Odate is part of the Akita prefecture, the birthplace of Akita dogs.
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Like in Odate City, of Japan's Akita prefecture, the birthplace of the ever-adorable Akita dog.
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When Akita says they'll keep your information private, they mean it: Unlike other home security devices, Akita won't use Deep Packet Inspection (which means even they don't see your personal info).
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MUFG, Mizuho and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp led the transaction, which funded 100MW of generating capacity in the Akita and Noshiro ports in Akita prefecture at a cost of about ¥100bn.
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"By using the konkatsu site, we hope that more people from outside will marry someone from Akita to come and live here," says Rumiko Saito of the Akita Marriage Support Centre.
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Mashable reports that Google Japan has made it possible to take a dog-led tour of places like Odate City, in the Akita prefecture, the homeland of the famous Akita dog breed.
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Almost 25,000 people in Akita prefecture were ordered to evacuate and around 65,000 more people were advised to leave or told to prepare to leave the area, an official at Akita prefecture told Reuters.
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Hachiko, the famous train station dog in Japan, was an Akita.
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This afternoon a volunteer from one of the rescue groups we host was playing with…[an] Akita [that] is owned by the rescue group, Akita Advocates…in one of our play yards when [the] dog attacked her.
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He's an Akita and he pisses all over the god damn floor.
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November 27: Eight skeletons found aboard vessel found on Akita prefecture beach.
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Last Thursday, another boat carrying eight men washed ashore in the Akita Prefecture.
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Murubeni said the 100 billion yen ($921 million) plan to build the wind farms with 140 megawatt capacity at Akita Port and Noshiro Port in Akita prefecture was expected to be Japan's first large-scale commercial offshore wind power project.
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"For a long time, thinking was that suicide was a personal problem and so the government didn't really deal with it - not just Akita, but the whole country," said Hiroki Koseki, an Akita civil servant in charge of suicide prevention.
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Akita began depression screening, and public health workers checked in on at-risk people.
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"I was quite frequently asked if I would be staying in Akita," she said.
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"Are they spies?" read a headline in the Akita Sakigake Shimpo, a local newspaper.
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Many men in the countryside are "left behind", laments a government official in Akita.
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On Thursday, eight North Koreans were rescued after their boat washed ashore in Akita prefecture.
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Akita also has on-call privacy experts to help if you run into any problems.
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Anybody can undergo several hours of training from Akita public health personnel and take part.
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November 23: Eight North Koreans rescued after boat washed up on shores of Akita prefecture.
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There's a sheepdog, an Akita, a pit bull, a corgi, a Pekingese, and a Chihuahua.
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About 60 percent of his funding comes from the Akita government; the rest is from donations.
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At Akita city's Asahi Taxi, more than half of its 2055 drivers are 65 or older.
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He's an American Akita but they're originally bred from Japan, they were bred to attack bears.
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The 12-year-old Akita named Kingston was reunited with the Ballejos family of Paradise, Calif.
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Do you ever wonder what your fluffy Akita might look like in its natural wintry habitat?
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In advance of the record's release, Akita answered a few questions about the process of making the record.
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Say hello to your new watchdog: Akita Instant Privacy is the security device you never knew you needed.
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Akita, with a population of just 5433,000, now has one of the largest citizen help networks in Japan.
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The plant is proposed for near the city of Akita, about 450 km (280 miles) north of Tokyo.
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Hideki grew up in Akita, the northern countryside of Japan, but moved to Tokyo roughly 11 years ago.
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It claims to have successfully coupled up more than 1,350 Akita residents since it launched nine years ago.
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The missiles landed as close as 300 kilometers west of Japan's Akita prefecture, a Japanese government spokesman said.
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And he&aposs also bringing a gift — a Japanese "Akita" puppy for Pyeongchang Olympic figure skating champion Alina Zagitova.
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"Japan always welcomes me warmly," the 16-year-old - who has a Japanese Akita dog as a pet - added.
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Last year, Putin introduced another of his dogs, a large Akita called Yume, to Japanese journalists at the Kremlin.
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Tetsuya, from Akita in Japan, has built up a 124,000 strong following since his first post in May 2019.
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In his opening discussion of 1989-era figures, one stands apart: Masami Akita, who records under the name Merzbow.
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Masashi Akita, a defence lawyer in Osaka, said the court's decision could reflect a change in its attitude towards detention.
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"The population in Akita will need to be consolidated as much as possible to one or two places," he said.
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Other special places in this "dog view" include a snowy trail, an open-air footbath and the Akita dog museum.
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There was also a small part of recording from Masami Akita, William Winant, and Duncan Nilsson-Pinhas, my beloved son.
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Harris was volunteering with Akita Advocates, which had rented out space at the Canine Country Club and Feline Inn in Phoenix.
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Akita is another device that you can plug in and forget about, but could help you rest easy in the process.
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Only 27 children attend the school, one of about two dozen in Akita city, about 450km (280 miles) north of Tokyo.
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This beautiful, handsome creature is an Akita and he's cooler than anything Andre 3000 has ever declared to be ice cold.
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When Satoko Morita's son graduated from high school in Akita Prefecture, in northern Japan, on March 1, she was not there.
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The Akita prefectural police said immigration authorities had issued emergency landing permits to the fishermen and determined they were not spies.
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Monday's missiles landed about 185 to 220 miles west of Akita Prefecture, on the northern coast of the main island, Honshu.
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It is the capital of Akita prefecture, the oldest place in Japan, with more than one third of its residents over 20553.
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Sakura Nakamura, an Akita International University student from Nagasaki, in western Japan, realized that when she visited local companies to raise funds.
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Last month, three fell into waters within Japan's exclusive economic zone, some 300-350 kilometers off the coast of northern Akita prefecture.
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Some bullet trains running to and from Akita have been suspended because of the heavy rains, East Japan Railway said on its website.
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In "dog view," you can also check out a snowy trail, the city's open-air footbath, plus of course, the Akita dog museum.
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But 3,000 people in Akita have been trained since 2017 and the goal is 193,000, or one for each 100 people, by 2022.
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Shortly before midnight on Sunday, June 12, 1994, a brown-and-white Akita was found wandering loose in the quiet streets of Brentwood.
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Although labor shortfalls persist across Japan, the issue is compounded in Akita: there are not enough workers to meet growing demand for elderly care.
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Also on Wednesday, a corpse with a piece of paper bearing Korean characters in its pocket, was found on shore in nearby Akita City.
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John Hickenlooper - Skye The former Colorado governor described Skye as an Akita-bulldog Chow Chow mix during a 2013 interview with The New Yorker.
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I figured out TOM CRUISE and ANCESTOR, then OMEN and AKITA, then had to leave the grid for a day to collect my thoughts.
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In the past two weeks, at least seven boats have arrived in Akita, all of them bearing signs that they came from North Korea.
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Using threat intelligence, behavioral analysis, and machine learning, Akita will scan your network for unusual activity and immediately shut it down, without slowing your connection.
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Location: Cheshire Abbey, Jackson, Mississippi Semperr is a three-legged Akita mix looking for the right human to give him the devoted attention he needs.
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LISTENING SAVES About 450 kilometres north of Tokyo, largely rural Akita prefecture, which for decades had the highest suicide rate in Japan, also emphasizes outreach.
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For nearly two decades, Akita had the highest suicide rate in all of Japan, which itself has the highest rate in the Group of Seven.
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Akita prefectural police said that a wooden boat washed ashore in Katagami City on Tuesday afternoon, the second boat discovered on Japanese shores that day.
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Tadasu Takamine, an assistant professor at the Akita University of Art, came to pay his respects to the unnamed North Korean victims from the boats.
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Unlike the others, Akita never received formal classical training, and his enormous output takes the form not of scores but of studio and live recordings.
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According to Hiromi Wakai, a spokeswoman in Akita for the Coast Guard, their bodies were badly decomposed by the time their boat reached the shore.
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In Asher Hartman's play Mr. Akita, artist and performer Cliff Hengst discusses the nature of art with a silent Op art painting by Emily Joyce.
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GATEKEEPERS Akita also has an ever-growing network of "gatekeepers" - people trained to identify those contemplating suicide and, if needed, put them in touch with help.
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"It is quite costly to offer administrative services in an area where the population is getting scarce," Akita Governor Norihisa Satake told Reuters in an interview.
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Yuki, who was 29 when he died in 2008, was one of many who committed suicide that year in Akita prefecture, 450 km north of Tokyo.
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When Issac Davis saw the news report in December that Rijoni Perry had lost his beloved akita mix during a home invasion, it really struck a chord.
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The court's decision could reflect sensitivity to that criticism as well as changing attitudes, said Masashi Akita, a defense lawyer in Osaka with over 30 years' experience.
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Throughout this one-sided conversation, Hengst's character is haunted by memories of his teacher, the titular Mr. Akita, a synthesis of Willem de Kooning and a dog.
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METI identified 11 potential sites for such projects, of which four are the most likely – two sites in Akita, one in Chiba and one in Nagasaki prefectures.
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Ghosn used the opportunity to deny accusations against him, a move that defense lawyer Masashi Akita said could prove risky if prosecutors use it to build their case.
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Akita also has volunteer "listeners" - people like 22027-year-old Ume Ito, who talks to at-risk people, many of whom are elderly, for hours at a time.
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Unlike the overturned boats in Akita, a boat that washed up on a beach in Iriai beach in Oga city on December 7 was in much better condition.
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What Akita shares with the notational composers who dominate "Music After the Fall" is his distance from the center: noise music is, by its nature, an underground culture.
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Cuando el hijo de Satoko Morita se graduó de la preparatoria en la prefectura de Akita, al norte de Japón, el primero de marzo, ella no estuvo allí.
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Akita Offshore Wind completed the nation's first fundraising for a major offshore wind project last month, raising ¥2210bn to build wind turbines near two ports in western Japan.
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Kazuhiro Asai, director of the Kitaura branch of the Fishermen's Cooperative of Akita Prefecture, told The Mainichi Shimbun that members of the group were frightened by the launches.
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Indeed, the biggest jumps in sightings have been where the population is falling fastest, such as Akita, a prefecture in the north-west of Honshu, Japan's most populous island.
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In the past, suspects who have been indicted have seldom been freed on bail, but in recent years that has become more common, said Masashi Akita, a defense lawyer.
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The same source was quoted as saying that Russia was particularly concerned about a Japanese plan to deploy more Aegis U.S. missile systems in its Akita and Yagamata prefectures.
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Three of four missiles launched by North Korea landed within Japan's exclusive economic zone, 300-350 km from the Oga Peninsula in Akita prefecture, Tomomi Inada said in Tokyo.
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Jtekt last year cut the ribbon on a new technology development center in Akita Prefecture, northern Japan, known more for its rice, sake and namesake dog breed than engineering.
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In February, Akita Offshore Wind, a special purpose vehicle of a Marubeni-led, all-Japanese consortium, became the first borrower in the sector, agreeing a ¥80bn 20-year financing.
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In Akita, a prefecture near the northern tip of Japan's main island, the local government has long managed an online match-making service to link up local lonely-hearts.
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Against this forlorn backdrop, surf crashes around two large, dark pieces of debris resting in the sand a few hundred yards apart on a beach near the city of Akita.
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"Suspects become anxious and lose confidence in what they're saying," said Osaka-based lawyer Masashi Akita, who has won only a fraction of his criminal cases over 30 years' practice.
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A week before the visit, a Japanese legislator tried to send a male Akita dog to Mr. Putin, to join the female dog that he had received four years ago.
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According to UPI, an Akita Inu dog named Maya spent six days waiting outside the doors of a hospital in Alicante, Spain, for her owner who was recovering from surgery inside.
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"The fact that I couldn't talk about my feelings at all became oppressive," said author and suicide activist Akita Suei, whose mother killed herself in 1955, when he was a child.
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Putin gave an interview to Nippon Television and Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper in Moscow on Tuesday, accompanied at first by Yume, who was given to him by Japan's Akita Prefecture in 2012.
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Eight skeletons were found in the hull of one wooden boat that washed ashore on Miyazawa beach in the northwest of Japan's main island Honshu, the Akita Coast Guard said Monday.
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He needed a few weeks to get his house ready for a new dog and last Sunday Davis presented Perry with the 9-week-old akita pup, who he has named Samson.
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Earlier this month, police in the northwestern Japanese prefecture of Akita discovered two bodies on a beach close to the city of Oga, and later found two wooden boats washed ashore nearby.
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Masami Akita, both make simple work with intent and power, and both produce a lot of albums: for Boris, 23 over the last 20 years; for Merzbow, more than 200 since 1980.
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Naoya Kudo went home to Akita Prefecture in Japan for a holiday last week, and with too much time on his hands, decided to dress his grandpa Tetsuya in some high-fashion #looks.
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In order to capture the snowy streets of Ōdate City, Japan, the company strapped 360 cameras to the backs of the three Akita dogs, which hail from the country's cold and mountainous regions.
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"We suggest that the soundscape in workplaces should be planned with attention to the person's behavior, the meaning and volume of the sound source, and its spatial layout," Akita said in a statement.
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POOR, ELDERLY, ALONE Suicides have multiple causes, but experts say Akita has so many because of its remoteness, lack of jobs, long winters, a large number of isolated and lonely elderly, and accumulating debt.
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And by 2055, it will look a lot like Akita prefecture does now: people 65 or older are expected to account for one third of its total population, up from 23 percent in 2015.
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"(Toyota, Nissan and Honda) all have exposure to the plummeting British pound, but their operating profit is less forex-sensitive than Mitsubishi Motors' and Mazda's," Credit Suisse analyst Masahiro Akita said in a research note.
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"Anything can happen these days, and it's even more true when we cannot anticipate the behavior of our neighboring countries," said Osamu Saito, a security supervisor in the prefecture of Akita where Oga is located.
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We're jealous of the children in Akita, Japan who get to play in a sea of electrons, pal around with planets, and bask in an aurora thanks to teamLab's new installation at the TDK Musuem.
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SCREAMING MAD BOX TOUR May 14, Sat SHINJO VICTROLL CAFE, YAMAGATA JAPAN May 15, Sun JUMONJI Re-MIX, AKITA JAPANJune 18, Sat SHIMOKITAZAWA BASEMENT BAR, TOKYO JAPAN June 25, Sat KITAHORIE club vijon, OSAKA JAPAN
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Japanese police took the men into custody after a resident of Yurihonjo, a city in the prefecture of Akita, told police of the presence of individuals of unknown nationality, the official, Yoshinobu Ito, told Reuters.
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Sakurai made the comments in a speech to business leaders in Akita, northeastern Japan, as the International Monetary Fund cut Japan's economic growth forecast for 2018, warning the country faced increased risks from global trade uncertainty.
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With cameras attached to dog-friendly harnesses, the two Akitas traversed a snowy mountain trail, Odate's open-air hot spring foot bath, Roken ("Old Dog") Shrine, the statue of Hachiko, and naturally, the Akita Dog Museum.
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The Japanese government had planned to present Putin, widely known to be a dog lover, with a male Akita as a companion to Yume, a female of the same breed that Japan gave him in 2012.
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The boat that landed on Miyazawa Beach in Akita prefecture was just one of 76 fishing vessels that have ended up on Japanese shores since the beginning of the year, 28 of them in November alone.
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For his latest release, Merzbow (also known by his given name, Masami Akita) has teamed up with his longtime conspirator, Hungarian drummer Balazs Pandi, and Japanese singer/songwriter Keiji Haino on yet another experiment in sonic excess.
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Two years ago, Akita founder Jean Yang described someone hacking into her Spotify account and requesting her account data as an "unfortunate consequence" of GDPR, which mandated companies operating on the continent allow users access to their data.
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To honor the breed's ties to the city and give everyone a hardy dose of cute, two working Akita dogs named Ako and Asuka were brought in to capture pieces of the city from their point of view.
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AKITA, Japan (Reuters) - On a recent weekday morning, a group of men in their 70s and 80s gathered for baseball practice just down the road from a junior high school where students were arriving to start the day.
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Such agents are known to have abducted Japanese citizens in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and in Akita, the police said they had arrested North Korean spies in the 1960s and at least once in the 1980s.
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Murphy and his collaborators strip the story to its elements, from the time that the bloody-footed Akita dragged a neighbor over to the corpses of Brown Simpson, who had been nearly decapitated, and Goldman, stabbed multiple times.
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The Mainichi Shimbun newspaper reported in its evening edition that residents in Akita Prefecture, which sits closest to where the missiles landed in the Sea of Japan on Monday, were concerned by the increasing frequency of the tests.
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Earlier this month, Abe had planned to present his Russian counterpart with a new token of his affection, a male Akita puppy as a companion to a female dog of the same breed that Tokyo gifted Putin in 2012.
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I guess that 27A was simple after the fact, but I didn't seize on the notion of a "little cat" being a KIT, which meant "a little cat and a dog" became an AKITA, a big gorgeous wolfy dog.
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The Japan Coast Guard spotted the 23-foot-long wooden ship drifting along the Akita Prefecture on Friday, but was not able to inspect the vessel until it washed ashore near the city of Oga on Sunday, according to Kyodo News.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Ahead of his visit to Japan later this week, Russian President Vladimir Putin brought his dog Yume into an interview with Japanese journalists, and the large Akita breed made sure she as well as her master were well heard.
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Like all other Tatcha skincare products, its liquid base is made up of 20 percent Hadasei-3, which delivers pure anti-aging nourishment from a proprietary trio of double-fermented Japanese superfoods (Akita rice, Okinawa algae, and Uji green tea).
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One of them carried eight live crew members to Yurihonjo, a medium-size port town in Akita, where they were kept in police custody for more than a week before being transferred to an immigration facility in Nagasaki last Saturday.
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Unlike in South Korea, where the authorities disclosed details about a North Korean soldier's dramatic escape through the heavily guarded border with South Korea last month, the police in Akita have been frugal with specifics about the North Koreans arriving here.
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Although a dozen lenders – including one foreign bank, Societe Generale – piled into Akita Offshore Wind's deal in general syndication, only a limited number of banks in Japan would be able to drive and lead transactions in the wind farm sector.
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The dogs are an important part of the city's history — Shibuya station even has a bronze statue of Hachiko, an Akita famous for his loyalty to his owner (he continued to wait for him at the train station nine years after his death).
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Aided by Oren Ambarchi, Masami Akita (best known as Merzbow), the drummer Arthur Narcy, and a host of other players, Pinhas was able to channel the gravity of a period of his life marked by confusion and loss into something remarkably uplifting.
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"We have delayed construction of the power plant in Akita from August as was stated in our environmental impact assessment document and no new construction schedule has been set," Hirota said, adding a final decision on the project has not been made.
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A member of the team, Dr. Kyoko Nomura, a professor in the Department of Public Health at Akita University's Graduate School of Medicine, wrote in an email that her team's research compared the impact of US Institute of Medicine and Japanese guidelines.
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On Friday March 18, the avant-metal intronauts Boris are back with their 6th full-length collaboration with Masami Akita, known by most as the prime mover of Merzbow and one of the first instrumental harsh noise artists to gain wide recognition across the globe.
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About as verbose—which is to say, not very—as one might expect from someone who to this day continues to release quality noise albums as often as most people get haircuts, Akita nevertheless remained authentic and illuminating in the questions he chose to answer.
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The very best way to get directions is to have a very loyal dog leading you, and now thanks to a partnership between Odate city in Japan and Google, parts of the city can be toured from the viewpoint of a very fluffy Akita.
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Kansai Electric and Marubeni have given up access rights to the electricity grid to supply power from the planned Akita coal station, two industry sources told Reuters, with one of them saying this indicates that the companies have cancelled their plans for the project.
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His play Mr. Akita stars artist and performer Cliff Hengst — adept at channeling humor and pathos in equal measure — as a Borscht Belt–style comedian and washed-up painter, who discusses the nature of art with a silent Op art painting by Emily Joyce.
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"The change in lawyers means a change in style, but the legal strategy will still be the same," I dont think it increases Ghosns chance of an acquittal, said Masashi Akita, a defence lawyer at Shin-Yu Law Office in Osaka, ahead of Wednesday's comments by Hironaka.
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One study, conducted by Takeshi Akita of Tokyo Denki University and presented on Thursday at a meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, looked at how the position of whatever is emitting the kind of background noise common in an open office (called "environmental sound") changed the noise's impact on workers.
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Naoya Kudo went home to Akita Prefecture in Japan last month for the Golden Week holiday — a week where many people in Japan have off to celebrate a series of holidays— and with too much free time on his hands, decided to dress his 84-year-old granddad, Tetsuya, in some of his high-fashion outfits.
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