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Test runs start on Hokuriku Shinkansen bullet train line

KANAZAWA, Japan - A shinkansen bullet train leaves JR Kanazawa station in Kanazawa on the Sea of Japan coast on Dec. 8, 2014, as test runs started for train cars to be used from next March for the Hokuriku Shinkansen Line service linking Tokyo with Kanazawa.

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Harvest moon in tsunami-hit area

NATORI, Japan - People watch a harvest moon in a coastal area of Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, on Sept. 8, 2014. The area was devastated by the massive tsunami in March 2011.

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Harvest moon in tsunami-hit area

NATORI, Japan - People watch a harvest moon in a coastal area of Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, on Sept. 8, 2014. The area was devastated by the massive tsunami in March 2011.

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Prince Katsura, cousin of Emperor Akihito, dies at 66

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in March 2007 shows Prince Katsura, a cousin of Emperor Akihito, while watching an international ski competition in Sapporo, Hokkaido. He died of acute heart failure at a Tokyo hospital at 10:55 a.m. on June 8, 2014, aged 66.

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State-of-the-art radar to be set up in Okinoerabu

OKINOERABU, Japan - Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera encourages Air Self-Defense Force officers at its base in Okinoerabu Island, Kagoshima Prefecture, on June 8, 2014. Onodera said the government will set up state-of-the-art radar there by the end of March 2016 to improve surveillance and security capabilities.

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Prince Katsura, cousin of Emperor Akihito, dies at 66

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in March 2007 shows Prince Katsura, a cousin of Emperor Akihito. He died of acute heart failure at a Tokyo hospital at 10:55 a.m. on June 8, 2014, aged 66.

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Toyota's group operating profit hits record

TOKYO, Japan - Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda holds a press conference at the company's Tokyo head office on May 8, 2014. The automaker's group operating profit for fiscal 2013, ended March 2014, surged 73.5 percent from the previous year to a record 2.29 trillion yen, driven by the yen's slide and robust sales in Japan and North America.

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Toyota's group operating profit hits record

TOKYO, Japan - Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda holds a press conference at the company's Tokyo head office on May 8, 2014. The automaker's group operating profit for fiscal 2013, ended March 2014, surged 73.5 percent from the previous year to a record 2.29 trillion yen, driven by the yen's slide and robust sales in Japan and North America.

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Toyota's group operating profit hits record

TOKYO, Japan - Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda holds a press conference at the company's Tokyo head office on May 8, 2014. The automaker's group operating profit for fiscal 2013, ended March 2014, surged 73.5 percent from the previous year to a record 2.29 trillion yen, driven by the yen's slide and robust sales in Japan and North America.

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Carnations from Miyagi Pref. for Mother's Day

SENDAI, Japan - Carnation grower Hiroki Sugai prepares carnations for shipping for Mother's Day in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on May 8, 2014. Sugai, whose business was damaged by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami along with other growers in the area, restarted growing flowers about a year after the disaster.

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Toyota's group operating profit hits record

TOKYO, Japan - Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda holds a press conference at the company's Tokyo head office on May 8, 2014. The automaker's group operating profit for fiscal 2013, ended March 2014, surged 73.5 percent from the previous year to a record 2.29 trillion yen, driven by the yen's slide and robust sales in Japan and North America.

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Japanese table tennis pair return after making history

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese pair Mima Ito (L) and Miu Hirano meet reporters at Haneda airport in Tokyo upon their return to Japan on April 8, 2014, after winning the women's final at the German Open on March 30 to become the youngest ever doubles winners in the history of the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) World Tour at the age of 13.

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Indian politician joins online networking event

MUMBAI, India - Narendra Modi, candidate for India's prime minister from the main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party, takes part in an online networking event on March 8, 2014. India is bracing for general elections in April-May.

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Man makes gigantic torch in Nara

NARA, Japan - Teruo Nomura (L), 70, makes a gigantic "Kago taimatsu" torch, to be used in the "Omizutori" water drawing ceremony at Todaiji, a Buddhist temple in the ancient Japanese capital of Nara, on March 8, 2014.

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Racist banner at J-League game

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Urawa Reds supporters holding various banners and flags during a home game against Sagan Tosu at Saitama Stadium on March 8, 2014. Urawa decided to prohibit their supporters from displaying signs and banners of any kind in all competitions for the foreseeable future following an incident in which a group of supporters displayed a racist banner during the game.

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Printing block, print from late Edo period

TOKYO, Japan - Part of a printing block (above), used as a board for a "sugoroku" game (a type of snakes and ladders) in the late Edo period (1603-1867), and its print are shown in this file photo taken on March 8, 2014. The block was discovered by a sugoroku researcher in Sendai, northeastern Japan.

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Japan's tallest building Abeno Harukas

OSAKA, Japan - People look at the view from the observation deck of Japan's tallest skyscraper, the 300-meter Abeno Harukas, on March 8, 2014, in Osaka, western Japan.

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Wives of Ukrainian troops in Crimea express fears, worries

TOKYO, Japan - The wives of three unidentified Ukrainian soldiers in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Ukraine, tell Kyodo News on March 8, 2014, of their fears and concerns as Russia steps up pressure on the troops to surrender. In the background is the navy base where their husbands are stationed.

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BNP Paribas Open tennis

INDIAN WELLS, United States - Japan's Kei Nishikori plays against Colombia's Santiago Giraldo in a second-round men's singles match of the BNP Paribas Open tennis competition in Indian Wells, California, on March 8, 2014. Nishikori won 6-1, 6-3.

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BNP Paribas Open tennis

INDIAN WELLS, United States - Japan's Kei Nishikori plays against Colombia's Santiago Giraldo in a second-round men's singles match of the BNP Paribas Open tennis competition in Indian Wells, California, on March 8, 2014. Nishikori won 6-1, 6-3.

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Japan striker Havennar of Vitesse scores game-winning goal

BREDA, Netherlands - Japanese striker Mike Havenaar of Dutch Eredivisie football league club Vitesse Arnhem celebrates after scoring the game-winning goal in the first half of a match against NAC Breda on March 8, 2014. Vitesse won 2-1.

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Vitesse's Havenaar scores in victory over Breda

BREDA, Netherlands - Japanese striker Mike Havenaar (R) of Vitesse Arnhem scores the game-winning goal against NAC Breda in a 2-1 victory in the Dutch first division in Breda, the Netherlands, on March 8, 2014.

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Milan's Honda against Udinese

UDINE, Italy - Japanese footballer Keisuke Honda (C) of A.C. Milan competes for the ball in a game against Serie A foe Udinese in Udine, Italy, on March 8, 2014.

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Nuremberg's Kiyotake in action against Bremen

NUREMBERG, Germany - Japanese footballer Hiroshi Kiyotake (R) of Nuremberg and Werder Bremen's Philipp Bargfrede fight for the ball in a Bundesliga clash in Nuremberg, Germany, on March 8, 2014.

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Hannover's Sakai against Leverkusen

HANNOVER, Germany - Japanese footballer Hiroki Sakai of Hannover 96(L) and Bayer Leverkusen's Julian Brandt compete for the ball during a Bundesliga match in Hannover on March 8, 2014.

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Nuremberg's Kiyotake plays against Bremen

NUREMBERG, Germany - Japanese footballer Hiroshi Kiyotake (L) of Nuremberg and Werder Bremen's Assani Lukimya compete for the ball in a Bundesliga game in Nuremberg, Germany, on March 8, 2014.

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Clean energy rally in Germany

BERLIN, Germany - Demonstrators carrying pinwheels march outside the Japanese Embassy in Berlin, Germany, on March 8, 2014, calling for the halting of nuclear energy, ahead of the third anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster triggered by the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

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Milan's Honda against Udinese

UDINE, Italy - Japanese footballer Keisuke Honda (L) of Italian football club AC Milan competes for the ball in a Serie A game against Udinese in Udine, Italy, on March 8, 2014.

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Clean energy rally in Germany

BERLIN, Germany - Demonstrators carrying pinwheels march near the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany, on March 8, 2014, calling for the halting of nuclear energy, ahead of the third anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster triggered by the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

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Manchester U's Kagawa against West Bromwich

WEST BROMWICH, England - Japanese footballer Shinji Kagawa (R) of Manchester United fights for the ball during the second half of a Premier League match against West Bromwich Albion on March 8, 2014, in West Bromwich, England.

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Malaysia Airlines B777 disappears with 239 people aboard

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak (R) holds a press conference at a hotel near Kuala Lumpur International Airport on March 8, 2014, after a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 with 239 people aboard disappeared during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing earlier that day.

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Katsura Bunshi wraps up name succession performances

OSAKA, Japan - Popular "rakugo" storyteller Katsura Bunshi greets the audience on March 8, 2014, in Osaka, western Japan, during the grand finale of a series of performances marking his succession to the name of his renowned master in "kamigata rakugo" in July 2012. He is the sixth-generation name holder.

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Ukraine's acting foreign minister

KIEV, Ukraine - Andrii Deshchytsia, Ukraine's acting foreign minister, holds a press conference in Kiev on March 8, 2014.

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Mizuki Shigeru Road celebrates 25 mil. visitors

YONAGO, Japan - Visitors pose with "yokai" monsters featured in the popular comic series "Gegege no Kitaro" at Mizuki Shigeru Road in Sakaiminato, Tottori Prefecture in western Japan, on March 8, 2014. The sightseeing spot named after prominent cartoonist Shigeru Mizuki, the comic series' author, has attracted over 25 million visitors since opening in 1993.

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New attraction opens on Mizuki Shigeru Road

YONAGO, Japan - "Yokai" monsters featured in the popular comic series "Gegege no Kitaro" pose in front of a new attraction, "Yokai oyasumidokoro - Sunakakeya," along Mizuki Shigeru Road in Sakaiminato, Tottori Prefecture in western Japan, on March 8, 2014. The facility opened on the occasion of the 92nd birthday of prominent cartoonist Shigeru Mizuki, author of the comic series.

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Malaysia Airlines B777 disappears with 239 people aboard

BEIJING, China - A Malaysia Airlines official (C) speaks to reporters in Beijing on March 8, 2014, after one of the airline's Boeing 777s with 239 people aboard disappeared during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing earlier that day.

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Malaysia Airlines B777 disappears with 239 people aboard

BEIJING, China - A relative (front) of a passenger aboard a Malaysia Airlines flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing that went missing with 239 people aboard cries at a hotel in Beijing on March 8, 2014. The airline arranged for relatives to stay at the hotel while awaiting news of what became of Flight MH370 which went missing earlier that day.

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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang

BEIJING, China - Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (L) holds a press conference in Beijing on March 8, 2014.

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Forlan takes shot on goal in Cerezo's win over Tokushima

NARUTO, Japan - Uruguay striker Diego Forlan (C) takes a shot on goal for Cerezo Osaka against Tokushima Vortis in Naruto, Tokushima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, in a J-League first-division match on March 8, 2014. Cerezo won 2-0.

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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang

BEIJING, China - Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi holds a press conference in Beijing on March 8, 2014.

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1st female chief for National Personnel Authority

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in May 2013 shows Nahomi Ichimiya, a commissioner of the National Personnel Authority. The government has decided to promote Ichimiya as the first woman to head the nation's personnel agency, government sources said March 8, 2014.

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Malaysia Airlines B777 disappears with 239 people aboard

BEIJING, China - A Malaysia Airlines official (R) in Beijing shows reporters a paper bearing information about a flight from Kuala Lumpur to the Chinese capital, which went missing earlier on March 8, 2014, with 239 people aboard.

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Malaysia Airlines B777 disappears with 239 people aboard

BEIJING, China - Relatives of passengers aboard a Malaysia Airlines flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing that went missing with 239 people aboard arrive at a hotel in Beijing on March 8, 2014. The airline arranged for relatives to stay at the hotel while awaiting news of what became of Flight MH370 which went missing earlier that day.

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Malaysia Airlines B777 disappears with 239 people aboard

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Malaysia's acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein (R) holds a press conference at a hotel near Kuala Lumpur International Airport on March 8, 2014, after a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 with 239 people aboard disappeared during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing earlier that day.

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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang

BEIJING, China - Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi ends a press conference in Beijing on March 8, 2014.

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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang

BEIJING, China - Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi holds a press conference in Beijing on March 8, 2014.

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Antinuclear protests in Taiwan

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Antinuclear protesters march in Taipei on March 8, 2014, ahead of the third anniversary of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant disaster in Japan following a monster earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011.

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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang

BEIJING, China - Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi holds a press conference in Beijing on March 8, 2014.

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Antinuclear protests in Taiwan

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Antinuclear protesters march in Taipei on March 8, 2014, ahead of the third anniversary of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant disaster in Japan following a monster earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011.

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Donation from Anne Frank House to Japan libraries

TOKYO, Japan - Jan Erik Dubbelman (L), a senior official in charge of educational projects at Anne Frank House, hands a copy of the Amsterdam-based museum's catalog to Ryo Tanaka, mayor of Tokyo's Suginami Ward, at the ward office on March 8, 2014. The museum will donate 3,400 copies of the catalog, along with 300 miniature model sets of the house where Anne Frank went into hiding during World War II, to libraries across Japan after books related to Anne Frank were recently vandalized at some libraries.