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Luna, a beagle, is tied to a tree near her makeshift house at an evacuee center, Thursday, March 24, 2011, in Fukushima, Fukushima prefecture, Japan. Japan, famous for drilling its citizens on how to prepare for all manner of natural disasters, has done far less to prepare those who live near its many nuclear reactors for emergencies. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)

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** FILE ** An All Nippon Airways Boeing 787 Dreamliner sits at Takamatsu Airport in Takamatsu, Japan, after it made an emergency landing on Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013. The flight to Tokyo from Ube in western Japan landed at the airport after a cockpit message showed battery problems, in the latest trouble for the 787. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)

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Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Tom Donohue, shown last year with Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, said that regulatory burdens and the recent "fiscal cliff" tax increases are among the biggest issues that are discouraging job creation. (Associated Press)

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A 9-foot giant squid takes the bait in the deep sea off Japan's Chichi island in this image made from video recorded in the summer of 2012. (AP Photo/NHK/NEP/Discovery Channel)

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Yayoi Okayama, from Japan, left, Ziporah Choice, from New Jersey, foreground right, and others take part in the New Year's Eve festivities in New York's Times Square on Monday, Dec. 31, 2012. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg)

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A woman walks by an electronic stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo on Dec. 27, 2012. Asian markets have risen amid optimism that Japan’s new leaders will stimulate its sluggish economy. (Associated Press)

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Japan's newly-named Prime Minister Shinzo Abe smiles as he waves at the media upon his arrival at the prime minister's official residence following his election at Parliament in Tokyo Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012. Abe, whose nationalist positions have in the past angered Japan's neighbors, is the country's seventh prime minister in just over six years. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

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The west coast of Canada and the United States have few warning signs or reminders, like this one in Japan, of the earthquakes and tsunamis that have struck the region with killer force. (Associated Press)

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Liberal Democratic Party leader Shinzo Abe is all but certain to become Japan’s next prime minister after his party’s victory in Sunday’s parliamentary election. Mr. Abe resigned as prime minister for health reasons after just a year in the job in 2007. One of his goals is to recover Japan’s economic vitality of the 1980s and ‘90s. His nationalist policies could rile China, hurting the auto industry and others with huge investments in the fast-growing Chinese market. (Associated Press)