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JR East union leader Matsuzaki dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in August 1994 shows former East Japan Railway Workers Union leader Akira Matsuzaki, who died on Dec. 9, 2010, at 74.

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Lanterns in memory of Nagasaki atomic-bomb victims

NAGASAKI, Japan - Lanterns float on the Urakami River in Nagasaki on August 9, 2010, the 65th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the southwestern Japan city. People released the lanterns on the river in memory of the victims of the attack.

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Family OKs organ donation from brain-dead man

OSAKA, Japan - Photo shows the National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center in the city of Suita in Osaka Prefecture on August 9, 2010, which is planning to conduct a transplant operation using organs to be harvested from a brain-dead man whose family approved donation of his organs even though he did not leave his wishes in writing. The approval marks the first such case under Japan's revised organ transplant law