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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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Obama and Biden Meet Commission on Fiscal Responsibility

United States President Barack Obama holds a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C. on April; 14, 2011 with Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of Treasury Timothy Geithner, Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, the co-chairs of President Obama's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform..Photo by Gary Fabiano / Pool via CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Obama and Biden Meet Commission on Fiscal Responsibility

United States President Barack Obama holds a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C. on April; 14, 2011 with Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of Treasury Timothy Geithner, Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, the co-chairs of President Obama's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform..Photo by Gary Fabiano / Pool via CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Obama and Biden Meet Commission on Fiscal Responsibility

United States President Barack Obama holds a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C. on April; 14, 2011 with Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of Treasury Timothy Geithner, Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, the co-chairs of President Obama's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform..Photo by Gary Fabiano / Pool via CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Obama and Biden Meet Commission on Fiscal Responsibility

United States President Barack Obama holds a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C. on April; 14, 2011 with Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of Treasury Timothy Geithner, Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, the co-chairs of President Obama's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform..Photo by Gary Fabiano / Pool via CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Obama and Biden Meet Commission on Fiscal Responsibility

United States President Barack Obama holds a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C. on April; 14, 2011 with Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of Treasury Timothy Geithner, Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, the co-chairs of President Obama's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform..Photo by Gary Fabiano / Pool via CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Japan's population drops below 125 mln, down for 12th year

STORY: Japan's population drops below 125 mln, down for 12th yearDATELINE: April 14, 2023LENGTH: 00:00:53LOCATION: TokyoCATEGORY: SOCIETYSHOTLIST:1. various of street scenes in Japan2. various of Japanese peopleSTORYLINE:The population in Japan declined to 124.95 million in 2022, marking the 12th consecutive year of decline, government data showed Wednesday. As of Oct. 1 last year, the total population, including foreign residents, saw a decrease of 556,000, or 0.44 percent from the previous year, according to the latest population estimates released by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. The number of Japanese nationals, which came in at 122 million, plunged by 750,000, the decline of which has been expanding since 2011, the ministry said in an online report. The figure represented the largest comparable decline since comparable data became available in 1950, Kyodo News reported. The government will address the country's falling birthrate "with the highest priorit

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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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Tsunami in Japan: 5 years on

SENDAI, March 5 Kyodo - Combined photos show an area of Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, in northeastern Japan on April 27, 2011 (top), shortly after the area was devastated by massive tsunami; and the same area nearly five years later on Feb. 14, 2016. Seedlings of Japanese black pine trees, planted as part of efforts to prevent disaster, sway in wind.

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3 years after quake-tsunami

SENDAI, Japan - Photos show an area of Futaba, Fukushima Prefecture, which hosts the disaster-struck Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. The top photo was taken on April 14, 2011, about a month after the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, and the bottom photo on Feb. 28, 2014.

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3 years after quake-tsunami

SENDAI, Japan - Photos show an area of Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on April 14, 2011 (top), about a month after the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, and on March 3, 2014 (bottom).

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3 years after quake-tsunami

SENDAI, Japan - Panoramic photos show an area of Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on April 14, 2011 (top), about a month after the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, and on March 3, 2014 (bottom).

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2 years after quake

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - Photos show an area in the city of Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on April 14, 2011 (top), after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same location on March 3, 2013.

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Tsunami-hit bank branch

SENDAI, Japan - Photo taken April 23, 2012, shows the tsunami-gutted Onagawa branch of the 77 Bank (R), a regional bank based in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, in Onagawa in the prefecture. Of the 14 people who worked at the branch, four were killed and eight went missing in the March 2011 disaster.

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Rikuzentakata soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show an area in the city of Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on April 14, 2011 (top), shortly after the area was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same location on March 3, 2012 (bottom).

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Japanese cars examined in Russia

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - An official examines radiation levels of cars transported from Japan at a port in Vladivostok in the Russian Far East on April 14, 2011, following the Fukushima nuclear crisis.

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Singapore lures tourists to Japan

SINGAPORE, Singapore - A banner advertising tours to Japan is displayed at a travel agency in Singapore on April 14, 2011. The number of visitors from Singapore to Japan in March stood at 6,300, down 53 percent from the same period in the previous year, mainly due to the March 11 earthquake and tsunami disaster and ensuing nuclear crisis.

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Empty town near Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant

TOKYO, Japan - Stray cows are seen in the town of Futaba, about 3 kilometers from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant crippled by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami disaster, on April 14, 2011, after evacuation by residents.

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Empty town near Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on April 14, 2011, shows an empty street in the town of Futaba, about 3 kilometers from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant crippled by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami disaster, after evacuation by residents. The sign on the banner reads ''Nuclear power, energy of a bright future.''

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Town of Futaba after evacuation

TOKYO, Japan - A dog walks on an empty street in the town of Futaba, around 3 kilometers from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture, on April 14, 2011, about a month after the town residents evacuated from the area to avoid possible radiation contamination.

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Ichiro goes 2-for-4 against Kansas City Royals

KANSAS CITY, United States - The Seattle Mariners' Ichiro Suzuki hits a single during the fifth inning of a game against the Kansas City Royals at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City on April 14, 2011. Ichiro went 2-for-4 in the team's 1-5 loss.

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Noda at G-7 in Washington

WASHINGTON, United States - Japanese Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda (C) answers reporters' questions before a meeting of financial chiefs from the Group of Seven industrialized countries in Washington on April 14, 2011.

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Ichiro goes 2-for-4 against Kansas City Royals

KANSAS CITY, United States - The Seattle Mariners' Ichiro Suzuki runs to first after hitting a single during the third inning of a game against the Kansas City Royals at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City on April 14, 2011. Ichiro went 2-for-4 in the team's 1-5 loss.

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Noda, Shirakawa in G-7 meeting

WASHINGTON, United States - Japanese Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda (R) speaks to reporters with Bank of Japan Governor Masaaki Shirakawa (2nd from R) standing by, after a meeting of Group of Seven financial chiefs in Washington on April 14, 2011. Noda said G-7 agreed that their coordinated yen-selling intervention in March 2011 was effective.

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Ichiro goes 2-for-4 against Kansas City Royals

KANSAS CITY, United States - The Seattle Mariners' Ichiro Suzuki runs to first after hitting a single during the third inning of a game against the Kansas City Royals at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City on April 14, 2011. Ichiro went 2-for-4 in the team's 1-5 loss.

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Gold medalist Takahashi at evacuation center

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - Naoko Takahashi, the 2000 Sydney Olympic gold medalist in the women's marathon, helps to cook lunch at an evacuation center in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on April 14, 2011, for people affected by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan.

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Actor Watanabe visits quake-hit areas

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Japanese actor Ken Watanabe (L) speaks with Ishinomaki Mayor Hiroshi Kameyama (R) at the city offices of Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 14, 2011, when he made an appearance for a local FM radio program in support of people affected by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. Watanabe, an internationally known star who has appeared in Hollywood movies, visited evacuation centers and encouraged evacuees in the city and the town of Onagawa the same day. He has also launched the disaster support website ''kizuna311'' with other actors.

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Toshiba president Sasaki in interview

TOKYO, Japan - Toshiba Corp. President Norio Sasaki speaks during an interview in Tokyo on April 14, 2011. He said the company may be forced to revise its plan to win orders to build 39 nuclear reactors around the world by fiscal 2015 following the nuclear power plant accident in Fukushima Prefecture triggered by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami disaster.

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Russel to be senior White House official on Asia policy

WASHINGTON, United States - File photo shows Daniel Russel, a White House National Security Council official in charge of Japanese and Asian affairs. U.S. government officials said on April 14, 2011, Russel will be promoted to senior NSC director for Asian affairs.

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Tsunami-hit house in Iwate

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - Text reading ''Goodbye our home'' (R) and ''Do not destroy it'' (L) is seen painted on a tsunami-hit house in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on April 14, 2011.

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Takayama Spring Festival

TAKAYAMA, Japan - Floats lit up by lanterns parade through the streets of Takayama in Gifu Prefecture, central Japan, during the Takayama Spring Festival on April 14, 2011. Around 74,000 people attended the festival, about 30 percent lower than the previous year, apparently due to the March 11 quake and tsunami in northeastern Japan.

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Prince encourages nuclear evacuees

NIIGATA, Japan - Prince Akishino (R, center row), the younger son of Emperor Akihito, and his wife Princess Kiko (2nd from R, center row) encourage evacuees from areas near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant at a shelter in Nagaoka, Niigata Prefecture, on April 14, 2011. (Pool photo)

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Fujitsu resumes Fukushima PC plant

TOKYO, Japan - Fujitsu Ltd. shows to reporters a computer plant of its subsidiary Fujitsu Isotec Ltd. in Date, Fukushima Prefecture, on April 14, 2011, as the facility has mostly resumed operation after suspension over the March 11 quake.

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Quake aftermath in Iwanuma

IWANUMA, Japan - People remove flower seedlings from a greenhouse on April 14, 2011, that was destroyed by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Iwanuma, Miyagi Prefecture.

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Reconstruction in quake-hit Yamamoto

YAMAMOTO, Japan - A railway track is removed by an excavator in the town of Yamamoto, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 14, 2011, after being damaged in the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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LDP chief Tanigaki at press conference

TOKYO, Japan - Sadakazu Tanigaki, head of the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party, gives a press conference at the party's head office in Tokyo on April 14, 2011. Tanigaki called for Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan to resign over his handling of relief work since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the ensuing nuclear power plant crisis.

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Kan at 1st meeting of reconstruction framework panel

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan (R) speaks at the first meeting of the Reconstruction Design Council at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on April 14, 2011. Kan asked the panel, headed by Makoto Iokibe (2nd from R), president of the National Defense Academy of Japan, to come up with creative reconstruction plans for areas hit by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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Farmers urge TEPCO to compensate after nuke crisis

TOKYO, Japan - Mamoru Moteki (R), chairman of the Central Union of Agricultural Co-operatives, meets with Tokyo Electric Power Co. President Masataka Shimizu (L, front) in Tokyo on April 14, 2011, to protest the utility's handling of the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant. The major Japanese agricultural cooperative federation urged the company to compensate affected farmers, saying the radioactive substances from the reactor are threatening the whole agricultural business in northeastern and eastern Japan.

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Emperor in disaster area

TOKYO, Japan - Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko arrive in Asahi, Chiba Prefecture, on April 14, 2011, to encourage survivors of the tsunami that hit the city after the March 11 quake. It was the couple's first visit to an area hit by the quake and tsunami and they plan to visit other disaster areas further north. (Pool photo)

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New Hiroshima mayor expresses resolve for disarmament

HIROSHIMA, Japan - New Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui speaks at his first press conference since taking office on April 14, 2011, in Hiroshima. Matsui expressed his resolve to push for full abolition of nuclear weapons.

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Film director Yamada

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows film director Yoji Yamada. Film production company Shochiku Co. said on April 14, 2011, the production of his new movie ''Tokyo Kazoku'' (Tokyo Family) will be put off due to the March 11 quake and tsunami. Yamada said the situation after the disaster will be reflected in a rewritten script.

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1st fish haul landed at Shiogama port since quake-tsunami

SHIOGAMA, Japan - Auctioneers examine tuna at a fish market in Shiogama, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 14, 2011. A haul of tuna was landed at Shiogama port in Miyagi Prefecture, one of the biggest fishing bases in northeastern Japan, for the first time since the devastating earthquake and tsunami struck northeastern and eastern Japan on March 11.

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1st fish haul landed at Shiogama port since quake-tsunami

SHIOGAMA, Japan - Tuna are landed at Shiogama port in Miyagi Prefecture on April 14, 2011. Hundreds of tuna were landed at the port, one of the biggest fishing bases in northeastern Japan, for the first time since the March 11 devastating earthquake and tsunami in northeastern and eastern Japan.

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Cherry blossom viewing in Osaka

OSAKA, Japan - Visitors view cherry blossoms at the annual ''Cherry Blossom Viewing in Osaka'' event at the Finance Ministry's Osaka Mint Bureau on April 14, 2011, the first day of the event which runs through April 20.

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1st fish haul landed at Shiogama port since quake-tsunami

SHIOGAMA, Japan - Hundreds of tuna are laid down at a fish market in Shiogama, Miyagi Prefecture, after being landed at Shiogama port on April 14, 2011, for the first time since the devastating earthquake and tsunami struck northeastern and eastern Japan on March 11. The port is one of the biggest fishing bases in northeastern Japan.

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1st fish haul landed at Shiogama port since quake-tsunami

SHIOGAMA, Japan - Tuna are landed at Shiogama port in Miyagi Prefecture on April 14, 2011. Hundreds of tuna were landed at the port, one of the biggest fishing bases in northeastern Japan, for the first time since the March 11 devastating earthquake and tsunami in northeastern and eastern Japan.

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Brain-dead boy's organs to be transplanted

TOKYO, Japan - Juntaro Ashikari, an official of the Japan Organ Transplant Network, speaks during a press conference at the health ministry in Tokyo on April 12, 2011, on planned transplantations of organs of a boy aged between 10 and 14 who was declared brain-dead with family consent for the first time in Japan the same day. The network is the only entity certified as an intermediary for organ transplants in Japan.

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Brain-dead boy's organs to be transplanted

OSAKA, Japan - File photo taken in August 2010 shows Osaka University Hospital in Suita, Osaka Prefecture. A boy aged between 10 and 14 was declared brain-dead with family consent for the first time in Japan on April 12, 2011. The boy's heart is set to be transplanted to a male patient aged under 20 at the Osaka hospital.

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Schwartzel wins Masters

AUGUSTA, United States - Charl Schwartzel of South Africa clenches his fist after winning the Masters golf tournament at the Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia on April 10, 2011. Schwartzel shot a 274 total, 14-under, to claim the Green Jacket.

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Schwartzel wins Masters

AUGUSTA, United States - Charl Schwartzel of South Africa clenches his fist after sinking a birdie putt on the 18th hole to win the Masters golf tournament at the Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia on April 10, 2011. Schwartzel shot a 274 total, 14-under, to claim the Green Jacket.