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Nara researcher finds oldest weights in Japan

NARA, Japan - Photo taken June 14, 2013 shows Susumu Morimoto, an archeologist and researcher at the Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties in Nara City, who has discovered that what had been believed to be grinding stones from the first half of the Yayoi period, about 2,400 years ago, were actually weights for scales.

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Handicapped people's art, music

FUKUOKA, Japan - Takenobu Yanagita (2nd from L, rear) and other members of Maru studio hold their own works of art on June 14, 2013, in Fukuoka's Minami Ward, Fukuoka Prefecture.

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Handicapped people's art, music

FUKUOKA, Japan - Takenobu Yanagita draws a picture on June 14, 2013, in a room at Maru studio in Fukuoka's Minami Ward, Fukuoka Prefecture.

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Jin Canrong

BEIJING, China - Jin Canrong, associate dean of the School of International Studies at Renmin University of China, is interviewed by Kyodo News in Beijing on June 14, 2013.

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Diary written 10 centuries ago

KYOTO, Japan - File photo shows part of a diary written by Japanese regent Fujiwara no Michinaga (966-1027), at Yomei Bunko, a library in Kyoto, on June 14, 2013. Known as "Midokanpakuki," the world's oldest autographic diary left 10 centuries ago has been selected for the UNESCO Memory of the World registry, the Japanese education ministry said June 19, 2013.

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Diary written 10 centuries ago

KYOTO, Japan - File photo shows part of a diary written by Japanese regent Fujiwara no Michinaga (966-1027), at Yomei Bunko, a library in Kyoto, on June 14, 2013. Known as "Midokanpakuki," the world's oldest autographic diary left 10 centuries ago has been selected for the UNESCO Memory of the World registry, the Japanese education ministry said June 19, 2013.

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Osprey lands on Japan destroyer

SAN DIEGO, United States - An MV-22 Osprey of the U.S. Marine Corps parks up in a hangar on the Japanese helicopter destroyer Hyuga after landing on the vessel during a joint exercise involving the U.S. military and Japan's Self-Defense Forces in the Pacific off San Diego, California, on June 14, 2013. The tilt-rotor aircraft earlier became the first of its kind to land on a Japanese ship.

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Osprey lands on Japan destroyer

SAN DIEGO, United States - An MV-22 Osprey of the U.S. Marine Corps parks up in a hangar on the Japanese helicopter destroyer Hyuga after landing on the vessel during a joint exercise involving the U.S. military and Japan's Self-Defense Forces in the Pacific off San Diego, California, on June 14, 2013. The tilt-rotor aircraft earlier became the first of its kind to land on a Japanese ship.

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Osprey lands on Japan destroyer

SAN DIEGO, United States - An MV-22 Osprey of the U.S. Marine Corps parks up in a hangar on the Japanese helicopter destroyer Hyuga after landing on the vessel during a joint exercise involving the U.S. military and Japan's Self-Defense Forces in the Pacific off San Diego, California, on June 14, 2013. The tilt-rotor aircraft earlier became the first of its kind to land on a Japanese ship.

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Osprey lands on Japan destroyer

SAN DIEGO, United States - An MV-22 Osprey of the U.S. Marine Corps takes off from the Japanese helicopter destroyer Hyuga during a joint exercise involving the U.S. military and Japan's Self-Defense Forces in the Pacific off San Diego, California, on June 14, 2013. The tilt-rotor aircraft earlier became the first of its kind to land on a Japanese ship.

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MV-22 Osprey lands on Japanese destroyer for 1st time

SAN DIEGO, United States - Photo shows an MV-22 Osprey taking off from the Japanese helicopter destroyer Hyuga in waters off San Diego, California, on June 14, 2013, during a joint exercise involving the U.S. military and Japan's Self-Defense Forces. The U.S. Marine Corps landed the tilt-rotor aircraft on the Hyuga the same day, the first landing of an Osprey on a Japanese vessel.

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MV-22 Osprey lands on Japanese destroyer for 1st time

SAN DIEGO, United States - U.S. military and Japanese Ground, Maritime and Air Self-Defense Forces officers meet on the Japanese helicopter destroyer Hyuga off San Diego, California, on June 14, 2013. The U.S. Marine Corps landed an MV-22 Osprey on the Hyuga the same day, the first landing of the tilt-rotor aircraft on a Japanese vessel, during a joint exercise involving the U.S. military and Japan's Self-Defense Forces.

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Osprey lands on Japan destroyer

SAN DIEGO, United States - An MV-22 Osprey of the U.S. Marine Corps descends into a hangar on the Japanese helicopter destroyer Hyuga after landing on the vessel during a joint exercise involving the U.S. military and Japan's Self-Defense Forces in the Pacific off San Diego, California, on June 14, 2013. The tilt-rotor aircraft earlier became the first of its kind to land on a Japanese ship.

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Osprey lands on Japan destroyer

SAN DIEGO, United States - An MV-22 Osprey of the U.S. Marine Corps is seen on the Japanese helicopter destroyer Hyuga after landing on the vessel during a joint exercise involving the U.S. military and Japan's Self-Defense Forces in the Pacific off San Diego, California, on June 14, 2013. The tilt-rotor aircraft earlier became the first of its kind to land on a Japanese ship.

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Osprey lands on Japan destroyer

SAN DIEGO, United States - An MV-22 Osprey of the U.S. Marine Corps lands on the Japanese helicopter destroyer Hyuga during a joint exercise involving the U.S. military and Japan's Self-Defense Forces in the Pacific off San Diego, California, on June 14, 2013. It was the first landing by the tilt-rotor aircraft on a Japanese ship.

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U.S. envoy says no plan for talks with N. Korea now

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Glyn Davies, U.S. special representative for North Korea policy. Davies said in an event in Washington on June 14, 2013, there is no plan for bilateral talks on North Korea's nuclear programs for now and that relations between the two countries would make little progress without improvement in dialogues between South and North Koreas.

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Japan prince in Spain

SEVILLE, Spain - Japan's Crown Prince Naruhito (R front) attends a reception June 14, 2013, in Seville, southern Spain, to meet persons called "Japon" who are said to be descendants of members of a mission dispatched by Japanese feudal lord Date Masamune to the European country 400 years ago. The prince is shaking hands with one such person.

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Mass rally in Pyongyang

PYONGYANG, North Korea - A mass rally is held in Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, North Korea, on June 14, 2013.

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Protests in Turkey

ISTANBUL, Turkey - A rally is held at Gezi Park in Istanbul, Turkey, on June 14, 2013. Police cracked down on antigovernment protesters who had occupied the park the following day.

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Mass rally in Pyongyang

PYONGYANG, North Korea - People clap at a mass rally in Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang on June 14, 2013, in front of a propaganda sign hailing North Korea's policy to simultaneously promote economic construction and nuclear weapons development.

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Ethiopian PM in China

BEIJING, China - Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn (L) and Chinese President Xi Jinping shake hands in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on June 14, 2013. (Pool photo)

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Protest in Turkey

ISTANBUL, Turkey - Antigovernment protesters occupying Gezi Park in Istanbul, Turkey, stand in the rain on June 14, 2013.

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Cyclist completes around the world trip

YONAGO, Japan - Adventurer Akira Kato returns to his hometown in Yonago, Tottori Prefecture, western Japan, on June 14, 2013, completing his round-the-world trip by bike that took him a total of 10 years to complete.

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Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Photo shows the No. 4 reactor (L) and the framework for a facility to remove spent nuclear fuel from the pool of the reactor building at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture on June 14, 2013, where decommissioning work is under way following the nuclear disaster triggered by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Cyclist completes around the world trip

YONAGO, Japan - Adventurer Akira Kato returns to his hometown in Yonago, Tottori Prefecture, western Japan, on June 14, 2013, completing his round-the-world trip by bike that took him a total of 10 years to complete.

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Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Photo shows vehicles washed away by tsunami waves at the turbine building of the No. 4 reactor of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture on June 14, 2013, where decommissioning work is under way following the nuclear disaster triggered by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Photo shows (from L) the Nos. 1 to 3 reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture on June 14, 2013, where decommissioning work is under way following the nuclear disaster triggered by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Photo shows tanks to store contaminated water under construction at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture on June 14, 2013, where decommissioning work is under way following the nuclear disaster triggered by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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HKT48's Sashihara visits hometown

OITA, Japan - Rino Sashihara of the idol group HKT48 receives a bouquet while visiting the Oita city hall in Oita Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on June 14, 2013. Sashihara, who moved from AKB48 to HKT48 in 2012, serves as a tourism envoy for the city, her hometown. She captured the coveted No. 1 spot within AKB48 and its sister groups in the 2013 popularity vote.

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Iranian presidential election

TEHRAN, Iran - Voters wait to cast their ballots for the Iranian presidential election at a polling station at a mosque in northern Tehran on June 14, 2013.

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Ultracompact car

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows an ultracompact car produced by Nissan Motor Co. Japan's transport ministry gave the green light on June 14, 2013, for the two-seat ultracompact electric vehicle to run on public roads on a trial basis in parts of Kanagawa Prefecture from July.

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Japan's 2nd ever woman vice minister

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Atsuko Muraki, director general of the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry's Social Welfare and War Victims' Relief Bureau. The government plans to name Muraki as vice minister of the ministry to become Japan's second ever woman vice minister, reflecting Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's plan to appoint women to key posts, government sources said June 14, 2013.

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Japanese embark on tour to burial sites in N. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese former residents of what is now North Korea are seen at Tokyo's Haneda airport on June 14, 2013, ahead of their departure for Beijing en route to North Korea, to embark on a 12-day trip to the reclusive country to visit grave sites believed to contain the remains of their family members.

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Saiki eyed as new vice foreign minister

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Akitaka Saiki, a deputy foreign minister of Japan. The government plans to appoint Saiki as the new vice foreign minister, the top bureaucrat at the Foreign Ministry, a government source said June 14, 2013.