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Pair of giant pandas in Japan to return to China for treatment

Photo taken on Aug. 31, 2024, shows female giant panda Shin Shin at Tokyo's Ueno Zoological Gardens. Shin Shin and her male mate Ri Ri, both aged 19 and on loan to Japan since 2011, will return to China on Sept. 29 for treatment for high blood pressure and other health concerns.

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Pair of giant pandas in Japan to return to China for treatment

Photo taken on Aug. 31, 2024, shows male giant panda Ri Ri at Tokyo's Ueno Zoological Gardens. Ri Ri and his female mate Shin Shin, both aged 19 and on loan to Japan since 2011, will return to China on Sept. 29 for treatment for high blood pressure and other health concerns.

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Pair of giant pandas in Japan to return to China for treatment

Photo taken on Aug. 31, 2024, shows male giant panda Ri Ri at Tokyo's Ueno Zoological Gardens. Ri Ri and his female mate Shin Shin, both aged 19 and on loan to Japan since 2011, will return to China on Sept. 29 for treatment for high blood pressure and other health concerns.

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Pair of giant pandas in Japan to return to China for treatment

Photo taken on Aug. 31, 2024, shows male giant panda Ri Ri at Tokyo's Ueno Zoological Gardens. Ri Ri and his female mate Shin Shin, both aged 19 and on loan to Japan since 2011, will return to China on Sept. 29 for treatment for high blood pressure and other health concerns.

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Pair of giant pandas in Japan to return to China for treatment

Photo taken on Aug. 31, 2024, shows male giant panda Ri Ri at Tokyo's Ueno Zoological Gardens. Ri Ri and his female mate Shin Shin, both aged 19 and on loan to Japan since 2011, will return to China on Sept. 29 for treatment for high blood pressure and other health concerns.

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Pair of giant pandas in Japan to return to China for treatment

Photo taken on Aug. 31, 2024, shows female giant panda Shin Shin at Tokyo's Ueno Zoological Gardens. Shin Shin and her male mate Ri Ri, both aged 19 and on loan to Japan since 2011, will return to China on Sept. 29 for treatment for high blood pressure and other health concerns.

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Pair of giant pandas in Japan to return to China for treatment

Photo taken on Aug. 31, 2024, shows male giant panda Ri Ri at Tokyo's Ueno Zoological Gardens. Ri Ri and his female mate Shin Shin, both aged 19 and on loan to Japan since 2011, will return to China on Sept. 29 for treatment for high blood pressure and other health concerns.

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Fukushima Daiichi plant

TOKYO, Japan - An Aug. 31, 2013, photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture. The Japanese government announced a plan on Sept. 3, 2013, to use 47 billion yen to tackle a massive buildup of radioactive water at the plant crippled since the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami.

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Fukushima Daiichi plant

TOKYO, Japan - An Aug. 31, 2013, photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture. The Japanese government announced a plan on Sept. 3, 2013, to use 47 billion yen to tackle a massive buildup of radioactive water at the plant crippled since the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami.

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Akihabara voice actor cafe

TOKYO, Japan - A staff member of Seiyu Cafe (voice actor cafe) reads lines in the voice of an anime character at the cafe in Akihabara, Tokyo, on Aug. 31, 2011. All staff members are professional voice actors. Customers can ask them to read lines from a character of their choosing.

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Hopes for reconstruction written on '1,000 scallop shells'

OFUNATO, Japan - Photo taken on Aug. 31, 2011 shows 1,000 origami paper ornaments folded in the shape of scallop shells decorating Koishihama station in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture. Local people used to use real shells from farmed scallops, on which they wrote their wishes, but the scallop farming industry, along with the rail track, was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. Visitors to the station, which has been out of operation since March 11, now write their wishes for the reconstruction of the area on the paper shells.

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N. Korea cruise tour to Mt. Kumgang

PYONGYANG, North Korea - An image captured from video shows the passenger ship Mangyongbong berthed at Kosong port in Kangwon Province, North Korea, on Aug. 31, 2011. North Korea commenced a cruise tour using the vessel for foreign travelers to visit the Mt. Kumgang resort after expropriating facilities at the resort that had been operated by a South Korean developer.

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Aquino, Hu meet in Beijing

BEIJING, China - Philippine President Benigno Aquino (L) and Chinese President Hu Jintao toast at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Aug. 31, 2011.

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Aquino, Hu meet in Beijing

BEIJING, China - Philippine President Benigno Aquino (L front) is escorted by Chinese President Hu Jintao (R front) at a welcoming ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Aug. 31, 2011.

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Finland music center opens with help from Japanese acoustician

HELSINKI, Finland - Photo taken on Aug. 31, 2011 shows the exterior of the Helsinki Music Center, which officially opened the same day. The acoustics for the venue have been designed by Japanese sound expert Yasuhisa Toyota.

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B'z, Linkin Park put on aid show

LOS ANGELES, United States - Members of two rock groups, including Koshi Inaba (2nd from R), who holds a school bag to be presented to a child who suffered in the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, of B'z from Japan and Mike Shinoda (far L) of Linkin Park from the United States, attend a press conference in Los Angeles on Aug. 31, 2011. The groups put on a show in Los Angeles the same day to raise money for parts of Japan stricken by the disaster.

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B'z, Linkin Park put on aid stage

LOS ANGELES, United States - Members of two rock groups, including Koshi Inaba (2nd from R) of B'z from Japan and Mike Shinoda (far L) of Linkin Park from the United States, attend a press conference in Los Angeles on Aug. 31, 2011. The groups put on a show in Los Angeles the same day to aid people affected by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami disaster in Japan.

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Japan's Ito defeated in 1st round of U.S. Open

NEW YORK, United States - Japan's Tatsuma Ito returns the ball to Feliciano Lopez of Spain in a men's singles first-round match at the U.S. Open tennis championships in New York on Aug. 31, 2011. Ito was defeated by Lopez 2-6, 4-6, 4-6.

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Cirstea-Morita advance to 2nd round of U.S. Open

NEW YORK, United States - Ayumi Morita of Japan (L) and Sorana Cirstea of Russia celebrate after defeating Australian pair Casey Dellacqua and Rennae Stubbs 7-5, 4-6, 6-2 in a women's doubles first-round match at the U.S. Open tennis championships in New York on Aug. 31, 2011. Morita and Cirstea will meet Spanish pair Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez and Anabel Medina Garrigues in the second round.

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Japan's Kameda defends crown

TOKYO, Japan - WBA bantamweight champion Koki Kameda of Japan poses with his title belt at Nippon Budokan in Tokyo on Aug. 31, 2011, after defending his crown for the second time in a unanimous decision over Mexican challenger David De La Mora.

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Philippine President Aquino in China

BEIJING, China - Philippine President Benigno Aquino (L) and Chinese President Hu Jintao raise their glasses in Beijing on Aug. 31, 2011. Aquino aims at expanding trade and investments with China during his visit to the country.

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Japan's Shimizu wins super flyweight title

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese challenger Tomonobu Shimizu (R) lands a punch on Mexican champion Hugo Cazares in the second round at Nippon Budokan in Tokyo on Aug. 31, 2011. Shimizu won the WBA super flyweight title in a 2-1 decision over Cazares.

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Japan's Kameda defends crown

TOKYO, Japan - WBA bantamweight champion Koki Kameda (R) knocks down Mexican challenger David De La Mora in the third round at Nippon Budokan in Tokyo on Aug. 31, 2011. Kameda defended his title for the second time in a unanimous decision.

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Sony, Toshiba, Hitachi agree on small LCD business merger

TOKYO, Japan - (From L) Kimikazu Nomi, president of the government-backed Innovation Network Corporation of Japan, Toshiba Corp. President Norio Sasaki, Hitachi Ltd. President Hiroaki Nakanishi, and Sony Corp. Executive Deputy President Hiroshi Yoshioka hold hands in Tokyo on Aug. 31, 2011. Sony, Toshiba and Hitachi agreed to integrate their businesses on small and medium-sized liquid crystal display panels for smartphones and tablet computers.

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Sony's tablet computers

TOKYO, Japan - Sony Corp. Executive Deputy President Kazuo Hirai presents two types of tablet computers in Berlin on Aug. 31, 2011, ahead of the opening there of a trade show for consumer electronics and appliances. The company's first such devices come in two models, one with a 9.4-inch display and the other having two 5.5-inch folding displays, will be launched in Europe, the United States and Japan from this fall.

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Japanese actress Sugimoto

TOKYO, Japan - Actress Aya Sugimoto poses during a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 31, 2011. Sugimoto announced that she married her business partner in April 2011.

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Japan's Shimizu wins super flyweight title

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese boxer Tomonobu Shimizu raises his fists at Nippon Budokan in Tokyo on Aug. 31, 2011, after defeating Hugo Cazares of Mexico to claim the WBA super flyweight title in a 2-1 decision.

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Japanese footballers prepare for World Cup q'fiers

SAITAMA, Japan - Japan national soccer team members including Shinji Kagawa (R), Genki Haraguchi (2nd from R) and Atsuto Uchida (L) practice in Saitama on Aug. 31, 2011, in preparation for the upcoming World Cup qualifiers against North Korea and Uzbekistan.

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N. Korean official in charge of Japanese affairs

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Kim Chol Ho, vice director of the North Korean Foreign Ministry's Asian Affairs Department, speaks during an interview with Japanese media in Pyongyang on Aug. 31, 2011.

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Japanese footballers prepare for World Cup q'fiers

SAITAMA, Japan - Japan national soccer team members including (from L, front) Junya Tanaka, Genki Haraguchi and Tadanari Lee are put through their paces in Saitama on Aug. 31, 2011, in preparation for the upcoming World Cup qualifiers against North Korea and Uzbekistan.

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Photos without owners in disaster-hit Miyagi Pref.

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - People look through photographs displayed in the quake- and tsunami-hit town of Minamisanriku in Miyagi Prefecture on Aug. 31, 2011, the last day of an exhibition aimed at returning the photos, as well as other personal items, to their owners. Of some 200,000 items retrieved by volunteer workers, about 40,000 items, including photographs, have been returned to their owners.

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New leadership of Japan's ruling party

TOKYO, Japan - (From L) Democratic Party of Japan President Yoshihiko Noda, Azuma Koshiishi, secretary general of the DPJ, Seiji Maehara, DPJ policy chief, and Hirofumi Hirano, the party's Diet affairs chief, raise their fists at a DPJ lawmaker meeting in Tokyo on Aug. 31, 2011. The ruling DPJ launched its new leadership the same day under its president Noda.

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Sony's HMD

TOKYO, Japan - Sony Corp. released a new head-mounted display with three dimensional vision during a demonstration in Tokyo on Aug. 31, 2011. The device is used by connecting it to a blue-ray disk player or a game console.

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New DPJ secretary general

TOKYO, Japan - Democratic Party of Japan lawmaker Azuma Koshiishi speaks during a meeting of party parliamentarians in Tokyo on Aug. 31, 2011. The DPJ the same day launched its new leadership under the President and incoming Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, with the No. 2 post of secretary general handed to Koshiishi, a close ally of party power broker Ichiro Ozawa.

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Astronaut Yamazaki eyes being outer space educator

TOKYO, Japan - Astronaut Naoko Yamazaki speaks during a press conference at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency in Tokyo on Aug. 31, 2011. Yamazaki said she wants to work as a freelance outer space educator after resigning from the space agency that day.

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Only 6 of 82 quake-hit schools restored in Iwate, Miyagi

SENDAI, Japan - Kesennuma Koyo High School in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, is still damaged on Aug. 28, 2011, more than five months after the March quake and tsunami. The local education board said on Aug. 31, 2011, rebuilding is complete or will soon be finished for only six out of a total of 82 public schools in Iwate and Miyagi prefectures, which were severely damaged by the disaster.