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3 years after quake-tsunami

SENDAI, Japan - Photos show a coastal area of Naraha, Fukushima Prefecture, near the disaster-struck Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. The upper photo was taken on Sept. 26, 2012, one and a half years after the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, and the lower photo on March 3, 2014.

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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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Abandoned animals in Fukushima

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in the town of Tomioka, Fukushima Prefecture, on Nov. 3, 2012, shows nonprofit group head Naoto Matsumura grabbing salmon from a stream the way he says he used to as a child. Town residents remain evacuated following the nuclear disaster triggered by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. The town's mayor declared in September 2012 that residents would not return for the next five years.

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Driftwood violins keep alive memories of prequake days

TOKYO, Japan - Polish violinist Nicolas Chumachenco (L) shows the back of his violin, on which a picture of the famed "miracle pine tree" is drawn. It was the only tree that survived the devastating tsunami that swept away a pine forest on the coast of Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on March 11, 2011, when the Great East Japan Earthquake occurred. Photo taken Nov. 3, 2012 in Ikoma, Nara Prefecture. (Photo by Yukie Nishizawa)

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1 and a half years after quake

SENDAI, Japan - Combination photos from a Kyodo News helicopter show an area in town of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 22, 2011 (L), after the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent tsunami, and about one and a half years later on Sept. 3, 2012 (R). Many of the buildings damaged by the tsunami have been removed.

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1 and a half years after quake

SENDAI, Japan - Combination photos from a Kyodo News helicopter show an area in the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 12, 2011 (top), after the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent tsunami, and about one and a half years later on Sept. 3, 2012 (bottom). Many people have visited the Minamisanriku municipal government's symbolic disaster office building seen in the photos to mourn the victims of the disaster.

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1 and a half years after quake

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Combination photos from a Kyodo News helicopter show an area in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 23, 2011 (L), after the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent tsunami, and about one and a half years later on Sept. 3, 2012 (R). Many children died or went missing as the tsunami hit Okawa Elementary School which stood in the area.

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1 and a half years after quake

SENDAI, Japan - Combination photos from a Kyodo News helicopter show an area in town of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 10, 2011 (L), after the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent tsunami, and about one and a half years later on Sept. 3, 2012 (R). Many of the buildings damaged by the tsunami have been removed.

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1 and a half years after quake

SENDAI, Japan - Combination photos from a Kyodo News helicopter show an area in the town of Yamada, Iwate Prefecture, on March 28, 2011 (top), after the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake, and about one and a half years later on Sept. 3, 2012 (bottom).

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1 and a half years after quake

SENDAI, Japan - Combination photos from a Kyodo News helicopter show an area in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 12, 2011 (top), after the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, and about one and a half years later on Sept. 3, 2012 (bottom). An improvised convenience store outlet has begun operating near the fishing boat carried ashore by the tsunami.

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1 and a half years after quake

SENDAI, Japan - Combination photos from a Kyodo News helicopter show an area in the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 13, 2011 (L), after the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent tsunami, and about one and a half years later on Sept. 3, 2012 (R). A shopping area has been established at bottom R.

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1 and a half years after quake

SENDAI, Japan - Combination photos from a Kyodo News helicopter show an area in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on March 23, 2011 (top), after the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake, and about one and a half years later on Sept. 3, 2012 (bottom).

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1 and a half years after quake

SENDAI, Japan - Combination photos from a Kyodo News helicopter show an area in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on March 23, 2011 (L), after the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake, and about one and a half years later on Sept. 3, 2012 (R). In the photos is the so-called ''miracle pine,'' the only tree that survived the disaster in the area though it withered later.

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1 and a half years after quake

SENDAI, Japan - Combination photos from a Kyodo News helicopter show an area in the town of Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, on April 10, 2011 (L), after the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake, and about one and a half years later on Sept. 3, 2012 (R).

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1 and a half years after quake

SENDAI, Japan - Combination photos from a Kyodo News helicopter show an area in the town of Yamada, Iwate Prefecture, on March 23, 2011 (L), after the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake, and about one and a half years later on Sept. 3, 2012 (R).

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Mazda to boost production capacity for CX-5 SUV

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken July 3, 2012, shows Mazda Motor Corp.'s auto assembly plant in the city of Hiroshima. Mazda said the same day it will boost production capacity for its smash hit CX-5 sport utility vehicle to 240,000 vehicles a year the following March, from 160,000 units, due to robust sales at home and abroad.

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Noda visits tsunami-hit area

SENDAI, Japan - Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda (2nd from R) and Environment Minister Goshi Hosono (R) are briefed in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, by local officials on July 3, 2012, on an ongoing project to develop a disaster-prevention forest by reclaiming land using rubble from the March 2011 disaster. (Pool photo)

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Fight Shimbun children share experiences with French kids

PARIS, Japan - Children from Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, who worked on creating the Fight Shimbun newspaper, participate in an exchange event with children of Institution Jeanne d'Arc, a Catholic private school in the suburbs of Paris, on April 3, 2012. The children from the northeastern Japan city hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami shared their experiences of creating the newspaper to encourage evacuees at a shelter after the disaster.

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Soon after disaster, a year later

TOKYO, Japan - Photos from a Kyodo News helicopter show an area in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 12, 2011 (L), shortly after the March 11, 2011, quake and tsunami, and on March 3, 2012 (R).

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Soon after disaster, a year later

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show an area of Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 18, 2011 (top), shortly after the March 11, 2011, quake and tsunami, and on March 3, 2012 (bottom), in which the framework for a bike parking facility has been constructed after the removal of debris.

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Iwaki soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show Yotsukura port in the city of Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on April 6, 2011 (top), shortly after the area was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same location on March 3, 2012 (bottom).

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Kesennuma soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos taken from a Kyodo News helicopter show an area in the city of Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 12, 2011 (top), shortly after the area was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same location on March 3, 2012 (bottom).

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Rikuzentakata soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show an area in the city of Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on April 14, 2011 (top), shortly after the area was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same location on March 3, 2012 (bottom).

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Kamaishi soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos taken from a Kyodo News helicopter show Kamaishi port in the city of Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, on March 23, 2011 (L), shortly after the area was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same location on March 3, 2012 (R), in which a large ship brought ashore by the tsunami has been removed. Seen in front is a large statue of Buddhism's Guanyin bodhisattva.

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Higashimatsushima soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show members of the Ground Self-Defense Force saluting to victims at a temporary burial site in the city of Higashimatsushima in Miyagi Prefecture, on April 3, 2011 (top), shortly after the area was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same location on March 4, 2012 (bottom), in which the site was covered by snow.

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Higashimatsushima soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos taken from a Kyodo News helicopter show an area in the city of Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 12, 2011 (top), shortly after the area was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same location on March 3, 2012 (bottom).

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Oil refinery soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos taken from a Kyodo News helicopter show an oil refinery in the city of Ichihara, Chiba Prefecture, on March 11, 2011 (top), shortly after the facility was hit by the March 11 earthquake, and the same refinery on March 3, 2012 (bottom).

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Elementary school soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show Okawa Elementary School in the city of Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 3, 2011 (top), shortly after the area was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same school on March 3, 2012 (bottom). At the school, 74 of the 108 students and 10 of the 13 teachers died or went missing in the disaster.

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Elementary school soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show Okawa Elementary School in the city of Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 22, 2011 (top), shortly after the area was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same school on March 3, 2012 (bottom), when people offer prayers there. At the school, 74 of the 108 students and 10 of the 13 teachers died or went missing in the disaster.

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Oarai port soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos taken from a Kyodo News helicopter show a whirlpool (L) caused by tsunami near Oarai port in the town of Oarai, Ibaraki Prefecture shortly after a magnitude 9.0 earthquake on March 11, 2011, and the same location on March 3, 2012 (R).

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Kamaishi soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show an area in the city of Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, on March 13, 2011 (top), shortly after the area was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same location on March 3, 2012 (bottom).

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Rikuzentakata soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show an area in the city of Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on March 12, 2011 (L), shortly after the area was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same location on March 3, 2012 (R).

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Chongqing leader Bo

BEIJING, China - Bo Xilai, the Communist Party chief of China's southwestern municipality of Chongqing, attends a meeting of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, a political advisory body, at Beijing's Great Hall of the People on March 3, 2012.

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Democratic election in Chinese village

WUKAN, China - Lin Zuluan, a village-leader-turned-party-secretary in Wukan, speaks after being elected as the committee head in the village in Guangdong Province, southern China, on March 3, 2012. Villagers elected two of seven village committee leaders in the third democratically held election that the provincial government has allowed.

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Democratic election in Chinese village

WUKAN, China - Voters line up in Wukan in Guangdong Province, southern China, on March 3, 2012. Villagers elected two of seven village committee leaders in the third democratically held election that the provincial government has allowed.

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Anti-S. Korea rally in Pyongyang

PYONGYANG, North Korea - North Koreans raise their fists at a rally in Pyongyang on March 3, 2012, to protest alleged defamation by South Korean troops of the North Korean leadership. In late February, a South Korean military unit in Incheon reportedly mocked portraits of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his deceased father and former leader Kim Jong Il.

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Anti-S. Korea rally in Pyongyang

PYONGYANG, North Korea - North Koreans fill in application forms to join the military at a rally in Pyongyang on March 3, 2012, during a protest against alleged defamation by South Korean troops of the North Korean leadership. In late February, a South Korean military unit in Incheon reportedly mocked portraits of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his deceased father and former leader Kim Jong Il.

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N. Korea's National Defense Commission

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Officials of North Korea's National Defense Commission, at a press conference in Pyongyang on March 3, 2012, accuse South Korean troops of defaming the North Korean leadership. In late February, a South Korean military unit in Incheon reportedly mocked portraits of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his deceased father and former leader Kim Jong Il.

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Aerial view of tsunami-hit area

SENDAI, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on March 3, 2012, shows a coastal area dusted with snow in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, nearly a year after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami struck the region.

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N. Korea's National Defense Commission

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Officials of North Korea's National Defense Commission, at a press conference in Pyongyang on March 3, 2012, accuse South Korean troops of defaming the North Korean leadership. In late February, a South Korean military unit in Incheon reportedly mocked portraits of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his deceased father and former leader Kim Jong Il.

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Chinese diplomat Wu

BEIJING, China - Wu Dawei, China's special representative for Korean Peninsula affairs, speaks with reporters at Beijing's Great Hall of the People on March 3, 2012.

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China's top leadership

BEIJING, China - (From L to R) Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping, Premier Wen Jiabao and President Hu Jintao attend an annual meeting of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, China's top political advisory body, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 3, 2012.

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Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference

BEIJING, China - The Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, China's top political advisory body, convenes an annual meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 3, 2012.

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Police officers in Tiananmen Square

BEIJING, China - Chinese police officers patrol Tiananmen Square in Beijing on March 3, 2012, ahead of the start on March 5 of an annual session of the National People's Congress, China's parliament. The Great Hall of the People, where the session will be held, is visible in the background.

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China's top leadership

BEIJING, China - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (L) and President Hu Jintao (R) attend an annual meeting of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, China's top political advisory body, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 3, 2012.

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Photos found amid debris

SENDAI, Japan - Some 250,000 photos recovered from the debris left by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami are displayed at a civic center in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 3, 2012, nearly a year after the disaster. The display is aimed at helping victims of the disaster locate lost family photos.

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Ski jumping Women's World Cup

YAMAGATA, Japan - Sara Takanashi of Japan smiles after winning a Women's World Cup ski jumping title in Yamagata, Yamagata Prefecture, on March 3, 2012. The 15-year-old had the longest leap of the day of 102.5 meters.

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Ski jumping Women's World Cup

YAMAGATA, Japan - Sara Takanashi of Japan smiles after winning a Women's World Cup ski jumping title in Yamagata, Yamagata Prefecture, on March 3, 2012. The 15-year-old had the longest leap of the day of 102.5 meters.

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Photos found from debris

SENDAI, Japan - Some 250,000 photos recovered from the debris left by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami are displayed at a civic center in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 3, 2012, nearly a year after the disaster. The display is aimed at helping victims of the disaster locate lost family photos.