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Yanase Takashi (center), then 90, at a ceremony in Tokyo in July 2009 marking the Anpanman series being named by Guinness World Records as the animation franchise with the most characters, at over 1,760. (© Jiji)
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A US solider watches over Japanese prisoners of war captured in Shanghai in September 1945. (© Photo12/UIG/Getty Images)
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In his book Boku wa sensō wa daikirai (I Hate War), Yanase expresses his hope for lasting peace. (© Shogakukan)
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Books in the Anpanman series. (© Froebel-kan)
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Bread in the shape of popular Anpanman characters on sale at the Fukuoka Anpanman Children’s Museum in Mall, a facility in the Hakata district of Fukuoka. Photo taken in April 2014. (© Jiji)
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A poster of Yanase Takashi surrounded by dolls from his Anpanman series at a celebration of his life on February 6, 2014, in Shinjuku, Tokyo. (© Jiji)
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