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(Chengdu Universiade)CHINA-CHENGDU-WORLD UNIVERSITY GAMES-ROWING (CN)

(230806) -- CHENGDU, Aug. 6, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Silver medalists Kadoya Mao (L)/Yonezawa Chika of Japan celebrate at the awarding ceremony for rowing lightweight women's double sculls at the 31st FISU Summer World University Games in Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Aug. 6, 2023. (Xinhua/Zhang Bowen)

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(Chengdu Universiade)CHINA-CHENGDU-WORLD UNIVERSITY GAMES-ROWING (CN)

(230806) -- CHENGDU, Aug. 6, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Kadoya Mao (L)/Yonezawa Chika of Japan compete during the rowing lightweight women's double sculls final A at the 31st FISU Summer World University Games in Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Aug. 6, 2023. (Xinhua/Zhao Zishuo)

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Snow-made lanterns lit up in northeastern Japan

Garden lanterns made of snow are lit up during a winter festival at a shrine in the Yamagata Prefecture city of Yonezawa, northeastern Japan, on Feb. 11, 2023, following a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Snow-made lanterns lit up in northeastern Japan

Garden lanterns made of snow are lit up during a winter festival at a shrine in the Yamagata Prefecture city of Yonezawa, northeastern Japan, on Feb. 11, 2023, following a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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U.S. envoy Kennedy visits museum in Yonezawa, north Japan

YONEZAWA, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy visits the "Denkoku no Mori" museum in Yonezawa, Yamagata Prefecture, northwestern Japan, on Sept. 27, 2014, as a museum official greets her in a suit of armor. The museum is focused on famed feudal lord Uesugi Yozan, known for good governance, making sacrifices for the public good, and being praised by former U.S. President John Kennedy, father of the envoy.

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'Rakugo' legend Hikohachi festival held in Osaka

OSAKA, Japan - A festival dedicated to Yonezawa Hikohachi, the founding father of "kamigata rakugo" comic story telling in the Osaka and Kyoto regions, is under way at Ikukunitama Shrine in Osaka on Sept. 6, 2014, to mark the 300th anniversary of his death. Performing at the center is well-known rakugo storyteller Katsura Yonedanji.

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Man seeks to keep 100-year tradition of platform vending

YAMAGATA, Japan - Daisuke Kosugi in a "happi" coat walks along a train at a station selling rice cakes in Yonezawa, Yamagata Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Aug 4, 2014, as he attempts to maintain the tradition of platform vending, lasting more than 100 years. The practice involving active conversations with passengers is almost extinct due to changes in the train system.

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Yonezawa Uesugi festival

YAMAGATA, Japan - People reenact one of the famous Battles of Kawanakajima between rival warlords Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen in the mid-16th century as part of the Yonezawa Uesugi festival in Yonezawa, Yamagata Prefecture, on May 3, 2014.

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Yonezawa Uesugi festival

YAMAGATA, Japan - People take part in a reenactment of the Battles of Kawanakajima between rival warlords Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen in the mid-16th century during the Uesugi Yonezawa festival in Yonezawa, Yamagata Prefecture, on May 3, 2014.

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Disaster-hit building in Japan, scene of man's survival from tsunami

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - Yuichi Yonezawa squats on top of the chimney of his building in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Feb. 14, 2014, reenacting the time he survived the March 2011 tsunami. Although much of the surrounding area has been vacated, Yonezawa intends to preserve the building as a lesson for younger generations about natural disasters and put up a sign on the chimney indicating the water level where the tsunami reached.

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'Manga' library opens at Tokyo university

TOKYO, Japan - A staff member prepares for the opening of the Yoshihiro Yonezawa Memorial Library of Manga and Subculture at Meiji University's Surugadai Campus in Tokyo on Oct. 31, 2009. The library has some 140,000 ''manga'' comics and subculture materials that the manga critic Yonezawa collected before he died in 2006.

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Top court rules in favor of researcher's claim on patent rights

TOKYO, Japan - Seiji Yonezawa, former researcher of Hitachi Ltd., smiles during a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 17 after the Supreme Court endorsed the lower court's decision ordering Hitachi to pay 163 million yen to him for the transfer of patent rights related to optical disks.

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House panel head opposes Nogami's nomination as UK envoy

TOKYO, Japan - Teruhiko Mashiko, a Democrataic Party of Japan member of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, releases a statement by the panel's chairman Takashi Yonezawa at a press conference at the Diet building in Tokyo on Aug. 31. Yonezawa, who is currently on an overseas trip abroad, expressed opposition to the goverment's plan to name former Vice Foreign Minister Yoshiji Nogami as ambassador to Britain.

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Japan PM Kishida meets with manga artists

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (R) has chats on June 19, 2022, with manga artist Tetsuya Chiba during a visit to Meiji University in Tokyo that houses the Yoshihiro Yonezawa Memorial Library of Manga and Subcultures and the Contemporary Manga Library.

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Japan PM Kishida meets with manga artists

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (C) has chats on June 19, 2022, with manga artists including Tetsuya Chiba (2nd from L) during a visit to Meiji University in Tokyo that houses the Yoshihiro Yonezawa Memorial Library of Manga and Subcultures and the Contemporary Manga Library.

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Japan PM Kishida meets with manga artists

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (L) has chats on June 19, 2022, with manga artists during a visit to Meiji University in Tokyo that houses the Yoshihiro Yonezawa Memorial Library of Manga and Subcultures and the Contemporary Manga Library.

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Naoki literary award in Japan

Novelist Honobu Yonezawa attends a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 19, 2022, after winning the Naoki Prize, a Japanese literary award.

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Akutagawa, Naoki literary awards in Japan

(From R) Novelists Bunji Sunakawa, Shogo Imamura and Honobu Yonezawa pose with their award-winning books in Tokyo on Jan. 19, 2022. Sunakawa won the Akutagawa Prize while Imamura and Yonezawa won the Naoki Prize.

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Zebras? No, wagyu cattle with body coated in insect-repelling test

An experiment is underway in the Yamagata Prefecture town of Oguni, home to Yonezawa wagyu beef cattle, to prevent damage from blood-sucking insects such as gadfly and cattle fly by coating the body in a “zebra-like pattern.” The prefectural government, which is leading the project, is considering putting it into practical use after finding the coating “effective to a certain extent.”Date: October 2021 (shooting day unknown)Place: Oguni town, Yamagata Prefecture

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House panel head opposes Nogami's nomination as UK envoy

TOKYO, Japan - Teruhiko Mashiko, a Democrataic Party of Japan member of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, releases a statement by the panel's chairman Takashi Yonezawa at a press conference at the Diet building in Tokyo on Aug. 31. Yonezawa, who is currently on an overseas trip abroad, expressed opposition to the goverment's plan to name former Vice Foreign Minister Yoshiji Nogami as ambassador to Britain. (Kyodo)

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Ex-Democratic Socialist Party chairman Yonezawa dies at 76

Photo taken in August 2005 shows Takashi Yonezawa, former chairman of the now-defunct Democratic Socialist Party. Yonezawa died of respiratory failure on June 16, 2016, at a hospital in Miyazaki at age 76. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Eco-friendly strategies prove profitable for some Japanese firms

Akira Kuwabara, president of New Tech Shinsei Inc., shows how to play "Mokulock," wooden building blocks for children, in Yonezawa, Yamagata Prefecture, on Aug. 21, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Golf: Watson, Langer to play in 1st PGA-sanctioned tourney in Japan

Gregory McLaughlin (L), president of PGA Tour Champions, and Akira Yonezawa, executive officer at Japan Airlines Co., shake hands at Narita Golf Club in Chiba Prefecture on June 5, 2017 after announcing details of the Japan Airlines Championship to be held in September at the club. The event is the first PGA Tour-sanctioned tournament to take place in Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Top court rules in favor of researcher's claim on patent rights

TOKYO, Japan - Seiji Yonezawa, former researcher of Hitachi Ltd., smiles during a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 17 after the Supreme Court endorsed the lower court's decision ordering Hitachi to pay 163 million yen to him for the transfer of patent rights related to optical disks. (Kyodo)

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U.S. envoy Kennedy visits museum in Yonezawa, north Japan

YONEZAWA, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy visits the "Denkoku no Mori" museum in Yonezawa, Yamagata Prefecture, northwestern Japan, on Sept. 27, 2014, as a museum official greets her in a suit of armor. The museum is focused on famed feudal lord Uesugi Yozan, known for good governance, making sacrifices for the public good, and being praised by former U.S. President John Kennedy, father of the envoy. (Kyodo)

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Tokyo Olympic torch relay

A Tokyo Olympic torch relay runner departs from Uesugi shrine in Yonezawa in Yamagata Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on June 6, 2021.

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Tokyo Olympic torch relay

A Tokyo Olympic torch relay runner departs from Uesugi shrine in Yonezawa in Yamagata Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on June 6, 2021.

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Voice-generating device for ALS patients

Radio personality and ALS patient Kazuya Yonezawa takes part in recording for his monthly FM program at a community FM station in Sapporo, northern Japan, on July 27, 2018, using a sound-synthesizing system developed for him to generate a voice similar to his based on thousands of words he uttered that were recorded before his symptoms flared up. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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'Manga' library opens at Tokyo university

TOKYO, Japan - A staff member prepares for the opening of the Yoshihiro Yonezawa Memorial Library of Manga and Subculture at Meiji University's Surugadai Campus in Tokyo on Oct. 31, 2009. The library has some 140,000 ''manga'' comics and subculture materials that the manga critic Yonezawa collected before he died in 2006. (Kyodo)