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Philippines: Super Typhoon Fung-wong Causes Flooding and Leaves Damage 2

Fung-wong, known locally as Uwan, made landfall around 9:00 p.m. on Sunday, November 9 in Aurora Province, with winds of around 185 km/h. Over a million people had evacuated as heavy rains and strong winds cut power across Luzon. At least 18 people were killed, according to reports. This video shows damage left by the typhoon in San Fabian.

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Foley commemoration

WASHINGTON, United States - U.S. President Barack Obama speaks during a memorial at the Capitol building in Washington on Oct. 29, 2013, for Thomas Foley, former U.S. House of Representatives speaker and ambassador to Japan.

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Thomas Foley

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Thomas Foley, former U.S. House of Representatives speaker and ambassador to Japan. Foley has died, U.S. media said on Oct. 18, 2013. He was 84.

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Sumo elder Akebono honored by U.S. gov't

TOKYO, Japan - Hawaiian-born sumo elder and former yokozuna Akebono (C) is honored by U.S. Ambassador to Japan Thomas Foley (L) at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo on March 29 for his longtime contribution to strengthening U.S.-Japan relations through the sport as his wife Christine Reiko and daughter Cairtlin watch. Foley handed Akebono a letter of appreciation from Secretary of State Colin Powell praising him as ''a model ambassador of goodwill in Japan.''

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Reagan chief of staff Baker may become new Japan envoy

WASHINGTON, United States - U.S. President George W. Bush may appoint former White House Chief of Staff Howard Baker Jr. (file photo) as successor to outgoing U.S. Ambassador to Japan Thomas Foley, diplomatic sources said March 2. Baker served as White House chief of staff between 1987 and 1988 under then President Ronald Reagan.

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U.S. envoy meets with family members of missing Japanese

TOKYO, Japan - Adm. William Fallon (2nd from R), special U.S. government envoy to Japan, accompanied by U.S. Ambassador Thomas Foley (R), bows as he meets with Mitsunori Nomoto (L) and Ryosuke Terata, family members of some of the nine Japanese missing off Hawaii aboard the Ehime Maru, at the ambassador's official residence in Tokyo on Feb. 28. Fallon arrived in Tokyo on Feb. 27 to deliver the U.S. president's apology for the Feb. 9 sinking of the Japanese training ship Ehime Maru by a U.S. submarine.

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U.S. envoy hands apology to Mori over ship collision

TOKYO, Japan - Adm. William Fallon (C), a special envoy from Washington, is about to shake hands with Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori (R) prior to their talks at the premier's official residence in Tokyo on Feb. 27. Fallon, vice chief of operations in the U.S. Navy, handed to Mori an apology from U.S. President George W. Bush for the sinking of the Ehime Maru, a Japanese high school training ship, by a U.S. submarine off Hawaii on Feb. 9. U.S. Ambassador to Japan Thomas Foley is at the left.

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Foley seeks understanding over slow collision probe

TOKYO, Japan - Outgoing U.S. Ambassador to Japan Thomas Foley speaks at Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Feb. 23. He asked Japan for its understanding over what may seem to be a slow investigation the United States is conducting into the sinking of a Japanese ship by a U.S. submarine off Hawaii on Feb. 9.

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Japan asks U.S. to consider raising ship sunken in sub crash

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori (L) asks the United States on Feb. 11 to consider raising the Japanese ship that a U.S. nuclear submarine sank in a collision Feb. 9, saying some of the nine missing people may be confined inside. The request was made during talks with U.S. Ambassador to Japan Thomas Foley at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo.

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U.S. envoy hopes for continued progress on Okinawa bases

NAHA, Japan - Outgoing U.S. Ambassador to Japan Thomas Foley (L) talks with Okinawa Gov. Keiichi Inamine at the prefectural government's office in Naha on Feb. 2. Foley said he hopes for continued and swift progress between Japan and the United States on the issue of the U.S. military bases in Okinawa.

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U.S. Ambassador Foley shakes hands with Defense chief Saito

TOKYO, Japan - Outgoing U.S. Ambassador to Japan Thomas Foley (L) shakes hands with Defense Agency Director General Toshitsugu Saito at the agency headquarters in Tokyo on Dec. 14. Foley told Saito that there will be no change in U.S. security policy under a George W. Bush administration.

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Foley to resign ambassadorship after U.S. presidential poll

WASHINGTON, United States - File photo shows U.S. Ambassador to Japan Thomas Foley who said he will step down after the country's presidential election in November, according to reports by U.S. media Aug. 21. ''I don't have any desire to serve for any extended period,'' Foley told reporters at his official residence in Tokyo. The 71-year-old former U.S. House of Representatives speaker was dispatched to Japan in November 1997 to assume the ambassadorship as a successor to former Vice President Walter Mondale.

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4,000 attend funeral for former Prime Minister Takeshita

KAKEYA, Japan - About 4,000 people, including Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, U.S. Ambassador to Japan Thomas Foley and former South Korean Prime Minister Kim Jong Pil, attend a funeral for former Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita at a Kakeya municipal gymnasium in his hometown of Kakeya, Shimane Prefecture, on July 29. Former Chief Cabinet Secretary Mikio Aoki, who chairs the funeral committee for Takeshita, said in a memorial address, weeping, ''He returned to dust in Shimane at last.''

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Clinton offers flowers to Obuchi

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. President Bill Clinton (L), along with U.S. Ambassador to Japan Thomas Foley, offers flowers at the funeral of former Japanese Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi in Tokyo on June 8.

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Mori arrives in Washington

WASHINGTON, United States - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori (R) shakes hands with U.S. Ambassador to Japan Thomas Foley at Andrews Air Force Base in Washington on May 4. Mori arrived in Washington on the last leg of his seven-nation tour of Group of Eight nations. He will meet President Bill Clinton on the morning of May 5.

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Japan, U.S. reaffirm cooperation on Okinawa summit

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori (R) and U.S. Ambassador to Japan Thomas Foley (L) are pictured prior to their talks at the premier's official residence in Tokyo on April 18. They reaffirmed their plan to advance bilateral relations and cooperate to ensure the success of July's summit of the Group of Eight (G-8) major nations in Okinawa Prefecture.

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U.S. envoy voices disappointment on NTT issue

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Thomas Foley (L) have words with Japanese Posts and Telecommunications Minister Eita Yashiro prior to their meeting March 30. Foley expressed disappointment at Japan's refusal to accept a U.S. compromise to resolve their differences over the size of planned cuts in interconnection fees charged by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (NTT).

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Foley urges Yashiro to cut NTT's fees for smaller carriers

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Thomas Foley (R) shakes hands with Posts and Telecommunications Minister Eita Yashiro ahead of their meeting at the ministry Dec. 9. In the meeting, Foley urged Yashiro to reduce the interconnection fees the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. group charges smaller carriers prior to bilateral negotiations on deregulation scheduled for Dec. 13 and 14 in Washington.

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Foley presents U.S. deregulation request to Japan

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Thomas Foley (R) greets Japanese Foreign Minister Yohei Kono at the Foreign Ministry on Oct. 6 as the two countries launched new deregulation talks. Washington called for a telecommunications ''Big Bang'' and Tokyo for U.S. restraint in the imposition of trade sanctions.

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U.S. to study Futemma relocation plans 'carefully,' Foley says

NAHA, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Thomas Foley speaks at a forum in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, on Sept. 14, saying the United States will ''carefully'' study Japanese proposals on a possible site for the relocation of the U.S. Futemma Air Station in the prefecture. Japan and the U.S. agreed in 1996 to close the Futemma base, located close to residential areas in Ginowan, in five to seven years on condition its heliport functions are relocated within the prefecture.

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First Japan-U.S. sister city conference opens in Sendai

SENDAI, Japan - The first meeting of the Japan-U.S. Sister City Conference opens in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on Sept. 10. The two-day meeting was attended by some 400 officials from 109 local governments in Japan and the United States. Among those attending were Thomas Foley, ambassador to Japan, Shoichiro Toyoda, Toyota Motor Corp.'s honorary chairman, and other political and business leaders.

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Foley calls on Komura

U.S. Ambassador to Japan Thomas Foley (R) calls on Japanese Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura (L) in Tokyo on March 25. Foley conveyed a message from U.S. President Bill Clinton to Japanese Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's military strike against Yugoslavia is aimed at reducing the Yugoslav government's oppression of Kosovo citizens.

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Obuchi, Foley hold talks

New Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi (R) shakes hands with U.S. Ambassador to Japan Thomas Foley when they hold talks at the prime minister's official residence in downtown Tokyo on Aug. 4. Foley also meet separately with Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa and Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura. During these talks, the U.S. ambassador urges Japan to take resolute measures to revive the ailing Japanese economy.

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U.S. ambassador speaks on Japan

U.S. Ambassador to Japan Thomas Foley addresses a gathering hosted by a private economic institute at a Tokyo hotel Wednesday July 15. He said Washington regards ''the U.S.-Japan relationship, partnership ad alliance as fundamental to our policies in the Asia-Pacific region.

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Clinton offers flowers to Obuchi

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. President Bill Clinton (L), along with U.S. Ambassador to Japan Thomas Foley, offers flowers at the funeral of former Japanese Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi in Tokyo on June 8.

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U.S. envoy voices disappointment on NTT issue

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Thomas Foley (L) have words with Japanese Posts and Telecommunications Minister Eita Yashiro prior to their meeting March 30. Foley expressed disappointment at Japan's refusal to accept a U.S. compromise to resolve their differences over the size of planned cuts in interconnection fees charged by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (NTT).

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Sumo elder Akebono honored by U.S. gov't

TOKYO, Japan - Hawaiian-born sumo elder and former yokozuna Akebono (C) is honored by U.S. Ambassador to Japan Thomas Foley (L) at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo on March 29 for his longtime contribution to strengthening U.S.-Japan relations through the sport as his wife Christine Reiko and daughter Cairtlin watch. Foley handed Akebono a letter of appreciation from Secretary of State Colin Powell praising him as ''a model ambassador of goodwill in Japan.''

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Reagan chief of staff Baker may become new Japan envoy

WASHINGTON, United States - U.S. President George W. Bush may appoint former White House Chief of Staff Howard Baker Jr. (file photo) as successor to outgoing U.S. Ambassador to Japan Thomas Foley, diplomatic sources said March 2. Baker served as White House chief of staff between 1987 and 1988 under then President Ronald Reagan.

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U.S. envoy meets with family members of missing Japanese

TOKYO, Japan - Adm. William Fallon (2nd from R), special U.S. government envoy to Japan, accompanied by U.S. Ambassador Thomas Foley (R), bows as he meets with Mitsunori Nomoto (L) and Ryosuke Terata, family members of some of the nine Japanese missing off Hawaii aboard the Ehime Maru, at the ambassador's official residence in Tokyo on Feb. 28. Fallon arrived in Tokyo on Feb. 27 to deliver the U.S. president's apology for the Feb. 9 sinking of the Japanese training ship Ehime Maru by a U.S. submarine.

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U.S. envoy hands apology to Mori over ship collision

TOKYO, Japan - Adm. William Fallon (C), a special envoy from Washington, is about to shake hands with Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori (R) prior to their talks at the premier's official residence in Tokyo on Feb. 27. Fallon, vice chief of operations in the U.S. Navy, handed to Mori an apology from U.S. President George W. Bush for the sinking of the Ehime Maru, a Japanese high school training ship, by a U.S. submarine off Hawaii on Feb. 9. U.S. Ambassador to Japan Thomas Foley is at the left.

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Foley seeks understanding over slow collision probe

TOKYO, Japan - Outgoing U.S. Ambassador to Japan Thomas Foley speaks at Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Feb. 23. He asked Japan for its understanding over what may seem to be a slow investigation the United States is conducting into the sinking of a Japanese ship by a U.S. submarine off Hawaii on Feb. 9.

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Japan asks U.S. to consider raising ship sunken in sub crash

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori (L) asks the United States on Feb. 11 to consider raising the Japanese ship that a U.S. nuclear submarine sank in a collision Feb. 9, saying some of the nine missing people may be confined inside. The request was made during talks with U.S. Ambassador to Japan Thomas Foley at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo.

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U.S. envoy hopes for continued progress on Okinawa bases

NAHA, Japan - Outgoing U.S. Ambassador to Japan Thomas Foley (L) talks with Okinawa Gov. Keiichi Inamine at the prefectural government's office in Naha on Feb. 2. Foley said he hopes for continued and swift progress between Japan and the United States on the issue of the U.S. military bases in Okinawa.

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U.S. Ambassador Foley shakes hands with Defense chief Saito

TOKYO, Japan - Outgoing U.S. Ambassador to Japan Thomas Foley (L) shakes hands with Defense Agency Director General Toshitsugu Saito at the agency headquarters in Tokyo on Dec. 14. Foley told Saito that there will be no change in U.S. security policy under a George W. Bush administration.

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Foley to resign ambassadorship after U.S. presidential poll

WASHINGTON, United States - File photo shows U.S. Ambassador to Japan Thomas Foley who said he will step down after the country's presidential election in November, according to reports by U.S. media Aug. 21. ''I don't have any desire to serve for any extended period,'' Foley told reporters at his official residence in Tokyo. The 71-year-old former U.S. House of Representatives speaker was dispatched to Japan in November 1997 to assume the ambassadorship as a successor to former Vice President Walter Mondale.

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4,000 attend funeral for former Prime Minister Takeshita

KAKEYA, Japan - About 4,000 people, including Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, U.S. Ambassador to Japan Thomas Foley and former South Korean Prime Minister Kim Jong Pil, attend a funeral for former Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita at a Kakeya municipal gymnasium in his hometown of Kakeya, Shimane Prefecture, on July 29. Former Chief Cabinet Secretary Mikio Aoki, who chairs the funeral committee for Takeshita, said in a memorial address, weeping, ''He returned to dust in Shimane at last.''

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Mori arrives in Washington

WASHINGTON, United States - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori (R) shakes hands with U.S. Ambassador to Japan Thomas Foley at Andrews Air Force Base in Washington on May 4. Mori arrived in Washington on the last leg of his seven-nation tour of Group of Eight nations. He will meet President Bill Clinton on the morning of May 5.

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Japan, U.S. reaffirm cooperation on Okinawa summit

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori (R) and U.S. Ambassador to Japan Thomas Foley (L) are pictured prior to their talks at the premier's official residence in Tokyo on April 18. They reaffirmed their plan to advance bilateral relations and cooperate to ensure the success of July's summit of the Group of Eight (G-8) major nations in Okinawa Prefecture.

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Foley urges Yashiro to cut NTT's fees for smaller carriers

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Thomas Foley (R) shakes hands with Posts and Telecommunications Minister Eita Yashiro ahead of their meeting at the ministry Dec. 9. In the meeting, Foley urged Yashiro to reduce the interconnection fees the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. group charges smaller carriers prior to bilateral negotiations on deregulation scheduled for Dec. 13 and 14 in Washington.

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Foley presents U.S. deregulation request to Japan

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Thomas Foley (R) greets Japanese Foreign Minister Yohei Kono at the Foreign Ministry on Oct. 6 as the two countries launched new deregulation talks. Washington called for a telecommunications ''Big Bang'' and Tokyo for U.S. restraint in the imposition of trade sanctions.

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U.S. to study Futemma relocation plans 'carefully,' Foley says

NAHA, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Thomas Foley speaks at a forum in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, on Sept. 14, saying the United States will ''carefully'' study Japanese proposals on a possible site for the relocation of the U.S. Futemma Air Station in the prefecture. Japan and the U.S. agreed in 1996 to close the Futemma base, located close to residential areas in Ginowan, in five to seven years on condition its heliport functions are relocated within the prefecture.

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First Japan-U.S. sister city conference opens in Sendai

SENDAI, Japan - The first meeting of the Japan-U.S. Sister City Conference opens in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on Sept. 10. The two-day meeting was attended by some 400 officials from 109 local governments in Japan and the United States. Among those attending were Thomas Foley, ambassador to Japan, Shoichiro Toyoda, Toyota Motor Corp.'s honorary chairman, and other political and business leaders.

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Foley calls on Komura

U.S. Ambassador to Japan Thomas Foley (R) calls on Japanese Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura (L) in Tokyo on March 25. Foley conveyed a message from U.S. President Bill Clinton to Japanese Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's military strike against Yugoslavia is aimed at reducing the Yugoslav government's oppression of Kosovo citizens.

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Obuchi, Foley hold talks

New Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi (R) shakes hands with U.S. Ambassador to Japan Thomas Foley when they hold talks at the prime minister's official residence in downtown Tokyo on Aug. 4. Foley also meet separately with Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa and Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura. During these talks, the U.S. ambassador urges Japan to take resolute measures to revive the ailing Japanese economy.

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U.S. ambassador speaks on Japan

U.S. Ambassador to Japan Thomas Foley addresses a gathering hosted by a private economic institute at a Tokyo hotel Wednesday July 15. He said Washington regards ''the U.S.-Japan relationship, partnership ad alliance as fundamental to our policies in the Asia-Pacific region. ==Kyodo