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US: Time-Lapse Shows Heavy Snow Blanketing Ohio State University’s South Oval

Time-lapse footage shows snow accumulating over a 24-hour period on Sunday, January 25, at the South Oval on the Ohio State University campus. A major winter storm swept across the U.S., bringing widespread heavy snow, sleet and freezing rain. The storm has caused seven deaths and massive power outages affecting hundreds of thousands of people.

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The Great Bell, Hokoji Temple

The Great Bell, Hokoji Temple==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6884]

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Fushimi Inari Shrine

Fushimi Inari Shrine==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6889]

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Maruyama Yaami Hotel

Maruyama Yaami Hotel==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6876]

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Nishi Otani (Otani Honbyo Mausoleum of Honganji Temple)

Nishi Otani (Otani Honbyo Mausoleum of Honganji Temple)==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6883]

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Tsutenbashi bridge at tofukuji temple

Tsutenbashi bridge at tofukuji temple==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6887]

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Sanjusangendo

Sanjusangendo==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6886]

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The stage of Kiyomizudera Temple,Kyoto

The stage of Kiyomizudera Temple,Kyoto==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6882]

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Nanzenji Temple

Nanzenji Temple==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6873]

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Hall at Enryakuji Temple, Mt Hiei

Hall at Enryakuji Temple, Mt Hiei==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6866]

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Higashi Otani (Otani Sobyo Mausoleum of Higashi Honganji Temple)

Higashi Otani (Otani Sobyo Mausoleum of Higashi Honganji Temple)==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6879]

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TOYOKUNI SHRINE

TOYOKUNI SHRINE==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6885]

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Sen-yuji temple

Sen-yuji temple==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6888]

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Maruyama

Maruyama==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6877]

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Eikan-do Temple

Eikan-do Temple==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6872]

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Five-Story Pagoda of Yasaka

Five-Story Pagoda of Yasaka==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6881]

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Yasaka Shrine, Gion, Kyoto

Yasaka Shrine, Gion, Kyoto==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6878]

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Rows of houses seen from Higashiyama,Kyoto

Rows of houses seen from Higashiyama,Kyoto==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6875]

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Tokugawa Akitake

Tokugawa Akitake==Date:1867, Place:Japan, Photo:Other photographers ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:7097]

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Koudaiji Temple

Koudaiji Temple==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6880]

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Foreign man

Foreign man==Date:unknown, Place:Nagasaki, Photo:Ueno Hikoma ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:7095]

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Tokugawa Yoshinobu

Tokugawa Yoshinobu==Date:unknown, Place:Japan, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:7100]

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Chion-in Temple

Chion-in Temple==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6874]

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Portrait of a man

Portrait of a man==Date:unknown, Place:Japan, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:7101]

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Sanjo Sanetomi

Sanjo Sanetomi==Date:unknown, Place:Japan, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:7099]

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Prince Fushimi Sadanaru

Prince Fushimi Sadanaru==Date:unknown, Place:Japan, Photo:Uchida Kuichi ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:7102]

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Foreign man

Foreign man==Date:1875, Place:Nagasaki, Photo:Ueno Hikoma ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:7096]

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Foreign man

Foreign man==Date:1873, Place:Nagasaki, Photo:Ueno Hikoma ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:7093]

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Foreign man

Foreign man==Date:unknown, Place:Nagasaki, Photo:Ueno Hikoma ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:7094]

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Tokugawa Iesato ?

Tokugawa Iesato ?==Date:unknown, Place:Japan, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:7103]

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Portrait of a man

Portrait of a man==Date:unknown, Place:Japan, Photo:Kitaniwa Tsukuba ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:7105]

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Researchers find new mechanism for hardening of arteries

TSU, Japan - Yoshiji Yamada, a professor of molecular and genetic epidemiology at Mie University, explains in Tsu, central Japan, on Feb. 4, 2014 a mechanism for the hardening of arteries newly discovered by his research team.

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16th-century shogun Hideyoshi's letter unveiled

KOBE, Japan - Kobe University in western Japan releases on Dec. 8, 2014, a sealed letter sent by 16th-century shogun Toyotomi Hideyoshi to a clan leader in Toba, Mie Prefecture, to thank him for his assistance in Hideyoshi's aggression of the Korean Peninsula.

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Letters by medieval warlords Nobunaga, Hideyoshi found

KOBE, Japan - Kobe University in western Japan unveils on Dec. 8, 2014, sealed letters sent by warlords Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi to a clan in Toba, Mie Prefecture, in the 16th century. A woman in her 40s in Kobe had kept the letters after inheriting them from her grandfather, and asked the university to use them for research.

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Mie Univ. to lecture on ninja in Europe

TSU, Japan - Yuji Yamada, a professor at Mie University, holds a ninja "shuriken" throwing weapon at the university in Tsu, Mie Prefecture, on Nov. 10, 2014. The university, in cooperation with the Japan Foundation, plans to hold lectures on ninja, including lectures by Yamada, in six European cities such as London, Rome and Barcelona from Nov. 17 through 28.

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'Last ninja' becomes university professor

TSU, Japan - Jinichi Kawakami, known as the ''last ninja,'' speaks during a press conference in Tsu, Mie Prefecture, on Jan. 31, 2012. Mie University said Kawakami has become a specially-appointed professor to study how to use information-gathering and other ninja techniques in the field of business. Koga is the 21st head of the Koga ninja clan.

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Dalai Lama attends international religious forum at Ise

ISE, Japan - The Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, speaks at a news conference on Nov. 17 at Kogakkan University in Ise, Mie Prefecture, where he is attending an inaugural meeting of the Ise international religious forum created by academics at the university, Shinto priests and Buddhist monks. The Dalai Lama says his life mission is to seek harmony among various religions. He is scheduled to deliver an address on ''religion and harmony'' at Kogakkan University on Nov. 18.

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Masae Torai to be lecturer at Mie University

TOKYO, Japan - Masae Torai will serve as a part-time lecturer at the medical school of state-run Mie University. Torai said he is looking forward to sharing his experience of undergoing a sex-change operation, and discussing the various issues that transsexuals face, with the students.

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5th century clay ship found in Mie tomb

TSU, Japan - Photo shows a clay model ship excavated for the first time in Japan from a fifth century tomb in Mie Prefecture, western Japan. A municipal official holds a clay sword that was used to decorate the ship, which measures 1.4 meters long and 25 centimeters at its widest part. Local archaeologists said April 10 that the ship was thought to carry away the souls of the deceased to heaven. ''It must have been a ship for dead people to make a journey to the afterworld,'' said Kazuhiro Tatsumi, an archaeologist at Doshisha University's archaeological museum, noting the similarity to custom in ancient Egypt.

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7th-century wooden statue of Buddha found in Mie

UENO, Japan - A 7th-century wooden statue of Yakushi Nyorai, or the Buddha of Healing, sits in the Kentokuji temple in the city of Ueno, Mie Prefecture. The discovery of the 65.7-centimeter-high statue, probably made in the late 7th century, was announced Sept. 8 by a cultural asset study group headed by Prof. Yoshio Kawahara of Aichi Prefectural University.

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5th century clay ship found in Mie tomb

TSU, Japan - Photo shows a clay model ship excavated for the first time in Japan from a fifth century tomb in Mie Prefecture, western Japan. A municipal official holds a clay sword that was used to decorate the ship, which measures 1.4 meters long and 25 centimeters at its widest part. Local archaeologists said April 10 that the ship was thought to carry away the souls of the deceased to heaven. ''It must have been a ship for dead people to make a journey to the afterworld,'' said Kazuhiro Tatsumi, an archaeologist at Doshisha University's archaeological museum, noting the similarity to custom in ancient Egypt.

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Japan, S. Korea students study shared culture of pro female divers

A group of university students from South Korea performs a song from the popular Japanese television drama "Amachan" during a gathering with students of Mie University in Tsu, western Japan, on July 13, 2015. The event was part of a program in which some 70 students from both sides engaged together in a hands-on study of professional women divers, known as "ama" in Japan and "haenyeo" in South Korea, who hunt for deep-sea fish and seashells in a traditional practice believed to be unique to the two countries. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Sediment layers prove 6 temblor occurrences in past 7,300 years

Professor Makoto Okamura of Kochi University points to samples of sediment layers, recovered from below the bottom of a pond in Mie Prefecture, western Japan, on May 13, 2015, as evidence that six huge earthquakes had occurred over the past 7,300 years. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Mie Univ. team produces biofuel from mandarin oranges

Junji Yoshii, an assistant teacher at Mie University, holds a bottle of biofuel produced from discarded mandarin oranges on March 19, 2015. Yoshii leads a research team at the national university in Tsu, Mie Prefecture, western Japan, which has developed the fuel. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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University, city in central Japan leading new ninja studies

Sakae Okamoto (L), mayor of Iga in Mie Prefecture, and Yoshihiro Komada (C), president of Mie University, pose under a sign at the "International Ninja Research Center" on July 1, 2017. The state-run university and the city, the birthplace of a prominent school for stealth ninja skills used for espionage, guerilla warfare and combat, set it up to dig deeper into the lives and history of ninja. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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G-7 Research Group "speaking truth to power" at Ise-Shima summit

Photo showing the G-7 Research Group at the Ise-Shima summit in Mie Prefecture, central Japan, on May 26, 2016. The global network of scholars, students and professionals, led by professor John Kirton (4th from L in back row) from the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto has its finger on the pulse, serving as arguably the world's preeminent independent source for understanding the inner workings of the Group of Seven. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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G-7 Research Group "speaking truth to power" at Ise-Shima summit

Political science professor John Kirton (centre right, in white) of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto speaks with his G-7 Research Group staff at the Ise-Shima summit in Mie Prefecture, central Japan, on the morning of May 26, 2016. The global network of scholars, students and professionals has its finger on the pulse, serving as arguably the world's preeminent independent source for understanding the inner workings of the Group of Seven. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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"Rakugo" storyteller to teach Japanese language at Mie University

Japanese "rakugo" comic storyteller Hayashiya Kikumaru III (L) shakes hands with Yoshihiro Komada, president of Mie University, in Tsu, Mie Prefecture, western Japan, on Oct. 30, 2015, after his appointment as a specially appointed professor to teach rakugo and the Japanese language at the national university. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Dalai Lama attends international religious forum at Ise

ISE, Japan - The Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, speaks at a news conference on Nov. 17 at Kogakkan University in Ise, Mie Prefecture, where he is attending an inaugural meeting of the Ise international religious forum created by academics at the university, Shinto priests and Buddhist monks. The Dalai Lama says his life mission is to seek harmony among various religions. He is scheduled to deliver an address on ''religion and harmony'' at Kogakkan University on Nov. 18. (Kyodo)

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View in front of the gate of katase ryukoji temple

Jyakukozan Ryukoji Temple. Nichiren was arrested in Ankokuronji at Nagoe for interrogation by the regent Hojo Tokimune. He came to Ryunokuchi and prayed facing south at midnight, and is said to have been saved from beheading by miracles. This is the so-called Honan of Ryunokuchi , and Ryukoji Temple was built there after the death of Nichiren.==Date:unknown, Place:Fujisawa, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number19‐44‐0]