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Doctor arranges adoptions for 25 yrs

SAITAMA, Japan - Photo taken Oct. 17, 2013 in Kumagaya, Saitama Prefecture, shows Koji Samejima, an obstetrician and gynecologist who, since 1989, has helped women with unwanted pregnancies and childless couples wishing to take care of their babies.

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Tiger statue at Comerica Park

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken Oct. 17, 2013, shows a huge tiger statue at the entrance of Comerica Park, home field of the major league baseball team Detroit Tigers, in Detroit, Michigan.

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Rock singer-like physicist stands in vanguard of neutrino experiments

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Oct. 17, 2013, shows Sho Tada, a physicist and assistant professor at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, standing in front of one of the electromagnetic horns at the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex. The complex known as J-PARC is a high intensity proton accelerator facility in the village of Tokai in Ibaraki Prefecture. (Photo by Makoto Hori)

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Peter Yarrow

NEW YORK, United States - American musician Peter Yarrow performs in New York on Oct. 17, 2013, his new song "Never Give Up" using a poem by exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama.

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Peter Yarrow

NEW YORK, United States - American musician Peter Yarrow speaks in New York on Oct. 17, 2013, about his new song "Never Give Up" using a poem by exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama.

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Sydney covered in smoke

SYDNEY, Australia - An area in Sydney is covered in smoke on Oct. 17, 2013, due to massive wildfires burning across the state of New South Wales.

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Film about mixed-race experience in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Megumi Nishikura, born to a Japanese father and an Irish American mother, speaks about a documentary film she directed during an interview on Oct. 17, 2013, in Tokyo. "Hafu (Half): the mixed-race experience in Japan" depicts the life in Japan of those born to parents one of which is non-Japanese.

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AL Championship Series

DETROIT, United States - Boston Red Sox closer Koji Uehara pitches in Game 5 of the American League Championship Series against the Detroit Tigers at Comerica Park in Detroit, Michigan, on Oct. 17, 2013. The Red Sox won 4-3 to take a 3-2 lead in the series.

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AL Championship Series

DETROIT, United States - Boston Red Sox closer Koji Uehara pitches in Game 5 of the American League Championship Series against the Detroit Tigers at Comerica Park in Detroit, Michigan, on Oct. 17, 2013. The Red Sox won 4-3 to take a 3-2 lead in the series.

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AL Championship Series

DETROIT, United States - Boston Red Sox closer Koji Uehara pitches in Game 5 of the American League Championship Series against the Detroit Tigers at Comerica Park in Detroit, Michigan, on Oct. 17, 2013. The Red Sox won 4-3 to take a 3-2 lead in the series.

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AL Championship Series

DETROIT, United States - Boston Red Sox pitcher Junichi Tazawa is pictured after the Detroit Tigers' Brayan Pena (back) hits an RBI single during the sixth inning of Game 5 of the American League Championship Series at Comerica Park in Detroit, Michigan, on Oct. 17, 2013. The Red Sox won 4-3 to take a 3-2 lead in the series.

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AL Championship Series

DETROIT, United States - Boston Red Sox pitcher Junichi Tazawa throws against the Detroit Tigers in Game 5 of the American League Championship Series at Comerica Park in Detroit, Michigan, on Oct. 17, 2013. The Red Sox won 4-3 to take a 3-2 lead in the series.

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AL Championship Series

DETROIT, United States - Detroit Tigers pitcher Anibal Sanchez is pictured after the Boston Red Sox's Mike Napoli (back) hits a solo homer during the second inning of Game 5 of the American League Championship Series at Comerica Park in Detroit, Michigan, on Oct. 17, 2013. The Red Sox won 4-3 to take a 3-2 lead in the series.

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AL Championship Series

DETROIT, United States - The Detroit Tigers' Miguel Cabrera is tagged out by Boston Red Sox catcher David Ross during the first inning of Game 5 of the American League Championship Series at Comerica Park in Detroit, Michigan, on Oct. 17, 2013. The Red Sox won 4-3 to take a 3-2 lead in the series.

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AL Championship Series

DETROIT, United States - The Boston Red Sox's David Ross (R) is tagged out by Detroit Tigers catcher Alex Avila during the second inning of Game 5 of the American League Championship Series at Comerica Park in Detroit, Michigan, on Oct. 17, 2013. The Red Sox won 4-3 to take a 3-2 lead in the series.

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AL Championship Series

DETROIT, United States - The Boston Red Sox's Mike Napoli (L) is greeted by next batter Jonny Gomes after hitting a solo homer during the second inning of Game 5 of the American League Championship Series against the Detroit Tigers at Comerica Park in Detroit, Michigan, on Oct. 17, 2013. The Red Sox won 4-3 to take a 3-2 lead in the series.

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AL Championship Series

DETROIT, United States - The Boston Red Sox's David Ross hits an RBI double during the second inning of Game 5 of the American League Championship Series against the Detroit Tigers at Comerica Park in Detroit, Michigan, on Oct. 17, 2013. The Red Sox won 4-3 to take a 3-2 lead in the series.

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AL Championship Series

DETROIT, United States - Boston Red Sox starter Jon Lester pitches in Game 5 of the American League Championship Series against the Detroit Tigers at Comerica Park in Detroit, Michigan, on Oct. 17, 2013. The Red Sox won 4-3 to take a 3-2 lead in the series.

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AL Championship Series

DETROIT, United States - The Boston Red Sox's Mike Napoli hits a solo homer during the second inning of Game 5 of the American League Championship Series against the Detroit Tigers at Comerica Park in Detroit, Michigan, on Oct. 17, 2013. The Red Sox won 4-3 to take a 3-2 lead in the series.

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Tokyo film festival

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (L) and U.S. actor Tom Hanks shake hands during the opening ceremony of the Tokyo International Film Festival in the Japanese capital on Oct. 17, 2013. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Philippine-S. Korea summit meeting

SEOUL, South Korea - Philippine President Benigno Aquino (L, front) and South Korean President Park Geun Hye (R, front) shake hands at the outset of their talks at the Blue House in Seoul on Oct. 17, 2013. (Pool photo)

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Japan gov't, business leaders meet

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) speaks during a meeting with business leaders at his office in Tokyo on Oct. 17, 2013.

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Tokyo film festival

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) and U.S. actor Tom Hanks exchange words during the opening ceremony of the Tokyo International Film Festival in the Japanese capital on Oct. 17, 2013. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Tokyo film festival

TOKYO, Japan - American film director Francis Ford Coppola (L) and his daughter and film director Sofia Coppola attend a photo session during the opening ceremony of the Tokyo International Film Festival in the Japanese capital on Oct. 17, 2013.

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Myanmar journalist Sein Win

TOKYO, Japan - An October 2000 file photo shows veteran Myanmar journalist Sein Win, who died at a hospital in Yangon on Oct. 17, 2013. He was 91.

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Project to develop car that can warn driver of heart attack

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Oct. 17, 2013 in Tokyo's Minato Ward shows Takao Kato, a professor emeritus at Nippon Medical School who proposed a project a decade ago to develop an automobile equipped with a set of devices to warn the driver of a possible heart attack.

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Typhoon aftermath

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the site of a mudslide on Izu Oshima Island, south of Tokyo, on Oct. 17, 2013, the day after heavy rain brought by Typhoon Wipha.

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Retrial for 1961 murder case rejected

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in June 1961 shows Masaru Okunishi (C), accused of poisoning 17 people, resulting in the deaths of five women, on March 28, 1961, at a local community meeting in Nabari, Mie Prefecture, during the first hearing on the case at the Tsu District Court in the prefecture. The Supreme Court said Oct. 17, 2013, it has turned down a petition by Okunishi, now an 87-year-old death-row inmate, for a retrial over the case.

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Typhoon aftermath

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the site of a mudslide on Izu Oshima Island, south of Tokyo, on Oct. 17, 2013, the day after heavy rain brought by Typhoon Wipha.

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Typhoon aftermath

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a house destroyed by a mudslide on Izu Oshima Island, south of Tokyo, on Oct. 17, 2013, the day after heavy rain brought by Typhoon Wipha.

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Typhoon aftermath

TOKYO, Japan - Self-Defense Force personnel search for missing people at the site of a mudslide on Izu Oshima Island, south of Tokyo, on Oct. 17, 2013, the day after heavy rain brought by Typhoon Wipha.

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Typhoon aftermath

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a house destroyed by a mudslide on Izu Oshima Island, south of Tokyo, on Oct. 17, 2013, the day after heavy rain brought by Typhoon Wipha.

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Cyberspace conference in S. Korea

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean President Park Geun Hye speaks on the opening day of a two-day conference on cyberspace in Seoul on Oct. 17, 2013.

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Typhoon aftermath

TOKYO, Japan - Self-Defense Force personnel search for missing people at the site of a mudslide on Izu Oshima Island, south of Tokyo, on Oct. 17, 2013, the day after heavy rain brought by Typhoon Wipha.

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Typhoon aftermath

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the site of a mudslide on Izu Oshima Island, south of Tokyo, on Oct. 17, 2013, the day after heavy rain brought by Typhoon Wipha.

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Typhoon aftermath

TOKYO, Japan - Self-Defense Force personnel search for missing people at the site of a mudslide on Izu Oshima Island, south of Tokyo, on Oct. 17, 2013, the day after heavy rain brought by Typhoon Wipha.

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Chongryon's Tokyo office

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Oct. 17, 2013, shows the Tokyo headquarters of the pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, known as Chongryon. A bidder named "Avar Limited Liability Company" won an auction the same day to acquire the site for 5.01 billion yen, the Tokyo District Court said.

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PM Abe

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks at a plenary session of the House of Councillors at the Diet in Tokyo on Oct. 17, 2013.

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Abe refrains from visiting shrine

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Oct. 17, 2013. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sent a ritual offering to the war-linked shrine the same day for its annual autumn festival, but refrained from visiting amid frayed ties with China and South Korea.

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Typhoon aftermath

TOKYO, Japan - Self-Defense Force personnel check a vehicle destroyed by a mudslide on Izu Oshima Island, south of Tokyo, on Oct. 17, 2013, the day after heavy rain brought by Typhoon Wipha.

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Typhoon aftermath

TOKYO, Japan - Self-Defense Force personnel search for missing people at the site of a mudslide on Izu Oshima Island, south of Tokyo, on Oct. 17, 2013, the day after heavy rain brought by Typhoon Wipha.

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Abe refrains from visiting shrine

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a "masakaki" tree offering from Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, whose name and title of the prime minister is written on a plate attached to a tree at left, at the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Oct. 17, 2013. Abe sent the offering to the war-linked shrine for its annual autumn festival but refrained from visiting to avoid further fraying ties with China and South Korea.

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Typhoon aftermath

TOKYO, Japan - An employee removes mud from a gas station on Izu Oshima Island, south of Tokyo, on Oct. 17, 2013, the day after heavy rain brought by Typhoon Wipha.

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Wearable terminal

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows the Intelligent Glasses, a wearable terminal developed by NTT Docomo Inc. The mobile communications service provider said on Sept. 17, 2013, it will unveil the device at the CEATEC Japan high technology exhibition starting on Oct. 1, 2013, in Chiba east of Tokyo.

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Huge wind turbine set up in Pacific off Chiba Pref.

CHOSHI, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Oct. 17, 2012, shows a 126-meter-high wind turbine built in the Pacific some 3 kilometers off Choshi, Chiba Prefecture, which starts power generation possibly in January 2013. Its output will be around 2,400 kilowatt-hours.