"We are doing this to facilitate the recovery efforts under way in Japan," Ellison explained.

“我们这样做是为了帮助救援计划在日本顺利进行，”埃利森解释说。

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Wack explained this form of seeing by telling the story of a gardener he had once met in Japan.

瓦克以他在日本遇见的一位园丁的故事解释了这种“看见”。

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The high incidence of gastric cancer in Japan cannot be easily explained.

日本胃癌如此高的发病率并不容易解释。

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Relatively low contamination levels in western Japan could be explained by mountain ranges sheltering those regions from the dispersal of radioactive material, the authors said.

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"In Japan, women take the initiative to get married -- and the trend for them had been to focus on their career and enjoy single life, " explained Ritsuko Matsui, a prominent psychiatrist who counseled survivors of Japan's last devastating quake around Kobe in 1995, which left more than 6, 000 people dead.

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"Pierluigi and I were in the hotel in Japan together and we had to wait and see what happened, " Merk explained.

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