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Aftermath of strong quake in northeastern Japan

A torii gate at a shrine lies toppled in Hachinohe in Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Dec. 9, 2025, following a strong earthquake the previous night.

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Aftermath of strong quake in northeastern Japan

A torii gate at a shrine lies toppled in Hachinohe in Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Dec. 9, 2025, following a strong earthquake the previous night.

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Aftermath of strong quake in northeastern Japan

A torii gate at a shrine lies toppled in Hachinohe in Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Dec. 9, 2025, following a strong earthquake the previous night.

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Aftermath of strong quake in northeastern Japan

A torii gate at a shrine lies toppled in Hachinohe in Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Dec. 9, 2025, following a strong earthquake the previous night.

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Suntory Holdings Chairman Niinami resigns

TOKYO, Japan, Sept. 2 Kyodo - Suntory Holdings Ltd. President Nobuhiro Torii and Vice President Kenji Yamada bow in apology at a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 2, 2025, after announcing the resignation of the company's Chairman Takeshi Niinami, also chairman of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives. The 66-year-old was under police investigation over dietary supplements he allegedly purchased, according to the major Japanese brewer. (Kyodo)

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Suntory Holdings Chairman Takeshi Niinami Resigns, Holds Press Conference

Suntory Holdings holds press conference following Chairman Takeshi Niinami's resignation. photo shows President Nobuhiro Torii and Vice President Kenji Yamada from left.=September 2,2025,Tokyo

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Suntory Holdings Chairman Takeshi Niinami Resigns, Holds Press Conference

Suntory Holdings holds press conference following Chairman Takeshi Niinami's resignation. photo shows President Nobuhiro Torii.=September 2,2025,Tokyo

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Suntory Holdings Chairman Takeshi Niinami Resigns, Holds Press Conference

Suntory Holdings holds press conference following Chairman Takeshi Niinami's resignation. photo shows President Nobuhiro Torii.=September 2,2025,Tokyo

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Suntory Holdings Chairman Takeshi Niinami Resigns, Holds Press Conference

Suntory Holdings holds press conference following Chairman Takeshi Niinami's resignation. photo shows President Nobuhiro Torii and Vice President Kenji Yamada from left.=September 2,2025,Tokyo

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Suntory Holdings Chairman Takeshi Niinami Resigns, Holds Press Conference

Suntory Holdings holds press conference following Chairman Takeshi Niinami's resignation. photo shows President Nobuhiro Torii.=September 2,2025,Tokyo

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Suntory Holdings Chairman Takeshi Niinami Resigns, Holds Press Conference

Suntory Holdings holds press conference following Chairman Takeshi Niinami's resignation. photo shows President Nobuhiro Torii and Vice President Kenji Yamada from left.=September 2,2025,Tokyo

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Suntory Holdings Chairman Takeshi Niinami Resigns, Holds Press Conference

Suntory Holdings holds press conference following Chairman Takeshi Niinami's resignation. photo shows President Nobuhiro Torii.=September 2,2025,Tokyo

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Suntory Holdings Chairman Takeshi Niinami Resigns, Holds Press Conference

Suntory Holdings holds press conference following Chairman Takeshi Niinami's resignation. photo shows President Nobuhiro Torii.=September 2,2025,Tokyo

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Suntory Holdings Chairman Takeshi Niinami Resigns, Holds Press Conference

Suntory Holdings holds press conference following Chairman Takeshi Niinami's resignation. photo shows President Nobuhiro Torii.=September 2,2025,Tokyo

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Suntory Holdings Chairman Niinami resigns

Suntory Holdings Ltd. President Nobuhiro Torii (L) and Vice President Kenji Yamada bow in apology at a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 2, 2025, after announcing the resignation of the company's Chairman Takeshi Niinami, also chairman of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives. The 66-year-old was under police investigation over dietary supplements he allegedly purchased, according to the major Japanese brewer.

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Suntory Holdings Chairman Niinami resigns

Nobuhiro Torii, president of Suntory Holdings Ltd., announces the resignation of the company's Chairman Takeshi Niinami at a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 2, 2025. Niinami, a prominent Japanese business figure, serves as chairman of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives.

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Suntory Holdings Chairman Niinami resigns

Nobuhiro Torii, president of Suntory Holdings Ltd., announces the resignation of the company's Chairman Takeshi Niinami at a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 2, 2025. Niinami, a prominent Japanese business figure, serves as chairman of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives. ==Kyodo

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Shionogi acquires JT Group's pharmaceutical business

Shionogi's acquisition of JT Group's pharmaceutical business. Photo shows, from left, Koji Shimayoshi , Executive Vice President and Representative Director of JT, Isao Teshirogi, Chairman, President and CEO of Shionogi, and Nobumasa Kondo, President and Representative Director of Torii Pharmaceuticals.=May 7,2025,Tokyo

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Shionogi acquires JT Group's pharmaceutical business

Shionogi's acquisition of JT Group's pharmaceutical business. Photo shows, from left, Koji Shimayoshi , Executive Vice President and Representative Director of JT, Isao Teshirogi, Chairman, President and CEO of Shionogi, and Nobumasa Kondo, President and Representative Director of Torii Pharmaceuticals.=May 7,2025,Tokyo

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Shionogi acquires JT Group's pharmaceutical business

Shionogi's acquisition of JT Group's pharmaceutical business. Photo shows, from left, Koji Shimayoshi , Executive Vice President and Representative Director of JT, Isao Teshirogi, Chairman, President and CEO of Shionogi, and Nobumasa Kondo, President and Representative Director of Torii Pharmaceuticals.=May 7,2025,Tokyo

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Suntory Holdings President Change Press Conference

Suntory Holdings President Change Press Conference. Photo: Nobuhiro Torii, President-elect, at the press conference.=December 12,2024,都内

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Suntory Holdings President Change Press Conference

Suntory Holdings president change press conference. Photo shows Nobuhiro Torii (right), president-elect, and Takeshi Niinami, president, at the press conference.=December 12,2024,都内

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Suntory Holdings President Change Press Conference

Suntory Holdings president change press conference. Photo shows Nobuhiro Torii (right), president-elect, and Takeshi Niinami at the press conference. Nobuhiro Torii (right) and Takeshi Niinami shake hands.=December 12,2024,都内

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Suntory Holdings President Change Press Conference

Suntory Holdings president change press conference. Photo shows Nobuhiro Torii (right) and Takeshi Niinami shaking hands.=December 12,2024,都内

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Suntory Holdings President Change Press Conference

Suntory Holdings president change press conference. Photo shows Nobuhiro Torii (right) and Takeshi Niinami shaking hands.=December 12,2024,都内

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Suntory Holdings President Change Press Conference

Suntory Holdings president change press conference. Photo shows Nobuhiro Torii (right), president-elect, and Takeshi Niinami, president, at the press conference.=December 12,2024,都内

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Suntory Holdings President Change Press Conference

Suntory Holdings president change press conference. Photo shows Nobuhiro Torii (right), president-elect, and Takeshi Niinami, president, at the press conference.=December 12,2024,都内

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Paris Paralympics: Goalball

Members of the Japanese team - (from left) Koji Miyajiki, Kazuya Kaneko, Naoki Hagiwara, Yuji Taguchi, Haruki Torii and Yuto Sano - jump on the podium after winning the men's goalball final at the Paris Paralympics on Sept. 5, 2024 at South Paris Arena in Paris.

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Paris Paralympics: Goalball

Members of the Japanese team - (from left) Koji Miyajiki, Kazuya Kaneko, Naoki Hagiwara, Yuji Taguchi, Haruki Torii and Yuto Sano - pose with their gold medals after winning the men's goalball event at the Paris Paralympics on Sept. 5, 2024, at South Paris Arena in Paris.

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90-year-old adventure skier Miura on Mt. Fuji

TOKYO, Japan - Ninety-year-old Japanese skier and alpinist Yuichiro Miura reached the summit of Mt. Fuji with a group of friends and family on Aug. 31, 2023, having used a wheelchair for the three-day ascent.

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90-year-old adventure skier Miura on Mt. Fuji

Ninety-year-old Japanese skier and alpinist Yuichiro Miura (C) walks through a torii gate after reaching the top of Mt. Fuji, straddling Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures, on Aug. 31, 2023.

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Spouses of G-7 leaders in Hiroshima

Spouses of Group of Seven leaders, (from L) Yuko Kishida of Japan, the European Commission president's husband Heiko Echter von der Leyen, Akshata Murty of Britain, Britta Ernst of Germany and Jill Biden of the United States, pose for a photo with a giant torii gate as a backdrop at Itsukushima Shrine, a World Heritage site on Miyajima Island in Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima Prefecture, western Japan, on May 20, 2023, as part of the G-7 summit's cultural events. ==Kyodo

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Spouses of G-7 leaders in Hiroshima

Spouses of Group of Seven leaders, (from L) Yuko Kishida of Japan, the European Commission president's husband Heiko Echter von der Leyen, Akshata Murty of Britain, Britta Ernst of Germany and Jill Biden of the United States pose for a photo with a giant torii gate as a backdrop at Itsukushima Shrine, a World Heritage site on Miyajima Island in Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima Prefecture, western Japan, on May 20, 2023, as part of the summit's cultural events.

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Hiroshima amid G-7 summit

Tourists pose in front of a giant "torii" gateway at Itsukushima Shrine on Miyajima Island in Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima Prefecture, on May 20, 2023, after access to the World Heritage-listed tourist spot was resumed on the second day of a three-day Group of Seven summit in the western Japan city of Hiroshima.

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G7 Summit - Hiroshima

European Council President Charles Michel, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, French President Emmanuel Macron, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, United States President Joe Biden, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, United Kingdom Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen pose for a group photo in front of the torii gate at the Itsukushima shrine on Miyajima Island in Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima prefecture, western Japan Friday May 19, 2023. Photo by Adrian Wyld/CP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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G7 Summit - Hiroshima

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, French President Emmanuel Macron, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, United States President Joe Biden, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, United Kingdom Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and pose for a group photo in front of the torii gate at the Itsukushima shrine on Miyajima Island in Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima prefecture, western Japan Friday May 19, 2023. Photo by Adrian Wyld/CP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Hiroshima on eve of G-7 summit

Photo taken from a helicopter shows the World Heritage-listed Itsukushima Shrine on Hiroshima's Miyajima Island, renowned for its torii gate (front) that appears to float in the Seto Inland Sea during high tide, on May 18, 2023, on the eve of the three-day Group of Seven summit in the western Japan city. (Pool photo)

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Security tightens ahead of G-7 summit in Hiroshima

Police officers patrol around Itsukushima Shrine on Miyajima Island, renowned for its torii gate (back) that appears to float in the Seto Inland Sea during high tide, on May 17, 2023, ahead of the May 19-21 Group of Seven summit in the western Japan city of Hiroshima. The leaders of the G-7 countries are expected to visit the island during the summit.

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Security tightens ahead of G-7 summit in Hiroshima

Police officers patrol around Itsukushima Shrine on Miyajima Island, renowned for its torii gate (back) that appears to float in the Seto Inland Sea during high tide, on May 17, 2023, ahead of the May 19-21 Group of Seven summit in the western Japan city of Hiroshima. The leaders of the G-7 countries are expected to visit the island during the summit.

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Fire drill at Nara shrine

"Miko" shrine attendants participate in a bucket relay during a fire drill at Omiwa Shrine in Sakurai, Nara Prefecture, western Japan, on Jan. 25, 2023. The hall of worship and the three torii gates are designated as important national cultural properties.

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Fire drill at Nara shrine

Firefighters spray water during a fire drill at Omiwa Shrine in Sakurai, Nara Prefecture, western Japan, on Jan. 25, 2023. The hall of worship and the three torii gates are designated as important national cultural properties.

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Fireworks at shrine

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Fireworks light up a torii gate and buildings in an event at Itsukushima Shinto Shrine, a World Heritage Site on Miyajima Island in Hiroshima Prefecture on Aug. 14, 2010.

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Fireworks at shrine

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Fireworks light up a torii gate and buildings in an event at Itsukushima Shinto Shrine, a World Heritage Site on Miyajima Island in Hiroshima Prefecture on Aug. 14, 2010.

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Repair work completed at Itsukushima Shrine gate

Photo taken on Dec. 18, 2022, shows a torii gate at the World Heritage-listed Itsukushima Shrine in Hatsukaichi in Hiroshima Prefecture, western Japan, following the completion of its large-scale repair that started in June 2019.

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Repair work completed at Itsukushima Shrine gate

Photo taken on Dec. 18, 2022, shows a torii gate at the World Heritage-listed Itsukushima Shrine in Hatsukaichi in Hiroshima Prefecture, western Japan, following the completion of its large-scale repair that started in June 2019.

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Repair work completed at Itsukushima Shrine gate

Photo taken on Dec. 18, 2022, shows a torii gate at the World Heritage-listed Itsukushima Shrine in Hatsukaichi in Hiroshima Prefecture, western Japan, following the completion of its large-scale repair that started in June 2019.

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Shrine gates washed away by tsunami to return from U.S.

AOMORI, Japan - Toshimi Takahashi (R) shows where a shrine and its two "torii" gates used to stand before they were swept away in the 2011 tsunami in Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, on Nov. 18, 2014. In the center is Sadafumi Uchiyama, a resident of Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon, who is arranging to return a battered torii piece bearing Takahashi's name as one of the donors that washed up on the Oregon coast. In the background is a new torii gate built after the tsunami disaster.

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Tsunami-swept shrine gates to return from U.S.

AOMORI, Japan - A smartphone photo shows on Nov. 18, 2014, a battered piece of a Japanese shrine's "torii" gate that washed up on the coast of the U.S. state of Oregon after being swept away in the 2011 tsunami that devastated northeastern Japan. The inscriptions bearing a donor's name, Toshimi Takahashi, and the date of his donation became the crucial clues to tracing its origin back to a shrine in Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture.

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'Karaoke Shrine' popular in southwestern Japan

OITA, Japan - The "Karaoke Shrine" in Kitsuki, Oita Prefecture, southwestern Japan, has its own "torii" gateway, just like that at the entrance to a real Shinto shrine, as seen in this photo taken Oct. 25, 2014. The facility has become a popular socializing venue among karaoke lovers since it opened 25 years ago.

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Moon, Venus seen close

KYOTO, Japan - Photo shows the moon and Venus seen close to each other in the sky over a torii gate in Heian Jingu, a shrine in Kyoto, western Japan, at 5:36 a.m. on Feb. 26, 2014.