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Beijing event to pitch Japan's sake

About 20 sake brewers from Japan's 14 prefectures attend a ceremony at the Japanese Embassy in Beijing on Aug. 7, 2025, the eve of a three-day event to pitch their products in the Chinese market.

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Beijing event to pitch Japan's sake

About 20 sake brewers from Japan's 14 prefectures attend a ceremony at the Japanese Embassy in Beijing on Aug. 7, 2025, the eve of a three-day event to pitch their products in the Chinese market.

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Beijing event to pitch Japan's sake

About 20 sake brewers from Japan's 14 prefectures attend a ceremony at the Japanese Embassy in Beijing on Aug. 7, 2025, the eve of a three-day event to pitch their products in the Chinese market.

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Disaster-hit students head to London

NARITA, Japan - Junior high school students from Japanese prefectures hit by the March 2011 quake and tsunami prepare to depart Narita airport near Tokyo on Aug. 1, 2012, for London. About 20 children from Iwate, Miyagi, Fukushima and Ibaraki prefectures will watch some of the Games and meet local children as guests of the Japanese Olympic Committee.

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Over 200,000 attend Rengo's May Day rallies across Japan

TOKYO, Japan - About 20,000 people attend the main May Day rally held under the auspices of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation (Rengo) at Tokyo's Yoyogi Park on April 29. More than 200,000 people took part in May Day rallies in 37 prefectures.

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Pana Wave Laboratory enters Nagano Pref. from Gifu

GIFU, Japan - Members of the Pana Wave Laboratory, a group known for its white attire, cover their vehicles with white cloths after they stopped on National Route 20 in Shiojiri, Nagano Prefecture, on May 6. The group, which has roamed around Tottori, Hyogo, Kyoto, Fukui, Shiga and Gifu prefectures, is under police surveillance because authorities are concerned about its activities.

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Governors visit Abe assassination site

Governors from about 20 prefectures in Japan pray on July 28, 2022, during a visit to the site of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's assassination in Nara. Abe was shot while delivering an election campaign speech on July 8.

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Crown Prince Fumihito, Princess Kiko in Mie Prefecture

Japanese Crown Prince Fumihito is pictured as a vehicle carrying him and Crown Princess Kiko arrives at Ise Jingu shrine in the Mie Prefecture city of Ise on April 20, 2022, after traveling for eight and a half hours over a distance of about 480 kilometers. The couple are visiting the central Japan city on the first leg of their four-day trip to Mie, Nara and Kyoto prefectures.

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Crown Prince Fumihito, Princess Kiko in Mie Prefecture

A vehicle carrying Japanese Crown Prince Fumihito and Crown Princess Kiko arrives at Ise Jingu shrine in the Mie Prefecture city of Ise on April 20, 2022, after traveling for eight and a half hours over a distance of about 480 kilometers. The couple are visiting the central Japan city on the first leg of their four-day trip to Mie, Nara and Kyoto prefectures.

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Crown Prince Fumihito, Princess Kiko in Mie Prefecture

A vehicle carrying Japanese Crown Prince Fumihito and Crown Princess Kiko arrives at Ise Jingu shrine in the Mie Prefecture city of Ise on April 20, 2022, after traveling for eight and a half hours over a distance of about 480 kilometers. The couple are visiting the central Japan city on the first leg of their four-day trip to Mie, Nara and Kyoto prefectures.

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Crown Prince Fumihito, Princess Kiko in Mie Prefecture

A vehicle carrying Japanese Crown Prince Fumihito and Crown Princess Kiko arrives at Ise Jingu shrine in the Mie Prefecture city of Ise on April 20, 2022, after traveling for eight and a half hours over a distance of about 480 kilometers. The couple are visiting the central Japan city on the first leg of their four-day trip to Mie, Nara and Kyoto prefectures. (Pool photo)

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Crown Prince Fumihito, Princess Kiko in Mie Prefecture

A vehicle carrying Japanese Crown Prince Fumihito and Crown Princess Kiko arrives at Ise Jingu shrine in the Mie Prefecture city of Ise on April 20, 2022, after traveling for eight and a half hours over a distance of about 480 kilometers. The couple are visiting the central Japan city on the first leg of their four-day trip to Mie, Nara and Kyoto prefectures.

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Pana Wave Laboratory enters Nagano Pref. from Gifu

GIFU, Japan - Members of the Pana Wave Laboratory, a group known for its white attire, cover their vehicles with white cloths after they stopped on National Route 20 in Shiojiri, Nagano Prefecture, on May 6. The group, which has roamed around Tottori, Hyogo, Kyoto, Fukui, Shiga and Gifu prefectures, is under police surveillance because authorities are concerned about its activities. (Kyodo)

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Japanese native chicken beauty contest held

A beauty contest is held in Kochi, western Japan, on March 20, 2016, involving native Japanese chicken breeds. About 250 chickens from 10 prefectures participated in the contest won by a small shamo breeding pair kept by a 79-year-old man in Nara Prefecture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Akita chosen as rotating host city for 2015 Tohoku festival

The mayors of the capital cities of six prefectures in the northeastern Japan region of Tohoku announce at a press conference in Akita on Jan. 20, 2015, that the annual Tohoku Rokkon Festival featuring six major festivals in the region will be held in the city on May 30 and 31. They expect about 225,000 visitors to the two-day event, which was launched in 2011 to help promote reconstruction following the Great East Japan Earthquake. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo