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Eagles allow Tanaka to go to majors through posting system

SENDAI, Japan - Masahiro Tanaka, ace pitcher of the Japanese baseball club Rakuten Eagles, smiles while speaking to reporters at the club's office in Sendai on Dec. 25, 2013, after talks with team president Yozo Tachibana. The club agreed to release Tanaka through the posting system. Tanaka told the club on Nov. 17, soon after Nippon Professional Baseball had agreed to Major League Baseball's terms on a new posting system, that he wished to move to the majors.

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Eagles allow Tanaka to go to majors through posting system

SENDAI, Japan - Masahiro Tanaka, ace pitcher of the Japanese baseball club Rakuten Eagles, speaks to reporters at the club's office in Sendai on Dec. 25, 2013, after talks with team president Yozo Tachibana. The club agreed to release Tanaka through the posting system. Tanaka told the club on Nov. 17, soon after Nippon Professional Baseball had agreed to Major League Baseball's terms on a new posting system, that he wished to move to the majors.

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Eagles allow Tanaka to go to majors through posting system

SENDAI, Japan - Yozo Tachibana, president of the Japanese baseball club Rakuten Eagles, smiles during a news conference at the club's office in Sendai on Dec. 25, 2013, after talks with the team's ace pitcher Masahiro Tanaka. The club agreed to release Tanaka through the posting system. Tanaka told the club on Nov. 17, soon after Nippon Professional Baseball had agreed to Major League Baseball's terms on a new posting system, that he wished to move to the majors.

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Eagles allow Tanaka to go to majors through posting system

SENDAI, Japan - Yozo Tachibana, president of the Japanese baseball club Rakuten Eagles, speaks at a news conference at the club's office in Sendai on Dec. 25, 2013, after talks with the team's ace pitcher Masahiro Tanaka. The club agreed to release Tanaka through the posting system. Tanaka told the club on Nov. 17, soon after Nippon Professional Baseball had agreed to Major League Baseball's terms on a new posting system, that he wished to move to the majors.

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Ex-Saison Group head Seiji Tsutsumi dies

TOKYO, Japan - Seiji Tsutsumi, former head of the Saison Group retail chain, is interviewed in this file photo taken in October 2012. Tsutsumi, also known as a poet, novelist and commentator, died at a Tokyo hospital on Nov. 25, 2013, at age 86.

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Kennedy visits tsunami-hit area

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy (R) reads "Where the Wild Things Are," a classic children's picture book, to students at Mangokuura Elementary School in the city of Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, an area hit hard by the March 2011 tsunami, on Nov. 25, 2013. (Pool photo)

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Kennedy visits tsunami-hit area

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy (R) shakes hands with a woman at a temporary housing facility in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, an area hit hard by the March 2011 tsunami, on Nov. 25, 2013. (Pool photo)

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Chinese envoy Cheng

TOKYO, Japan - Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua speaks with reporters at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Nov. 25, 2013, after being summoned there by Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Akitaka Saiki. Saiki lodged a protest over Beijing's establishment of an air defense zone covering the Senkaku Islands in an attempt to stake its claim over the Japanese-administered islets in the East China Sea.

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Protests in Bangkok

BANGKOK, Thailand - Photo shows antigovernment protesters in Bangkok on Nov. 25, 2013. The protesters, led by the opposition Democrat Party, separately marched to at least 13 destinations in Bangkok, including the headquarters of the army, navy, air force and police, and several government offices.

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Kennedy visits tsunami-hit area

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy (R) tries her hand at Japanese calligraphy with the help of a student at Mangokuura Elementary School in the city of Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, an area hit hard by the March 2011 tsunami, on Nov. 25, 2013. (Pool photo)

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Fugitive Tiananmen Square activist

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Wuer Kaixi, a fugitive former student leader of the 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy protests. According to Hong Kong media reports, Wuer, who now resides in Taiwan, was deported after arriving at Hong Kong airport on Nov. 25, 2013, in a failed attempt to surrender to authorities to be allowed back into China.

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Kennedy visits tsunami-hit area

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy (C) shakes hands with students at Mangokuura Elementary School in the city of Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, an area hit hard by the March 2011 tsunami, on Nov. 25, 2013. (Pool photo)

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Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman

BEIJING, China - Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang holds a press conference at the ministry in Beijing on Nov. 25, 2013. Qin suggested that China, which recently set up an air defense identification zone over a cluster of islands at the heart of a territorial dispute between Japan and China, may establish different air defense identification zones in the future.

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Cool Japan Fund

TOKYO, Japan - Trade minister Toshimitsu Motegi (4th from L) and other officials attend a ceremony at the Roppongi Hills shopping complex in Tokyo on Nov. 25, 2013, to mark the launch of Cool Japan Fund Inc., a state-backed organization to promote Japanese culture abroad for the next 20 years.

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No. of Line users tops 300 mil.

TOKYO, Japan - Akira Morikawa, chief executive officer of smartphone messaging company Line Corp., speaks during an in-house event after the number of its global users topped the 300 million mark, in Tokyo on Nov. 25, 2013.

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Kennedy visits tsunami-hit area

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy (R) smiles as students raise their hands to ask her questions at Mangokuura Elementary School in the city of Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, an area hit hard by the March 2011 tsunami, on Nov. 25, 2013. (Pool photo)

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Kennedy visits tsunami-hit area

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy (R) shows the Japanese character for "tomo," meaning friend, which she wrote with the help of a student (standing next to her), at Mangokuura Elementary School in the city of Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, an area hit hard by the March 2011 tsunami, on Nov. 25, 2013. (Pool photo)

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Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman

BEIJING, China - Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang holds a press conference at the ministry in Beijing on Nov. 25, 2013. Qin suggested that China, which recently set up an air defense identification zone over a cluster of islands at the heart of a territorial dispute between Japan and China, may establish different air defense identification zones in the future.

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Protests in Bangkok

BANGKOK, Thailand - Photo shows antigovernment protesters in Bangkok on Nov. 25, 2013. The protesters, led by the opposition Democrat Party, separately marched to at least 13 destinations in Bangkok, including the headquarters of the army, navy, air force and police, and several government offices.

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BOJ chief

TOKYO, Japan - Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda (L) and Bank of France Gov. Christian Noyer hold a discussion at the Paris Europlace International Forum at a Tokyo hotel on Nov. 25, 2013.

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Protests in Bangkok

BANGKOK, Thailand - Photo shows antigovernment protesters in Bangkok on Nov. 25, 2013. The protesters, led by the opposition Democrat Party, separately marched to at least 13 destinations in Bangkok, including the headquarters of the army, navy, air force and police, and several government offices.

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Kennedy visits tsunami-hit area

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy (2nd from L) waves to students as she arrives at Mangokuura Elementary School in the city of Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, an area hit hard by the March 2011 tsunami, on Nov. 25, 2013.

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BOJ chief

TOKYO, Japan - Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda (L) and Bank of France Gov. Christian Noyer hold a discussion at the Paris Europlace International Forum at a Tokyo hotel on Nov. 25, 2013.

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Kennedy visits tsunami-hit area

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy (2nd from R) waves to students as she arrives at Mangokuura Elementary School in the city of Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, an area hit hard by the March 2011 tsunami, on Nov. 25, 2013.

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U.S. envoy on N. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - Glyn Davies, U.S. special representative for North Korea policy, answers reporters' questions after meeting with Junichi Ihara, head of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, in Tokyo on Nov. 25, 2013.

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U.S. envoy on N. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - Glyn Davies (L), U.S. special representative for North Korea policy, and Junichi Ihara, head of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, shake hands before their meeting in Tokyo on Nov. 25, 2013. (Pool photo)

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IAEA's Lentijo

TOKYO, Japan - Juan Carlos Lentijo, who leads a team of experts formed by the International Atomic Energy Agency, holds a press conference at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry in Tokyo on Nov. 25, 2013. The team began reviewing the ongoing efforts to scrap the crippled reactors at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant the same day.

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Envoy Kennedy in Tohoku

SENDAI, Japan - New U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy (L) and Miyagi Gov. Yoshihiro Murai shake hands at the Miyagi prefectural office in Sendai on Nov. 25, 2013. It is Kennedy's first visit to the Tohoku area in northeastern Japan, which was hit by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, since assuming office earlier in the month. (Pool photo)

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59.60-carat pink diamond

GENEVA, Switzerland - Photo taken in Geneva on Sept. 25, 2013, shows a 59.60-carat pink diamond. Sotheby's said the same day the Pink Star diamond was mined in Africa in 1999. It will be auctioned in the Swiss city on Nov. 13.