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After Fukushima, Japan gets green boom _ and glut

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FILE - In this May 14, 2014 file photo, people walk by the Sony Building at Ginza shopping district in Tokyo. Sony shareholders voted Thursday, June 19 to keep Chief Executive Kazuo Hirai and other top executives after heckling them about the Japanese electronics and entertainment company's continuing losses. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi, File) (AP)

Sony investors back CEO, directors despite losses

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Nintendo visionary Hiroshi Yamauchi dead at 85

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Fast plant is boost for Japan auto also-ran Mazda

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Boeing Commercial Airplanes President and CEO Ray Conner speaks during a news conference in Tokyo, Friday, March 15, 2013. (AP/Itsuo Inouye)

Boeing won’t let battery overheating stop its 787s

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Emergency landing grounds Boeing 787 jets in Japan

Elaine Kurtenbach, Yuri Kageyama

In this April 12, 2011 photo released by the Japan Defense Agency via Kyodo News, Japanese soldiers wash an armored vehicle to remove potential radiation contamination at J-Village, a soccer training complex now serving as an operation base for those battling Japan's worst nuclear disaster, northeastern Japan. The sports complex is about about 20 kilometers (12 miles) from the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant. (AP Photo/Japan Defense Agency via Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE (AP)

Fukushima’s tsunami plan was a single page

Yuri Kageyama, Justin Pritchard

FILE - In this May 4, 2011 file photo, Tokyo Electric Power Co. President Masataka Shimizu, front, listens to Namie villagers at an evacuation center at Nihonmatsu in Fukushima prefecture. Japanese media reports Friday, May 20, 2011, said Tokyo Electric Power Co. President Shimizu will resign to take responsibility for the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Dai-ichi power complex in northeastern Japan. (AP Photo/Kyodo News, File) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE (AP)

Tepco chief resigns over Japan nuclear crisis

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Japanese Prime Minister Nato Kan listens to a reporter's question during a press conference in Tokyo, Friday, April 22, 2011. Japan's government proposed a special $50 billion (4 trillion yen) budget to help finance reconstruction efforts and plans to build 100,000 temporary homes for survivors of last month's devastating earthquake and tsunami. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara) (AP)

Japan plans disaster budget, building 100K homes

Yuri Kageyama, Ravi Nessman

Tokyo Electric Power Co., (TEPCO) Chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata speaks during a news conference at the company's headquarters in Tokyo, Sunday, April 17, 2011. TEPCO, the operator of the crippled nuclear power plant leaking radiation in northern Japan, announced a plan Sunday that would bring the crisis under control within six to nine months and allow some evacuated residents to return to their homes. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama) (AP)

Japan nuclear firm reveals plan to end crisis

Yuri Kageyama, Shino Yuasa

Volunteers cook noodles for evacuees at an evacuation center in Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, Monday, April 11, 2011, a month after an earthquake and tsunami struck the east coast. A group of 21 volunteers from Tokyo and Saitama brought Sunday 2,000 meals for about over 500 evacuees at the shelter. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae) (AP)

Japan ups crisis level at plant to match Chernobyl

Yuri Kageyama, Ryan Nakashima

A protester in protective mask holds a placard during an anti nuclear rally in Tokyo, Sunday, March 27, 2011. Leaked water in Unit 2 of the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant measured 10 million times higher than usual radioactivity levels when the reactor is operating normally, Tokyo Electric Power Co. spokesman Takashi Kurita told reporters in Tokyo. The placard has a message that reads "Don't spread radioactive substance." (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye) (AP)

Huge radiation spike at Japan nuclear plant was a mistake

Yuri Kageyama, Mari Yamaguchi

A man and woman seek information about the safety of relatives at an evacuation center at Rikuzentakada, northeastern Japan, on Saturday March 12, 2011, one day after a giant quake and tsunami struck the country's northeastern coast. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING ALLOWED IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE (AP)

3 evacuees near Japan nuclear plant exposed to radiation

Yuri Kageyama, Eric Talmadge

Smoke ascends over an industrial area as flames are seen in Sendai, northern Japan, Saturday, March 12, 2011. Japan launched a massive military rescue operation Saturday after a giant, quake-fed tsunami killed hundreds of people and turned the northeastern coast into a swampy wasteland, while authorities braced for a possible meltdown at a nuclear reactor. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye) (AP)

Radiation down at Japan nuclear plant after blast

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“The Cove” screening canceled in Tokyo after protests

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Japan sympathetic to tearful Toyota head

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Toyota chief apologizes for global recalls

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