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Order of Culture medal

Photo taken at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Nov. 3, 2023, shows the medal given to Order of Culture recipients who have made outstanding contributions to Japanese culture. The medal features three magadama, comet-shaped stones, surrounded by five petals of a mandarin orange blossom.

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'Rakugo' comic storyteller wins Japan Foundation Award

TOKYO, Japan - Sankyo Yanagiya, a "rakugo" Japanese comic storyteller, is shown in this file photo taken on Oct. 30, 2014. He was selected as one of three recipients of the 2014 Japan Foundation Awards for his contribution to teaching rakugo to foreign students of the Japanese language for almost 15 years.

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Miyazaki to receive Academy's Honorary Award

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in February 2014 shows Japanese animation director Hayao Miyazaki. The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Aug. 28, 2014, it has picked Miyazaki as one of three recipients of its Honorary Award for the year.

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Suu Kyi, 3 others receive Global Citizen Award

NEW YORK, United States - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi (L) receives the "Global Citizen Award" given by the Atlantic Council, a U.S. public policy group, from Christine Lagarde (R), the chief of the International Monetary Fund, during a ceremony in New York on Sept. 21, 2012. Three other recipients were former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, former U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata and record producer and composer Quincy Jones.

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Suu Kyi, 3 others receive Global Citizen Award

NEW YORK, United States - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi delivers a speech after receiving the "Global Citizen Award" given by the Atlantic Council, a U.S. public policy group, during a ceremony in New York on Sept. 21, 2012. Three other recipients were former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, former U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata and record producer and composer Quincy Jones.

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Suu Kyi, 3 others receive Global Citizen Award

NEW YORK, United States - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi delivers a speech after receiving the "Global Citizen Award" given by the Atlantic Council, a U.S. public policy group, during a ceremony in New York on Sept. 21, 2012. Three other recipients were former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, former U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata and record producer and composer Quincy Jones.

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Suu Kyi, 3 others receive Global Citizen Award

NEW YORK, United States - Former U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata (L) receives the "Global Citizen Award" given by the Atlantic Council, a U.S. public policy group, during a ceremony in New York on Sept. 21, 2012. Three other recipients were Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and record producer and composer Quincy Jones.

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Suu Kyi, 3 others receive Global Citizen Award

NEW YORK, United States - Former U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata delivers a speech after receiving the "Global Citizen Award" given by the Atlantic Council, a U.S. public policy group, during a ceremony in New York on Sept. 21, 2012. Three other recipients were Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and record producer and composer Quincy Jones.

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Chinese tourists with multiple-entry visas

NAHA, Japan - Chinese tourists with visas allowing multiple entries to Japan over a three-year period arrive at Naha airport in Okinawa Prefecture on July 7, 2011. They left Shanghai the previous day. The issuance of the visas, which require the recipients to visit Okinawa Prefecture during their first trip, is aimed at boosting visitor numbers to Japan, which have dropped since the March earthquake and tsunami.

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Chinese tourists with multiple-entry visas

NAHA, Japan - Chinese tourists with visas allowing multiple entries to Japan over a three-year period arrive at Naha airport in Okinawa Prefecture on July 7, 2011. They left Shanghai the previous day. The issuance of the visas, which require the recipients to visit Okinawa Prefecture during their first trip, is aimed at boosting visitor numbers to Japan, which have dropped since the March earthquake and tsunami.

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Chinese tourists with multiple-entry visas

SHANGHAI, China - Chinese tourists with new visas allowing multiple entries to Japan over a three-year period go through boarding procedures at Shanghai Pudong International Airport in China on July 6, 2011. The issuance of the visas, which require the recipients to visit Okinawa Prefecture during their first trip, could help boost the number of visitors to Japan which has dropped since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami disaster.

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Recipients of three special prizes at New Year basho

TOKYO, Japan - Recipients of three special prizes the Japan Sumo Association gives to makuuchi division wrestlers on the final day of a tournament show off their trophies for the prizes on Jan. 24, 2010. (From L to R) No. 16 maegashira Toyohibiki, who earned his third Fighting Spirit Prize, Estonian sekiwake Baruto, the Outstanding Performance Prize winner, and Aminishiki, the sixth-ranked maegashira who won the Technique Prize.

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2 Japanese and 1 American share Nobel Prize in physics

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. scientist Yoichiro Nambu (file photo taken in Kyoto in 2005) is among three recipients of the 2008 Nobel Prize in physics, the Swedish prize organizer said on Oct. 7. Nambu got the prize ''for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics.''

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Emperor bestows spring decorations at Imperial Palace

TOKYO, Japan - Emperor Akihito (L) bestows the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun to Hirohiko Oshima, adviser of Chunichi Shimbun Co., in a ceremony at the Imperial Palace on May 8, with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (L, background) attending. Five other recipients of the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun, along with three recipients of the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Sacred Treasure, also received the spring government decorations from the emperor. (Pool photo)

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3 Japan Art Association laureates show appreciation for awards

TOKYO, Japan - Three of the five recipients of this year's Japan Art Association awards -- German painter Sigmar Polke (L), British architect Norman Foster (C) and Italian sculptor Giuliano Vangi -- speak at a press conference at a hotel in Tokyo's Minato Ward on Oct. 22 ahead of the award ceremony on Oct. 23.

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(1)Tanaka overjoyed at winning 2002 Nobel Prize for chemistry

KYOTO, Japan - Japanese engineer Koichi Tanaka (R) is congratulated by his coworkers at Shimadzu Corp., a major comprehensive precision equipment maker, as he arrives at the company in Kyoto's Nakagyo Ward on Oct. 10, a day after he was named one of three recipients of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

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(3)Japan's Koshiba wins Nobel Prize in Physics

TOKYO, Japan - Masatoshi Koshiba, a professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo who was chosen as one of the three recipients of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics, smiles at a press conference at the university in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward on Oct. 8.

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CHINA-BEIJING-XI JINPING-AUGUST 1 MEDAL-AWARDING CEREMONY (CN)

(220727) -- BEIJING, July 27, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, takes photos with the recipients of the August 1 Medal in Beijing, capital of China, July 27, 2022. Xi on Wednesday presented the August 1 Medal to three military servicemen and conferred an honorary flag to a military battalion for their outstanding service ahead of the 95th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. (Xinhua/Li Gang)

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3 Japan Art Association laureates show appreciation for awards

TOKYO, Japan - Three of the five recipients of this year's Japan Art Association awards -- German painter Sigmar Polke (L), British architect Norman Foster (C) and Italian sculptor Giuliano Vangi -- speak at a press conference at a hotel in Tokyo's Minato Ward on Oct. 22 ahead of the award ceremony on Oct. 23. (Kyodo)

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(13)Japan's Koshiba wins Nobel Prize in Physics

TOKYO, Japan - Masatoshi Koshiba, professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo, was chosen as one of three recipients of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics on Oct. 8. Koshiba's family members -- daughter Mari Fuji (L), Koshiba's wife Keiko (C), and granddaughter Ami Fuji (R), pose for photographers after Koshiba won the prize. (Kyodo)

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(6)Japan's Koshiba wins Nobel Prize in Physics

TOKYO, Japan - Masatoshi Koshiba, a professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo who was chosen as one of the three recipients of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics, smiles at a press conference at the university in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward on Oct. 8. (Kyodo)

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(12)Japan's Koshiba wins Nobel Prize in Physics

TOKYO, Japan - Masatoshi Koshiba (R), professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo who was chosen as one of the three recipients of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics, and Leo Esaki, the 1973 Nobel physics prize laureate, speak at a press conference at the University of Tokyo on Oct. 8. (Kyodo)

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(5)Japan's Koshiba wins Nobel Prize in Physics

TOKYO, Japan - Masatoshi Koshiba, a professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo who was chosen as one of the three recipients of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics, smiles at a press conference at the university in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward on Oct. 8. (Kyodo)

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(10)Japan's Koshiba wins Nobel Prize in Physics

TOKYO, Japan - Masatoshi Koshiba (R), professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo who was chosen as one of the three recipients of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics, shakes hands with Leo Esaki, the 1973 Nobel physics prize laureate, at a press conference at the University of Tokyo on Oct. 8. (Kyodo)

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(4)Japan's Koshiba wins Nobel Prize in Physics

TOKYO, Japan - Masatoshi Koshiba, a professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo who was chosen as one of the three recipients of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics, smiles at a press conference at the university in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward on Oct. 8. (Kyodo)

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(11)Japan's Koshiba wins Nobel Prize in Physics

TOKYO, Japan - Masatoshi Koshiba (R), professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo who was chosen as one of the three recipients of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics, shakes hands with Leo Esaki, the 1973 Nobel physics prize laureate, at a press conference at the University of Tokyo on Oct. 8. (Kyodo)

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(5)Japan's Koshiba wins Nobel Prize in Physics

TOKYO, Japan - Masatoshi Koshiba, a professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo who was chosen as one of the three recipients of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics, smiles at a press conference at the university in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward on Oct. 8. (Kyodo)

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(6)Japan's Koshiba wins Nobel Prize in Physics

TOKYO, Japan - Masatoshi Koshiba, a professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo who was chosen as one of the three recipients of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics, smiles at a press conference at the university in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward on Oct. 8. (Kyodo)

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(4)Japan's Koshiba wins Nobel Prize in Physics

TOKYO, Japan - Masatoshi Koshiba, a professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo who was chosen as one of the three recipients of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics, smiles at a press conference at the university in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward on Oct. 8. (Kyodo)

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(13)Japan's Koshiba wins Nobel Prize in Physics

TOKYO, Japan - Masatoshi Koshiba, professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo, was chosen as one of three recipients of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics on Oct. 8. Koshiba's family members -- daughter Mari Fuji (L), Koshiba's wife Keiko (C), and granddaughter Ami Fuji (R), pose for photographers after Koshiba won the prize. (Kyodo)

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Japanese animator Takahata wins Winsor McCay Award

Undated photo shows Japanese animated film director Isao Takahata, known for his 2013 film "The Tale of the Princess Kaguya." The International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood, announced nominations for its 43rd annual Annie Awards on Dec. 1, 2015, naming Takahata among three recipients of the Winsor McCay Award, one of the juried awards in recognition of career contributions to the art of animation. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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FEATURE: Korean DACA recipient saw life uprooted in move to Canada

DACA recipients and supporters in Los Angeles on Dec. 6, 2017, call for congressional action that would allow "Dreamers" to stay in the United States legally. Some activists went on a three-day hunger strike, as others lobbied their Congress members. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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FEATURE: Korean DACA recipient saw life uprooted in move to Canada

DACA recipients and supporters in Los Angeles on Dec. 6, 2017, call for congressional action that would allow "Dreamers" to stay in the United States legally. Some activists went on a three-day hunger strike, as others lobbied their Congress members. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Woman in news: Operator of cheap inns for needy in Tokyo's Sanya area

Photo taken on Oct. 16, 2015, shows Magokoro Yoshihira, who runs three hostels in Tokyo's Sanya district for welfare recipients and other underprivileged people. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Artist Yokoo, 3 other World Culture Award recipients pose for photos

Japanese artist Tadanori Yokoo (2nd from R) and three other recipients of the 27th World Culture Award are photographed in Tokyo on Oct. 20, 2015. The other awardees are German sculptor Wolfgang Laib (far L), French ballet dancer Sylvie Guillem (2nd from L), and French architect Dominique Perrault (far R). The award is granted in memory of Japanese Prince Takamatsu, younger brother of the late Emperor Hirohito. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Emperor bestows spring decorations at Imperial Palace

TOKYO, Japan - Emperor Akihito (L) bestows the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun to Hirohiko Oshima, adviser of Chunichi Shimbun Co., in a ceremony at the Imperial Palace on May 8, with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (L, background) attending. Five other recipients of the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun, along with three recipients of the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Sacred Treasure, also received the spring government decorations from the emperor. (Pool photo) (Kyodo)

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2 Japanese and 1 American share Nobel Prize in physics

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. scientist Yoichiro Nambu (file photo taken in Kyoto in 2005) is among three recipients of the 2008 Nobel Prize in physics, the Swedish prize organizer said on Oct. 7. Nambu got the prize ''for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics.'' (Kyodo)

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Chinese tourists with multiple-entry visas

NAHA, Japan - Chinese tourists with visas allowing multiple entries to Japan over a three-year period arrive at Naha airport in Okinawa Prefecture on July 7, 2011. They left Shanghai the previous day. The issuance of the visas, which require the recipients to visit Okinawa Prefecture during their first trip, is aimed at boosting visitor numbers to Japan, which have dropped since the March earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo)

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Chinese tourists with multiple-entry visas

NAHA, Japan - Chinese tourists with visas allowing multiple entries to Japan over a three-year period arrive at Naha airport in Okinawa Prefecture on July 7, 2011. They left Shanghai the previous day. The issuance of the visas, which require the recipients to visit Okinawa Prefecture during their first trip, is aimed at boosting visitor numbers to Japan, which have dropped since the March earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo)

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Chinese tourists with multiple-entry visas

SHANGHAI, China - Chinese tourists with new visas allowing multiple entries to Japan over a three-year period go through boarding procedures at Shanghai Pudong International Airport in China on July 6, 2011. The issuance of the visas, which require the recipients to visit Okinawa Prefecture during their first trip, could help boost the number of visitors to Japan which has dropped since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami disaster. (Kyodo)

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'Rakugo' comic storyteller wins Japan Foundation Award

TOKYO, Japan - Sankyo Yanagiya, a "rakugo" Japanese comic storyteller, is shown in this file photo taken on Oct. 30, 2014. He was selected as one of three recipients of the 2014 Japan Foundation Awards for his contribution to teaching rakugo to foreign students of the Japanese language for almost 15 years. (Kyodo)

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Miyazaki to receive Academy's Honorary Award

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in February 2014 shows Japanese animation director Hayao Miyazaki. The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Aug. 28, 2014, it has picked Miyazaki as one of three recipients of its Honorary Award for the year. (Kyodo)

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Miyazaki to receive Academy's Honorary Award

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in March 2014 shows Japanese animation director Hayao Miyazaki at Studio Ghibli in Koganei, Tokyo. The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Aug. 28, 2014, it has picked Miyazaki as one of three recipients of its Honorary Award for the year. (Kyodo)

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Recipients of three special prizes at New Year basho

TOKYO, Japan - Recipients of three special prizes the Japan Sumo Association gives to makuuchi division wrestlers on the final day of a tournament show off their trophies for the prizes on Jan. 24, 2010. (From L to R) No. 16 maegashira Toyohibiki, who earned his third Fighting Spirit Prize, Estonian sekiwake Baruto, the Outstanding Performance Prize winner, and Aminishiki, the sixth-ranked maegashira who won the Technique Prize. (Kyodo)

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(1)Tanaka overjoyed at winning 2002 Nobel Prize for chemistry

KYOTO, Japan - Japanese engineer Koichi Tanaka (R) is congratulated by his coworkers at Shimadzu Corp., a major comprehensive precision equipment maker, as he arrives at the company in Kyoto's Nakagyo Ward on Oct. 10, a day after he was named one of three recipients of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. (Kyodo)

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(3)Japan's Koshiba wins Nobel Prize in Physics

TOKYO, Japan - Masatoshi Koshiba, a professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo who was chosen as one of the three recipients of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics, smiles at a press conference at the university in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward on Oct. 8. (Kyodo)