court ruled that stories written by her about HIV caused by tainted blood products used to treat hemophilia were not defamatory of the late hemophilia expert Takeshi Abe, former vice president of Teikyo University. (Kyodo)

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Panasonic top Teikyo Univ. to complete league/cup double

Panasonic top Teikyo Univ. to complete league/cup double

Panasonic Wild Knights' Kentaro Kodama breaks through to score a try during the first half of the 53rd All-Japan Championship match against Teikyo University at Prince Chichibu Memorial Rugby Ground in Tokyo on Jan. 31, 2016. The Wild Knights, who won their fourth Top League title last week, beat the top university 49-15. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Panasonic top Teikyo Univ. to complete league/cup double

Panasonic top Teikyo Univ. to complete league/cup double

Panasonic Wild Knights' players celebrate on the podium after beating Teikyo University 49-15 at the 53rd All-Japan Championship match at Prince Chichibu Memorial Rugby Ground in Tokyo on Jan. 31, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Expectations high for new Olympic sports to be added for Tokyo Games

Expectations high for new Olympic sports to be added for Tokyo Games

Karate athletes of Teikyo University practice in Hachioji, Tokyo, on Nov. 17, 2015. Karate is among the sports Tokyo 2020 organizers have proposed to the International Olympic Committee for addition for the Olympics in the Japanese capital in five years' time. The IOC will announce the additional sports for the Tokyo Games in August 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Expectations high for new Olympic sports to be added for Tokyo Games

Expectations high for new Olympic sports to be added for Tokyo Games

Karate athletes of Teikyo University practice in Hachioji, Tokyo, on Nov. 17, 2015. Karate is among the sports Tokyo 2020 organizers have proposed to the International Olympic Committee for addition for the Olympics in the Japanese capital in five years' time. The IOC will announce the additional sports for the Tokyo Games in August 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Teikyo University upset NEC in All-Japan Championship

Teikyo University upset NEC in All-Japan Championship

Teikyo University players express joy after winning a penalty in extra time during an All-Japan Championship match against NEC Green Rockets on Feb. 8, 2015, in Tokyo. Teikyo beat NEC 31-25, becoming just the second collegiate side to beat a Top League team in the event. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Doctors prepping to keep Tokyo safe and healthy during 2020 Olympics

Doctors prepping to keep Tokyo safe and healthy during 2020 Olympics

Undated file photo shows Yasufumi Miyake, a Teikyo University emergency medicine professor. He is a member of a panel set up within the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic organizing committee to study measures that can be taken to combat the anticipated high temperatures that athletes and spectators will have to endure during the games. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Rugby: Panasonic flyer Kodama to play Super Rugby for Rebels

Rugby: Panasonic flyer Kodama to play Super Rugby for Rebels

Photo taken in January 2016 shows then Panasonic Wild Knights wing Kentaro Kodama scoring a try in the first half of his team's 49-15 win over Teikyo University in the final of the national championship in Tokyo. Kodama has signed a one-year contract with the Melbourne Rebels, the Australian Super Rugby franchise said on Jan. 26, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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View in front of the gate of katase ryukoji temple

View in front of the gate of katase ryukoji temple

Jyakukozan Ryukoji Temple. Nichiren was arrested in Ankokuronji at Nagoe for interrogation by the regent Hojo Tokimune. He came to Ryunokuchi and prayed facing south at midnight, and is said to have been saved from beheading by miracles. This is the so-called Honan of Ryunokuchi , and Ryukoji Temple was built there after the death of Nichiren.==Date:unknown, Place:Fujisawa, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number19‐44‐0]

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Miyanoshita naraya inn

Miyanoshita naraya inn

A Japanese building of the Naraya Hotel in Miyanoshita. This coincides with the information book of the seven spas. It was destroyed in the fire of 1884. This is an important photo because few pictures taken before that time remain. Emperor Meiji stayed at this hotel in 1874.==Date:unknown, Place:Hakone, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number19‐43‐0]

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Western style house in kanagawa

Western style house in kanagawa

The photo is entitled Kanagawa, but the location of the place and building are unknown.==Date:unknown, Place:Kanagawa, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number19‐40‐0]

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