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Japan nuclear reactor resumes full operation

FUKUI, Japan - Photo on July 9, 2012, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the No. 3 reactor (R) at the Oi plant on the Sea of Japan coast in Fukui Prefecture. The reactor began generating electricity at capacity that day, becoming the first of the country's 50 commercial reactors to return to full service after all were taken offline in May 2012 in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis.

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Japanese wins world cocktail title

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in May 2010 shows Takafumi Yamada, a Japanese bartender who won the World Cocktail Championship in Poland on Nov. 9, 2011, with an original cocktail on the theme of reconstruction from the March 11 disaster in Japan. Yamada said he created the vodka-based cocktail, Great Sunrise, in hope that ''a wonderful sunrise will shine all over Japan.''

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Skymark to launch flights at Kansai airport

IZUMISANO, Japan - Skymark Airlines Inc. President Shinichi Nishikubo speaks during a press conference in Izumisano, Osaka Prefecture, on Sept. 9, 2011. Nishikubo said the airline will start flight services linking Kansai International Airport near Osaka with Sapporo and Naha in May 2012. Skymark quit the western Japan airport in 2006.

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Japan eyes radiation dose limit for debris removers

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows a man measuring radiation levels at a temporary waste dump site in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on May 9, 2011. Japanese government sources said on June 3 the government is considering setting a radiation dose limit for workers clearing up the massive piles of disaster debris being left near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

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Tesla Motors' Model S

SAN FRANCISCO, United States - Photo shows Tesla Motors Inc.'s lithium-ion battery-powered Model S sedan. The U.S. electric vehicle maker based in Palo Alto, California, said May 9, 2011, it plans to start selling the model in Japan from around 2013 and will accept reservations from May 10, 2011.

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Joint demonstrations by Muslims, Christians in Cairo

CAIRO, Egypt - Muslims and Christians demonstrate together in western Cairo on May 9, 2011, against escalating religious conflict following the political upheaval in Egypt that saw long-ruling President Hosni Mubarak ousted, insisting that the followers of the two religions are united. A Christian church in the capital was torched by Islamic fundamentalists May 7, and over a dozen people were reportedly killed in a clash the same day between Muslims and Christians in front of the church.

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Red Sox donates drinking water for disaster victims in Japan

BOSTON, United States - Boston Red Sox pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka (R) holds a water bottle during a ceremony before a ball game at Fenway Park in Boston on May 9, 2011. The team announced that it has donated 100,000 500-milliliter bottles of water to the areas devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

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Burned church in Cairo

CAIRO, Egypt - Soldiers stand guard in front of a church, which Islamic fundamentalists had set on fire, in Cairo on May 9, 2011. Over a dozen people were also reportedly killed in a clash between Muslims and Christians in front of the church on May 7.

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Joint demonstrations by Muslims, Christians in Cairo

CAIRO, Egypt - Muslims and Christians demonstrate together in western Cairo on May 9, 2011, against escalating religious conflict following the political upheaval in Egypt that saw long-ruling President Hosni Mubarak ousted, insisting that the followers of the two religions are united. A Christian church in the capital was torched by Islamic fundamentalists May 7, and over a dozen people were reportedly killed in a clash the same day between Muslims and Christians in front of the church.

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Japanese pair at world table tennis c'ships

ROTTERDAM, Netherlands - Ai Fukuhara (front) paired with Seiya Kishikawa (back) hits the ball during a match against Serbian pair Bojan Crepulja and Andrea Todorovic in the mixed doubles at the table tennis world championships in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, on May 9, 2011. The Japanese pair routed the Serbian pair 11-7, 11-3, 11-9, 11-9 in the first round.

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Low-cost, high-output solar power unit

TOKYO, Japan - A man shows a low-cost solar power system developed by Smart Solar International, a start-up firm spun off from a University of Tokyo research center, at the university in Tokyo on May 9, 2011. Smart Solar International said it will begin making the system in June that year in Miyagi Prefecture, with an eye on selling it worldwide in the future.

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Tsunami-hit high school in Rikuzentakata

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - Photo taken May 9, 2011, shows tsunami-hit Takata High School, surrounded by debris from the March 11 disaster, in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture. The high school held its entrance ceremony for new students at the gymnasium of another high school in the vicinity the following day, about a month later than its original schedule and the latest enrollment ceremony for high schools in the prefecture.

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Toei honorary chairman Okada dies at 87

TOKYO, Japan - This 2001 file photo shows Shigeru Okada, honorary chairman of Japanese movie producer Toei Co., who died on May 9, 2011 at age 87.

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Renewable energy could meet 77% of global supply

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows solar power generation panels installed on the roofs of houses in Ota, Gunma Prefecture. A U.N. panel on climate change said in a report on May 9, 2011, that 77 percent of the world's energy supply could be met by renewable energy by 2050 if backed by the right public policies.

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Renewable energy could meet 77% of global supply

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows a wind power station of Electric Power Development Co. (J-Power) in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture. A U.N. panel on climate change said in a report on May 9, 2011, that 77 percent of the world's energy supply could be met by renewable energy by 2050 if backed by the right public policies.

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Hakuho wins bout in sumo test meet

TOKYO, Japan - Mongolian grand sumo champion Hakuho (top) beats Goeido by deploying a right-handed pulling underarm throw on the second day of the 15-day May Technical Examination Tournament at Ryogoku Kokugikan hall in Tokyo on May 9, 2011.

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Hamaoka nuclear plant to be suspended

NAGOYA, Japan - Chubu Electric Power Co. President Akihisa Mizuno speaks in a press conference at the company's head office in Nagoya on May 9, 2011. He said the utility decided that day to suspend operation of the Hamaoka nuclear power station in Shizuoka Prefecture, as requested by Prime Minister Naoto Kan as there are concerns a quake could hit the area and cause a crisis similar to that at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

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Measuring radiation levels of debris

IWAKI, Japan - A worker measures radiation levels of debris left by the March 11 quake-tsunami disaster in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on May 9, 2011. The central government began measuring the same day the debris in the prefecture amid the ongoing crisis at the local Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, to consider ways to dispose of it.

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Measuring radiation levels of furniture

IWAKI, Japan - A worker measures radiation levels of discarded furniture in the wake of the March 11 quake-tsunami disaster in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on May 9, 2011. The central government began measuring the same day the debris in the prefecture amid the ongoing crisis at the local Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, to consider ways to dispose of it.