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UK: River Nene Bursts Its Banks In Northampton, Leaving One Dead

Heavy rain continued to cause flooding and disruption in parts of England on Tuesday, September 24. The River Nene burst its banks in Northampton, and a 77-year-old woman died on Monday after her vehicle plunged into the river.

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CHINA-GUIZHOU-GUIYANG-TRADITIONAL EMBROIDERY (CN)

(230411) -- GUIYANG, April 11, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Pan Yuzhen, a 77-year-old embroiderer, shows her hand-made Miao costume in Guiyang, capital of southwest China's Guizhou Province, April 6, 2023. TO GO WITH "Across China: Traditional embroidery promotes 'China chic' in global fashion" (Xinhua/Cui Xiaoqiang)

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China accelerates vaccination for people aged over 60

STORY: China accelerates vaccination for people aged over 60 DATELINE: Dec. 31, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:31 LOCATION: Beijing CATEGORY: HEALTH SHOTLIST: 1. various of vaccination for people aged over 60 2. various of Bi Wu'e getting vaccinated 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese) WANG ZHIQIANG, Son of Bi Wu'e 4. various of local communities 5. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): ZHENG YUANMEI, Local resident 6. various of Fan Junling getting vaccinated 7. SOUNDBITE 3 (Chinese): FAN JUNLING, Local resident STORYLINE: In China, over 90 percent of the population has been fully vaccinated. As the focus shifts from infection control to prevention and treatment of severe cases, China is accelerating the shots given to people aged over 60, numbering around 267 million. At Heping Hospital in Shanxi Province, 77-year-old Bi Wu'e was accompanied by her son to get vaccinated. Bi said she was not vaccinated timely because of her health conditions. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese) WANG ZHIQIANG, Son of Bi Wu'e "It's all for the good of the elderly, to redu

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(1)Ex-Taiwan leader Lee visits Kanazawa on 3rd day of visit

KANAZAWA, Japan - Former Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui (2nd from R) and his wife Tseng Wen-hui (2nd from L) learn how to make pottery from Ohi Chozaemon (L), a 77-year-old ceramic artist, during their visit to the city of Kanazawa in Ishikawa Prefecture on Dec. 29.

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Berlusconi ousted from parliament

ROME, Italy - Members of an Italian civic group celebrate the ousting of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi from parliament on Nov. 27, 2013, near the Italian Senate building in Rome. The Senate voted to oust Berlusconi following his conviction for tax fraud in August. The 77-year-old three-time premier is barred from running for or holding office for six years.

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Nursing home for elderly foreign residents

KOBE, Japan - Photo taken July 26, 2012 shows He Zhaolin (L), a 77-year-old Vietnamese of Chinese origin, communicating with an attendant with vocabulary cards at a home for elderly foreign residents who need special care in Kobe city, Japan.

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Emperor resumes official duties

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Emperor Akihito holds onto Empress Michiko's arm as the couple leaves the venue of an annual memorial service for firefighters who died on duty across the nation, held in Tokyo on Nov. 29, 2011. It was the 77-year-old emperor's first official engagement after being hospitalized for 19 days this month for bronchial pneumonia.

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Emperor resumes official duties

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko offer flowers at an annual memorial service for firefighters who died on duty across the nation, held in Tokyo on Nov. 29, 2011. It was the 77-year-old emperor's first official engagement after being hospitalized for 19 days this month for bronchial pneumonia.

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Emperor to resume official duties

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken July 16, 2011, in Tokyo shows Japanese Emperor Akihito. The Imperial Household Agency said on Nov. 28 that the emperor, who was discharged from hospital Nov. 24, will resume his official duties Nov. 29. The 77-year-old emperor was admitted to the University of Tokyo Hospital on Nov. 6 to receive treatment for bronchial pneumonia.

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Emperor discharged from hospital

TOKYO, Japan - Emperor Akihito waves from a car as he arrives at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo after being released from the University of Tokyo Hospital on Nov. 24, 2011. The 77-year-old emperor was admitted to the hospital for bronchial pneumonia on Nov. 6.

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Emperor discharged from hospital

TOKYO, Japan - Emperor Akihito (L) and Empress Michiko head for the Imperial Palace by car from the University of Tokyo Hospital in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward on Nov. 24, 2011, after the emperor was released from the hospital the same day. The 77-year-old emperor had been hospitalized for bronchial pneumonia.

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77-yr-old yachtsman completes 8th around-the-world journey

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Minoru Saito, a 77-year-old Japanese yachtsman, raises his hand as he arrives at Yokohama port, near Tokyo, on Sept. 17, 2011, after completing his eighth around-the-world journey. The journey took three years, during which he experienced tsunami attacks on two occasions.

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77-yr-old yachtsman completes 8th around-the-world journey

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Minoru Saito, a 77-year-old Japanese yachtsman, receives flowers upon arrival at Yokohama port, near Tokyo, on Sept. 17, 2011, after completing his eighth around-the-world journey. The journey took three years, during which he experienced tsunami attacks on two occasions.

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77-yr-old yachtsman completes 8th around-the-world journey

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Minoru Saito, a 77-year-old Japanese yachtsman, receives flowers upon arrival at Yokohama port, near Tokyo, on Sept. 17, 2011, after completing his eighth around-the-world journey. The journey took three years, during which he experienced tsunami attacks on two occasions.

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Bikini Island

BIKINI ISLAND, Marshall Islands - Jendrik Leviticus, a former resident of Bikini Island in the Pacific, looks at the empty lot where his house formerly stood on the island during a temporary visit on Aug. 27, 2011. The 77-year-old doctor now living in Majuro branded U.S. nuclear tests in the 1940s and 1950s ''unforgivable,'' as they deprived Bikini islanders of their homes and health.

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Emperor enters hospital

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko leave the Imperial Palace in Tokyo for the University of Tokyo Hospital in a car in the snow on Feb. 11, 2011. The 77-year-old emperor entered the hospital for a detailed check of his cardiac blood vessels after showing symptoms of cardiac ischemia, a condition caused by insufficient blood flow to the heart, during a recent physical.

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Kyocera founder Inamori accepts offer to run Japan Airlines

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuo Inamori (L), honorary chairman and founder of electronics firm Kyocera Corp., and transport minister Seiji Maehara (R) speaks to reporters at the transport ministry on Jan. 13, 2010. The 77-year-old executive accepted the offer from the government to assume the post of chief executive officer without pay at Japan Airlines Corp. that is undergoing state-backed restructuring efforts.

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Kyocera founder Inamori accepts offer to run Japan Airlines

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuo Inamori (C), honorary chairman and founder of electronics firm Kyocera Corp., speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Jan. 13, 2010. The 77-year-old executive accepted the offer from the government to assume the post of chief executive officer without pay at Japan Airlines Corp. that is undergoing state-backed restructuring efforts.

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Kyocera founder Inamori accepts offer to run Japan Airlines

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuo Inamori (C), honorary chairman and founder of electronics firm Kyocera Corp., heads to the transport ministry in Tokyo on Jan. 13, 2010. The 77-year-old executive said he accepted the offer from the government to assume the post of chief executive officer without pay at Japan Airlines Corp. that is undergoing state-backed restructuring efforts.

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Kyocera founder Inamori accepts offer to run Japan Airlines

TOKYO, Japan - Undated file photo shows Kazuo Inamori, honorary chairman and founder of electronics firm Kyocera Corp. The 77-year-old executive said on Jan. 13, 2010, that he accepted the offer from the government to assume the post of chief executive officer without pay at Japan Airlines Corp. that is undergoing state-backed restructuring efforts.

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77-yr-old man confesses to killing 4 members of family

CHIBA, Japan - Police officers conduct an investigation in front of the house of Tokiko Kiuchi in Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, on June 24 after four members of her family were found dead inside the house. Police said her 77-year-old husband confessed to killing them.

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77-yr Japanese yachtsman abandons nonstop around-the-world voyage

OSAKA, Japan - Ikuo Kashima, a 77-year-old Japanese yachtsman, has given up an attempt to become the oldest man to sail nonstop around the world solo, asking to be rescued off Tasmania Island, Australia, his supporters said on May 5. Kashima set sail aboard his 13.92-ton yacht Koraasa 77 in a photo taken on August 6, 2006 off Misaki, Osaka.

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Paper cartoon serialized for longest period ends

TOKYO, Japan - Kimihiko Tsukuda (file photo), a 77-year-old cartoonist, has decided to give up work as Parkinson's disease has left him unable to paint with a brush. His serialized ''Honobono-Kun'' cartoon carried in a Japanese newspaper for a record-breaking period reached 15,451 installments at the end of its run on March 8.

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Chinese ex-forced laborers survey ruins of Nagasaki coal mine

NAGASAKI, Japan - Li Qingyun (C), a 77-year-old former Chinese forced laborer, sails around the Hashima Island, southwest of Nagasaki, on July 27 to survey the ruins of a coal mine on the island. About 1,000 Chinese were forced to work in four coal mines in Nagasaki Prefecture, including one on Hashima Island, during World War II.

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Beanie Babies go on sale in downtown Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Beanie Babies, tiny stuffed-animal dolls with cute eyes made by U.S. toy maker Ty, are put on sale at the Sony Plaza shop in downtown Tokyo on Aug. 14. About one hundred customers, including a 77-year-old man who was first in line at 5 a.m., queued for the 11 a.m. opening of the Ginza shop. Ty Japan LLC, the Japan unit of the U.S. company, began selling some 260 varieties of 100,000 popular dolls priced at 650 yen apiece throughout the nation on the same day. One U.S. dollar is worth 120 yen.

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Lecture by ex-Red Army leader Shigenobu

Former Japanese Red Army leader Fusako Shigenobu (top) delivers a lecture at an event in Kyoto, western Japan, on Oct. 16, 2022. The 77-year-old was released from prison in May after serving a 20-year sentence for masterminding the 1974 seizure of the French Embassy in The Hague.

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Lecture by ex-Red Army leader Shigenobu

Former Japanese Red Army leader Fusako Shigenobu delivers a lecture at an event in Kyoto, western Japan, on Oct. 16, 2022. The 77-year-old was released from prison in May after serving a 20-year sentence for masterminding the 1974 seizure of the French Embassy in The Hague.

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Lecture by ex-Red Army leader Shigenobu

Former Japanese Red Army leader Fusako Shigenobu delivers a lecture at an event in Kyoto, western Japan, on Oct. 16, 2022. The 77-year-old was released from prison in May after serving a 20-year sentence for masterminding the 1974 seizure of the French Embassy in The Hague.

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Lecture by ex-Red Army leader Shigenobu

Former Japanese Red Army leader Fusako Shigenobu delivers a lecture at an event in Kyoto, western Japan, on Oct. 16, 2022. The 77-year-old was released from prison in May after serving a 20-year sentence for masterminding the 1974 seizure of the French Embassy in The Hague.

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Kenya's Odinga files petition at Supreme Court to challenge presidential election results

STORY: Kenya's Odinga files petition at Supreme Court to challenge presidential election results DATELINE: Aug. 23, 2022 LENGTH: 00:03:00 LOCATION: Nairobi CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of Odinga and Azimio la Umoja members at the Supreme Court 2. various of filing the petition 3. SOUNDBITE (Swahili): RAILA ODINGA, Kenya's veteran opposition leader and presidential candidate from Azimio la Umoja (Resolution for Unity) 4. various of officials and files 5. various of Azimio supporters STORYLINE: Kenya's veteran opposition leader Raila Odinga on Monday filed a petition at the country's Supreme Court to challenge the results of the Aug. 9 presidential election where his closest rival and sitting Deputy President William Ruto was declared the winner by the head of the country's electoral body. The 77-year-old Odinga, who was making his fifth stab at the presidency under the Azimio La Umoja (Resolution for Unity) - One Kenya Coalition, said the announced outcome of the hotly contested polls was flawed

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Kenya's opposition leader vows to contest presidential results in court

STORY: Kenya's opposition leader vows to contest presidential results in court DATELINE: Aug. 17, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:30 LOCATION: Nairobi CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the press conference 2. various of the Raila Odinga with Azimio officials 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): RAILA ODINGA, Azimio la Umoja flagbearer 4. various of press conference 5. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): RAILA ODINGA, Azimio la Umoja flagbearer 4. various of Azimio supporters STORYLINE: Kenyan veteran opposition leader Raila Odinga on Tuesday rejected presidential election results announced by the chairman of the electoral body on Monday where his main competitor in the race, the sitting Deputy President, William Ruto was declared the winner. The 77-year-old Odinga who was running for the presidency for the fifth time under the Azimio La Umoja (Resolution for Unity)-One Kenya Coalition said he had no faith in the outcomes of the hotly contested polls held on August 9. He said at a briefing in Nairobi, the Kenyan capital that t

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UN chief calls for action in 5 areas to strengthen NPT

STORY: UN chief calls for action in 5 areas to strengthen NPT DATELINE: Aug. 2, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:20 LOCATION: UN Headquarters CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. wide shot of UN GA Hall 2. wide shot of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres walking to rostrum 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): ANTONIO GUTERRES, UN Secretary-General 4. wide shot of UN GA Hall 5. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): ANTONIO GUTERRES, UN Secretary-General 6. med shot of UN GA Hall 7. SOUNDBITE 3 (French): ANTONIO GUTERRES, UN Secretary-General 8. med shot of UN GA Hall STORYLINE: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday highlighted five areas for action to strengthen the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). The first area is to urgently reinforce and reaffirm the 77-year-old norm against the use of nuclear weapons, he told the opening of the 10th NPT Review Conference at the UN Headquarters in New York. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): ANTONIO GUTERRES, UN Secretary-General "This requires a steadfast commitment from all states parties (to the NPT

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NPT review conference opens in New York

Kunihiko Sakuma (2nd from front), a 77-year-old survivor of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima who heads a group of A-bomb sufferers, listens to a speech given by Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida during a review conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Aug. 1, 2022.

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CHINA-FUJIAN-QUANZHOU-CRAFTSMAN-SHIPBUILDING TECHNOLOGY (CN)

(220622) -- QUANZHOU, June 22, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Zhang Guohui, an inheritor of the watertight-bulkhead technology of Chinese junks, makes a model boat at a workshop in Chongwu Town, Hui'an County of Quanzhou, southeast China's Fujian Province, April 29, 2022. TO GO WITH "Feature: 77-year-old craftsman's passion to pass on ancient shipbuilding technology" (Xinhua/Zhao Xuetong)

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CHINA-FUJIAN-QUANZHOU-CRAFTSMAN-SHIPBUILDING TECHNOLOGY (CN)

(220622) -- QUANZHOU, June 22, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Zhang Guohui, an inheritor of the watertight-bulkhead technology of Chinese junks, makes a model boat at a workshop in Chongwu Town, Hui'an County of Quanzhou, southeast China's Fujian Province, April 29, 2022. TO GO WITH "Feature: 77-year-old craftsman's passion to pass on ancient shipbuilding technology" (Xinhua/Zhao Xuetong)

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CHINA-FUJIAN-QUANZHOU-CRAFTSMAN-SHIPBUILDING TECHNOLOGY (CN)

(220622) -- QUANZHOU, June 22, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Zhang Guohui, an inheritor of the watertight-bulkhead technology of Chinese junks, makes a model boat at a workshop in Chongwu Town, Hui'an County of Quanzhou, southeast China's Fujian Province, April 29, 2022. TO GO WITH "Feature: 77-year-old craftsman's passion to pass on ancient shipbuilding technology" (Xinhua/Zhao Xuetong)

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Man collects items washed up on Fukuoka beach

Tadashi Ishii, a 77-year-old former teacher, holds the skull of a sea turtle at his mini private museum in Fukutsu, Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on May 31, 2015. The skull is one of more than 10,000 items he has collected over the past 40 years on the beach facing the Genkai Sea at the southwestern end of the Japan Sea. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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"Antiwar landlord" Teruya visits near Henoko

Shuden Teruya, a 77-year-old "antiwar landlord" in Okinawa City who refuses to sign a contract with the Japanese government for the U.S. military's usage of his land, visits an area near the Henoko district of Nago, planned relocation site for the U.S. Marine Corps Futenma Air Station in Okinawa Prefecture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Mori to resign as JRFU chief in June

Yoshiro Mori, who heads the 2020 Tokyo Olympics organizing committee, speaks about his resignation as president of the Japan Rugby Football Union during a press conference in Tokyo on April 23, 2015. Mori, the 77-year-old former prime minister, said he will step down from the post when his fifth term expires in June. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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77-yr-old man confesses to killing 4 members of family

CHIBA, Japan - Police officers conduct an investigation in front of the house of Tokiko Kiuchi in Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, on June 24 after four members of her family were found dead inside the house. Police said her 77-year-old husband confessed to killing them. (Kyodo)

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77-yr Japanese yachtsman abandons nonstop around-the-world voyag

OSAKA, Japan - Ikuo Kashima, a 77-year-old Japanese yachtsman, has given up an attempt to become the oldest man to sail nonstop around the world solo, asking to be rescued off Tasmania Island, Australia, his supporters said on May 5. Kashima set sail aboard his 13.92-ton yacht Koraasa 77 in a photo taken on August 6, 2006 off Misaki, Osaka. (Kyodo)

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Paper cartoon serialized for longest period ends

TOKYO, Japan - Kimihiko Tsukuda (file photo), a 77-year-old cartoonist, has decided to give up work as Parkinson's disease has left him unable to paint with a brush. His serialized ''Honobono-Kun'' cartoon carried in a Japanese newspaper for a record-breaking period reached 15,451 installments at the end of its run on March 8. (Kyodo)

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Protest against Democratic presidential nominee Biden

People gather in Wilmington, Delaware, on Aug. 20, 2020, to express their disapproval of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden near the venue where the 77-year-old former vice president gave his nomination acceptance speech on the fourth day of the Democratic National Convention.

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77-yr-old yachtsman completes 8th around-the-world journey

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Minoru Saito, a 77-year-old Japanese yachtsman, receives flowers upon arrival at Yokohama port, near Tokyo, on Sept. 17, 2011, after completing his eighth around-the-world journey. The journey took three years, during which he experienced tsunami attacks on two occasions. (Kyodo)

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77-yr-old yachtsman completes 8th around-the-world journey

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Minoru Saito, a 77-year-old Japanese yachtsman, receives flowers upon arrival at Yokohama port, near Tokyo, on Sept. 17, 2011, after completing his eighth around-the-world journey. The journey took three years, during which he experienced tsunami attacks on two occasions. (Kyodo)

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77-yr-old yachtsman completes 8th around-the-world journey

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Minoru Saito, a 77-year-old Japanese yachtsman, raises his hand as he arrives at Yokohama port, near Tokyo, on Sept. 17, 2011, after completing his eighth around-the-world journey. The journey took three years, during which he experienced tsunami attacks on two occasions. (Kyodo)

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Bikini Island

BIKINI ISLAND, Marshall Islands - Jendrik Leviticus, a former resident of Bikini Island in the Pacific, looks at the empty lot where his house formerly stood on the island during a temporary visit on Aug. 27, 2011. The 77-year-old doctor now living in Majuro branded U.S. nuclear tests in the 1940s and 1950s ''unforgivable,'' as they deprived Bikini islanders of their homes and health. (Kyodo)

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Emperor enters hospital

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko leave the Imperial Palace in Tokyo for the University of Tokyo Hospital in a car in the snow on Feb. 11, 2011. The 77-year-old emperor entered the hospital for a detailed check of his cardiac blood vessels after showing symptoms of cardiac ischemia, a condition caused by insufficient blood flow to the heart, during a recent physical. (Kyodo)

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Kyocera founder Inamori accepts offer to run Japan Airlines

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuo Inamori (C), honorary chairman and founder of electronics firm Kyocera Corp., speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Jan. 13, 2010. The 77-year-old executive accepted the offer from the government to assume the post of chief executive officer without pay at Japan Airlines Corp. that is undergoing state-backed restructuring efforts. (Kyodo)

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Kyocera founder Inamori accepts offer to run Japan Airlines

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuo Inamori (L), honorary chairman and founder of electronics firm Kyocera Corp., and transport minister Seiji Maehara (R) speaks to reporters at the transport ministry on Jan. 13, 2010. The 77-year-old executive accepted the offer from the government to assume the post of chief executive officer without pay at Japan Airlines Corp. that is undergoing state-backed restructuring efforts. (Kyodo)