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US: Time-Lapse Shows Heavy Snow Blanketing Ohio State University’s South Oval

Time-lapse footage shows snow accumulating over a 24-hour period on Sunday, January 25, at the South Oval on the Ohio State University campus. A major winter storm swept across the U.S., bringing widespread heavy snow, sleet and freezing rain. The storm has caused seven deaths and massive power outages affecting hundreds of thousands of people.

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The Great Bell, Hokoji Temple

The Great Bell, Hokoji Temple

The Great Bell, Hokoji Temple==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6884]

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Fushimi Inari Shrine

Fushimi Inari Shrine

Fushimi Inari Shrine==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6889]

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Maruyama Yaami Hotel

Maruyama Yaami Hotel

Maruyama Yaami Hotel==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6876]

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Nishi Otani (Otani Honbyo Mausoleum of Honganji Temple)

Nishi Otani (Otani Honbyo Mausoleum of Honganji Temple)

Nishi Otani (Otani Honbyo Mausoleum of Honganji Temple)==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6883]

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Tsutenbashi bridge at tofukuji temple

Tsutenbashi bridge at tofukuji temple

Tsutenbashi bridge at tofukuji temple==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6887]

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Sanjusangendo

Sanjusangendo

Sanjusangendo==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6886]

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The stage of Kiyomizudera Temple,Kyoto

The stage of Kiyomizudera Temple,Kyoto

The stage of Kiyomizudera Temple,Kyoto==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6882]

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Nanzenji Temple

Nanzenji Temple

Nanzenji Temple==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6873]

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Hall at Enryakuji Temple, Mt Hiei

Hall at Enryakuji Temple, Mt Hiei

Hall at Enryakuji Temple, Mt Hiei==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6866]

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Higashi Otani (Otani Sobyo Mausoleum of Higashi Honganji Temple)

Higashi Otani (Otani Sobyo Mausoleum of Higashi Honganji Temple)

Higashi Otani (Otani Sobyo Mausoleum of Higashi Honganji Temple)==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6879]

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TOYOKUNI SHRINE

TOYOKUNI SHRINE

TOYOKUNI SHRINE==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6885]

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Sen-yuji temple

Sen-yuji temple

Sen-yuji temple==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6888]

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Maruyama

Maruyama

Maruyama==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6877]

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Eikan-do Temple

Eikan-do Temple

Eikan-do Temple==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6872]

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Five-Story Pagoda of Yasaka

Five-Story Pagoda of Yasaka

Five-Story Pagoda of Yasaka==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6881]

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Yasaka Shrine, Gion, Kyoto

Yasaka Shrine, Gion, Kyoto

Yasaka Shrine, Gion, Kyoto==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6878]

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Rows of houses seen from Higashiyama,Kyoto

Rows of houses seen from Higashiyama,Kyoto

Rows of houses seen from Higashiyama,Kyoto==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6875]

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Tokugawa Akitake

Tokugawa Akitake

Tokugawa Akitake==Date:1867, Place:Japan, Photo:Other photographers ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:7097]

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Koudaiji Temple

Koudaiji Temple

Koudaiji Temple==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6880]

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Foreign man

Foreign man

Foreign man==Date:unknown, Place:Nagasaki, Photo:Ueno Hikoma ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:7095]

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Tokugawa Yoshinobu

Tokugawa Yoshinobu

Tokugawa Yoshinobu==Date:unknown, Place:Japan, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:7100]

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Chion-in Temple

Chion-in Temple

Chion-in Temple==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6874]

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Portrait of a man

Portrait of a man

Portrait of a man==Date:unknown, Place:Japan, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:7101]

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Sanjo Sanetomi

Sanjo Sanetomi

Sanjo Sanetomi==Date:unknown, Place:Japan, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:7099]

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Prince Fushimi Sadanaru

Prince Fushimi Sadanaru

Prince Fushimi Sadanaru==Date:unknown, Place:Japan, Photo:Uchida Kuichi ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:7102]

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Foreign man

Foreign man

Foreign man==Date:1875, Place:Nagasaki, Photo:Ueno Hikoma ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:7096]

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Foreign man

Foreign man

Foreign man==Date:1873, Place:Nagasaki, Photo:Ueno Hikoma ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:7093]

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Foreign man

Foreign man

Foreign man==Date:unknown, Place:Nagasaki, Photo:Ueno Hikoma ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:7094]

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Tokugawa Iesato ?

Tokugawa Iesato ?

Tokugawa Iesato ?==Date:unknown, Place:Japan, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:7103]

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Portrait of a man

Portrait of a man

Portrait of a man==Date:unknown, Place:Japan, Photo:Kitaniwa Tsukuba ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:7105]

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Story of bombing on Japan's last day in WWII

Story of bombing on Japan's last day in WWII

AKITA, Japan - Hisaharu Sasaki, professor emeritus at Akita University, in August 2014 holds "Hamanasu ha mita," a cartoon story based on the U.S. bombing of the Tsuchizaki region of Akita City, northeastern Japan, on the night of Aug. 14 and early Aug. 15, 1945, in the city. Japan's unconditional surrender in WWII was announced on Aug. 15, 1945.

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Japan, Myanmar universities to promote academic exchanges

Japan, Myanmar universities to promote academic exchanges

TOKYO, Japan - Kenichi Sawada (R), president of Akita University, shakes hands with Aung Thu, rector of the University of Yangon, after signing an agreement in Yangon on Sept. 19, 2014, to promote academic exchanges between the Japanese and Myanmar universities.

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University tie-up

University tie-up

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Norihisa Satake (L), governor of Akita Prefecture, northeastern Japan, and Vladimir Kurilov (2nd from R), vice president of Far Eastern Federal University, meet at the university in Vladivostok in the Russian Far East on Nov. 14, 2013. The research university in Vladivostok and Akita International University aim to forge stronger ties.

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Japanese man offers money to Russian students

Japanese man offers money to Russian students

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Koichi Muto (far R) observes a first-year class in the Japanese-language department at Far Eastern Federal University in Vladivostok on Feb. 27, 2013. Muto, a former restaurant owner in Japan's Akita Prefecture, has continued to offer grants of his own money to students learning Japanese at the Russian university for more than 10 years.

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Japanese man offers money to Russian students

Japanese man offers money to Russian students

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Koichi Muto (L back) observes a first-year class in the Japanese-language department at Far Eastern Federal University in Vladivostok on Feb. 27, 2013. Muto, a former restaurant owner in Japan's Akita Prefecture, has continued to offer grants of his own money to students learning Japanese at the Russian university for more than 10 years.

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China study scholar Nakajima dies

China study scholar Nakajima dies

TOKYO, Japan - An April 2009 file photo shows Mineo Nakajima, a scholar in modern Chinese studies, who died of pneumonia at the age of 76 at a hospital in Akita, northeastern Japan, on Feb. 14, 2013. Nakajima was president of Akita International University and formerly president of the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.

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Salmon species 'kunimasu' rediscovered

Salmon species 'kunimasu' rediscovered

KYOTO, Japan - Kyoto University professor Tetsuji Nakabo holds a kunimasu, an indigenous freshwater salmon species thought to have become extinct more than 70 years ago, in Kyoto on Dec. 15, 2010. The fish, which was previously only seen in Lake Tazawa in Akita Prefecture, was discovered in Lake Saiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, as the eggs of the fish were taken to Lake Saiko before the species was believed to have become extinct.

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Ex-Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui visits Akita

Ex-Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui visits Akita

AKITA, Japan - Former Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui and his wife Tseng Wen-fui visit Lake Tazawa in Akita Prefecture on June 5 during a sightseeing tour of the Tohoku region. The couple are on an 11-day trip to Japan. Lee plans to deliver an address on education at Akita International University in Akita city on June 6 before heading back to Tokyo.

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Doctors prepare to transplant liver from brain-dead donor

Doctors prepare to transplant liver from brain-dead donor

KYOTO, Japan - A team of doctors operate on a female patient suffering from bile disease to prepare to transplant a liver removed from a brain-dead woman in Akita Prefecture at Kyoto University Hospital in Kyoto on April 16. Photo was provided by Kyoto University Hospital.

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Small rocket launch by Japanese university students

Small rocket launch by Japanese university students

A small hybrid rocket is launched by Kanagawa University students on Sept. 19, 2021, in Noshiro in Akita Prefecture, northeastern Japan. The rocket reached the highest altitude ever achieved by a hybrid rocket in the country of about 10.7 kilometers, according to preliminary data.

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Small rocket launch by Japanese university students

Small rocket launch by Japanese university students

Kanagawa University students check signals from a small hybrid rocket they launched in Noshiro in Akita Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Sept. 19, 2021. The rocket reached the highest altitude ever achieved by a hybrid rocket in the country of about 10.7 kilometers, according to preliminary data.

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Small rocket launch by Japanese university students

Small rocket launch by Japanese university students

A small hybrid rocket is launched by Kanagawa University students on Sept. 19, 2021, in Noshiro in Akita Prefecture, northeastern Japan. The rocket reached the highest altitude ever achieved by a hybrid rocket in the country of about 10.7 kilometers, according to preliminary data.

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Doctors prepare to transplant liver from brain-dead donor

Doctors prepare to transplant liver from brain-dead donor

KYOTO, Japan - A team of doctors operate on a female patient suffering from bile disease to prepare to transplant a liver removed from a brain-dead woman in Akita Prefecture at Kyoto University Hospital in Kyoto on April 16. Photo was provided by Kyoto University Hospital.

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Science bar owner in Kobe aims for European-style cafe

Science bar owner in Kobe aims for European-style cafe

Toru Ueda, a former biology associate professor at Akita Prefectural University, pictured on Aug. 15, 2015, is the owner of "Science Bar Basara" in the Sannomiya district of Kobe, western Japan, where people from various fields of industry and academia gather every night to discuss science and technology. Ueda is seeking to make the place a European-style science cafe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Science topics discussed every night at bar in Kobe

Science topics discussed every night at bar in Kobe

Customers discuss the correlation of hunger and the Ebola virus over whisky and cocktails at "Science Bar Basara" in the western Japanese port city of Kobe on Aug. 15, 2015. Its owner, Toru Ueda, a former biology associate professor at Akita Prefectural University, is seeking to make the place a European-style science cafe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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21-yr-old man becomes world's youngest climber to scale K2

21-yr-old man becomes world's youngest climber to scale K2

TOKYO, Japan - Tatsuya Aoki (L in this photo taken on April 15), a 21-year-old Tokai University student from Moriya, Ibaraki Prefecture, has become the world's youngest mountain climber to scale the world's second-highest peak, K2, the university said on Aug. 2. His team member, Yuka Komatsu (R in the photo), 23, from Akita, has become the first Japanese woman -- and the eighth woman in the world -- to ascend to the summit. The two reached the summit at 4:50 p.m. April 1 (local time). The photo was provided by the university. (Kyodo)

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Ex-Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui visits Akita

Ex-Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui visits Akita

AKITA, Japan - Former Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui and his wife Tseng Wen-fui visit Lake Tazawa in Akita Prefecture on June 5 during a sightseeing tour of the Tohoku region. The couple are on an 11-day trip to Japan. Lee plans to deliver an address on education at Akita International University in Akita city on June 6 before heading back to Tokyo. (Kyodo)

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Salmon species 'kunimasu' rediscovered

Salmon species 'kunimasu' rediscovered

KYOTO, Japan - Kyoto University professor Tetsuji Nakabo holds a kunimasu, an indigenous freshwater salmon species thought to have become extinct more than 70 years ago, in Kyoto on Dec. 15, 2010. The fish, which was previously only seen in Lake Tazawa in Akita Prefecture, was discovered in Lake Saiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, as the eggs of the fish were taken to Lake Saiko before the species was believed to have become extinct. (Kyodo)

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View in front of the gate of katase ryukoji temple

View in front of the gate of katase ryukoji temple

Jyakukozan Ryukoji Temple. Nichiren was arrested in Ankokuronji at Nagoe for interrogation by the regent Hojo Tokimune. He came to Ryunokuchi and prayed facing south at midnight, and is said to have been saved from beheading by miracles. This is the so-called Honan of Ryunokuchi , and Ryukoji Temple was built there after the death of Nichiren.==Date:unknown, Place:Fujisawa, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number19‐44‐0]

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