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Life jacket with GPS receiver

Minamisanriku Mayor Jin Sato poses for a photo wearing a life jacket with a GPS receiver inside, developed by Tokyo-based disaster relief firm Guardian 72, during a press event on June 20, 2024, in the Miyagi Prefecture town that was devastated by the March 2011 quake-tsunami in northeastern Japan.

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Lady Gaga's teacup donated to disaster-hit area

SENDAI, Japan - Photo taken at Miyagi prefectural government offices on Feb. 20, 2013 shows a teacup that pop icon Lady Gaga used. The teacup, which was sold for 6 million yen at a charity auction in May 2012 to support the recovery from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, is given to Miyagi Prefecture, a northeastern Japan area hit hard by the disaster, on Feb. 20, 2013. Lady Gaga sipped from the teacup at a news conference in Tokyo in June, 2011. It is smeared with her lipstick and the phrase "We pray for Japan" is written in Japanese across the front.

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Lady Gaga's teacup donated to disaster-hit area

SENDAI, Japan - Miyagi Gov. Yoshihiro Murai (L) receives a teacup that pop icon Lady Gaga used, at the prefectural government offices on Feb. 20, 2013. The teacup, which was sold for 6 million yen at a charity auction in May 2012 to support the recovery from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, is presented to Miyagi Prefecture, a northeastern Japan area hit hard by the disaster, on Feb. 20, 2013. Lady Gaga sipped from the teacup at a news conference in Tokyo in June, 2011. It is smeared with her lipstick and the phrase "We pray for Japan" is written in Japanese across the front.

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Desert in southern California

LOS ANGELES, United States - Photo taken on Sept. 20, 2011, shows a desert in the vicinity of San Diego, southern California, where the body of Fumiko Ogawa, Japanese national from Shimane Prefecture, was found in 2007. The body was identified as Ogawa in June 2011 through DNA analysis.

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Nuclear fuel unloaded in Fukui Pref.

TOKYO, Japan - Plutonium-uranium mixed oxide, or MOX, fuel is unloaded from a ship in the town of Takahama, Fukui Prefecture, in June 2010, to be transported to the Takahama nuclear power plant operated by Kansai Electric Power Co. Japan held 30.1 tons of fissile plutonium at home and abroad as of the end of 2010, down 0.9 ton from a year earlier for the second consecutive yearly decline, the government said Sept. 20, 2011.

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Cleanup continues 52 yrs after partial meltdown in Los Angeles

SIMI VALLEY, United States - Contractors of the Environmental Protection Agency collect soil samples at the former site of Santa Susana Field Laboratory in the suburbs of Los Angeles on June 20, 2011. An experimental nuclear reactor at the lab that was active from the late 1940s to early 1980s experienced a partial meltdown in July 1959. Analysis of the soil will show how much radioactive material remains.

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Transvestite bar in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Miya Inoue (R), manager of ''Wakashu Bar Kesho Danshi,'' and three other men, all dressed as women, webcast from a studio attached to the bar located in Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo, on June 20, 2011.

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Transvestite bar in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Ami (L) and Riku, male staff members of a bar in Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo, fix their makeup on June 20, 2011. At ''Wakashu Bar Kesho Danshi,'' customers are served by men dressed as women.

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Floods in Philippines

MANILA, Philippines - Children affected by major floods sleep at an evacuation shelter in Cotabato City on the island of Mindanao, the Philippines, on June 20, 2011. Hundreds of thousands of people have been affected by the major floods in the area.

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Floods in Philippines

MANILA, Philippines - Photo shows a flooded elementary school on the island of Mindanao, the Philippines, on June 20, 2011. Hundreds of thousands of people have been affected by major floods in the area.

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Nadal at Wimbledon

WIMBLEDON, Britain - Rafael Nadal of Spain plays against American Michael Russell in the first round of the Wimbledon Championships at the All England Club in Wimbledon, southwest London, on June 20, 2011.

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Miyazato, Ueda prepare for LPGA C'ship

PITTSFORD, United States - Japan's Ai Miyazato (R) and Momoko Ueda (2nd from L) practice for the LPGA Championship at the Locust Hill Country Club in the state of New York on June 20, 2011. The tournament will start on June 23, 2011.

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Murray at Wimbledon

WIMBLEDON, England - Britain's Andy Murray plays a shot during his win over Spain's Daniel Gimeno-Traver to advance to the second round of the Wimbledon Championships at All England Club in Wimbledon, England, on June 20, 2011.

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Vargas Llosa in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in literature, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on June 20, 2011.

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Nadal at Wimbledon

WIMBLEDON, Britain - Rafael Nadal of Spain plays against American Michael Russell in the first round of the Wimbledon Championships at the All England Club in Wimbledon, southwest London, on June 20, 2011.

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School principal overpowers intruder

NAGOYA, Japan - Hiroshi Igushi, principal of Kamiyama Elementary School in Ichinomiya, Aichi Prefecture, poses with a fighting tool called a ''sasumata'' in the central Japan city on June 20, 2011. Three people including the principal armed with the tool overpowered a knife-carrying intruder at the school the same day.

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Nadal at Wimbledon

WIMBLEDON, Britain - Rafael Nadal of Spain plays against American Michael Russell in the first round of the Wimbledon Championships on June 20, 2011, at the All England Club in Wimbledon, southwest London.

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Date Krumm at Wimbledon

WIMBLEDON, Britain - Japan's Kimiko Date Krumm responds to cheers from spectators after beating Katie O'Brien of Britain in the first round of the Wimbledon Championships on June 20, 2011, at the All England Club in Wimbledon, southwest London.

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Date Krumm at Wimbledon

WIMBLEDON, Britain - Japan's Kimiko Date Krumm plays against Katie O'Brien of Britain in the first round of the Wimbledon Championships on June 20, 2011, at the All England Club in Wimbledon, southwest London.

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New Seiyu CEO

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Steve Dacus from the United States, who replaced Toru Noda as chief executive officer of major Japanese supermarket chain Seiyu GK, a wholly owned arm of Wal-Mart Stores Inc., on June 20, 2011.

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Murray at Wimbledon

WIMBLEDON, England - Britain's Andy Murray plays a shot during his win over Spain's Daniel Gimeno-Traver to advance to the second round of the Wimbledon Championships at All England Club in Wimbledon, England, on June 20, 2011.

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Tokyo Tower marks World Refugee Day

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Tower in Tokyo's Minato Ward is lit up blue on June 20, 2011, to commemorate World Refugee Day.

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JR East president apologizes to Tokyo governor

TOKYO, Japan - Satoshi Seino (L), president of East Japan Railway Co., visits Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara at the Tokyo metropolitan government office in Tokyo on June 20, 2011, to offer an apology over the railway operator's decision to suspend its services and shutter its major stations in the capital in the wake of a magnitude 9.0 earthquake in northeastern Japan on March 11, 2011, forcing stranded passengers out of the stations. The governor sent a protest letter to the company, commonly known as JR East, in May, saying the metropolitan government might start imposing taxes on JR East station facilities depending on its response to Tokyo's inquiry into the controversial decision.

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Nadal at Wimbledon

WIMBLEDON, Britain - Rafael Nadal of Spain plays against American Michael Russell in the first round of the Wimbledon Championships on June 20, 2011, at the All England Club in Wimbledon, southwest London.

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Japanese supercomputer becomes world's No. 1 in computing speeds

KOBE, Japan - File photo taken in October 2010 shows a Japanese supercomputer, nicknamed ''K,'' being jointly developed in Kobe, western Japan, by Riken, a Japanese state-backed major research institute, and Fujitsu Ltd. Riken said June 20, 2011, that the supercomputer has been ranked the world's No. 1 in current computing speeds, the first time since 2004 that a Japanese supercomputer has captured the top position.

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Memorial service for late singer Misora

TOKYO, Japan - A memorial service is held in a Tokyo hotel on June 20, 2011, to mark 22 years since the death of popular singer Hibari Misora. The altar is designed after a phoenix, a symbol of the singer in the closing days of her life.

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Date Krumm at Wimbledon

WIMBLEDON, Britain - Japan's Kimiko Date Krumm raises her fist after beating Katie O'Brien of Britain in the first round of the Wimbledon Championships on June 20, 2011, at the All England Club in Wimbledon, southwest London.

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Japanese supercomputer becomes world's No. 1 in computing speeds

TOKYO, Japan - Ryoji Noyori (2nd from L), a 2001 Nobel laureate in chemistry and president of Riken, a Japanese state-backed major research institute, and others pose during a press conference in Tokyo on June 20, 2011, at which they announced that a supercomputer, nicknamed ''K,'' being jointly developed in Kobe, western Japan, by Riken and Fujitsu Ltd. has been ranked the world's No. 1 in current computing speeds, the first time since 2004 that a Japanese supercomputer has captured the top position.

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PM Kan mulls resigning in July

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Naoto Kan is pictured at his office in Tokyo on June 20, 2011, as he heads for a meeting with executives of his ruling Democratic Party of Japan at his official residence. Kan could step down in July in exchange for obtaining opposition cooperation to pass a new extra budget and a bill needed for the government to issue deficit-covering bonds in fiscal 2011, DPJ lawmakers said the same day.

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Industry minister Kaieda at IAEA meeting

VIENNA, Austria - Japanese industry minister Banri Kaieda speaks during an International Atomic Energy Agency ministerial meeting on nuclear safety in Vienna on June 20, 2011.

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Date Krumm at Wimbledon

WIMBLEDON, Britain - Japan's Kimiko Date Krumm plays against Katie O'Brien of Britain in the first round of the Wimbledon Championships on June 20, 2011, at the All England Club in Wimbledon, southwest London.

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IAEA's Amano at IAEA meeting

VIENNA, Austria - International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Yukiya Amano (far R) speaks during an IAEA ministerial meeting on nuclear safety in Vienna on June 20, 2011.

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Ex-Livedoor chief Horie

TOKYO, Japan - Takafumi Horie, former president of Internet firm Livedoor Co., answers reporters' questions as he appeared at the Tokyo High Public Prosecutors Office on June 20, 2011, for procedures to imprison him over accounting fraud

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Softbank's Son meets S. Korean President Lee

SEOUL, South Korea - Masayoshi Son (L), chairman of Softbank Corp., shakes hands with South Korean President Lee Myung Bak ahead of their talks at the Blue House presidential office in Seoul on June 20, 2011.

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Softbank's Son meets S. Korean President Lee

SEOUL, South Korea - Masayoshi Son (L), chairman of Softbank Corp., holds talks with South Korean President Lee Myung Bak (R) at the Blue House presidential office in Seoul on June 20, 2011.

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Free toll roads for March disaster victims

SENDAI, Japan - A driver shows a certificate given to persons affected by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami at a toll booth of the Sendai-Nanbu road in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on June 20, 2011. A total of 20 expressways including ones in the Tohoku region, northeastern Japan, became free of charge for vehicles with victims of the March disaster aboard from the same day for a year.

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Osaka tower to be power-saving

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Osaka's signature Tsutenkaku Tower. Hitachi Ltd. said on June 20, 2011, it will replace most neon lights for its advertisements on the tower with light-emitting diodes, in a bid to cut electricity consumption by half and contribute to nationwide energy-saving efforts.

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Robot in Fukushima operation

CHIBA, Japan - A robot ''Quince' is loaded onto a truck at Chiba Institute of Technology in Narashino, Chiba Prefecture, on June 20, 2011. The robot jointly developed by Chiba Institute of Technology, Tohoku University and other institutions was being sent to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Fukushima Prefecture. Quince is capable of operating in places where rubble is scattered and is believed to be able to measure levels of radiation inside buildings and depths of contaminated water, as well as obtain samples of such water, as it can climb wet and slippery steps.

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ANA's Narita-Chengdu service

CHENGDU, China - A tape-cutting ceremony is held at Chengdu airport in China's Sichuan Province on June 20, 2011, as All Nippon Airways Co. launched direct flights between Chengdu and Japan's Narita airport. On the right is Japanese table tennis icon Ai Fukuhara.

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New concrete pump at Fukushima

TOGANE, Japan - A concrete pump with a 70-meter-long arm, one of the world's largest, leaves Togane, Chiba Prefecture, for the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Fukushima Prefecture on June 20, 2011. The German-made vehicle will take part in operations to bring the crippled plant under control.

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Disaster-hit Kesennuma in March and June

KESENNUMA, Japan - Combined photo shows an area hit by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 20, 2011 (left frame), and the same area on June 3, 2011 (right frame). The floodwater has receded and a building stripped to the frame has been removed.