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New Year's Eve in disaster area

KESENNUMA, Japan - Shuko Katayama, chief priest of a Buddhist temple in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, tests a bell on Dec. 31, 2012, prior to striking it 108 times at midnight on New Year's Eve. The temple is still under restoration from damage caused by the March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake.

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Monk sings of tsunami plight in jazz

TOKYO, Japan - Shuko Katayama (front), a 71-year-old Buddhist monk from Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, sings jazz featuring the plight of people in the March tsunami during a performance at Kenchoji temple in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, southwest of Tokyo, on Nov. 5, 2011.

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Monk sings of tsunami plight in jazz

TOKYO, Japan - Shuko Katayama (front), a 71-year-old Buddhist monk from Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, sings jazz featuring the plight of people in the March tsunami during a performance at Kenchoji temple in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, southwest of Tokyo, on Nov. 5, 2011. (Kyodo)