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Photo exhibit at U.N. on 2011 disaster recovery

NEW YORK, United States - Kiyoshi Murakami (L), representative of nonprofit organization Aid TAKATA which serves as a liaison council for supporting Iwate Prefecture's Rikuzentakata, Sendai Mayor Emiko Okuyama (C), and Fumihiko Imamura, director of Tohoku University's International Research Institute of Disaster Science, stand in front of photo panels on the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster displayed at the U.N. headquarters in New York on July 9, 2014.

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Sendai mayor explains photos on 2011 disaster at U.N.

NEW YORK, United States - Sendai Mayor Emiko Okuyama explains photographs and graphics on the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster in northeastern Japan and ensuing recovery efforts exhibited at the United Nations headquarters in New York on July 9, 2014. The third U.N. World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction will be held next March in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture.

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Sochi figure skating winner Hanyu visits hometown mayor

SENDAI, Japan - Sochi Olympics men's figure skating gold medalist Yuzuru Hanyu (L) receives a "shield of kudos" from Sendai Mayor Emiko Okuyama on Feb. 26, 2014, at the city hall for his achievement at the Winter Games in Russia. Hanyu's success lifted the spirits of many people in Sendai, his hometown, as well as other areas in northeastern Japan that were devastated in the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami catastrophe.

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UNESCO register adds archive of pre-modern Japan mission

SENDAI, Japan - Sendai Mayor Emiko Okuyama answers a reporter's question at the Sendai city hall in Miyagi Prefecture on June 19, 2013. A collection of materials about Keicho Mission, a 17th century mission sent under the order of Sendai feudal lord Date Masamune to the Vatican and Spain, has been selected for the UNESCO Memory of the World registry, the Japanese education ministry said the same day.

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China's Tang presents stuffed panda to Sendai mayor

SENDAI, Japan - China's former Foreign Minister and State Councillor Tang Jiaxuan (R), who currently heads the China-Japan Friendship Association, presents Sendai Mayor Emiko Okuyama with a stuffed panda as a gift at the Sendai city offices in Miyagi Prefecture on April 27, 2012, during his visit to northeastern Japan's biggest city that was hit hard by the March 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster. Okuyama, who is planning to borrow giant pandas from China for the city zoo and bring cheer to Sendai's children, told Tang she looks forward to seeing real pandas in Sendai one day.

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KDDI to open foothold in quake-hit Sendai

SENDAI, Japan - Tadashi Onodera (C), chairman of KDDI Corp., poses with Sendai Mayor Emiko Okuyama (R) in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on Dec. 22, 2011. The operator of ''au'' mobile phone services said the same day it will set up a foothold in the city to register and manage subscribers' data as part of its efforts to create employment in the northeastern Japan region ravaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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Japan quake-hit city desires pandas to be leased

SENDAI, Japan - Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua (L) and Sendai Mayor Emiko Okuyama shake hands at the Sendai city offices in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on Oct. 18, 2011. The mayor of the city, which was hit hard by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, reiterated in a meeting with the ambassador the city's request for China to lease giant pandas to the city-run Yagiyama Zoological Park to cheer up local children affected by the disaster. The city made the request to the Chinese government earlier.

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Amazon Japan Pres. Cheung, Sendai Mayor Okuyama

SENDAI, Japan - Jasper Cheung (L), president of Amazon Japan K.K., shakes hands with Sendai Mayor Emiko Okuyama at the Sendai city office on the afternoon of Sept. 27, 2011. The Japanese unit of U.S.-based Internet commerce giant Amazon.com Inc. said the same day it will open a call center in the capital of Miyagi Prefecture, which was hit by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, in March 2012.

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China ambassador thanks Sendai for supporting Chinese

SENDAI, Japan - Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua (L) hands Sendai Mayor Emiko Okuyama a certificate of appreciation at the city office on April 15, 2011. Cheng thanked the city for helping Chinese survivors of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami who were in the northeastern Japan city at the time, and handed over money donated by Chinese companies.

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DPJ-backed candidate wins Sendai mayoral election

SENDAI, Japan - Opposition-backed Emiko Okuyama celebrates with her supporters after winning the Sendai mayoral election defeating five contenders in Sendai on July 26.

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Japan Day celebrated at Milan expo with Tohoku parade

Sendai Mayor Emiko Okuyama makes a speech ahead of the "Tohoku Revitalization Parade" at Expo Milano on July 11, 2015, designated as Japan Day at the international fair in Milan, Italy. The Tohoku region in northeastern Japan was devastated by the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disasters. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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U.N. forum adopts 7 goals to mitigate disaster risks

Sendai Mayor Emiko Okuyama (L), Japan's minister for disaster management Eriko Yamatani (C) and Margareta Wahlstroem, the U.N. secretary general's special representative for disaster risk reduction, attend a press conference on March 19, 2015, in the northeastern Japan city of Sendai, after participants in the U.N. World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction there agreed on seven global goals to mitigate the risks and damage of disasters. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hyogo gov., Sendai mayor attend disaster prevention symposium

Hyogo Gov. Toshizo Ido (L) and Sendai Mayor Emiko Okuyama (R) flank Margareta Wahlstrom, U.N. Special Representative of the Secretary General for Disaster Risk Reduction, at a symposium on the creation of disaster-resistant cities in the northeastern Japan city of Sendai on March 17, 2015. The event was part of a U.N. disaster reduction conference being held there. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Sendai mayor expresses hopes for March world disaster forum

Sendai Mayor Emiko Okuyama speaks in an interview on Feb. 5, 2015, expressing hopes to use the March 14-18 U.N. World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in the northeastern Japan city to share lessons from the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan quake-hit city desires pandas to be leased

SENDAI, Japan - Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua (L) and Sendai Mayor Emiko Okuyama shake hands at the Sendai city offices in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on Oct. 18, 2011. The mayor of the city, which was hit hard by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, reiterated in a meeting with the ambassador the city's request for China to lease giant pandas to the city-run Yagiyama Zoological Park to cheer up local children affected by the disaster. The city made the request to the Chinese government earlier. (Kyodo)

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Amazon Japan Pres. Cheung, Sendai Mayor Okuyama

SENDAI, Japan - Jasper Cheung (L), president of Amazon Japan K.K., shakes hands with Sendai Mayor Emiko Okuyama at the Sendai city office on the afternoon of Sept. 27, 2011. The Japanese unit of U.S.-based Internet commerce giant Amazon.com Inc. said the same day it will open a call center in the capital of Miyagi Prefecture, which was hit by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, in March 2012. (Kyodo)

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China's Tang presents stuffed panda to Sendai mayor

SENDAI, Japan - China's former Foreign Minister and State Councillor Tang Jiaxuan (R), who currently heads the China-Japan Friendship Association, presents Sendai Mayor Emiko Okuyama with a stuffed panda as a gift at the Sendai city offices in Miyagi Prefecture on April 27, 2012, during his visit to northeastern Japan's biggest city that was hit hard by the March 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster. Okuyama, who is planning to borrow giant pandas from China for the city zoo and bring cheer to Sendai's children, told Tang she looks forward to seeing real pandas in Sendai one day. (Kyodo)

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China ambassador thanks Sendai for supporting Chinese

SENDAI, Japan - Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua (L) hands Sendai Mayor Emiko Okuyama a certificate of appreciation at the city office on April 15, 2011. Cheng thanked the city for helping Chinese survivors of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami who were in the northeastern Japan city at the time, and handed over money donated by Chinese companies. (Kyodo)

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Photo exhibit at U.N. on 2011 disaster recovery

NEW YORK, United States - Kiyoshi Murakami (L), representative of nonprofit organization Aid TAKATA which serves as a liaison council for supporting Iwate Prefecture's Rikuzentakata, Sendai Mayor Emiko Okuyama (C), and Fumihiko Imamura, director of Tohoku University's International Research Institute of Disaster Science, stand in front of photo panels on the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster displayed at the U.N. headquarters in New York on July 9, 2014. (Kyodo)

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Sendai mayor explains photos on 2011 disaster at U.N.

NEW YORK, United States - Sendai Mayor Emiko Okuyama explains photographs and graphics on the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster in northeastern Japan and ensuing recovery efforts exhibited at the United Nations headquarters in New York on July 9, 2014. The third U.N. World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction will be held next March in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture. (Kyodo)

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KDDI to open foothold in quake-hit Sendai

SENDAI, Japan - Tadashi Onodera (C), chairman of KDDI Corp., poses with Sendai Mayor Emiko Okuyama (R) in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on Dec. 22, 2011. The operator of ''au'' mobile phone services said the same day it will set up a foothold in the city to register and manage subscribers' data as part of its efforts to create employment in the northeastern Japan region ravaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo)