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Top court repeals order for registry of surrogate-born twins

TOKYO, Japan, Aug. 7 Kyodo - Japanese TV personality Aki Mukai (L) and former professional wrestler Nobuhiko Takada are pictured during a press conference on April 11, 2007, after the Supreme Court repealed in March a lower court ruling ordering a Tokyo ward office to accept on its registry twins born to the couple through an American surrogate mother. The decision by the top court finalized Shinagawa Ward's rejection to register the 2003 births of the boys.(Kyodo)

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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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US: Mid-Missouri Hit by Severe Storms and Possible Tornado, Thousands Lose Power

Severe storms swept through mid-Missouri on Sunday, April 20, prompting tornado warnings and causing widespread damage. A possible tornado in Callaway County injured one person in New Bloomfield. Thousands of customers experienced power outages.

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Fuji Television head office

Photo taken on Jan. 27, 2025, shows the headquarters building of Fuji Television Network Inc. in Tokyo's Minato Ward.

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Fuji Television head office

Photo taken on Jan. 27, 2025, shows the headquarters building of Fuji Television Network Inc. in Tokyo's Minato Ward.

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Fuji Television head office

Photo taken on Jan. 27, 2025, shows the headquarters building of Fuji Television Network Inc. in Tokyo's Minato Ward.

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UK: Widespread Flooding Hits Greater Manchester Forcing Hundreds To Evacuate 4

Heavy rain caused severe flooding across Greater Manchester on New Year's Day forcing at least 13,000 people to evacuate. Emergency services declared a major incident.

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Japan: Voting Begins For Lower House General Election 2

Voting in Japan's general election took place on Sunday, October 27, following the early dissolution of the Lower House by new Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba. The video, filmed at a polling station in Tokyo on Saturday, the day before the election, shows people waiting in long lines for early voting, which began on the 16th.

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Exterior of Chuo Ward Office, logo and signage

Exterior of Chuo Ward Office, logo and signage=September 13,2024,Tokyo,Japan

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Exterior of Chuo Ward Office, logo and signage

Exterior of Chuo Ward Office, logo and signage=September 13,2024,Tokyo,Japan

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Japan's tallest office tower

TOKYO, Japan Kyodo - Video taken on Nov. 20, 2023, shows the 330-meter Mori JP Tower, the tallest office building in Japan, fronted by a central square with green spaces in the Azabudai Hills complex in Tokyo's Minato Ward. (Kyodo)

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Japan's tallest office tower

Photo taken on Nov. 20, 2023, shows a view through a window of the 52nd floor of the 330-meter Mori JP Tower in Tokyo's Minato Ward, the tallest office building in Japan.

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Japan's tallest office tower

Photo taken on Nov. 20, 2023, shows a view through a window of the 52nd floor of the 330-meter Mori JP Tower in Tokyo's Minato Ward, the tallest office building in Japan.

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Japan's tallest office tower

Photo taken on Nov. 20, 2023, shows the 330-meter Mori JP Tower, the tallest office building in Japan, fronted by a central square with green spaces in the Azabudai Hills complex in Tokyo's Minato Ward.

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Shibuya Mayor Ken Hasebe

Ken Hasebe, the mayor of Tokyo's Shibuya Ward, speaks to reporters at the city office on Nov. 1, 2023, expressing thanks for a "quiet" Halloween night after he discouraged people from visiting the area for festivities this year.

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Johnny & Associates Tokyo office

Photo taken on Aug. 29, 2023, shows the Johnny & Associates Inc. office building in Tokyo's Minato Ward.

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Japan Emperor, Empress

Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako visit an office cafe at Sankyu With in Tokyo's Chuo Ward on April 25, 2023, to watch people with disabilities make and serve drinks. (Pool photo)

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Japan Emperor, Empress

Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako visit an office cafe at Sankyu With in Tokyo's Chuo Ward on April 25, 2023, to watch people with disabilities make and serve drinks. (Pool photo)

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Families' grief stirred by 9/11 falling on Tuesday again

NEW YORK, United States - Kazusada Sumiyama and his wife Mari (both on R side) from Tokyo's Meguro Ward visit New Jersey's Bergen County where their son used to live, to pay tributes to the county's memorial monument dedicated to the Sept. 11 victims. Their 34-year-old son, Yoichi Sugiyama, was killed in the attack when he worked at Fuji Bank's New York office.

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Obayashi suspected of rigging maglev train bid

TOKYO, Japan, Dec. 10 Kyodo - Photo taken on Dec. 9, 2017, shows a building in Tokyo's Minato Ward that houses Obayashi Corp. Prosecutors have searched the head office of the leading construction firm in Japan over allegations it rigged a bid for a maglev train-related project.

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DPJ leader Kaieda loses lower house seat

TOKYO, Japan - Reporters throng the election campaign office for Banri Kaieda, leader of the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan, in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward before dawn on Dec. 15, 2014, after he lost his seat in the House of Representatives election the previous day. The defeat marks the first time since 1949 that the leader of the largest opposition party in Japan has lost his or her seat in the lower house election.

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Head of Tokyo Children's Library gets cultural award

TOKYO, Japan - Kyoko Matsuoka, director of the Tokyo Children's Library in the capital's Nakano Ward, is all smiles at her office in this file photo taken on Aug. 16, 2014. She received the 2014 TonenGeneral Children's Award in recognition of her role in the promotion of reading among children.

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Donation from Anne Frank House to Japan libraries

TOKYO, Japan - Jan Erik Dubbelman (L), a senior official in charge of educational projects at Anne Frank House, hands a copy of the Amsterdam-based museum's catalog to Ryo Tanaka, mayor of Tokyo's Suginami Ward, at the ward office on March 8, 2014. The museum will donate 3,400 copies of the catalog, along with 300 miniature model sets of the house where Anne Frank went into hiding during World War II, to libraries across Japan after books related to Anne Frank were recently vandalized at some libraries.

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Donation from Anne Frank House to Japan libraries

TOKYO, Japan - Jan Erik Dubbelman (L), a senior official in charge of educational projects at Anne Frank House, hands a miniature model of the house where Anne Frank went into hiding during World War II, to Ryo Tanaka, mayor of Tokyo's Suginami Ward, at the ward office on March 8, 2014. The Amsterdam-based museum will donate 300 miniature models of the house, along with 3,400 copies of the museum's catalog, to libraries across Japan after books related to Anne Frank were recently vandalized at some libraries.

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Postwar model train magazine publishes 800th edition

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Jan. 16, 2014 shows Haruo Ishibashi, editor in chief of the monthly magazine "Tetsudo Mokei Shumi" (model railway hobby), at the office of its publisher Kigei Publishing Co. in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward. Launched in 1947, the magazine issued its 800th edition in January 2014.

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Chongryon's Tokyo office

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in October 2013 shows the headquarters of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, known as Chongryon, in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward. The Tokyo District Court said on Jan. 23, 2014, that it has rejected a Mongolian bidder's offer to buy out the headquarters and land of the pro-Pyongyang Korean residents' group.

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Japan doctor offers medical relief abroad

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuko Kurosaki, president of the Japanese arm of Doctors without Borders, speaks on May 21, 2013 at the entity's office in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward. Kurosaki, who assumed her current position in March 2010, has offered humanitarian medical aid as a volunteer surgeon on a total of 11 missions to such countries as Sri Lanka, Somalia and Jordan since 2001. Most recently she was in Syria for about a month from mid-April.

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NPO member creates cookbook with refugees' recipes

TOKYO, Japan - Shiho Tanaka, a Japan Association for Refugees member, has produced a home cooking book listing 45 recipes contributed by refugees from 15 countries and regions in Asia, the Middle East and Africa, hoping to raise awareness of their lives. Photo taken at the office of the nonprofit organization supporting refugees in Japan on Feb. 28, 2013 in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward.

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Architect Kengo Kuma

TOKYO, Japan - Kengo Kuma, an internationally renowned Japanese architect who designed the new and fifth-generation Kabukiza theater in Tokyo's Ginza district, speaks during an interview at his office in Tokyo's Minato Ward on Feb. 12, 2013.

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Bank of Japan

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken on Feb. 9, 2013, shows the Bank of Japan's head office in the Nihombashi district in Tokyo's Chuo Ward.

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Bank of Japan

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken on Feb. 9, 2013, shows the Bank of Japan's head office in the Nihombashi district in Tokyo's Chuo Ward.

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Student helping asylum seekers in Nagoya

NAGOYA, Japan - Maho Hadano, a graduate student at Nagoya University and the only full-time coordinator at the Nagoya-based support office for refugees, speaks during an interview with Kyodo News on Dec. 12, 2012 at the office in the city's Naka Ward. The Tokyo-based nonprofit organization Japan Association for Refugees and the Japan Lawyers Network for Refugees set up the Nagoya office in July 2012 to cope with a sharp increase in applications for asylum with the Nagoya Regional Immigration Bureau.

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Veteran alpinist Miura set to climb Mt. Everest at 80

TOKYO, Japan - Veteran alpinist Yuichiro Miura trains in a low-oxygen room at Miura Dolphins Co.'s office in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward on Nov. 30, 2012.

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Veteran alpinist Miura set to climb Mt. Everest at 80

TOKYO, Japan - Veteran alpinist Yuichiro Miura talks about his plan to scale the peak of Mt. Everest at the age of 80 at Miura Dolphins Co.'s office in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward on Nov. 30, 2012.

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Mitsubishi Motors inspected over improper handling of recalls

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Dec. 25, 2012, shows the head office of Mitsubishi Motors Corp. in Tokyo's Minato Ward. The transport ministry the same day conducted an on-site inspection at the office to examine the manufacturer's efforts to improve business following a government warning issued the previous week over its "passive" stance regarding the recall of potentially defective cars.

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Mitsubishi Motors inspected over improper handling of recalls

TOKYO, Japan - Officials from the transport ministry enter the head office of Mitsubishi Motors Corp. in Tokyo's Minato Ward on Dec. 25, 2012, to conduct an on-site inspection to examine the manufacturer's efforts to improve business following a government warning issued the previous week over its "passive" stance regarding the recall of potentially defective cars.

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Japanese parliament

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Nov. 15, 2012, shows the Diet building (front) and congressional office buildings (back) in Nagatacho, Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo.

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Skyscraper housing Japan Post Bank head office

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken July 17, 2012, shows JP Tower, a new skyscraper housing a post office and the head office of Japan Post Bank on its ground floor, in front of JR Tokyo Station in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward. The opening ceremony for the offices was held the same day at the roughly 200-meter-tall, 38-story structure.

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Skyscraper housing Japan Post Bank head office

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in May 2012 shows JP Tower, a new skyscraper housing a post office and the head office of Japan Post Bank on its ground floor, in front of JR Tokyo Station (foreground) in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward. The opening ceremony for the offices was held July 17, 2012, at the roughly 200-meter-tall, 38-story structure.

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Skyscraper housing Japan Post Bank head office

TOKYO, Japan - Participants cut the ribbons during the opening ceremony for a post office and the head office of Japan Post Bank at JP Tower in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on July 17, 2012. The roughly 200-meter-tall, 38-story structure housing the offices on its ground floor is located in front of JR Tokyo Station.

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Skyscraper housing Japan Post Bank head office

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows the inside of a newly opened post office at JP Tower in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on July 17, 2012. The opening ceremony was held the same day for the post office and the head office of Japan Post Bank, both on the ground floor of the roughly 200-meter-tall, 38-story structure.

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4 die, 2 injured in pileup on Tokyo metropolitan expressway

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows emergency rescue team members rescuing people from a wrecked minivan (C) between a large trailer and a car-transporter truck on the Tokyo metropolitan expressway in Tokyo's Koto Ward on July 11, 2012. Four officials of the Tokyo Customs Office died when their minivan was involved in a crash there that left two other officials seriously injured, police said.

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4 die, 2 injured in pileup on Tokyo metropolitan expressway

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows emergency rescue team members rescuing people from a wrecked minivan (C) between a large trailer and a car-transporter truck on the Tokyo metropolitan expressway in Tokyo's Koto Ward on July 11, 2012. Four officials of the Tokyo Customs Office died when their minivan was involved in a crash there that left two other officials seriously injured, police said.

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Electronics mulls shedding up to 14,000 jobs

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on May 26, 2012, shows a building housing the head office of Renesas Electronics Corp. in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward. The struggling major semiconductor maker is reportedly considering slashing up to around 14,000 jobs, or around 30 percent of its entire workforce, while it is in talks to sell a factory in Japan to a Taiwanese company.

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Press preview for Tokyo Sky Tree Town

TOKYO, Japan - An aquarium at Tokyo Sky Tree Town in Tokyo's Sumida Ward is shown to the press on May 10, 2012. The 37,000-square-meter newly completed commercial complex surrounding the 634-meter-high Tokyo Sky Tree consists of a 312-tenant shopping and restaurant zone called ''Tokyo Solamachi,'' an office building zone, an aquarium and a planetarium.

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Press preview for Tokyo Sky Tree Town

TOKYO, Japan - An overall view of Tokyo Sky Tree Town is shown May 10, 2012, at a planetarium in the newly completed commercial complex surrounding the 634-meter-high Tokyo Sky Tree in Tokyo's Sumida Ward. A press preview was held the same day for the 37,000-square-meter complex, consisting of a 312-tenant shopping and restaurant zone called ''Tokyo Solamachi,'' an office building zone, an aquarium and a planetarium.

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Ticket reservations for Tokyo Sky Tree

TOKYO, Japan - A staff member of a branch office of Tobu Travel Co. talks with a customer in Tokyo's Adachi Ward on March 22, 2012. The operator of Tokyo Sky Tree, the world's tallest tower, started accepting reservation requests for tickets to the tower's observation deck for individuals at the travel agency's branch offices and the tower's website, with successful applicants to be selected in a drawing.