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People busy sorting bonito at Kesennuma port

KESENNUMA, Japan - Bonito are sorted at a port in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on June 16, 2014. Repair work on the quay wall was completed in May after it was severely damaged in the 2011 tsunami that hit northeastern Japan.

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Moai statue for disaster-hit Japan

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - Workers install a stone replica of a Moai human figure at a temporary shopping area in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on May 16, 2013. Chile has sent the replica of an Easter Island statue as a present to the northeastern Japan town hit by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake.

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Moai statue for disaster-hit Japan

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - Workers install a stone replica of a Moai human figure at a temporary shopping area in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on May 16, 2013. Chile has sent the replica of an Easter Island statue as a present to the northeastern Japan town hit by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake.

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Moai statue for disaster-hit Japan

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - Workers install a stone replica of a Moai human figure at a temporary shopping area in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on May 16, 2013. Chile has sent the replica of an Easter Island statue as a present to the northeastern Japan town hit by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake.

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Ballet troupe from disaster-hit Sendai performs in N.Y.

NEW YORK, United States - Members of modern ballet troupe Yuko Takahashi Dance Company from Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, a city hard hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster, perform at a charity show in New York on May 16, 2012.

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Matsuzaka makes 1st rehab start

SALEM, United States - Boston Red Sox right-hander Daisuke Matsuzaka pitches in a professional game for the first time since May 16, 2011, and since undergoing Tommy John surgery last June. Matsuzaka began a rehab assignment with the Single-A Advanced Salem in Salem, Virginia, on April 23, 2012.

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Golfer Yoneyama to retire at end of season

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in May 2005 shows Japanese golfer Midori Yoneyama, a seven-time winner on the Japan LPGA Tour. Yoneyama, 35, said Nov. 16, 2011, she will retire at the end of the season.

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Top court decides lay judge system constitutional

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows the Supreme Court's grand bench in Tokyo on Nov. 16, 2011, which unanimously decided the same day that Japan's lay judge system, introduced in May 2009, is constitutional in handing down its first judgment on the issue.

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G-8 summit venue

DEAUVILLE, France - Photo taken on May 16, 2011, shows the venue for the Group of Eight summit in Deauville, France.

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Actor, TV personality Kiyoshi Kodama dies at 77

TOKYO, Japan - In this October 2002 file photo, Kiyoshi Kodama, actor and TV show host, poses with his favorite books at a hotel in Tokyo. Kodama died on May 16, 2011, of stomach cancer at the age of 77.

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EU ready to start official FTA negotiations with Japan

BRUSSELS, Belgium - EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht (C) attends a press conference in Brussels on May 16, 2011. He said the European Union will start preliminary talks with Japan on a bilateral free trade agreement later this month in a bid to enter official negotiations sometime this year.

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Matsui to leave Grenoble

DIJON, France - Grenoble's Daisuke Matsui in action during a French Ligue 2 game against Dijon in Dijon, France, on May 16, 2011, in a 2-1 loss. Matsui said the same day he would leave the team at season's end. The team will be playing in the third division next season.

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Next Fuji Heavy president

TOKYO, Japan - Yasuyuki Yoshinaga, the next president of Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd., gives an interview in Tokyo on May 16, 2011. Yoshinaga said that the maker of Subaru brand vehicles will build upon its strengths, placing emphasis on the characteristic features of its products, in seeking to boost its performance.

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Matsui to leave Grenoble

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Japanese soccer player Daisuke Matsui. The World Cup midfielder said May 16, 2011, he would leave French Ligue 2 side Grenoble at season's end.

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Ousted Thai premier's sister

BANGKOK, Thailand - Yingluck Shinawatra speaks in Bangkok on May 16, 2011, after being elected by the Thai opposition Puea Thai Party as its prime ministerial candidate for the July 3 general election. Yingluck Shinawatra is the youngest sister of ousted Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.

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U.S. envoy in S. Korea

SEOUL, South Korea - Stephen Bosworth, U.S. special representative for North Korea policy, arrives at Incheon airport near Seoul on May 16, 2011, for a three-day visit. He plans to hold discussions with South Korean officials on resuming stalled six-party talks on Pyongyang's denuclearization.

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N. Korea opens int'l trade fair

PYONGYANG, North Korea - The 14th Pyongyang Spring International Trade Fair begins in Pyongyang on May 16, 2011. About 280 companies from North Korea and abroad are participating in the four-day event.

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N. Korea opens int'l trade fair

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Visitors view exhibits at the 14th Pyongyang Spring International Trade Fair as the event kicks off in Pyongyang on May 16, 2011. About 280 companies from North Korea and abroad are participating in the four-day event.

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Astronauts in Moscow

MOSCOW, Russia - (From L) U.S. astronaut Michael Fossum, Russian cosmonaut Sergey Volkov and Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa shake hands at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in the suburbs of Moscow on May 16, 2011. The three will lift off in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on June 8 to stay at the International Space Station for about five and a half months, with Furukawa serving as a flight engineer on his first space mission.

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Memorial coins for 3 prefectures

OSAKA, Japan - Photo shows three pairs of memorial coins depicting (from top) Toyama, Tottori and Kumamoto prefectures -- 1,000 yen (L) and 500 yen (R) -- which are scheduled to be sold from late May 2011, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the implementation of the local autonomy law. Japan Mint held a commencement ceremony at its head office in Osaka on May 16, 2011, as the agency began producing the coins the same day.

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Pope's emissary visits disaster-hit Matsushima

MATSUSHIMA, Japan - Cardinal Robert Sarah, an emissary of Pope Benedict XVI, throws flowers into the ocean from a boat on May 16, 2011, in the Matsushima area, a popular tourist spot in Miyagi Prefecture hit by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, to commemorate victims of the disaster.

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Pope's emissary visits disaster-hit Matsushima

MATSUSHIMA, Japan - Cardinal Robert Sarah (C), an emissary of Pope Benedict XVI, and others pray for the victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami on May 16, 2011, on a boat in the Matsushima area, a popular tourist spot hit by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Miyagi Prefecture.

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Large ship offered as shelter for evacuees

SENDAI, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the 14,500-ton Techno Super Liner cargo-passenger ship docking at Ishinomaki Port in Miyagi Prefecture on May 16, 2011. About 2,400 people affected by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in the city are expected to stay on the ship for free from the following day through May 31, 2011.