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Polar bear at Osaka zoo cools off with ice

A polar bear at Tennoji Zoo in the western Japan city of Osaka is given an ice block to cool down amid summer heat on July 20, 2024.

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Polar bear at Osaka zoo cools off with ice

A polar bear at Tennoji Zoo in the western Japan city of Osaka is given an ice block to cool down amid summer heat on July 20, 2024.

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Polar bear at Osaka zoo cools off with ice

A polar bear at Tennoji Zoo in the western Japan city of Osaka is given an ice block to cool down amid summer heat on July 20, 2024.

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Polar bear at Osaka zoo cools off with ice

A polar bear at Tennoji Zoo in the western Japan city of Osaka is given an ice block to cool down amid summer heat on July 20, 2024.

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Polar bear at Osaka zoo cools off with ice

A polar bear at Tennoji Zoo in the western Japan city of Osaka is given an ice block to cool down amid summer heat on July 20, 2024.

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Chimpanzee escapes from Osaka zoo

Photo taken on Oct. 17, 2023, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a female chimpanzee on a tree in Tennoji Zoo in Osaka after it escaped from its enclosure earlier in the day, leaving the zoo closed throughout the day. The chimpanzee was captured several hours later, after biting a veterinarian in the face.

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Chimpanzee escapes from Osaka zoo

Photo taken on Oct. 17, 2023, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows Tennoji Zoo in Osaka, where a female chimpanzee escaped from its enclosure earlier in the day. The chimpanzee was captured several hours later, after biting a veterinarian in the face.

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Chimpanzee escapes from Osaka zoo

Visitors evacuate from Tennoji Zoo in Osaka on Oct. 17, 2023, after a female chimpanzee escaped from its enclosure earlier in the day. The chimpanzee was captured several hours later, after biting a veterinarian in the face. ==Kyodo

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Polar bear at Osaka zoo cools off with ice

A polar bear is given an ice block at Tennoji Zoo in the western Japan city of Osaka on July 22, 2023, to beat the summer heat.

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Polar bear at Osaka zoo cools off with ice

A polar bear is given an ice block at Tennoji Zoo in the western Japan city of Osaka on July 22, 2023, to beat the summer heat.

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Polar bear at Osaka zoo cools off with ice

A polar bear holds an ice block with apples in it in the water in its enclosure at Tennoji Zoo in the western Japan city of Osaka on July 22, 2023.

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Giraffe named Harukas introduced at zoo in Osaka

OSAKA, Japan - Harukas, a giraffe donated to Tennoji Zoo by Kintetsu Corp., is introduced at the zoo in Osaka City on June 21, 2014.

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Hooded crane chick in Tennoji Zoo, Osaka

OSAKA, Japan - A hooded crane chick is seen with its parent at the Tennoji Zoo in Osaka, western Japan, on July 29, 2014. It was born on July 24.

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Hooded crane chick in Tennoji Zoo, Osaka

OSAKA, Japan - A hooded crane chick walks around in the Tennoji Zoo in Osaka, western Japan, on July 29, 2014. It was born on July 24.

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Polar bear gets annual summer gift

OSAKA, Japan - Gogo holds a chunk of ice containing apples, an annual midsummer present for the 9-year-old male polar bear from Russia from his keepers at Tennoji Zoo in Osaka on July 23, 2014.

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Polar bear gets annual summer gift

OSAKA, Japan - Gogo bites into a chunk of ice containing apples, an annual midsummer present for the 9-year-old male polar bear from Russia from his keepers at Tennoji Zoo in Osaka on July 23, 2014.

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Urban Animal Album

OSAKA, Japan - Miku, Japan's oldest koala, eats eucalyptus leaves from the hand of a zoo attendant at Tennoji Zoo in Osaka on July 5, 2013. The koala turned 22 on July 26, 2014.

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Japan's tallest building Abeno Harukas fully opens

OSAKA, Japan - Photo taken March 7, 2014, shows Japan's tallest skyscraper, the 300-meter Abeno Harukas, which fully opened that day in Osaka, western Japan. JR Tennoji Station is seen in the foreground.

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Traditional storytelling on Buddhism

OSAKA, Japan - Kyoko Okazawa, a storyteller to help laypersons understand Buddhism, explains about a "Nehan" painting of Buddha's deathbed and grieving followers and animals during her performance at a temple in Osaka's Tennoji Ward on Oct. 9, 2013.

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Polar bear presented with ice

OSAKA, Japan - Male polar bear Gogo licks a chunk of ice containing apples, a present for the eight-year-old from Russia from his keepers at Tennoji Zoo in Osaka on July 23, 2013.

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Polar bear presented with ice

OSAKA, Japan - Male polar bear Gogo licks a chunk of ice containing apples, a present for the eight-year-old from Russia from his keepers at Tennoji Zoo in Osaka on July 23, 2013.

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Students read newspaper extra on Yamanaka's Nobel winning

OSAKA, Japan - Students at Tennoji High School attached to Osaka Kyoiku University in Osaka read a newspaper's extra edition reporting on the winning of this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine by Japanese scientist and Kyoto University professor Shinya Yamanaka for his work on artificially derived multipurpose stem cells, on Oct. 9, 2012. Yamanaka graduated from the high school.

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Icicle gift to newlywed polar bear couple

OSAKA, Japan - Baffin, a 19-year-old female polar bear, bites into an icicle containing apples at Tennoji Zoo in Osaka in western Japan on July 23, 2011. The zoo gave four of the icicles to Baffin and her 6-year-old ''husband'' Gogo, who ''tied the knot'' in March when Baffin was transferred there from a zoo in Hamamatsu, central Japan, as part of a polar bear breeding program.

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Icicle gift to newlywed polar bear couple

OSAKA, Japan - Gogo, a 6-year-old male polar bear, plays with an icicle containing apples at Tennoji Zoo in Osaka in western Japan on July 23, 2011. The zoo gave four of the icicles to Gogo and his 19-year-old ''wife'' Baffin, who ''tied the knot'' in March when Baffin was transferred there from a zoo in Hamamatsu, central Japan, as part of a polar bear breeding program.

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Icicle gift to newlywed polar bear couple

OSAKA, Japan - Six-year-old male polar bear Gogo (L) and his 19-year-old ''wife'' Baffin, play with an icicle containing apples at Tennoji Zoo in Osaka in western Japan on July 23, 2011. The zoo gave four of the icicles to the bears, who ''tied the knot'' in March when Baffin was transferred there from a zoo in Hamamatsu, central Japan, as part of a polar bear breeding program.

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Polar bear 'bride' unveiled at Osaka zoo

OSAKA, Japan - Female polar bear Baffin swims in a pool when she was unveiled for the first time to the public at Tennoji Zoo in Osaka on March 25, 2011. The 19-year-old Baffin was transferred from Shizuoka Prefecture to become a ''bride'' of the zoo's popular 6-year-old polar bear Gogo.

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Polar bear 'bride' unveiled at Osaka zoo

OSAKA, Japan - Female polar bear Baffin is pictured when she was unveiled for the first time to the public at Tennoji Zoo in Osaka on March 25, 2011. The 19-year-old Baffin was transferred from Shizuoka Prefecture to become a ''bride'' of the zoo's popular 6-year-old polar bear Gogo.

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Cool present for polar bear in sizzling Japan zoo

OSAKA, Japan - Polar bear Gogo tries to get apples from a chunk of ice at the Tennoji Zoo in Osaka on July 23, 2010. The ice was a special gift from the zoo as the mercury soared above 35 C in many locations in Japan.

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Cool present for polar bear in sizzling Japan zoo

OSAKA, Japan - Polar bear Gogo tries to get apples from a chunk of ice at the Tennoji Zoo in Osaka on July 23, 2010. The ice was a special gift from the zoo as the mercury soared above 35 C in many locations in Japan.

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Polar bear takes an ice break at sizzling Osaka zoo

OSAKA, Japan - Polar bear Gogo plays with a block of apple ice at Tennoji Zoo in Osaka on July 23 as the temperatures in Osaka soar to the 30s and zoo keepers try to keep the polar bear pool cool. The 150-kilogram ice block is packed with 25 kg of apples.

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Children take kabuki lessons to learn Japan's culture

OSAKA, Japan - Yukino Tada (L), 2, is the youngest student at Matsuo Juku Kodomo Kabuki (kabuki cram school for children) in Osaka's Tennoji Ward.

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Children take kabuki lessons to learn Japan's culture

OSAKA, Japan - Mio Yamano, 6, receives a shamisen lesson from Toon Nakajima Katsusuke, at Matsuo Juku Kodomo Kabuki (kabuki cram school for children) in Osaka's Tennoji Ward.

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4,400 evacuated for WWII bomb disposal in Osaka

OSAKA, Japan - Ground Self-Defense Force members use a crane to pick up an unexploded World War II bomb at a construction site in Osaka's Tennoji Ward on Oct. 13. About 4,400 local residents were evacuated and train services were affected while experts defused the bomb, which was apparently dropped by U.S. forces during the war.

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(4)Hokkaido farmers angry over mad cow disease

OSAKA, Japan - A narrow street in Osaka's Tennoji Ward, reputed among locals as congregation of Korean-style barbecue restaurants, looks quiet Nov. 21, 2001 in the wake of a government announcement confirming a second case of mad cow disease in Japan.

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Koto musician Kikuhara dies at 102

OSAKA, Japan - Hatsuko Kikuhara, Japan's oldest koto performer seen in file photo taken in December 1999, died of pneumonia on Sept. 12 at a hospital in Osaka's Tennoji Ward. Kikuhara was deemed a living national treasure in 1979.

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Baby hooded crane makes public debut at Osaka's Tennoji zoo

OSAKA, Japan - A baby hooded crane (L) makes its public debut at Tennoji Zoo in Osaka on May 29, hours after hatching in the nest of its foster parents, a pair of Japanese cranes. It is the first time in Japan that the egg of a hooded crane -- an endangered species known as ''nabezuru''(Grus monacha) -- has been incubated by a different kind of bird, in this case a Japanese crane (G. japonensis) known as ''tanchozuru.''

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Children sing about reuniting separated Koreans

OSAKA, Japan - Korean residents in Japan sing a song Aug. 10 about reuniting families which became separated as a result of the 1950-1953 Korean War, at the 16th One Korea Festival, at International House, Osaka, in the city's Tennoji Ward. The event brought together members of Japan-based groups representing North and South Korean permanent residents in Japan.

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Korean resident monks pray for reunification of N., S. Korea

OSAKA, Japan - Buddhist monks, all North and South Korean residents of Japan, hold a joint memorial service at a temple in Osaka City's Tennoji Ward on July 16 and pray for the reunification of North and South Korea.

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Calf of endangered rhino born

OSAKA, Japan - A calf of the endangered black rhinoceros was born Nov. 11 at Osaka Municipal Tennoji Zoological Gardens in Osaka's Tennoji Ward, zoo officials said Nov. 16. The newborn, whose parents are Tommy, a 16-year-old male, and Satchan, a 27-year-old female, is the first black rhino born this year in Japan. Two baby black rhinos were born last year at zoos in Yokohama and Hitachi, Ibaraki Prefecture.

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Hungarian coins found in Osaka vending machine

OSAKA, Japan - Two Hungarian 50 forint coins (L) were found in a cigarette vending machine at a convenience store in Tennoji Ward, Osaka, on Nov. 11. The coins are nearly the same size and weight as Japanese 500 yen coins (R), police said. It is believed the coins were used to obtain cigarettes as well as change from the vending machine.

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Polar bears at Osaka zoo

Polar bears are pictured at Tennoji Zoo in Osaka on July 23, 2022.

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Polar bear at Osaka zoo

A polar bear is pictured at Tennoji Zoo in Osaka on July 23, 2022.

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Great cormorant at Osaka zoo

Undated photo shows a great cormorant spreading its wings at Osaka Tennoji Zoo.

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Great cormorant at Osaka zoo

Undated photo shows a great cormorant catching fish at Osaka Tennoji Zoo.

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Japanese deer

Undated photo shows a Japanese deer on a scale at Osaka Tennoji Zoo.

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Japanese deer

Undated photo shows a Japanese deer at Osaka Tennoji Zoo.

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Descente's Osaka headquarters

Descente's Osaka office, where the conflict with Itochu is a hot topic, in Tennoji Ward, Osaka City, Feb. 8, 2019; Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

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Descente's Osaka headquarters

Descente's Osaka office, where the conflict with Itochu is a hot topic, in Tennoji Ward, Osaka City, Feb. 8, 2019; Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

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Descente's Osaka headquarters

Descente's Osaka office, where the conflict with Itochu is a hot topic, in Tennoji Ward, Osaka City, Feb. 8, 2019; Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

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Descente's Osaka headquarters

Descente's Osaka office, where the conflict with Itochu is a hot topic, in Tennoji Ward, Osaka City, Feb. 8, 2019; Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images