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Farm minister hold press confab on rice comments

Agriculture minister Taku Eto holds a press conference at his ministry on May 20, 2025, to apologize for his controversial comments about receiving rice from supporters. Eto said in a speech two days earlier that he does not need to buy rice because his supporters provide him with plenty, amid a rice shortage and surging prices in the country.

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Farm minister hold press confab on rice comments

Agriculture minister Taku Eto holds a press conference at his ministry on May 20, 2025, to apologize for his controversial comments about receiving rice from supporters. Eto said in a speech two days earlier that he does not need to buy rice because his supporters provide him with plenty, amid a rice shortage and surging prices in the country.

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Princess Aiko makes first official speech at int'l confab

Japan's Princess Aiko, daughter of Emperor Naruhito, arrives at the venue of the 23rd session of the World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine in Tokyo on May 3, 2025. The princess spoke during the opening ceremony of the session, marking her first official speech at an international conference. (Pool photo)

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Princess Aiko makes first official speech at int'l confab

Japan's Princess Aiko (C), daughter of Emperor Naruhito, attends the opening ceremony of the 23rd session of the World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine in Tokyo on May 3, 2025. The princess spoke during the session, marking her first official speech at an international conference.

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Princess Aiko makes first official speech at int'l confab

Japan's Princess Aiko, daughter of Emperor Naruhito, arrives at the venue of the 23rd session of the World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine in Tokyo on May 3, 2025. The princess spoke during the opening ceremony of the session, marking her first official speech at an international conference. (Pool photo)

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Princess Aiko makes first official speech at int'l confab

Japan's Princess Aiko, daughter of Emperor Naruhito, speaks during the opening ceremony of the 23rd session of the World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine in Tokyo on May 3, 2025, marking her first official speech at an international conference.

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Princess Aiko makes first official speech at int'l confab

Japan's Princess Aiko, daughter of Emperor Naruhito, speaks during the opening ceremony of the 23rd session of the World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine in Tokyo on May 3, 2025, marking her first official speech at an international conference.

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Princess Aiko makes first official speech at int'l confab

Japan's Princess Aiko, daughter of Emperor Naruhito, speaks during the opening ceremony of the 23rd session of the World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine in Tokyo on May 3, 2025, marking her first official speech at an international conference.

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Anti-nuclear world confab in Nagasaki

File photo shows the second World Conference against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs on Aug. 9, 1956, in the western Japan city of Nagasaki.

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Emperor, empress attend int'l youth exchange confab

Japan's Emperor Naruhito (front, 2nd from L) and Empress Masako (L) attend a reception of an international youth exchange conference in Tokyo on Oct. 2, 2024. (Pool photo)

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Emperor, Empress attend int'l youth exchange confab

Japan's Emperor Naruhito (C, L) and Empress Masako (C, R) watch a discussion by participants during an international youth exchange conference in Tokyo on Oct. 2, 2024. (Pool photo)

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Taliban spokesman at U.N.-led confab on Afghanistan

Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid speaks to reporters on July 1, 2024, after attending a two-day United Nations-led conference on Afghanistan in Doha. It is the first time the Taliban attended the conference, the third of its kind, which began June 30.

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Taliban spokesman at U.N.-led confab on Afghanistan

Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid heads for a session of a two-day United Nations-led conference on Afghanistan on July 1, 2024, in Doha. It is the first time the Taliban attended the conference, the third of its kind, which began June 30.

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5th confab of signatory states for mercury pollution prevention

Signatory states to an international treaty to protect human health and the environment from mercury pollution hold their fifth conference in Geneva on Nov. 3, 2023.

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Anti-Muslim monks of Myanmar, Sri Lanka hold confab

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - Gnanasara Thero (L, front), a Sri Lankan Buddhist monk and one of the founders of anti-Muslim body Bodu Bala Sena (BBS), welcomes Myanmar's nationalist Buddhist monk U Wirathu (2nd from L) at a BBS conference in Colombo in this file photo taken on Sept. 28, 2014.

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Myanmar's anti-Muslim monk attends Sri Lanka confab

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - Myanmar's nationalist Buddhist monk U Wirathu (2nd from L) is invited to a conference by Sri Lanka's anti-Muslim Buddhist body Bodu Bala Sena in Colombo in this file photo taken on Sept. 28, 2014, amid a growing tide of cooperation on the anti-Islam Buddhist movement in both countries.

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Int'l confab on humanitarian impact of nuclear arms

VIENNA, Austria - Adam Scheinman, special representative of the U.S. president for nuclear nonproliferation, speaks at the third Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons in the Austrian capital of Vienna on Dec. 9, 2014.

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Int'l confab on humanitarian impact of nuclear arms

VIENNA, Austria - Toshio Sano, ambassador of the Delegation of Japan to the Conference on Disarmament, speaks at the third Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons in the Austrian capital of Vienna on Dec. 9, 2014.

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Int'l confab on humanitarian impact of nuclear arms

VIENNA, Austria - Terumi Tanaka, secretary general of the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, speaks at the third Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons in the Austrian capital of Vienna on Dec. 9, 2014.

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Int'l confab on humanitarian impact of nuclear arms starts in Vienna

VIENNA, Austria - Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz holds a press conference in Vienna on Dec. 8, 2014. Kruz was chairing the third Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons, which kicked off in the Austrian capital the same day.

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Int'l confab on radiation protection held in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Participants listen to a speaker at an international conference held in Tokyo on Jan. 8, 2015, by the Nuclear Energy Agency of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development to discuss how to apply lessons learnt from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster to protection from radiation.

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1st Asian investigative journalism confab held in Manila

MANILA, Philippines - Sheila Coronel, professor of professional practice in investigative journalism at Columbia University, delivers an opening address at the inaugural Asian Investigative Journalism Conference in Manila in this file photo taken on Nov. 23, 2014.

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H.K. journalism expert attends Asian media confab

MANILA, Philippines - Chan Yuen Ying, director of the Journalism and Media Studies Center at the University of Hong Kong, poses in this file photo taken on Nov. 23, 2014, during the first Asian Investigative Journalism Conference in Manila.

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NGOs analyze U.N. climate confab draft accord

LIMA, Peru - Members of environmental nongovernmental organizations gather to analyze a circulated draft agreement at a U.N. climate change conference in Lima late at night on Dec. 13, 2014.

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A-bomb survivor attends Vienna nuclear confab

VIENNA, Austria - Terumi Tanaka, an atomic bomb survivor and secretary general of the Japan Confederation of A and H Bomb Sufferers Organizations, attends the Vienna Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons in Austria on Dec. 8, 2014. He expressed hope that the abolition of nuclear waepons will be realized soon.

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WHO, FAO chiefs at int'l nutrition confab in Rome

ROME, Italy - Margaret Chan (L), head of the World Health Organization, and Jose Graziano da Silva, chief of the Food and Agriculture Organization, meet the press in Rome on Nov. 19, 2014, on the occasion of the Second International Conference on Nutrition.

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Confab on education for sustainable development ends

NAGOYA, Japan - Photo taken on Nov. 12, 2014, in the central Japan city of Nagoya shows an international conference aimed at promoting education for sustainable development, or ESD. Participants adopted at the end of the three-day meeting a declaration calling for greater collaboration to nurture human resources capable of tackling such global issues as poverty and environment protection.

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Int'l confab on dementia opens in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - An international conference on dementia opens in Tokyo on Nov. 5, 2014, as a follow-up to the G-8 summit on the disease held in London in December 2013.

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World confab on ESD under way in western Japan

OKAYAMA, Japan - Participants in a panel meeting on Africa exchange views as part of the UNESCO World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development under way in Okayama, western Japan, from Nov. 5, 2014.

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IAEA confab on nuclear safety, security opens in Beijing

BEIJING, China - The International Atomic Energy Agency's international conference on challenges faced by technical and scientific support organizations in enhancing nuclear safety and security opens in Beijing on Oct. 27, 2014.

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Japanese asbestos expert speaks at Asia-Pacific confab

TOKYO, Japan - Ken Takahashi (3rd from L), a professor at the University of Occupational and Environmental Health in Japan, speaks at an Asia-Pacific workshop on the sound management of industrial chemicals in Jakarta on Oct. 1, 2014, jointly convened by him and the U.N. Environmental Program to address the problem of asbestos exposure. (Photo by Tatsuya Tsujimura)

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Crown Prince Naruhito attends science confab in Kyoto

KYOTO, Japan - Crown Prince Naruhito addresses the audience during a closing ceremony of the Science and Technology in Society forum at the Kyoto International Conference Center in Kyoto, western Japan, on Oct. 7, 2014.

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Science and technology confab opens in Kyoto

KYOTO, Japan - Researchers from around the world attend a plenary session of the Science and Technology in Society forum at the Kyoto International Conference Center in Kyoto, western Japan, on Oct. 7, 2014.

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Wahlstrom attends Arab disaster risk reduction confab

SHARM EL SHEIKH, Egypt - Margareta Wahlstrom (4th from front R), the United Nations special representative of the secretary-general for Disaster Risk Reduction, poses for a photo during the Arab Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in Egypt's Sharm El Sheikh on Sept. 14, 2014.

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State minister Kiuchi speaks at Arab disaster confab

SHARM EL SHEIKH, Egypt - Japan's State Minister for Foreign Affairs Minoru Kiuchi delivers a speech at the Arab Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, on Sept. 14, 2014.

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Int'l confab on bluefin tuna catches

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in June 2014 shows bluefin tuna catches unloaded in Sakaiminato, Tottori Prefecture. At an international conference discussing control of bluefin tuna resources in the Northern Pacific, which ended Sept. 4, 2014, in the city of Fukuoka, the participating countries broadly agreed to halve catches of juvenile bluefin tuna from 2015.

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Int'l confab on bluefin tuna catches

FUKUOKA, Japan - Photo shows participants in a subcommittee meeting of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission discussing control of bluefin tuna resources in the Northern Pacific, in the city of Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, on Sept. 1, 2014. During the meeting that ended Sept. 4, the participating countries broadly agreed to halve catches of juvenile bluefin tuna from 2015.

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Japan, China, S. Korea holds ministerial confab on logistics

TOKYO, Japan - The 5th Trilateral Ministerial Conference on Transport and Logistics is underway in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Aug. 25, 2014. Japanese transport minister Akihiro Ota, Zhou Haitao, vice minister of the Chinese Ministry of Transport, and South Korean Oceans and Fisheries Minister Lee Ju Young attended the conference.

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N. Korean delegate attends sports confab in Incheon

INCHEON, S. Korea - Yang Song Ho, dean of the Korea University of Physical Education in Pyongyang, explains North Korean policies on athletic activities at a sports conference on Aug. 20, 2014, in the South's northwestern port city of Incheon, host of the Sept. 19-Oct. 4 Asian Games.

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Nagasaki student peace envoy attends disarmament confab

GENEVA, Switzerland - Masaki Koyanagi (L), one of 20 Japanese high school students visiting the United Nations Office at Geneva, attends the Conference on Disarmament with Japanese Ambassador Toshio Sano on Aug. 19, 2014.

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Participants in anti-A-bomb confab pray for victims

NAGASAKI, Japan - Participants in a meeting held in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, by the Japan Congress Against A- and H-Bombs offer silent prayers on Aug. 6, 2014, for the victims of atomic bombs dropped on Japan in August 1945.

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Anti-hacker confab held in U.S. to combat new cyberattacks

LAS VEGAS, United States - Black Hat USA 2014, an international anti-hacker conference, is held in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Aug. 6, 2014, focusing on dangers associated with remote-controlled cyberattacks on automatically operated cars that nullify the vehicles' safety catch.

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6 pref. governors attend confab in CA for business ties

SAN FRANCISCO, United States - Six Japanese prefectural governors -- (from R) Hidehiko Yuzaki of Hiroshima, Hiroshi Ogawa of Fukuoka, Heita Kawakatsu of Shizuoka, Ryuta Ibaragi of Okayama, Katsusada Hirose of Oita and Yasushi Furukawa of Saga, attend a conference at Stanford University in California to explore ways to develop business ties with companies based in Silicon Valley on July 28, 2014.

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U.N. confab raps Assad regime's barrel bomb attacks in Syria

NEW YORK, United States - A conference is held at the U.N. Headquarters in New York on May 14, 2014, to accuse the Assad regime of using inhumane barrel bombs in Syria.

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Japan assumes presidency of Geneva disarmament confab

GENEVA, Switzerland - Toshio Sano, Japanese ambassador to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, moderates a session as the new president of the conference in the Swiss city of Geneva on March 18, 2014. Sano said in his statement that disarmament was a central pillar of Japan's foreign policy and that the Japanese people strongly desired a world without nuclear weapons.

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Minority reps at China's political advisory body confab

BEIJING, China - Ethnic minorities' representatives clad in traditional clothing head to the opening ceremony of the annual Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference on March 3, 2014, in Beijing.

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1955 U.N. confab on atomic energy

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows the Japanese government delegation leaving Tokyo's Haneda airport on Aug. 5, 1955, for a U.N. conference on atomic energy in Geneva. U.S. documents show the Japanese government, facing U.S. pressure, moved to block presentations by Japanese scientists at the conference about the effects of radioactivity.

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African resources business confab

TOKYO, Japan - A two-day meeting to discuss how to utilize African natural resources starts in Tokyo on May 16, 2013. The Japan Sustainable Mining, Investment and Technology Business Forum, or J-SUMIT, puts together around 2,000 people, including natural resources ministers from 15 African nations, attending.

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Confab on humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons

OSLO, Norway - Masao Tomonaga, director of the Japanese Red Cross Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Hospital, speaks at the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons conference in Oslo on March 4, 2013.

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Confab on humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons

OSLO, Norway - Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide speaks as an international conference on the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons began in Oslo on March 4, 2013.