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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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CORRECTED: Japan's Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko

Japan's Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko dance at a charity ball in a Tokyo hotel on April 12, 2013. (Pool photo)

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English translation of Murakami novel goes on sale

NEW YORK, United States - The owner of a New York bookstore holds a copy of "Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage" by Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami at his store on Aug. 12, 2014. The English translation of the book, originally published in Japanese in April 2013, went on sale in bookstores across the United States the same day.

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Osaka high-tech exhibition attracts 900,000 visitors

OSAKA, Japan - A girl looks at robots and other high-tech exhibits at Active Lab., an intellectual entertainment space in Knowledge Capital of Grand Front Osaka in Osaka, western Japan, on March 12, 2014. Active Lab. attracted over 900,000 visitors in the 10 months since opening in April 2013, about double the initial annual goal.

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Japan GDP up in April-June

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe answers a reporter's question in Tokyo on Aug. 12, 2013, after the country's gross domestic product data for the second quarter of 2013 was released the same day. GDP grew an annualized real 2.6 percent in the three months through June.

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Japan's April-June GDP grows

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's economic revitalization minister Akira Amari gives a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 12, 2013 on the country's gross domestic product data for the second quarter of 2013, released the same day. GDP grew an annualized real 2.6 percent in the three months through June.

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Caroline Kennedy to become U.S. ambassador to Japan

WASHINGTON, United States - Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of the late U.S. President John F. Kennedy, holds a book signing in Kansas City, Missouri, on April 2, 2013. A strong backer of President Barack Obama, Kennedy will become ambassador to Japan, sources close to Japan-U.S. relations said July 12, 2013.

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Firms adopting experience-based training programs

TOKYO, Japan - Two new employees attempt to hitch a ride on April 12, 2013 in Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, during a training program for new recruits.

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French minister in China

BEIJING, China - File photo shows French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius (L) and Chinese President Xi Jinping shaking hands at the Great Hall of the People on April 12, 2013. (Pool photo)

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Christian academy aids third-world fight against poverty

NASUSHIOBARA, Japan - Freshmen at the Asian Rural Institute talk about their home villages while watching a tablet terminal operated by a staff member of the Christian academy, which offers agricultural training programs for Asians and Africans, in Nasushiobara, Tochigi Prefecture, on April 12, 2013.

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Christian academy aids third-world fight against poverty

NASUSHIOBARA, Japan - Kenichi Otsu, president of the Asian Rural Institute, speaks during an interview with Kyodo News at the Christian academy, which offers agricultural training programs for Asians and Africans in Nasushiobara, Tochigi Prefecture, on April 12, 2013.

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Christian academy aids third-world fight against poverty

NASUSHIOBARA, Japan - Freshmen at the Asian Rural Institute practice greetings in Japanese at a classroom of the Christian academy, which offers agricultural training programs for Asians and Africans in Nasushiobara, Tochigi Prefecture, on April 12, 2013, a day before its opening ceremony.

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South Sudan President Kiir

JUBA, South Sudan - South Sudanese President Salva Kiir holds a press conference in Juba, South Sudan, on April 12, 2013. Kiir intends to visit Japan to attend a major conference on African development in June, Marial Benjamin, the country's information minister, told Kyodo News on April 12.

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Suu Kyi off to Japan

YANGON, Myanmar - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi (front) arrives at Yangon International Airport on April 12, 2013. She left later in the day for a seven-day visit to Japan, her first visit to the country in roughly 27 years.

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Sudan President Bashir in S. Sudan

JUBA, South Sudan - Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir (L) and South Sudanese President Salva Kiir shake hands at Kiir's presidential office in Juba on April 12, 2013.

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Emperor, empress dance

TOKYO, Japan - Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko dance during a charity dance party at a Tokyo hotel on April 12, 2013. It was the first time in 20 years that the couple had danced in public. (Pool photo)

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Emperor, empress dance

TOKYO, Japan - Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko dance during a charity dance party at a Tokyo hotel on April 12, 2013. It was the first time in 20 years that the couple had danced in public. (Pool photo)

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Sudan president in S. Sudan

JUBA, South Sudan - Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir (L) and South Sudanese President Salva Kiir shake hands at Kiir's presidential office in Juba on April 12, 2013.

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Emperor, empress dance

TOKYO, Japan - Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko dance during a charity dance party at a Tokyo hotel on April 12, 2013. It was the first time in 20 years that the couple had danced in public. (Pool photo)

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N. Korea border with China

DANDONG, China - Photo taken from Dandong in China's Liaoning Province shows outdated bombers at an air force base in Sinuiju, North Korea, near the border with China, on April 12, 2013. North Korea has warned of imminent war with the United States and South Korea.

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U.S. backs Japan joining TPP trade talks

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe answers reporters' questions at his office in Tokyo on April 12, 2013. He said Japan has gained U.S. backing to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade negotiations as the two countries finalized preparatory talks on contentious issues.

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Pyongyang scene amid war threats

PYONGYANG, North Korea - An April 12, 2013, photo shows a woman and two girls in a main area of Pyongyang on April 12, 2013. People in the capital looked as usual despite North Korea's warnings of imminent war with the United States and South Korea.

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Kerry on Asian tour

SEOUL, South Korea - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (L) and South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung Se shake hands before their meeting in Seoul on April 12, 2013. Kerry was in Seoul on the first leg of his three-nation Asian tour of South Korea, China and Japan.

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Moving arm chair Unimo

YONAGO, Japan - Photo taken in Yonago, Tottori Prefecture, on April 12, 2013, shows the electric moving arm chair Unimo, which was put on sale by Nano-Optonics Energy Inc. the same day. Unimo runs on a crawler belt that provides a comfortable ride even on uneven surfaces or gravel and can travel as far as 20 kilometers on one charge.

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N. Korean scholar

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Ri Gi Song, a professor at the Economic Institute of the Academy of Social Sciences in Pyongyang, speaks during an interview at a hotel in the North Korean capital on April 12, 2013. The senior North Korean economist said North Korea will feel no economic impact from its recent shutdown of a jointly operated industrial complex with South Korea in Kaesong.

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Mitsubishi's new space satellite manufacturing plant

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken April 12, 2013, shows a new space satellite manufacturing factory of Mitsubishi Electric Corp. in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture.

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N. Korean scholar

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Ri Gi Song, a professor at the Economic Institute of the Academy of Social Sciences in Pyongyang, speaks during an interview at a hotel in the North Korean capital on April 12, 2013. The senior North Korean economist said North Korea will feel no economic impact from its recent shutdown of a jointly operated industrial complex with South Korea in Kaesong.

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Nazca Lines

TOKYO, Japan - Yamagata University professor Masato Sakai speaks in the city of Yamagata, northeastern Japan, on April 12, 2013. He said a team of researchers from the university has discovered a new set of Nazca Lines depicting two people in Peru.

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Pyongyang scene amid war threats

PYONGYANG, North Korea - An April 12, 2013, photo shows passengers on a bus in a main area of Pyongyang on April 12, 2013. People in the capital looked as usual despite North Korea's warnings of imminent war with the United States and South Korea.

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Kerry on Asian tour

SEOUL, South Korea - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrives at an airport in Seoul on April 12, 2013, on the first leg of his three-nation Asian tour of South Korea, China and Japan.

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Honda's sports-type motorcycle models

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in Tokyo on April 12, 2013, shows (from front) the CBR400R, the CB400F and the 400X, three sports-type motorcycle models fitted with 400cc, two-cylinder engines to be released by Honda Motor Co.

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Pyongyang scene amid war threats

PYONGYANG, North Korea - An April 12, 2013, photo shows people in a main area of Pyongyang on April 12, 2013. Seen in the background is Juche Tower. People in the capital looked as usual despite North Korea's warnings of imminent war with the United States and South Korea.

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Kerry on Asian tour

SEOUL, South Korea - Photo taken April 12, 2013, shows U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (far R), who arrived at an airport in Seoul on the first leg of his three-nation Asian tour of South Korea, China and Japan.

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Kerry on Asian tour

SEOUL, South Korea - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (C) arrives at an airport in Seoul on April 12, 2013, on the first leg of his three-nation Asian tour of South Korea, China and Japan.

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BOJ head Kuroda giving speech

TOKYO, Japan - Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda gives a speech in Tokyo on April 12, 2013. Kuroda said the central bank will maintain its easy monetary policy until it attains its 2 percent inflation target, indicating that monetary easing will remain in place beyond two years if the bank deems it necessary.

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Online election campaigning

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a House of Representatives plenary session at the Diet building in Tokyo on April 12, 2013, shortly after the passage of a bill aimed at removing a ban on online election campaigning.

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Haruki Murakami's new novel

TOKYO, Japan - Copies of the new novel by popular Japanese author Haruki Murakami, titled "Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and his Years of Pilgrimage," are piled up at a bookstore in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on the morning of April 12, 2013, after its midnight release. It is Murakami's first novel in three years.

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Japan defense chief meets U.S. deputy commander

TOKYO, Japan - Maj. Gen. Andrew O'Donnell (L), deputy commander of U.S. Forces Japan, and Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera shake hands at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on April 12, 2013. They met amid North Korea's war threats.

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Photo exhibition of abduction victim

TOKYO, Japan - Shigeru and Sakie Yokota visit a photo exhibition in Tokyo on April 12, 2013, of their daughter Megumi (in a photo at left), the symbolic victim of North Korea's past abductions of Japanese nationals.

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Haruki Murakami's new novel

TOKYO, Japan - A signboard reading "Books Murakami Haruki" (top) to advertise a special corner for the new novel by popular Japanese author is set up at the entrance of bookstore chain Sanseido's main shop in Tokyo's Jimbocho district on April 12, 2013. The new novel titled "Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and his Years of Pilgrimage" was released at midnight on April 11. It is Murakami's first novel in three years.

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Peach starts Sendai-Kansai flights

SENDAI, Japan - Officials and workers wave to the first flight of Peach Aviation Ltd. leaving Sendai Airport for Kansai International Airport on April 12, 2013. The Japanese low-cost carrier launched its flight service that day linking Sendai Airport with Kansai airport serving the Osaka area, becoming the first budget airline flying to the Tohoku region of northeastern Japan.

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Peach starts Sendai-Kansai flights

SENDAI, Japan - Peach Aviation Ltd. Chief Executive Officer Shinichi Inoue speaks during a ceremony at Sendai Airport on April 12, 2013. The Japanese low-cost carrier launched its flight service that day linking Sendai Airport with Kansai International Airport serving the Osaka area, becoming the first budget airline flying to the Tohoku region of northeastern Japan.

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Peach starts Sendai-Kansai flights

SENDAI, Japan - A ground worker guides check-in for a flight of Peach Aviation Ltd. at Sendai Airport on April 12, 2013. The Japanese low-cost carrier launched its flight service that day linking Sendai Airport with Kansai International Airport serving the Osaka area, becoming the first budget airline flying to the Tohoku region of northeastern Japan.

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Peach starts Sendai-Kansai flights

SENDAI, Japan - Passengers head to board the first flight of Peach Aviation Ltd. at Sendai Airport on April 12, 2013. The Japanese low-cost carrier launched its flight service that day linking Sendai Airport with Kansai International Airport serving the Osaka area, becoming the first budget airline flying to the Tohoku region of northeastern Japan.

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Peach starts Sendai-Kansai flights

SENDAI, Japan - The first flight of Peach Aviation Ltd. arrives at Sendai Airport from Kansai International Airport on April 12, 2013. The Japanese low-cost carrier launched its flight service that day linking Sendai Airport with Kansai airport serving the Osaka area, becoming the first budget airline flying to the Tohoku region of northeastern Japan.

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Haruki Murakami's new novel

TOKYO, Japan - Copies of the new novel by popular Japanese author Haruki Murakami, titled "Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and his Years of Pilgrimage," are piled up at a bookstore in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on the morning of April 12, 2013, after its midnight release. It is Murakami's first novel in three years.