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Japan: Kyoto Cherry Blossoms In Peak Bloom

Kyoto's cherry blossoms, sakura in Japanese, reached peak bloom beginning April 3. The iconic pinkish white flowers drew local and foreign tourists to the famous city.

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Kyoto's cherry blossoms, sakura in Japanese, reached peak bloom beginning April 3. The iconic pinkish white flowers drew local and foreign tourists to the famous city.

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Food chain president shot dead

OSAKA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter over Kyoto's Yamashina Ward on Dec. 19, 2013, shows the site where Takayuki Ohigashi, president of Ohsho Food Service Corp., was shot earlier the same day. The president of the company, which operates a Chinese dumpling restaurant chain under the "Gyoza no Ohsho" brand in Japan, was found lying in a parking lot in front of the company's head office just before 7 a.m. and was confirmed dead after being taken to hospital, according to the Kyoto prefectural police.

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Food chain president shot dead

KYOTO, Japan - Photo taken in Kyoto's Yamashina Ward on Dec. 19, 2013, shows the site (L back) where Takayuki Ohigashi, president of Ohsho Food Service Corp., was shot earlier the same day. The president of the company, which operates a Chinese dumpling restaurant chain under the "Gyoza no Ohsho" brand in Japan, was found lying in a parking lot in front of the company's head office (seen at the right) just before 7 a.m. and was confirmed dead after being taken to hospital, according to the Kyoto prefectural police.

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Food chain president shot dead

OSAKA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter over Kyoto's Yamashina Ward on Dec. 19, 2013, shows the site where Takayuki Ohigashi, president of Ohsho Food Service Corp., was shot earlier the same day. The president of the company, which operates a Chinese dumpling restaurant chain under the "Gyoza no Ohsho" brand in Japan, was found lying in a parking lot in front of the company's head office just before 7 a.m. and was confirmed dead after being taken to hospital, according to the Kyoto prefectural police.

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Food chain president shot dead

OSAKA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter over Kyoto's Yamashina Ward on Dec. 19, 2013, shows the site where Takayuki Ohigashi, president of Ohsho Food Service Corp., was shot earlier the same day. The president of the company, which operates a Chinese dumpling restaurant chain under the "Gyoza no Ohsho" brand in Japan, was found lying in a parking lot in front of the company's head office just before 7 a.m. and was confirmed dead after being taken to hospital, according to the Kyoto prefectural police.

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New Buddhism hall Seiryuden in Kyoto

KYOTO, Japan - The Shoren-in Temple's Seiryuden "Gomado" hall in Kyoto is lit up on Oct. 3, 2014. The newly completed facility featuring a large wooden platform stage in the western Japanese city's Yamashina Ward will open to the public on Oct. 8. The temple is in the city's Higashiyama Ward.

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New Buddhism hall Seiryuden in Kyoto

OSAKA, Japan - The Shoren-in Temple's Seiryuden "Gomado" hall in Kyoto is lit up on Oct. 3, 2014. The newly completed facility featuring a large wooden platform stage in the western Japanese city's Yamashina Ward will open to the public on Oct. 8. The temple is in the city's Higashiyama Ward.

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Newly found remains show expansion of 15th-century temple

KYOTO, Japan - A staff member of the Kyoto municipal office shows the remains of a building site and drains newly found inside the ruins of Yamashina Honganji temple's earthen mounds in Kyoto, western Japan, on Aug. 27, 2014. The remains show the history of expansion of the temple built in the 15th century.

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Japan UNICEF officer fights for children in S. Sudan

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken May 21, 2014 in Tokyo's Minato Ward shows Masumi Yamashina, a UNICEF officer working in South Sudan to protect children amid a civil war.

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UNICEF in S. Sudan

JUBA, South Sudan - Masumi Yamashina (R) of the U.N. Children's Fund instructs volunteers on the care of children at a base for U.N. peacekeepers in Juba, South Sudan, on Feb. 13, 2014.

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Data collected by 2-yr survey to protect Okinawa Woodpecker

NAHA, Japan - Survey team members from the Yamashina Institute for Ornithology and other entities discuss the methods for an ecological survey of the Okinawa Woodpecker in a forest in the village of Higashi, Okinawa Prefecture, on Feb. 21, 2013.

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Rental shops for pets, undergarments, bikes thriving amid slump

KYOTO, Japan - Undergarment maker Embelline Marketing Co. in Kyoto's Yamashina Ward on Nov. 26, 2009 rents its underclothes and lingerie out on the Internet.

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Toyota exec sheds tears on Formula One withdrawal

TOKYO, Japan - Tadashi Yamashina (L), senior managing director of Toyota Motor Corp., sheds tears as the automaker announced its withdrawal from Formula One at a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 4, 2009. Looking glum beside Yamashina was President Akio Toyoda, who is himself a motorcar racer with an international C-class license.

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Toyota exec sheds tears on Formula One withdrawal

TOKYO, Japan - Tadashi Yamashina (L), senior managing director of Toyota Motor Corp., sheds tears as the automaker announced its withdrawal from Formula One at a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 4, 2009. Looking glum beside Yamashina was President Akio Toyoda, who is himself a motorcar racer with an international C-class license.

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Preparation for Princess Kiko's childbirth begins

ABIKO, Japan - Prince Akishino arrives at the Yamashina Institute for Ornithology in Abiko, Chiba Prefecture, on Feb. 9, one day after the Imperial Household Agency announced that his wife Princess Kiko is expected to give birth to their third child in autumn.

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Princess Sayako at work

TOKYO, Japan - Princess Sayako, the only daughter of Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko, works with a college at the Yamashina Institute for Ornithology in Abiko, Chiba Prefecture, on March 16. The imperial engagement ceremony for Princess Sayako and Yoshiki Kuroda, a Tokyo metropolitan government official, will take place on March 19. (Pool photo)

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Princess Sayako at work

TOKYO, Japan - Princess Sayako, the only daughter of Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko, works with a college at the Yamashina Institute for Ornithology in Abiko, Chiba Prefecture, on March 16. The imperial engagement ceremony for Princess Sayako and Yoshiki Kuroda, a Tokyo metropolitan government official, will take place on March 19. (Pool photo)(Kyodo)

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Police arrest 60-year-old man for murder of 15-year-old girl

KYOTO, Japan - Katsumi Naka (C) covers his face with a cloth as he is transferred from the Kyoto Prison in Kyoto's Yamashina Ward to the Yamashita Police Station on April 7 after being served with a warrant on suspicion of killing and dumping the body of a 15-year-old girl, Miho Kosugi, last May in Maizuru, Kyoto Prefecture. Naka is currently serving a one-year prison term in a case of theft. (Kyodo)

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Preparation for Princess Kiko's childbirth begins

ABIKO, Japan - Prince Akishino arrives at the Yamashina Institute for Ornithology in Abiko, Chiba Prefecture, on Feb. 9, one day after the Imperial Household Agency announced that his wife Princess Kiko is expected to give birth to their third child in autumn. (Kyodo)

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Rental shops for pets, undergarments, bikes thriving amid slump

KYOTO, Japan - Undergarment maker Embelline Marketing Co. in Kyoto's Yamashina Ward on Nov. 26, 2009 rents its underclothes and lingerie out on the Internet. (Kyodo)

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Gold leaf know-how supports high-tech industry

KYOTO, Japan - Plasma beams melt a titanium block into balls 0.1 millimeter in diameter for medical use at artificial joints at a factory owned by Fukuda Kinzoku Hakufun Kogyo Co. in Kyoto's Yamashina Ward. (Kyodo)

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Rice planting

Farmers are busy planting rice in flooded paddies near Kyoto. They are barefoot and wearing short kimonos because of the water. The women have their heads covered with hand towels, and the men wear straw hats to protect themselves from the sun. The mountains indicate that the location is either Kameoka, Yamashina, or Minami-Yoshiro. This may have been taken by the British photographer H.G. Ponting.==Date:1904, Place:Kyoto, Photo:Underwood, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number97‐23‐0]

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Footpath between rice paddies

A man and woman walk on a path between rice paddies. The neat lines of rice seedlings indicate that they were recently planted. The man is wearing Western clothes and a hat and holds a jacket in his left hand, while the woman in kimono is using a black umbrella as a parasol. The mountains in the background suggest that the location is the countryside of Minami-Yamashiro or Yamashina.==Date:unknown, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number46‐119‐0]

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Sarusawa pond and five-story pagoda of kofukuji temple

The five-story pagoda of Kofukuji Temple across Lake Sarusawa. Kofukuji was first built in Yamashina, but was moved to the present site when the capital moved to Kyoto. After suffering many times from fires and other disasters it was restored to its present state.==Date:unknown, Place:Nara, Photo:Kusakabe Kinbei, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number2‐19‐0]

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New Buddhism hall Seiryuden in Kyoto

KYOTO, Japan - The Shoren-in Temple's Seiryuden "Gomado" hall in Kyoto is lit up on Oct. 3, 2014. The newly completed facility featuring a large wooden platform stage in the western Japanese city's Yamashina Ward will open to the public on Oct. 8. The temple is in the city's Higashiyama Ward. (Kyodo)

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New Buddhism hall Seiryuden in Kyoto

OSAKA, Japan - The Shoren-in Temple's Seiryuden "Gomado" hall in Kyoto is lit up on Oct. 3, 2014. The newly completed facility featuring a large wooden platform stage in the western Japanese city's Yamashina Ward will open to the public on Oct. 8. The temple is in the city's Higashiyama Ward. (Kyodo)

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Newly found remains show expansion of 15th-century temple

KYOTO, Japan - A staff member of the Kyoto municipal office shows the remains of a building site and drains newly found inside the ruins of Yamashina Honganji temple's earthen mounds in Kyoto, western Japan, on Aug. 27, 2014. The remains show the history of expansion of the temple built in the 15th century. (Kyodo)

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Japan UNICEF officer fights for children in S. Sudan

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken May 21, 2014 in Tokyo's Minato Ward shows Masumi Yamashina, a UNICEF officer working in South Sudan to protect children amid a civil war. (Kyodo)

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Toyota exec sheds tears on Formula One withdrawal

TOKYO, Japan - Tadashi Yamashina (L), senior managing director of Toyota Motor Corp., sheds tears as the automaker announced its withdrawal from Formula One at a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 4, 2009. Looking glum beside Yamashina was President Akio Toyoda, who is himself a motorcar racer with an international C-class license. (Kyodo)

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Toyota exec sheds tears on Formula One withdrawal

TOKYO, Japan - Tadashi Yamashina (L), senior managing director of Toyota Motor Corp., sheds tears as the automaker announced its withdrawal from Formula One at a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 4, 2009. Looking glum beside Yamashina was President Akio Toyoda, who is himself a motorcar racer with an international C-class license. (Kyodo)