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Crown prince visits nursing home for blind people in Shiga Pref.

Japanese Crown Prince Fumihito (2nd from R) and Crown Princess Kiko (R) exercise together with residents during a visit to a nursing home for blind people in Taga in Shiga Prefecture, western Japan, on Oct. 24, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Crown prince visits nursing home for blind people in Shiga Pref.

Japanese Crown Prince Fumihito and Crown Princess Kiko talk with residents during a visit to a nursing home for blind people in Taga in Shiga Prefecture, western Japan, on Oct. 24, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Asteroid named after disaster-hit town in Fukushima Pref.

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Koichi Miyamoto (C), mayor of Tomioka Town in Fukushima Prefecture, points to a photograph of the asteroid named "Tomiokamachi" in the prefectural city of Koriyama on Aug. 12, 2014. The asteroid was discovered by an astronomer of Dynic Astropark, a commercial observatory in Taga Town, Shiga Prefecture, in 1992 and was registered with the International Astronomical Union in July this year under the name in the hope of the town's rapid recovery from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. On the right of Miyamoto is Susumu Takahashi, head of the observatory.

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Asteroid named after disaster-hit town in Fukushima Pref.

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Koichi Miyamoto (C), mayor of Tomioka Town in Fukushima Prefecture, points to a photograph of the asteroid named "Tomiokamachi" in the prefectural city of Koriyama on Aug. 12, 2014. The asteroid was discovered by an astronomer of Dynic Astropark, a commercial observatory in Taga Town, Shiga Prefecture, in 1992 and was registered with the International Astronomical Union in July this year under the name in the hope of the town's rapid recovery from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. On the right of Miyamoto is Susumu Takahashi, head of the observatory. (Kyodo)

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Lego model of Taga Castle gate

Photo taken on May 14, 2021, shows a Lego model of the south gate of Taga Castle on display at a Danish design exhibition at Tohoku History Museum in the Miyagi Prefecture city of Tagajo, northeastern Japan. About 9,500 Lego bricks were used to make the Lego model of the castle, built in 724, for public display through June 27.

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Lego model of Taga Castle gate

Photo taken on May 14, 2021, shows a Lego model of the south gate of Taga Castle on display at a Danish design exhibition at Tohoku History Museum in the Miyagi Prefecture city of Tagajo, northeastern Japan. About 9,500 Lego bricks were used to make the Lego model of the castle, built in 724, for public display through June 27.

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Soy sauce maker invents hula hoop-like activity to promote tradition

Yoichi Ninagawa, president of Nitto Jozo Inc., a white soy sauce maker, stands with a Taga Hoop in Hekinan, Aichi Prefecture in July 2016. Japanese soy sauce and miso fermented soybean paste makers have been holding competitions to hula "taga," or the bamboo hoop used to fasten the wooden barrel that holds the fermented products, in a bid to maintain the condiments' traditional production method. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Soy sauce maker invents hula hoop-like activity to promote tradition

A man rotates a Taga Hoop during an event in Hekinan, Aichi Prefecture in July 2016. Japanese soy sauce and miso fermented soybean paste makers have been holding competitions to hula "taga," or the bamboo hoop used to fasten the wooden barrel that holds the fermented products, in a bid to maintain the condiments' traditional production method. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese man gets life in prison for double murders

LOS ANGELES, United States - Kazumi Taga of Japan (C) listens as Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Larry Fidler sentences him on Oct. 23 to two life sentences without parole for murdering his wife and daughter in September 2000. (Kyodo)