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Residents in Miyagi plant trees on hill made of disaster debris

SENDAI, Japan - People take part in tree-planting in Iwanuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on May 26, 2012, on a roughly 4-meter high hill made of debris from the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami and built as an experimental wall against tidal waves.

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Residents in Miyagi plant trees on hill made of disaster debris

SENDAI, Japan - A woman and her daughter take part in tree-planting in Iwanuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on May 26, 2012, on a roughly 4-meter high hill made of debris from the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami and built as an experimental wall against tidal waves.

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Picture book on creators of Tokyo Sky Tree

TOKYO, Japan - Writer and illustrator Noritake Suzuki draws a sketch for a picture book tentatively titled ''Tokyo Sky Tree wo Tsukuru'' (meaning ''Creating Tokyo Sky Tree'') at his home in the city of Chiba on Aug. 26, 2011. The picture book featuring various jobs concerned with the construction of Tokyo Sky Tree will be published next spring. Tokyo Sky Tree, the world's tallest self-standing tower, is scheduled to open to visitors in May 2012.

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Thaksin's sister eyes becoming Thai's PM

BANGKOK, Thailand - Thai prime ministerial candidate Yingluck Shinawatra (C), who is the youngest sister of ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, shakes hands with a supporter during an election campaign at a market in northeast Thailand on May 26, 2011, ahead of the July 3 general election. The 43-year-old is running as the main opposition Pheu Thai party's candidate.

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Illustration of Japan prime minister

TOKYO, Japan - The German weekly paper Die Zeit publishes an illustration of leaders of the Group of Eight nations in its May 26, 2011, issue. In the back row (2nd from R) is a man looking more like former Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso than current Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan.

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Illustration of Japan prime minister

TOKYO, Japan - The German weekly paper Die Zeit publishes an illustration of leaders of the Group of Eight nations in its May 26, 2011, issue. In the back row (2nd from R) is a man looking more like former Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso than current Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan.

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Kan, Obama meet in France

DEAUVILLE, France - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan (L) speaks with U.S. President Barack Obama during their meeting on the sidelines of a two-day Group of Eight summit in Deauville, France, on May 26, 2011. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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G-8 summit in France

DEAUVILLE, France - Group of Eight leaders attend a meeting in a conference room in Deauville, France, on May 26, 2011. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Kan at G-8 summit in France

DEAUVILLE, France - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan takes his seat at a Group of Eight summit in Deauville, France, on May 26, 2011. (Pool photo)

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Obama, Harper at G-8 summit

DEAUVILLE, France - U.S. President Barack Obama (L) and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper (R) are seen at the venue of a two-day Group of Eight summit in Deauville, France, on May 26, 2011. (Pool photo)

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Kan, Obama meet in France

DEAUVILLE, France - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan (L) and U.S. President Barack Obama shake hands during their meeting on the sidelines of a two-day Group of Eight summit in Deauville, France, on May 26, 2011. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Google to launch 'electronic wallet' in U.S.

NEW YORK, United States - A person demonstrates an electronic payment function of a smartphone at a vending machine in New York on May 26, 2011. Google Inc. said it will launch in the United States this summer the mobile payment system enabling users to buy merchandise by scanning their smartphones at reading terminals of participating retail outlets.

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Kan, Obama meet in France

DEAUVILLE, France - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan (L) and U.S. President Barack Obama hold a meeting on the sidelines of a two-day Group of Eight summit in Deauville, France, on May 26, 2011. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Kan at G-8 summit in France

DEAUVILLE, France - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan arrives at his seat at a Group of Eight summit in Deauville, France, on May 26, 2011. (Pool photo)

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Obama, Berlusconi at G-8 summit

DEAUVILLE, France - U.S. President Barack Obama (L) chats with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi (C) at the venue of a two-day Group of Eight summit in Deauville, France, on May 26, 2011. (Pool photo)

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G-8 leaders in France

DEAUVILLE, France - (From L to R, front) European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, U.S. President Barack Obama, Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan, and other leaders of the Group of Eight nations walk to the venue for their summit in Deauville, France, on May 26, 2011. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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G-8 summit in France

DEAUVILLE, France - (From front L) French President Nicolas Sarkozy, U.S. President Barack Obama, Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan and other leaders at the Group of Eight summit head to a conference room in Deauville, France, on May 26, 2011. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Kan at G-8 summit in France

DEAUVILLE, France - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan waves as he walks in front of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to the venue for a two-day Group of Eight summit in Deauville, France, on May 26, 2011. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Obama, Sarkozy at G-8 summit

DEAUVILLE, France - U.S. President Barack Obama (R) and French President Nicolas Sarkozy (L) shake hands with some of the crowd as they walk to the venue for a two-day Group of Eight summit in Deauville, France, on May 26, 2011. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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G-8 summit in France

DEAUVILLE, France - U.S. President Barack Obama (Front L) and Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan (front R) head to a conference room for the Group of Eight summit in Deauville, France, on May 26, 2011. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Japan opens ASEAN mission in Jakarta

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Japanese Ambassador to ASEAN Takio Yamada (C) poses for photos at the Japanese Embassy in Jakarta on May 26, 2011. Japan officially opened its mission to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in the Indonesian capital the same day.

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G-8 summit in France

DEAUVILLE, France - (From L) Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, U.S. President Barack Obama and French President Nicolas Sarkozy chat at the Group of Eight summit in Deauville, France, on May 26, 2011. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Palestinian FM Malki in Bali

NUSA DUA, Indonesia - Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki speaks at a press conference in Nusa Dua, Indonesia, on May 26, 2011, ahead of attending a meeting of the ministers of Non-Aligned Movement member countries there. Malki said Palestine would apply for U.N. membership at the General Assembly in September and seek full statehood.

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Sony expecting to return to net profit

TOKYO, Japan - Sony Corp. Chief Financial Officer Masaru Kato (R) speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on May 26, 2011. Sony expects to return to the black on a net earnings basis in the current fiscal year for the first time in four years.

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Renault's new Megane

TOKYO, Japan - Renault Japon Chief Operating Officer Tsukasa Daigoku stands beside a new model of the Megane in Tokyo on May 26, 2011. The new model hit the market the same day.

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Nuclear evacuees briefly return home

NAMIE, Japan - Evacuees wearing radiation protection suits search for their belongings in an area where their house once stood in Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, during their brief visit home on May 26, 2011, with exhaust pipes of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant visible in the background (C, back). The residents were forced to evacuate due to radiation leaks from the power plant.

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Kim Jong Il leaves Beijing

BEIJING, China - A special train believed to be carrying North Korean leader Kim Jong Il leaves Beijing station on May 26, 2011. Kim is believed to have met Chinese President Hu Jintao and other leaders in Beijing.

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Kim Jong Il in Beijing

BEIJING, China - Security officers guard an area near Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing where North Korean leader Kim Jong Il is staying on May 26, 2011.

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Hamaoka nuke plant's No. 5 reactor

OMAEZAKI, Japan - Photo taken May 26, 2011, shows the spent fuel pool inside of the building housing the closed down Hamaoka nuclear power plant's No. 5 reactor, in Omaezaki, Shizuoka Prefecture. The plant operator Chubu Electric Power Co. unveiled the inside of the building for the first time to the media since it shut down the plant at the request of the Japanese government on May 14.

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Evacuees from town hosting Fukushima plant visit home

TAMURA, Japan - Evacuees in radiation protection suits from the town of Futaba, where the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is partly located, listen to instructions before heading for their hometown on May 26, 2011, in Tamura, Fukushima Prefecture. The residents, who had lived around 5 kilometers from the plant until the March 11 tsunami, were permitted to make brief visits home to retrieve their belongings.

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Nuclear evacuees briefly return home

NAMIE, Japan - Evacuees wearing radiation protection suits walk in their hometown of Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, in devastation during their brief visit on May 26, 2011, with exhaust pipes of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant visible in the background (L, back). Many residents, who have been forced to evacuate due to radiation leaks from the power plant damaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, lost their homes in the disaster.

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White tigers on display at Kagoshima zoo

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - A male white tiger is put on public display at Hirakawa Zoological Park in the city of Kagoshima, southwestern Japan, on May 26, 2011. The zoo on the same day began showing it and a female white tiger alternately.

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Kim Jong Il tours IT company in Beijing

BEIJING, China - People walk on May 26, 2011, outside a building of Digital China Holdings Ltd., an information technology services provider that North Korean leader Kim Jong Il visited earlier the same day. Kim toured Beijing's technological hub in the Zhongguancun district, dubbed ''China's Silicon Valley,'' during the seventh day of his trip in China.

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Hamaoka nuke plant's No. 5 reactor

OMAEZAKI, Japan - People are seen inside the turbine building of the closed down Hamaoka nuclear power plant's No. 5 reactor, in Omaezaki, Shizuoka Prefecture, on May 26, 2011. The plant operator Chubu Electric Power Co. unveiled the inside of the building for the first time to the media since it shut down the plant at the request of the Japanese government on May 14.

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White tigers on display at Kagoshima zoo

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - A male white tiger is put on public display at Hirakawa Zoological Park in the city of Kagoshima, southwestern Japan, on May 26, 2011. The zoo on the same day began showing it and a female white tiger alternately.

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Kim Jong Il in Beijing

BEIJING, China - A vehicle apparently carrying North Korean leader Kim Jong Il leaves Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on May 26, 2011.

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Nuclear evacuees briefly return home

MINAMISOMA, Japan - Evacuees from Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, put on radiation protection suits to prepare for a brief visit to their town on May 26, 2011, in Minamisoma, Fukushima. Many of the residents in the town, who were forced to evacuate due to radiation leaks from the plant, will use their visits for a memorial service there for the victims of the March 11 tsunami, instead of going home to retrieve their belongings, as they have lost their homes in the disaster.