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Kim Kyong Hui

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Photo shows Kim Kyong Hui (C), the younger sister of former North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, in a cemetery in Pyongyang for soldiers who died during the Korean War, in July 2013. Her husband, Jang Song Thaek, who had been considered the country's second-most powerful figure, was executed Dec. 12, 2013, after being accused of attempting to overthrow the regime.

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Choe Ryong Hae

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Photo taken in Pyongyang in July 2013 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (R front) and Vice Marshal Choe Ryong Hae (L front) walking in a cemetery for soldiers who died during the Korean War. Jang Song Thaek (far L, back), Kim's uncle and then vice chairman of the National Defense Commission, is also seen. Jang was executed Dec. 12, 2013, after being accused of attempting to overthrow the regime.

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Universities producing increasing numbers of manga majors

TOKYO, Japan - Yu Otsuka (R) undergoes training on July 12, 2013 at Aidem Corp., a job advertisement agency in Tokyo he joined after graduating from the Bunsei University of Art as a manga major.

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Man selling karuta card games at 90-yr-old store

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken July 12, 2013 shows Nobuo Okuno, owner of a long-established store selling Japanese traditional karuta playing cards, holding a set of the cards inside the store in Tokyo's Kandajimbocho district.

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Buried Jewish gravestones

VIENNA, Austria - Photo taken July 12, 2013, shows a Jewish graveyard in Vienna, Austria, where 20 headstones were found buried in early July. The gravestones were apparently buried in 1943 to avoid destruction by Nazis. The discovered gravestones are not in the photo.

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Writer Takahashi

TOKYO, Japan - A February 2004 file photo shows Takako Takahashi, a Japanese novelist who explored the inner conflicts and unconscious drives of human beings, and who also translated works by French Catholic writers. Takahashi died of heart failure aged 81 on July 12, 2013.

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Caviar producers breathe new life into abolished schools

TAKAMATSU, Japan - Photo taken July 12, 2013, shows an official checking the condition of sturgeon in one of the water tanks for sturgeon aquaculture placed inside what used to be a gymnasium of an abolished junior high school in Higashikagawa, Kagawa Prefecture.

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Caviar producers breathe new life into abolished schools

TAKAMATSU, Japan - Photo taken July 12, 2013, shows facilities for sturgeon aquaculture set up inside what used to be a gymnasium of an abolished junior high school in Higashikagawa, Kagawa Prefecture.

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Undersea debris

SENDAI, Japan - Photo taken with a fisheye lens on July 12, 2013 at about 25 meters deep in the Pacific Ocean off Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, shows a tower-like aggregation of debris from the March 2011 tsunami, including ropes from fish farming facilities and crushed fishing gears.

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Undersea debris

SENDAI, Japan - Photo taken with a fisheye lens on July 12, 2013 at about 25 meters deep in the Pacific Ocean off Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, shows a tower-like aggregation of debris from the March 2011 tsunami, including ropes from fish farming facilities and crushed fishing gears.

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Protest against nuclear facility in China

JIANGMEN, China - Demonstrators protest a planned uranium processing plant over fear of radiation leaks in Jiangmen, China's Guangdong Province, on July 12, 2013. The following day, the official Xinhua News Agency said authorities have canceled construction of the nuclear facility following massive protests against the project.

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Protest against nuclear facility in China

JIANGMEN, China - Demonstrators gather in front of the municipal government offices in Jiangmen, China's Guangdong Province, on July 12, 2013, to protest a planned uranium processing plant over fear of radiation leaks. The following day, the official Xinhua News Agency said authorities have canceled construction of the nuclear facility following massive protests against the project.

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Caroline Kennedy to become U.S. ambassador to Japan

WASHINGTON, United States - Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of the late U.S. President John F. Kennedy, holds a book signing in Kansas City, Missouri, on April 2, 2013. A strong backer of President Barack Obama, Kennedy will become ambassador to Japan, sources close to Japan-U.S. relations said July 12, 2013.

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Schoolgirl shot by Taliban

NEW YORK, United States - Malala Yousafzai (R), an education activist shot by the Taliban in Pakistan in 2012, shakes hands with U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon at the U.N. headquarters in New York on July 12, 2013. Yousafzai delivered a speech there that day, her first public speech since she was critically injured nine months ago.

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Mammoth Yuka

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Photo shows the body of a female mammoth called Yuka at Pacifico Yokohama convention center in Yokohama, near Tokyo, on July 12, 2013. The mammoth, from about 39,000 years ago and estimated to be 10 years old, was found frozen in Siberia in 2010.

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Unrest in Egypt

CAIRO, Egypt - Supporters of ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi gather at a rally in the suburbs of Cairo on July 12, 2013.

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Schoolgirl shot by Taliban

NEW YORK, United States - Malala Yousafzai, an education activist shot by the Taliban in Pakistan in 2012, delivers a speech at the U.N. headquarters in New York on July 12, 2013, her first public speech since she was critically injured nine months ago.

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Unrest in Egypt

CAIRO, Egypt - A man holds a message written in Japanese and saying, "We reject a coup d'etat," as supporters of ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi gather at a rally in the suburbs of Cairo on July 12, 2013.

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Sam Rainsy

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Cambodian opposition leader Sam Rainsy. Cambodia's King Norodom Sihamoni pardoned Sam Rainsy on July 12, 2013. The pardon paves the way for Rainsy, in self-exile even before being sentenced in absentia to 10 years in prison by Cambodian courts in September 2010, to enter the campaign for Cambodia's July 28 national elections.

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Inter-Korean industrial zone

PAJU, South Korea - Vehicles are pictured at the inter-Korean transit office in Paju, South Korea, on July 12, 2013, carrying finished products and raw materials retrieved from the facilities of South Korean companies operating in a joint industrial zone in the North's border town of Kaesong. The products and materials had been stuck in the zone for about three months.

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Inter-Korean industrial zone

PAJU, South Korea - Vehicles are pictured at the inter-Korean transit office in Paju, South Korea, on July 12, 2013, carrying finished products and raw materials retrieved from the facilities of South Korean companies operating in a joint industrial zone in the North's border town of Kaesong. The products and materials had been stuck in the zone for about three months.

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Protest against nuclear facility in China

JIANGMEN, China - Demonstrators protest a planned uranium processing plant in Jiangmen, Guangdong Province, on July 12, 2013.

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Car restriction on Mt. Fuji

KOFU, Japan - Climbers get on a shuttle bus in Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi Prefecture, as the season's restrictions on the use of cars began on three routes climbing halfway up Mt. Fuji on July 12, 2013. The period of the restriction was extended due to an expected increase in climbers of Japan's highest peak recently added to the UNESCO list of World Heritage site.

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Protest against nuclear facility in China

JIANGMEN, China - Demonstrators protest a planned uranium processing plant in Jiangmen, Guangdong Province, on July 12, 2013.

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Protest against nuclear facility in China

JIANGMEN, China - Demonstrators gather in front of the local government building in Jiangmen, Guangdong Province, on July 12, 2013, in a protest against a planned uranium processing plant.

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Protest against nuclear facility in China

JIANGMEN, China - Demonstrators protest a planned uranium processing plant in Jiangmen, Guangdong Province, on July 12, 2013.

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OSE's last day of cash stock trading

OSAKA, Japan - The Osaka Securities Exchange in western Japan ends its last day of cash stock trading on July 12, 2013, before its listed shares are transferred to the Tokyo Stock Exchange on July 16 following a three-day weekend in Japan.

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Man sets fire at city office

TAKARAZUKA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the charred outer wall of the municipal office of Takarazuka, Hyogo Prefecture, after it was hit by an arson attack on July 12, 2013. A 63-year-old man enraged by a tax dispute with the city authorities used Molotov cocktails to set fire to the building, injuring at least 5 people, police and firefighters said.

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'Famicom' turns 30 years old

OSAKA, Japan - Nintendo Co.'s latest video game console Wii U is on sale at a home appliance store in Osaka on July 12, 2013. Wii U was launched in 2012 in Japan and overseas.

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Man sets fire at city office

TAKARAZUKA, Japan - Photo shows the charred outer wall of the municipal office of Takarazuka, Hyogo Prefecture, after it was hit by an arson attack on July 12, 2013. A 63-year-old man enraged by a tax dispute with the city authorities used Molotov cocktails to set fire to the building, injuring at least 5 people, police and firefighters said.

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Man sets fire at city office

TAKARAZUKA, Japan - Employees of the municipal office of Takarazuka, Hyogo Prefecture, evacuate the building after it was hit by an arson attack on July 12, 2013. A 63-year-old man enraged by a tax dispute with the city authorities used Molotov cocktails to set fire to the building, injuring at least 5 people, police and firefighters said.

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Man sets fire at city office

TAKARAZUKA, Japan - Smoke comes out of the municipal office of Takarazuka, Hyogo Prefecture, after it was hit by an arson attack on July 12, 2013. A 63-year-old man enraged by a tax dispute with the city authorities used Molotov cocktails to set fire to the building, injuring at least 5 people, police and firefighters said.

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Man sets fire at city office

TAKARAZUKA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the charred outer wall of the municipal office of Takarazuka, Hyogo Prefecture, after it was hit by an arson attack on July 12, 2013. A 63-year-old man enraged by a tax dispute with the city authorities used Molotov cocktails to set fire to the building, injuring at least 5 people, police and firefighters said.

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Heat wave in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Pedestrians walk amid high temperatures in front of JR Tokyo Station in the Japanese capital on July 12, 2013. A heat wave continued in the Japanese archipelago, with temperature hitting more than 35 C before noon the same day in parts of Shizuoka, Mie, Hyogo, and Toyama prefectures.

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Striker Okazaki leaves for Germany

NARITA, Japan - Japan striker Shinji Okazaki speaks with reporters at Narita airport, near Tokyo, before his departure for Germany on July 12, 2013. Okazaki recently moved to Mainz from their Bundesliga rivals Stuttgart.

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Heat wave in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Pedestrians walk amid high temperatures in front of JR Tokyo Station in the Japanese capital on July 12, 2013. A heat wave continued in the Japanese archipelago, with temperature hitting more than 35 C before noon the same day in parts of Shizuoka, Mie, Hyogo, and Toyama prefectures.

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Heat wave in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Workers in business suits walk with their jackets off, while another fans himself, amid high temperatures in Tokyo's Otemachi district on July 12, 2013. A heat wave continued in the Japanese archipelago, with temperature hitting more than 35 C before noon the same day in parts of Shizuoka, Mie, Hyogo, and Toyama prefectures.

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OSE's last day of cash stock trading

OSAKA, Japan - Photo taken July 12, 2013, shows the Osaka Securities Exchange in Osaka's Chuo Ward that began its last day of cash stock trading the same day before its listed shares are transferred to the Tokyo Stock Exchange on July 16.