CNN's Yoko Wakatsuki, Paul Armstrong, Holly Yan and Yazhou Sun contributed to this report.

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CNN's Charles Riley, Yoko Wakatsuki and Paul Armstrong contributed to this report.

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While we were working on the American side of this story, Yoko Wakatsuki, a CNN producer in Tokyo, was working on the Japanese side.

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