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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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Blue carnations under shipment

Work to ship rare blue carnations, airlifted from Colombia and Ecuador, is under way at a wholesaler company in Shibayama in Chiba Prefecture, eastern Japan, on April 30, 2025, ahead of Mother's Day on May 11. The carnation named Moondust was developed by the horticulture arm of major Japanese whiskey maker Suntory using gene engineering, with sales starting in 1997.

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Ex-Peru President Fujimori dies at 86

Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori delivers a speech in front of the Japanese ambassador's residence in Lima on April 22, 1997, following the end of a 127-day hostage crisis at the residence. Fujimori died on Sept. 11, 2024, aged 86.

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ERITREA-ASMARA-CHINESE MEDICAL TEAM

(230516) -- ASMARA, May 16, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Members of the Chinese medical team pose for a group photo with local students at the gate of Halibet Hospital in Asmara, Eritrea, on May 9, 2023. Doctors of the 16th Chinese medical team to Eritrea have conducted 346 surgeries and 2,120 medical imaging examinations since they arrived in the East African country on April 17, 2023. Nearly 300 Chinese doctors have provided medical services in Eritrea since 1997. (Xinhua/Wang Guansen)

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ERITREA-ASMARA-CHINESE MEDICAL TEAM

(230516) -- ASMARA, May 16, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Doctor Tian Qian conducts a CT scanning for a patient at Orotta Hospital in Asmara, Eritrea, on May 9, 2023. Doctors of the 16th Chinese medical team to Eritrea have conducted 346 surgeries and 2,120 medical imaging examinations since they arrived in the East African country on April 17, 2023. Nearly 300 Chinese doctors have provided medical services in Eritrea since 1997. (Xinhua/Wang Guansen)

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ERITREA-ASMARA-CHINESE MEDICAL TEAM

(230516) -- ASMARA, May 16, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Doctor Wang Xiao (L) conducts an ultrasonic examination for a patient at Orotta Hospital in Asmara, Eritrea, on May 9, 2023. Doctors of the 16th Chinese medical team to Eritrea have conducted 346 surgeries and 2,120 medical imaging examinations since they arrived in the East African country on April 17, 2023. Nearly 300 Chinese doctors have provided medical services in Eritrea since 1997. (Xinhua/Wang Guansen)

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ERITREA-ASMARA-CHINESE MEDICAL TEAM

(230516) -- ASMARA, May 16, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Doctor Li Gonglong (C) diagnoses a patient at Halibet Hospital in Asmara, Eritrea, on May 9, 2023. Doctors of the 16th Chinese medical team to Eritrea have conducted 346 surgeries and 2,120 medical imaging examinations since they arrived in the East African country on April 17, 2023. Nearly 300 Chinese doctors have provided medical services in Eritrea since 1997. (Xinhua/Wang Guansen)

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ERITREA-ASMARA-CHINESE MEDICAL TEAM

(230516) -- ASMARA, May 16, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Doctor Xing Hongbin (3rd R) diagnoses a patient at Halibet Hospital in Asmara, Eritrea, on May 9, 2023. Doctors of the 16th Chinese medical team to Eritrea have conducted 346 surgeries and 2,120 medical imaging examinations since they arrived in the East African country on April 17, 2023. Nearly 300 Chinese doctors have provided medical services in Eritrea since 1997. (Xinhua/Wang Guansen)

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ERITREA-ASMARA-CHINESE MEDICAL TEAM

(230516) -- ASMARA, May 16, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Doctor Zhu Zhenjun (L) diagnoses a patient at Halibet Hospital in Asmara, Eritrea, on May 9, 2023. Doctors of the 16th Chinese medical team to Eritrea have conducted 346 surgeries and 2,120 medical imaging examinations since they arrived in the East African country on April 17, 2023. Nearly 300 Chinese doctors have provided medical services in Eritrea since 1997. (Xinhua/Wang Guansen)

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ERITREA-ASMARA-CHINESE MEDICAL TEAM

(230516) -- ASMARA, May 16, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Doctor Zhang Chunyan (R) diagnoses a child at Orotta Hospital in Asmara, Eritrea, on May 9, 2023. Doctors of the 16th Chinese medical team to Eritrea have conducted 346 surgeries and 2,120 medical imaging examinations since they arrived in the East African country on April 17, 2023. Nearly 300 Chinese doctors have provided medical services in Eritrea since 1997. (Xinhua/Wang Guansen)

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ERITREA-ASMARA-CHINESE MEDICAL TEAM

(230516) -- ASMARA, May 16, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Doctor Zhou Dakai (L) diagnoses a patient at Halibet Hospital in Asmara, Eritrea, on May 9, 2023. Doctors of the 16th Chinese medical team to Eritrea have conducted 346 surgeries and 2,120 medical imaging examinations since they arrived in the East African country on April 17, 2023. Nearly 300 Chinese doctors have provided medical services in Eritrea since 1997. (Xinhua/Wang Guansen)

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ERITREA-ASMARA-CHINESE MEDICAL TEAM

(230516) -- ASMARA, May 16, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on May 9, 2023 shows the gate of Orotta Hospital in Asmara, Eritrea. Doctors of the 16th Chinese medical team to Eritrea have conducted 346 surgeries and 2,120 medical imaging examinations since they arrived in the East African country on April 17, 2023. Nearly 300 Chinese doctors have provided medical services in Eritrea since 1997. (Xinhua/Wang Guansen)

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Ennis Bluebonnet Trails Festival held in Texas, U.S.

STORY: Ennis Bluebonnet Trails Festival held in Texas, U.S. DATELINE: April 19, 2023 LENGTH: 0:00:27 LOCATION: HOUSTON, U.S. CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT SHOTLIST: 1. various of flowers STORYLINE: The 71st Annual Ennis Bluebonnet Trails Festival was held in Ennis, Texas, the United States, from April 14 to 16. Bluebonnet is Texas' state flower. Ennis was designated by the 1997 State Legislature as the home of the Official Texas Bluebonnet Trail and the Official Bluebonnet City of Texas. From April 1-30, Ennis showcases over 40 miles of mapped driving Bluebonnet Trails, which are the oldest such trails known in the state, and tens of thousands of visitors make the short trek to Ennis to view this wonderful wildflower show. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Houston, U.S. (XHTV)

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Vietnam ex-boat people's restaurant

PUERTO PRINCESA CITY, Philippines - This April 2012 file photo shows a restaurant inside a Vietnamese village in the western Philippine province of Palawan. The village opened in 1997 to accommodate former Vietnamese boat people.

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Actor Keizo Kanie dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in March 1997 shows Japanese actor Keizo Kanie. Kanie, known for his supporting role in a number of movies and TV series, has died from stomach cancer at a hospital in Tokyo, a talent agency representing the actor said April 4, 2014. He was 69 years old.

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Heritage railways targeted by thieves

MAEBASHI, Japan - Photo taken May 24, 2013 shows part of cables cut and hanging down from overhead at the dead track of JR Shin-Etsu Honsen line in Annaka, Gunma Prefecture. In late April, some 6 tons of overhead and signal cables were found to have been stolen from an 11.2-kilometer railway of the line between Yokokawa Station in Annaka and Karuizawa Station in Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, which went out of use in 1997.

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Heritage railways targeted by thieves

MAEBASHI, Japan - Photo taken May 24, 2013 shows part of overhead cables cut by thieves at the dead track of JR Shin-Etsu Honsen line in Annaka, Gunma Prefecture. In late April, some 6 tons of overhead and signal cables were found to have been stolen from an 11.2-kilometer railway of the line between Yokokawa Station in Annaka and Karuizawa Station in Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, which went out of use in 1997.

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James Cameron in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Film director James Cameron speaks at a press conference at a Tokyo hotel on March 30, 2012, to promote the 3D version of the 1997 hit movie ''Titanic,'' ahead of its release in Japan in early April.

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Site of 1996-1997 hostage crisis in Peru

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken April 22, 1997, shows the then residence of the Japanese ambassador in Lima, from which smoke is coming, after the Peruvian military forced their way in the same day to end a four-month hostage crisis that began on Dec. 17, 1996, and that claimed the lives of 17 people. A condominium is planned to be built on the site, Japanese embassy sources said Dec. 12, 2011.

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Monument for poet Miyazawa survives tsunami

TANOHATA, Japan - A monument engraved with a poem by well-known writer Kenji Miyazawa stands amid rubble in the village of Tanohata, Iwate Prefecture, on April 22, 2011. The monument was erected in 1997 in front of Sanriku Railway Co.'s Shimanokoshi Station, which was washed away by the March 11 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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N. Korean defector says he has no knowledge of abductee Yokota

TOKYO, Japan - Shigeru Yokota (C) and his wife Sakie, parents of Megumi Yokota, who was abducted to North Korea from Japan as a teenager and who Pyongyang claims has died, speaks to reporters in Tokyo on April 5, 20101, after Hwang Jang Yop, a former high-ranking North Korean official who defected to South Korea in 1997, told Japanese lawmakers in Tokyo he has no knowledge of Megumi. The former secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea was in Tokyo to meet some 20 lawmakers including Hiroshi Nakai, minister in charge of abduction issues.

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Asashoryu granted permanent residency in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Mongolian yokozuna (grand champion) Asashoryu (file photo) said on April 28 he has been granted permanent residency in Japan. Asashoryu, whose real name is Dolgorsuren Dagvadorj, has lived in Japan since 1997, when he became an exchange student at Meitoku Gijuku High School's sumo club in Kochi Prefecture.

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Ex-NEC president, chairman Sekimoto dies at 80

TOKYO, Japan - Former NEC Corp. President and Chairman Tadahiro Sekimoto (file photo taken April 1997), known for making the company a global computer giant during his 18-year tenure in the two top posts, died of a stroke Nov. 11 at a Tokyo hospital, the company said Nov. 12. He was 80. (Kyodo

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All regions report recovery in April-June for 3 qtrs in row: MOF

TOKYO, Japan - Finance Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki (standing on the left side) addresses a meeting of 11 regional finance bureaus at the Finance Ministry on July 11. All the regional bureau chiefs reported a recovery trend in local economies in the April-June period for the third straight quarter, the first such case since 1997.

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All regions report recovery in April-June for 3 qtrs in row: MOF

TOKYO, Japan - Finance Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki addresses a meeting of 11 regional finance bureaus held at the Finance Ministry on July 11. The Finance Ministry said that all its 11 regional bureaus reported a recovery trend in local economies in the April-June period for the third straight quarter, the first such case since 1997.

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NCP officials hold final talks to resolve Matsunami scandal

TOKYO, Japan - Scandal-tainted Kenshiro Matsunami (C), a House of Representatives member from the New Conservative Party (NCP), heads for a party meeting on April 21 at the Diet to explain his conduct. Matsunami admitted Tuesday he had allowed a construction firm with ties to gangsters to pay 2.75 million yen in salaries to his secretaries between March 1997 and February 1998.

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Kobe citizens enjoy ''flower-pedal pictures''

KOBE, Japan - Pedestrians walking along Sannomiya Ajisai avenue in Kobe on April 19 enjoy viewing colorful pictures made with pedals from more than 1.25 million tulips. The annual event was initiated in 1997 in hopes of promoting the city's rehabilitation from the 1995 earthquake that killed more than 5,400 people.

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Lawmaker let gangster-linked firm pay secretaries

TOKYO, Japan - House of Representatives member Kenshiro Matsunami is surrounded by reporters in the Diet on April 15 following a revelation that he allowed a construction firm that had links to gangsters pay 2.75 million yen in salaries to his secretaries between March 1997 and February 1998.

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Tokyo Disneyland, DisneySea welcome 300 millionth visitor

CHIBA, Japan - Yoko Kusunoki (2nd from R) and her husband and children are joined by Disney mascots at Tokyo Disneyland in Urayasu, Chiba Prefecture, on Nov. 8 as she became the 300 millionth visitor to Tokyo Disneyland and DisneySea. Tokyo Disneyland opened in April 1983 and the number of visitors to it topped 200,000,000 in 1997. Tokyo DisneySea opened in September 2001, with the number of visitors exceeding 10,000,000 in July.

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Gov't opens Isahaya lock gates for 2-month probe

ISAHAYA, Japan - The farm ministry opens Isahaya Bay's lock gates in Nagasaki Prefecture on April 24 as part of its probe, to last about two months, into the cause of poor seaweed harvests in the area. Seawater was allowed into the freshwater reservoir (foreground) for the first time in five years since the gates were closed April 14, 1997.

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Environmental meet ends with rosy prospects on Kyoto pact

SEOUL, South Korea - Japanese Environment Minister Hiroshi Oki (L), South Korean Environment Minister Kim Myung Ja (C) and Xie Zhenhua, chief of China's State Administration of Environmental Protection, join hands in a Seoul hotel on April 21 after signing a joint communique expressing expectations the 1997 Kyoto Protocol will be enforced by the end of this year.

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Russia foot-dragging to block 2002 Kyoto pact enforcement

MOSCOW, Russia - Alexander Bedritsky, head of the Russian Federal Hydrometeorological and Environmental Monitoring Service, tells Kyodo News on April 12 that Russia is unlikely to ratify the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on curbing global warming by the year-end.

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Tricycle taxi to debut in environment-conscious Kyoto

KYOTO, Japan - This tricycle taxi will debut in the environment-conscious Kyoto in late April 2002. A Kyoto-based nonprofit organization imported ten of this vehicle from Germany to promote its campaign to reduce the number of cars and keep the air clean in the ancient Japanese capital, where an international pact aimed at fighting global warming was concluded in 1997.

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Man gets indefinite term for murder of 2 Japanese-Brazilians

FUKUI, Japan - The Fukui District Court (pool photo) on August 2 sentenced an employment agency executive to an indefinite prison term for murdering two Japanese-Brazilians and abandoning their bodies in Fukui Prefecture on the Sea of Japan coast in April 1997. According to the ruling, Yoshizumi Ishikawa, 29, of Fukui, murdered factory worker Carlos Alberto Oseko, 30, and Fuzifaru Massyo Fujiharu, a 30-year-old woman who was living with Oseko.

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Kawaguchi, Pronk to keep seeking U.S. return to Kyoto pact

NEW YORK, United States - Japan's Environment Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi (R) and Jan Pronk, current chief of U.N.-sponsored talks on climate change, talk at the U.N. headquarters April 19. They agreed to continue efforts to bring the United States back to negotiations over the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on global warming.

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Upper house adopts resolution on Kyoto Protocol

TOKYO, Japan - The House of Councillors unanimously adopts at a plenary session April 18 a resolution on achieving international agreement in ratifying the 1997 Kyoto Protocol aimed at curbing global warming. The nonpartisan resolution was proposed to support Environment Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi, who leaves April 19 for a weeklong trip to the United States during which she will urge Washington to honor its commitment to the pact.

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EU to keep pushing U.S. on Kyoto pact on global warming

TOKYO, Japan - Swedish Environment Minister Kjell Larsson (R) attends a news conference in Tokyo on April 10. He said the European Union (EU) will continue efforts to persuade the United States to renew its commitment to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on preventing global warming. Larsson is in Japan with an EU delegation to lobby for the Kyoto Protocol.

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Japan, China, S. Korea seek U.S. commitment to Kyoto Protocol

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) China's State Environmental Protection Administration Minister Xie Zhenhua, Japanese Environment Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi and South Korean Environment Minister Kim Myung Ja shake hands at a news conference on April 8 after a two-day meeting in Tokyo to discuss environmental issues in Northeast Asia. The ministers urged the United States to stay within the framework of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol.

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Tupac Amaru urges supporters to remember Lima hostage crisis

LIMA, Peru - Photo taken April 3 shows the site of former Japanese ambassador's residence in Lima. The Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) is calling on followers to gather in front of the site on April 22 to remember 14 cadres killed in 1997 following their seizure of the house and numerous hostages during a party to celebrate Japanese Emperor Akihito's birthday.

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Noted Japanese painter Uemura dies at 98

OSAKA, Japan - Noted Japanese-style painter Shoko Uemura (file photo taken in April 1997) died of heart failure at a Kyoto hospital in the early morning of March 11. He was 98. Uemura was elected to the Japan Arts Academy in 1981 and awarded the Order of Culture in 1984.

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Magne wins Maebashi keirin event

MAEBASHI, Japan - Former world champion Frederic Magne (5) of France crosses the finish line at Green Dome Maebashi in Gunma Prefecture on April 17 for his first victory in the international keirin series being staged in Japan. The 1997 keirin world champion completed six laps in 2 minutes, 52.4 seconds to win the third event of the six-leg series by a half-length.

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Magne exults in Maebashi keirin win

MAEBASHI, Japan - Frederic Magne of France acknowledges the cheers of the fans at Green Dome Maebashi in Gunma Prefecture on April 17 after posting his first victory in the international keirin series being staged in Japan. The 1997 keirin world champion won by a half-length over Italy's Roberto Chiappa in the third event of the six-leg series.

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Akita hospital head announces brain death

AKITA, Japan - Kazuhiko Takano (R), head of Yuri Kumiai General Hospital in Honjo, Akita Prefecture, announces at a news conference at the hospital on April 15 that a female patient in her 40s was confirmed legally brain-dead. She is likely to become the sixth organ donor in Japan under the 1997 Organ Transplant Law.

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Nepalese man acquitted of 1997 murder of woman

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroshi Kamiyama, lawyer for Govinda Prasad Mainali, a Nepalese man accused of murdering a woman in Tokyo in 1997, speaks at a news conference April 14 after the Tokyo District Court found the defendant not guilty.