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(240302) -- KUNMING, March 2, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Guo Jin works on a fossil at a museum of Chengjiang Fossil site in Chengjiang City, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Feb. 21, 2024. Guo Jin, a deputy to the 14th National People's Congress (NPC), is the deputy director of a museum of Chengjiang Fossil site in Chengjiang City of Yunnan Province. In the past 17 years, he has devoted himself to paleontology research and participated in the preparation work for the world heritage application of the Chengjiang Fossil site. The fossil site was approved to join the World Heritage List in 2012. Guo and his team leveraged modern technological means in exhibiting and injected new vitality into fossils through 3D restoration animation videos and interactive designs. By participating in the design of cultural and creative products, introducing new technologies like AR (augmented reality), 4D cinema, 8K spherical theater, they kept exploring new ways of science popularization. Guo insisted on listening and respo

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U.S.-NEW YORK-NY PHIL-CONCERT-CHINESE LUNAR NEW YEAR

(240221) -- NEW YORK, Feb. 21, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Musicians perform during a concert celebrating the Chinese Lunar New Year by the New York Philharmonic in New York, the United States, Feb. 20, 2024. The New York Philharmonic (NY Phil) illuminated Lincoln Center's David Geffen Hall here on Tuesday with a vibrant concert, marking the Year of the Dragon in glorious fashion. This marked the 12th consecutive year of the NY Phil celebrating the Chinese Lunar New Year, a tradition introduced in 2012 by Chinese conductor Yu Long. (Photo by Winston Zhou/Xinhua)

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U.S.-NEW YORK-NY PHIL-CONCERT-CHINESE LUNAR NEW YEAR

(240221) -- NEW YORK, Feb. 21, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Musicians perform during a concert celebrating the Chinese Lunar New Year by the New York Philharmonic in New York, the United States, Feb. 20, 2024. The New York Philharmonic (NY Phil) illuminated Lincoln Center's David Geffen Hall here on Tuesday with a vibrant concert, marking the Year of the Dragon in glorious fashion. This marked the 12th consecutive year of the NY Phil celebrating the Chinese Lunar New Year, a tradition introduced in 2012 by Chinese conductor Yu Long. (Photo by Winston Zhou/Xinhua)

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U.S.-NEW YORK-NY PHIL-CONCERT-CHINESE LUNAR NEW YEAR

(240221) -- NEW YORK, Feb. 21, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Musicians perform during a concert celebrating the Chinese Lunar New Year by the New York Philharmonic in New York, the United States, Feb. 20, 2024. The New York Philharmonic (NY Phil) illuminated Lincoln Center's David Geffen Hall here on Tuesday with a vibrant concert, marking the Year of the Dragon in glorious fashion. This marked the 12th consecutive year of the NY Phil celebrating the Chinese Lunar New Year, a tradition introduced in 2012 by Chinese conductor Yu Long. (Photo by Winston Zhou/Xinhua)

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U.S.-NEW YORK-NY PHIL-CONCERT-CHINESE LUNAR NEW YEAR

(240221) -- NEW YORK, Feb. 21, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Musicians perform during a concert celebrating the Chinese Lunar New Year by the New York Philharmonic in New York, the United States, Feb. 20, 2024. The New York Philharmonic (NY Phil) illuminated Lincoln Center's David Geffen Hall here on Tuesday with a vibrant concert, marking the Year of the Dragon in glorious fashion. This marked the 12th consecutive year of the NY Phil celebrating the Chinese Lunar New Year, a tradition introduced in 2012 by Chinese conductor Yu Long. (Photo by Winston Zhou/Xinhua)

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CHINA-GUANGXI-DAHUA-WATER SUPPLY-DEVELOPMENT (CN)

(230321) --DAHUA, March 21, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Feb. 7, 2021 shows cadres checking on a drought resisting emergency water supply equipment at Bahao Village in Bansheng Township, Dahua Yao Autonomous County, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Situated at the center of the Karst landforms in west Guangxi, Dahua Yao Autonomous County had suffered from severe water deficit for ages. Since 2012, local government has been managing the water deficit through various measures like building water tanks or reservoirs to collect water or constructing water supply projects which could divert river water onto mountain areas to ease water shortage and provide safe drinking water for local people. Afters years of efforts, safe and convenient water supply is no longer a problem for the over 200,000 rural population in Dahua. (Xinhua/Huang Xiaobang)

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CHINA-GUANGXI-DAHUA-WATER SUPPLY-DEVELOPMENT (CN)

(230321) --DAHUA, March 21, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Feb. 12, 2015 shows a villager collecting rainwater on rooftop after a heavy rainfall in Nongyong Village of Bansheng Township, Dahua Yao Autonomous County, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Situated at the center of the Karst landforms in west Guangxi, Dahua Yao Autonomous County had suffered from severe water deficit for ages. Since 2012, local government has been managing the water deficit through various measures like building water tanks or reservoirs to collect water or constructing water supply projects which could divert river water onto mountain areas to ease water shortage and provide safe drinking water for local people. Afters years of efforts, safe and convenient water supply is no longer a problem for the over 200,000 rural population in Dahua. (Xinhua/Huang Xiaobang)

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CHINA-GUANGXI-DAHUA-WATER SUPPLY-DEVELOPMENT (CN)

(230321) --DAHUA, March 21, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Feb. 6, 2021 shows a water purifier installed in Shanghe Village of Jiangnan Township, Dahua Yao Autonomous County, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Situated at the center of the Karst landforms in west Guangxi, Dahua Yao Autonomous County had suffered from severe water deficit for ages. Since 2012, local government has been managing the water deficit through various measures like building water tanks or reservoirs to collect water or constructing water supply projects which could divert river water onto mountain areas to ease water shortage and provide safe drinking water for local people. Afters years of efforts, safe and convenient water supply is no longer a problem for the over 200,000 rural population in Dahua. (Xinhua/Huang Xiaobang)

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CHINA-GUANGXI-DAHUA-WATER SUPPLY-DEVELOPMENT (CN)

(230321) --DAHUA, March 21, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This combined photo shows villager Lan Caihong displaying a water heater and a laundry machine installed at his home in Nongyong Village of Bansheng Township, Dahua Yao Autonomous County, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (Top, taken on Jan. 21, 2023) and villager Lan Caihong collecting rainwater with buckets and pots under his roof at his home in Nongyong Village (taken on Feb. 14, 2015) . Situated at the center of the Karst landforms in west Guangxi, Dahua Yao Autonomous County had suffered from severe water deficit for ages. Since 2012, local government has been managing the water deficit through various measures like building water tanks or reservoirs to collect water or constructing water supply projects which could divert river water onto mountain areas to ease water shortage and provide safe drinking water for local people. Afters years of efforts, safe and convenient water supply is no longer a problem for the over 200,000 rural population in

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CHINA-GUANGXI-DAHUA-WATER SUPPLY-DEVELOPMENT (CN)

(230321) --DAHUA, March 21, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This aerial photo taken on Feb. 6, 2021 shows household water tanks in Shanghe Village of Jiangnan Township, Dahua Yao Autonomous County, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Situated at the center of the Karst landforms in west Guangxi, Dahua Yao Autonomous County had suffered from severe water deficit for ages. Since 2012, local government has been managing the water deficit through various measures like building water tanks or reservoirs to collect water or constructing water supply projects which could divert river water onto mountain areas to ease water shortage and provide safe drinking water for local people. Afters years of efforts, safe and convenient water supply is no longer a problem for the over 200,000 rural population in Dahua. (Xinhua/Huang Xiaobang)

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Radiation expert fighting Fukushima contamination

TOKYO, Japan - Shinzo Kimura (L), a radiation hygiene expert, gives a lecture on radiation during a local women's association meeting in Nihommatsu, Fukushima Prefecture, on Feb. 21, 2012. The 44-year-old scientist quit his job at the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health when his boss at the government-affiliated institute refused to give the green light for his trip to Fukushima to collect soil and air samples immediately after the explosion at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on March 12, 2011.

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Japan support in S. Sudan

JUBA, South Sudan - An oil tanker crosses Juba Bridge in Juba, South Sudan, on Feb. 21, 2012. The construction of a new bridge is being considered as the existing bridge has partially collapsed in the past.

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Japan support in S. Sudan

JUBA, South Sudan - Residents walk on an unsurfaced road in Juba, South Sudan, on Feb. 21, 2012.

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E. Timor palace guard

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Members of the guard in ethnic attire stand outside the presidential palace in Dili, East Timor, on Feb. 21, 2012.

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Rangers spring camp

SURPRISE, United States - Texas Rangers general manager Jon Daniels answers reporters' questions in Surprise, Arizona on Feb. 21, 2012.

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Rangers spring camp

SURPRISE, United States - Texas Rangers pitcher Yu Darvish practices in Surprise, Arizona on Feb. 21, 2012. The photo was taken from a distance because the training session was closed to reporters.

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Rangers spring camp

SURPRISE, United States - Texas Rangers pitchers Yu Darvish (R) and Derek Holland head to a training session in Surprise, Arizona on Feb. 21, 2012.

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Rangers spring camp

SURPRISE, United States - Texas Rangers pitchers Yu Darvish (R) and Derek Holland head to a training session in Surprise, Arizona on Feb. 21, 2012.

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Kuwait scraps nuclear power

KUWAIT, Kuwait - Osama Al-Sayegh, a research scientist at the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, speaks to reporters at the Kuwaiti government research body in Kuwait City on Feb. 21, 2012. He said Kuwait is no longer pursuing nuclear power following the Fukushima disaster in Japan, scrapping a plan to build four reactors by 2022.

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Peeping club raided

TOKYO, Japan - A girl is escorted out of a club in Tokyo. Police raided the establishment on the evening of Feb. 21, 2012, on suspicion that it was putting teenage girls in harmful situations. Customers watch girls dressed in high school uniforms in a room at the club through a one-way mirror as the girls sometimes give the men a glimpse of their panties.

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Rangers spring camp

SURPRISE, United States - Texas Rangers manager Ron Washington answers reporters' questions in Surprise, Arizona on Feb. 21, 2012.

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Rally against repatriating N. Koreans

SEOUL, South Korea - People attend a rally in front of the Chinese Embassy in Seoul on Feb. 21, 2012, to urge Beijing not to repatriate North Koreans who have been caught in China after escaping from North Korea.

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French industry minister

TOKYO, Japan - French industry and energy minister Eric Besson speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 21, 2012.

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Japan, Mozambique prime ministers

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda (R) and Mozambique Prime Minister Aires Ali shake hands ahead of their talks at the Japanese prime minister's office in Tokyo on Feb. 21, 2012.

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Election in Yemen

SANAA, Yemen - Men show off ink marks on their thumbs, indicating they have cast their votes in a presidential election, in Sanaa, Yemen's capital, on Feb. 21, 2012. Vice President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi is the only candidate in the election to replace outgoing President Ali Abdullah Saleh.

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Defense chief encourages GSDF members in S. Sudan

TOKYO, Japan - Defense Minister Naoki Tanaka (C) speaks in the ministry in Tokyo on Feb. 21, 2012, via videophone with Col. Toru Namatame (R) of the Ground Self-Defense Force deployed in South Sudan. Tanaka encouraged GSDF personnel who arrived in the African nation the previous day to join a U.N. peacekeeping mission.

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Cemetery for NZ quake victims

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand - New Zealand Prime Minister John Key (C) and others attend a ceremony in Christchurch on Feb. 21, 2012, to open a special cemetery for victims of the Feb. 22, 2011, earthquake in the city whose remains could not be identified.

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GSDF engineers in South Sudan

JUBA, South Sudan - A Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force engineer puts on a blue helmet marked UN in the South Sudan capital of Juba on Feb. 21, 2012. Japan has dispatched the first batch of around 120 GSDF engineers to construct roads in the fledgling African nation as part of a U.N. peacekeeping mission.

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GSDF engineers in South Sudan

JUBA, South Sudan - Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force engineers receive blue helmets marked UN in the South Sudan capital of Juba on Feb. 21, 2012. Japan has dispatched the first batch of around 120 GSDF engineers to construct roads in the fledgling African nation as part of a U.N. peacekeeping mission.

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Election in Yemen

SANAA, Yemen - Yemeni Vice President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi (L front) arrives at a polling station in Sanaa, Yemen's capital, on Feb. 21, 2012, to cast his vote in an election to replace outgoing President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Hadi is the only candidate in the election.

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Ando debuts as model

TOKYO, Japan - Figure skater Miki Ando, reigning world gold medalist, makes a debut as a fashion model on Feb. 21, 2012, appearing in a wedding dress show as a guest model in Tokyo.

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Election in Yemen

SANAA, Yemen - Yemeni Vice President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi speaks with reporters on Feb. 21, 2012, after casting his vote at a polling station in Sanaa, Yemen's capital, in an election to replace outgoing President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Hadi is the only candidate in the election.

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Japan campaign to attract tourists

TOKYO, Japan - Tourism minister Takeshi Maeda speaks in a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 21, 2012. Japan launched a special campaign the same day to attract foreign tourists through late April 2012 under the slogan ''Japan. Thank You,'' which is also meant to express gratitude for global support following the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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Japan coach Sekizuka

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Japan Under-23 soccer coach Takashi Sekizuka speaks during a press conference in Kuala Lumpur on Feb. 21, 2012, on the eve of a game against Malaysia in Group C of the Asian final qualifiers for the London Olympics.

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1 year after N.Z. quake

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand - A damaged building is seen being demolished in a section of Christchurch, New Zealand, on Feb. 21, 2012. The area has been off-limits for nearly a year since the Feb. 22, 2011, quake.

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Hitachi's humanoid robot

TOKYO, Japan - Hitachi Ltd. unveils to the press the EMIEW2, a humanoid service robot with communicative functions, at the company's research laboratory in Kokubunji, Tokyo, on Feb. 21, 2012.

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N. Korea envoy in China

BEIJING, China - North Korean First Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye Gwan arrives at Beijing airport on Feb. 21, 2012, for a meeting with Glyn Davies, U.S. special envoy for North Korean policy.

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Commemorative coins

TOKYO, Japan - Combination photo shows both sides of a commemorative 10,000-yen coin to be issued to support efforts to rebuild areas hit by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. Japan on Feb. 21, 2012, announced a plan to issue 1,000-yen and 10,000-yen commemorative coins. The side on the right shows a design of the lone pine tree that survived the tsunami in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, and doves. The tree, dubbed by residents the ''miracle pine,'' has become a symbol of the city's reconstruction.

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1 year after N.Z. quake

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand - Flowers are seen attached to a wire fence on Feb. 21, 2012, around the site where the Canterbury Television building in Christchurch, New Zealand, was located before the Feb. 22, 2011, quake.

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1 year after N.Z. quake

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand - Damaged buildings and debris are left in a section of Christchurch, New Zealand, on Feb. 21, 2012. The area has been off-limits for nearly a year since the Feb. 22, 2011, quake.

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Yemen ahead of election

SANAA, Yemen - Photo taken Feb. 19, 2012, shows a poster of Yemeni Vice President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi (R) in Sanaa, Yemen's capital, ahead of an election Feb. 21 to replace outgoing President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Hadi is the only candidate in the election.

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Yemen ahead of election

SANAA, Yemen - Photo taken Feb. 19, 2012, shows a young man wearing a T-shirt with the image of Yemeni Vice President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi in Sanaa, Yemen's capital, ahead of an election Feb. 21 to replace outgoing President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Hadi is the only candidate in the election.

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Kyokawa, a new Nadeshiko

SENDAI, Japan - Mai Kyokawa, an 18-year-old striker at Tokiwagi Gakuen High School in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, shows her soccer ball control skills before reporters in Sendai on Feb. 20, 2012, after she was selected as a member of the Japan national women's soccer team, nicknamed Nadeshiko, for the first time. The Japan Football Association announced the same day that injured FIFA Women's World Player of the Year Homare Sawa and Kyokawa were among a 21-member squad for the upcoming Algarve Cup in Portugal.

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Kyokawa, a new Nadeshiko

SENDAI, Japan - Mai Kyokawa, an 18-year-old striker at Tokiwagi Gakuen High School in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, holds a press conference in Sendai on Feb. 20, 2012, after she was selected as a member of the Japan national women's soccer team, nicknamed Nadeshiko, for the first time. The Japan Football Association announced the same day that injured FIFA Women's World Player of the Year Homare Sawa and Kyokawa were among a 21-member squad for the upcoming Algarve Cup in Portugal.

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Tower of Sun's Golden Mask to be exhibited in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Workers reassemble the original Golden Mask, one of the faces of the Tower of the Sun designed by the late artist Taro Okamoto, at the Edo-Tokyo Museum in Tokyo's Sumida Ward on Feb. 13, 2012. The mask is scheduled to be on display from Feb. 21 to May 20, 2012, at the museum, as part of an exhibition commemorating the completion of Tokyo Sky Tree, the world's tallest free-standing tower that will be completed on Feb. 29 and opened for business on May 22 in 2012.

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CHINA-ANHUI-HEFEI-CHAOHU LAKE-CHANGES (CN)

(220921) -- HEFEI, Sept. 21, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Combo photo shows a view of a wetland around the Chaohu Lake on Sept. 6, 2022 (upper, Xinhua/Liu Junxi) and trees at the bank of the Chaohu Lake in Hefei City, east China's Anhui Province, Feb. 17, 2012 (Photo by He Xibin/Xinhua). As the fifth-largest freshwater lake in China, Chaohu Lake is known as the "kidney" of the Yangtze River. In recent years, Hefei City, where Chaohu Lake is located, has taken a slew of measures to strengthen the protection of wetlands around the lake, including banning fishing, land reclamation and waste dumping in designated protected zones. Changes are happening around this freshwater lake, with more rare and endangered species inhabiting its surrounding wetlands. (Xinhua)

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Radiation expert fighting Fukushima contamination

TOKYO, Japan - Shinzo Kimura (L), a radiation hygiene expert, gives a lecture on radiation during a local women's association meeting in Nihommatsu, Fukushima Prefecture, on Feb. 21, 2012. The 44-year-old scientist quit his job at the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health when his boss at the government-affiliated institute refused to give the green light for his trip to Fukushima to collect soil and air samples immediately after the explosion at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on March 12, 2011. (Kyodo)

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Making violin from tsunami debris

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Feb. 21, 2012, in Tokyo shows Muneyuki Nakazawa, a violin maker known globally for restoration and appraisal of Stradivarius and other rare instruments, making a violin from wooden debris from the March 11 earthquake and tsunami found in the city of Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture. A project is under way to have 1,000 violinists from around the world play at various venues in Japan and abroad with violins made from such debris, with the first performance to be given by Ivry Gitlis, an Israeli-born violinist, at a first-anniversary ceremony in Rikuzentakata on March 11. (Kyodo)

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Japan support in S. Sudan

JUBA, South Sudan - An oil tanker crosses Juba Bridge in Juba, South Sudan, on Feb. 21, 2012. The construction of a new bridge is being considered as the existing bridge has partially collapsed in the past. (Kyodo)

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Japan support in S. Sudan

JUBA, South Sudan - Residents walk on an unsurfaced road in Juba, South Sudan, on Feb. 21, 2012. (Kyodo)