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Argentina: Heavy Rain Prompts Evacuation in Vera, Santa Fe Province

The city of Vera in northern Santa Fe Province experienced a critical situation from Monday, May 26, to Tuesday morning, May 27, due to a severe storm. The storm brought approximately 400 millimeters of rain in just six hours, leading to 120 evacuations and class suspensions.

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Argentina: Heavy Rain Prompts Evacuation in Vera, Santa Fe Province 2

The city of Vera in northern Santa Fe Province experienced a critical situation from Monday, May 26, to Tuesday morning, May 27, due to a severe storm. The storm brought approximately 400 millimeters of rain in just six hours, leading to 120 evacuations and class suspensions.

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China: Large Hail Strikes Changshun County

On April 25, 2024, a sudden hailstorm struck Changshun County, Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture. Video shows the sky getting darker momentarily as students dash to safety protecting their heads with hands from falling hailstones. According to local reports, from 7 a.m. on April 25 to 7 a.m. on April 26, hail fell in 20 counties in Guizhou Province including Changshun, with the largest diameter reaching 40 millimeters in Xixiu District, Anshun.

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Tokyo hit by heavy rain

TOKYO, Japan - Rescue workers transport by boat people who had been stranded in their cars inside a tunnel at Tokyo's Haneda airport due to heavy rain on Aug. 26, 2011. According to the Japan Meteorological Agency, Tokyo saw its heaviest-ever torrential rainfall for the month of August the same day, totaling 90.5 millimeters per hour in Tokyo's Nerima Ward.

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Toyota debuts all-new bB car targeting young, music lovers

TOKYO, Japan - Toyota Motor Corp. President Katsuaki WQatanabe poses beside the company's fully redesigned bB small car at a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 26. The car, which Toyota dubs ''a car-shaped music player,'' comes equipped with nine speakers and interior lights installed in 11 locations that flash in rhythm to the music. The front seats recline and sink about 80 millimeters to let the users relax as if on a couch, the carmaker said.

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Olympus set to launch capsule endoscope in Europe

TOKYO, Japan - Olympus Medical Systems Corp. said Oct. 13 it will launch a capsule endoscope (ih handout photo) for the small bowel on Oct. 24 in 33 European countries including Britain, France and Germany. The capsule, measuring 11 millimeters in diameter and 26 mm in length, will be swallowed to transmit two images per second to a recorder unit via a built-in antenna until it is expelled through the anus, the medical systems unit of Japanese camera maker Olympus Corp. said.

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Olympus to sell world's thinnest video scope

TOKYO, Japan - Olympus Medical Systems Corp. will introduce an otolaryngologic video scope with the world's thinnest tip in Japan and the United States on Oct. 3, the company said on Sept. 26. The video scope will have a tube tip diameter of 3.2 millimeters, 0.7 mm thinner than the existing thinnest model the company sells, enabling doctors to easily view a child's external ear canal and drum membrane.

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(1)Japan to issue World Cup commemorative coins next spring

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows 10,000-yen gold coin to be issued by the Finance Ministry next spring for the 2002 World Cup soccer finals to be co-hosted by Japan and South Korea. The 10,000-yen gold coin, weighing 15.6 grams and 26 millimeters in diameter, will feature two soccer players on the head of the coin and the emblem for the event along with a cherry blossom, soccer ball and a rainbow on the back.

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Miniature maglev train to be launched

Photo taken May 26, 2015, in Tokyo shows a miniature maglev train to be launched by Tomy Company Ltd. in September. The train floats 2 millimeters above the track and runs at 6 kilometers per hour. With a 5-meter railway and a miniature overpass as well as equipment for voice announcements, the maglev train will cost 37,800 yen. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Miniature maglev train to be launched

Photo taken May 26, 2015, in Tokyo shows a miniature maglev train to be launched by Tomy Company Ltd. in September. The train floats 2 millimeters above the track and runs at 6 kilometers per hour. With a 5-meter railway and a miniature overpass as well as equipment for voice announcements, the maglev train will cost 37,800 yen. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Olympus to sell world's thinnest video scope

TOKYO, Japan - Olympus Medical Systems Corp. will introduce an otolaryngologic video scope with the world's thinnest tip in Japan and the United States on Oct. 3, the company said on Sept. 26. The video scope will have a tube tip diameter of 3.2 millimeters, 0.7 mm thinner than the existing thinnest model the company sells, enabling doctors to easily view a child's external ear canal and drum membrane. (Kyodo)

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Toyota debuts all-new bB car targeting young, music lovers

TOKYO, Japan - Toyota Motor Corp. President Katsuaki WQatanabe poses beside the company's fully redesigned bB small car at a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 26. The car, which Toyota dubs ''a car-shaped music player,'' comes equipped with nine speakers and interior lights installed in 11 locations that flash in rhythm to the music. The front seats recline and sink about 80 millimeters to let the users relax as if on a couch, the carmaker said. (Kyodo)

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Olympus set to launch capsule endoscope in Europe

TOKYO, Japan - Olympus Medical Systems Corp. said Oct. 13 it will launch a capsule endoscope (ih handout photo) for the small bowel on Oct. 24 in 33 European countries including Britain, France and Germany. The capsule, measuring 11 millimeters in diameter and 26 mm in length, will be swallowed to transmit two images per second to a recorder unit via a built-in antenna until it is expelled through the anus, the medical systems unit of Japanese camera maker Olympus Corp. said. (Kyodo)

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Tokyo hit by heavy rain

TOKYO, Japan - Rescue workers transport by boat people who had been stranded in their cars inside a tunnel at Tokyo's Haneda airport due to heavy rain on Aug. 26, 2011. According to the Japan Meteorological Agency, Tokyo saw its heaviest-ever torrential rainfall for the month of August the same day, totaling 90.5 millimeters per hour in Tokyo's Nerima Ward. (Kyodo)

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Tokyo hit by heavy rain

TOKYO, Japan - A car is stranded at Haneda airport as heavy rain falls on Tokyo on Aug. 26, 2011. According to the Japan Meteorological Agency, Tokyo saw its heaviest-ever torrential rainfall for the month of August the same day, totaling 90.5 millimeters per hour in Tokyo's Nerima Ward. (Kyodo)

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(1)Japan to issue World Cup commemorative coins next spring

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows 10,000-yen gold coin to be issued by the Finance Ministry next spring for the 2002 World Cup soccer finals to be co-hosted by Japan and South Korea. The 10,000-yen gold coin, weighing 15.6 grams and 26 millimeters in diameter, will feature two soccer players on the head of the coin and the emblem for the event along with a cherry blossom, soccer ball and a rainbow on the back.