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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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Japanese shrine known for ascetic practices

Photo taken on April 17, 2014, shows a hall containing a wooden statue representing Prince Hachiko, a son of Japan's sixth-century Emperor Sushun, at Dewa Sanzan Shrine in Tsuruoka in the northeastern Japan prefecture of Yamagata. The prince is said to have founded the shrine, known as a place of ascetic practices such as fasting and meditation.

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Univ. to retain ex-reporter despite threat over "comfort women" issue

SAPPORO, Japan - Shinichi Tamura, president of Hokusei Gakuen University in Sapporo, Hokkaido, in northern Japan, holds a press conference in Sapporo on Dec. 17, 2014. Tamura said the university will renew the contract of a part-time lecturer, a former reporter for The Asahi Shimbun newspaper, for the school year starting in April despite threats to the school over the lecturer's involvement in controversial reporting on the issue of "comfort women."

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Maltese businessman keeps documents sent by Japan Navy

VALLETTA, Malta - Photo shows Frank Borda, president of a trading house in Malta and resident near the nation's capital Valletta, in July 2014. Among the documents he has kept is one dated Aug. 17, 1917, sent to his grandfather by the Japanese Navy which procured supplies for a fleet dispatched to the Mediterranean Sea in April 1917 during World War I. Borda's great-grandfather and grandfather were ship chandlers.

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Meeting of Organization for nationwide power distribution

TOKYO, Japan - The inaugural general meeting of the Organization for Cross-regional Coordination of Transmission Operators is held in Tokyo on July 17, 2014. The organization will be officially launched in April 2015.

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Idakiso Station inspection ground

WAKAYAMA, Japan - Photo shows Wakayama Electric Railway Co.'s Idakiso Station inspection ground in Wakayama, western Japan, on July 17, 2014, following its registration as a Japanese tangible cultural property in April 2014.

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Princess Noriko engaged

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Princess Noriko, second daughter of the late Prince Takamado and Princess Hisako, at a spring garden party at the Akasaka Imperial Garden in Tokyo on April 17, 2014. Princess Noriko has become engaged to Kunimaro Senge, the eldest son of the chief priest of Izumo-taisha, or Izumo grand shrine, in Shimane Prefecture, western Japan, the Imperial Household Agency said May 27.

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Memorial rally for sunken ferry victims

SEOUL, South Korea - People march in Seoul on May 17, 2014, after participating in a memorial rally for the victims of a ferry sinking on April 16 that left over 300 dead or missing.

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Smartphone app enables comparison of pre- and post-A-bomb Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Professor Takeaki Nakajima of Hiroshima City University in Hiroshima, western Japan, shows an app he developed for a smartphone, on April 17, 2014, in Hiroshima, which allows a comparison of the Atomic Bomb Dome before and after the 1945 bombing.

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'34M' logo derived from worst tsunami prediction

KOCHI, Japan - Samples of canned emergency foods bearing the logo of 34M made by Kuroshio-cho Cannery in the coastal town of Kuroshio, Kochi Prefecture, in western Japan are photographed on April 17, 2014. A prediction says the town could face tsunami of up to 34 meters high in case of a megaquake.

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Japan-U.S. TPP talks

WASHINGTON, United States - Michael Froman, U.S. trade representative, answers reporters' questions after holding talks with Akira Amari, the Japanese minister in charge of Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations, in Washington on April 17, 2014.

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Japan-U.S. TPP talks

WASHINGTON, United States - Akira Amari, the Japanese minister in charge of Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations, is seen after a press conference following talks with Michael Froman, U.S. trade representative, in Washington on April 17, 2014.

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Instability in Ukraine

LUGANSK, Ukraine - Photo taken April 17, 2014, shows a makeshift church near a building occupied by a pro-Russian group in Lugansk, eastern Ukraine.

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Instability in Ukraine

DONETSK, Ukraine - Photo taken April 17, 2014, shows a building occupied by a pro-Russian group in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine.

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Instability in Ukraine

LUGANSK, Ukraine - Photo taken April 17, 2014, shows a makeshift church near a building occupied by a pro-Russian group in Lugansk, eastern Ukraine.

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U.S., China officials on N. Korea in Washington

WASHINGTON, United States - Photo shows Wu Dawei (R), Chinese special representative for Korean Peninsula affairs, and Glyn Davies, U.S. special representative for North Korea policy, after their talks at the State Department in Washington on April 17, 2014. The envoys on North Korea's nuclear programs wrapped up three days of talks in New York and the U.S. capital with no prospect in view of resuming six-nation talks on the issue.

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Japan-U.S. TPP talks

WASHINGTON, United States - Akira Amari, Japanese minister in charge of the Trans-Pacific Partnership initiative, holds a press conference after a meeting with Michael Froman, U.S. trade representative, in Washington on April 17, 2014.

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Japan-U.S. TPP talks

WASHINGTON, United States - Akira Amari, Japanese minister in charge of the Trans-Pacific Partnership initiative, holds a press conference after a meeting with Michael Froman, U.S. trade representative, in Washington on April 17, 2014.

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U.S., China officials on N. Korea in Washington

WASHINGTON, United States - Wu Dawei (L), Chinese special representative for Korean Peninsula affairs, and Glyn Davies, U.S. special representative for North Korea policy, shake hands after their talks at the State Department in Washington on April 17, 2014. The envoys on North Korea's nuclear programs wrapped up three days of talks in New York and the U.S. capital with no prospect in view of resuming six-nation talks on the issue.

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Japan-U.S. TPP talks

WASHINGTON, United States - Michael Froman, U.S. trade representative, heads for a meeting with Akira Amari, Japanese minister in charge of the Trans-Pacific Partnership initiative, in Washington on April 17, 2014. The two countries' trade chiefs continued to seek progress in protracted negotiations over tariff exceptions to a Pacific free trade pact.

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Japanese, Mongolian defense ministers

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera (R) shakes hands with his Mongolian counterpart, Bat-Erdene Dashdemberel, at the ministry in Tokyo on April 17, 2014.

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1,000-year-old cherry tree in Fukushima

MIHARU, Japan - A more than 1,000-year-old cherry tree, known as "a waterfall cherry" because of the resemblance of its branches to the cascading rivulets of a waterfall, is lit up in Miharu, Fukushima Prefecture, on April 17, 2014. The 13.5-meter-tall tree is designated as one of Japan's national treasures by the government.

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Ex-POW, Aussie mayor meet on 70th anniv. of prison break

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Mayor Bill West of Cowra (R), Australia, and former Japanese prisoner of war Teruo Murakami (L) meet reporters in Hiroshima, western Japan, on April 17, 2014, on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of a prison break. A large number of Japanese POWs attempted to escape from their camp in Cowra in August 1944, which resulted in the deaths of more than 230 people.

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Algerian presidential election

ALGIERS, Algeria - A man votes in the Algerian presidential election at a polling station in the capital Algiers on April 17, 2014.

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Protests in Bangkok

BANGKOK, Thailand - Antigovernment protesters gather April 17, 2014 at their stronghold set up inside a park in central Bangkok.

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Protests in Bangkok

BANGKOK, Thailand - Former Thai Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban (C), leader of antigovernment protests, raises his fist in central Bangkok on April 17, 2014.

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Teijin unveils product development center in China

NANTONG, China - Japanese chemical and pharmaceutical manufacturer Teijin Ltd. opens its product development center in Nantong, China, to the press on April 17, 2014.

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Yokozuna Hakuho donates rice to Sumo Training School

TOKYO, Japan - Yokozuna Hakuho (C) and future sumo wrestlers pose at the Sumo Training School on April 17, 2014, following the grand champion's donation of 100 kilograms of rice in a bag printed with his title and name as the rice brand.

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1,000-year-old cherry tree in Fukushima

MIHARU, Japan - A more than 1,000-year-old cherry tree, known as "a waterfall cherry" because of the resemblance of its branches to the cascading rivulets of a waterfall, is lit up in Miharu, Fukushima Prefecture, on April 17, 2014. The 13.5-meter-tall tree is designated as one of Japan's national treasures by the government.

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1,000-year-old cherry tree in Fukushima

MIHARU, Japan - A more than 1,000-year-old cherry tree, known as "a waterfall cherry" because of the resemblance of its branches to the cascading rivulets of a waterfall, is lit up in Miharu, Fukushima Prefecture, on April 17, 2014. The 13.5-meter-tall tree is designated as one of Japan's national treasures by the government.

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Sunken S. Korean ferry

JINDO ISLAND, South Korea - Relatives of one of the passengers still missing after the sinking of a ferry watch rescue work near Jindo Island, off the southwest coast of South Korea, on April 17, 2014.

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Sunken S. Korean ferry

JINDO ISLAND, South Korea - The search continues near Jindo Island, off the southwest coast of South Korea, on April 17, 2014, for more than 280 passengers still missing after a multi-deck ferry sank in the area the previous day.

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Sunken S. Korean ferry

JINDO ISLAND, South Korea - The search continues near Jindo Island, off the southwest coast of South Korea, on April 17, 2014, for more than 280 passengers still missing after a multi-deck ferry sank in the area the previous day.

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Sunken S. Korean ferry

JINDO ISLAND, South Korea - The search continues near Jindo Island, off the southwest coast of South Korea, on April 17, 2014, for more than 280 passengers still missing after a multi-deck ferry sank in the area the previous day.

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Univ. of Tokyo opens facility for academic-business cooperation

CHIBA, Japan - The University of Tokyo opens to the press a new facility for the creation of new businesses through academia-industry cooperation in Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo, on April 17, 2014.

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Sunken S. Korean ferry

JINDO ISLAND, South Korea - Relatives of one of the passengers still missing after the sinking of a ferry watch rescue work near Jindo Island, off the southwest coast of South Korea, on April 17, 2014.

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Ferrari California T

TOKYO, Japan - Ferrari Japan unveils the new California T, the successor model to the California, in Tokyo on April 17, 2014. The convertible sports car is priced at 24.5 million yen.

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UK gov't official discusses hosting successful Olympics

TOKYO, Japan - Jonathan Sevens, a senior British government official involved in the London Olympic Games in 2012, speaks about his experience in organizing the event successfully at the British Embassy in Tokyo on April 17, 2014.

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Ferrari California T

TOKYO, Japan - Ferrari Japan unveils the new California T, the successor model to the California, in Tokyo on April 17, 2014. The convertible sports car is priced at 24.5 million yen.

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Ex-U.S. intelligence chief

TOKYO, Japan - Dennis Blair, a former U.S. director of national intelligence, is interviewed in Tokyo on April 17, 2014. Blair also served as commander-in-chief of the U.S. Pacific Command.

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Piggy bank museum gives gift to 300,000th visitor

OSAKA, Japan - Minoru Osawa (C) receives a commemorative gift as the 300,000th visitor to Amagasaki Shinkin Bank's money box museum in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, on April 17, 2014.

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Asakusa, Hokkaido mascots at Tokyo event

TOKYO, Japan - Mascot character "Shin-Nyaka" (R), representing the Shin-Nakamise shopping street in Asakusa, Tokyo, and "Zushi Hokki" from the city of Hokuto, Hokkaido, pose on the street as tourists photograph them on April 17, 2014, during a tourism promotion event.

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Convenience store combined with karaoke box

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows "FamilyMart plus Karaoke DAM" store near JR Kamata Station in Tokyo's Ota Ward on April 17, 2014, its opening day. It is the first hybrid store combining a convenience store and karaoke booths opened by FamilyMart Co. and karaoke business operator Daiichikosho Co.

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Robot to survey damaged nuke reactor buildings

TOKYO, Japan - A compact robot, "Sakura 1-go", developed by the Chiba Institute of Technology in cooperation with Nichinan Corp. to survey damaged nuclear reactor buildings, is unveiled in Tokyo on April 17, 2014.

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SL Yoshitsune placed on turntable at Kyoto SL museum

KYOTO, Japan - The steam locomotive Yoshitsune is placed on a turntable at the Umekoji Steam Locomotive Museum in the city of Kyoto on April 17, 2014. The Yoshitsune was transferred from a recently-closed museum in Osaka.

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BOJ branch managers' meeting

TOKYO, Japan - Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda (2nd from L) attends a quarterly meeting of the central bank's branch managers at the BOJ head office in Tokyo on April 17, 2014.

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S. Korean ferry sinks

JINDO ISLAND, South Korea - Photo shows relatives (front) of passengers who remain missing after the sinking of a passenger ferry and a South Korean Coast Guard vessel under a search operation, at a port on Jindo Island in the southwestern part of South Korea in the early hours of April 17, 2014. The 6,800-ton Sewol, carrying a total of 462 people, many of them high school students on an overnight trip to the southern resort island of Jeju, sank the previous day.

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S. Korean ferry sinks

JINDO ISLAND, South Korea - Relatives of passengers who remain missing after the sinking of a passenger ferry watch the sea where a search operation is being conducted, on Jindo Island in the southwestern part of South Korea in the early hours of April 17, 2014. The 6,800-ton Sewol, carrying a total of 462 people, many of them high school students on an overnight trip to the southern resort island of Jeju, sank the previous day.

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Matsuyama practices for RBC Heritage golf tourney

HILTON HEAD, United States - Japan's Hideki Matsuyama practices for the PGA RBC Heritage tournament at the Harbour Town Golf Links in Hilton Head, South Carolina, on April 17, 2014.

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Ishikawa, Matsuyama prepare for RBC Heritage golf tourney

HILTON HEAD, United States - Japan's Ryo Ishikawa (R) and Hideki Matsuyama take some putts on a practice green at the Harbour Town Golf Links in Hilton Head, South Carolina, on April 17, 2014, ahead of the PGA RBC Heritage tournament.