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Nobel laureate Yamanaka

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) holds the medal for the 2012 Nobel Prize in medicine won by Shinya Yamanaka (L) at the premier's office in Tokyo on Jan. 13, 2013.

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Abe meets Nobel laureates

KOBE, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (front) visits a laboratory belonging to Riken, a company that deals with the research of induced pluripotent stem cells in Kobe, western Japan, on Jan. 11, 2013. At left is Shinya Yamanaka, who won the 2012 Nobel Prize in medicine for the research of iPS cells. At center is Ryoji Noyori, Riken president and Nobel Prize in chemistry laureate. (Pool photo)

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Violinist Abe rediscovers significance of music in Bethlehem

BETHLEHEM, West Bank - Japanese violinist-conductor Shinya Abe (standing) teaches at a branch school of the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music in Bethlehem, West Bank.