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N.Y. museum opens special exhibit on art of Japanese storytelling

NEW YORK, United States - Visitors view a special exhibition on the art of Japanese storytelling that opened on Nov. 24, 2011, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. It showcases a substantial collection of illustrated scrolls known as ''emaki'' and other artworks.

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Fire breaks out at Yokohama power plant

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Firefighters try to put out a fire at a thermal power plant in Yokohama, southwest of Tokyo, late at night on Nov. 24, 2011. The blaze at the Isogo power plant, operated by the Electric Power Development Co., also known as J-Power, was almost put out by the early hours of Nov. 25 with no casualties reported.

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High school footballers from quake-hit areas at Wembley

LONDON, Britain - High school footballers from Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima, the three northeastern Japanese prefectures hit hard by the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami, and others pose for photos at London's Wembley Stadium on Nov. 24, 2011. The students' trip was realized after England's Football Association offered to let them use the field for half a day free of charge in a show of support for Japan's reconstruction efforts.

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Dog awarded for keeping man, girl warm

SAPPORO, Japan - Asako Soma (R) receives an award certificate on behalf of Junior (L), a 7-year-old male Labrador Retriever, in the town of Naie, Hokkaido, on Nov. 24, 2011. The town government honored the dog for keeping his 81-year-old owner Yoshimasa Soma, husband of Asako, and the man's 3-year-old granddaughter Sukai Kimura warm in an overturned car during a freezing night.

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Ex-Olympus chief Woodford in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Michael Woodford, former chief executive officer and president of Olympus Corp., makes a speech in Tokyo on Nov. 24, 2011. Woodford was visiting Japan to meet with Japanese investigative authorities probing the camera and medical equipment maker's coverup of investment losses.

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Ex-Olympus chief Woodford in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Reporters swarm around Michael Woodford (far R), former chief executive officer and president of Olympus Corp., after he visited the Metropolitan Police Department in Tokyo on Nov. 24, 2011. Woodford met with Japanese investigators over the camera and medical equipment maker's coverup of investment losses.

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Industry minister Edano sells Fukushima produce

TOKYO, Japan - Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Yukio Edano (far L) sells newly harvested rice and apples from Fukushima Prefecture at the ministry building in Tokyo on Nov. 24, 2011, in a gesture of support for the farming industry in the northeastern prefecture. The industry has been suffering amid consumer concern that produce from the prefecture is contaminated with radiation from the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

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New Japan minesweeper

YOKOHAMA, Japan - The 570-ton Chichijima, Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force's new minesweeper, takes to water after a launching ceremony in Yokohama, southwest of Tokyo, on Nov. 24, 2011.

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Ex-Olympus chief Woodford in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Michael Woodford, former chief executive officer and president of Olympus Corp., meets reporters after visiting the Metropolitan Police Department in Tokyo on Nov. 24, 2011. Woodford met with Japanese investigators over the camera and medical equipment maker's coverup of investment losses.

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Hakuho defeats Kotoshogiku

FUKUOKA, Japan - Mongolian grand champion Hakuho (L) throws ozeki Kotoshogiku during the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament at Fukuoka Kokusai Center in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, on Nov. 24, 2011.

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Ex-Olympus chief Woodford in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Michael Woodford, former chief executive officer and president of Olympus Corp., meets reporters after visiting the Metropolitan Police Department in Tokyo on Nov. 24, 2011. Woodford met with Japanese investigators over the camera and medical equipment maker's coverup of investment losses.

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Mitsubishi's minicar-class commercial EV

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi Motors Corp. President Osamu Masuko stands next to the MINICAB-MiEV, a minicar-class commercial electric vehicle, in Tokyo on Nov. 24, 2011. The automaker will launch the vehicle in Japan on Dec. 8 as the second product in its next-generation EV lineup.

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Emperor discharged from hospital

TOKYO, Japan - Emperor Akihito waves from a car as he arrives at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo after being released from the University of Tokyo Hospital on Nov. 24, 2011. The 77-year-old emperor was admitted to the hospital for bronchial pneumonia on Nov. 6.

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Emperor discharged from hospital

TOKYO, Japan - Emperor Akihito (L) and Empress Michiko head for the Imperial Palace by car from the University of Tokyo Hospital in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward on Nov. 24, 2011, after the emperor was released from the hospital the same day. The 77-year-old emperor had been hospitalized for bronchial pneumonia.

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Panamanian freighter stranded off Hokkaido

TOMAKOMAI, Japan - A crew member from the Panamanian-registered freighter Propel Progress is rescued by helicopter from the stranded vessel off the coast of Tomakomai, Hokkaido, on Nov. 24, 2011. No crew members, all of them Chinese, were injured in the stranding incident.

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Ex-Olympus chief Woodford meets Japanese prosecutors

TOKYO, Japan - Michael Woodford, former chief executive officer and president of Olympus Corp., heads for the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office in Tokyo on Nov. 24, 2011. Woodford met with Tokyo prosecutors later over the camera and medical equipment maker's cover-up of investment losses.

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Snow-capped Mt. Fuji

KOFU, Japan - Photo taken on Nov. 24, 2011, from Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi Prefecture, shows Mt. Fuji capped with snow.

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Panamanian freighter stranded off Hokkaido

TOMAKOMAI, Japan - Photo taken at 11:20 a.m. on Nov. 24, 2011, shows the Panamanian-registered freighter Propel Progress, which was stranded off the coast of Tomakomai, Hokkaido, around 2:30 a.m. the same day. No crew members, all of them Chinese, were injured in the stranding incident.

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Ex-Olympus chief Woodford meets Japanese prosecutors

TOKYO, Japan - Michael Woodford, former chief executive officer and president of Olympus Corp., is surrounded by reporters before entering the building (R) of the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office in Tokyo on Nov. 24, 2011. Woodford met Tokyo prosecutors later over the camera and medical equipment maker's cover-up of investment losses.

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NTT Docomo's Galaxy S II LTE smartphone

TOKYO, Japan - Galaxy S II LTE smartphones, which NTT Docomo Inc. began selling on Nov. 24, 2011, are pictured the same day in Tokyo. The products are NTT Docomo's first smartphones compatible with Xi, its next-generation high-speed communication service.