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US: EF-1 Tornado Touches Down In Athens, AL, Leaving Devastating Damage

The National Weather Service in Huntsville has confirmed that an EF-1 tornado touched down in downtown Athens, Alabama, on Saturday night, December 28.

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Operations at 14 Toyota plants to be halted after system failure

TOYOTA, Japan, Aug. 29 Kyodo - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Aug. 29, 2023, shows Toyota Motor Corp.'s Motomachi plant in Toyota in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan. Toyota said that same-day operations at all of its group's 14 vehicle assembly plants in Japan will be suspended due to a computer system failure. (Kyodo)

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New tram starts operating north of Tokyo

UTSUNOMIYA, Japan, Aug. 26 Kyodo - A light rail transit train carrying children and others runs through Utsunomiya in Tochigi Prefecture, north of Tokyo, after a ceremony commemorating the start of the service is held at JR Utsunomiya Station on Aug. 26, 2023. Japan's first new tram system in 75 years covers the 14.6-kilometer route between the station and the nearby town of Haga in 48 minutes.

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'Black, White Croquettes' in Toyama Pref.

TOYAMA, Japan - Hayato Yamazaki, president of food consulting company DQ Solution in Takaoka, Toyama Prefecture, holds "Black Croquette" and "White Croquette" in December 2013 in the city. The two croquettes developed by the company to promote local Toyama tastes won the grand prize at the 1st All Japan Croquette Festival in November 2013.

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Socks resembling sushi in Toyama Pref.

TOYAMA, Japan - Product-planning manager Takashi Matsumoto of socks maker Sukeno Co. in Takaoka, Toyama Prefecture, shows various socks resembling sushi in the city on May 12, 2014. The central Japanese company facing the Sea of Japan wishes to sell them as souvenirs chiefly targeting travelers from abroad.

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DPJ head Hatoyama in general election campaign

TAKAOKA, Japan - Main opposition Democratic Party of Japan leader Yukio Hatoyama waves to crowds in the city of Takaoka in Toyama Prefecture on Aug. 27 during a stump stop for the Aug. 30 House of Representatives election.

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Toyama library holds entire Doraemon collection

TOYAMA, Japan - Yasuyuki Yokoyama, a Toyama University professor who studies the robot cat hero of the ''Doraemon'' comic series, stands before the ''Doraemon'' collection April 5 at the Takaoka Library in Takaoka, Toyama Prefecture. The Takaoka City Library is Japan's first library to house the entire Doraemon comic collection, most of which Yokoyama donated.

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Int'l children's theater festival opens

TAKAOKA, Japan - Children from Toyama Prefecture perform at the opening of an international children's theater festival in the prefecture's city of Takaoka on Aug. 1. Some 600 children from around the world gathered at the seven-day Toyama World Festival of Children's Theater in 2000, sponsored by the International Amateur Theater Association in cooperation with Toyama Prefecture and cities including Toyama and Takaoka.

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Toyota's Takaoka plant

Toyota Motor Corp.'s Takaoka plant is pictured in the Aichi Prefecture city of Toyota, central Japan, on Nov. 6, 2020.

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SCREEN SPE Works' tablet powder removal machine

Screen Speworks (Takaoka City, Toyama Prefecture) has developed a tablet powder remover that removes powder that adheres to tablets when they are formed. The machine can process 300,000 tablets in one hour and reduce the adhesion rate to about 0.5% per tablet. The selling price is still under adjustment, and the company plans to sell the machine to pharmaceutical companies and confectionery manufacturers. When raw powder is compressed to form tablets, uncompressed powder adheres to the surface of the tablet. The powder may adhere to the lens of the camera during inspection, causing problems. The powder removal machine developed by SCREEN SPE Works uses air to remove the powder, so there is less risk of damage. Atsuhiro Hayashi, leader of the New Business Development Group, said, "Before we can commercialize the product, we need to have it evaluated by actual users. How to develop the market is our future challenge. Photo taken on July 25, 2019, credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

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New Hokuriku Shinkansen bullet train service starts

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the first bullet train bound for Tokyo from Kanazawa on the Hokuriku Shinkansen Line, running in the city of Takaoka, Toyama Prefecture at 6:12 a.m. on March 14, 2015, the day of the launch of the new bullet train service directly linking the Japanese capital with the Hokuriku region on the Sea of Japan coast. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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New Hokuriku Shinkansen bullet train service starts

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the first bullet train bound for Tokyo from Kanazawa on the Hokuriku Shinkansen Line, running in the city of Takaoka, Toyama Prefecture at 6:12 a.m. on March 14, 2015, the day of the launch of the new bullet train service directly linking the Japanese capital with the Hokuriku region on the Sea of Japan coast. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Cost cuts Toyota's top priority

TOYOTA, Japan - This photo features an assembly line at Toyota Motor Corp.'s Takaoka Factory in the city of Toyota, Aichi Prefecture. (Kyodo)

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Tokyo Olympic torch relay

Tokyo Olympic torch relay participants wearing masks clap their hands during an alternative event for the relay on June 2, 2021, in the Toyama prefectural city of Takaoka. The torch relay on public roads was canceled in the central Japan prefecture due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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New coronavirus

Shucho Takaoka (back, 2nd from R), chief priest at Tokurin-ji temple in the central Japan city of Nagoya, talks to Vietnamese people staying at the Buddhist temple on May 19, 2020. Tokurin-ji has offered free accommodation and food to more than 30 foreigners who have lost their jobs in Japan amid the coronavirus pandemic but cannot return to their home countries because of entry restrictions due to the spread of the virus. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Craftswoman introduces lacquer art in musical instrument production

Yurie Akaiwa, a 26-year-old craftswoman in the central Japan prefecture of Toyama, shows off in a shop in Takaoka city on Sept. 26, 2018, Japanese "urushi"-lacquered saxophones she produced by fusing traditional arts and craft techniques with the popular wind instrument of European origin. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Children join N. Korea missile launch evacuation drill

Elementary school students participate in an evacuation drill in the central Japan city of Takaoka on July 14, 2017, in the wake of repeated missile launches by North Korea. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Children join N. Korea missile launch evacuation drill

Elementary school students participate in an evacuation drill in the central Japan city of Takaoka on July 14, 2017, in the wake of repeated missile launches by North Korea. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Festival listed as UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage

Decorated floats parade through the central Japan city of Takaoka on May 1, 2017. The festival was added to UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage list in 2016, together with other 32 traditional festivals from across Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Festival listed as UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage

Decorated floats parade through the central Japan city of Takaoka on May 1, 2017. The festival was added to UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage list in 2016, together with other 32 traditional festivals from across Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Festival listed as UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage

Decorated floats parade through the central Japan city of Takaoka on May 1, 2017. The festival was added to UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage list in 2016, together with other 32 traditional festivals from across Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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DPJ head Hatoyama in general election campaign

TAKAOKA, Japan - Main opposition Democratic Party of Japan leader Yukio Hatoyama waves to crowds in the city of Takaoka in Toyama Prefecture on Aug. 27 during a stump stop for the Aug. 30 House of Representatives election. (Kyodo)

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Toyama library holds entire Doraemon collection

TOYAMA, Japan - Yasuyuki Yokoyama, a Toyama University professor who studies the robot cat hero of the ''Doraemon'' comic series, stands before the ''Doraemon'' collection April 5 at the Takaoka Library in Takaoka, Toyama Prefecture. The Takaoka City Library is Japan's first library to house the entire Doraemon comic collection, most of which Yokoyama donated. (Kyodo)

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Int'l children's theater festival opens

TAKAOKA, Japan - Children from Toyama Prefecture perform at the opening of an international children's theater festival in the prefecture's city of Takaoka on Aug. 1. Some 600 children from around the world gathered at the seven-day Toyama World Festival of Children's Theater in 2000, sponsored by the International Amateur Theater Association in cooperation with Toyama Prefecture and cities including Toyama and Takaoka.