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Woman holds urn with soil from home in memory of husband

MINAMISOMA, Japan - Yoshiko Sakurada, who lost her husband Fusanobu in the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that hit the northeastern Japan region of Tohoku, holds an urn in this file photo of July 14, 2014, containing soil from the yard of their home in Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture.

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Young disaster survivor to debut in world golf tourney

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Amu Hiratsuka, a 14-year-old golfer and 2011 disaster survivor, receives advice on putting from her father in their house-cum-barber's shop in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on June 14, 2014. Hiratsuka will participate as a representative of Japan in the Callaway Junior World Golf Championships scheduled for July 14-18 in San Diego in the U.S. state of California.

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Young disaster survivor to debut in world golf tourney

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Amu Hiratsuka, a 14-year-old golfer and 2011 disaster survivor, practices tee shots with a new driver replacing the old one damaged by the tsunami in Matsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on June 14, 2014. Hiratsuka will participate as a representative of Japan in the Callaway Junior World Golf Championships scheduled for July 14-18 in San Diego in the U.S. state of California.

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Road in S. Sudan capital

JUBA, South Sudan - People walk on an unsurfaced road on Jan. 14, 2012, in Juba, the capital of South Sudan, which gained independence in July 2011. Infrastructure remains poor as the result of a civil war which lasted more than 20 years.

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Shizuoka tea served in New York

NEW YORK, United States - Shizuoka Gov. Heita Kawakatsu speaks at an event in New York on July 14, 2011. The event was held to promote tea from Shizuoka Prefecture and tourism to the area, after radioactive cesium above the European Union's limit was detected in green tea from the prefecture, one of the main tea producing areas in Japan, in June at Charles de Gaulle airport in France.

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Shizuoka tea served in New York

NEW YORK, United States - Tea from Japan's Shizuoka Prefecture is served during an event in New York on July 14, 2011. The event was held to promote tea from Shizuoka Prefecture and tourism to the area, after radioactive cesium above the European Union's limit was detected in green tea from the prefecture, one of the main tea producing areas in Japan, in June at Charles de Gaulle airport in France.

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Ikeido wins Naoki Prize

TOKYO, Japan - Jun Ikeido smiles holding his book ''Shitamachi (Old Downtown) Rocket'' in Tokyo on July 14, 2011, after it was announced that he won the Naoki Prize for seasoned writers. Ikeido, a 48-year-old former bank employee, received the award for the novel about a small factory trying to win an order to manufacture a key component for a domestically produced rocket.

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Kaio notches record 1,046th career win

NAGOYA, Japan - Veteran ozeki Kaio (L) receives a bouquet of flowers after beating maegashira Kyokutenho to surpass former yokozuna Chiyonofuji for the most career wins with his 1,046th victory at the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament in Aichi Prefecture on July 14, 2011.

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Shizuoka tea served in New York

NEW YORK, United States - Tea from Japan's Shizuoka Prefecture is served during an event in New York on July 14, 2011. The event was held to promote tea from Shizuoka Prefecture and tourism to the area, after radioactive cesium above the European Union's limit was detected in green tea from the prefecture, one of the main tea producing areas in Japan, in June at Charles de Gaulle airport in France.

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French Embassy celebrates revolution anniversary in Fukushima

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - French culture minister Frederic Mitterrand speaks on July 14, 2011, during a reception held in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, by the French Embassy in Japan to celebrate the 1789 French Revolution anniversary. About 640 people affected by the March 11 earthquake-tsunami disaster were invited to the event.

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Mullen says still keen to solve Futenma issue by 2014

SEOUL, South Korea - Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, speaks with reporters in Seoul on July 14, 2011. Mullen, the U.S. military's top uniformed officer, expressed readiness to resolve the relocation of a key Marine base within Okinawa Prefecture by 2014 despite a recent agreement by Washington and Tokyo to drop the deadline.

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Japan disaster photos exhibited in L.A.

LOS ANGELES, United States - Photographs featuring the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, supplied by the daily newspaper Kahoku Shimpo based in disaster-hit Sendai, are shown to the media in Los Angeles on July 13, 2011. The photos are part of Little Tokyo Design Week in the downtown area of Little Tokyo in Los Angeles. The four-day event opened on July 14, 2011.

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USS Ohio in Japan

YOKOHAMA, Japan - The USS Ohio, a nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine, is unveiled to the press at the U.S. Navy's Yokosuka base near Tokyo, on July 14, 2011.

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French Embassy celebrates revolution anniversary in Fukushima

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - People affected by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami attend a reception held July 14, 2011, in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, by the French Embassy in Japan to celebrate the 1789 French Revolution anniversary. The embassy invited about 640 people affected by the disasters.

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Kyushu Electric apologizes for scandal

FUKUOKA, Japan - Kyushu Electric Power Co. President Toshio Manabe speaks during a press conference in Fukuoka on July 14, 2011, about the utility's attempt to make locals appear supportive, during a government-sponsored television program, of restarting the utility's nuclear reactors.

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Kaio notches record 1,046th career win

NAGOYA, Japan - Veteran ozeki Kaio (L) beats maegashira Kyokutenho to surpass former yokozuna Chiyonofuji for the most career wins with his 1,046th victory at the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament in Aichi Prefecture on July 14, 2011.

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Kirin beer factory in Sendai

SENDAI, Japan - A beer factory of Kirin Brewery Co. in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, is opened to the media on July 14, 2011. The brewery on the same day announced its plan to restart beer making at the factory, which was damaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, from Sep. 26, 2011.

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Toshiba to deliver water treatment system to Fukushima plant

TOKYO, Japan - Toshiba Corp. employees build a water treatment system in Yokohama on July 14, 2011. The company is set to deliver the system to the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant to help decontamination efforts amid a series of problems with existing devices. The new system, which can treat 1,200 tons of water a day, will start operation from early August to help plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. deal with the crisis triggered by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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Olympic Council of Asia meeting in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - The Olympic Council of Asia holds a general meeting in Tokyo on July 14, 2011. The council decided to again include softball at the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea.

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Dollar tumbles vs. yen

TOKYO, Japan - A display at the Tokyo office of Gaitame.Com Co., a provider of online foreign exchange trading services for individual investors, shows the dollar trading at 78.89 yen on July 14, 2011. The U.S. currency briefly skidded to a fresh four-month low of 78.45 yen during Tokyo trading the same day.

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Exhibition of paintings by Takehisa

KYOTO, Japan - A woman looks at three paintings by renowned Japanese painter and poet Yumeji Takehisa at the National Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto on July 14, 2011. The paintings will be on display at the museum during the exhibition ''Takehisa Yumeji in the Memory'' from Nov. 11 to Dec. 25, 2011.

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Aquamarine Fukushima reopens

IWAKI, Japan - Aquamarine Fukushima in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, hold a media open day on July 14, 2011, a day before reopening to the public for the first time since the March 11 tsunami.

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IOC chief Rogge in Tokyo press conference

TOKYO, Japan - International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge speaks during a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on July 14, 2011.

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Usami leaves Japan to join Bayern

OSAKA, Japan - Teenage striker Takashi Usami speaks to reporters at Osaka airport, western Japan, on July 14, 2011, before heading for Germany to join Bayern Munich on loan.

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Exhibition of paintings by Takehisa

KYOTO, Japan - Photo taken on July 14, 2011, shows three paintings by renowned Japanese painter and poet Yumeji Takehisa. The never publicly shown paintings will go on display at the National Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto during the exhibition ''Takehisa Yumeji in the Memory'' from Nov. 11 to Dec. 25, 2011.

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Crown prince praises people's blood donations

YAMAGATA, Japan - Crown Prince Naruhito (R) visits a convention hall in Yamagata Prefecture on July 14, 2011 where people are donating blood. ''I've been heartened to hear that many people including youths donated blood across the country soon after the disasters,'' the crown prince said the same day in a speech at a national blood donation convention, held at the hall. The crown prince was praising people for donating blood in the wake of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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Olympic Council of Asia meeting in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Olympic Council of Asia President Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah speaks during the council's general meeting in Tokyo on July 14, 2011. The council decided to again include softball at the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea.

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Thai Prime Minister Abhisit

BANGKOK, Thailand - Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva speaks during an interview with foreign media in Bangkok on June 14, 2011. He said the general election to be held on July 3 will be a tight race but he hopes to secure around 200 seats for his party.

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Singing of Chinese revolutionary songs

BEIJING, China - Around 200 middle-aged and senior people gather in a park in central Beijing to sing revolutionary songs from the era of Mao Zedong on June 14, 2011. They said singing the old songs praising Mao and the Communist Party of China in parks and workplaces is becoming popular in the Chinese capital ahead of the 90th anniversary of the party's founding on July 1.

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Singing of Chinese revolutionary songs

BEIJING, China - Around 200 middle-aged and senior people gather in a park in central Beijing to sing revolutionary songs from the era of Mao Zedong on June 14, 2011. They said singing the old songs praising Mao and the Communist Party of China in parks and workplaces is becoming popular in the Chinese capital ahead of the 90th anniversary of the party's founding on July 1.

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Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Fugitive former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra speaks during an interview with Kyodo News in Dubai on June 14, 2011. He expressed confidence that the party of his younger sister Yingluck Shinawatra will win an ''outright'' majority in the July 3 general election in Thailand.