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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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Watanabe becomes JBIC governor

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroshi Watanabe (L), new governor of the Japan Bank for International Cooperation, along with his predecessor Hiroshi Okuda (R), a former president of Toyota Motor Corp., attend a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 26, 2013. Watanabe served as head of the International Bureau of the Finance Ministry and vice minister for international affairs before becoming JBIC's executive managing director, the No. 2 post at the institution, in April 2012.

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Japan hangs 2 inmates

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Justice Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki speaks during a press conference at the ministry in Tokyo on April 26, 2013. He announced Japan had hanged two death row inmates the same day in the second round of executions carried out under the government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe launched in December 2012.

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Japan hangs 2 inmates

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Justice Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki speaks during a press conference at the ministry in Tokyo on April 26, 2013. He announced Japan had hanged two death row inmates the same day in the second round of executions carried out under the government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe launched in December 2012.

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Kansai Electric seeks 11% household electricity rate hike

TOKYO, Japan - Kansai Electric Power Co. President Makoto Yagi (R) hands Natural Resources and Energy Agency chief Ichiro Takahara a document at the industry ministry in Tokyo on Nov. 26, 2012, seeking approval for a household electricity rate hike by an average 11.88 percent from April 1.

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Nomura reports sharp drop in group net profit for April-June

TOKYO, Japan - Junko Nakagawa (L), chief financial officer of Nomura Holdings Inc., speaks during a press conference at the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo on July 26, 2012. The parent company of Nomura Securities Co., Japan's largest securities house, said the same day its group net profit in the April-June quarter fell 89.4 percent from a year before to 1.89 billion yen, dragged down by a fall in commission revenue and its sluggish wholesale division amid the European debt crisis.

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Wireless mechanical heart pump

SENDAI, Japan - Arrow points at a wirelessly controlled mechanical heart pump, inside a human body scale model, in Sendai, northeastern Japan, on April 26, 2012. A research team at Tohoku University has developed the pump, coming closer to developing the world's first fully embedded artificial heart. The pump can be driven by holding a separate device over the skin to generate a magnetic force.

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Greece election

ATHENS, Greece - Greece's New Democracy party leader Antonis Samaras speaks in Sparta, southern Greece, on April 26, 2012, ahead of a general election.

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Okinawa targets foreigners in growing its mainstay tourism industry

FUKUOKA, Japan - A couple from Hong Kong holds a wedding ceremony at a beachside chapel in a resort of the village of Kunigami in Okinawa Prefecture on April 26, 2012. Okinawa Prefecture has targeted foreigners to boost its mainstay tourism industry.

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Okinawa targets foreigners in growing its mainstay tourism industry

FUKUOKA, Japan - A couple of newlyweds from Hong Kong and their relatives take photos in the premises of a beachside chapel in a resort of the village of Kunigami in Okinawa Prefecture on April 26, 2012. Okinawa Prefecture has targeted foreigners to boost its mainstay tourism industry.

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U.N. observers in Syria

DAMASCUS, Syria - Col. Ahmed Himmiche, head of an advance team of U.N. cease-fire monitors in Syria, returns to a hotel in Damascus on April 26, 2012.

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Higashino misses Edgar award

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Japanese novelist Keigo Higashino. Higashino's novel, ''The Devotion of Suspect X,'' missed out on the 2012 Edgar Allan Poe Award for best novel, according to an announcement on April 26, 2012, by Mystery Writers of America.

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Empire State Building in cherry blossom colors

NEW YORK, United States - Pupils of a local Japanese school switch on a scale model of the Empire State Building to light it up in pink and white in a ceremony at the lobby of the building in New York on April 26, 2012. The real building will be illuminated in the colors for three nights from sunset the following day in honor of the centennial of Japan's gift of cherry blossom trees to the United States.

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Anti-N. Korea rally in Seoul

SEOUL, South Korea - Members of a South Korean conservative body burn an effigy of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in protest at the country's recent threat to ''scorch'' South Korea in Seoul on April 26, 2012.

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Actor Koji Yakusho

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in Tokyo on April 26, 2012, shows Japanese actor Koji Yakusho.

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Japan seeks Oi reactors restart

TSURUGA, Japan - Senior Vice Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Mitsuyoshi Yanagisawa (back) listens to a local resident during a meeting in Oi, Fukui Prefecture, on April 26, 2012, to seek local approval for reactivating two idled reactors at the Oi nuclear power plant.

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ASEAN economic ministers in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda (front R) escorts a group of economic ministers from members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to the table for their meeting at the premier's office in Tokyo on April 26, 2012.

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Ex-DPJ leader Ozawa found not guilty

TOKYO, Japan - Former Democratic Party of Japan leader Ichiro Ozawa leaves the Tokyo District Court on April 26, 2012, after a ruling on him over charges of false political funds reporting. He was found not guilty.

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Ex-DPJ leader Ozawa found not guilty

OSHU, Japan - Photo taken April 26, 2012, shows former Democratic Party of Japan leader Ichiro Ozawa's office in his constituency in Oshu, Iwate Prefecture. The same day, the Tokyo District Court ruled he is not guilty of false political funds reporting.

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Panchen Lama in H.K.

HONG KONG, China - The 11th Panchen Lama Bainqen Erdini Qoigyijabu, the Tibetan Buddhist leader sanctioned by Beijing, delivers a speech on Buddhism in Hong Kong on April 26, 2012.

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Ex-DPJ leader Ozawa found not guilty

OSAKA, Japan - A passer-by receives an extra edition of a newspaper with the headline ''Former (DPJ) leader Ozawa found not guilty,'' in Osaka's Umeda station on April 26, 2012, after the Tokyo District Court ruled he is not guilty of false political funds reporting.

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New shopping complex in Tokyo's Shibuya

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the Shibuya Hikarie building, a high-rise complex of offices, commercial facilities and a huge musical theater, which opened April 26, 2012, in Tokyo's Shibuya entertainment district.

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Ex-DPJ leader Ozawa found not guilty

TOKYO, Japan - Supporters of former Democratic Party of Japan leader Ichiro Ozawa hold photos of a smiling Ozawa and signs that read ''innocent'' in Japanese in front of the Tokyo District Court on April 26, 2012, after the court ruled he is not guilty of false political funds reporting.

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Ex-DPJ leader Ozawa found not guilty

TOKYO, Japan - Former Democratic Party of Japan leader Ichiro Ozawa (far L) and a group of lawyers defending him enter the Tokyo District Court on April 26, 2012, ahead of a ruling on charges of false political funds reporting. He was found not guilty.

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Ex-DPJ leader Ozawa found not guilty

TOKYO, Japan - Former Democratic Party of Japan leader Ichiro Ozawa (3rd from L) and a group of lawyers defending him enter the Tokyo District Court on April 26, 2012, ahead of a ruling on him over charges of false political funds reporting. He was found not guilty.

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ASEAN economic ministers visit quake-hit areas

SENDAI, Japan - A group of economic ministers from members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations visit Sendai port in Miyagi Prefecture on April 26, 2012. They toured areas damaged by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami as part of a four-day ''ASEAN Road Show.''

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New shopping complex in Tokyo's Shibuya

TOKYO, Japan - People enter the Shibuya Hikarie building, a high-rise complex of offices, commercial facilities and a huge musical theater, which opened on April 26, 2012, in Tokyo's Shibuya entertainment district.

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Ex-DPJ leader Ozawa found not guilty

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a courtroom at the Tokyo District Court on April 26, 2012, immediately before a ruling is given on former Democratic Party of Japan leader Ichiro Ozawa over charges of false political funds reporting. He was found not guilty. (Pool photo)

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26th anniv. of Chernobyl disaster

KIEV, Ukraine - A memorial service is held at a church in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, on April 26, 2012, the 26th anniversary of the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, to mourn firefighters and others who died after handling the worst nuclear plant crisis in history.

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Ex-DPJ leader Ozawa found not guilty

TOKYO, Japan - Former Democratic Party of Japan leader Ichiro Ozawa enters the Tokyo District Court on April 26, 2012, ahead of a ruling on him over charges of false political funds reporting. He was found not guilty.

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Ex-DPJ leader Ozawa found not guilty

TOKYO, Japan - A group of lawyers serving as prosecutors in former Democratic Party of Japan leader Ichiro Ozawa's trial enter the Tokyo District Court on April 26, 2012, ahead of a ruling on charges of false political funds reporting. Ozawa, who faced the charges after an independent judicial panel of citizens determined criminal indictment was warranted, even after public prosecutors decided not to indict him, was found not guilty.

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26th anniv. of Chernobyl disaster

KIEV, Ukraine - A memorial service is held at a church in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, on April 26, 2012, the 26th anniversary of the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, to mourn firefighters and others who died after handling the worst nuclear plant crisis in history.

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Ex-DPJ leader Ozawa found not guilty

TOKYO, Japan - Former Democratic Party of Japan leader Ichiro Ozawa (L) enters the Tokyo District Court on April 26, 2012, ahead of a ruling on him over charges of false political funds reporting. He was found not guilty.

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Ex-DPJ leader Ozawa found not guilty

TOKYO, Japan - Former Democratic Party of Japan leader Ichiro Ozawa (R) enters the Tokyo District Court on April 26, 2012, ahead of a ruling on him over charges of false political funds reporting. He was found not guilty.

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Shibuya Hikarie

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in December 2011 shows Shibuya Hikarie (R top), a new commercial complex in front of JR Shibuya Station in Tokyo. The facility, housing some 200 shops and restaurants, and a musical theater, will open April 26, 2012.

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G-20 meeting in Mexico

MEXICO CITY, Mexico - Bank of Japan Governor Masaaki Shirakawa speaks at a press conference in Mexico City on Feb. 26, 2012, after a meeting of the Group of 20 leading economies. Shirakawa welcomed an agreement by the G-20 to review ways to boost resources at the International Monetary Fund in April as ''progress'' toward resolving the eurozone sovereign debt crisis.