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A girl lights candles in front of a temporary shopping complex in the earthquake and tsunami-devastated city of Kesennuma, Iwate prefecture, northeastern Japan, Sunday, March 11 2012, to mark the first anniversary of the massive disaster that devastated Japan one year ago. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
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An open area in front of a temporary shopping complex in the devastated city of Kesennuma, Japan, serves as the site of a candlelit memorial to those killed in the earthquake and tsunami on March, 11, 2011. (Associated Press)
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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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** FILE ** A young girl waits her turn to release a lantern into the waters of Tokyo Bay on Sunday, March 11, 2012, to mark the first anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated northeastern Japan. (AP Photo/Greg Baker)
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A man washes a door in a bathtub outside a home in Hirono, Japan, part of an attempt to remove radioactive contamination. Hirono is outside the nuclear exclusion zone around the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant. Officials say there is no successful example they can follow for the cleanup, and they don't know how to judge the effectiveness of a process that is expected to last for years or even decades. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** Workers build temporary housing for tsunami and radiation evacuees in Hirono, just outside the 20-kilometer (12-mile) nuclear exclusion zone around the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in northeast Japan, on Feb. 20, 2012. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** Japan's Yuzo Kanemaru (left) and Britain's Martyn Rooney shake hands Aug. 18, 2008, after a heat of the men's 400 meters during the athletics competition in the National Stadium at the Olympics in Beijing. (Associated Press)
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Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Yukiya Amano of Japan casts a shadow on the wall during a news conference after a meeting of the IAEA's board of governors at the International Center, in Vienna, Austria, Monday, March 5, 2012. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)
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**FILE** A worker scoops up a layer of radiation-contaminated soil and ice in the garden of a private home in Fukushima, Japan, on Feb. 21, 2012. (Associated Press)
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Water tanks are pictured at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s tsunami-crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power station in Okuma, Fukushima prefecture, in northeastern Japan, on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012. (AP Photo/Kimimasa Mayama, Pool)
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**FILE** Clothing lying in heaps at the site of a neighborhood in Rikuzentakata, Japan, destroyed by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami is seen Feb. 21, 2012. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** Tsunami waves gush March 11, 2011, into a complex near the Unit 4 reactor at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex in Okuma twon, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. (Associated Press/Tokyo Electric Power Co.)
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Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba speaks in Tokyo on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2012, about a plan to move many U.S. Marines off the southern Japanese island of Okinawa. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
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** FILE ** International Atomic Energy Agency experts Jozef Misak (third from right) and Charles Casto (second from right) walk past an emergency air-cooled power generator as they inspect the Ohi nuclear power plant in Ohi, Fukui prefecture, Japan, on Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi, File)
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Using traditional techniques, Yasuhiro Ishiwata makes udon noodles by hand - and feet - at his new shop in the disaster zone of Kesennuma, Japan. (Christopher Johnson/Special to The Washington Times)
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** FILE ** This Nov. 12, 2011, photo shows the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town, Japan. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder, Pool, File)
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Using traditional techniques, Yasuhiro Ishiwata makes udon noodles by hand — and feet — at his new shop in the disaster zone of Kesennuma, Japan. (Christopher Johnson/Special to The Washington Times)
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Tokyo Electric Power Co. President Toshio Nishizawa, right, looks up as Japan's Nuclear Crisis Minister Goshi Hosono, left, speaks during a press conference at the headquarters of TEPCO, the operator of the tsunami-damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, in Tokyo Friday, Dec. 16, 2011, shortly after Japan's prime minister announced that the nuclear plant has achieved a stable state of "cold shutdown," a crucial step toward the eventual lifting of evacuation orders and closing of the plant. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)
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Radioactive water pools outside a building with a purification device inside at the tsunami-damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture, Japan, on Sunday, Dec. 4, 2011. (AP Photo/Tokyo Electric Power Co.)
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Cal Ripken Jr. speaks during an interview with the Associated Press at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2011. Ripken Jr. took a message of hope and perseverance to Japanese children effected by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. The Hall of Fame infielder, who earned the nickname "Iron Man" for playing in 2,632 consecutive games during his 21-year career with the Baltimore Orioles, put on a baseball clinic in Ofunato, Japan, as part of nine-day mission as a sports diplomat on behalf of the U.S. State Department. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)
