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Republican running mate

SPRINGFIELD, United States - Paul Ryan (C), the vice presidential running mate of Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney, speaks in Springfield, Virginia, on Aug. 17, 2012.

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Japan deports Chinese activists over Senkaku landing

HONG KONG, China - A member of a Hong Kong-based group asserting China's sovereignty over the Japanese-controlled Senkaku Islands receives flowers upon arrival at Hong Kong's international airport after being deported from Japan on Aug. 17, 2012. Japanese authorities deported all 14 Chinese nationals, including activists from the group, detained after some of them landed on one of the islands in the East China Sea.

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Japan deports Chinese activists over Senkaku landing

HONG KONG, China - Members of a Hong Kong-based group asserting China's sovereignty over the Japanese-controlled Senkaku Islands are seen seated in business class aboard a flight to Hong Kong while being deported from Japan on Aug. 17, 2012. Japanese authorities deported all 14 Chinese nationals, including activists from the group, detained after some of them landed on one of the islands in the East China Sea.

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Japan deports Chinese activists over Senkaku landing

HONG KONG, China - A member of a Hong Kong-based group asserting China's sovereignty over the Japanese-controlled Senkaku Islands is interviewed aboard a flight to Hong Kong while being deported from Japan on Aug. 17, 2012. Japanese authorities deported all 14 Chinese nationals, including activists from the group, detained after some of them landed on one of the islands in the East China Sea.

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Japan deports Chinese activists over Senkaku landing

HONG KONG, China - Members of a Hong Kong-based group asserting China's sovereignty over the Japanese-controlled Senkaku Islands have a meal aboard a flight to Hong Kong while being deported from Japan on Aug. 17, 2012. Japanese authorities deported all 14 Chinese nationals, including activists from the group, detained after some of them landed on one of the islands in the East China Sea.

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Japan deports Chinese activists over Senkaku landing

HONG KONG, China - Members of a Hong Kong-based group asserting China's sovereignty over the Japanese-controlled Senkaku Islands arrive at Hong Kong's international airport after being deported from Japan on Aug. 17, 2012. Japanese authorities deported all 14 Chinese nationals, including activists from the group, detained after some of them landed on one of the islands in the East China Sea.

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Japan deports Chinese activists over Senkaku landing

HONG KONG, China - A member of a Hong Kong-based group asserting China's sovereignty over the Japanese-controlled Senkaku Islands is greeted by a supporter upon arrival at Hong Kong's international airport after being deported from Japan on Aug. 17, 2012. Japanese authorities deported all 14 Chinese nationals, including activists from the group, detained after some of them landed on one of the islands in the East China Sea.

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Japan deports Chinese activists over Senkaku landing

HONG KONG, China - Members of a Hong Kong-based group asserting China's sovereignty over the Japanese-controlled Senkaku Islands arrive at Hong Kong's international airport after being deported from Japan on Aug. 17, 2012. Japanese authorities deported all 14 Chinese nationals, including activists from the group, detained after some of them landed on one of the islands in the East China Sea.

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Japan deports Chinese activists over Senkaku landing

ISHIGAKI, Japan - A boat (L) carrying members of a Hong Kong-based group asserting China's sovereignty over the Japanese-controlled Senkaku Islands leaves Ishigaki, Okinawa Prefecture, on Aug. 17, 2012, while Japan Coast Guard officers look on from a patrol ship (R). Japanese authorities deported all 14 Chinese nationals, including activists from the group, detained after some of them landed on one of the islands in the East China Sea.

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Japan deports Chinese activists over Senkaku landing

HONG KONG, China - Members of a Hong Kong-based group asserting China's sovereignty over the Japanese-controlled Senkaku Islands arrive at Hong Kong's international airport after being deported from Japan on Aug. 17, 2012. Japanese authorities deported all 14 Chinese nationals, including activists from the group, detained after some of them landed on one of the islands in the East China Sea.

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Myanmar's upper house speaker

NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar - Myanmar's upper house speaker Khin Aung Myint is interviewed by Kyodo News in Naypyidaw, Myanmar, on Aug. 17, 2012.

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Japan deports Chinese activists over Senkaku landing

HONG KONG, China - Members of a Hong Kong-based group asserting China's sovereignty over the Japanese-controlled Senkaku Islands arrive at Hong Kong's international airport after being deported from Japan on Aug. 17, 2012. Japanese authorities deported all 14 Chinese nationals, including activists from the group, detained after some of them landed on one of the islands in the East China Sea.

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Japan deports Chinese activists over Senkaku landing

ISHIGAKI, Japan - A boat (back) carrying members of a Hong Kong-based group asserting China's sovereignty over the Japanese-controlled Senkaku Islands leaves Ishigaki, Okinawa Prefecture, on Aug. 17, 2012. Japanese authorities deported all 14 Chinese nationals, including activists from the group, detained after some of them landed on one of the islands in the East China Sea.

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Japan deports Chinese activists over Senkaku landing

ISHIGAKI, Japan - A boat (L) carrying members of a Hong Kong-based group asserting China's sovereignty over the Japanese-controlled Senkaku Islands leaves Ishigaki, Okinawa Prefecture, on Aug. 17, 2012, while Japan Coast Guard officers look on from a patrol ship (R). Japanese authorities deported all 14 Chinese nationals, including activists from the group, detained after some of them landed on one of the islands in the East China Sea.

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S. Korea rejects Japan's proposal on islets

SEOUL, South Korea - Cho Tai Young, a spokesman for South Korea's Foreign Ministry, speaks at the ministry in Seoul on Aug. 17, 2012 about Japan's proposal that the two countries jointly take their dispute over a pair of sparsely inhabited islands to the International Court of Justice. South Korea rejected the Japanese proposal.

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Prince Akishino, Vietnam Pres. Sang

HANOI, Vietnam - Japan's Prince Akishino (L) shakes hands with Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang at the presidential office in Hanoi on Aug. 17, 2012. The prince, the second son of Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko, extended his gratitude to Vietnam for "much support" following the devastating earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan in March 2011.

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New robot to be used at Fukushima complex

CHIBA, Japan - Nuclear disaster minister Goshi Hosono (2nd from L) on Aug. 17, 2012, at the Chiba Institute of Technology in Chiba Prefecture, remotely controls "Rosemary," a new type of robot expected to be used in the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant's radiation-contaminated reactor buildings from September 2012. The robot can transport much heavier objects than its predecessor "Quince," used at the Tokyo Electric Power Co. complex since June 2011 to check conditions in the reactor buildings and to capture images, according to the institute.

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Japan, China youth open table tennis tourney

BEIJING, China - Junior high school players from municipalities of Japan and China enter a venue in Beijing on Aug. 17, 2012, during the opening ceremony for a two-day youth table tennis tournament, which will begin the following day. Launched in 1990, the student table tennis tournament has been held every five years since 1992 when the two countries marked the 20th anniversary of normalization of diplomatic relations.

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Takeshima row

TOKYO, Japan - Reporters rush to South Korean Ambassador to Japan Shin Kak Soo (R) as he was leaving the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Aug. 17, 2012. Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba had a meeting with the envoy on a bilateral territorial row over a group of islets in the Sea of Japan. The disputed territory is called Takeshima in Japan and Dokdo in South Korea.

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Anti-Japan protest in China

SHANGHAI, China - Plainclothes police officers surround a man holding a Japanese flag (3rd from L) near the Japanese Consulate General in Shanghai on Aug. 17, 2012. The man apparently aimed to use the flag as part of a protest against Japan, as China and Japan have been at odds over a territorial row.

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Sharp mulls plant spinoff

TOKYO, Japan - A February 2009 file photo shows Sharp Corp.'s plant in Kameyama, Mie Prefecture, that produces liquid crystal display panels for smartphones. Sources said on Aug. 17, 2012, that the struggling electronics manufacturer is considering a spinoff of the plant.