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Japan police chief in Fukushima

Japan police chief in Fukushima

Japan's National Police Agency chief Yoshinobu Kusunoki addresses a meeting of senior officials of the Fukushima Prefectural Police at its headquarters in Fukushima, northeastern Japan, on Dec. 3, 2025.

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Landfill work begins for U.S. base transfer within Okinawa

Landfill work begins for U.S. base transfer within Okinawa

Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki meets the press at the prefectural headquarters in Naha on Nov. 28, 2025, as work gets under way to dump landfill into Oura Bay off the Henoko coastal area in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, for the relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station within the southern Japan island prefecture.

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Winners of the 101 Women Entrepreneurs - Strasbourg

Winners of the 101 Women Entrepreneurs - Strasbourg

Jacques Witkowski, Prefect of the Grand Est region, invited the press to the Prefectural Hotel for the inauguration of an exhibition dedicated to the ten winners of the “101 Women Entrepreneurs” award for the Grand Est region. The exhibition highlights the careers, commitments, and successes of these women entrepreneurs from various professional backgrounds. It pays tribute to the diversity, creativity, and determination of women who contribute to the country's economic and social dynamism through their projects and businesses. November 21, 2025, Strasbourg, Eastern France. Photo by Nicolas Roses/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Winners of the 101 Women Entrepreneurs - Strasbourg

Winners of the 101 Women Entrepreneurs - Strasbourg

Jacques Witkowski, Prefect of the Grand Est region, invited the press to the Prefectural Hotel for the inauguration of an exhibition dedicated to the ten winners of the “101 Women Entrepreneurs” award for the Grand Est region. The exhibition highlights the careers, commitments, and successes of these women entrepreneurs from various professional backgrounds. It pays tribute to the diversity, creativity, and determination of women who contribute to the country's economic and social dynamism through their projects and businesses. November 21, 2025, Strasbourg, Eastern France. Photo by Nicolas Roses/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Winners of the 101 Women Entrepreneurs - Strasbourg

Winners of the 101 Women Entrepreneurs - Strasbourg

Jacques Witkowski, Prefect of the Grand Est region, invited the press to the Prefectural Hotel for the inauguration of an exhibition dedicated to the ten winners of the “101 Women Entrepreneurs” award for the Grand Est region. The exhibition highlights the careers, commitments, and successes of these women entrepreneurs from various professional backgrounds. It pays tribute to the diversity, creativity, and determination of women who contribute to the country's economic and social dynamism through their projects and businesses. November 21, 2025, Strasbourg, Eastern France. Photo by Nicolas Roses/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Winners of the 101 Women Entrepreneurs - Strasbourg

Winners of the 101 Women Entrepreneurs - Strasbourg

Jacques Witkowski, Prefect of the Grand Est region, invited the press to the Prefectural Hotel for the inauguration of an exhibition dedicated to the ten winners of the “101 Women Entrepreneurs” award for the Grand Est region. The exhibition highlights the careers, commitments, and successes of these women entrepreneurs from various professional backgrounds. It pays tribute to the diversity, creativity, and determination of women who contribute to the country's economic and social dynamism through their projects and businesses. November 21, 2025, Strasbourg, Eastern France. Photo by Nicolas Roses/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Winners of the 101 Women Entrepreneurs - Strasbourg

Winners of the 101 Women Entrepreneurs - Strasbourg

Jacques Witkowski, Prefect of the Grand Est region, invited the press to the Prefectural Hotel for the inauguration of an exhibition dedicated to the ten winners of the “101 Women Entrepreneurs” award for the Grand Est region. The exhibition highlights the careers, commitments, and successes of these women entrepreneurs from various professional backgrounds. It pays tribute to the diversity, creativity, and determination of women who contribute to the country's economic and social dynamism through their projects and businesses. November 21, 2025, Strasbourg, Eastern France. Photo by Nicolas Roses/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Winners of the 101 Women Entrepreneurs - Strasbourg

Winners of the 101 Women Entrepreneurs - Strasbourg

Jacques Witkowski, Prefect of the Grand Est region, invited the press to the Prefectural Hotel for the inauguration of an exhibition dedicated to the ten winners of the “101 Women Entrepreneurs” award for the Grand Est region. The exhibition highlights the careers, commitments, and successes of these women entrepreneurs from various professional backgrounds. It pays tribute to the diversity, creativity, and determination of women who contribute to the country's economic and social dynamism through their projects and businesses. November 21, 2025, Strasbourg, Eastern France. Photo by Nicolas Roses/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Winners of the 101 Women Entrepreneurs - Strasbourg

Winners of the 101 Women Entrepreneurs - Strasbourg

Jacques Witkowski, Prefect of the Grand Est region, invited the press to the Prefectural Hotel for the inauguration of an exhibition dedicated to the ten winners of the “101 Women Entrepreneurs” award for the Grand Est region. The exhibition highlights the careers, commitments, and successes of these women entrepreneurs from various professional backgrounds. It pays tribute to the diversity, creativity, and determination of women who contribute to the country's economic and social dynamism through their projects and businesses. November 21, 2025, Strasbourg, Eastern France. Photo by Nicolas Roses/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Winners of the 101 Women Entrepreneurs - Strasbourg

Winners of the 101 Women Entrepreneurs - Strasbourg

Jacques Witkowski, Prefect of the Grand Est region, invited the press to the Prefectural Hotel for the inauguration of an exhibition dedicated to the ten winners of the “101 Women Entrepreneurs” award for the Grand Est region. The exhibition highlights the careers, commitments, and successes of these women entrepreneurs from various professional backgrounds. It pays tribute to the diversity, creativity, and determination of women who contribute to the country's economic and social dynamism through their projects and businesses. November 21, 2025, Strasbourg, Eastern France. Photo by Nicolas Roses/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Winners of the 101 Women Entrepreneurs - Strasbourg

Winners of the 101 Women Entrepreneurs - Strasbourg

Jacques Witkowski, Prefect of the Grand Est region, invited the press to the Prefectural Hotel for the inauguration of an exhibition dedicated to the ten winners of the “101 Women Entrepreneurs” award for the Grand Est region. The exhibition highlights the careers, commitments, and successes of these women entrepreneurs from various professional backgrounds. It pays tribute to the diversity, creativity, and determination of women who contribute to the country's economic and social dynamism through their projects and businesses. November 21, 2025, Strasbourg, Eastern France. Photo by Nicolas Roses/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Winners of the 101 Women Entrepreneurs - Strasbourg

Winners of the 101 Women Entrepreneurs - Strasbourg

Jacques Witkowski, Prefect of the Grand Est region, invited the press to the Prefectural Hotel for the inauguration of an exhibition dedicated to the ten winners of the “101 Women Entrepreneurs” award for the Grand Est region. The exhibition highlights the careers, commitments, and successes of these women entrepreneurs from various professional backgrounds. It pays tribute to the diversity, creativity, and determination of women who contribute to the country's economic and social dynamism through their projects and businesses. November 21, 2025, Strasbourg, Eastern France. Photo by Nicolas Roses/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Winners of the 101 Women Entrepreneurs - Strasbourg

Winners of the 101 Women Entrepreneurs - Strasbourg

Jacques Witkowski, Prefect of the Grand Est region, invited the press to the Prefectural Hotel for the inauguration of an exhibition dedicated to the ten winners of the “101 Women Entrepreneurs” award for the Grand Est region. The exhibition highlights the careers, commitments, and successes of these women entrepreneurs from various professional backgrounds. It pays tribute to the diversity, creativity, and determination of women who contribute to the country's economic and social dynamism through their projects and businesses. November 21, 2025, Strasbourg, Eastern France. Photo by Nicolas Roses/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Winners of the 101 Women Entrepreneurs - Strasbourg

Winners of the 101 Women Entrepreneurs - Strasbourg

Jacques Witkowski, Prefect of the Grand Est region, invited the press to the Prefectural Hotel for the inauguration of an exhibition dedicated to the ten winners of the “101 Women Entrepreneurs” award for the Grand Est region. The exhibition highlights the careers, commitments, and successes of these women entrepreneurs from various professional backgrounds. It pays tribute to the diversity, creativity, and determination of women who contribute to the country's economic and social dynamism through their projects and businesses. November 21, 2025, Strasbourg, Eastern France. Photo by Nicolas Roses/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Winners of the 101 Women Entrepreneurs - Strasbourg

Winners of the 101 Women Entrepreneurs - Strasbourg

Jacques Witkowski, Prefect of the Grand Est region, invited the press to the Prefectural Hotel for the inauguration of an exhibition dedicated to the ten winners of the “101 Women Entrepreneurs” award for the Grand Est region. The exhibition highlights the careers, commitments, and successes of these women entrepreneurs from various professional backgrounds. It pays tribute to the diversity, creativity, and determination of women who contribute to the country's economic and social dynamism through their projects and businesses. November 21, 2025, Strasbourg, Eastern France. Photo by Nicolas Roses/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Niigata gov. OKs TEPCO's 1st nuclear reactor restart since Fukushima

Niigata gov. OKs TEPCO's 1st nuclear reactor restart since Fukushima

Members of a citizens group rally in front of the Niigata prefectural government office in Niigata, northwest of Tokyo, on Nov. 21, 2025, in protest over Niigata Gov. Hideyo Hanazumi's decision the same day to approve the restart of the No. 6 reactor at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in the prefecture, the first for its operator Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. since the 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis.

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Niigata gov. OKs TEPCO's 1st nuclear reactor restart since Fukushima

Niigata gov. OKs TEPCO's 1st nuclear reactor restart since Fukushima

Members of a citizens group rally in front of the Niigata prefectural government office in Niigata, northwest of Tokyo, on Nov. 21, 2025, in protest over Niigata Gov. Hideyo Hanazumi's decision the same day to approve the restart of the No. 6 reactor at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in the prefecture, the first for its operator Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. since the 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis.

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Niigata gov. OKs TEPCO's 1st nuclear reactor restart since Fukushima

Niigata gov. OKs TEPCO's 1st nuclear reactor restart since Fukushima

Members of a citizens group rally in front of the Niigata prefectural government office in Niigata, northwest of Tokyo, on Nov. 21, 2025, in protest over Niigata Gov. Hideyo Hanazumi's decision the same day to approve the restart of the No. 6 reactor at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in the prefecture, the first for its operator Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. since the 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis.

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Saitama Prefectural Government sign and logo

Saitama Prefectural Government sign and logo

Saitama Prefectural Government sign and logo=November 12,2025,Saitama

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Saitama Prefectural Government sign and logo

Saitama Prefectural Government sign and logo

Saitama Prefectural Government sign and logo=November 12,2025,Saitama

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Saitama Prefectural Government sign and logo

Saitama Prefectural Government sign and logo

Saitama Prefectural Government sign and logo=November 12,2025,Saitama

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Japanese startup for art by people with disabilities

Japanese startup for art by people with disabilities

Fumito Matsuda (2nd from R), co-CEO of Heralbony Co., a Japanese start-up commercializing artwork by people with disabilities, and his elderly brother Shota (4th from R) pose for a photo on June 25, 2025, during their visit to meet Iwate Gov. Takuya Tasso (C) at the Iwate prefectural government office in Morioka in the northeastern Japan prefecture. The brothers visited the office to tell the governor that the company won the Gold prize in the "Glass: The Lion for Change" category of the Cannes Lions Awards.

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Japanese startup for art by people with disabilities

Japanese startup for art by people with disabilities

Fumito Matsuda (L), co-CEO of Heralbony Co., a Japanese start-up commercializing artwork by people with disabilities, and his elderly brother Shota pose for a photo on June 25, 2025, during their visit to the Iwate prefectural government office in Morioka in the northeastern Japan prefecture. The two visited the office to tell Iwate Gov. Takuya Tasso that the company won the Gold prize in the "Glass: The Lion for Change" category of the Cannes Lions Awards.

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Japanese startup for art by people with disabilities

Japanese startup for art by people with disabilities

Fumito Matsuda (L), co-CEO of Heralbony Co., a Japanese start-up commercializing artwork by people with disabilities, and his elderly brother Shota pose for a photo on June 25, 2025, during their visit to the Iwate prefectural government office in Morioka in the northeastern Japan prefecture. The two visited the office to tell Iwate Gov. Takuya Tasso that the company won the Gold prize in the "Glass: The Lion for Change" category of the Cannes Lions Awards.

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Exterior of Aichi Prefectural Government Building

Exterior of Aichi Prefectural Government Building

Exterior of Aichi Prefectural Government Building=October 20,2025,Aichi

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Exterior of Aichi Prefectural Government Building

Exterior of Aichi Prefectural Government Building

Exterior of Aichi Prefectural Government Building=October 20,2025,Aichi

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Aichi Prefectural Government Sign

Aichi Prefectural Government Sign

Aichi Prefectural Government Sign=October 20,2025,Aichi

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Aichi Prefectural Government Sign

Aichi Prefectural Government Sign

Aichi Prefectural Government Sign=October 20,2025,Aichi

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JIP chief Yoshimura

JIP chief Yoshimura

Hirofumi Yoshimura, Osaka gov. and chief of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's new coalition partner Japan Innovation Party, holds a press conference at the prefectural headquarters in Osaka on Oct. 22, 2025, a day after Sanae Takaichi was elected Japan's first female prime minister in parliament with the backing of the JIP.

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JIP chief Yoshimura

JIP chief Yoshimura

Hirofumi Yoshimura, Osaka gov. and chief of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's new coalition partner Japan Innovation Party, holds a press conference at the prefectural headquarters in Osaka on Oct. 22, 2025, a day after Sanae Takaichi was elected Japan's first female prime minister in parliament with the backing of the JIP.

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Princess Kako in Shiga

Princess Kako in Shiga

Japanese Princess Kako chats with high school students participating in the calligraphy club at Shiga Prefectural Ibuki High School in Maibara, in the western Japan prefecture of Shiga on Oct. 8, 2025.

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Magewappa exhibition in Rome

Magewappa exhibition in Rome

An opening event for an exhibition to promote magewappa wooden boxes, a traditional craft of the Akita prefectural city of Odate in northeastern Japan, is held in Rome on Oct. 2, 2025. The exhibition will run through Oct. 31.

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Japanese emperor's family in Nagasaki

Japanese emperor's family in Nagasaki

Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako look at an exhibition of artwork by disabled people at Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum in the southwestern Japan city of Nagasaki on Sept. 13, 2025.

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Japanese emperor's family in Nagasaki

Japanese emperor's family in Nagasaki

Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako look at an exhibition of artwork by disabled people at Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum in the southwestern Japan city of Nagasaki on Sept. 13, 2025.

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Japanese emperor's family in Nagasaki

Japanese emperor's family in Nagasaki

Japanese Emperor Naruhito (2nd from R) and Empress Masako look at an exhibition of artwork by disabled people at Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum in the southwestern Japan city of Nagasaki on Sept. 13, 2025.

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Japanese emperor's family in Nagasaki

Japanese emperor's family in Nagasaki

Japanese Emperor Naruhito (far R) and Empress Masako visit Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum in the southwestern Japan city of Nagasaki on Sept. 13, 2025.

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Police sent to Cambodia to transport Japanese scam suspects

Police sent to Cambodia to transport Japanese scam suspects

Officers from Japan's Aichi prefectural police are pictured at Chubu Centrair International Airport in Tokoname in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, on Aug. 19, 2025, before departure to Cambodia. About 80 officers are tasked with transporting to Japan 29 Japanese men and women detained in Phnom Penh for suspected involvement in a fraud scheme in Poipet, northwestern Cambodia. ==Kyodo

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Japanese scam suspects in Cambodia deported to Japan

Japanese scam suspects in Cambodia deported to Japan

A chartered Malaysia Airlines plane carrying 29 Japanese men and women suspected of involvement in a fraud scheme in Poipet, northwestern Cambodia, takes off from an airport in Phnom Penh on Aug. 20, 2025, for deportation to Japan. About 80 officers from Japan's Aichi prefectural police were recently sent to Cambodia to transport the 29 Japanese, detained by local authorities in May 2025.

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Japanese scam suspects in Cambodia deported to Japan

Japanese scam suspects in Cambodia deported to Japan

A chartered Malaysia Airlines plane carrying 29 Japanese men and women suspected of involvement in a fraud scheme in Poipet, northwestern Cambodia, prepares to take off from an airport in Phnom Penh on Aug. 20, 2025, for deportation to Japan. About 80 officers from Japan's Aichi prefectural police were recently sent to Cambodia to transport the 29 Japanese, detained by local authorities in May 2025.

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Japanese scam suspects in Cambodia to be deported to Japan

Japanese scam suspects in Cambodia to be deported to Japan

A bus carrying 29 Japanese men and women suspected of involvement in a fraud scheme in Poipet, northwestern Cambodia, leaves a detention facility in Phnom Penh on Aug. 20, 2025, for deportation to Japan. About 80 officers from Japan's Aichi prefectural police were sent to Cambodia to transport the 29 Japanese, detained by local authorities in May 2025, on a chartered Malaysia Airlines plane.

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Japanese scam suspects in Cambodia to be deported to Japan

Japanese scam suspects in Cambodia to be deported to Japan

A bus carrying 29 Japanese men and women suspected of involvement in a fraud scheme in Poipet, northwestern Cambodia, leaves a detention facility in Phnom Penh on Aug. 20, 2025, for deportation to Japan. About 80 officers from Japan's Aichi prefectural police were sent to Cambodia to transport the 29 Japanese, detained by local authorities in May 2025, on a chartered Malaysia Airlines plane.

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Basketball: Hachimura visits Aichi gov.

Basketball: Hachimura visits Aichi gov.

Los Angeles Lakers forward Rui Hachimura (L) shakes hands with Aichi Gov. Hideaki Omura during a courtesy call on him at a prefectural guesthouse in Nagoya on Aug. 20, 2025. Hachimura visited the governor to brief him on his three-day basketball camp for junior high and high school students from Aug. 18.

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Japan police head apologizes to ex-nurse acquitted of 2003 murder

HIKONE, Japan, Aug. 7 Kyodo - Former assistant nurse Mika Nishiyama speaks at a press conference in Hikone, western Japan, on Aug. 7, 2025, after Shiga Prefectural Police chief Hisaaki Ikeuchi apologized her in person. Nishiyama was acquitted of murder in the 2003 death of a patient in a 2020 retrial after spending 12 years in prison. (Kyodo)

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Japan police head apologizes to ex-nurse acquitted of 2003 murder

Japan police head apologizes to ex-nurse acquitted of 2003 murder

Former assistant nurse Mika Nishiyama speaks at a press conference in Hikone, western Japan, on Aug. 7, 2025, after Shiga Prefectural Police chief Hisaaki Ikeuchi apologized her in person. Nishiyama was acquitted of murder in the 2003 death of a patient in a 2020 retrial after spending 12 years in prison.

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Japan police head apologizes to ex-nurse acquitted of 2003 murder

Japan police head apologizes to ex-nurse acquitted of 2003 murder

Shiga Prefectural Police chief Hisaaki Ikeuchi (far R) bows in apology to former assistant nurse Mika Nishiyama (far L), alongside her parents and lawyer, at a prefectural government building in Hikone, western Japan, on Aug. 7, 2025. Nishiyama was acquitted of murder in the 2003 death of a patient in a 2020 retrial after spending 12 years in prison.

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Japan police head apologizes to ex-nurse acquitted of 2003 murder

Japan police head apologizes to ex-nurse acquitted of 2003 murder

Former assistant nurse Mika Nishiyama speaks at a press conference in Hikone, western Japan, on Aug. 7, 2025, after Shiga Prefectural Police chief Hisaaki Ikeuchi apologized her in person. Nishiyama was acquitted of murder in the 2003 death of a patient in a 2020 retrial after spending 12 years in prison.

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Japan police head apologizes to ex-nurse acquitted of 2003 murder

Japan police head apologizes to ex-nurse acquitted of 2003 murder

Former assistant nurse Mika Nishiyama speaks at a press conference in Hikone, western Japan, on Aug. 7, 2025, after Shiga Prefectural Police chief Hisaaki Ikeuchi apologized her in person. Nishiyama was acquitted of murder in the 2003 death of a patient in a 2020 retrial after spending 12 years in prison.

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Guide map for settings of animation "Yurucamp"

Guide map for settings of animation "Yurucamp"

Undated photo shows a guide map made by the Shizuoka prefectural government in 2024 to introduce locations within the central Japanese prefecture that became settings for the popular animation "Yurucamp."

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Finnish president and wife in Japan

Finnish president and wife in Japan

Finnish President Alexander Stubb and his wife Suzanne visit Rokusei High School in Nakanoto, Ishikawa Prefecture, central Japan, on June 9, 2025. Suzanne Innes-Stubb taught English to students at the prefectural high school during the early 1990s.

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Japanese Imperial family in Okinawa

Japanese Imperial family in Okinawa

(from L) Japanese Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako and their daughter Princess Aiko visit the Okinawa Prefectural Peace Memorial Museum in Itoman in Okinawa Prefecture, southern Japan, on June 4, 2025. (Pool photo)

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