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Milwaukee Brewers relief pitcher Takashi Saito, from Japan, walks onto the field for a light workout in the snow, Wednesday, March 30, 2011 in Cincinnati. The Brewers open their 2011 major league baseball season Thursday against the Cincinnati Reds in Cincinnati.(AP Photo/Al Behrman)

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Japanese Emperor Akihito (left) and Empress Michiko speak with evacuees at a center in Tokyo on Wednesday, March 30, 2011. The royal couple visited the shelter to give encouragement to some 300 evacuees from the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, mostly from Fukushima Prefecture, where the troubled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant is located. (AP Photo/Issei Kato, Pool)

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A resident of Japan's Oshima island pushes a wheelbarrow past the destroyed port as he tries to salvage belongings from his home on Monday, March 28, 2011, following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

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**FILE** Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan, wearing one of the blue work jackets that have become ubiquitous among bureaucrats since the tsunami, reacts during a budget committee meeting in parliament's upper house in Tokyo on March 29, 2011. (Associated Press)

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A survivor of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan cuts woods for fire for warmth at a shelter in the devastated town of Yamamoto, Miyagi Prefecture, in northeastern Japan on Monday, March 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

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Burial is held in the March 11 earthquake and tsunami-destroyed city of Higashimatsushima, northern Japan, on Friday, March 25, 2011. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)

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U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner said he doesn't think Japan's troubles will affect U.S. borrowing costs and interest rates. (Bloomberg)

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Medical workers in protective gear gather around an ambulance which arrived at a hospital in Fukushima City, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, carrying two workers from the tsunami-damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant after they stepped into contaminated water while laying electrical cables in one unit Thursday, March 24, 2011. (AP Photo/Yomiuri Shimbun, Jun Yasukawa) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT

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A resident walks between the rubble caused by the March 11 tsunami at Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, northern Japan, Wednesday, March 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

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In this photo released by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (Tepco), gray smoke rises from Unit 3 of the tsunami-stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okumamachi, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, on Monday, March 21, 2011. (AP Photo/Tokyo Electric Power Co.)

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A woman is screened Monday at an evacuee center for radiation from the damaged Fukushima nuclear facilities in northeastern Japan. Despite living in close proximity to six nuclear reactors, evacuees at this shelter never practiced an emergency drill to prepare them for a disaster. (Associated Press)

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An elderly Japanese woman searches for her belongings Monday in the quake- and tsunami-destroyed town of Rikuzentakata in northeastern Japan. (Associated Press)

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Chiyoko Kaizuka, 83-year old farmer, weeds a spinach field Sunday, March 20, 2011 in Moriya, Ibaragi Prefecture, Japan. Japan announced the first signs that contamination from its tsunami-crippled nuclear complex has seeped into the food chain, saying that radiation levels in spinach and milk from farms near the facility exceeded government safety limits. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

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FILE - In this Saturday, March 12, 2011 file photo, a runway at Sendai airport is covered with washed out cars and sand and earth after the March 11 strong earthquake slammed into Japan's eastern coast. Geologists say a powerful earthquake could strike near Tokyo because the recent monster that hit northeastern Japan altered the earth's surface, loading stress onto a segment of the fault line near the capital. (AP Photo/Kyodo News, File) MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING ALLOWED IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE

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FILE - In this video image taken March 11, 2011 from Japan's NHK TV, a wave from the tsunami heads to the coast in Miyagi Prefecture on the north east coast of Japan following a massive earth quake. (AP PHOTO/NHK TV) MANDATORY CREDIT, JAPAN OUT, TV OUT, NO SALES, EDITORIAL USE ONLY

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Two women, using golf clubs as walking sticks, scavenge for their belongings near a wrecked apartment block in the destroyed town of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan on Sunday, March 20, 2011. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

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Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Yukiya Amano from Japan speaks to the media about the nuclear emergency triggered by the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan before his takeoff to Japan at Vienna's Schwechat airport, Austria, on Thursday, March 17, 2011. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

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Residents observes a moment of silence for victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami at a shelter in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, at 2:46 p.m. on Friday, March 18, 2011, at the time when a strong earthquake hit northeastern Japan one week ago. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)

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DANGER: Thick smoke billows from the No. 3 unit of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Japan. A nearly completed new power line could restore cooling systems to the tsunami-damaged structure, its operator said Thursday. (Associated Press)

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President Obama signs the condolence book as Ichiro Fujisaki, the Japanese ambassador to the U.S., looks on during his visit to the Japanese Embassy in Washington on Thursday. Mr. Obama placed a telephone call to Prime Minister Naoto Kan on Wednesday to discuss Japan's efforts to recover from last week's devastating earthquake and tsunami, and the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Dai-chi plant. (Associated Press)