Actor Watanabe in disaster-hit Iwate

OFUNATO, Japan - Japanese actor Ken Watanabe (C) heads for the stage on Jan. 14, 2012, in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, at a preview of the film ''Hayabusa -- Harukanaru Kikan,'' about the project in which the Hayabusa space probe successfully returned to Earth. Watanabe, who played the leading part in the film, encouraged the people from areas hit hard by last March's natural disasters.

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