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Taiwan: Typhoon Danas Batters Southern Region, Leaving Widespread Damage 3

Typhoon Danas made landfall near Chiayi's Budai Township around 11:40 p.m. on Sunday, July 6, bringing gusty winds and heavy rainfall to the southern region. Typhoon Danas weakened to a tropical storm after its eye departed Taiwan early Monday.

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JOC chief rejects joint Olympic bid by Hiroshima, Nagasaki

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Olympic Committee President Tsunekazu Takeda (R) talks with Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba (L) and Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue (2nd from L) in Tokyo on Dec. 25, 2009. Takeda rejected the possibility of Hiroshima and Nagasaki co-hosting the 2020 Summer Olympics, saying the JOC is not in a position to go against the Olympic Charter, which stipulates that only one city can host the Olympics.

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JOC chief rejects joint Olympic bid by Hiroshima, Nagasaki

TOKYO, Japan - Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue (L) and Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba speak to reporters in Tokyo on Dec. 25, 2009, after meeting with Japanese Olympic Committee President Tsunekazu Takeda. Takeda rejected the possibility of Hiroshima and Nagasaki co-hosting the 2020 Summer Olympics, saying the JOC is not in a position to go against the Olympic Charter, which stipulates that only one city can host the Olympics.

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Police raid JCO facilities over radiation leak

TOKAIMURA, Japan - Police search the nuclear fuel processing factory in Tokaimura, Ibaraki Prefecture, of JOC Co. on Oct. 6 in connection with Japan's worst-ever nuclear accident Sept. 30. The search came ahead of Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi's arrival at the plant there.

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JCO president apologizes Tokaimura residents

TOKAIMURA, Japan - Hiroharu Kitani, president of JOC Co., operators of the uranium processing plant in Tokaimura, Ibaraki Prefecture, scene of a major radiation leakage on Sept. 30, kneels in apology Oct. 2 morning at a community evacuation center in the village before Tokaimura residents who were forced to flee their homes after the contamination.

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JOC chief rejects joint Olympic bid by Hiroshima, Nagasaki

TOKYO, Japan - Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue (L) and Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba speak to reporters in Tokyo on Dec. 25, 2009, after meeting with Japanese Olympic Committee President Tsunekazu Takeda. Takeda rejected the possibility of Hiroshima and Nagasaki co-hosting the 2020 Summer Olympics, saying the JOC is not in a position to go against the Olympic Charter, which stipulates that only one city can host the Olympics. (Kyodo)

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JOC chief rejects joint Olympic bid by Hiroshima, Nagasaki

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Olympic Committee President Tsunekazu Takeda (R) talks with Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba (L) and Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue (2nd from L) in Tokyo on Dec. 25, 2009. Takeda rejected the possibility of Hiroshima and Nagasaki co-hosting the 2020 Summer Olympics, saying the JOC is not in a position to go against the Olympic Charter, which stipulates that only one city can host the Olympics. (Kyodo)

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JCO, 6 employees found guilty over fatal nuke accident

MITO, Japan - Tomoyuki Inami (L), president of JCO Co., speaks at a press conference at the Mito District Court on March 3 after the local court found the company and six of its employees guilty of neglect leading to the deaths of two JOC workers in Japan's worst nuclear accident at its plant in Tokaimura, Ibaraki Prefecture, in 1999. (Kyodo)

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Police raid JCO facilities over radiation leak

TOKAIMURA, Japan - Police search the nuclear fuel processing factory in Tokaimura, Ibaraki Prefecture, of JOC Co. on Oct. 6 in connection with Japan's worst-ever nuclear accident Sept. 30. The search came ahead of Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi's arrival at the plant there.

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JCO president apologizes Tokaimura residents (CORRECTING CAPTION

TOKAIMURA, Japan - Hiroharu Kitani, president of JOC Co., operators of the uranium processing plant in Tokaimura, Ibaraki Prefecture, scene of a major radiation leakage on Sept. 30, kneels in apology Oct. 2 morning at a community evacuation center in the village before Tokaimura residents who were forced to flee their homes after the contamination.