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Japan's Shinji Okazaki, bottom left, shoots to score as New Zealand's goalkeeper Glen Moss, right, tries to save the ball during their Kirin Challenge Cup international friendly soccer match at the National Stadium in Tokyo, Wednesday, March 5, 2014. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama)

Okazaki pair leads Japan to 4-2 win over NZ

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Chinese Premier Li Keqiang delivers a work report during the opening session of the annual National People's Congress in Beijing's Great Hall of the People, China, Wednesday, March 5, 2014. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

China vows tough reforms, stronger defense

By GILLIAN WONG - Associated Press

Japan rallies to tie US 1-1 at Algarve Cup

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013, file photo, U.S. musician Herbie Hancock performs during a concert, part of the 10th edition of the Panama Jazz Festival, in Panama City. Hancock reckons he's performed more often in Japan than in his hometown of Chicago during his professional career. The pianist will be back in April 2014 for an all-star concert at Osaka Castle Park highlighting the third annual International Jazz Day. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco, File)

Osaka to host all-star concert on Int’l Jazz Day

By CHARLES J. GANS - Associated Press

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Empress Dowager Cixi’

By Claire Hopley - Special to The Washington Times

Olympic gold medalist ice dancers Meryl Davis and Charlie White, left, visit the Empire State Building on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2014 in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Olympic gold medalists Davis-White out of worlds

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Kingsbury wins dual moguls World Cup event

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New York Yankees pitcher Masahiro Tanaka stands in the dugout before pitching in an exhibition baseball game against the Philadelphia Phillies Saturday, March 1, 2014, in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Tanaka goes 2 shutout innings in 1st Yankees game

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Japanese city: No ‘scary’ tattoos allowed at beach popular with U.S. troops

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Hulu selling Japan business to Nippon TV

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Japan names 23-man squad for New Zealand friendly

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This undated photo released by Honda Motor Co. Monday, Feb . 24, 2014 shows the Japanese auto maker's new board member Hideko Kunii. Honda has appointed a woman to its board for the first time and given a major promotion to a foreigner in a sign the automaker wants to change perceptions of a hidebound corporate culture. Honda announced Monday that technology expert Kunii, 66, will join the board, and Issao Mizoguchi, a Brazilian of Japanese ancestry, has been appointed operating officer. (AP Photo/Honda Motor Co.)

Honda taps woman to board, promotes foreigner

By YURI KAGEYAMA - Associated Press

Stillwater native creates snow sculpture in Japan

By ELIZABETH KEYS - Associated Press

Boulder-built instrument key to satellite mission

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Adelina Sotnikova of Russia performs during the figure skating exhibition gala at the Iceberg Skating Palace during the 2014 Winter Olympics, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2014, in Sochi, Russia. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Rock, classical, Broadway at Sochi gala skate

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ADVANCE FOR USE SATURDAY, FEB. 22 AND THEREAFTER - In this Jan. 31, 2014, 2014 photo, World War II veteran Lynold Puterbaugh holds a portrait of him in his Army uniform that was taken in 1944 at his home in Pleasant Hill, Ill. (AP Photo/The Quincy Herald-Whig, Phil Carlson)

EXCHANGE: Pleasant Hill man remembers WW11

By DEBORAH GERTZ HUSAR - Associated Press

People watch a TV news report with images of Russia's Adelina Sotnikova, left, and South Korea's Yuna Kim about the result of the women's free skate figure skating final during the 2014 Winter Olympics, at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Feb. 21, 2014. South Koreans still love Yuna Kim. The judges, however, are another matter. Kim, known as the &quot;Queen&quot; in South Korea, finished with the figure skating silver medal at the Sochi Olympics behind Adelina Sotnikova of Russia. That left many South Koreans furious over what they saw as questionable judging. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

A different Olympics on TVs across the world

By DAVID BAUDER - Associated Press

A ripped copy of Anne Frank's "Diary of a Young Girl" picture book is shown by Shinjuku City Library Director Kotaro Fujimaki at the library in Tokyo Friday, Feb. 21, 2014. (AP Photo/Koji Ueda)

265 Anne Frank books vandalized in Tokyo libraries

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Thursday’s Sports In Brief

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Bronze medalist Japan's Ayana Onozuka skis in her final run in the women's ski halfpipe competition at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Part, at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Onozuka captures bronze for Japan in ski halfpipe

By PAT GRAHAM - Associated Press