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Solar panels in southwestern Japan

File photo taken on May 23, 2023, shows solar panels in Yamato in Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern Japan.

Atsugi air base

TOKYO, Japan, Nov. 21 Kyodo - Video taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Nov. 18, 2024, shows the Atsugi air base, jointly operated by the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force and the U.S. Navy, straddling Ayase and Yamato in Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo. (Kyodo)

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Atsugi air base

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Nov. 18, 2024, shows the Atsugi air base, jointly operated by the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force and the U.S. Navy, straddling Ayase and Yamato in Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo.

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Atsugi air base

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Nov. 18, 2024, shows the Atsugi air base, jointly operated by the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force and the U.S. Navy, straddling Ayase and Yamato in Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo.

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Atsugi air base

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Nov. 18, 2024, shows the Atsugi air base, jointly operated by the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force and the U.S. Navy, straddling Ayase and Yamato in Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo.

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Atsugi air base

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Nov. 18, 2024, shows the Atsugi air base, jointly operated by the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force and the U.S. Navy, straddling Ayase and Yamato in Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo.

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(SP)SERBIA-BELGRADE-ATHLETICS-CROSS COUNTRY WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

(240331) -- BELGRADE, March 31, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Hamaguchi Yamato of Japan drinks water during the men's U20 race at the World Athletics Cross Country Championships 2024 in Belgrade, Serbia, March 30, 2024. (Photo by Predrag Milosavljevic/Xinhua)

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Yamato salamander

Photo taken Feb. 2, 2024, shows Yamato salamanders at an aquarium in Kakamigahara in Gifu Prefecture, central Japan.

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Yamato salamander

Photo taken Feb. 2, 2024, shows a Yamato salamander at an aquarium in Kakamigahara in Gifu Prefecture, central Japan.

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[Breaking News]Cargo airplane operated by Yamato

KITAKYUSHU, Japan, Nov. 30 Kyodo - Video taken at Kitakyushu airport in Kitakyushu, southwestern Japan, on Nov. 30, 2023, shows a Japan Airlines cargo airplane set to be operated exclusively by transport giant Yamato Holdings Co. from April 2024. (Kyodo)

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Cargo airplane operated by Yamato

Photo taken at Kitakyushu airport in Kitakyushu, southwestern Japan, on Nov. 30, 2023, shows a Japan Airlines cargo airplane set to be operated exclusively by transport giant Yamato Holdings Co. from April 2024.

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Cargo airplane operated by Yamato

Photo taken at Kitakyushu airport in Kitakyushu, southwestern Japan, on Nov. 30, 2023, shows the interior of a Japan Airlines cargo airplane set to be operated exclusively by transport giant Yamato Holdings Co. from April 2024.

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(SP)CHINA-HANGZHOU-ASIAN GAMES-HOCKEY(CN)

(231006) -- HANGZHOU, Oct. 6, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Kawahara Yamato (red) of Japan competes during the Men's Gold Medal Match of Hockey between India and Japan at the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, Oct. 6, 2023. (Xinhua/Li An)

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Heavy rain in southwestern Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a bridge over the Mifune River, which collapsed due to heavy rain in Yamato in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Kumamoto on July 3, 2023.

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Heavy rain in southwestern Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a bridge over the Mifune River, which collapsed due to heavy rain in Yamato in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Kumamoto on July 3, 2023.

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Logos of Japan Post and Yamato Holdings

Logos of Japan Post and Yamato Holdings=Date:June 19, 2023,Place:Tokyo

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Logos of Japan Post and Yamato Holdings

Logos of Japan Post and Yamato Holdings=Date:June 19, 2023,Place:Tokyo

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Japan Post Group and Yamato Group Collaboration in Logistics Services

Japan Post Group and Yamato Group held a press conference on cooperation in logistics services. Photo shows (from left) Yutaka Nagao, President of Yamato HD; Hiroya Masuda, President of Japan Post; and Kazuhide Kinugawa, President of Japan Post.=Date:June 19, 2023,Place:Tokyo

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Japan Post Group and Yamato Group Collaboration in Logistics Services

Japan Post Group and Yamato Group held a press conference on cooperation in logistics services. Photo shows (from left) Yutaka Nagao, President of Yamato HD; Hiroya Masuda, President of Japan Post; and Kazuhide Kinugawa, President of Japan Post.=Date:June 19, 2023,Place:Tokyo

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Japan Post Group and Yamato Group Collaboration in Logistics Services

Japan Post Group and Yamato Group held a press conference on cooperation in logistics services. Photo shows (from left) Yutaka Nagao, President of Yamato HD; Hiroya Masuda, President of Japan Post; and Kazuhide Kinugawa, President of Japan Post.=Date:June 19, 2023,Place:Tokyo

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Japan Post Group and Yamato Group Collaboration in Logistics Services

Japan Post Group and Yamato Group held a press conference on cooperation in logistics services. Photo shows (from left) Yutaka Nagao, President of Yamato HD; Hiroya Masuda, President of Japan Post; and Kazuhide Kinugawa, President of Japan Post.=Date:June 19, 2023,Place:Tokyo

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Japan Post Group and Yamato Group Collaboration in Logistics Services

Japan Post Group and Yamato Group held a press conference on cooperation in logistics services. Photo shows (from left) Yutaka Nagao, President of Yamato HD, and Hiroya Masuda, President of Japan Post.=Date:June 19, 2023,Place:Tokyo

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"Galaxy Express 999" manga artist Leiji Matsumoto dies at 85

Leiji Matsumoto, a famed Japanese cartoonist known for his works "Galaxy Express 999" and "Space Battleship Yamato," has died of acute heart failure, his production studio said Monday. He was 85. The manga artist, who also created "Space Pirate Captain Harlock," died at a Tokyo hospital on Feb. 13, Studio Leijisha said. Many of his works were adapted into anime television series that became popular at home and abroad. "Space Battleship Yamato," a story depicting an uncharted cosmic voyage in the 22nd century aboard a spaceship modeled off the World War II Imperial Japanese Navy of the same name, was made into a TV series and broadcast from 1974 to 1975. Hailing from Fukuoka Prefecture in southwestern Japan, Matsumoto was one of the first manga artists whose manga and animation work attracted fans overseas.

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U.S. Osprey aircraft joins drill with Japan's SDF in Kumamoto

YAMATO, Japan - A U.S. Marine Corps Osprey aircraft hovers above a team of Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force members during a joint exercise at the GSDF's Oyanohara Training Area in Yamato, Kumamoto Prefecture, in southwestern Japan on Dec. 7, 2014. It was the first Japan-U.S. drill in the Kyushu region using the Osprey aircraft.

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U.S. Osprey aircraft in drill with SDF in Kumamoto

YAMATO, Japan - Members of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force board an Osprey aircraft of the U.S. Marine Corps during a joint exercise at the GSDF's Oyanohara Training Area in Yamato, Kumamoto Prefecture, in southwestern Japan on Dec. 7, 2014. It was the first Japan-U.S. drill in the Kyushu region using the Osprey aircraft.

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U.S. Osprey aircraft in drill in Kumamoto with SDF

YAMATO, Japan - Members of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force board an Osprey aircraft of the U.S. Marine Corps during a joint exercise at the GSDF's Oyanohara Training Area in Yamato, Kumamoto Prefecture, in southwestern Japan on Dec. 7, 2014. It was the first Japan-U.S. drill in the Kyushu region using the Osprey aircraft.

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U.S. Marine Corps officer opens joint drill with JGSFD

YAMATO, Japan - Major Roy Draa (L) of the U.S. Marine Corps addresses an opening ceremony for a 12-day joint drill with the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force at the JGSDF's maneuver area in Yamato, Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Dec. 1, 2014, as Colonel Hiroji Yamashita of the Japanese force looks on.

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JGSFD, U.S. Marine Corps launch joint drill in Japan

YAMATO, Japan - Members of the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force (front) and of the U.S. Marine Corps attend an opening ceremony for their 12-day joint drill at the JGSDF's maneuver area in Yamato, Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Dec. 1, 2014.

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Woman leads therapy dog training in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Mayumi Tokiwa, head of a training section of the Japan Animal Therapy Association, shows how she trains canines to become therapy dogs at the association in Yamato, Kanawaga Prefecture, west of Tokyo, in this file photo taken on July 15, 2014.

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Osprey after leaving Atsugi base

YAMATO, Japan - An MV-22 Osprey transport aircraft flies in fixed-wing mode after leaving Atsugi base in Kanagawa Prefecture for Camp Fuji in Shizuoka Prefecture on July 15, 2014.

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Osprey about to land at Atsugi base

YAMATO, Japan - An MV-22 Osprey transport aircraft from the U.S. Marine Corps Futenma Air Station in Okinawa Prefecture is about to land at Atsugi base in Kanagawa Prefecture on July 15, 2014.

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Osprey flies to area near Tokyo

YAMATO, Japan - An MV-22 Osprey transport aircraft arrives at the U.S. Navy's Atsugi base in Kanagawa Prefecture from the U.S. Marine Corps Futenma Air Station in Okinawa Prefecture on July 15, 2014, on its first flight near the capital.

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Wildlife center in south Japan eyes World Heritage listing

AMAMI, Japan - The renovated Amami Wildlife Conservation Center in Yamato on Amami-Oshima Island, Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, is one of the prefecture's candidate sites for UNESCO's World Natural Heritage designation. The picture of the Environment Ministry-owned center was taken in April 2014.

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Continued vigilance urged over heavy snow in northern Japan

TOKYO, Japan - The tail of an aircraft pokes through a collapsed hanger belonging to Nippi Corp., a Kawasaki Heavy Industries Group subsidiary, in the city of Yamato, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Feb. 16, 2014, as heavy snow blanketed many areas of eastern Japan.

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"Mongoose busters" to save island's endangered native species

AMAMI, Japan - Photo taken March 21, 2013 shows a mongoose in captivity at the Amami Wildlife Center for use when experimenting with new traps and bait, with Teruyuki Niino, a mongoose handler at the center standing behind, in Yamato on Amami-Oshima Island, Kagoshima Prefecture.

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4 policemen sexually harassed female colleague

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Photo shows Kanagawa prefectural police's Yamato Police Station on July 27, 2012. Four policemen who belonged to the police station, including three who are still working there, are facing internal discipline after a female colleague in her 20s was forced to take off her clothes and forcibly kissed at a karaoke parlor in March 2012, the prefectural police said on July 27, 2012.

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Pro-nuclear plant mayor reelected

KAMINOSEKI, Japan - Shigemi Kashiwabara (C), mayor of Kaminoseki in Yamaguchi Prefecture, bows to supporters in the town after reelection to a third four-year term on Sept. 25, 2011. Kashiwabara, an advocate of a Chugoku Electric Power Co. proposal to build a nuclear power station in the town, defeated antinuclear challenger Sadao Yamato, who heads a civic group opposed to the plan.

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Writer, poet Hemmi dies

TOKYO, Japan - Undated file photo shows writer and poet Jun Hemmi, who died at the age of 72 on Sept. 21, 2011, after collapsing at her home in suburban Tokyo. Hemmi wrote fiction and nonfiction stories about people affected by World War II, including the novel ''Otoko-tachi no Yamato'' (Men's Yamato). She is also known as a poet of 31-syllable ''tanka'' poems.

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Nobel laureate Negishi becomes honorary citizen of Yamato city

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Eiichi Negishi (R), winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in chemistry, receives the status of honorary citizen of Kanagawa Prefecture's Yamato city in a ceremony on Nov. 22, 2010. Negishi spent much of his youth in the city.

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Space Battleship Yamato's metallic model

TOKYO, Japan - Combination photos show the GX-57 metallic model of the Space Battleship Yamato that Bandai Co. will release on Nov. 27, 2010.

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Mitsubishi Motors' mini electric vehicle

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi Motors Corp. President Osamu Masuko (front L) and Yamato Transport Co. President Makoto Kigawa shake hands beside the automaker's mini electric vehicle for commercial use during a ceremony in Tokyo on Oct. 14, 2010. Mitsubishi said it will release the vehicle for 2 million yen or less per unit by the end of 2011.

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Stone chamber of ancient tomb unveiled to viewers

KASHIHARA, Japan - Visitors look at the upper part of a red-colored stone chamber, excavated at the ancient Sakurai Chausu-yama tomb mound in Sakurai, Nara Prefecture, on Oct. 29, 2009. The mound is believed to be a nobleman's tomb from the early years of the Yamato dynasty, which ruled major parts of Japan from the third to seventh centuries.

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Stone chamber of ancient tomb in early Yamato dynasty unveiled

SAKURAI, Japan - Photo taken Oct. 22, 2009, shows the Sakurai Chausu-yama tomb mound near Japan's former capital of Nara. A red-colored stone chamber was excavated from the 200-meter-long keyhole-shaped tomb mound. The site is believed to be a nobleman's tomb from the early years of the Yamato dynasty, which ruled major parts of Japan from the third to seventh centuries.

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Stone chamber of ancient tomb in early Yamato dynasty unveiled

KASHIHARA, Japan - Photo shows a red-colored stone chamber after a wooden coffin was removed at the ancient Sakurai Chausu-yama tomb mound near Japan's former capital of Nara. The tomb mound was believed to be a nobleman's tomb from the early years of the Yamato dynasty, which ruled major parts of Japan from the third to seventh centuries. (Pool photo)

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Stone chamber of ancient tomb in early Yamato dynasty unveiled

KASHIHARA, Japan - The roof of a red-colored stone chamber, excavated at the ancient Sakurai Chausu-yama tomb mound in Sakurai, Nara Prefecture, is covered with large pieces of stone. Japanese archaeologists showed to the media the stone chamber on Oct. 22, 2009. The site is believed to date back to the late third to early fourth century.

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Stone chamber of ancient tomb in early Yamato dynasty unveiled

KASHIHARA, Japan - Photo taken September 24, 2009, shows a red-colored stone chamber and a wooden coffin (C, below) excavated at the ancient Sakurai Chausu-yama tomb mound near Japan's former capital of Nara. Japanese archaeologists showed the stone chamber at the tomb mound to the media on Oct. 22, 2009. The site is believed to be a nobleman's tomb from the early years of the Yamato dynasty, which ruled major parts of Japan from the third to seventh centuries. (Pool photo)

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Trucking industry making eco-friendly strides

TOKYO, Japan - An employee of Yamato Transport Co. pushes a trolley to deliver parcels in Tokyo's Chuo Ward.

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Trucking industry making eco-friendly strides

TOKYO, Japan - A driver of Yamato Transport Co. rides a cart to deliver parcels in Fukuoka City's Hakata Ward.

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Bombardier delivers 8 DHC8-Q300 prop planes to Japan Coast Guard

YAMATO, Japan - Japan Coast Guard officials cut the tape in front of a Canadian Bombardier DHC8-Q300 prop plane during a ceremony at the JCG hanger in the city of Yamato, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Feb. 13. A total of eight DHC8-Q300 prop planes, which will replace the outmoded YS11 propeller planes, were delivered to the Japan Coat Guard.

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Saizeriya to pay back charges for its pizzas

YAMATO, Japan - Italian restaurant chain operator Saizeriya Co. President Yasuhiko Shogaki (R) speaks during a news conference at Zaizeriya's processing plant in Yamato, Kanagawa Prefecture, Oct. 21. He said the company will return money to customers who consumed its pizzas, some of which have been found tainted with the industrial chemical melamine.