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Cooking expert Hattori

Yukio Hattori, head of Hattori Nutrition College, speaks during an interview at the college in Tokyo on Oct. 29, 2020, after he was told that he would be decorated with the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette. The cooking expert best known as a commentator on the television show Iron Chef died of illness on Oct. 4, 2024, aged 78.

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Cooking expert Hattori

Undated photo taken in 2001 shows Yukio Hattori, head of Hattori Nutrition College, giving an interview at the college in Tokyo. The cooking expert best known as a commentator on the television show Iron Chef died of illness on Oct. 4, 2024, aged 78.

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Cooking expert Hattori

Yukio Hattori, head of Hattori Nutrition College, is pictured at the college in Tokyo on Jan. 14, 2009. The cooking expert best known as a commentator on the television show Iron Chef died of illness on Oct. 4, 2024, aged 78.

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Cooking expert Hattori at press conference

Photo taken on Feb. 18, 2008, in Tokyo shows Yukio Hattori (R, front), head of Hattori Nutrition College, and Yuzaburo Mogi (L, front), chairman of soy sauce maker Kikkoman Corp., attending a press conference about the plan for Tokyo to host the World Summit of Gastronomy.

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Cooking expert Hattori at symposium

Photo taken on May 31, 1997, in Tokyo shows Yukio Hattori (L), head of Hattori Nutrition College, and sports writer Akemi Masuda attending a government symposium encouraging the cessation of cigarette smoking.

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Cooking expert Hattori dies at 78

Photo taken on May 14, 1999, shows Yukio Hattori, head of Hattori Nutrition College. The cooking expert best known as a commentator on the television show Iron Chef died of illness on Oct. 4, 2024, aged 78.

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Cooking expert Hattori dies at 78

Photo taken on April 8, 1998, shows Yukio Hattori, head of Hattori Nutrition College. The cooking expert best known as a commentator on the television show Iron Chef died of illness on Oct. 4, 2024, aged 78.

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Candidates at joint event in Japan's main opposition leadership race

Candidates contesting the leadership race of the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, (from L) former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, first-term lower house lawmaker Harumi Yoshida, the party's leader, Kenta Izumi, and former leader, Yukio Edano, hold up each other's hands during a joint campaign event in Sapporo on the northernmost Japanese main island of Hokkaido on Sept. 16, 2024, ahead of the Sept. 23 election.

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Ex-main opposition party chief Edano to run in leadership race

Former leader of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, Yukio Edano, holds a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 21, 2024, announcing his decision to run in the party's leadership election in September.

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Ex-main opposition party chief Edano to run in leadership race

Former leader of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, Yukio Edano, holds a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 21, 2024, announcing his decision to run in the party's leadership election in September.

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Ex-main opposition party chief Edano to run in leadership race

Former leader of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, Yukio Edano, holds a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 21, 2024, announcing his decision to run in the party's leadership election in September.

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Ex-main opposition party chief Edano to run in leadership race

Former leader of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, Yukio Edano, holds a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 21, 2024, announcing his decision to run in the party's leadership election in September.

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Hilltop Hotel in Tokyo closes temporarily

TOKYO, Japan, Feb. 12 Kyodo - Video taken on Feb. 12, 2024, shows the Hilltop Hotel in Tokyo as it closes the same day for an undetermined period due to the run-down condition of its 87-year-old building. The hotel served as regular lodgings for many renowned figures in Japanese literature, such as Yasunari Kawabata and Yukio Mishima. (Kyodo)

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Hilltop Hotel in Tokyo closes temporarily

Employees line up in front of the Hilltop Hotel in Tokyo on Feb. 12, 2024, as it closes the same day for an undetermined period due to the run-down condition of its 87-year-old building. The hotel served as regular lodgings for many renowned figures in Japanese literature, such as Yasunari Kawabata and Yukio Mishima.

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Hilltop Hotel in Tokyo closes temporarily

Photo taken on Feb. 12, 2024, shows the Hilltop Hotel in Tokyo as it closes the same day for an undetermined period due to the run-down condition of its 87-year-old building. The hotel served as regular lodgings for many renowned figures in Japanese literature, such as Yasunari Kawabata and Yukio Mishima.

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Hilltop Hotel in Tokyo closes temporarily

Photo taken on Feb. 12, 2024, shows the Hilltop Hotel in Tokyo as it closes the same day for an undetermined period due to the run-down condition of its 87-year-old building. The hotel served as regular lodgings for many renowned figures in Japanese literature, such as Yasunari Kawabata and Yukio Mishima.

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Hilltop Hotel in Tokyo closes temporarily

Employees line up in front of the Hilltop Hotel in Tokyo on Feb. 12, 2024, as it closes the same day for an undetermined period due to the run-down condition of its 87-year-old building. The hotel served as regular lodgings for many renowned figures in Japanese literature, such as Yasunari Kawabata and Yukio Mishima.

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Hilltop Hotel in Tokyo closes temporarily

Photo taken on Feb. 12, 2024, shows the Hilltop Hotel in Tokyo as it closes the same day for an undetermined period due to the run-down condition of its 87-year-old building. The hotel served as regular lodgings for many renowned figures in Japanese literature, such as Yasunari Kawabata and Yukio Mishima.

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Hilltop Hotel in Tokyo closes temporarily

Photo taken on Feb. 12, 2024, shows the Hilltop Hotel in Tokyo as it closes the same day for an undetermined period due to the run-down condition of its 87-year-old building. The hotel served as regular lodgings for many renowned figures in Japanese literature, such as Yasunari Kawabata and Yukio Mishima.

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Japanese novelist Mishima

TOKYO, Japan, Oct. 11 Kyodo - Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima talks with actress Kyoko Kishida of Bungakuza, a major Tokyo theater company, in the Japanese capital in March 1960. Kishida made her breakthrough in Mishima's stage production of Oscar Wilde's "Salome" the same year.

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Japanese novelist Mishima

TOKYO, Japan, Oct. 11 Kyodo - Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima practices "kendo" Japanese fencing in June 1959.

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Japanese novelist Mishima

TOKYO, Japan, Oct. 11 Kyodo - Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima poses for a photo with his wife Yoko Hiraoka at their wedding in Tokyo on June 1, 1958.

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Novelist Yukio Mishima

TOKYO, Japan, April 24 Kyodo - Novelist Yukio Mishima (C) smiles at a party held at the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo in March 1960 to celebrate the completion of a film in which he played the leading role. (Kyodo)

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Japanese novelist Mishima

TOKYO, Japan, Oct. 11 Kyodo - The body of renowned Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima and a cohort are carried from the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force's Camp Ichigaya in Tokyo on Nov. 25, 1970, after he committed ritual suicide following his failed attempt to stage a coup in protest against the country's pacifist Constitution. Mishima, a Nobel literature prize nominee from 1963 to 1968, is known for his works including "Shiosai" (The Sound of Waves) and "Kinkakuji" (The Temple of the Golden Pavilion).

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Japanese novelist Mishima

TOKYO, Japan, Oct. 11 Kyodo - Photo taken on Nov. 3, 1969, shows Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima at the National Theatre in Tokyo attending an event marking the first anniversary of a nationalist militia he established in protest at the country's pacifist Constitution.(Kyodo)

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Japanese novelist Kawabata

TOKYO, Japan, Oct. 11 Kyodo - Nobel laureate Japanese novelist Yasunari Kawabata (C) attends the funeral of Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima on Jan. 24, 1971, at Tokyo's Tsukiji Hongwanji temple.

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Japanese novelist Mishima

TOKYO, Japan, Sept. 22 Kyodo - Japanese Novelist Yukio Mishima speaks before University of Tokyo students at the university's Komaba campus in Tokyo on May 13, 1969. The photo is taken from the book "The Chronicle: 70 years of postwar Japan (5) -- 1965-69 Defiance and exploration --," compiled by Kyodo News.(Kyodo)

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Japanese novelist Mishima

TOKYO, Japan, Sept. 22 Kyodo - Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima makes a speech at a Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force facility in Tokyo on Nov. 25, 1970, just before his dramatic suicide.(Kyodo)

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Japanese novelist Mishima

TOKYO, Japan, Sept. 22 Kyodo - Photo taken in 1950 shows Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima. (Kyodo)

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Japanese novelist Mishima

TOKYO, Japan, Sept. 22 Kyodo - Japanese Novelist Yukio Mishima (C) attends a press conference, alongside Japanese novelist Sei Ito (R) and a lawyer, on Sept. 28, 1964, following a Tokyo District Court ruling ordering Mishima to pay 800,000 yen to Japan's former Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita. The court said the 1960 publication of Mishima's book "After the Banquet" so closely followed the events surrounding Arita's campaign to become governor of Tokyo that it violated the politician's privacy. The case is renowned as Japan's landmark judicial recognition of the right to privacy versus freedom of expression. The photo is taken from the book "The Chronicle: 70 years of postwar Japan (4) -- 1960-64 In the heat of the moment --," compiled by Kyodo News.(Kyodo)

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Elderly theater members from Japan get applause in Paris

PARIS, France - Members of the Saitama Gold Theater, a Japanese theatrical company of senior citizens led by renowned stage director Yukio Ninagawa, receive applause from the audience at the Paris Theatre in the French capital on Dec. 8, 2014.

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Elderly theater members from Japan perform in Paris

PARIS, France - Members of the Saitama Gold Theater, a Japanese theatrical company comprising senior citizens and led by renowned stage director Yukio Ninagawa, perform at the Paris Theatre in the French capital on Dec. 8, 2014.

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World Peace Forum in Beijing

BEIJING, China - Former Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama delivers a speech at the World Peace Forum in Beijing on June 21, 2014.

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World Peace Forum in Beijing

BEIJING, China - Yukio Hatoyama (L), former Prime Minister of Japan, and Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi (R) pose for photos before the World Peace Forum at Tsinghua University in Beijing on June 21, 2014.

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World Peace Forum in Beijing

BEIJING, China - Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi addresses the opening ceremony for the third World Peace Forum at Beijing's Tsinghua University on June 21, 2014. About 500 people, including former Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, are attending the two-day forum, organized by the university in partnership with the Chinese People's Institute of Foreign Affairs.

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World Peace Forum in Beijing

BEIJING, China - Former Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama makes a speech at the third World Peace Forum at Beijing's Tsinghua University on June 21, 2014. About 500 people are attending the two-day forum, organized by the university in partnership with the Chinese People's Institute of Foreign Affairs.

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Edano visits manufacturer of nuclear reactor

KOBE, Japan - ADDING FRONT AFTER L FOR HIS POSITION Japanese industry minister Yukio Edano (2nd from L, front) inspects Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd.'s Kobe shipyard, a production site for nuclear reactors, in Hyogo Prefecture on Dec. 27, 2011.

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Ozawa considers whether to run in DPJ presidential election

KARUIZAWA, Japan - Democratic Party of Japan kingpin Ichiro Ozawa (2nd from R) listens to former Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama (2nd from L) speak at an intraparty gathering following a seminar by an intraparty group led by Hatoyama on Aug. 19, 2010, in the resort town of Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture. Ozawa is reportedly considering whether he will run in the ruling party's presidential election in September.

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Ozawa considers whether to run in DPJ presidential election

KARUIZAWA, Japan - Democratic Party of Japan kingpin Ichiro Ozawa (4th from L) applauds during a speech by former Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama (3rd from L) at a gathering following a seminar held by an intraparty group led by Hatoyama on Aug. 19, 2010, in the resort town of Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture. Ozawa is reportedly considering whether he will run in the ruling party's presidential election in September.

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Ozawa considers whether to run in DPJ presidential election

KARUIZAWA, Japan - Democratic Party of Japan kingpin Ichiro Ozawa (C) applauds during a speech by former Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama (2nd from L) at a gathering following a seminar by an intraparty group led by Hatoyama on Aug. 19, 2010, in the resort town of Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture. Ozawa is reportedly considering whether he will run in the ruling party's presidential election in September.

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Ozawa considers whether to run in DPJ presidential election

KARUIZAWA, Japan - Democratic Party of Japan kingpin Ichiro Ozawa (C) raises his cup with fellow DPJ lawmakers at a gathering following a seminar held by an intraparty group led by former Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama (2nd from L) on Aug. 19, 2010, in the resort town of Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture. Ozawa is reportedly considering whether he will run in the ruling party's presidential election in September.

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Ex-Japanese PM Hatoyama to visit Russia

BEIJING, China - Former Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama speaks about a plan to visit Russia in September during a press conference in Beijing on Aug. 18, 2010. Hatoyama said he hopes to talk with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev over disputed Russian-held islands off Hokkaido, called the Northern Territories in Japan.

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Wen, Hatoyama meet

BEIJING, China - Former Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama (front L) and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (front R) head to their meeting at Zhongnanhai, the Chinese political headquarters in Beijing on Aug. 17, 2010.

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Wen, Hatoyama meet

BEIJING, China - Former Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama (L) and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (R) meet at Zhongnanhai, the Chinese political headquarters in Beijing on Aug. 17, 2010.

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Wen, Hatoyama meet

BEIJING, China - Former Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama (L) and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao shake hands before their meeting at Zhongnanhai, the Chinese political headquarters in Beijing on Aug. 17, 2010.

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Hatoyama's son to publish book in Russia

MOSCOW, Russia - Kiichiro Hatoyama, the son of former Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, holds a copy of a book he has co-written with Moscow's traffic chief on how to reduce the infamous traffic congestion in the Russian capital on Aug. 11, 2010. The book is due to be published in Russia.

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Hatoyama in China

TANSHAN, China - Former Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama (2nd from R) is briefed on industrial city planning by a municipal official in Tanshan, Hebei Province, on Aug. 16, 2010.

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UNSC condemns N. Korea launch in presidential statement

NEW YORK, United States - Japanese State Secretary for Foreign Affairs Shintaro Ito (R) speaks at a news conference at Japan's permanent mission to the United Nations in New York on April 13 after the U.N. Security Council adopted a nonbinding presidential statement on North Korea's rocket launch. At left is Japanese Ambassador to the U.N. Yukio Takasu.

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UNSC condemns N. Korea launch in presidential statement

NEW YORK, United States - Japanese State Secretary for Foreign Affairs Shintaro Ito (C in front) and Japanese Ambassador to the United Nations Yukio Takasu (R in 2nd row) listen during a U.N. Security Council meeting on North Korea's rocket launch at the U.N. headquarters in New York on April 13.

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Politicians pay tribute to the late JCP leader Kenji Miyamoto

TOKYO, Japan - Representatives of major political parties in Japan pay tribute to the late Japanese Communist Party leader Kenji Miyamoto at a memorial service held in Tokyo on Aug. 6. From L to R: JCP chairman Kazuo Shii, House of Representatives Speaker Yohei Kono, former JCP Chairman Tetsuzo Fuwa, Liberal Democratic Party Secretary General Hidenao Nakagawa (two persons away from Fuwa), Democratic Party of Japan Secretary General Yukio Hatoyama and New Komeito deputy leader Chikara Sakaguchi.