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IAEA chief visits idle nuclear plant in Niigata Pref.

International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Grossi (front, L) visits the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture northwest of Tokyo on Feb. 18, 2025. Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. loaded nuclear fuel into one of the reactors at the idle complex in 2024 as part of preparations to potentially restart the plant that was halted after a massive earthquake and tsunami in March 2011 triggered the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

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U.S. students visit tsunami-hit city

OFUNATO, Japan - A student (L) from Del Norte High School in Crescent City, California, and a student from Takata High School in Japan's Iwate Prefecture, eat "hittsumi," a soup dish representative of the local cuisine, that they made together at the Japanese school's temporary facility in Ofunato, Iwate, on Feb. 18, 2014. A group of high school students from northern California visited their peers in the tsunami-hit northeastern Japanese city after helping return to the Japanese high school a boat that was washed across the Pacific Ocean after the March 2011 earthquake.

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Tsunami memorial

OTSUCHI, Japan - Photo on Feb. 18, 2013, shows the former town hall of Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, damaged by a tsunami in the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. Otsuchi Mayor Yutaka Ikarigawa expressed an intention on March 27, 2013, to preserve part of the building as a memorial.

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Nuclear disaster epicenter town being left to ruin

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Photo, taken Feb. 18, 2013, shows a classroom at abandoned Kumamachi Elementary School in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, located in the no-entry area. The date of the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster remains on the whiteboard.

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1 year after N.Z. quake

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand - Photo shows a section of Christchurch, New Zealand, kept off-limits on Feb. 18, 2012, nearly a year after a major quake. Seen in the background is the cathedral damaged in the Feb. 22, 2011, disaster.

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Half year after New Zealand quake

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand - Flowers are offered at the former site of the collapsed Canterbury TV building in Christchurch, New Zealand, on Aug. 18, 2011, about half a year after the Feb. 22 quake.

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Half year after New Zealand quake

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand - A building undergoes demolition in Christchurch, New Zealand, on Aug. 18, 2011, about half a year after the Feb. 22 quake.

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Memorial service for quake victims in N.Z.

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand - Families and acquaintances of quake victims pay floral tribute at a memorial ceremony in Christchurch, New Zealand, on March 18, 2011. The deadly earthquake struck the area on Feb. 22.

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Scenes from Pyongyang

PYONGYANG, North Korea - A street vendor sells beverages near Pyongyang Station on Feb. 18, 2011.

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Scenes from Pyongyang

PYONGYANG, North Korea - A new taxi passes along a street in Pyongyang on Feb. 18, 2011.

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Scenes from Pyongyang

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Customers look at the menu of a restaurant run by the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, a pro-Pyongyang Korean group known as Chongryon, near Pyongyang Station on Feb. 18, 2011.

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Scenes from Pyongyang

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Customers fill a restaurant run by the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, a pro-Pyongyang Korean group known as Chongryon, near Pyongyang Station on Feb. 18, 2011.

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Chinese revolutionary song

BEIJING, China - Chinese citizens sing a ''revolutionary song'' from the era of Chairman Mao Zedong in a park in Chongqing on Feb. 18, 2011. Authorities in the major southwestern Chinese city have been promoting a campaign to sing old revolutionary songs and read the Analects of Confucius to reappraise China's traditional values and ethics.

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Matsui arrives in Phoenix

PHOENIX, United States - Baseball slugger Hideki Matsui arrives in Phoenix on Feb. 18, 2011, to join the Oakland Athletics spring training. Matsui signed a one-year contract with the major league club.

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Matsui arrives in Phoenix

PHOENIX, United States - Baseball slugger Hideki Matsui speaks to reporters after arriving in Phoenix on Feb. 18, 2011, to join the Oakland Athletics spring training. Matsui signed a one-year contract with the major league club.

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Rangers' Tateyama at spring training

SURPRISE, United States - Texas Rangers right-hander Yoshinori Tateyama takes part in practice during his club's spring training in Surprise, Arizona, on Feb. 18, 2011.

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G-20 to discuss global imbalances

PARIS, France - Japanese Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda speaks to reporters in a hotel in Paris on Feb. 18, 2011. The Group of 20 financial chiefs are set to hold a two-day meeting in Paris from later that day to discuss ways to reduce global imbalances and address soaring food and energy prices.

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Ichiro at practice

PEORIA, United States - Seattle Mariners outfielder Ichiro Suzuki practices fielding during practice ahead of the club's spring training in Peoria, Arizona, on Feb. 18, 2011.

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Indonesian foreign minister in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa speaks in a press conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Feb. 18, 2011. He said Cambodia and Thailand must jointly reiterate their commitment not to use force amid ongoing border skirmishes.

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Kan battling pressure to resign

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Naoto Kan speaks to reporters at his office in Tokyo on Feb. 18, 2011. Kan said he is not in the least bit willing to resign as prime minister in exchange for securing parliamentary passage of the fiscal 2011 budget and related bills.

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Ichiro at practice

PEORIA, United States - Seattle Mariners outfielder Ichiro Suzuki is pictured during practice ahead of the club's spring training in Peoria, Arizona, on Feb. 18, 2011.

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Rangers' Tateyama at spring training

SURPRISE, United States - Texas Rangers right-hander Yoshinori Tateyama practices pitching during his club's spring training in Surprise, Arizona, on Feb. 18, 2011.

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Grenoble's Matsui against Istres

GRENOBLE, France - Grenoble (front) midfielder Daisuke Matsui controls the ball during a French second division soccer match against Istres in Grenoble on Feb. 18, 2011. Grenoble lost 2-0.

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Sea Shepherd forces Japan to halt this season's whaling

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows the Japanese research whaling mother ship Nisshin Maru entering Shimonoseki port in Yamaguchi Prefecture in April 2009. Japan said on Feb. 18, 2011, it had halted its research whaling for the current season in the Antarctic Ocean because of obstructive actions by the Sea Shepherd antiwhaling group.

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Egypt celebrates after ousting of Mubarak

CAIRO, Egypt - People gather to celebrate in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Feb. 18, 2011, a week after former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down.

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TSE seeks merger with OSE

TOKYO, Japan - Atsushi Saito, president of Tokyo Stock Exchange Group Inc., speaks during an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo on Feb. 18, 2011. Saito said the TSE is willing to tie up or integrate management with the Osaka Securities Exchange amid increasing consolidation of major stock exchanges worldwide.

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1995 police chief shooting

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows police officers investigating at the scene where then National Police Agency chief Takaji Kunimatsu was shot and seriously injured in front of his home in Tokyo on March 30, 1995. Tokyo police said in a report on Feb. 18, 2011, that they failed to resolve the case due to a shoddy early investigation. The shooting's statute of limitations expired about a year ago and police have blamed the shooting on the AUM Shinrikyo doomsday cult.

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Indonesian foreign minister in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa (L) shakes hands with Japanese Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara ahead of their talks in Tokyo on Feb. 18, 2011.