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Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda (left) gives a memorial address as Emperor Akihito (second from right) and Empress Michiko listen during the national memorial service for the victims of the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami in Tokyo on Sunday, March 11, 2012. (AP Photo/Pool)
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Japanese Emperor Akihito (left) and Empress Michiko speak with evacuees at a center in Tokyo on Wednesday, March 30, 2011. The royal couple visited the shelter to give encouragement to some 300 evacuees from the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, mostly from Fukushima Prefecture, where the troubled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant is located. (AP Photo/Issei Kato, Pool)
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Emperor Akihito tried to calm the nerves of his nation's people during a televised address on Wednesday. He expressed his condolences to those who have suffered since the earthquake and tsunami and urged them not to give up. (Associated Press)
