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3 years after quake-tsunami

SENDAI, Japan - Photos taken from Kyodo News helicopter show a coastal area of Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, on April 10, 2011 (L), nearly a month after the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, and on Feb. 27, 2014 (R).

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11 months after tsunami

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Restoration work is under way as many gravestones remain tumbled in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on Feb. 10, 2012, nearly 11 months after the March 2011 quake and tsunami.

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11 months after tsunami

KAMAISHI, Japan - Lights are lit at temporary housing units in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, for people hit by the March 2011 quake as evening came down on Feb. 10, 2012, nearly 11 months after the disaster.

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11 months after tsunami

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Ravage of the March 2011 tsunami remains in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on Feb. 10, 2012, nearly 11 months after the disaster.

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11 months after tsunami

KESENNUMA, Japan - Burned cars are piled up and a large ship brought by the March 2011 tsunami remained ashore in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on Feb. 10, 2012, nearly 11 months after the disaster.

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S. Korean lawmakers head to industrial complex in N. Korea

PAJU, South Korea - South Korean lawmakers from the ruling and opposition parties wave in Paju, South Korea, on Feb. 10, 2012, before heading to the joint inter-Korean industrial complex in the North Korean border city Kaesong. It is the first visit to the complex by South Korean lawmakers after the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il in December 2011.

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Japan launches postquake reconstruction agency

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda (L) and Tatsuo Hirano, the Cabinet minister who heads a new agency to promote the reconstruction of areas ravaged by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, put up a signboard bearing the name of the agency at the new entity in Tokyo on Feb. 10, 2012, as it was launched the same day. (Pool Photo)

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Japan launches postquake reconstruction agency

TOKYO, Japan - Tatsuo Hirano, the Cabinet minister who heads a new agency to promote reconstruction of areas ravaged by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, speaks during a press conference in Tokyo as the agency was launched on Feb. 10, 2012.

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Protest in Cairo

CAIRO, Egypt - Antigovernment protesters demonstrate in Cairo, calling for the immediate resignation of President Hosni Mubarak on Feb. 10, 2011.

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New Olympus president

TOKYO, Japan - Michael Woodford, the British president of Olympus Europa Holdings GmbH (R), shakes hands with Tsuyoshi Kikukawa, president of Olympus Corp., during a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 10, 2011. The Japanese precision instruments maker said Woodford will succeed Kikukawa on April 1.

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Ozawa spurns Kan's call to leave DPJ

TOKYO, Japan - Former Democratic Party of Japan leader Ichiro Ozawa speaks during a press conference in Tokyo after holding a one-on-one meeting with Prime Minister Naoto Kan, current head of the DPJ, on Feb. 10, 2011. Ozawa said he was urged by Kan to leave the ruling party following his indictment last week over a funds scandal. DPJ Secretary General Katsuya Okada said the same day that Ozawa had refused to do so voluntarily and that the party will begin the process of taking punitive action against him on Monday.

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Japan-Australia FTA talks

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese farm minister Michihiko Kano speaks during a press conference at his ministry in Tokyo on Feb. 10, 2011, on free trade negotiations between Japan and Australia. The two countries ended their latest round of bilateral free trade negotiations the same day in Tokyo apparently without seeing a substantial breakthrough over the major sticking point of farm trade issues.

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Sapporo to make Pokka subsidiary

TOKYO, Japan - Sapporo Holdings Ltd. Managing Director Tsutomu Kamijo (L), who is set to become the next president of the holding firm of beverage makers, Masatoshi Hori, president of another beverage producer Pokka Corp. (C) and Takao Murakami, current president of Sapporo Holdings (R), shake hands during a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 10, 2011. The two companies said Sapporo will turn Pokka into a subsidiary in late March as a first step to integrate their management in April 2012, in an effort to better compete in drink and food markets amid an adverse business environment.

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Ozawa spurns Kan's call to leave DPJ

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Naoto Kan meets reporters at his office in Tokyo after holding a one-on-one meeting with former Democratic Party of Japan leader Ichiro Ozawa there on Feb. 10, 2011. Ozawa said he was urged by Kan to leave the ruling party following his indictment last week over a funds scandal. DPJ Secretary General Katsuya Okada said the same day that Ozawa had refused to do so voluntarily and that the party will begin the process of taking punitive action against him on Monday.

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Ozawa spurns Kan's call to leave DPJ

TOKYO, Japan - Former Democratic Party of Japan leader Ichiro Ozawa enters the prime minister's office in Tokyo for a one-on-one meeting with Prime Minister Naoto Kan, current head of the DPJ, on Feb. 10, 2011. Ozawa said after their hourlong meeting he was urged by Kan to voluntarily leave the ruling party following his indictment last week over a funds scandal. DPJ Secretary General Katsuya Okada said the same day that Ozawa had refused to do so voluntarily and that the party will begin the process of taking punitive action against Ozawa on Monday.

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First snow of season comes late in Beijing

BEIJING, China - The Forbidden City is covered by snow in Beijing on Feb. 10, 2011, after the first snow of the season came at the latest time in 60 years.

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Dentsu new president

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Dentsu Inc. Executive Vice President Tadashi Ishii. The major ad agency has decided that Ishii will succeed President Tatsuyoshi Takashima in April, company sources said on Feb. 10, 2011.

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First snow of season comes late in Beijing

BEIJING, China - Armed police officers remove snow at Tiananmen Square in Beijing on Feb. 10, 2011, after the first snow of the season came at the latest time in 60 years.

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First snow of season comes late in Beijing

BEIJING, China - An armed police officer stands guard at Tiananmen Square in Beijing on Feb. 10, 2011, after the first snow of the season came at the latest time in 60 years.

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10th anniversary of U.S. sub-Ehime Maru collision

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Students of Uwajima Fisheries High School in Ehime Prefecture offer flowers at a cenotaph in the school premises to commemorate the collision between the school's fisheries boat Ehime Maru and the U.S. submarine Greenville off Hawaii on the 10th anniversary of the incident on Feb. 10, 2011. Nine of the 35 people on the boat -- four students, two teachers and three crew members -- were killed in the collision.