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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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JR Kyushu exhibition in Bangkok

BANGKOK, Thailand - Designer Eiji Mitooka visits an exhibition in Bangkok on March 16, 2013, showcasing train models he designed for Kyushu Railway Co., known as JR Kyushu. When Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra visited Japan in April 2012, she was impressed by the bullet train services operated by JR Kyushu, both in their technical and design aspects. She then invited JR Kyushu and Mitooka to exhibit their successful experience in Thailand.

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JR Kyushu exhibition in Bangkok

BANGKOK, Thailand - Designer Eiji Mitooka visits an exhibition in Bangkok on March 16, 2013, showcasing train models he designed for Kyushu Railway Co., known as JR Kyushu. When Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra visited Japan in April 2012, she was impressed by the bullet train services operated by JR Kyushu, both in their technical and design aspects. She then invited JR Kyushu and Mitooka to exhibit their successful experience in Thailand.

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Court interpreter in Japan

OSAKA, Japan - Ryoji Kito, a Persian-language court interpreter, speaks about his job in front of the Osaka High Court and Osaka District Court on April 16, 2012.

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Matsuzaka makes 1st rehab start

SALEM, United States - Boston Red Sox right-hander Daisuke Matsuzaka pitches in a professional game for the first time since May 16, 2011, and since undergoing Tommy John surgery last June. Matsuzaka began a rehab assignment with the Single-A Advanced Salem in Salem, Virginia, on April 23, 2012.

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More Japanese eye S.E. Asia as place to live

JOHOR BAHRU, Malaysia - Masanori Fujimura (R), head of an investment consulting firm, looks at a model of an apartment building for Japanese customers in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, on April 16, 2012. Plans are under way to develop a ''Little Tokyo'' in the center of Johor Bahru, which is adjacent to the region's major financial hub, Singapore.

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More Japanese eye S.E. Asia as place to live

JOHOR BAHRU, Malaysia - Masanori Fujimura, head of an investment consulting firm, points to the site on April 16, 2012, where plans are under way to develop a ''Little Tokyo'' in the center of Johor Bahru, which is adjacent to the region's major financial hub, Singapore.

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More Japanese eye S.E. Asia as place to live

JOHOR BAHRU, Malaysia - Photo shows homes for wealthy people in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, on April 16, 2012. Plans are under way to develop a ''Little Tokyo'' in the center of Johor Bahru, which is adjacent to the region's major financial hub, Singapore.

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More Japanese eye S.E. Asia as place to live

JOHOR BAHRU, Malaysia - Photo shows a show home for wealthy people in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, on April 16, 2012. Plans are under way to develop a ''Little Tokyo'' in the center of Johor Bahru, which is adjacent to the region's major financial hub, Singapore.

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Opposition to file censure motions against 2 ministers

TOKYO, Japan - Defense Minister Naoki Tanaka (R) and Takeshi Maeda, minister of land, infrastructure, transport and tourism, attend a House of Councillors plenary session in the Diet building in Tokyo on April 16, 2012. Japan's main opposition Liberal Democratic Party plans to submit censure motions against them to the upper house on April 18, 2012. The LDP has criticized Tanaka for what it sees as improper handling of a number of security issues and Maeda for allegedly trying to meddle in a local election.

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Uotsuri Island

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in June 2011 shows Uotsuri Island, part of the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea. Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara said April 16, 2012, that the Tokyo metropolitan government is in negotiations with the owners of the disputed islands with the aim of buying them by the end of this year to protect Japanese territory.

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Tokyo gov't wants to buy Senkaku Islands

WASHINGTON, United States - Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara says in a speech at a think tank forum in Washington on April 16, 2012, that the Tokyo metropolitan government is in negotiations with the owners of the disputed Senkaku Islands with the aim of buying them by the end of this year. Ishihara said the purchase is aimed at protecting Japanese territory, an apparent reference to China's claim to the Japanese-controlled islands in the East China Sea.

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Japan welcomes U.N. response to rocket launch

NEW YORK, United States - Tsuneo Nishida, Japanese ambassador to the United Nations, answers a reporter's question at the U.N. headquarters in New York on April 16, 2012, after the adoption of a U.N. Security Council statement strongly condemning North Korea's recent failed rocket launch.

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Campbell in S. Korea

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Kim Sung Hwan (L) and Kurt Campbell, U.S. assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, shake hands before their meeting in Seoul on April 16, 2012.

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Aichi governor in Vietnam

HANOI, Vietnam - Japan's Aichi Prefecture Gov. Hideaki Omura (L) and Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung shake hands in Hanoi on April 16, 2012. The governor offered assistance to train Vietnamese physicians and nurses.

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Japan Display president

TOKYO, Japan - Shuichi Otsuka, president of newly launched liquid crystal display maker Japan Display Inc., speaks during an interview in Tokyo on April 16, 2012.

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Aichi governor in Vietnam

HANOI, Vietnam - Japan's Aichi Prefecture Gov. Hideaki Omura (front R) and Vietnam's Public Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien (front L) shake hands in Hanoi on April 16, 2012, after signing a memorandum for the prefectural government to provide training to Vietnamese medical personnel.

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Taliban attacks in Afghanistan

KABUL, Afghanistan - Photo shows an unused grenade and sandals left inside a building under construction in central Kabul on April 16, 2012, where Taliban insurgents holed up and fired rockets toward the central Wazir Akbar Khan neighborhood, where a number of embassies are located.

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Taliban attacks in Afghanistan

KABUL, Afghanistan - Photo shows a building under construction in central Kabul on April 16, 2012, where Taliban insurgents holed up and fired rockets toward the central Wazir Akbar Khan neighborhood, where a number of embassies are located.

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Suzuki starts construction of 2nd Chongqing plant

CHONGQING, China - Toshihiro Suzuki (R front), vice president of Suzuki Motor Corp., and Chongqing Mayor Huang Qifan (L front) are pictured on April 16, 2012, at a groundbreaking ceremony for the company's second automobile plant in the Chinese city.

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Evacuation order partially lifted for Minamisoma

MINAMISOMA, Japan - Vehicles travel in the Odaka district of Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, on April 16, 2012, after the government lifted an evacuation order the same day for some parts of the city that was issued around a year earlier in the wake of the nuclear crisis at the nearby Fukushima Daiichi power complex.

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Presidential runoff in East Timor

DILI, East Timor - Francisco Guterres, who heads the opposition Fretilin party, answers reporters' questions after casting his vote in a presidential runoff in which he is a candidate, in Dili, the capital of East Timor, on April 16, 2012. The runoff is expected to be a closely contested race between former guerilla fighters Guterres, popularly known as Lu Olo, and Taur Matan Ruak.

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Japan urges N. Korea not to launch rocket

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba answers reporters' questions at the ministry in Tokyo on March 16, 2012, regarding North Korea's announcement the same day that it will launch a rocket mounted with an earth observation satellite in mid-April. Gemba said the North Korean launch would violate a U.N. Security Council resolution.

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Japan urges N. Korea not to launch rocket

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba (far R) answers reporters' questions at the ministry in Tokyo on March 16, 2012, regarding North Korea's announcement the same day that it will launch a rocket mounted with an earth observation satellite in mid-April. Gemba said the North Korean launch would violate a U.N. Security Council resolution.

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New sports car co-developed by Fuji Heavy, Toyota

OTA, Japan - Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. President Yasuyuki Yoshinaga (L) and Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda shake hands at a plant of Fuji Heavy in Ota, Gunma Prefecture on March 16, 2012. Fuji Heavy began the same day full-fledged production of a new sports car it co-developed with Toyota. The rear-wheel-drive vehicle, to be sold by Fuji Heavy as the Subaru BRZ from March 28 and by Toyota as the ''86'' from April 6, is manufactured at the plant.

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People in Pyongyang

PYONGYANG, North Korea - People dig the ground during cold weather in front of a billboard with a slogan emphasizing the leadership of North Korea's new leader Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang on Feb. 13, 2012. North Korea is scheduled to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of state founder Kim Il Sung, grandfather of Kim Jong Un, on April 15, 2012 and the 70th anniversary of the birth of the late leader Kim Jong Il, father of the new leader, on Feb. 16, 2012.

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Singer Hamasaki to divorce

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in Shanghai on April 20, 2007, shows Japanese pop singer Ayumi Hamasaki. She announced on Jan. 16, 2012, through the website of her official fan club that she intends to divorce U.S.-based Austrian actor Manuel Schwarz, whom she married on Jan. 1 the previous year.

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U.S. to review sanctions against Myanmar

YANGON, Myanmar - U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell (L) and Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi attend a joint press conference in Yangon on Jan. 16, 2012. The senator said the United States is likely to review economic sanctions after Myanmar holds parliamentary by-elections in April 2012.

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Hawaiian Airlines to fly to Fukuoka

FUKUOKA, Japan - Hawaiian Airlines President Mark Dunkerley (C) poses for photos after a press conference in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, on Jan. 16, 2012, prior to the airline's launch of services between Honolulu and Fukuoka in April.