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Ex-Japan PM Suga at ceremony

Former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga (front) attends a ceremony marking the 140th anniversary of the establishment of the Cabinet system at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Dec. 22, 2025.

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World Athletics Championships Tokyo 2025

(from L) Japan team members Hiroki Yanagita, Yuki Koike, Yoshihide Kiryu and Towa Uzawa acknowledge the crowd after finishing sixth in the men's 4x100-meter relay final at the World Athletics Championships at National Stadium in Tokyo on Sept. 21, 2025.

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World Athletics Championships Tokyo 2025

Japan's Yoshihide Kiryu (foreground) runs the third leg in the men's 4x100-meter relay final at the World Athletics Championships at National Stadium in Tokyo on Sept. 21, 2025.

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World Athletics Championships Tokyo 2025

Japan's Yoshihide Kiryu (R) receives the baton from Hiroki Yanagita in the men's 4x100-meter relay final at the World Athletics Championships at National Stadium in Tokyo on Sept. 21, 2025.

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World Athletics Championships Tokyo 2025

Yoshihide Kiryu (R) of Japan receives the baton from Hiroki Yanagita in the men's 4x100-meter relay final at the World Athletics Championships at National Stadium in Tokyo on Sept. 21, 2025.

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World Athletics Championships Tokyo 2025

Yoshihide Kiryu (R) of Japan receives the baton from Hiroki Yanagita in the men's 4x100-meter relay final at the World Athletics Championships at National Stadium in Tokyo on Sept. 21, 2025.

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World Athletics Championships Tokyo 2025

(from L) Japan's Yuki Koike, Hiroki Yanagita, Yoshihide Kiryu and Towa Uzawa hold national flags after finishing sixth in the men's 4x100-meter relay final at the World Athletics Championships at National Stadium in Tokyo on Sept. 21, 2025.

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World Athletics Championships Tokyo 2025

(from L) Japan's Yuki Koike, Hiroki Yanagita, Yoshihide Kiryu and Towa Uzawa hold national flags after finishing sixth in the men's 4x100-meter relay final at the World Athletics Championships at National Stadium in Tokyo on Sept. 21, 2025.

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World Athletics Championships Tokyo 2025

(from L) Japan's Yuki Koike, Hiroki Yanagita, Yoshihide Kiryu and Towa Uzawa hold national flags after finishing sixth in the men's 4x100-meter relay final at the World Athletics Championships at National Stadium in Tokyo on Sept. 21, 2025.

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World Athletics Championships

Japanese sprinters Yoshihide Kiryu (R) and Yuhi Mori practice a relay handover at the National Stadium in Tokyo on Sept. 4, 2025, ahead of the World Athletics Championships, set to open on Sept. 13. (Pool photo)

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Ex-Japan PM meets S. Korea president

Former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga (L), head of the Japan-South Korea Parliamentarians' Union, holds talks with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung at the presidential office in Seoul on July 30, 2025.

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Ex-Japan PM meets S. Korea president

Former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga (L), head of the Japan-South Korea Parliamentarians' Union, shakes hands with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung as they hold talks at the presidential office in Seoul on July 30, 2025.

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LDP board meeting

Japanese Prime Minister and Liberal Democratic Party President Shigeru Ishiba (C), LDP Vice President Yoshihide Suga (R) and LDP Secretary General Hiroshi Moriyama attend a board meeting of the ruling party at its headquarters in Tokyo on July 29, 2025, amid renewed calls for the premier to resign over the party's recent election setback.

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Japan PM Ishiba

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, head of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, speaks to reporters after a meeting with former prime ministers Taro Aso, Yoshihide Suga and Fumio Kishida at the LDP headquarters in Tokyo on July 23, 2025.

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Japan PM Ishiba

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, head of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, speaks to reporters after a meeting with former prime ministers Taro Aso, Yoshihide Suga and Fumio Kishida at the LDP headquarters in Tokyo on July 23, 2025.

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CORRECTED: Japan ex-PM Suga

Former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga heads for a meeting with Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, and other party executives at the LDP headquarters in Tokyo on July 23, 2025.

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Top uniformed officers of S. Korea, U.S., Japan meet in Seoul

Adm. Kim Myung Soo (C), chief of South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff, shakes hands with his U.S. and Japanese counterparts, Gen. Dan Caine (L) and Gen. Yoshihide Yoshida, during a meeting in Seoul on July 11, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Press conference on the commencement of TOB by Nidec

Press conference on the commencement of TOB by Nidec. Photo shows, from right, Yoshihide Morimoto, Chairman of Nidec OKK㊨ and Kazuhiro Harada, President of TAKISAWA.=April 4,2025,Tokyo

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Press conference on the commencement of TOB by Nidec

Press conference on the launch of TOB by Nidec. Photo shows Yoshihide Morimoto, Chairman of Nidec OKK (second from front) and others.=April 4,2025,Tokyo

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Japan-U.S. joint drill in Sasebo

Gen. Yoshihide Yoshida (R), chief of the Japan Self-Defense Forces Joint Staff, and Adm. Steven Koehler, the U.S. Pacific Fleet commander, hold a joint press conference aboard the San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship USS San Diego at U.S. Fleet Activities Sasebo, a U.S. Navy base in the southwestern city of Sasebo on Oct. 22, 2024, a day before the start of the joint Japan-U.S. "Keen Sword" exercise.

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Japan-U.S. joint drill in Sasebo

Gen. Yoshihide Yoshida (R), chief of the Japan Self-Defense Forces Joint Staff, and Adm. Steven Koehler, the U.S. Pacific Fleet commander, hold a joint press conference aboard the San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship USS San Diego at U.S. Fleet Activities Sasebo, a U.S. Navy base in the southwestern city of Sasebo on Oct. 22, 2024, a day before the start of the joint Japan-U.S. "Keen Sword" exercise.

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Japan-U.S. joint drill in Sasebo

Gen. Yoshihide Yoshida (R), chief of the Japan Self-Defense Forces Joint Staff, and Adm. Steven Koehler, the U.S. Pacific Fleet commander, hold a joint press conference aboard the San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship USS San Diego at U.S. Fleet Activities Sasebo, a U.S. Navy base in the southwestern city of Sasebo on Oct. 22, 2024, a day before the start of the joint Japan-U.S. "Keen Sword" exercise.

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Japan-U.S. joint drill in Sasebo

Gen. Yoshihide Yoshida (R), chief of the Japan Self-Defense Forces Joint Staff, and Adm. Steven Koehler, the U.S. Pacific Fleet commander, shake hands after a joint press conference aboard the San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship USS San Diego at U.S. Fleet Activities Sasebo, a U.S. Navy base in the southwestern city of Sasebo on Oct. 22, 2024, a day before the start of the joint Japan-U.S. "Keen Sword" exercise.

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Japan-U.S. joint drill in Sasebo

Gen. Yoshihide Yoshida (R), chief of the Japan Self-Defense Forces Joint Staff, and Adm. Steven Koehler, the U.S. Pacific Fleet commander, shake hands after a joint press conference aboard the San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship USS San Diego at U.S. Fleet Activities Sasebo, a U.S. Navy base in the southwestern city of Sasebo on Oct. 22, 2024, a day before the start of the joint Japan-U.S. "Keen Sword" exercise.

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Parliamentary election to choose Japan's next PM

Former Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga casts a vote in an election to choose Japan's next prime minister during a House of Representatives plenary session in Tokyo on Oct. 1, 2024, after the Cabinet of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida resigned en masse earlier in the day.

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Japan's ruling LDP's new vice president Suga

Yoshihide Suga, new vice president of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, speaks at a press conference at the party's headquarters in Tokyo on Sept. 30, 2024.

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MSDF ship sails through Taiwan Strait for 1st time

Gen. Yoshihide Yoshida, chief of the Japan Self-Defense Forces Joint Staff, holds a press conference at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on Sept. 26, 2024, a day after a Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer sailed through the Taiwan Strait for the first time at Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's direction.

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MSDF ship sails through Taiwan Strait for 1st time

Gen. Yoshihide Yoshida, chief of the Japan Self-Defense Forces Joint Staff, holds a press conference at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on Sept. 26, 2024, a day after a Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer sailed through the Taiwan Strait for the first time at Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's direction.

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MSDF ship sails through Taiwan Strait for 1st time

Gen. Yoshihide Yoshida, chief of the Japan Self-Defense Forces Joint Staff, holds a press conference at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on Sept. 26, 2024, a day after a Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer sailed through the Taiwan Strait for the first time at Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's direction.

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MSDF ship sails through Taiwan Strait for 1st time

Gen. Yoshihide Yoshida, chief of the Japan Self-Defense Forces Joint Staff, holds a press conference at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on Sept. 26, 2024, a day after a Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer sailed through the Taiwan Strait for the first time at Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's direction.

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Paris Olympics: Athletics

Japan sprinters -- (from L) Yoshihide Kiryu, Koki Ueyama, Ryuichiro Sakai and Abdul Hakim Sani Brown -- are pictured after finishing fifth in the men's 4x100-meter relay final at the Paris Olympics at Stade de France in Saint-Denis near Paris on Aug. 9, 2024.

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Paris Olympics: Athletics

Japan's Yoshihide Kiryu competes in the men's 4x100-meter relay final at the Paris Olympics on Aug. 9, 2024, at Stade de France in Saint-Denis near Paris.

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Ex-Japan PM Suga in Hanoi

Former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga (L) holds talks with Vietnamese President To Lam in Hanoi on July 25, 2024.

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Ex-Japan PM Suga in Hanoi

Former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga (L) shakes hands with Vietnamese President To Lam in Hanoi on July 25, 2024.

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Former Japan PM at Vietnam Communist Party chief's funeral

Former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga (front, L) attends the state funeral of Nguyen Phu Trong, general secretary of Vietnam's Communist Party, in Hanoi on July 25, 2024. Trong, who had served in the country's highest position since 2011, died on July 19 aged 80.

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Former Japan PM Suga

Former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga (C) arrives at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on July 23, 2024.

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Former Japan PM Suga

Former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga (C) arrives at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on July 23, 2024.

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Ruling party slush fund scandal

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (R) attends the first meeting of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's "political reform" panel in Tokyo on Jan. 11, 2024, with former Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga. The panel will discuss reviewing rules for making the handling of political funds by its factions more transparent amid a secret slush money scandal shaking the LDP.

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Japan-U.S. defense talks

Gen. Yoshihide Yoshida (R), chief of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces Joint Staff, shakes hands with Gen. Charles Brown, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, during a meeting at the Japanese Defense Ministry in Tokyo on Nov. 10, 2023.

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

(231002) -- HANGZHOU, Oct. 2, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Koike Yuki (L)/Kiryu Yoshihide of Japan compete during the Men's 4 x 100m Relay Heat of Athletics at the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, Oct. 2, 2023. (Xinhua/Li Yibo)

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Ex-Japan PM Suga

Former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga speaks to reporters in the central Japan city of Fukui on Sept. 19, 2023.

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GLOBALink | Japanese sewing machine giant sees great potential in Chinese market

STORY: Japanese sewing machine giant sees great potential in Chinese market DATELINE: June 28, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:38 LOCATION: TIANJIN, China CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Japanese sewing machine giant Pegasus's China branch in Tianjin 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Japanese): OKADA YOSHIHIDE, General manager of Pegasus (Tianjin) Sewing Machine Co., Ltd. 3. various of Pegasus (Tianjin) Sewing Machine Co., Ltd. 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Japanese): OKADA YOSHIHIDE, General manager of Pegasus (Tianjin) Sewing Machine Co., Ltd. 5. various of Pegasus (Tianjin) Sewing Machine Co., Ltd. STORYLINE: 　　 Established in 1994 in north China's Tianjin Municipality, Pegasus (Tianjin) Sewing Machine Co., Ltd. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Pegasus Sewing Machine Mfg Co., Ltd., a century-old brand of industrial sewing machines from Japan. 　　 Through nearly 30 years of development, the subsidiary has evolved into Pegasus's most important production base and sales market on a global scale, with an annual output of over 100,000 sewing

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Japan to send SDF planes to evacuate nationals from Sudan

Gen. Yoshihide Yoshida, chief of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces Joint Staff, holds a press conference at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on April 20, 2023, after the government ordered the Air Self-Defense Force to dispatch aircraft to Djibouti in preparation for the evacuation of Japanese nationals from Sudan, where military clashes are intensifying.

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Ex-Japan PM Suga in Vietnam

Former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga holds talks with Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh in Hanoi on Jan. 9, 2023.

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Sumo legend Taiho to receive national award

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows the former yokozuna Taiho, who died of heart disease in January 2013 at the age of 72. The government will award a posthumous national honor to the late yokozuna in recognition of his historic sumo victory record, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Feb. 15, 2013.

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Actor Sugi

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows actor Ryotaro Sugi. The Japanese government has praised Sugi, also a singer, for his efforts to establish friendship between Japan and Vietnam, as well as with other Southeast Asian countries, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Feb. 4, 2014.

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Japan PM Suga at parliament

TOKYO, Japan, March 4 Kyodo - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga speaks at a House of Councillors Budget Committee session in Tokyo on March 4, 2021, wearing a mask amid the novel coronavirus pandemic.

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Japan PM Suga at parliament

TOKYO, Japan, Nov. 25 Kyodo - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga speaks during a House of Representatives Budget Committee session in Tokyo on Nov. 25, 2020.

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Japan's Cabinet meeting

TOKYO, Japan, Dec. 18 Kyodo - (From L) Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and Finance Minister Taro Aso attend a Cabinet meeting at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Dec. 18, 2020, wearing masks amid the coronavirus pandemic.

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Japan PM Suga at parliament

TOKYO, Japan, Nov. 25 Kyodo - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga speaks during a House of Representatives Budget Committee session in Tokyo on Nov. 25, 2020.