Search｜Photos & Images & Videos｜KYODO NEWS IMAGES INC

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.

E

Iceland premier in China

BEIJING, China - Icelandic Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir (L) and Chinese President Xi Jinping meet at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on April 16, 2013. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

E

Magazine writer moonlights as Shinto priestess

Tokyo, Japan - Photo taken April 16, 2013, shows the contents of a bag used by weekly magazine writer Kazuyo Kawamura. Kawamura occasionally gets away from the hustle and bustle of Tokyo to perform duties as a Shinto priestess in her ancestral home in Kochi Prefecture. (Photo by Makoto Hori)

E

Bird flu in China

SHANGHAI, China - Photo shows a farm where chickens are raised in Shanghai on April 16, 2013. People involved in the poultry business have been suffering from sluggish sales due to human infections of H7N9 bird flu in the country.

E

Bird flu in China

SHANGHAI, China - Photo shows chickens at a poultry yard in Shanghai on April 16, 2013. People involved in the poultry business have been suffering from sluggish sales due to human infections of H7N9 bird flu in the country.

E

Suu Kyi in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi (L) shakes hands with Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida ahead of their talks in Tokyo on April 16, 2013.

E

Explosions in Boston

BOSTON, United States - An April 16, 2013, photo shows flowers and U.S. national flags laid on a road in Boston leading to the sites of fatal explosions that took place the previous day during the Boston Marathon.

E

Rangers vs. Cubs

CHICAGO, United States - Texas Rangers pitcher Yu Darvish (R) congratulates Derek Holland after a baseball game against the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field in Chicago on April 16, 2013. Holland started and pitched seven shutout innings in the Rangers' victory over the Cubs 4-2.

E

Explosions in Boston

BOSTON, United States - An April 16, 2013, photo shows flowers laid on a road in Boston leading to the sites of fatal explosions that took place the previous day during the Boston Marathon.

E

Yankees vs. Diamondbacks

NEW YORK, United States - New York Yankees pitcher Mariano Rivera closes a baseball game against the Arizona Diamondbacks at Yankee Stadium in New York on April 16, 2013, when the team's players honored Jackie Robinson Day by wearing No. 42 as the last active player to wear that number. The Yankees won 4-2.

E

Explosions in Boston

BOSTON, United States - An April 16, 2013, photo shows mourners assembling in a park in Boston near the sites of fatal explosions that took place the previous day during the Boston Marathon.

E

Panmunjom amid tensions

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Photo shows a North Korean military officer at an observation facility near the demilitarized zone on April 16, 2013. Kyodo News entered the border village of Panmunjom from the North Korean side amid continued tensions.

E

Panmunjom amid tensions

PYONGYANG, North Korea - North Korean soldiers stand guard in the border village of Panmunjom on April 16, 2013. Seen in the background is a building on the South Korean side. Kyodo News entered Panmunjom from the North Korean side amid continued tensions.

E

Explosions in Boston

BOSTON, United States - An April 16, 2013, photo shows participants writing messages during a memorial rally in Boston for fatal explosions that took place the previous day during the Boston Marathon.

E

Yankees vs. Diamondbacks

NEW YORK, United States - Ichiro Suzuki (L) and other New York Yankees players offer a moment of silence on April 16, 2013, before a game against the Arizona Diamondbacks at Yankee Stadium in New York, over fatal explosions that took place the previous day during the Boston Marathon.

E

Blue Jays vs. White Sox

TORONTO, Canada - Toronto Blue Jays shortstop Munenori Kawasaki makes a diving catch of a liner hit by Conor Gillaspie of the Chicago White Sox during the seventh inning of a baseball game at Rogers Centre in Toronto on April 16, 2013. The White Sox won 4-3.

E

Panmunjom amid tensions

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Photo shows a signboard reading "independent unification" at the North Korean entrance to the demilitarized zone on April 16, 2013. Kyodo News entered the border village of Panmunjom from the North Korean side amid continued tensions.

E

Yankees vs. Diamondbacks

NEW YORK, United States - Police officers with a dog stand guard before a game between the New York Yankees and the Arizona Diamondbacks at Yankee Stadium in New York on April 16, 2013, amid tightened security following fatal explosions that took place the previous day during the Boston Marathon.

E

Panmunjom amid tensions

PYONGYANG, North Korea - A North Korean military officer points to the military demarcation line on a Korean Peninsula map in a security facility at the North Korean entrance to the demilitarized zone on April 16, 2013. Kyodo News entered the border village of Panmunjom from the North Korean side amid continued tensions.

E

Panmunjom amid tensions

PYONGYANG, North Korea - North Korean soldiers stand guard in the border village of Panmunjom on April 16, 2013. Seen in the background is a building on the South Korean side. Kyodo News entered Panmunjom from the North Korean side amid continued tensions.

E

Panmunjom amid tensions

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Photo shows a signboard (L) reading "70 kilometers to Seoul" near the North Korean entrance to the demilitarized zone on April 16, 2013. Kyodo News entered the border village of Panmunjom from the North Korean side amid continued tensions.

E

Panmunjom amid tensions

PYONGYANG, North Korea - A North Korean military officer is on guard on the North Korean side near the demilitarized zone on April 16, 2013. Kyodo News entered the border village of Panmunjom from the North Korean side amid continued tensions.

E

Panmunjom amid tensions

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Photo shows foreign tourists beside a Korean unification slogan near the North Korean entrance to the demilitarized zone on April 16, 2013. Kyodo News entered the border village of Panmunjom from the North Korean side amid continued tensions.

E

Panmunjom amid tensions

PYONGYANG, North Korea - North Korean soldiers stand guard in the border village of Panmunjom on April 16, 2013. Seen in the background is a building on the South Korean side. Kyodo News entered Panmunjom from the North Korean side amid continued tensions.

E

Panmunjom amid tensions

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Photo shows a pedestrian near the North Korean entrance to the demilitarized zone on April 16, 2013. Kyodo News entered the border village of Panmunjom from the North Korean side amid continued tensions.

E

Ex-Hiroshima mayor receives German peace award

BERLIN, Germany - Former Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba (L) receives the 2013 Otto Hahn Peace Medal, a prominent German honor, from the United Nations Association of Germany at a ceremony in Berlin on April 16, 2013, for his ongoing efforts to abolish nuclear weapons,

E

Panmunjom amid tensions

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Photo shows soldiers on the South Korean side of the border village of Panmunjom on April 16, 2013. Kyodo News entered Panmunjom from the North Korean side amid continued tensions.

E

Suu Kyi, Kishida

TOKYO, Japan - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi (L) holds talks with Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida in Tokyo on April 16, 2013.

E

Lower house OKs FY 2013 budget

TOKYO, Japan - Ruling Liberal Democratic Party members applaud after the House of Representatives in a plenary session approved a 92.61 trillion yen ($953.9 billion) draft budget for fiscal 2013 on April 16, 2013. The passage by the lower house of the budget aimed at shoring up the economy ensures its enactment by the middle of May.

E

Tokyo enlists New York support in Olympic bid

NEW YORK, United States - Tokyo Gov. Naoki Inose (L) holds a T-shirt to promote Tokyo's 2020 Summer Olympics bid during a press conference in New York on April 16, 2013. Inose said, after meeting with New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, that the two sister cities will cooperate to realize the Tokyo bid.

E

Suu Kyi, Kishida

TOKYO, Japan - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi (L) shakes hands with Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida ahead of their talks in Tokyo on April 16, 2013.

E

TEPCO transfers radioactive water to reliable container

OKUMA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on April 16, 2013, shows work at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, to transfer radioactive water stored in one of the leaky underground tanks to a more reliable container above ground. By the end of June, TEPCO plans to empty four underground tanks that currently hold a total of about 23,000 tons of heavily radiation-contaminated water to prevent more liquid from leaking out and seeping into the soil.

E

Suu Kyi visits Japanese parliament

TOKYO, Japan - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi (far L) meets a group of Japanese lawmakers in Tokyo on April 16, 2013.

E

Sony, Olympus set up medical joint venture

TOKYO, Japan - Toru Katsumoto (L), president of Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc., shakes hands with Takashi Fukaya, executive vice president of the new company, at a press conference in Tokyo on April 16, 2013. Sony Olympus Medical Solutions is a joint venture formally established the same day by merging the medical businesses of Sony Corp. and Olympus Corp., with an eye to marketing new endoscopes and other medical equipment.

E

Suu Kyi visits Japanese parliament

TOKYO, Japan - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi holds talks with Kenji Hirata, president of the House of Councillors, at the Diet building in Tokyo on April 16, 2013.

E

Suu Kyi visits Japanese parliament

TOKYO, Japan - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi (R) shakes hands with Kenji Hirata, president of the House of Councillors, at the Diet building in Tokyo on April 16, 2013.

E

Honda to open energy-efficient plant

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken April 16, 2013, shows work to install solar power generation equipment on the roof of a new auto production plant of Honda Motor Co. in Saitama Prefecture near Tokyo. The automaker opened to the press the environmentally friendly auto production plant scheduled to start operations in July.

E

Suu Kyi visits Japanese parliament

TOKYO, Japan - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi (C) listens to a debate by the House of Representatives' Budget Committee at the Diet building in Tokyo on April 16, 2013.

E

Suu Kyi visits Japanese parliament

TOKYO, Japan - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi (C) listens to a debate by the House of Representatives' Budget Committee at the Diet building in Tokyo on April 16, 2013.

E

Suu Kyi visits Japanese parliament

TOKYO, Japan - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi (C) visits the Diet building in Tokyo on April 16, 2013.

E

Suu Kyi visits Japanese parliament

TOKYO, Japan - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi (C) visits the Diet building in Tokyo on April 16, 2013.

E

China on defense policy

BEIJING, China - Chinese Defense Ministry spokesman Yang Yujun (2nd from L) and other officials hold a press conference in Beijing on April 16, 2013, upon the release of the country's defense white paper.

E

China on defense policy

BEIJING, China - Chinese Defense Ministry spokesman Yang Yujun holds up a copy of the country's defense white paper at a press conference in Beijing on April 16, 2013.

E

China on defense policy

BEIJING, China - Chinese Defense Ministry spokesman Yang Yujun answers a reporter's question in Beijing on April 16, 2013.

E

Top court declares woman Minamata disease victim

TOKYO, Japan - Plaintiff Akio Mizoguchi raises his arms in celebration in front of the Supreme Court in Tokyo on April 16, 2013. The top court upheld a high court ruling that posthumously recognized his mother Chie as a victim of the Minamata mercury-poisoning disease, one of the country's worst outbreaks of disease linked to industrial pollution.

E

Top court declares woman Minamata disease victim

TOKYO, Japan - Plaintiff Akio Mizoguchi raises his arms in celebration in front of the Supreme Court in Tokyo on April 16, 2013. The top court upheld a high court ruling that posthumously recognized his mother Chie as a victim of the Minamata mercury-poisoning disease, one of the country's worst outbreaks of disease linked to industrial pollution.

E

Stock prices fall

TOKYO, Japan - A man passes beside a signboard showing stock prices falling across the world following deadly explosions in an apparent attack in Boston and fears of a weakening global economy, in Tokyo on April 16, 2013.

E

China on defense policy

BEIJING, China - Chinese Defense Ministry spokesman Yang Yujun holds up a copy of the country's defense white paper at a press conference in Beijing on April 16, 2013.

E

Pyongyang scene amid tensions

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Pedestrians pass under a North Korean national flag in a main area of Pyongyang on April 16, 2013. Tensions have continued due to the North's threats of war against the United States and South Korea.

E

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.