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Fukushima Daiichi plant

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows spent fuel in a container being transferred from the No. 4 reactor unit of the disaster-striken Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station on Nov. 29, 2013. Tokyo Electric Power Co. said it transferred a batch of spent fuel rod assemblies from the No. 4 unit spent fuel pool for the first time to a more stable storage space.

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Iran's IAEA envoy

VIENNA, Austria - Reza Najafi, Iran's ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, holds a press conference in Vienna on Nov. 29, 2013.

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Fukushima Daiichi plant

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows spent fuel in a container being transferred from the No. 4 reactor unit of the disaster-striken Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station on Nov. 29, 2013. Tokyo Electric Power Co. said it transferred a batch of spent fuel rod assemblies from the No. 4 unit spent fuel pool for the first time to a more stable storage space.

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Japan rugby coach

TOKYO, Japan - Japan rugby coach Eddie Jones holds a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 29, 2013.

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Secrecy bill

TOKYO, Japan - State minister Masako Mori answers a question on a controversial bill to toughen penalties for leakers of state secrets at a House of Concillors panel in Tokyo on Nov. 29, 2013.

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Japan emperor to visit India

NEW DELHI, India - An exhibition begins at the India International Center in New Delhi on Nov. 29, 2013. The exhibition, held ahead of the visit to India by Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko, is about the couple's previous visit to India in 1960.

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Tokyo governor

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Gov. Naoki Inose speaks at the Tokyo metropolitan assembly in the Japanese capital on Nov. 29, 2013. The governor apologized for accepting 50 million yen from the scandal-hit Tokushukai hospital organization before running in the December 2012 gubernatorial election.

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Fukushima Daiichi plant

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows spent fuel in a container being transferred from the No. 4 reactor unit of the disaster-stricken Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station on Nov. 29, 2013. Tokyo Electric Power Co. said it transferred a batch of spent fuel rod assemblies from the No. 4 unit spent fuel pool for the first time to a more stable storage space.

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Astronaut Onishi to travel to space in 2016

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in Tokyo on Nov. 29, 2013, shows Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi speaking via teleconference in Houston following the announcement by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency that Onishi will travel into space for the first time around July 2016 in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft.

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1st female secretary to premier

TOKYO, Japan - Makiko Yamada (R), deputy director general for IT strategy at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, receives her letter of appointment from Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to become one of Abe's secretaries at his office in Tokyo on Nov. 29, 2013. The 53-year-old senior official at the economy ministry is the first woman to serve as a prime ministerial secretary in postwar Japan.

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1st female secretary to premier

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Makiko Yamada, deputy director general for IT strategy at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has decided to appoint the 53-year-old senior official at the economy ministry as his secretary, making Yamada the first woman to serve as a prime ministerial secretary in postwar Japan, a government source said Nov. 29, 2013.

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1st female secretary to premier

TOKYO, Japan - Makiko Yamada (R), deputy director general for IT strategy at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, chats with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe after receiving her letter of appointment from Abe to become one of his secretaries at his office in Tokyo on Nov. 29, 2013. The 53-year-old senior official at the economy ministry is the first woman to serve as a prime ministerial secretary in postwar Japan.

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Astronaut Onishi to travel to space in 2016

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said Nov. 29, 2013, that Onishi will travel into space for the first time around July 2016 in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft.

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Astronaut Wakata

TSUKUBA, Japan - Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata speaks during a press conference at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Tsukuba Space Center in Ibaraki Prefecture near Tokyo on July 29, 2013. Wakata is scheduled to fly to the International Space Station on Nov. 7, 2013, and become the first Japanese skipper of the ISS during the latter half of his mission.

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Astronaut Wakata

TSUKUBA, Japan - Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata speaks during a press conference at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Tsukuba Space Center in Ibaraki Prefecture near Tokyo on July 29, 2013. Wakata is scheduled to fly to the International Space Station on Nov. 7, 2013, and become the first Japanese skipper of the ISS during the latter half of his mission.

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Mazda's CX-5 SUV

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Mazda Motor Corp.'s CX-5 crossover sport utility vehicle. The vehicle has won the Car of the Year Japan 2012-2013 title, the executive committee for the award said Nov. 29, 2012.