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US: Winter Storm Buries Michigan With Record Snow 3

A powerful winter storm hit Michigan, bringing record-breaking snowfall of up to 35 inches and strong winds on Monday, March 16. Trees and power lines were covered in ice, more than 126,000 households were without power, and schools and businesses were forced to close.

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US: Winter Storm Buries Michigan With Record Snow

A powerful winter storm hit Michigan, bringing record-breaking snowfall of up to 35 inches and strong winds on Monday, March 16. Trees and power lines were covered in ice, more than 126,000 households were without power, and schools and businesses were forced to close.

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US: Winter Storm Buries Michigan With Record Snow 2

A powerful winter storm hit Michigan, bringing record-breaking snowfall of up to 35 inches and strong winds on Monday, March 16. Trees and power lines were covered in ice, more than 126,000 households were without power, and schools and businesses were forced to close.

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US: Blizzard Conditions Sweep Michigan as Lake-Effect Snow Intensifies

An early-season winter storm is bringing blizzard conditions and heavy lake-effect snow across Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and northern Lower regions through Thanksgiving, creating hazardous travel conditions.

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(FOCUS)JAPAN-ISHIKAWA-EARTHQUAKES-AFTERMATH

(240102) -- ISHIKAWA, Jan. 2, 2024 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Jan. 2, 2024 shows packs of drinking water for quake-affected people at a primary school in Shika, Ishikawa prefecture, Japan. The death toll has risen to 48 in the central Japanese prefecture of Ishikawa as of 3:30 p.m. local time, after a series of powerful earthquakes hit the area in central Japan and the vicinity, with aftershocks and more damage reports coming in. In its latest update, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) said a 4.6-magnitude earthquake struck off the Noto Peninsula at 5:13 p.m. local time on Tuesday at a depth of 10 km, measuring upper 5. (Xinhua/Zhang Xiaoyu)

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(FOCUS)JAPAN-ISHIKAWA-EARTHQUAKES-AFTERMATH

(240102) -- ISHIKAWA, Jan. 2, 2024 (Xinhua) -- A volunteer pours water into a bucket for bathroom use at a primary school which serves as a temporary shelter for quake-affected people in Shika, Ishikawa prefecture, Japan, Jan. 2, 2024. The death toll has risen to 48 in the central Japanese prefecture of Ishikawa as of 3:30 p.m. local time, after a series of powerful earthquakes hit the area in central Japan and the vicinity, with aftershocks and more damage reports coming in. In its latest update, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) said a 4.6-magnitude earthquake struck off the Noto Peninsula at 5:13 p.m. local time on Tuesday at a depth of 10 km, measuring upper 5. (Xinhua/Zhang Xiaoyu)

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(FOCUS)JAPAN-ISHIKAWA-EARTHQUAKES-AFTERMATH

(240102) -- ISHIKAWA, Jan. 2, 2024 (Xinhua) -- A firefighter works at a primary school which serves as a temporary shelter for quake-affected people in Shika, Ishikawa prefecture, Japan, Jan. 2, 2024. The death toll has risen to 48 in the central Japanese prefecture of Ishikawa as of 3:30 p.m. local time, after a series of powerful earthquakes hit the area in central Japan and the vicinity, with aftershocks and more damage reports coming in. In its latest update, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) said a 4.6-magnitude earthquake struck off the Noto Peninsula at 5:13 p.m. local time on Tuesday at a depth of 10 km, measuring upper 5. (Xinhua/Zhang Xiaoyu)

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Preserving facility for Nemuro-Kunashiri submarine cable

KUSHIRO, Japan - A now-defunct facility in Nemuro, Hokkaido, for a submarine communications cable, which used to connect the Nemuro Peninsula and Kunashiri, one of the four Russian-controlled and Japanese-claimed islands off Japan's northernmost main island, is seen in May 2014 (upper frame) and on Aug. 12, 2014 (lower frame). The lower shows work underway to preserve the facility.

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Old bank notes deposited by WWII returnees given airing

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Customs officials expose to the air excess bank notes deposited by post-World War II returnees, mainly from China and the Korean Peninsula, at the customs house in Yokohama west of Tokyo on Aug. 6, 2014. Some 60% of the total deposits exceeding upper limits imposed by the Allied Occupation forces to fend off inflation remain to be returned at Japan's eight customs houses.

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Recovering efforts in Ishinomaki

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Fishermen (upper L) on April 20, 2011, retrieve buoys used in oyster farming at the Oshika Peninsula in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, which was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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Yurakucho, the new shoppers' paradise in downtown Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Yurakucho, the once drab adjunct to the ritzy Ginza shopping district in downtown Tokyo, is now emerging as a shoppers' paradise rivaling the best in town. Opposite the trendy entrance to JR Yurakucho station, across a square with a concentric design, stands the newly opened 21-story ITOCiA complex, which houses the Marui department store on the first to eighth floors. The ITOCiA complex provides office space on upper floors and restaurants and a movie theater in an annex. Popular Krispy Kreme Doughnuts is located in the basement level. The 12-story Marronnier Gate shopping mall opened Sept. 1 near the ITOCiA complex and the luxury Peninsula Tokyo hotel also opened the same day.

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Yurakucho, the new shoppers' paradise in downtown Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Yurakucho, the once drab adjunct to the ritzy Ginza shopping district in downtown Tokyo, is now emerging as a shoppers' paradise rivaling the best in town. Opposite the trendy entrance to JR Yurakucho station, across a square with a concentric design, stands the newly opened 21-story ITOCiA complex, which houses the Marui department store on the first to eighth floors. The ITOCiA complex provides office space on upper floors and restaurants and a movie theater in an annex. Popular Krispy Kreme Doughnuts is located in the basement level. The 12-story Marronnier Gate shopping mall opened Sept. 1 near the ITOCiA complex and the luxury Peninsula Tokyo hotel also opened the same day. (Kyodo)

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Recovering efforts in Ishinomaki

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Fishermen (upper L) on April 20, 2011, retrieve buoys used in oyster farming at the Oshika Peninsula in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, which was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo)

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Preserving facility for Nemuro-Kunashiri submarine cable

KUSHIRO, Japan - A now-defunct facility in Nemuro, Hokkaido, for a submarine communications cable, which used to connect the Nemuro Peninsula and Kunashiri, one of the four Russian-controlled and Japanese-claimed islands off Japan's northernmost main island, is seen in May 2014 (upper frame) and on Aug. 12, 2014 (lower frame). The lower shows work underway to preserve the facility. (Kyodo)

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Old bank notes deposited by WWII returnees given airing

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Customs officials expose to the air excess bank notes deposited by post-World War II returnees, mainly from China and the Korean Peninsula, at the customs house in Yokohama west of Tokyo on Aug. 6, 2014. Some 60% of the total deposits exceeding upper limits imposed by the Allied Occupation forces to fend off inflation remain to be returned at Japan's eight customs houses. (Kyodo)

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MSDF vessel joins U.S. supply ship on 1st Japan protection mission

Photos taken from a Kyodo News helicopter show the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force helicopter carrier Izumo (upper) and a U.S. Navy supply ship off the Boso Peninsula in Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo, on May 1, 2017. The Izumo left Yokosuka base, southwest of the capital, in the morning for the first protection mission under security legislation that took effect last year. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo