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Fierce battle between major Japanese underground syndicates

YAWATA, Japan, April 25 Kyodo - Police investigators search a residence of the leader of a group affiliated with the Ichiwa-kai underground gangster syndicate in Yawata, Kyoto Prefecture, on April 14, 1985, following a shooting incident blamed on Ichiwa-kai's rival, Yamaguchi-gumi, that left two affiliate group members injured.

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Japan's youngest female mayor

Shoko Kawata, who became Japan's youngest-ever female mayor at 33 years old after winning election in Yawata, Kyoto Prefecture, western Japan, takes a seat behind her desk at the city office on Nov. 16, 2023, her first day in office.

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Japan's youngest female mayor Kawata

Shoko Kawata, who became Japan's youngest-ever female mayor at 33 years old after winning election in Yawata, Kyoto Prefecture, western Japan, holds a press conference at the city office on Nov. 16, 2023, her first day in office.

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Japan's youngest female mayor

Shoko Kawata, who became Japan's youngest-ever female mayor at 33 years old after winning election in Yawata, Kyoto Prefecture, western Japan, holds a press conference at the city office on Nov. 16, 2023, her first day in office.

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Japan's youngest female mayor

Shoko Kawata, who became Japan's youngest-ever female mayor at 33 years old after winning election in Yawata, Kyoto Prefecture, western Japan, holds up her certificate of election at the city office on Nov. 16, 2023, her first day in office.

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Japan's youngest female mayor

Shoko Kawata (R), who became Japan's youngest-ever female mayor at 33 years old after winning election in Yawata, Kyoto Prefecture, western Japan, receives a bouquet of flowers at the city office on Nov. 16, 2023, her first day in office.

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Japan's youngest female mayor

Shoko Kawata, who became Japan's youngest-ever female mayor at 33 years old after winning election in Yawata, Kyoto Prefecture, western Japan, is welcomed by staff as she walks into the city office on Nov. 16, 2023, her first day in office.

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Aging Japanese seek return of Takeshima from S. Korea

MATSUE, Japan - Shoza Yawata, 84, shows materials he has collected regarding the ownership of a group of islets in the Sea of Japan, called Takeshima by Japan and Dokdo by South Korea, in the town of Okinoshima, Shimane Prefecture, on Jan. 22, 2013. Yawata's father and brother were among 11 men who became the last Japanese to travel to Takeshima to harvest seaweed in May 1954, one month before South Korea started stationing security personnel on the islets.

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Ex-administrator's room in Yawata Steek Works' former head office unveiled

KITAKYUSHU, Japan, June 19 Kyodo - What used to be the administrator's room in the old head office of the former state-run Yawata Steel Works in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan, is displayed to the press on June 15, 2015. The office constitutes one of the sites of Japan's industrial revolution in the Meiji era (1868-1911) recommended for registration on the UNESCO World Heritage list.

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Car rams group of children walking to school

YAWATA, Japan - Children riding bicycles on Sept. 24, 2013, pass the site where a car that morning plowed into five children walking to school in Yawata, Kyoto Prefecture. A 6-year-old boy suffered serious head injuries while four others -- aged 6, 9, 10 and 11 -- sustained light injuries.

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Heat wave in Japan

KYOTO, Japan - Photo shows passers-by on a bridge under the scorching sun in Yawata, Kyoto Prefecture, on Aug. 13, 2013. A severe heat wave continued to engulf wide areas of Japan.

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Heat wave in Japan

KYOTO, Japan - Women with parasols cross a timber bridge in Yawata, Kyoto Prefecture, on Aug. 13, 2013. A severe heat wave continued to engulf wide areas of Japan.

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Fire at gas pipe of Nippon Steel coke factory in Kitakyushu

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - Black smoke continues to rise from a gas pipe at a coke factory in Nippon Steel Corp.'s Yawata Works plant complex in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, on the afternoon of July 29 after a fire broke out at around 6:45 a.m. the same day.

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Fire at gas pipe of Nippon Steel coke factory in Kitakyushu

FUKUOKA, Japan - Black smoke is spewing at several points from a gas pipe outside a coke factory in Nippon Steel Corp.'s Yawata Works plant complex in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, on July 29 after a fire broke out at around 6:45 a.m.

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'Learn from each other' at Yawata Primary School

TAKASAKI, Japan - Students at a classroom of Yawata Primary School in the city of Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, ''learn from each other.''

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(1)Kyodo Clergyman arrested for allegedly molesting girl

KYOTO, Japan - Police officers investigate the building of a Christian church in Yawata, Kyoto Prefecture, on April 6 following the arrest of a clergyman on suspicion of sexually molesting a 12-year-old girl who was a member of his congregation.

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(2)Kyodo Clergyman arrested for allegedly molesting girl

KYOTO, Japan - A police officer carries to his car a box of evidence from a Christian church in Yawata, Kyoto Prefecture, o April 6 in connection with the arrest of a clergyman of the church on suspicion of sexually molesting a 12-year-old girl who was a member of his congregation.

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High court rules against taxpayer over stock option income

TOKYO, Japan - Keisuke Yawata, former president of the Japanese unit of Applied Materials Inc., a U.S. computer chip manufacturer, speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Feb. 18 after the Tokyo High Court endorsed the tax authorities' decision to impose a higher tax rate on his stock option income by treating it as salary.

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(1)Kyodo Clergyman arrested for allegedly molesting girl

KYOTO, Japan - Police officers investigate the building of a Christian church in Yawata, Kyoto Prefecture, on April 6 following the arrest of a clergyman on suspicion of sexually molesting a 12-year-old girl who was a member of his congregation. (Kyodo)

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(2)Kyodo Clergyman arrested for allegedly molesting girl

KYOTO, Japan - A police officer carries to his car a box of evidence from a Christian church in Yawata, Kyoto Prefecture, o April 6 in connection with the arrest of a clergyman of the church on suspicion of sexually molesting a 12-year-old girl who was a member of his congregation. (Kyodo)

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Public allowed to see exterior of Yawata ironworks command center

Photo taken April 16, 2015, shows a passageway newly built for visitors to see the exterior of the first headquarters office (back) of Imperial Yawata Steel Works, which now belongs to Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp., in the southwestern Japan city of Kitakyushu. The city built the passageway to add impetus to government efforts to have old industrial facilities representing Japan's industrialization, including the ironwork, entered on UNESCO's list of World Heritage cultural sites. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Public allowed to see exterior of Yawata ironworks command center

A sign attached on the fence denotes that taking pictures or shooting videos of the exterior of the first headquarters office (back) built in 1899 of Imperial Yawata Steel Works, which now belongs to Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp., is prohibited even from a passageway newly built for visitors to view its exterior in the southwestern Japan city of Kitakyushu on April 16, 2015. The city built the passageway to add impetus to government efforts to have old industrial facilities representing Japan's industrialization, including the ironwork, entered on UNESCO's list of World Heritage cultural sites. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese crown prince visits historic shrine in Kyoto Pref.

Crown Prince Naruhito (R) visits the Iwashimizu Hachimangu Shinto shrine in Yawata, Kyoto Prefecture, on Nov. 29, 2015. The Hachimangu's main shrine is to be designated as a national treasure. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Smokescreen created over Yawata mill before A-bombing of Nagasaki

Satoru Miyashiro, a former worker at the Yawata Steel Works in Fukuoka Prefecture, gives an interview at his home in Oita, southwestern Japan, in February 2015. He said he was one of the workers who burned coal tar to create a smokescreen at the steel works to avoid air raids on Aug. 9, 1945, during World War II. The B-29 Bockscar was diverted from its first target, Kokura, due to low visibility and the atomic bomb was dropped on the secondary target, Nagasaki, the same day, though the role of the intentional smokescreen in averting the attack remains unclear as the visibility of the area was obscured partly by smoke from a conventional air raid the previous day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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S. Korean man tells of hard labor at WWII steel works

Chu Sok Bong, a 91-year old civilian who was brought in 1943 from the Korean Peninsula to Japan and forced to work at the Yawata Steel Works in Kitakyushu, southwestern Japan, under harsh conditions, tells his story in this photo taken in May 2015, in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. He said the past cannot be erased but showed understanding of the site's addition to the World Cultural Heritage list. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tourists visit Japan's newly listed UNESCO World Heritage site

Visitors look at the former head office (L) of the state-run Imperial Steel Works, currently Nippon Steel and Sumitomo Metal Corp.'s Yawata steelworks, in Kitakyushu, southwestern Japan, on July 6, 2015, a day after it and other sites that played a major role in Japan's 19th-century Meiji industrial revolution were added by a UNESCO committee to the World Cultural Heritage list. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Work continues at Japan's oldest steel-frame factory

Photo taken on June 15, 2015, shows work under way at a repair factory in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan, which is considered Japan's oldest steel-frame building. The factory, part of the former state-run Yawata Steel Works, constitutes one of the sites of Japan's industrial revolution in the Meiji era (1868-1911) recommended for registration on the UNESCO World Heritage list. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Old pump house of Yawata Steel Works displayed to press

The Onga River Pump House of the former state-run Yawata Steel Works in Nakama, Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan, is displayed to the press on June 15, 2015. The time-honored facility, still in use today, constitutes one of the sites of Japan's industrial revolution in the Meiji era (1868-1911) recommended for registration on the UNESCO World Heritage list. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Forging factory of Yawata Steel Works displayed to press

An old forging factory of the former state-run Yawata Steel Works in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan, is displayed to the press on June 15, 2015. The factory is now used as a reference room for the Yahata Iron Mill, one of Nippon Steel and Sumitomo Metal Corp.'s steel plants. The facility constitutes one of the sites of Japan's industrial revolution in the Meiji era (1868-1911) recommended for registration on the UNESCO World Heritage list. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Old pump house of Yawata Steel Works covered with ivy

The Onga River Pump House of the former state-run Yawata Steel Works in Nakama, Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan, is seen covered with ivy as shown to the press on June 15, 2015. The time-honored facility, still in use today, constitutes one of the sites of Japan's industrial revolution in the Meiji era (1868-1911) recommended for registration on the UNESCO World Heritage list. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Yawata Steek Works' old head office displayed to press

The old head office of the former state-run Yawata Steel Works in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan, is displayed to the press on June 15, 2015. The office constitutes one of the sites of Japan's industrial revolution in the Meiji era (1868-1911) recommended for registration on the UNESCO World Heritage list. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Crane at Japan's oldest steel-frame building still in use

Photo taken on June 15, 2015, shows a gantry crane still in use at a repair factory in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan, which is considered the country's oldest steel-frame building. The factory, part of the former state-run Yawata Steel Works, constitutes one of the sites of Japan's industrial revolution in the Meiji era (1868-1911) recommended for registration on the UNESCO World Heritage list. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Public allowed to see exterior of Yawata ironworks command center

Visitors view the first headquarters office (back) built in 1899 of Imperial Yawata Steel Works, which now belongs to Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp., on April 17, 2015, from a passageway newly built for visitors to see its exterior in the southwestern Japanese city of Kitakyushu. The city built the passageway to add impetus to government efforts to have old industrial facilities representing Japan's industrialization, including the ironwork, entered on UNESCO's list of World Heritage cultural sites. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Public allowed to see exterior of Yawata ironworks command center

Photo taken April 16, 2015, shows a passageway newly built for visitors to see the exterior of the first headquarters office (back) of Imperial Yawata Steel Works, which now belongs to Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp., in the southwestern Japanese city of Kitakyushu. The city built the passageway to add impetus to government efforts to have old industrial facilities representing Japan's industrialization, including the ironwork, entered on UNESCO's list of World Heritage cultural sites. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Public allowed to see exterior of Yawata ironworks command center

The first headquarters office built in 1899 of Imperial Yawata Steel Works, which now belongs to Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp., is seen from a passageway newly built for visitors to view its exterior in the southwestern Japanese city of Kitakyushu on April 16, 2015. The city built the passageway to add impetus to government efforts to have old industrial facilities representing Japan's industrialization, including the ironwork, entered on UNESCO's list of World Heritage cultural sites. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Public allowed to see exterior of Yawata ironworks command center

A sign attached on the fence denotes that taking pictures or shooting videos of the exterior of the first headquarters office (back) built in 1899 of Imperial Yawata Steel Works, which now belongs to Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp., is prohibited even from a passageway newly built for visitors to view its exterior in the southwestern Japanese city of Kitakyushu on April 16, 2015. The city built the passageway to add impetus to government efforts to have old industrial facilities representing Japan's industrialization, including the ironwork, entered on UNESCO's list of World Heritage cultural sites. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kyoto's Shokado museum showcases nature, tea ceremony, art

Photo taken May 20, 2016 shows an exhibition space at the Shokado Garden Art Museum, which opened in Yawata, Kyoto Prefecture in 2002 to show tea ceremony tools and artworks associated with medieval Japanese Buddhist monk Shokado Shojo. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's Meiji industrial sites endorsed for World Heritage listing

File photo taken in September 2013 shows a pump chamber of the Yawata steel plant in the southwestern Japan city of Nakama. It is among the 23 "Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution" that a UNESCO advisory panel has recommended for World Heritage status. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fire at gas pipe of Nippon Steel coke factory in Kitakyushu

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - Black smoke continues to rise from a gas pipe at a coke factory in Nippon Steel Corp.'s Yawata Works plant complex in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, on the afternoon of July 29 after a fire broke out at around 6:45 a.m. the same day. (Kyodo)

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Fire at gas pipe of Nippon Steel coke factory in Kitakyushu

FUKUOKA, Japan - Black smoke is spewing at several points from a gas pipe outside a coke factory in Nippon Steel Corp.'s Yawata Works plant complex in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, on July 29 after a fire broke out at around 6:45 a.m. (Kyodo)

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High court rules against taxpayer over stock option income

TOKYO, Japan - Keisuke Yawata, former president of the Japanese unit of Applied Materials Inc., a U.S. computer chip manufacturer, speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Feb. 18 after the Tokyo High Court endorsed the tax authorities' decision to impose a higher tax rate on his stock option income by treating it as salary. (Kyodo)