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CHINA-BEIJING-WANG YI-JAPAN-YASUO FUKUDA-MEETING (CN)

(240329) -- BEIJING, March 29, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Wang Yi, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and Chinese Foreign Minister, meets with Yasuo Fukuda, former Japanese Prime Minister and former chairman of the Boao Forum for Asia, in Beijing, capital of China, March 29, 2024. (Xinhua/Zhang Ling)

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Theater company Takarazuka apologizes to family over actress death

TOYONAKA, Japan, March 28 Kyodo - Yasuo Shimada (C), president of Hankyu Hanshin Holdings Inc., the parent company of Japan's all-female musical theater company Takarazuka Revue, bows in apology during a press conference in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, on March 28, 2024, after the railway operator apologized to the family of an actress who died in September 2023 after being harassed by senior actresses and revue officials. (Kyodo)

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Theater company Takarazuka apologizes to family over actress death

Yasuo Shimada (L), president of Hankyu Hanshin Holdings Inc., the parent company of Japan's all-female musical theater company Takarazuka Revue, is pictured after attending a press conference in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, on March 28, 2024. Earlier in the day, the railway operator apologized to the family of an actress who died in September 2023 after being harassed by senior actresses and revue officials.

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Theater company Takarazuka apologizes to family over actress death

Yasuo Shimada, president of Hankyu Hanshin Holdings Inc., the parent company of Japan's all-female musical theater company Takarazuka Revue, attends a press conference in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, on March 28, 2024, after the railway operator apologized to the family of an actress who died in September 2023 after being harassed by senior actresses and revue officials.

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Theater company Takarazuka apologizes to family over actress death

Yasuo Shimada (C), president of Hankyu Hanshin Holdings Inc., the parent company of Japan's all-female musical theater company Takarazuka Revue, bows in apology during a press conference in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, on March 28, 2024, after the railway operator apologized to the family of an actress who died in September 2023 after being harassed by senior actresses and revue officials.

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CHINA-BEIJING-HAN ZHENG-FORMER JAPANESE PM-MEETING (CN)

(231026) -- BEIJING, Oct. 26, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Vice President Han Zheng meets with former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda in Beijing, capital of China, Oct. 25, 2023. (Xinhua/Gao Jie)

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CHINA-BEIJING-HAN ZHENG-FORMER JAPANESE PM-MEETING (CN)

(231026) -- BEIJING, Oct. 26, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Vice President Han Zheng meets with former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda in Beijing, capital of China, Oct. 25, 2023. (Xinhua/Gao Jie)

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Ex-Japan PM Fukuda in Beijing

Former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda meets the press in Beijing on Oct. 26, 2023, after holding talks with Chinese Vice President Han Zheng the previous day.

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CHINA-BEIJING-WANG YI-YASUO FUKUDA-JAPANESE FRIENDSHIP DELEGATION-MEETING (CN)

(231023) -- BEIJING, Oct. 23, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Wang Yi, director of the Office of the Central Commission for Foreign Affairs, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, meets with a Japanese friendship delegation led by former Japanese prime minister Yasuo Fukuda at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, capital of China, Oct. 23, 2023. (Xinhua/Yan Yan)

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45th anniversary of Japan-China friendship treaty

Former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda (R) shakes hands with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi at a ceremony marking the 45th anniversary of a friendship treaty between Japan and China coming into force on Oct. 23, 2023, in Beijing. Fukuda's father Takeo was prime minister when the treaty was signed in 1978.

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Former Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda

Former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda speaks during an interview in Tokyo on Oct. 5, 2023, ahead of the 45th anniversary of a friendship treaty between Japan and China coming into force.

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Former Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda

Former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda speaks during an interview in Tokyo on Oct. 5, 2023, ahead of the 45th anniversary of a friendship treaty between Japan and China coming into force.

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JAPAN-TOKYO-FORMER JAPANESE PM-INTERVIEW

(231021) -- TOKYO, Oct. 21, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda speaks during an interview with Xinhua in Tokyo, Japan, Oct. 10, 2023. TO GO WITH "Interview: Peaceful, friendly relations between Japan, China must pass on: former Japanese PM" (Xinhua/Yang Guang)

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JAPAN-TOKYO-FORMER JAPANESE PM-INTERVIEW

(231021) -- TOKYO, Oct. 21, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda speaks during an interview with Xinhua in Tokyo, Japan, Oct. 10, 2023. TO GO WITH "Interview: Peaceful, friendly relations between Japan, China must pass on: former Japanese PM" (Xinhua/Yang Guang)

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CHINA-BEIJING-WANG YI-FORMER JAPANESE PM-MEETING (CN)

(230401) -- BEIJING, April 1, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Wang Yi, director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, meets with Yasuo Fukuda, former Japanese prime minister and former chairman of the Boao Forum for Asia, in Beijing, capital of China, March 31, 2023. (Xinhua/Ding Lin)

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CHINA-BEIJING-WANG YI-FORMER JAPANESE PM-MEETING (CN)

(230401) -- BEIJING, April 1, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Wang Yi, director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, meets with Yasuo Fukuda, former Japanese prime minister and former chairman of the Boao Forum for Asia, in Beijing, capital of China, March 31, 2023. (Xinhua/Ding Lin)

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Defense minister Ichikawa, consumer affairs minister Yamaoka

TOKYO, Japan - Combined file photo shows Defense Minister Yasuo Ichikawa (L) and consumer affairs minister Kenji Yamaoka. Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda is set to remove Ichikawa and Yamaoka, who were both censured in parliament, from the posts possibly on Jan. 13, 2012, according to political sources.

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Nagano Gov. Tanaka peps up quake victims

NAGAOKA, Japan - A woman from the quake-hit Village of Yamakoshi, central Niigata Prefecture, is moved to tears as she received a gist from Nagano Governor Yasuo Tanaka in Nagaoka on Dec. 26.

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Fukuda meets with Luxembourg PM Juncker

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda (R) shakes hands with Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker at his office in Tokyo on Feb. 7 prior to their talks.

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Fukuda calls for gov't, people to work together over territorial row

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda addresses a rally held in Tokyo on Feb. 7 to call for an early return of all four Russian-held islands off Hokkaido in northern Japan. He called on the government and the people to join hands to resolve the long-standing territorial dispute.

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Fukuda calls for gov't, people to work together over territorial row

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda addresses a rally held in Tokyo on Feb. 7 to call for an early return of all four Russian-held islands off Hokkaido in northern Japan. He called on the government and the people to join hands to resolve the long-standing territorial dispute.

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Fukuda receives flowering plum bonsai from shrine's 'Plum Mission'

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda receives two pots of blossoming plum bonsai at the Prime Minister's Office on Feb. 6 from members of the ''Plum Mission'' of Tenmangu shrine in Dazaifu, Fukuoka Prefecture.

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Fukuda meets with Albania's Berisha

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda (R) shakes hands with Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha at his office in Tokyo on Feb. 5 prior to their talks.

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Fukuda drawing widening support for his premiership bid

TOKYO, Japan - Former Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda speaks at a meeting of the Liberal Democratic Party's Machimura faction, to which he belongs to, at a hotel in Tokyo on Sept. 14.

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Fukuda drawing widening support for his premiership bid

TOKYO, Japan - Former Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda is surrounded by reporters at the Liberal Democratic Party's headquarters in Tokyo on Sept. 14 after talks with former LDP Secretary General Makoto Koga, former LDP Vice President Taku Yamasaki and former Finance Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki.

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Yasuo Hasebe

Yasuo Hasebe, legal scholar, professor at Waseda University Faculty of Law (photo taken on June 15, 2015)

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Japan, U.S. to release initiative on 70th anniv. of postwar relations

WASHINGTON, United States - Yasuo Fukuda, a former Japanese prime minister, holds a press conference in Washington on Dec. 5, 2014, after attending a meeting of influential people from Japan and the United States on releasing an initiative in 2015 that will feature a variety of visions to enhance bilateral ties on the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II. Fukuda, who co-chairs the meeting, said the meeting will reconvene in Tokyo in May to announce an initiative called Pacific Vision 21.

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Ex-PM Fukuda, China Pres. Xi to meet Wed. in Beijing

TOKYO, Japan - Combination photo shows former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda (L) and Chinese President Xi Jinping. The two will meet in Beijing, China, on Oct. 29, 2014.

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Village head asks TEPCO to resume nuke plant construction

TOKYO, Japan - Yasuo Echizen (L), mayor of Higashidori, Aomori Prefecture, presents Naomi Hirose, president of Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), with a written request at TEPCO's head office in Tokyo on Oct. 15, 2014, for the utility to resume the suspended construction of a nuclear power plant in the northeastern Japan village.

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Boao Forum for Asia meeting in Seattle

SEATTLE, United States - Former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda addresses a meeting of the Boao Forum for Asia in Seattle, Washington State, on Sept. 5, 2014. The three-day meeting is the first of its kind hosted by the Boao Forum for Asia in North America.

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Ex-PM Fukuda meets with Chinese President Xi in Beijing

TOKYO, Japan - Former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda makes a speech on Aug. 27, 2014 in Tokyo. Fukuda revealed he met with Chinese President Xi Jinping during his visit to Beijing in July and that they shared a "sense of crisis" over the strained ties between their countries.

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Ex-Japan PM Fukuda met in secret with China's Xi in July

TOKYO, Japan - Combination photo shows former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda (L) and Chinese President Xi Jinping. It was reported Aug. 3, 2014, that they met in secret in late July when Fukuda visited China.

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Kubota chief Masumoto found dead

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in 2012 shows Yasuo Masumoto, chairman and president of Kubota Corp., Japan's leading manufacturer of farm equipment. On June 4, 2014, Masumoto was found dead at a hotel in Tokyo. He was 67. Police are investigating the cause of his death. Vice President Masatoshi Kimata will take over as acting president, Kubota said.

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Ex-Japan PM Fukuda gives address at Boao forum in China

BOAO, China - Former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda gives an address at a session of the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference in Boao, Hainan Province, southern China, on April 10, 2014.

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Ex-Japan PM Fukuda speaks at Boao regional forum in China

BOAO, China - Former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda (back C) speaks at a session of the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference in Boao, Hainan Province, southern China, on April 9, 2014.

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Nelson Mandela memorial

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Japan's Crown Price Naruhito (2nd from R in front) and former Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda (L in front) attend the memorial service for former South African President Nelson Mandela in Johannesburg on Dec. 10, 2013.

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Japanese crown prince arrives in S. Africa

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Japanese Crown Price Naruhito arrives in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Dec. 10, 2013. The crown prince, along with former Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, will attend the funeral service for former South African President Nelson Mandela to be held later that day at a soccer stadium in Johannesburg.

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Japanese crown prince arrives in S. Africa

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Japanese Crown Price Naruhito (C) arrives in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Dec. 10, 2013. The crown prince, along with former Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, will attend the funeral service for former South African President Nelson Mandela to be held later that day at a soccer stadium in Johannesburg.

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Japan, China experts discuss bilateral relations

BEIJING, China - Former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda (L) and Zhao Qizheng, former minister of China's State Council Information Office, join hands at a forum in Beijing on Oct. 27, 2013. The two-day forum, attended by Japanese and Chinese experts, ended the same day after the release of a joint statement, titled "Beijing Consensus," which stressed the urgent need for bilateral dialogue to ease tensions over Japan-controlled islands claimed by China in the East China Sea.

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Japan, China experts discuss bilateral relations

BEIJING, China - Former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda speaks at a forum in Beijing on Oct. 27, 2013. The two-day forum, attended by Japanese and Chinese experts, ended the same day after the release of a joint statement, titled "Beijing Consensus," which stressed the urgent need for bilateral dialogue to ease tensions over Japan-controlled islands claimed by China in the East China Sea.

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Peace march for Hiroshima

TOKYO, Japan - Yasuo Shiose, who was orphaned at age 7 when he lost his parents and two older brothers in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945, speaks at a gathering in Tokyo's Yumenoshima district on May 6, 2013, before the start of a three-month peace march to Hiroshima in western Japan, which calls for the abolishment of nuclear weapons and nuclear power generation.

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Ex-Japan PM Fukuda in Seoul

SEOUL, South Korea - Former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda (C) delivers a keynote speech during the Korea-Japan Business Conference in Seoul on April 24, 2013.

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Ex-Japan PM Fukuda in Seoul

SEOUL, South Korea - Former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda delivers a keynote speech during the Korea-Japan Business Conference in Seoul on April 24, 2013.

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Former Japanese PM Fukuda meets China's Xi

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda (R) and Chinese President Xi Jinping. Fukuda said April 7, 2013, that he spoke with Xi at a regional forum in Boao, southern China, but there were no substantive discussions on bilateral issues.

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New S. Korea leader Park

SEOUL, South Korea - New South Korean President Park Geun Hye (R) and former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda shake hands prior to talks at the Blue House in Seoul on Feb. 26, 2013, a day after she assumed office.

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New S. Korea leader Park

SEOUL, South Korea - New South Korean President Park Geun Hye (C) holds talks with former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda (L) and former Japanese Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga (R) at the Blue House in Seoul on Feb. 26, 2013, a day after she assumed office.

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Japan general election eve

AMAGASAKI, Japan - Yasuo Tanaka, head of the New Party Nippon, makes a stump speech in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, on Dec. 15, 2012, on the eve of the general election.

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Japan general election

TOKYO, Japan - Combination photo shows (top column, from R to L) Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, president of the Democratic Party of Japan, former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, president of the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party, Yukiko Kada, head of the Tomorrow Party of Japan, Natsuo Yamaguchi, head of the New Komeito party, (center column, from R to L) former Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara, head of the Japan Restoration Party, Kazuo Shii, head of the Japanese Communist Party, Yoshimi Watanabe, head of Your Party, Mizuho Fukushima, head of the Social Democratic Party, (bottom column, from R to L) Kenko Matsuki, acting leader of the New Party Daichi, Shozaburo Jimi, head of the People's New Party, Yasuo Tanaka, head of the New Party Nippon, and Yoichi Masuzoe, head of the New Renaissance Party, while making stump speeches at various locations across the country on Dec. 4, 2012, as official campaigning kicked off the same day for the Dec. 16 general election.

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Japan general election

AMAGASAKI, Japan - Yasuo Tanaka, head of the New Party Nippon, makes a stump speech in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, on Dec. 4, 2012, after official campaigning kicked off for the Dec. 16, 2012, general election.

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Japan general election

AMAGASAKI, Japan - Yasuo Tanaka, head of the New Party Nippon, makes a stump speech in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, on Dec. 4, 2012, after official campaigning kicked off for the Dec. 16, 2012, general election.