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US: North Dakota Sees Powerful Winds Amid Tornado-Producing Storm

Severe weather swept across the upper Midwest on Friday, June 20, bringing powerful winds and leaving at least 3 dead in North Dakota as a tornado ripped through the area.

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German Environment Minister Lemke in Japan

Germany's Environment Minister Steffi Lemke (front, C) offers a silent prayer for the victims of a massive 2011 earthquake and tsunami at Ohirayama cemetery in the town of Namie in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on April 13, 2023.

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German Environment Minister Lemke in Japan

Germany's Environment Minister Steffi Lemke (3rd from L) speaks to the press after visiting Ohirayama cemetery for the victims of a massive 2011 earthquake and tsunami in the town of Namie in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on April 13, 2023.

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German Environment Minister Lemke in Japan

Germany's Environment Minister Steffi Lemke (L) sees the model of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, which was crippled in a massive 2011 earthquake and tsunami, at the Great East Japan Earthquake and Nuclear Disaster Memorial Museum in Futaba, Fukushima Prefecture in northeastern Japan, on April 13, 2023.

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French chef finds China land of opportunities for foreigners

STORY: French chef finds China land of opportunities for foreigners DATELINE: April 13, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:14 LOCATION: XIAMEN, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Greg Louraichi working at his restaurant 2. various of Xiamen city 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): GREG LOURAICHI, French chef 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): GREG LOURAICHI, French chef 5. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): GREG LOURAICHI, French chef STORYLINE: Greg Louraichi, a chef from Bordeaux in France, moved to China in 2002. Serving as the chief chef in big hotels at the beginning, he then started his own business in China. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): GREG LOURAICHI, French chef "On my first time when I arrived here, I discovered China was very impressive. And I wanted to discover, so the year after, I jumped to China to push myself to do something here." In 2011, he opened a restaurant in east China's Xiamen that mixed different cultures into the French cuisine. He believes that China is a land of opportunities for foreigners. SOUNDBITE 2 (English

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Taipei photo exhibition on quake, tsunami in Japan

TAIPEI, Taiwan - A man looks at a picture, taken by Japan's Sankei Shimbun, showing damage caused by the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami, at a news photo exhibition in Taipei on April 10, 2014. Photographs by 13 news organizations, members of the Japan Newspaper Publishers

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Taipei photo exhibition on quake, tsunami in Japan

TAIPEI, Taiwan - A visitor looks at a picture, taken by Japan's Niigata Nippo, showing damage caused by the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami, at a news photo exhibition in Taipei on April 10, 2014. Photographs by 13 news organizations, members of the Japan Newspaper Publishers

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Record exists on China's shipment of missile transporters to N. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows what appears to be a new ballistic missile and a launch-pad vehicle during a military parade held at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang on April 15, 2012, the centennial of the birth of North Korea's state founder Kim Il Sung. Records from a cargo ship have revealed that China shipped to North Korea around August 2011 vehicles used to transport the new ballistic missile, Japanese government officials said June 13, 2012. China's action could constitute a violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions banning member states from exporting to North Korea any materials or equipment that could contribute to North Korea's ballistic missile program.

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Record exists on China's shipment of missile transporters to N. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows what appears to be a new ballistic missile and a launch-pad vehicle during a military parade held at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang on April 15, 2012, the centennial of the birth of North Korea's state founder Kim Il Sung. Records from a cargo ship have revealed that China shipped to North Korea around August 2011 vehicles used to transport the new ballistic missile, Japanese government officials said June 13, 2012. China's action could constitute a violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions banning member states from exporting to North Korea any materials or equipment that could contribute to North Korea's ballistic missile program.

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U.S. volunteers repair tsunami-hit buildings

SENDAI, Japan - American volunteer Steve Lengkeek (L) from Delaware works to remodel a building used to house a dentist as an accommodation facility in Yamamoto, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 13, 2012. A group of 35 Americans has been taking turns visiting Japan to repair buildings in coastal Miyagi Prefecture damaged by the massive March 2011 tsunami.

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Cherry blossoms bloom in Tohoku

IWAKI, Japan - Some blossoms bloom on the someiyoshino breed of cherry tree in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on April 13, 2012. The tree, located some 300 meters from seashore, was flooded about 80 meters high at the time of the March 2011 tsunami.

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UNESCO honors children's newspaper

PARIS, France - Francesco Bandarin (rear C), assistant director general for culture at the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, poses for photos with Japanese children at UNESCO's headquarters in Paris on April 2, 2012, as the U.N. body honors the Fight Shimbun wall newspaper written by children in a northeastern Japanese city hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. In the front (from R) are first editor Risa Yoshida, 8, and her sister Mahiro, 4. In the center is second editor Satoko Oyama, 10, with her sister Kanako, 13, (rear L). To the right of Bandarin is coordinator and musician Misa Jonouchi.

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Elementary school soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show Okawa Elementary School in the city of Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 3, 2011 (top), shortly after the area was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same school on March 3, 2012 (bottom). At the school, 74 of the 108 students and 10 of the 13 teachers died or went missing in the disaster.

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S. Koreans in Japan start voter registration

TOKYO, Japan - South Koreans living in Japan apply for voter registration for elections in their country at the South Korean Embassy's consular division in Tokyo's Minato Ward on Nov. 13, 2011, as a legal revision in 2009 has enabled expatriates 19 years old or older to cast ballots. The registration process began the same day at 10 diplomatic missions in Japan ahead of the general election scheduled in April 2012.

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China's economy grows 9.5% in April-June qtr

BEIJING, China - Sheng Laiyun, a spokesman for China's National Bureau of Statistics, speaks in a press conference in Beijing on July 13, 2011. China said its economy grew 9.5 percent in the April-June quarter from a year earlier, down from a 9.7 percent expansion in the preceding quarter.

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Filipinos celebrate national hero who briefly visited Japan

MANILA, Philippines - Photo taken June 16, 2011, at the Philippine National Library in Manila, shows a portrait on display there of Seiko Usui, more commonly known to Filipinos as O-Sei-san, the Japanese love interest of the Philippines' national hero Jose Rizal, who visited Japan from Feb. 28 to April 13, 1888. The Philippines celebrated the 150th anniversary of Rizal's birth on June 19, 2011.

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Okinawa has hard time pressing U.S. base relocation issue

NAHA, Japan - Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima (R) and Lt. Gen. Kenneth Glueck, commander of U.S. Marine Corps Bases Japan, meet at the prefectural government office in Naha on April 13, 2011. People around Nakaima, who opposes the planned relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station within the prefecture, complained that it has become harder for him to press the issue after the Marines have been praised in the country for their rescue operations in areas devastated by Japan's March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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Soccer facility made base for work at Fukushima plant

TOKYO, Japan - People walk into a hotel at the soccer training facility J Village in Fukushima Prefecture on April 21, 2011. J Village was made into a base of work to put the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant under control. The facility, approximately 20 kilometers south of the plant, was built in 1997 by the plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. at a cost of 13 billion yen and was donated to the prefecture.

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Soccer facility made base for work at Fukushima plant

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on April 21, 2011, shows a supply storage set up at the soccer training facility J Village in Fukushima Prefecture, approximately 20 kilometers south of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. J Village was made into a base of work to put the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant under control. The facility was built in 1997 by the plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. at a cost of 13 billion yen and was donated to the prefecture.

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Soccer facility made base for work at Fukushima plant

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on April 21, 2011, shows an artificial turf field of the soccer training facility J Village in Fukushima Prefecture which was turned into a waste depository. J Village was made into a base of work to put the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant under control. The facility, approximately 20 kilometers south of the plant, was built in 1997 by the plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. at a cost of 13 billion yen and was donated to the prefecture.

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Soccer facility made base for work at Fukushima plant

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on April 21, 2011, shows a radiation decontamination area for vehicles set up at the soccer training facility J Village in Fukushima Prefecture, approximately 20 kilometers south of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The area which used to be part of a grass field is now a coated surface site as J Village was made into a base of work to put the plant under control. The facility was built in 1997 by the plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. at a cost of 13 billion yen and was donated to the prefecture.

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Soccer facility made base for work at Fukushima plant

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on April 21, 2011, shows a grass field at the soccer training facility J Village in Fukushima Prefecture. The field was turned into a parking area and heliport as J Village was made into a base of work to put the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant under control. The facility, approximately 20 kilometers south of the plant, was built in 1997 by the plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. at a cost of 13 billion yen and was donated to the prefecture.

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Soccer facility made base for work at Fukushima plant

TOKYO, Japan - The lobby of a hotel in the soccer training facility J Village in Fukushima Prefecture is crowded with people who engage in work at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on April 21, 2011. The facility has been used as a base for work to put the plant under control. The facility, approximately 20 kilometers south of the plant, was built in 1997 by the plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. at a cost of 13 billion yen and was donated to the prefecture.

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Families pray for victims at Okawa elementary school

SENDAI, Japan - Family members of the March 11 tsunami victims at Okawa Elementary School pray during a memorial ceremony at the school in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 13, 2011. The school, where around 70 percent of the students were killed or remain missing, will hold an opening ceremony for the new term on April 21 at another elementary school in the vicinity.

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Mariners' Ichiro vs. Tigers

SEATTLE, United States - Seattle Mariners leadoff man Ichiro Suzuki hits a single in the seventh inning of a game against the Detroit Tigers at Safeco Field in Seattle on April 19, 2011. The Mariners won 13-3.

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Tibetan monks pray for quake victims

YUSHU, China - Tibetan monks chant Buddhist invocations in Yushu, Qinghai Province, on April 13, 2011, during a ceremony to commemorate the victims of the major 2010 earthquake in the Chinese province and the March 11 quake and tsunami in Japan.

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Election in quake-hit Ibaraki Pref.

MITO, Japan - Photo taken on April 13, 2011, shows a poster board for a municipal election in quake-hit Hitachi, Ibaraki Prefecture. Campaigning for two mayoral and 11 city assembly elections in the prefecture will commence from April 17. The mayoral and city assembly elections in Mito have been postponed under a special law enacted March 18 following the disaster.

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Tibetan monks pray for quake victims in China, Japan

YUSHU, China - Tibetan monks chant sutras in Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in China's Qinghai Province on April 13, 2011, during a ceremony to mourn for the victims of a local quake a year earlier and the March 11 quake and tsunami in Japan.

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Japan pavilion at Saudi's Jenadriyah festival

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - People stand in front of Japan's official pavilion at the Jenadriyah Heritage & Cultural Festival near Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on April 13, 2011. The annual event opened the same day with Japan selected as its single guest country. Japan exhibited its high-tech products as well as photos of recovery efforts following the devastation caused by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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Japan pavilion at Saudi's Jenadriyah festival

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Visitors look at showcases in Japan's official pavilion at the Jenadriyah Heritage & Cultural Festival near Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on April 13, 2011. The annual event opened the same day with Japan selected as its single guest country. Japan exhibited its high-tech products as well as photos of recovery efforts following the devastation caused by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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Matsui homers at Athletics win

CHICAGO, United States - Hideki Matsui of the Oakland Athletics follows his solo home run in the fourth inning of a game against the Chicago White Sox at U.S. Cellular Field in Chicago on April 13, 2011. Matsui went 2-for-4 as the Athletics won 7-4.

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Commissioner calls for verifiable probe of nuke crisis

TOKYO, Japan - Tatsujiro Suzuki, vice chairman of the Japan Atomic Energy Commission, speaks during an interview in Tokyo on April 13, 2011. The commissioner called on the government to thoroughly investigate the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant in an internationally verifiable manner.

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Radiation levels in Iitate

IITATE, Japan - A radiation reader indicates the level in the village of Iitate, Fukushima Prefecture, is 26 microsieverts per hour on the evening of April 13, 2011. The village is included in the government's new evacuation order due to high amounts of cumulative radioactive materials beyond the evacuation zone of a 20-kilometer radius from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant which was crippled by the massive quake and tsunami on March 11.

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Matsui homers at Athletics win

CHICAGO, United States - Hideki Matsui of the Oakland Athletics hits a solo home run in the fourth inning of a game against the Chicago White Sox at U.S. Cellular Field in Chicago on April 13, 2011. Matsui went 2-for-4 as the Athletics won 7-4.

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Uchida against Nagatomo

GELSENKIRCHEN, Germany - Schalke 04 defender Atsuto Uchida (L) and Inter defender Yuto Nagatomo compete for the ball during a European Champions League match in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, on April 13, 2011. Uchida became the first Japanese player to reach the semifinals as his German club beat defending champions Inter 2-1.

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Uchida makes history for Japan after club victory

GELSENKIRCHEN, Germany - Schalke 04 defender Atsuto Uchida (L) is congratulated by Inter defender Yuto Nagatomo after the German club's win against the Italian club in a European Champions League match in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, on April 13, 2011. Uchida became the first Japanese player to reach the semifinals as Schalke beat defending champions Inter 2-1.

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China, S. Korea premiers vow to boost nuclear safety cooperation

BEIJING, China - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (L) and South Korean Prime Minister Kim Hwang Sik (R) attend a welcome ceremony in Beijing on April 13, 2011. Wen told Kim that a trilateral summit involving South Korea, China and Japan, which is set to open in Tokyo the following month, may become a forum for the three nations to jointly discuss nuclear safety.

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Flower show in Pyongyang

PYONGYANG, North Korea - People attend a flower exhibition in Pyongyang on April 13, 2011, commencing the same day ahead of the birthday anniversary of the country's founder Kim Il Sung on April 15. The flower Kimilsungia on display at the 8-day show is a symbol of Kim.

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Thais celebrate New Year

BANGKOK, Thailand - Young people spray water on each other during the ''Songkran'' Thai New Year festival, in Bangkok on April 13, 2011. Citizens enjoyed a peaceful celebration for the first time in three years in the absence of large-scale antigovernment demonstrations.

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Astronaut Furukawa training in Moscow

MOSCOW, Russia - Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa takes part in training at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonauts Training Center in a suburb of Moscow on April 13, 2011. Furukawa, who is scheduled to stay at the International Space Station from June, said at a press conference on the same day that he would like to directly communicate with people affected by the March 11 quake and tsunami disaster in Japan from space.

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Zac announces charity match for quake-hit Sendai

PERUGIA, Italy - Japan national team coach Alberto Zaccheroni (2nd from L) on April 13, 2011, attends a press conference in Perugia, Italy, announcing a charity match to aid quake-hit Sendai's recovery on May 23 in the Italian city. The Italy national team was based in Sendai during the 2002 World Cup which Japan co-hosted with South Korea.

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Fish market in tsunami-hit Ishinomaki

SENDAI, Japan - Photo taken on April 13, 2011, shows a fish market in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, which was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami disaster.

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Mobile stores to serve in quake-hit areas

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a mobile unit of the convenience store chain Lawson Inc. in Tokyo on April 13, 2011. Some major stores are making arrangements to dispatch mobile units to quake and tsunami-hit areas to sell necessary goods in support of people affected by the March 11 disaster.

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Astronaut Furukawa in Moscow

MOSCOW, Russia - Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa attends a press conference at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonauts Training Center in a suburb of Moscow on April 13, 2011. Furukawa, who is scheduled to stay at the International Space Station from June, said he would like to directly communicate with people affected by the March 11 quake and tsunami disaster in Japan from space.

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TEPCO president at press conference

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Electric Power Co. President Masataka Shimizu (R) speaks during a press conference at the utility's head office in Tokyo on April 13, 2011. Shimizu said TEPCO, the operator of the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, is considering paying provisional compensation to residents with homes near the plant who have been evacuated over the nuclear crisis which is graded as the most serious level of crisis on an internationally recognized scale.

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S. Korean students write to Japanese children

SEOUL, South Korea - Chae Pa Da (L), a poet from Cheju Island in South Korea, hands some of the 13,000 encouraging letters from primary and secondary school students on the island addressed to children affected by the March 11 quake and tsunami in Japan to Japanese Ambassador to South Korea Masatoshi Muto during a ceremony in Seoul on April 13, 2011. The letter writing drive was started by Chae's call and carried out by a local education bureau.

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Tsunami aftermath in Onagawa

ONAGAWA, Japan - People walk along a road blocked by a ship washed ashore by a tsunami in the town of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 13, 2011, over a month after the earthquake and tsunami disaster.

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Mourning for children

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - About 100 relatives and others gather to pray for children lost in the March 11 tsunami at Okawa Elementary School in Ishinomaki, Iwate Prefecture, on April 13, 2011. About 70 percent of the 108 pupils at the school died or went missing in the disaster.

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TEPCO president at press conference

TOKYO, Japan - Executives of Tokyo Electric Power Co. -- (from R) Executive Vice President Sakae Muto, President Masataka Shimizu and Executive Vice President Takashi Fujimoto -- bow in apology during a press conference at the utility's head office in Tokyo on April 13, 2011. Shimizu said TEPCO, the operator of the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, is considering paying provisional compensation to residents with homes near the plant who have been evacuated over the nuclear crisis which is graded as the most serious level of crisis on an internationally recognized scale.

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Gov't bans mushroom shipments near nuclear plant

TOKYO, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano speaks in a press conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on April 13, 2011. Edano said the government on the same day banned shipments of shiitake mushrooms grown outdoors in five cities, eight towns and three villages near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture, citing high levels of radioactivity.