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MOTORI - Endurance - WEC - 6 Hours of Imola

Tosa corner during 6 Hours of Imola FIA World Endurance Championship, at International Circuit Enzo and Dino Ferrari, Imola, Italy on April 18, 2025 during WEC - 6 Hours of Imola, Endurance race in Imola, Italy, April 19 2025

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Golf: Meiji Yasuda Ladies

Ai Suzuki poses with the victor's trophy after winning the Meiji Yasuda Ladies golf tournament on March 10, 2024, at Tosa Country Club in Konan in Kochi Prefecture, western Japan.

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Golf: Meiji Yasuda Ladies

Ai Suzuki poses with the victor's trophy after winning the Meiji Yasuda Ladies golf tournament on March 10, 2024, at Tosa Country Club in Konan in Kochi Prefecture, western Japan.

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Golf: Meiji Yasuda Ladies

Ai Suzuki sinks the winning putt on the 18th hole in the final round of the Meiji Yasuda Ladies golf tournament on March 10, 2024, at Tosa Country Club in Konan in Kochi Prefecture, western Japan.

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Golf: Meiji Yasuda Ladies

Ai Suzuki hits a shot in the final round of the Meiji Yasuda Ladies golf tournament on March 10, 2024, at Tosa Country Club in Konan in Kochi Prefecture, western Japan.

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Golf: Meiji Yasuda Ladies

Ai Suzuki celebrates after winning the Meiji Yasuda Ladies golf tournament on March 10, 2024, at Tosa Country Club in Konan in Kochi Prefecture, western Japan.

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Golf: Meiji Yasuda Ladies

Ai Suzuki meets the press after winning the Meiji Yasuda Ladies golf tournament on March 10, 2024, at Tosa Country Club in Konan in Kochi Prefecture, western Japan.

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Golf: Meiji Yasuda Ladies

Ai Suzuki hits a shot on the seventh hole in the final round of the Meiji Yasuda Ladies golf tournament on March 10, 2024, at Tosa Country Club in Konan in Kochi Prefecture, western Japan.

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Kenya's Ndereba wins women's marathon at world athletics

OSAKA, Japan - The three medalists of the women's marathon at the World Athletics Championships -- (From L to R) silver medalist Zhou Chunxiu of China, gold medalist Catherine Ndereba of Kenya and bronze medalist Reiko Tosa -- pose during a medal ceremony at Nagai Stadium in Osaka on Sept. 2. Ndereba won the race in a time of 2 hours, 30 minutes, 37 seconds.

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Japan's Reiko Tosa comes in 3rd in women's marathon

OSAKA, Japan - Reiko Tosa of Japan holds up her bronze medal at Nagai Stadium in Osaka on Sept. 2 after coming third in the women's marathon at the World Athletics Championships.

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Athletics: Ndereba claims gold, Tosa bronze in marathon

OSAKA, Japan - Japan's Reiko Tosa waves to the audiences in smiles after taking the bronze in the women's marathon at the athletics world championships at Nagai Stadium on Sept. 2.

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Athletics: Ndereba claims gold, Tosa bronze in marathon

OSAKA, Japan - Japan's Reiko Tosa crosses the finish line in third place, claiming the host nation's only medal at the athletics world championships at Nagai Stadium on Sept. 2.

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Athletics: Ndereba claims gold, Tosa bronze in marathon

OSAKA, Japan - Kenyan Catherine Ndereba crosses the finish line at Nagai Stadium in 2 hours, 30 minutes, 37 seconds to win the gold medal in the women's marathon at the athletics world championships on Sept. 2.

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Athletics: Ndereba claims gold, Tosa bronze in marathon

OSAKA, Japan - Catherine Ndereba of Kenya smiles as she waves to the audiences after winning the gold medal in the women's marathon at the athletics world championships at Nagai Stadium on Sept. 2.

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Western Japan women develop rush-using object

KOCHI, Japan - Members of a group of women seeking to preserve the waning rush industry in Tosa, Kochi Prefecture, western Japan, show an object made from rushes as an interior product by binding the plant with "washi" Japanese paper on Dec. 15, 2014.

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Ceremony held to mark launch of new bus/tram operator

KOCHI, Japan - A ceremony is held in Kochi on Oct. 1, 2014, to mark the foundation of a new company operating buses and trams, Tosadenkotsu Co., through the merger of two deficit-ridden firms, Tosa Electric Railway Co. and Kochiken Kotsu KK, both based in the city on the western Japan main island of Shikoku.

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Massive earthquakes hit 16 times in 7,000 years

KOCHI, Japan - Makoto Okamura (L), a professor at Kochi University, displays deposited substances collected from a pond in Kochi Prefecture's Tosa, on May 26, 2014, in Kochi City. Okamura said tsunami deposits prove that massive earthquakes have occurred at least 16 times in the past 7,000 years.

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Omote sets tournament course record at Yokohama Tire cup

KOCHI, Japan - Junko Omote (R) plays in the final round of the Yokohama Tire Golf Tournament PRGR Ladies Cup at Tosa Country Club in Kochi Prefecture on March 16, 2014. She posted a tournament course record 63 to finish in a sixth-place tie with 4-under-par.

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Ichinose wins Yokohama Tire golf tournament

KOCHI, Japan - Yuki Ichinose pumps her fist after a birdie on the first playoff hole to win the Yokohama Tire Golf Tournament PRGR Ladies Cup at Tosa Country Club in Kochi Prefecture on March 16, 2014.

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Japan-U.S. antidisaster drill

KOCHI, Japan - A disaster medical assistance team taking part in a joint antidisaster drill by the Japanese Self-Defense Forces and the U.S. military on a vessel off Tosa, Kochi Prefecture in western Japan, on Feb. 7, 2014, checks procedures for treating patients.

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Japan-U.S. antidisaster drill

KOCHI, Japan - Japan's Self-Defense Force and the U.S. military hold a joint antidisaster drill on a vessel off Tosa, Kochi Prefecture in western Japan, on Feb. 7, 2014.

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Heat wave in Japan

KOCHI, Japan - A child touches an ice pillar at Tosa Kuroshio Railway Co.'s Nakamura Station in Shimanto, Kochi Prefecture, on Aug. 13, 2013. Temperatures in the city reached 40 C for the fourth day in a row as a severe heat wave continued to engulf wide areas of Japan.

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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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Protest in Kochi against Osprey deployment

KOCHI, Japan - People protest against the deployment in Japan of U.S. Marine Corps' MV-22 Osprey aircraft in a rally in Tosa, Kochi Prefecture, on Oct. 6, 2012. The prefectural government of Kochi in southwestern Japan said the same day at least one Osprey aircraft being deployed in Okinawa flew over the city of Shimanto on Oct. 1 on its way to the island prefecture from the Marines' Iwakuni Air Station.

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New Yorkers run for disaster-hit Japan

NEW YORK, United States - Japanese marathon runners Reiko Tosa (L, front) and Yoko Shibui (R, front) take part in a 4-mile ''Japan Run'' in New York City's Central Park, held to support disaster-hit Japan, on May 8, 2011. More than 5,000 runners took part in the event to raise donations for and show solidarity with Japan, which was struck by a devastating earthquake and tsunami on March 11.

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Japan's Tosa places 3rd in Tokyo Marathon, her last race

TOKYO, Japan - Veteran marathoner Reiko Tosa of Japan trips and falls at a point around 5 kilometers from the start line in the women's race of the Tokyo Marathon on March 22. Tosa who ran in the competition as her last race placed third. (Pool photo)

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Golf: S. Korea's Shin beats Yokomine in playoff

KOCHI, Japan - South Korea's Shin Ji Yai lifts the winner's cup after she beat overnight leader Sakura Yokomine in a playoff on March 23 to win the Yokohama Tire PRGR Ladies Cup in her debut on the Japan LPGA tour. Shin, the South Korean tour's money title winner the past two years, birdied the fourth extra hole to seal the victory after both players finished the regulation 54 holes tied on 4-under-par 212 at Tosa Country Club in Kochi Prefecture.

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Noguchi heads Japan's marathon squad for Beijing

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) World bronze medalist Reiko Tosa, Athens Olympic gold medalist Mizuki Noguchi and Nagoya International Women's Marathon winner Yurika Nakamura pose in Tokyo, Kyoto and Okayama respectively on March 10 after the Japan Association of Athletics Federations announced earlier in the day the country's women's marathon squad for the Beijing Olympics.

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Tosa picked for Beijing Olympics

TOKYO, Japan - World bronze medalist Reiko Tosa speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on March 10 after the Japan Association of Athletics Federations announced earlier in the day the country's women's marathon squad, including her, for the Beijing Olympics.

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Noguchi heads Japan's marathon squad for Beijing

TOKYO, Japan - Athens Olympic gold medalist Mizuki Noguchi smiles during a news conference in Kyoto on March 10. She was officially given the go-ahead to defend her Olympic title this summer as the Japan Association of Athletics Federations announced earlier in the day the country's marathon squad for the Beijing Games, which also includes world bronze medalist Reiko Tosa and Nagoya winner Yurika Nakamura.

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Tosa named in world athletics championships squad

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Toshinari Suwa, Reiko Tosa, Yumiko Hara and Wataru Okutani, who are among 10 Japanese male and female marathoners who will compete in the world athletics championships in Osaka this summer, join hands during a news conference at a Tokyo hotel on March 12.

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Tosa victorious in Tokyo over Takahashi

TOKYO, Japan - Reiko Tosa of Japan crosses the line at National Stadium to win the Tokyo International Women's Marathon in 2 hours, 26 minutes, 15 seconds. Tosa ran unchallenged in the final 11 kilometers after pulling ahead of Sydney Olympic gold medalist Naoko Takahashi Takahashi, who came third in 2:31:22, the second slowest in her career.

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Japan wins Yokohama women's ekiden in meet record

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's final runner Reiko Tosa crosses the finish line to win the Yokohama International Women's Ekiden on Feb. 27. The Japanese six-woman team won the race in a meet record of 2 hours, 13 minutes, 40 seconds -- 41 seconds ahead of runner-up Russia.

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(2)Takahashi fails to qualify for Athens Olympics

TOKYO, Japan - Reiko Tosa (R) smiles during a press conference in Tokyo on March 15 after being chosen by the Japan Association of Athletics Federations as one of the three runners on the women's marathon team for the Athens Olympics. Naoko Takahasi, winner of the women's marathon at the Sydney Olympics, failed to qualify for the Athens Olympics.

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(5)Takahashi fails to qualify for Athens Olympics

TOKYO, Japan - Naoko Takahashi, who won the gold medal in the women's marathon at the Sydney Olympics, speaks to reporters at a hotel in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on March 15 after failing to qualify for the Athens Olympics. The Japan Association of Athletics Federations chose Naoko Sakamoto, Reiko Tosa and Mizuki Noguchi as women's marathon runners for the Olympics.

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(3)Takahashi fails to qualify for Athens Olympics

TOKYO, Japan - Reiko Tosa flashes a victory sign during a press conference in Tokyo on March 15 after being chosen by the Japan Association of Athletics Federations as one of the three runners on the women's marathon team for the Athens Olympics. Naoko Takahasi, the gold medalist of the women's marathon at the Sydney Olympics, was not selected.

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(1)Tosa wins Nagoya int'l women's marathon

NAGOYA, Japan - Reiko Tosa comes behind to win the Nagoya International Women's Marathon in 2 hours, 23 minutes, 57 seconds on March 14, making a strong case for one of the berths to this summer's Athens Olympics.

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(2)Tosa wins Nagoya int'l women's marathon

NAGOYA, Japan - Reiko Tosa is moved to tears during an interview after winning the Nagoya International Women's Marathon on March 14.

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Tosa wins silver in women's marathon

EDMONTON, Canada - Japanese marathoners Reiko Tosa (R) and Yoko Shibui pose after running in the women's world championships race at Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton, Canada, on Aug. 12. Tosa won the silver medal and Shibui finished fourth.

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Kenya's Chepchumba takes Tokyo Int'l Women's Marathon

TOKYO, Japan - Olympic bronze medalist Joyce Chepchumba of Kenya ends Japan's five-race winning streak in the Tokyo International Women's Marathon on Nov. 19, pulling away from Reiko Tosa over the second half of the race to win by more than 200 meters. Chepchumba, who steadily increased her lead on the return portion of the 42.195-kilometer race, crosses the finish line at National Stadium in 2 hours, 24 minutes, 2 seconds for the first-ever victory by a runner from Africa in the race.

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(1)Powerful typhoon on course to hit western Japan

KOCHI, Japan - High waves wash the breakwater at the port of Tosa-Shimizu, Kochi Prefecture, as a powerful typhoon, the season's 23rd, moved close by southern Kyushu on Oct. 20. The photo was provided by the Kochi Shimbun. (Kyodo)

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Japan wins Yokohama women's ekiden in meet record

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's final runner Reiko Tosa crosses the finish line to win the Yokohama International Women's Ekiden on Feb. 27. The Japanese six-woman team won the race in a meet record of 2 hours, 13 minutes, 40 seconds -- 41 seconds ahead of runner-up Russia. (Kyodo)

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Tosa victorious in Tokyo over Takahashi

TOKYO, Japan - Reiko Tosa of Japan crosses the line at National Stadium to win the Tokyo International Women's Marathon in 2 hours, 26 minutes, 15 seconds. Tosa ran unchallenged in the final 11 kilometers after pulling ahead of Sydney Olympic gold medalist Naoko Takahashi Takahashi, who came third in 2:31:22, the second slowest in her career. (Kyodo)

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Tosa named in world athletics championships squad

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Toshinari Suwa, Reiko Tosa, Yumiko Hara and Wataru Okutani, who are among 10 Japanese male and female marathoners who will compete in the world athletics championships in Osaka this summer, join hands during a news conference at a Tokyo hotel on March 12. (Kyodo)

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Athletics: Ndereba claims gold, Tosa bronze in marathon

OSAKA, Japan - Japan's Reiko Tosa crosses the finish line in third place, claiming the host nation's only medal at the athletics world championships at Nagai Stadium on Sept. 2. (Kyodo)

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Athletics: Ndereba claims gold, Tosa bronze in marathon

OSAKA, Japan - Kenyan Catherine Ndereba crosses the finish line at Nagai Stadium in 2 hours, 30 minutes, 37 seconds to win the gold medal in the women's marathon at the athletics world championships on Sept. 2. (Kyodo)

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Athletics: Ndereba claims gold, Tosa bronze in marathon

OSAKA, Japan - Catherine Ndereba of Kenya smiles as she waves to the audiences after winning the gold medal in the women's marathon at the athletics world championships at Nagai Stadium on Sept. 2. (Kyodo)

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Athletics: Ndereba claims gold, Tosa bronze in marathon

OSAKA, Japan - Japan's Reiko Tosa waves to the audiences in smiles after taking the bronze in the women's marathon at the athletics world championships at Nagai Stadium on Sept. 2. (Kyodo)

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Japan's Reiko Tosa comes in 3rd in women's marathon

OSAKA, Japan - Reiko Tosa of Japan holds up her bronze medal at Nagai Stadium in Osaka on Sept. 2 after coming third in the women's marathon at the World Athletics Championships. (Kyodo)

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Kenya's Ndereba wins women's marathon at world athletics

OSAKA, Japan - The three medalists of the women's marathon at the World Athletics Championships -- (From L to R) silver medalist Zhou Chunxiu of China, gold medalist Catherine Ndereba of Kenya and bronze medalist Reiko Tosa -- pose during a medal ceremony at Nagai Stadium in Osaka on Sept. 2. Ndereba won the race in a time of 2 hours, 30 minutes, 37 seconds. (Kyodo)