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Yankees' spring training camp

TAMPA, United States - New York Yankees' Japanese pitchers Masahiro Tanaka (L) and Hiroki Kuroda are pictured during fielding practice at the major league baseball team's spring training camp in Tampa, Florida, on Feb. 17, 2013.

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Suntory Holdings sees record net profit

OSAKA, Japan - Nobutada Saji, president of Suntory Holdings Ltd., holds a press conference in Osaka on Feb. 17, 2014, to release the company's earnings results for the year ended Dec. 31, 2013. The company said its group net profit in 2013 rose 5.3-fold from 2012 to a record 195.57 billion yen due to the sale of shares in Suntory Beverage & Food Ltd. through the subsidiary's initial public offering.

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Suntory Holdings sees record net profit

OSAKA, Japan - Nobutada Saji, president of Suntory Holdings Ltd., holds a press conference in Osaka on Feb. 17, 2014, to release the company's earnings results for the year ended Dec. 31, 2013. The company said its group net profit in 2013 rose 5.3-fold from 2012 to a record 195.57 billion yen due to the sale of shares in Suntory Beverage & Food Ltd. through the subsidiary's initial public offering.

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2 years after quake

SENDAI, Japan - Photos show a baggage turnstile at Sendai Airport in Miyagi Prefecture on March 17, 2011 (top), shortly after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same location on Feb. 28, 2013. Flight services at the airport, which was inundated by the tsunami, resumed around a month after the disaster.

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World's oldest woman

OSAKA, Japan - A Jan. 17, 2013, photo shows Misao Okawa, a 114-year-old resident of the western Japanese city of Osaka. She is expected to be recognized by the Guinness World Records as the world's oldest woman, people close to her said on Feb. 23, 2013.

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Chelyabinsk after meteor strike

CHELYABINSK, Russia - Photo shows downtown Chelyabinsk on Feb. 17, 2013, two days after fragments of a meteor struck the Ural region of Russia.

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Filmmaker Kurosawa

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998). Kurosawa and three of his collaborators were honored by the Writers Guild of America, West at a ceremony in Los Angeles on Feb. 17, 2013, for their outstanding contributions to screenwriting.

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China air pollution

BEIJING, China - Photo dated Feb. 17, 2013, shows a road as air pollution blankets Beijing, China.

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China air pollution

BEIJING, China - Photo dated Feb. 17, 2013, shows an area of Beijing as air pollution blankets the Chinese capital.

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Kawabata's early novel

FUKUOKA, Japan - Photo shows copies of a serialized novel titled "Utsukushii!" (Beautiful!) published in the 1920s in the southwestern Japan newspaper Fukuoka Nichinichi Shimbun. Researcher Takumi Ishikawa said Feb. 17, 2013, that the novel has been confirmed as an early work of Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972).

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Evacuation drill for Japanese in Cobra Gold

PATTAYA, Thailand - Japanese nationals board a U.S. military airplane during a practice operation, part of the Cobra Gold multinational military exercise, for evacuating and transporting Japanese nationals at the beach resort of Pattaya in Thailand on Feb. 17, 2013.

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Kawabata's early novel

TOKYO, Japan - This 1966 file photo shows Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972). Researcher Takumi Ishikawa said Feb. 17, 2013, that a serialized novel titled "Utsukushii!" (Beautiful!), published in the 1920s in the southwestern Japan newspaper Fukuoka Nichinichi Shimbun, has been confirmed as an early work of Kawabata.

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Evacuation drill for Japanese in Cobra Gold

PATTAYA, Thailand - Japanese nationals board a U.S. military airplane during a practice operation, part of the Cobra Gold multinational military exercise, for evacuating and transporting Japanese nationals at the beach resort of Pattaya in Thailand on Feb. 17, 2013.

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Evacuation drill for Japanese in Cobra Gold

PATTAYA, Thailand - A member of Japan's Self-Defense Forces directs Japanese nationals during a practice operation, part of the Cobra Gold multinational military exercise, for evacuating and transporting Japanese nationals at the beach resort of Pattaya in Thailand on Feb. 17, 2013.

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Guam Catholics offer mass for rampage victims

GUAM, United States - A special mass is held at Guam's main Catholic church on Feb. 17, 2013, for the victims of a vehicle and knife rampage on Feb. 12 that left three Japanese tourists dead and 11 others injured.

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Astronaut Wakata to be 1st Japanese captain of ISS

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata speaks in a teleconference telecast from Houston, Texas, at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Tokyo office on Feb. 17, 2011. Wakata will stay at the International Space Station for six months starting at the end of 2013 and will serve as the first Japanese captain of the ISS in the last two months of the mission.

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Astronaut Wakata to be 1st Japanese captain of ISS

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata speaks in a teleconference telecast from Houston, Texas, at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Tokyo office on Feb. 17, 2011. Wakata will stay at the International Space Station for six months starting at the end of 2013 and will serve as the first Japanese captain of the ISS in the last two months of the mission.

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Astronaut Wakata to be 1st Japanese captain of ISS

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata speaks in a teleconference telecast from Houston, Texas, at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Tokyo office on Feb. 17, 2011. Wakata will stay at the International Space Station for six months starting at the end of 2013 and will serve as the first Japanese captain of the ISS in the last two months of the mission.