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Summer festival at Osaka expo

Performers dance on the first day of a two-day summer festival hosted by six northeastern Japan prefectures at the World Exposition in Osaka on June 14, 2025.

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Summer festival at Osaka expo

Performers dance on the first day of a two-day summer festival hosted by six northeastern Japan prefectures at the World Exposition in Osaka on June 14, 2025.

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Summer festival at Osaka expo

Performers dance on the first day of a two-day summer festival hosted by six northeastern Japan prefectures at the World Exposition in Osaka on June 14, 2025.

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Summer festival at Osaka expo

Performers dance on the first day of a two-day summer festival hosted by six northeastern Japan prefectures at the World Exposition in Osaka on June 14, 2025.

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Summer festival at Osaka expo

Performers dance on the first day of a two-day summer festival hosted by six northeastern Japan prefectures at the World Exposition in Osaka on June 14, 2025.

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Summer festival at Osaka expo

Performers dance on the first day of a two-day summer festival hosted by six northeastern Japan prefectures at the World Exposition in Osaka on June 14, 2025.

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Summer festival at Osaka expo

Performers dance on the first day of a two-day summer festival hosted by six northeastern Japan prefectures at the World Exposition in Osaka on June 14, 2025.

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Summer festival at Osaka expo

Performers dance on the first day of a two-day summer festival hosted by six northeastern Japan prefectures at the World Exposition in Osaka on June 14, 2025.

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Summer festival at Osaka expo

Performers dance on the first day of a two-day summer festival hosted by six northeastern Japan prefectures at the World Exposition in Osaka on June 14, 2025.

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Summer festival at Osaka expo

Performers dance on the first day of a two-day summer festival hosted by six northeastern Japan prefectures at the World Exposition in Osaka on June 14, 2025.

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Summer festival at Osaka expo

Performers dance on the first day of a two-day summer festival hosted by six northeastern Japan prefectures at the World Exposition in Osaka on June 14, 2025.

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Summer festival at Osaka expo

Performers dance on the first day of a two-day summer festival hosted by six northeastern Japan prefectures at the World Exposition in Osaka on June 14, 2025.

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Summer festival at Osaka expo

Performers dance during a parade held on the final day of a two-day summer festival hosted by six northeastern Japan prefectures at the World Exposition in Osaka on June 15, 2025.

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Summer festival at Osaka expo

Performers dance during a parade held on the final day of a two-day summer festival hosted by six northeastern Japan prefectures at the World Exposition in Osaka on June 15, 2025.

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Summer festival at Osaka expo

Performers dance during a parade held on the final day of a two-day summer festival hosted by six northeastern Japan prefectures at the World Exposition in Osaka on June 15, 2025.

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Summer festival at Osaka expo

Performers dance during a parade held on the final day of a two-day summer festival hosted by six northeastern Japan prefectures at the World Exposition in Osaka on June 15, 2025.

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Summer festival at Osaka expo

Performers dance during a parade held on the final day of a two-day summer festival hosted by six northeastern Japan prefectures at the World Exposition in Osaka on June 15, 2025.

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Summer festival at Osaka expo

Performers dance during a parade held on the final day of a two-day summer festival hosted by six northeastern Japan prefectures at the World Exposition in Osaka on June 15, 2025.

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Summer festival at Osaka expo

Performers dance during a parade held on the final day of a two-day summer festival hosted by six northeastern Japan prefectures at the World Exposition in Osaka on June 15, 2025.

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Summer festival at Osaka expo

Performers dance during a parade held on the final day of a two-day summer festival hosted by six northeastern Japan prefectures at the World Exposition in Osaka on June 15, 2025.

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World Exposition in Osaka

Performers balance bamboo poles adorned with lanterns on their foreheads during the opening ceremony of a summer festival hosted by Japan's six northeastern Japan prefectures at the World Exposition in Osaka on June 13, 2025.

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World Exposition in Osaka

Dancers perform during the opening ceremony of a summer festival hosted by Japan's six northeastern Japan prefectures at the World Exposition in Osaka on June 13, 2025.

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World Exposition in Osaka

Dancers perform during the opening ceremony of a summer festival hosted by Japan's six northeastern Japan prefectures at the World Exposition in Osaka on June 13, 2025.

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World Exposition in Osaka

Dancers perform during the opening ceremony of a summer festival hosted by Japan's six northeastern Japan prefectures at the World Exposition in Osaka on June 13, 2025.

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World Exposition in Osaka

Dancers perform during the opening ceremony of a summer festival hosted by Japan's six northeastern Japan prefectures at the World Exposition in Osaka on June 13, 2025.

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Osaka Expo pavilion

The Kansai Pavilion, a showcase by nine prefectures from the Kansai region in western Japan for the 2025 World Exposition, is lit up during a press preview on Oct. 23, 2024, ahead of the Expo's six-month run starting in April 2025, on an artificial island in Osaka, western Japan.

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Osaka Expo pavilion

Shiga Gov. Taizo Mikazuki (C) speaks to reporters during a press preview of the Kansai Pavilion, a showcase by nine prefectures, including Shiga Prefecture, from the Kansai region in western Japan for the 2025 World Exposition, on Oct. 23, 2024, ahead of the Expo's six-month run starting in April 2025, on an artificial island in Osaka, western Japan.

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Osaka Expo pavilion

The Kansai Pavilion, a showcase by nine prefectures from the Kansai region in western Japan for the 2025 World Exposition, is lit up during a press preview on Oct. 23, 2024, ahead of the Expo's six-month run starting in April 2025, on an artificial island in Osaka, western Japan.

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Osaka Expo pavilion

Photo shows the Kansai Pavilion, a showcase by nine prefectures from the Kansai region in western Japan for the 2025 World Exposition, on an artificial island in Osaka, western Japan, unveiled to the media on Oct. 23, 2024, ahead of the Expo's six-month run starting in April 2025.

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Tohoku Kizuna Festival in Sendai

Performers of Akita Prefecture's Kanto festival troupe hold up poles decorated with paper lanterns as they march through a street of downtown Sendai in Miyagi Prefecture during the Tohoku Kizuna Festival on June 9, 2024. The event features parades involving six northeastern Japan prefectures, with the aim of revitalizing the region following the 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster.

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Tohoku Kizuna Festival in Sendai

Dancers of Miyagi Prefecture's Sendai Suzume Odori (sparrow dance) troupe march through a street during the Tohoku Kizuna Festival in the prefecture's capital Sendai on June 9, 2024. The event features parades involving six northeastern Japan prefectures, with the aim of revitalizing the region following the 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster.

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Tohoku Kizuna Festival in Sendai

Performers of Iwate Prefecture's the Morioka Sansa dance festival troupe fill a street of downtown Sendai in Miyagi Prefecture during the Tohoku Kizuna Festival on June 9, 2024. The event features parades involving six northeastern Japan prefectures, with the aim of revitalizing the region following the 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster.

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Tohoku Kizuna Festival in Sendai

People of Fukushima Prefecture's Waraji festival group parade through a street carrying a gigantic waraji straw sandal during the Tohoku Kizuna Festival in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on June 9, 2024. The event features parades involving six northeastern Japan prefectures, with the aim of revitalizing the region following the 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster.

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Tohoku Kizuna Festival in Sendai

Dancers of Yamagata Prefecture's Hanagasa festival troupe fill a street of downtown Sendai in Miyagi Prefecture during the Tohoku Kizuna Festival on June 9, 2024. The event features parades involving six northeastern Japan prefectures, with the aim of revitalizing the region following the 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster.

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Tohoku Kizuna Festival in Sendai

A colorful paper lantern float from Aomori Prefecture's Nebuta summer festival is paraded through a street during the Tohoku Kizuna Festival in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on June 9, 2024. The event features parades involving six northeastern Japan prefectures, with the aim of revitalizing the region following the 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster.

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Artist "draws" world's largest "geoglyph" using GPS

Yasushi Takahashi, a 37-year-old artist, holds his GPS drawing in Saitama, north of Tokyo, in November 2014. He spent six months covering around 7,160 kilometers in 40 of Japan's 47 prefectures with a GPS tracker to draw images of "MARRY ME" and a heart and arrow across the archipelago in a unique marriage proposal. The drawing was recognized as the world's largest GPS drawing by Guinness World Records.

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Mascot characters from Japan join tourism blitz in Taiwan

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Mascot characters from six prefectures in Japan's northeastern region of Tohoku join a tourism campaign in Taipei on Dec. 19, 2014, urging Taiwanese people to visit the region recovering from the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster.

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Kansai brewers taste sake at Osaka taxation bureau

OSAKA, Japan - Sake brewers from six prefectures in the Kansai region taste sake at the Osaka Regional Taxation Bureau in Osaka City on Nov. 12, 2014, following the bureau's announcement of tasty brands in the region.

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Fair of specialties in Tohoku region begins in Osaka

OSAKA, Japan - Train crew members of railway companies in six prefectures in the northeastern Japan region of Tohoku pose at the start of a fair of local specialties at the Umeda flagship outlet of Hanshin Department Store in Osaka, western Japan, on Oct. 29, 2014.

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Tohoku region eyes smartphone app to boost tourism

SENDAI, Japan - The first meeting by entities concerned toward developing "Guide Tohoku," a smartphone application that will provide tourist information on the Tohoku region and archives on the March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, is held in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on Oct. 27, 2014. Six northeastern Japan prefectures and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism's Tohoku Regional Bureau announced the plan the same day.

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Rice balls sold in Tokyo to aid quake-hit region

TOKYO, Japan - A woman holds "Rokko" rice balls made from ingredients from the six northeastern Japan prefectures of Aomori, Akita, Iwate, Yamagata, Miyagi and Fukushima and sold in Tokyo on Oct. 25, 2014, at an event to help the region recover from damage by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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Event to sell food from Tohoku region held in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - A shopper buys a pack of "Rokko" rice balls made up of ingredients from six prefectures in the northeastern Japan region of Tohoku in Tokyo on Oct. 25, 2014, at an event to help the region recover from damage by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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Fair held in Osaka to promote delicacies from quake-hit region

OSAKA, Japan - A man offers to serve a product at a fair held in the Umeda commercial district of Osaka, western Japan, on Oct. 10, 2014, to promote delicacies from six prefectures in the northeastern Japan region of Tohoku, most of which was hit by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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Rakuten begins forest preservation for golden eagles

TOKYO, Japan - A golden eagle, one of the endangered species in Japan, is seen in this undated file photo as Rakuten Inc. announces on Sept. 3, 2014, the launch of forest preservation activities in six northeastern Japan prefectures to protect the bird. A character based on a golden eagle called "Clutch" is the mascot of the firm's professional baseball team Rakuten Golden Eagles.

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Mascot characters form "party" to vivify local economies

SAITAMA, Japan - Six mascot characters from as many cities in four prefectures (Iwate, Tochigi, Saitama and Kanagawa) gather at JR Omiya Station in Saitama, north of Tokyo, on Aug. 25, 2014, to form a "Yuru-to" party to make a sales pitch for their respective regional economies.

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Junior high schoolers from disaster-hit areas hold summit

KOBE, Japan - Two students (far R) of Yotsukura junior high school from Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, talks about the degree of recovery from the 2011 earthquake that hit northeastern Japan during a "summit of junior high school students in disaster-stricken areas" in Kobe, western Japan, on Aug. 19, 2014. The gathering was joined by 13 schools from six prefectures, including Nagasaki where pyroclastic flows from Mt. Unzen killed scores of people in 1991.

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Dancer gives high-five at Tohoku Rokkon Festival

YAMAGATA, Japan - Dancers give the audience high fives in Yamagata on May 25, 2014, after the two-day Tohoku Rokkon Festival parade. The festival (Tohoku six soul festival) brought together six festivals from the six prefectures in the northeastern Japan region of Tohoku.

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U.S. envoy Kennedy with Tohoku kids in Sendai

SENDAI, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy (3rd from L, back row) poses for photos with children invited from six prefectures in northeastern Japan before her ceremonial first pitch at a baseball game between Rakuten Eagles and Orix Buffaloes at Kobo Stadium Miyagi in Sendai on May 13, 2014.

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Tohoku governors meet for symposium to fuel regional tourism

SENDAI, Japan - The governors of six prefectures in the northeastern Japan region of Tohoku and other officials concerned gather in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, for a symposium designed to promote regional tourism.

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Half year after disaster

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - At the site where the main building of the Kongo Temple was swept away by a tsunami in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, a fire burns in a rite on Sept. 11, 2011, the six-month anniversary of the March 11 quake and tsunami. The ceremony was attended by Buddhist monks from six prefectures of the Tohoku area of northeastern Japan and some 250 other people. The March 11 disaster killed more than 15,700 people, while 4,000 remain missing, mainly in the Tohoku area.