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Members of the Japan women's ice hockey team line lie on the ice to have their photograph taken prior their practice session ahead of the 2014 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014, in Sochi, Russia. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
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Members of the Japan women's ice hockey team slide on chairs prior their practice session ahead of the 2014 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014, in Sochi, Russia. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
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Yurie Adachi of the Japan women's ice hockey team poses for a photograph prior a practice session ahead of the 2014 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014, in Sochi, Russia. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
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In this 2011 photo, Mamoru Samuragochi poses with his CD "Symphony No.1 Hiroshima" in Japan. Samuragochi has been lauded as Japan's Beethoven for composing music despite a severe hearing impairment. But he admitted Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014 that he did not write the symphony and other works credited to him. His ghostwriter Takashi Niigaki said Thursday, Feb. 6, that he worked with Samuragochi for 18 years but got fed up and refused in 2013 to continue the collaboration. Niigaki said he hopes to continue composing and performing despite the uproar. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT
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Takashi Niigaki, ghost writer of well known deaf composer Mamoru Samuragochi, a composer Japanese have likened to Beethoven for supposedly composing music despite a severe hearing impairment, reacts to a reporter's question during a press conference in Tokyo, Japan, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014. Niigaki said he hopes to continue composing and performing, despite the uproar over Samuragochi’s admission on Wednesday that he did not write the pieces he is best known for, such as his “Hiroshima Symphony.” (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
