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Crown prince, princess visit Sendai

SENDAI, Japan - Crown Prince Naruhito (R) and his wife, Crown Princess Masako, arrive at JR Sendai Station in Miyagi Prefecture by bullet train on Aug. 20, 2013, to meet people affected by the March 2011 killer tsunami. (Pool photo)

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Heart Mountain wartime internment museum

HEART MOUNTAIN, United States - Norman Mineta (far L), a former U.S. secretary of transportation, looks on as his fellow former internees cut a barbed wire ''ribbon'' during an opening ceremony for the Interpretive Learning Center in Heart Mountain, Wyoming, on Aug. 20, 2011. The facility tells the history of more than 14,000 Japanese-Americans who were forced to live at the camp during World War II.

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Kim Jong Il's train travels toward eastern Siberia

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - A special train apparently carrying North Korean leader Kim Jong Il is shown running through a coastal area of the Russian Far East on Aug. 20, 2011. The train made a brief stop the following morning at Khabarovsk en route to the Siberian city of Ulan-Ude, where the North Korean leader is scheduled to hold talks with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.

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Honda nets free kick in CSKA victory

MOSCOW, Russia - Japan midfielder Keisuke Honda (L) and his teammates celebrate after Honda scored CSKA Moscow's second goal in a 3-0 victory over Tom Tomsk in the Russian Premier League in Moscow on Aug. 20, 2011. Honda buried a trademark free kick from just outside the penalty area two minutes after he substituted for Pavel Mamaev in the 61st minute.

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Kim Jong Il in Russia

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - A train believed to be carrying North Korean leader Kim Jong Il runs in a coastal area of the Russian Far East on Aug. 20, 2011. Kim is expected to meet with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.

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Japan envoy in Tibet

LHASA, China - Japanese Ambassador to China Uichiro Niwa (R) chats with a Tibetan girl at a children's facility in Lhasa, capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region in China, on Aug. 20, 2011. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Suu Kyi attends Myanmar gov't workshop

NAYPYITAW, Myanmar - Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi (C) takes part for the first time in a government workshop on economic reform in Myanmar's administrative capital Naypyitaw on Aug. 20, 2011. Suu Kyi said she was ''encouraged'' after meeting with President Thein Sein the previous day.

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Fukushima radioactive decontamination unit to be set up

HIRONO, Japan - Japanese nuclear disaster minister Goshi Hosono speaks to reporters in Hirono, Fukushima Prefecture, on Aug. 20, 2011. Hosono told Fukushima Gov. Yuhei Sato at the prefectural government office in the city of Fukushima the same day that the central government will set up a task force, probably the following week, to promote radioactive decontamination in areas surrounding the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

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Nichidai Daisan wins national high school c'ship

NISHINOMIYA, Japan - Players celebrate as Tokyo's Nichidai Daisan High School beat Kosei Gakuin of Aomori Prefecture 11-0 in the final of the national high school baseball championship at Koshien Stadium in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, on Aug. 20, 2011.

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'Most prominent pair of antinuclear activists'

NEW YORK, United States - The New York Times in its Aug. 20, 2011 edition carries an article describing Mizuho Fukushima (R in photo), leader of Japan's opposition Social Democratic Party, and Yuichi Kaido (L in photo), secretary general of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations, as ''perhaps the country's most prominent pair of antinuclear activists.''

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Japan envoy in Tibet

LHASA, China - Japanese Ambassador to China Uichiro Niwa (R) visits the busy Barkhor area in Lhasa, capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region in China, on Aug. 20, 2011. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Japan city offers Bikini Atoll peace city alliance

MAJURO, Marshall Islands - Hiroshi Shimizu (L), mayor of the city of Yaizu in Shizuoka Prefecture in central Japan, and Bikinian mayor Alson Kelen shake hands in Majuro, capital of the Marshall Islands in the South Pacific, on Aug. 20, 2011. The Japanese mayor offered Bikini Atoll an alliance to promote bids for peace building by the two municipalities which have been affected by U.S. nuclear tests since the mid-20th century.

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Japan envoy in Tibet

LHASA, China - Police officers carrying rifles are seen guarding the front of Jokhang Temple in Lhasa, capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region in China, on Aug. 20, 2011. Japanese Ambassador to China Uichiro Niwa (L) visited the temple the same day. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Japan envoy in Tibet

LHASA, China - Japanese Ambassador to China Uichiro Niwa (back) visits a maker of Tibetan religious paintings called ''Thangka'' in Lhasa, capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region in China, on Aug. 20, 2011. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Japan envoy in Tibet

LHASA, China - Japanese Ambassador to China Uichiro Niwa (L) visits Jokhang Temple in Lhasa, capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region in China, on Aug. 20, 2011. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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2 more bodies found after tour boat accident

NAGOYA, Japan - Police officers recover a tour boat on the Tenryu River in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on Aug. 20, 2011, three days after it sank in an accident. Authorities the same day found the bodies of two more people involved in the accident, bringing the death toll to four while a 2-year-old boy remained missing.