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Nobel laureate Sakaguchi

Photo taken on Dec. 6, 2025, shows the bottom of a chair autographed by Shimon Sakaguchi (2nd from bottom), a professor at the University of Osaka and a co-winner of the 2025 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, as per tradition at a cafe at the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm.

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Nobel laureate Kitagawa

Photo taken on Dec. 6, 2025, shows the bottom of a chair autographed by Professor Susumu Kitagawa (top) of Kyoto University, a co-winner of the 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry, as per tradition at a cafe at the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm.

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Pope Leo XIV Leads The General Audience - Vatican

Pope Leo XIV poses on a BMW motorbike with a group of motorbikers at the end of the weekly general audience in Saint Peter’s square at the Vatican on September 3, 2025. Pope Leo XIV signed the BMW motorbike the proceeds of whose auction will go towards building a school for children forced to work in mica mines in Madagascar. The pontiff autographed the BMW motorcycle, which will be auctioned by Sotheby's in Monaco. Photo by (EV) Vatican Media/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Pope Leo XIV Leads The General Audience - Vatican

Pope Leo XIV poses near a BMW motorbike with a group of motorbikers at the end of the weekly general audience in Saint Peter’s square at the Vatican on September 3, 2025. Pope Leo XIV signed the BMW motorbike the proceeds of whose auction will go towards building a school for children forced to work in mica mines in Madagascar. The pontiff autographed the BMW motorcycle, which will be auctioned by Sotheby's in Monaco. Photo by (EV) Vatican Media/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Jim Lovell Presents President Johnson with an Engraved Print of “Earthrise”

Apollo 8 command module pilot Jim Lovell, left, presents United States President Lyndon B Johnson a framed and autographed copy of the photograph “Earthrise” that was taken while he and crewmates commander Frank Borman and lunar module pilot William Anders orbited the Moon on Christmas Eve 1968, at the White House in Washington, DC, USA, on January 8, 1969. Photo by Arnie Sachs / CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Japanese baseball legend Nagashima dies at 89

Former Yomiuri Giants player and manager Shigeo Nagashima poses with an autographed paper at a hotel in Tokyo on March 21, 2014. Nagashima, who was a key player on the Giants team that won nine consecutive Central League and Japan Series titles from 1965 to 1973 and later managed the club, died on June 3, 2025, aged 89.

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Duke Of Sussex Is Asked To Sign A Plastic Toy Of Himself - Vancouver

Prince Harry holds a toy figurine of his likeness that he autographed for a young boy as he and his wife Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, watch the U.S. and Nigeria play a wheelchair basketball game during the 2025 Invictus Games, in Vancouver, on Sunday, February 9, 2025. Photo by Darryl Dyck/CP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Baseball: Ohtani merch shop in Nagoya

A game ball used by Los Angeles Angels two-way baseball star Shohei Ohtani and an autographed replica of his game model glove is displayed at a pop-up shop in the underground arcade of Nagoya Station in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, on Nov. 17, 2023.

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CHINA-SICHUAN-CHENGDU-WORLDCON-LIU CIXIN-AUTOGRAPHING SESSION (CN)

(231020) -- CHENGDU, Oct. 20, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A sci-fi lover from Xi'an displays an edition of Chinese science fiction "The Three-Body Trilogy" autographed by Hugo Award winner Liu Cixin during the 81st World Science Fiction Convention (WorldCon) in Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Oct. 20, 2023. An autographing session was held during the ongoing Chengdu WorldCon on Friday, with author of Chinese sci-fi best sellers "The Three-Body Trilogy" and Hugo Award winner Liu Cixin attending the event. (Xinhua/Shen Bohan)

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Spouses of G-7 leaders in Hiroshima

Photo taken on May 19, 2023, in Hiroshima shows a paper crane autographed by Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's wife, Yuko, and her signature on recycled paper, made from paper cranes sent to Hiroshima in hopes of peace, on the first day of the May 19-21 Group of Seven summit in the western Japan city. (Pool photo)

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Baseball: Ohtani signed tree trunk

Visitors look at a pine tree stump autographed by Major League Baseball star Shohei Ohtani on display at Nagoya Castle, central Japan, on April 3, 2023. The tree is from Ohtani's hometown of Oshu in Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan.

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Baseball: Ohtani signed tree trunk

Photo taken on April 3, 2023, shows a pine tree stump autographed by Major League Baseball star Shohei Ohtani on display at Nagoya Castle in central Japan. The tree is from Ohtani's hometown of Oshu in Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan.

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Baseball: Ohtani signed tree trunk

Photo taken on April 3, 2023, shows a pine tree stump autographed by Major League Baseball star Shohei Ohtani on display at Nagoya Castle in central Japan. The tree is from Ohtani's hometown of Oshu in Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan.

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World Baseball Classic

Czech Republic's World Baseball Classic pitchers Marek Minarik (L) and Ondrej Satoria pose for a photo after getting bats autographed by Japanese two-way star Shohei Ohtani at Tokyo Dome in Tokyo on March 14, 2023.

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Baseball: MLB spring training

Boston Red Sox rookie Masataka Yoshida (R) gives a young baseball fan an autographed ball before a spring training game against the Tampa Bay Rays at Fort Myers, Florida, on Feb. 26, 2023.

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Record companies eye new businesses as CD sales dwindle

TOKYO, japan - Comedian Hikaru Tanaka (L) hands an autographed copy of his comic "Dr. Nakajima's World Conquest," published by Pony Canyon Inc., to a fan during a book-signing event outside a bookstore in Tokyo on Dec. 21, 2014. Amid shrinking sales of CDs, Pony Canyon and other Japanese record companies are diversifying into all sorts of other fields in search of new business opportunities.

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MLB's efforts against fake autographed balls

DETROIT, United States - An employee of Major League Baseball's Detroit Tigers shows a ball that has a special sticker with an identification number on it to prevent forgery of autographed balls in Detroit, Michigan, in this undated photo.

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Astronaut Wakata pays courtesy call on PM Abe

TOKYO, Japan - Astronaut Koichi Wakata (L), the first Japanese commander of the International Space Station, presents Prime Minister Shinzo Abe with an autographed panel during a courtesy call at his office in Tokyo on Aug. 7, 2014. Wakata served as ISS commander in the last two months of his six-month mission from November 2013 during his fourth trip to space.

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Gold medalist Hanyu's photo at Japan House in Sochi

SOCHI, Russia - An autographed photo panel of Yuzuru Hanyu, the men's figure skating gold medalist at the Sochi Winter Olympics, is added on Feb. 15, 2014, to the Japanese medalists corner at Japan House, set up in the Russian resort town by the Japanese Olympic Committee to promote the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics.

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Travolta supports "miracle pine" preservation

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - Photo taken at the Rikuzentakata city office in Iwate Prefecture on Oct. 2, 2012, shows an autographed picture of U.S. actor John Travolta with a handwritten message, received by the municipal government of the city ravaged by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. The northeastern Japan city said it has received a message of support from Travolta for its efforts to preserve the "miracle pine" that survived the massive tsunami.

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AC Milan cafe opens in Nagoya

NAGOYA, Japan - Arimasa Iwata, the owner of AC Milan Caffe e Ristorante, poses with an autographed jersey of Milan striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic at the cafe and restaurant in Nagoya, central Japan, on Dec. 6, 2011. The eatery, which opened in October 2011, is the world's first ''official'' cafe endorsed by AC Milan, the world famous football club in Italy.

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'King' Pele in disaster-hit Miyagi Pref.

NATORI, Japan - Pele (C), the legendary Brazilian footballer called ''the king of football,'' hands an autographed soccer ball to children at an elementary school in quake- and tsunami-hit Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, on Oct. 17, 2011. Pele is visiting Japan to promote the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

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Kan thanks World Cup team, says he hopes for election victory

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan (C) receives Japan's national soccer team jersey autographed by all members of Japan's World Cup squad from Japan coach Takeshi Okada (L) at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on July 6, 2010. Okada, along with the team's captain Makoto Hasebe (R), paid a courtesy call on the prime minister.

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Japan coach Okada visits PM Hatoyama

TOKYO, Japan -- Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama (L, front) is presented with an autographed soccer ball from Japan coach for the World Cup Takeshi Okada (R, front) during Okada's courtesy call on the prime minister together with members of his team (in back) at the prime minister's office on May 25, 2010.

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PM Hatoyama, wife Miyuki visit a news photo exhibition

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama and his wife Miyuki stand in front of a photo showing him just having been elected prime minister at the parliament after the premier autographed the image at an exhibition of this year's news photos at a department store in Tokyo's Nihombashi area on Dec. 23, 2009.

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PL beats CL in Game 2 of Japan's All-Star baseball series

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Pacific League members throw autographed balls to spectators in Game 2 of the All-Star series against the Central League at Mazda Stadium in Hiroshima on July 25.

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Unpublished haiku poems by Shiki Masaoka found

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show the cover (R) of an autographed collection of poems by haiku great Shiki Masaoka that includes unpublished verse (L), which was found recently and will be auctioned soon during a secondhand book fair, literary sources said July 2.

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(4)''War of the Worlds'' premiers open in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Steven Spielberg (L) poses with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi after presenting his autographed book to the premier at his office in Tokyo on June 13. Spielberg is in Japan to attend the world premiers of his latest film ''War of the Worlds'' that began at the Virgin Roppongi in Tokyo on June 13.

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Japan, Nicaragua to seek Japan-C. America summit in 2005

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (R) smiles with Nicaraguan President Enrique Bolanos Geyer after being presented with a ball autographed by former Nicaraguan major league pitcher Dennis Martinez at the premier's office on June 17. In their talks, the two leaders agreed to consider holding a summit between Japan and Central American countries in 2005.

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Shinjo autographs ball for fan

PHOENIX, United States - San Francisco Giants outfielder Tsuyoshi Shinjo (R) hands an autographed ball to a child Aug. 30 at Bank One Ballpark in Phoenix, Arizona, prior to a game against the Arizona Diamondbacks. (MLB)

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Brazil, Germany shirts, balls to be displayed at Yokohama Stadium

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Yokohama Mayor Hiroshi Nakada said July 3 that shirts and soccer balls autographed by Brazil and Germany players will be displayed at International Stadium Yokohama, where the World Cup final between the two teams was held. The shirts and balls were presented to the city. (World Cup 2002)

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Koizumi, Bush walking to press conference

CAMP DAVID, United States - Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (R) and U.S. President George W. Bush walk to a press conference at the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland June 30 after their first summit talks there. Koizumi is carrying a ball autographed by Bush and leather jacket the president gave him.

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Skateboarding: Yuto Horigome as Rakuten brand ambassador

Yuto Horigome, skateboarding men's street gold medalist at the Tokyo Olympics, poses with a skateboard he autographed in Tokyo on April 26, 2022, as Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten Group Inc. announces that he has become a brand ambassador.

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Skateboarding: Yuto Horigome as Rakuten brand ambassador

Yuto Horigome, skateboarding men's street gold medalist at the Tokyo Olympics, poses with a skateboard he autographed in Tokyo on April 26, 2022, as Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten Group Inc. announces that he has become a brand ambassador.

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President Sebastián Piñera enters the Palacio de La Moneda for the last time

SANTIAGO, CHILE – MARCH 11: Attendees at the farewell of the President of Chile Sebastián Piñera holds an autographed photo of the President at the end of his last visit as president to the Palacio de La Moneda on March 11, 2022 in Santiago, Chile. (Photo by Sebastián Vivallo Oñate / Agencia Makro)

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Baseball: Twins pitcher Maeda

Minnesota Twins pitcher Kenta Maeda shows his autographed message in Tokyo on Jan. 7, 2022.

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Baseball: Twins pitcher Maeda

Minnesota Twins pitcher Kenta Maeda poses with his new glove and autographed message in Tokyo on Jan. 7, 2022.

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Baseball: Jersey autographed by Ohtani, Kikuchi

Visitors look at a Hanamaki Higashi high school baseball jersey (C in gray) autographed by Shohei Ohtani and Yusei Kikuchi, Ohtani's Los Angeles Angels jersey (red) and Kikuchi's Seattle Mariners jersey (18) at a museum in the Iwate Prefecture city of Hanamaki, northeastern Japan, on Oct. 22, 2021. Both major leaguers spent their high school years at Hanamaki Higashi.

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Baseball: Jersey autographed by Ohtani, Kikuchi

A Hanamaki Higashi high school baseball jersey autographed by Los Angeles Angels two-way player Shohei Ohtani and Seattle Mariners pitcher Yusei Kikuchi is on display at a museum in the Iwate Prefecture city of Hanamaki, northeastern Japan, on Oct. 22, 2021. Both major leaguers spent their high school years at Hanamaki Higashi.

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Baseball: Japan's Olympic team manager Inaba

Japan's Olympic baseball team manager Atsunori Inaba shows an autographed new year message board reading "a bunch" in Tokyo on Dec. 23, 2020, ahead of the postponed Tokyo Olympics in the summer of 2021. Inaba said the character he wrote means a bunch of flowers for medical workers fighting the coronavirus pandemic while bidding to bring together strength for the gold medal.

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Building Collapse Aftermath - Surfside

NO FILM, NO VIDEO, NO TV, NO DOCUMENTARY - Members of Florida Task Force 8 gather at the memorial site to pin an autographed shirt signed by team members on Sunday, July 4, 2021 in Surfside, FL, USA. Photo by Carl Juste/Miami Herald/TNS/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Building Collapse Aftermath - Surfside

NO FILM, NO VIDEO, NO TV, NO DOCUMENTARY - Members of Florida Task Force 8 leave an autographed shirt signed by team members pinned to the memorial site fence on Sunday, July 4, 2021 in Surfside, FL, USA. Photo by Carl Juste/Miami Herald/TNS/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Building Collapse Aftermath - Surfside

NO FILM, NO VIDEO, NO TV, NO DOCUMENTARY - Members of Florida Task Force 8 bow their heads in prayer after pinning an autographed shirt signed by team members at the memorial site on Sunday, July 4, 2021 in Surfside, FL, USA. Photo by Carl Juste/Miami Herald/TNS/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Baseball: Ohtani All-Star jersey draws 6-figure bid in auction

Los Angeles Angels two-way player Shohei Ohtani pitches for the American League during the MLB All-Star baseball game on July 13, 2021, at Coors Field in Denver, Colorado. His autographed unworn All-Star jersey fetched about $130,000 in an online auction on July 21.

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(4)''War of the Worlds'' premiers open in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Steven Spielberg (L) poses with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi after presenting his autographed book to the premier at his office in Tokyo on June 13. Spielberg is in Japan to attend the world premiers of his latest film ''War of the Worlds'' that began at the Virgin Roppongi in Tokyo on June 13. (Kyodo)

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