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Royal couple views reconstructed port after 2011 disaster

HACHINOHE, Japan - Emperor Akihito (R) and Empress Michiko (C) view the reconstructed Hachinohe port in the northern Japan prefecture of Aomori on Sept. 24, 2014, about three and a half years after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster. Hachinohe Mayor Makoto Kobayashi stands next to the royal couple.

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Kitten named 'apprentice attendant' at rail station

AIZUWAKAMATSU, Japan - Michiko Kobayashi, manager of Aizu Railway Co.'s Ashinomaki Onsen Station in Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, holds a kitten appointed as an "apprentice attendant" on July 28, 2014. She hopes the kitten will succeed an aging "cat stationmaster" in the near future.

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Emperor, empress host spring garden party

TOKYO, Japan - Emperor Akihito (C) talks with Makoto Kobayashi (2nd from R) and Toshihide Masukawa (4th from R), winners of the 2008 Nobel Prize in physics, during a spring garden party at Akasaka Imperial Garden in Tokyo on April 16, with Empress Michiko standing by him.

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Emperor, empress host spring garden party

TOKYO, Japan - Emperor Akihito (C) talks with Makoto Kobayashi (2nd from R) and Toshihide Masukawa (4th from R), winners of the 2008 Nobel Prize in physics, during a spring garden party at Akasaka Imperial Garden in Tokyo on April 16, with Empress Michiko standing by him. (Kyodo)