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Meat turmoil

LONDON, Britain - Photo taken Feb. 3, 2013, shows a meat shop at a market in London, where a board with a message reading "You won't find any horse meat in our burgers!" is displayed as shock spreads in Britain at the detection of horse meat in food products said to contain beef.

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2 years after quake

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Aerial photos taken by Kyodo News show Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture in October 2008 (top), on Feb. 26, 2012 (center), about a year after a nuclear crisis triggered by the earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011, and on March 3, 2013. From back to front are the buildings housing the No. 1 to No. 4 reactors. The bottom photo shows a cover on the No. 1 reactor building used to prevent radioactive particles from being dispersed. Cranes are at work at No. 3 and No. 4 reactor buildings.

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2 years after quake

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Aerial photos taken by Kyodo News show Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture in December 2000 (top), on Feb. 26, 2012 (center), about a year after a nuclear crisis triggered by the earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011, and on March 3, 2013. From right to left are the buildings housing the No. 1 to No. 4 reactors.

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Kabuki actor's funeral

TOKYO, Japan - Kabuki actor Ichikawa Ebizo speaks during the funeral of his father, leading Kabuki actor Ichikawa Danjuro (in portrait) in Tokyo on Feb. 27, 2013. Danjuro died on Feb. 3, 2013, of pneumonia at a Tokyo hospital. He was 66. (Pool photo)

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Uyuni salt flat in Bolivia

UYUNI, Bolivia - A Feb. 3, 2013, photo shows a Bolivian government engineer showing impurities removed through experimental lithium extraction using Japanese technology at a plant for experimental lithium extraction at the Uyuni salt flat in Bolivia. The area is believed to contain half the world's lithium reserves.

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Uyuni salt flat in Bolivia

UYUNI, Bolivia - A Feb. 3, 2013, photo shows Japanese and Bolivian members of a joint project viewing a plant for experimental lithium extraction at the Uyuni salt flat in Bolivia. The area is believed to contain half the world's lithium reserves.

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Fukushima nuclear plant

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the No. 3 reactor building (2nd from front), the cover of which is under construction, at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station of Tokyo Electric Power Co. in Fukushima Prefecture on Feb. 3, 2013.

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Fukushima nuclear plant

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the No. 3 reactor building (2nd from R), the cover of which is under construction, at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station of Tokyo Electric Power Co. in Fukushima Prefecture on Feb. 3, 2013.

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Kabuki actor Ichikawa Danjuro dies

TOKYO, Japan - Kabuki actor Ichikawa Ebizo answers reporters' questions in front of his home in Tokyo on Feb. 4, 2013. His father, leading Kabuki actor Ichikawa Danjuro, died of pneumonia at a Tokyo hospital on Feb. 3, 2013. He was 66.

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Kabuki actor Ichikawa Danjuro dies

TOKYO, Japan - Kabuki actor Ichikawa Ebizo answers reporters' questions in front of his home in Tokyo on Feb. 4, 2013. His father, leading Kabuki actor Ichikawa Danjuro, died of pneumonia at a Tokyo hospital on Feb. 3, 2013. He was 66.

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Kabuki actor Ichikawa Danjuro dies

TOKYO, Japan - Kabuki actor Ichikawa Ebizo answers reporters' questions in front of his home in Tokyo on Feb. 4, 2013. His father, leading Kabuki actor Ichikawa Danjuro, died of pneumonia at a Tokyo hospital on Feb. 3, 2013. He was 66.

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Kabuki actor Ichikawa Danjuro dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in April 2008 shows Kabuki actor Ichikawa Danjuro (front) and his son, Kabuki actor Ichikawa Ebizo, walking in a procession on the approach to Naritasan Shinsho Temple to mark the 1070th anniversary of its foundation in Narita, Chiba Prefecture. Danjuro died of pneumonia at a Tokyo hospital on Feb. 3, 2013. He was 66.

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Sasago tunnel

OTSUKI, Japan - The site of the fatal collapse of an interior roof on Dec. 2, 2012, in the Sasago Tunnel on the Chuo Expressway in Yamanashi Prefecture, west of Tokyo, is shown to reporters on Feb. 3, 2013, for the first time since the accident. Flowers are laid where vehicle fires happened.

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Sasago tunnel

OTSUKI, Japan - The site of the fatal collapse of an interior roof on Dec. 2, 2012, in the Sasago Tunnel on the Chuo Expressway in Yamanashi Prefecture, west of Tokyo, is shown to reporters on Feb. 3, 2013, for the first time since the accident. Flowers are laid where vehicle fires happened.

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Harumafuji throws beans

HADANO, Japan - Mongolian grand champion Harumafuji throws bags of beans during the annual bean-throwing festival, marking the start of spring according to the lunar calendar, at the Sagami branch of Izumo Taisha Shrine in Hadano, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Feb. 3, 2013. People in Japan customarily throw beans to drive away demons and attract good luck at traditional "setsubun" events in early February.

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Kawauchi wins Beppu-Oita Marathon

OITA, Japan - Japan's Yuki Kawauchi crosses the finish line to win the Beppu-Oita Marathon at Oita municipal athletics stadium in the city of Oita on Feb. 3, 2013, with a race-record time of 2 hours, 8 minutes, 15 seconds.

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Sapporo World Cup ski jumping

SAPPORO, Japan - Photo shows the first jump of Austria's Jacqueline Seifriedsberger at a World Cup women's ski jumping event at Miyanomori hill in Hokkaido on Feb. 3, 2013. Seifriedsberger took her first World Cup gold medal with 245.7 points from jumps of 94 and 93 meters.

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Sapporo World Cup ski jumping

SAPPORO, Japan - (From L) Norway's Anette Sagen, Austria's Jacqueline Seifriedsberger and Sarah Hendrickson of the United States stand on the podium at Miyanomori hill in Sapporo, Hokkaido, on Feb. 3, 2013, after finishing second, first and third respectively at a World Cup women's ski jumping event.

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Sun bears eat special rolls

KOCHI, Japan - A Malayan sun bear mother and cub eat "Ehomaki" rolls, specially cooked in hope of their growth at Noichi Zoological Park in Konan, Kochi Prefecture, on Feb. 3, 2013, in an event of "setsubun," which marks the division between winter and spring on the lunar calendar.

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Bean-throwing festival at temple

NARITA, Japan - Mongolian grand champion Hakuho (R) and Estonian sekiwake Baruto throw bags of beans during the annual bean-throwing festival, marking the start of spring according to the lunar calendar, at Naritasan Shinsho Temple in Narita, Chiba Prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, on Feb. 3, 2013. People in Japan customarily throw beans to drive away demons and attract good luck at traditional "setsubun" events in early February.

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Bean-throwing festival at temple

NARITA, Japan - Japanese actress Haruka Ayase (L) throws bags of beans during the annual bean-throwing festival, marking the start of spring according to the lunar calendar, at Naritasan Shinsho Temple in Narita, Chiba Prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, on Feb. 3, 2013. People in Japan customarily throw beans to drive away demons and attract good luck at traditional "setsubun" events in early February. Actor Hidetoshi Nishijima (C) and actor Hiroki Hasegawa (R) also took part in the event.

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Bean-throwing festival at temple

NARITA, Japan - Japanese actress Haruka Ayase throws bags of beans during the annual bean-throwing festival, marking the start of spring according to the lunar calendar, at Naritasan Shinsho Temple in Narita, Chiba Prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, on Feb. 3, 2013. People in Japan customarily throw beans to drive away demons and attract good luck at traditional "setsubun" events in early February.

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Bean-throwing festival at temple

NARITA, Japan - Japanese actress Haruka Ayase (L) and actor Hidetoshi Nishijima throw bags of beans during the annual bean-throwing festival, marking the start of spring according to the lunar calendar, at Naritasan Shinsho Temple in Narita, Chiba Prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, on Feb. 3, 2013. People in Japan customarily throw beans to drive away demons and attract good luck at traditional "setsubun" events in early February.

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N. Korean leader Kim

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. The Korean Central News Agency reported Feb. 3, 2013, that Kim made "an important concluding speech" at an enlarged meeting of the Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea, outlining Pyongyang's defense of its "security and sovereignty."

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Bean-throwing festival at temple

NARITA, Japan - Estonian sekiwake Baruto (L) and Mongolian grand champion Hakuho throw bags of beans during the annual bean-throwing festival, marking the start of spring according to the lunar calendar, at Naritasan Shinsho Temple in Narita, Chiba Prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, on Feb. 3, 2013. People in Japan customarily throw beans to drive away demons and attract good luck at traditional "setsubun" events in early February.