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Engineer passing on knowledge to new venture

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Oct. 18, 2013 in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward shows 70-year-old Yasunori Yoshida, a former automobile engineer who joined Terra Motors Corp., a four-year-old electric motorcycle venture, earlier in that month.

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Tokyo singer aiming to crack Taiwan at 2nd time of asking

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Oct. 18, 2013 in Tokyo shows Tokione, who made his debut as a singer in September 2013 in Japan after spending time in Taiwan writing songs. Tokione is aiming to make it big in Taiwan at the second time of asking.

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Rock singer-like physicist stands in vanguard of neutrino experiments

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Oct. 18, 2013, shows Sho Tada, a physicist and assistant professor at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, explaining about elementary particles theory before people who gathered at a cafe in Tokyo's Ginza district. (Photo by Makoto Hori)

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Red Sox manager

BOSTON, United States - Boston Red Sox manager John Farrell holds a press conference at Fenway Park in Boston on Oct. 18, 2013.

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Thomas Foley

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Thomas Foley, former U.S. House of Representatives speaker and ambassador to Japan. Foley has died, U.S. media said on Oct. 18, 2013. He was 84.

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Paul McCartney

LONDON, United Kingdom - Former Beatle Paul McCartney (C on stage) holds a surprise show at Covent Garden in London on Oct. 18, 2013.

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Xia Yeliang

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Xia Yeliang, an economics professor at Peking University. The pro-democracy Chinese professor who has been critical of the Communist Party's suppression of free speech said Oct. 18, 2013, he is set to be dismissed from his teaching post at the university in January 2014.

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Vladivostok opera theater

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Photo taken Oct. 18, 2013, shows a new opera and ballet theater in Vladivostok in the Russian Far East.

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Finnish foreign minister

TOKYO, Japan - Finnish Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja holds a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 18, 2013.

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Rescue efforts after typhoon

OSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Oct. 18, 2013, shows the damage on Izu Oshima Island, south of Tokyo, following Typhoon Wipha that struck the island on Oct. 16.

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Pancreatic islet transplant

KYOTO, Japan - Photo shows Kyoto University Hospital in Kyoto, western Japan, on Oct. 18, 2013. The hospital said the same day it had successfully transplanted pancreatic islets from a brain-dead donor to a diabetes patient on Oct. 13.

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Rescue efforts after typhoon

OSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows Japan Coast Guard divers taking part in a search and rescue operation in the sea near Izu Oshima Island south of Tokyo on Oct. 18, 2013, as the search continues for people missing since Typhoon Wipha hit the island on Oct. 16.

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Rescue efforts after typhoon

OSHIMA, Japan - Police officers use a dog in a search and rescue operation on Izu Oshima Island south of Tokyo on Oct. 18, 2013, as the search continues for people missing since Typhoon Wipha hit the island on Oct. 16.

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Rescue efforts after typhoon

OSHIMA, Japan - Police officers use a dog in a search and rescue operation on Izu Oshima Island south of Tokyo on Oct. 18, 2013, as the search continues for people missing since Typhoon Wipha hit the island on Oct. 16.

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Fukushima fishermen begin trial operations

IWAKI, Japan - Photo shows fish, octopus and squid that have been unloaded at Onahama port in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on Oct. 18, 2013. They were caught off Iwaki, as a fishermen's group based in the prefecture's southern district of Iwaki restarted operations on a trial basis for the first time since the Fukushima nuclear disaster began in March 2011. Another group in the north began trial fishing earlier.

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China's 3rd qtr economic growth

BEIJING, China - Sheng Laiyun, spokesman of China's National Bureau of Statistics, announces China's economic growth data in the July-September quarter of 2013 in Beijing on Oct. 18, 2013. China's economic growth picked up to 7.8 percent in the quarter from a year earlier, from 7.5 percent expansion in the previous three months, recording the fastest pace of growth for the year.

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Fukushima fishermen begin trial operations

IWAKI, Japan - Photo shows fish that have been unloaded at Hisanohama port in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on Oct. 18, 2013. The fish were caught off Iwaki, as a fishermen's group based in the prefecture's southern district of Iwaki restarted operations on a trial basis for the first time since the Fukushima nuclear disaster began in March 2011. Another group in the north began trial fishing earlier.

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Fukushima fishermen begin trial operations

IWAKI, Japan - Photo shows fish that have been unloaded at Hisanohama port in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on Oct. 18, 2013. The fish were caught off Iwaki, as a fishermen's group based in the prefecture's southern district of Iwaki restarted operations on a trial basis for the first time since the Fukushima nuclear disaster began in March 2011. Another group in the north began trial fishing earlier.

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Rescue efforts after typhoon

OSHIMA, Japan - Japan Coast Guard divers take part in a search and rescue operation in the sea near Izu Oshima Island south of Tokyo on Oct. 18, 2013, as the search continues for people missing since Typhoon Wipha hit the island on Oct. 16.

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Rescue efforts after typhoon

OSHIMA, Japan - Japan Coast Guard divers head for a search and rescue operation in the sea near Izu Oshima Island south of Tokyo on Oct. 18, 2013, as the search continues for people missing since Typhoon Wipha hit the island on Oct. 16.

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Lawmakers visit Yasukuni Shrine

TOKYO, Japan - Hidehisa Otsuji (front L), head of a nonpartisan group of Japanese lawmakers, and other members of the group visit the war-related Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Oct. 18, 2013, to offer prayers during its annual autumn festival.

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Lawmakers visit Yasukuni Shrine

TOKYO, Japan - Members of a nonpartisan group of Japanese lawmakers visit the war-related Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Oct. 18, 2013, to offer prayers during its annual autumn festival.

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Internal affairs minister visits Yasukuni Shrine

TOKYO, Japan - Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Yoshitaka Shindo (front) leaves the war-related Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Oct. 18, 2013, after offering prayers during its annual autumn festival.

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Lawmakers visit Yasukuni Shrine

TOKYO, Japan - Hidehisa Otsuji (front L), head of a nonpartisan group of Japanese lawmakers, and other members of the group visit the war-related Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Oct. 18, 2013, to offer prayers during its annual autumn festival.

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Internal affairs minister visits Yasukuni Shrine

TOKYO, Japan - Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Yoshitaka Shindo visits the war-related Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Oct. 18, 2013, to offer prayers during its annual autumn festival.

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Fukushima fishermen begin trial operations

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Fishermen load ice on a fishing boat before leaving Onahama port in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, before dawn on Oct. 18, 2013. A fishermen's group based in the prefecture's southern district of Iwaki restarted operations on a trial basis for the first time since the Fukushima nuclear disaster began in March 2011. Another group in the north began trial fishing earlier.

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Fukushima fishermen begin trial operations

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Fishing boats leave Onahama port in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, before dawn on Oct. 18, 2013, as a fishermen's group based in the prefecture's southern district of Iwaki restarted operations on a trial basis for the first time since the Fukushima nuclear disaster began in March 2011. Another group in the north began trial fishing earlier.

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Fukushima fishermen begin trial operations

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - A fishing boat leaves Onahama port in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, before dawn on Oct. 18, 2013, as a fishermen's group based in the prefecture's southern district of Iwaki restarted operations on a trial basis for the first time since the Fukushima nuclear disaster began in March 2011. Another group in the north began trial fishing earlier.