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US: Super Typhoon Bavi Slams Guam, Northern Marianas 2

Super Typhoon Bavi made landfall Monday, July 6, passing directly over Rota in the Northern Mariana Islands around 8 a.m. local time, with sustained winds over 150 mph. Guam and nearby islands also reported major damage from the storm.

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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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The Village Of Missing Toddler May Be Cursed After Earlier Tragedies

File photo dated April 5, 2015 - Flowers lay at a memorial stele made of stone that reads 'In commemoration of the victims of the plane accident on 24 March 2015' in English, German, Spanish and French, on Easter Sunday in Le Vernet, France, April 5, 2015. Germanwings flight 4U 9525 crashed near near the village of La Vernet in the French Alps, southern France on 24 March 2015, carrying around 150 passengers and crew on board. - Residents of the French countryside hamlet of Haut Vernet where two-year-old boy Emile went missing on Saturday today referring to their home as a cursed 'village of the damned' because of its links with disaster. In March 2015, Vernet was cordoned off following a horrific air crash in which 150 people died, including two babies. Germanwings Airbus A320 was deliberately brought down by co-pilot Andres Lubitz, who had previously been treated for suicidal tendencies. In 2008, local cafe manager Jeannette Grosos, who ran the Café du Moulin, was brutally killed by a customer. Photo by Geo

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The Village Of Missing Toddler May Be Cursed After Earlier Tragedies

File photo dated April 3, 2015 - Operations continue as rescuers search the Germanwings flight 4U 9525 crash site for the second black box and remaining bodies, near Seyne-les-Alpes, southeastern France on April 3, 2015. The Germanwings Airbus A320 aircraft crashed in the French Alps on March 24, 2015, carrying around 150 passengers and crew on board. - Residents of the French countryside hamlet of Haut Vernet where two-year-old boy Emile went missing on Saturday today referring to their home as a cursed 'village of the damned' because of its links with disaster. In March 2015, Vernet was cordoned off following a horrific air crash in which 150 people died, including two babies. Germanwings Airbus A320 was deliberately brought down by co-pilot Andres Lubitz, who had previously been treated for suicidal tendencies. In 2008, local cafe manager Jeannette Grosos, who ran the Café du Moulin, was brutally killed by a customer. Handout Photo by Yves Malenfer/DICOM/ABACAPRESS.COM

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The Village Of Missing Toddler May Be Cursed After Earlier Tragedies

File photo dated April 3, 2015 - Operations continue as rescuers search the Germanwings flight 4U 9525 crash site for the second black box and remaining bodies, near Seyne-les-Alpes, southeastern France on April 3, 2015. The Germanwings Airbus A320 aircraft crashed in the French Alps on March 24, 2015, carrying around 150 passengers and crew on board. - Residents of the French countryside hamlet of Haut Vernet where two-year-old boy Emile went missing on Saturday today referring to their home as a cursed 'village of the damned' because of its links with disaster. In March 2015, Vernet was cordoned off following a horrific air crash in which 150 people died, including two babies. Germanwings Airbus A320 was deliberately brought down by co-pilot Andres Lubitz, who had previously been treated for suicidal tendencies. In 2008, local cafe manager Jeannette Grosos, who ran the Café du Moulin, was brutally killed by a customer. Handout Photo by Yves Malenfer/DICOM/ABACAPRESS.COM

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The Village Of Missing Toddler May Be Cursed After Earlier Tragedies

File photo dated April 3, 2015 - Operations continue as rescuers search the Germanwings flight 4U 9525 crash site for the second black box and remaining bodies, near Seyne-les-Alpes, southeastern France on April 3, 2015. The Germanwings Airbus A320 aircraft crashed in the French Alps on March 24, 2015, carrying around 150 passengers and crew on board. - Residents of the French countryside hamlet of Haut Vernet where two-year-old boy Emile went missing on Saturday today referring to their home as a cursed 'village of the damned' because of its links with disaster. In March 2015, Vernet was cordoned off following a horrific air crash in which 150 people died, including two babies. Germanwings Airbus A320 was deliberately brought down by co-pilot Andres Lubitz, who had previously been treated for suicidal tendencies. In 2008, local cafe manager Jeannette Grosos, who ran the Café du Moulin, was brutally killed by a customer. Handout Photo by Yves Malenfer/DICOM/ABACAPRESS.COM

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The Village Of Missing Toddler May Be Cursed After Earlier Tragedies

File photo dated April 5, 2015 - Flowers lay at a memorial stele made of stone that reads 'In commemoration of the victims of the plane accident on 24 March 2015' in English, German, Spanish and French, on Easter Sunday in Le Vernet, France, April 5, 2015. Germanwings flight 4U 9525 crashed near near the village of La Vernet in the French Alps, southern France on 24 March 2015, carrying around 150 passengers and crew on board. - Residents of the French countryside hamlet of Haut Vernet where two-year-old boy Emile went missing on Saturday today referring to their home as a cursed 'village of the damned' because of its links with disaster. In March 2015, Vernet was cordoned off following a horrific air crash in which 150 people died, including two babies. Germanwings Airbus A320 was deliberately brought down by co-pilot Andres Lubitz, who had previously been treated for suicidal tendencies. In 2008, local cafe manager Jeannette Grosos, who ran the Café du Moulin, was brutally killed by a customer. Photo by Geo

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The Village Of Missing Toddler May Be Cursed After Earlier Tragedies

File photo dated April 3, 2015 - Operations continue as rescuers search the Germanwings flight 4U 9525 crash site for the second black box and remaining bodies, near Seyne-les-Alpes, southeastern France on April 3, 2015. The Germanwings Airbus A320 aircraft crashed in the French Alps on March 24, 2015, carrying around 150 passengers and crew on board. - Residents of the French countryside hamlet of Haut Vernet where two-year-old boy Emile went missing on Saturday today referring to their home as a cursed 'village of the damned' because of its links with disaster. In March 2015, Vernet was cordoned off following a horrific air crash in which 150 people died, including two babies. Germanwings Airbus A320 was deliberately brought down by co-pilot Andres Lubitz, who had previously been treated for suicidal tendencies. In 2008, local cafe manager Jeannette Grosos, who ran the Café du Moulin, was brutally killed by a customer. Handout Photo by Yves Malenfer/DICOM/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Navajo woman tells of radioactive damage

ALBUQUERQUE, United States, May 1 Kyodo - Navajo woman Edith Hood talks in Church Rock, New Mexico, the United States, on April 24, 2015, about radioactive contamination. A large release of liquid radioactive waste occurred at a uranium mill near Church Rock when the retention dam for a tailings pond failed in July 1979.

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Apple Watch hits Japanese market, may boost wearable device biz

TOKYO, April 24 Kyodo - A man shows the Apple Watch he bought in Tokyo on April 24, 2015, the day of the wristwatch-like device's launch in Japan.

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Apple Watch hits Japanese market, may boost wearable device biz

TOKYO, April 24 Kyodo - A man shows the Apple Watch he bought in Tokyo on April 24, 2015, the day of the wristwatch-like device's launch in Japan.

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Preparatory committee for 2015 NPT review meeting

GENEVA, Switzerland - Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui (L) delivers a speech at the Second Session of the Preparatory Committee for the 2015 Review Conference of the parties to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, in Geneva on April 24, 2013. In the center is Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue and at right is atomic bomb survivor Toshiki Fujimori.

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Former U.S. Defense Secretary Carter

File photo taken in April 2015 shows Ashton Carter, who served as U.S. secretary of defense during Barack Obama's administration. Carter died on Oct. 24, 2022, at 68.

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6 entrepreneurs in Japan given awards for innovative achievements

Elliott Davis (C) from the United States, president of 24 Explore Inc., a software developer that utilizes augmented reality technology which supplements elements in real-world environment by computer-generated sensory input, receives the Venture Generation Award at the Swedish Embassy in Tokyo on April 27, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan Pavilion at Expo Milano

Photo shows a video theater named "a restaurant of the future" within the Japan Pavilion of the Expo Milano 2015 in the northern Italian city of Milan on April 24, 2015, the day when the pavilion was unveiled to the press ahead of the opening of the world exposition themed on food on May 1. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan Pavilion at Expo Milano

Photo shows an information display apparatus called the "diversity waterfall" within the Japan Pavilion of the Expo Milano 2015 in the northern Italian city of Milan on April 24, 2015, the day when the pavilion was unveiled to the press ahead of the opening of the world exposition themed on food on May 1. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Jones says new Super role will eventually sort itself out

In this file photo, Japan coach Eddie Jones speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on March 5, 2015. Jones talked about the exact specifics of his role as Director of Rugby with the new Japan Super Rugby side in an interview with Kyodo News on April 24. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Gov't to accept Segway test run on public roads

File photo taken February 2013 in the central Japan city of Tsukuba, near Tokyo, shows a test run of compact electric vehicles including the Segway PT. The government decided April 24, 2015, to expand the experiments involving Segway two-wheeled vehicles, electric wheelchairs and electric four-wheel devices on walkways, which are currently banned or restricted generally, nationwide as early as July. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan lower house speaker Machimura to step down for health reasons

Photo taken in Tokyo on Dec. 24, 2014 shows House of Representatives Speaker Nobutaka Machimura. He has decided to step down for health reasons, a senior lawmaker of the Liberal Democratic Party said on April 20, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Apple Watch to be launched on April 24

Customers check out Apple Inc.'s wearable Apple Watch at a Softbank Mobile Corp. outlet in Tokyo on April 10, 2015, prior to its launch on April 24. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Apple Watch to be launched on April 24

Photo shows Apple Inc.'s wearable Apple Watch on display for customers to try on at a Softbank Mobile Corp. outlet in Tokyo on April 10, 2015, prior to its launch on April 24. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Geisha prepare for dance festival in Kyoto

Geisha make preparations on Feb. 24, 2015, for the Miyako Odori traditional spring dance festival in Kyoto. They will give dance performances four times a day from April 1 to 30. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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LDP's Wada wins lower house by-election in Hokkaido

Liberal Democratic Party candidate Yoshiaki Wada (C) celebrates in Sapporo on April 24, 2016, with his wife Naoko (R) and supporters after winning a House of Representatives by-election in the Hokkaido No. 5 single-seat constituency. The election was held to fill a seat vacated by the LDP's Nobutaka Machimura, a former lower house speaker and foreign minister who died in 2015, and who was Naoko Wada's father. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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LDP's Wada wins lower house by-election in Hokkaido

Liberal Democratic Party candidate Yoshiaki Wada (R) celebrates in Sapporo on April 24, 2016, with his wife Naoko after winning a House of Representatives by-election in the Hokkaido No. 5 single-seat constituency. Wada holds a portrait of the LDP's Nobutaka Machimura, a former lower house speaker and foreign minister who died in 2015, and who was his father-in-law. The election was held to fill a seat vacated by his death. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nepal marks 1st quake anniversary

Nepalese Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli (2nd from R) visits the remains of the Dharahara tower (L back), destroyed by a magnitude 7.8 quake in April 2015, in central Kathmandu to mark the first anniversary of its deadliest quake on record on April 24, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Court lifts ban on Fukui nuclear restart

The Fukui District Court on Dec. 24, 2015, lifted an injunction it issued earlier banning Kansai Electric Power Co. from restarting two reactors in the central Japan prefecture of Fukui. The power supplier filed an objection in April seeking revocation of the injunction, which prevented it from reactivating the reactors due to safety concerns. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fukushima gov't announces results of tourism promotion blitz

Fukushima Gov. Masao Uchibori speaks to reporters in the city of Fukushima on Aug. 24, 2015, about the results of the April-June "Fukushima Destination Campaign" to attract tourists to the northeastern Japan prefecture. Uchibori said 13.32 million people visited the prefecture during the period, up 12.2 percent from the same quarter of 2014 and the largest since the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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MUFG introduces customer service robot in Osaka branch

The humanoid robot NAO waves at a branch of the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ in Osaka on July 21, 2015. The 58-centimeter tall robot, which was made in France and is able to respond to easy questions in Japanese, including the Osaka dialect, as well as Chinese, English and French, will work at the branch until July 24 on a trial basis. The bank introduced the robot at its headquarters in Tokyo in April. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nepal quake survivor gets tin-roofed shelter

A Nepalese man and his daughter stand in front of a tin-roofed shelter in Chautara, northeastern Nepal, on June 24, 2015, which they received from a nongovernmental organization after the devastating earthquake in April. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Pupils study at tent school in quake-hit Nepal

Elementary school pupils study in a makeshift tent on June 24, 2015, near Chautara, northeastern Nepal, following the devastating earthquake in April. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Pupils study at tent school in quake-hit Nepal

Elementary school pupils study in a makeshift tent on June 24, 2015, near Chautara, northeastern Nepal, following the devastating earthquake in April. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nepal in recovery work from deadly quake

Photo taken June 24, 2015, shows local residents clearing rubble resulting from the deadly Nepal earthquake in April in a suburb of Chautara, northeast of Kathmandu. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Cat stationmaster Tama, superstar in western Japan, dies

Tama, a cat stationmaster of a railway station in western Japan, receives a birthday cake on her 16th birthday on April 29, 2015, in this file photo taken in Wakayama Prefecture. The female tortoiseshell cat died June 22, 2015, at a local animal hospital aged 16 years and two months, the equivalent of about 80 years in human age, Wakayama Electric Railway Co. said June 24. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Elderly woman serves as storyteller based on WWII Battle of Okinawa

Masako Onishi, pictured in Naha in Japan's southernmost prefecture of Okinawa on April 24, 2015, serves as a storyteller to stress the importance of life to young people based on her experience during the Battle of Okinawa in the closing days of World War II. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tokyo museum re-creates scene of traditional salt-making process

The Tobacco and Salt Museum in Tokyo shows a scene from a traditional salt-making process still practiced on the Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture, central Japan, as seen in this photo taken on April 24, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Replica statute of Poland's St. Kinga on show at salt museum in Tokyo

A 180-centimeter replica salt statue of St. Kinga of Poland is on display at the Tobacco and Salt Museum in Tokyo on April 24, 2015. The replica statue was created by a Polish craftsman from a real one at a famous salt mine in Wieliczka, southern Poland. ==Kyodo

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China-born naturalized Japanese

Komaki Lee, a China-born naturalized Japanese, makes a stump speech in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward on April 24, 2015, when the 54-year-old Lee ran unsuccessfully for the ward assembly just two months after acquiring Japanese citizenship. Lee, who came to Japan in 1988 as a student, later worked as a tour guide for foreigners in Shinjuku's Kabukicho night entertainment district. He shouted "Love live democracy!" in Kabukicho to cap his campaign. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nagasaki A-bomb survivor talks with Navajo woman

Tadako Kawazoe (R), a 71-year-old survivor of the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, talks with a Navajo woman in Church Rock, New Mexico, the United States, on April 24, 2015. They are looking at a book of photos about the atomic bomb. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nagasaki A-bomb survivor tells audience in New Mexico of suffering

Tadako Kawazoe, a 71-year-old survivor of the August 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, tells of her A-bomb experience in Church Rock, New Mexico, the United States, on April 24, 2015. A large release of liquid radioactive waste occurred at a uranium mill near Church Rock when the retention dam for a tailings pond failed in July 1979. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nagasaki "hibakusha" visits New Mexico

Tadako Kawazoe (front), a 71-year-old survivor of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki in 1945, visits on April 24, 2015, Church Rock, New Mexico, the United States. A large release of liquid radioactive waste occurred at a uranium mill near Church Rock when the retention dam for a tailings pond failed in July 1979. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nuclear plant wall against tsunami of up to 15 meters shown to press

Tokyo Electric Power Co. shows the press the wall of its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture, northwestern Japan, on April 24, 2015, capable of withstanding tsunami of up to 15 meters. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ceremony marks selection of west Japan town as domestic heritage site

Tottori Gov. Shinji Hirai (3rd from L) and Misasa Mayor Hidemitsu Yoshida (3rd from R) attend a ceremony in the western Japan town on April 24, 2015, to celebrate the central government's selection of the municipality as one of Japan Heritage sites aimed at revitalizing local tourism and economic activity. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Vent piping at nuclear power plant in Niigata shown to media

A Tokyo Electric Power Co. official briefs the press on a vent piping system at the utility's Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture, northwestern Japan, on April 24, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nagasaki A-bomb survivor speaks at int'l civic meet in New York

Sumiteru Taniguchi, a survivor of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, shows photos of his burn injuries, as he delivers his speech at an international civic meeting in New York on April 24, 2015, to call for the abolition of nuclear weapons. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Armenians in U.S. carry "Armenian Genocide" signs in NY

Hundreds of Armenians in the United States gather around the Turkish Consulate General in New York on April 24, 2015, a day to remember the atrocity carried out 100 years ago in which some 1.5 million Armenians were killed or driven to death under the declining Ottoman Empire, in protest against Turkey over the massacre. Armenia and Turkey remain split over whether to consider the killings a genocide or not. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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New H.K. bank eyes $3 bil. deposit assets in 5 years after launch

Tsutomu Nakajima, CEO of Nippon Wealth Ltd. affiliated with Japan's Shinsei Bank Ltd., says in Tokyo on April 24, 2015, that the Hong Kong-based new wealth management services bank for individual customers will aim at attaining 400 billion yen (about $3.3 billion) in deposit assets in five years after its launch on May 11. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Newly opened bookstore cafe "Story Story" in Tokyo's Shinjuku

A woman operates a Kobo eReader while eating at "Story Story," a bookstore cafe also selling sundries, in Tokyo on April 23, 2015. The bookstore cafe was opened inside Odakyu department store's Shinjuku main store on April 24. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Newly opened bookstore cafe "Story Story" in Tokyo's Shinjuku

Photo taken April 23, 2015, shows examples of food and drink related to books at "Story Story," a bookstore cafe also selling sundries, in Tokyo. The bookstore cafe was opened inside Odakyu department store's Shinjuku main store on April 24. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tottori pref. gov't opens refurbished business center in Vladivostok

Satoshi Nogawa (far R), a senior official of Japan's Tottori prefectural government, addresses an opening ceremony for its refurbished Vladivostok Business Support Center in the Russian city on April 24, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Russian Far East development minister visits Pyongyang

Russian Far East Development Minister Alexander Galushka (L) visits Pyongyang on April 24, 2015, to discuss bilateral relations in trade, the economy, and science and technology with North Korean officials. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo