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<span class="x_e2ma-style" style="font-size:15px; color:rgb(0,0,0)"><strong>Japan in the News</strong></span></div>
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<span class="x_e2ma-style" style="font-size:12px">To celebrate the 2018 Major League Baseball All-Star Game coming to Washington, DC this summer, the
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Japan Information & Culture Center</a> of the Embassy of Japan, together with the Gordon W. Prange Collection at the University of Maryland Libraries and Japanese baseball specialist Adam Berenbak, is presenting the "<a href="https://t.e2ma.net/click/efqlz/ymx71l/2lr5ch" style="font-weight:normal; font-weight:normal; color:#176E9E; text-decoration:underline" id="LPlnk557749" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true">A
New League: Shared Pastimes and the Story of U.S.-Japan Baseball</a>" exhibition from June 13 to August 10. Featuring baseball-related historical objects and artifacts from Japan, the exhibition will trace the history of the sport in Japan as well as explore
the fascinating history of sports exchange and “baseball diplomacy” between Japan and the U.S. – avenues of contact that have fostered friendship, goodwill, and reconciliation between the two nations.</span></div>
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<span class="x_e2ma-style" style="font-size:12px">Dick Barnes from The Georgetown Dish attended the opening on June 13, and you can read his review
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<span class="x_e2ma-style" style="font-size:10px"><em>Ambassador Sugiyama visits a rail car facility in Hawaii.</em></span>
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<strong><span class="x_e2ma-style" style="font-size:15px">Ambassador Shinsuke J. Sugiyama Visits the Aloha State</span></strong><br>
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<span class="x_e2ma-style" style="font-size:12px">Ambassador Sugiyama had his first chance to say "aloha" to Hawaii as Ambassador in May, meeting Governor David Ige in Honolulu. He also had a chance to see the new rail cars being produced by an Ansaldo STS/Hitachi
Rail joint project, which will bring needed capacity to Honolulu Rail Transit. To learn more about the close relationship between Japan and Hawaii, check out the Embassy's fact sheet
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<span class="x_e2ma-style" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><strong><span class="x_e2ma-style" style="font-size:15px">PM Abe and Ambassador Pikachu Unveil Tour Of World Expo 2025 Concept</span></strong> </span><br>
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<span class="x_e2ma-style" style="font-size:12px">A half-century has passed since Osaka hosted an Expo in 1970, and now Osaka and the Kansai region of Japan have exciting plans for World Expo 2025! Pikachu, the 2025 Japan World Expo Committee Ambassador, is
standing by to give you a <a href="https://t.e2ma.net/click/efqlz/ymx71l/ezt5ch" style="font-weight:normal; font-weight:normal; color:#176E9E; text-decoration:underline" id="LPlnk896313" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true">
video tour</a> that explains Japan’s vision for an Expo that builds a conversation around the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals and Japan's innovative Society 5.0 vision. Like the Pokemon partners of the Expo, find out what "type" of Expo supporter you are
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here</a> on Japan World Expo 2025's website.</span><br>
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<div style="text-align:justify; line-height:18px"><span class="x_e2ma-style" style="font-size:12px; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="x_e2ma-style" style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">As the countdown to the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games
closes on the two-year mark, Japan’s biggest city continues to intrigue the world with its innovations. The metropolis we know now started as Edo, a rural city crisscrossed by water channels during the Edo period. Over the past 400 years, Tokyo has developed
into the most populated, safest, and most economically productive city in the world! Niponica Magazine takes readers on a</span>
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journey into history</a><span class="x_e2ma-style" style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">, highlighting both the traditional side of Tokyo, including ukiyo-e woodblock prints and Kiriko crafts, as well as bold plans for the future.</span></span><br>
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