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Hokkaido Electric Power President Sato

SAPPORO, Japan - Hokkaido Electric Power Co. President Yoshitaka Sato gives a press conference in Sapporo, Hokkaido, on Oct. 17, 2011. Sato said the utility will freeze a plutonium-thermal power generation project at its Tomari nuclear plant due to a scandal involving the misrepresentation of local opinion about the project.

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S. Korea refuses entry to 3 Japanese lawmakers

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R, front) Tomomi Inada, Yoshitaka Shindo and Masahisa Sato, lawmakers of the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party, speak with reporters at Haneda airport in Tokyo on Aug. 1, 2011, after returning to Japan from Seoul's Gimpo International Airport, where they were refused entry by South Korea earlier in the day due to their plan to visit a South Korean island near a pair of disputed islets.

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LDP lawmakers depart for Seoul despite entry ban

TOKYO, Japan - (from L) Masahisa Sato, Yoshitaka Shindo and Tomomi Inada, lawmakers of Japan's main opposition Liberal Democratic Party, are surrounded by reporters at Tokyo's Haneda airport on Aug. 1, 2011. They left for Seoul despite South Korea's decision to ban their entry for planning to visit a South Korean island near a pair of disputed islets.

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3 Mitsui-affiliated sugar refiners to merge in April 2005

TOKYO, Japan - Keichiro Ohashi (L), president of KS Co., Yoshitaka Ihara (C), president of Shin Mitsui Sugar Co., and Hideo Sato, president of Taito Co., speak to reporters at the Tokyo Stock Exchange on April 8 about their companies' merger in 2005. The new firm -- named Mitsui Sugar Co. -- will have about 23% of the Japanese sugar market.

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Mayor vows to help gov't survey on Ishigaki Island for SDF deployment

Ishigaki Mayor Yoshitaka Nakayama (R) holds talks with Akira Sato (front), senior vice minister of defense, at the Ishigaki city government offices on May 11, 2015. During the meeting, the mayor pledged to help the Defense Ministry examine candidate sites for the deployment of Ground Self-Defense Force troops on his island as part of Japan's effort to boost the country's defense of remote islands in the region amid a territorial row with China in the East China Sea. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hokkaido Electric Power President Sato

SAPPORO, Japan - Hokkaido Electric Power Co. President Yoshitaka Sato gives a press conference in Sapporo, Hokkaido, on Oct. 17, 2011. Sato said the utility will freeze a plutonium-thermal power generation project at its Tomari nuclear plant due to a scandal involving the misrepresentation of local opinion about the project. (Kyodo)

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S. Korea refuses entry to 3 Japanese lawmakers

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R, front) Tomomi Inada, Yoshitaka Shindo and Masahisa Sato, lawmakers of the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party, speak with reporters at Haneda airport in Tokyo on Aug. 1, 2011, after returning to Japan from Seoul's Gimpo International Airport, where they were refused entry by South Korea earlier in the day due to their plan to visit a South Korean island near a pair of disputed islets. (Kyodo)

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LDP lawmakers depart for Seoul despite entry ban

TOKYO, Japan - (from L) Masahisa Sato, Yoshitaka Shindo and Tomomi Inada, lawmakers of Japan's main opposition Liberal Democratic Party, are surrounded by reporters at Tokyo's Haneda airport on Aug. 1, 2011. They left for Seoul despite South Korea's decision to ban their entry for planning to visit a South Korean island near a pair of disputed islets. (Kyodo)

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3 Mitsui-affiliated sugar refiners to merge in April 2005

TOKYO, Japan - Keichiro Ohashi (L), president of KS Co., Yoshitaka Ihara (C), president of Shin Mitsui Sugar Co., and Hideo Sato, president of Taito Co., speak to reporters at the Tokyo Stock Exchange on April 8 about their companies' merger in 2005. The new firm -- named Mitsui Sugar Co. -- will have about 23% of the Japanese sugar market. (Kyodo)