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Japan: Heavy Snow Paralyzes Aomori as Record Accumulation Piles Up

A series of strong cold air masses brought heavy snowfall to northern Japan from January 21 through February 2. According to authorities, a total of 30 people have died across the region since January 20 due to snow-related incidents. In Aomori City, numerous vehicles were left stranded by the snow, causing traffic congestion in many areas. Snow accumulation reached 178 centimeters on February 2—about 2.6 times the seasonal average—prompting the closure of all public elementary and junior high schools in the city.

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Breathtaking winter scenery in China's Inner Mongolia

STORY: Breathtaking winter scenery in China's Inner Mongolia SHOOTING TIME: Nov. 22, 2023 DATELINE: Nov. 22, 2023 LENGTH: 00:00:30 LOCATION: HOHHOT, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the snow scenery in Yakeshi City, Inner Mongolia STORYLINE: Yakeshi City in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region is famous for its winter scenery. The average winter temperature here is about minus 24 degrees Celsius. Yakeshi has a long snow season, with snow accumulation expected to reach over 16 centimeters. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Hohhot, China. (XHTV)

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Tsunami alert after Chile quake

HONOLULU, United States - Photo shows Waikiki Beach in Honolulu, Hawaii, around 3:30 a.m. on April 2, 2014, the time when a tsunami was expected to arrive. Waves of about 45 centimeters were spotted there, considered a normal height, according to a local official. Tsunamis of over 50 cm were observed in some areas in Hawaii that day after a magnitude 8.2 quake hit Chile on April 1.

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Tsunami alert after Chile quake

SENDAI, Japan - City officials of Kesennuma in Miyagi Prefecture watch a television broadcast of information about tsunami at an evacuation center past 5:30 a.m. on April 3, 2014. A tsunami of up to 40 centimeters was observed in the early morning that day at a port on the Pacific coast of northeastern Japan's Iwate Prefecture following a magnitude 8.2 quake that hit Chile on April 1, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.

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New Year tea ceremony

NARA, Japan - Worshipers at Saidai-ji, a temple in Nara, Nara Prefecture, enjoy green tea served in cups with a diameter of 30-40 centimeters and weighing about 5 kilograms, at an annual New Year tea ceremony on Jan. 15, 2014.

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New Year tea ceremony

NARA, Japan - Worshipers at Saidai-ji, a temple in Nara, Nara Prefecture, enjoy green tea served in cups with a diameter of 30-40 centimeters and weighing about 5 kilograms, at an annual New Year tea ceremony on Jan. 15, 2014.

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Inedible pure gold soft-serve ice-cream

TOKYO, Japan - Convenience store operator Ministop Co. said May 11, 2010, it will give away ''soft-serve ice cream'' ornaments made of pure gold by lot to three applicants who send in pictures of themselves with soft-serve ice-cream by May 30. The prized ornament is 10 centimeters tall, 90 grams in weight and worth about 300,000 yen.

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Huge New Year's bowl tea ceremony held in Nara

NARA, Japan - A woman is helped by another next to her to drink ''maccha'' green tea from a huge tea bowl in the year's first gathering of the traditional ''Ochamori'' tea ceremony, believed to date back to the 13th century, at Saidaiji Temple in Nara, Nara Prefecture, Jan. 15. Several bowls measuring 30 to 40 centimeters in diameter and weighing 5 to 7 kilograms were used in the ceremony about 20 people took part in.

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Japan exports watermelons to UAE for 1st time

TOTTORI, Japan - A woman poses with a watermelon, which will be exported to the United Arab Emirates, at a watermelon market in the town of Hokuei, Tottori Prefecture, on June 13. The cargo of 54 watermelons, each weighing more than 12 kilograms and measuring about 30 centimeters in diameter, will be shipped from Narita airport on June 14 to the UAE.

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Matsushita to release new compact massage chair Jan. 1

OSAKA, Japan - Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. said Nov. 13 it will release a compact electric massage chair (photo) that is about 30 percent smaller than its flagship model ''Real Pro'' for sale in Japan on Jan. 1. The new massage chair, ''Urban I,'' is 110 centimeters high and the base measures 74 cm by 107 cm. Matsushita puts the suggested retail of ''Urban I'' at 230,000 yen, about half the price of the ''Real Pro'' model.

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Nikon develops digital camera with built-in wireless LAN

TOKYO, Japan - Nikon Corp. has developed what it says is the world's first digital camera with a built-in function allowing users to transmit image data wirelessly to printers and personal computers. The Coolpix P1 -- 9.1 centimeters by 6.0 cm by 3.9 cm -- can transmit image data to a PC up to 30 meters away from the user, Nikon said, adding that it will put the camera on the market Sept. 23 for about 50,000 yen.

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Japan Dome House releases houses made of Styrofoam

KANAZAWA, Japan - Japan Dome House Co., based in Kaga, Ishikawa Prefecture, has released houses made of Styrofoam. The dome-shape, pillar-less house (photo) occupies some 36 square meters with a diameter of 7 meters and a height of 3 meters. It is covered with highly insulated polystyrene foam which is about 30 centimeters thick and is fire-resistant. It is highly earthquake-resistant and is designed to withstand winds of up to 45 meters per hour.

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Niigata ski resort opens early due to heavy snow

YUZAWA TOWN, Japan - About 600 skiers and snowboarders hit the slopes at the Kagura-Mitsumata ski area on Nov. 16 as the resort in Yuzawa town, Niigata Prefecture, opened to the public one week earlier than expected because of an unusually heavy snowfall. The Kagura-Mitsumata area saw its first snow on Oct. 29, and as of Nov. 16, mountain peaks had 80-90 centimeters of snow, and the lowest Mitsumata piste was covered with around 30 cm.

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Rugby ball-shaped squashes harvested in Higashiosaka

OSAKA, Japan - Kosuke Matsubara holds up rugby ball-shaped squashes at his field in Higashiosaka, Osaka Prefecture. Matsubara started to cultivate the vegetables about 10 years ago as a way to help advertise his hometown, where the annual national high school rugby championship tournament is held. The squashes are around 20-30 centimeters high and weigh 2-3 kilograms.

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Giant 370-kg pumpkin judged heaviest in Japan

TAKAMATSU, Japan - Takao Hoshijima shows off the 369.5-kilogram pumpkin, grown by him, which was judged Japan's heaviest in a 15th national weight competition in Shodoshima Island, Kagawa Prefecture, on Sept. 30. The pumpkin, which is about 398 centimeters around and 81 cm high, will be entered in an international weight competition to be held in San Francisco on Oct. 20.

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Train derails due to fallen concrete in Hokkaido

SAPPORO, Japan - A freight train partly derailed in Hokkaido on Nov. 28 after hitting a 2-ton block of concrete that had fallen off the wall of a tunnel. The photo shows the circular chunk of concrete, about 3 to 4 meters in diameter and 30 to 40 centimeters thick inside the Rebunhama Tunnel on the JR Muroran Line.

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Plant growth in China's space lab in good condition

STORY: Plant growth in China's space lab in good condition DATELINE: Aug. 31, 2022 LENGTH: 00:00:42 LOCATION: SHANGHAI, China CATEGORY: SCIENCE SHOTLIST: 1. various of scientists working at the lab 2. file of the launch of Wentian STORYLINE: The seeds of two plants in China's Wentian lab module have germinated and are now in a good condition. That's according to a briefing on the progress of plant culture experiments in China's space station on Monday. Seed samples of the two plants, Arabidopsis and rice, were installed in the life ecology experiment cabinet of the lab module, which went into space in July. The space growth experiments were launched on July 29 with ground instructions. The Arabidopsis seedlings have grown several leaves, and rice seedlings have grown to a height of about 30 centimeters. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Shanghai, China. (XHTV)

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Libya celebrates couscous festival

STORY: Libya celebrates couscous festival DATELINE: March 12, 2022 LENGTH: 0:02:14 LOCATION: Tripoli CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1 various of the festival STORYLINE: Libyans celebrated the couscous festival on Thursday by making a huge traditional couscous dish with a diameter of four meters and a depth of 30 centimeters. Displayed in Al-Rujban city, some 162 km southwest of Tripoli, the huge dish contained about 1,500 kilograms of couscous and four camels. The festival aimed to bring joy to people who want to escape from the ongoing conflict in the country. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Tripoli. (XHTV)

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Niigata ski resort opens early due to heavy snow

YUZAWA TOWN, Japan - About 600 skiers and snowboarders hit the slopes at the Kagura-Mitsumata ski area on Nov. 16 as the resort in Yuzawa town, Niigata Prefecture, opened to the public one week earlier than expected because of an unusually heavy snowfall. The Kagura-Mitsumata area saw its first snow on Oct. 29, and as of Nov. 16, mountain peaks had 80-90 centimeters of snow, and the lowest Mitsumata piste was covered with around 30 cm. (Kyodo)

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Hokkaido sees over 30 cm snowfall

People remove snow in the city of Abashiri on the coast of the Okhotsk Sea on April 30, 2016. Some parts of Japan's northernmost major island of Hokkaido saw more than 30 centimeters of snow fall that day, prompting a local weather observatory to issue a warning about frozen road surfaces. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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1,066 paper rockets launched in Akita Pref.

A total of 1,066 paper rockets, about 30 centimeters in length, are simultaneously launched from the port of Noshiro, Akita Prefecture, Japan, on Aug. 1, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nikon develops digital camera with built-in wireless LAN

TOKYO, Japan - Nikon Corp. has developed what it says is the world's first digital camera with a built-in function allowing users to transmit image data wirelessly to printers and personal computers. The Coolpix P1 -- 9.1 centimeters by 6.0 cm by 3.9 cm -- can transmit image data to a PC up to 30 meters away from the user, Nikon said, adding that it will put the camera on the market Sept. 23 for about 50,000 yen. (Kyodo)

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Japan exports watermelons to UAE for 1st time

TOTTORI, Japan - A woman poses with a watermelon, which will be exported to the United Arab Emirates, at a watermelon market in the town of Hokuei, Tottori Prefecture, on June 13. The cargo of 54 watermelons, each weighing more than 12 kilograms and measuring about 30 centimeters in diameter, will be shipped from Narita airport on June 14 to the UAE. (Kyodo)

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NEC devises thin, pliable battery

TOKYO, Japan - NEC Corp. said Dec. 7 it has developed a thin, pliable battery (shown in handout photo) that can be charged in about 30 seconds. The new product, 4 centimeters square and 0.3 millimeter thick, can light a light-emitting diode for about 20 minutes after being fully charged. (Kyodo)

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Huge New Year's bowl tea ceremony held in Nara

NARA, Japan - A woman is helped by another next to her to drink ''maccha'' green tea from a huge tea bowl in the year's first gathering of the traditional ''Ochamori'' tea ceremony, believed to date back to the 13th century, at Saidaiji Temple in Nara, Nara Prefecture, Jan. 15. Several bowls measuring 30 to 40 centimeters in diameter and weighing 5 to 7 kilograms were used in the ceremony about 20 people took part in. (Kyodo)

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Matsushita to release new compact massage chair Jan. 1

OSAKA, Japan - Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. said Nov. 13 it will release a compact electric massage chair (photo) that is about 30 percent smaller than its flagship model ''Real Pro'' for sale in Japan on Jan. 1. The new massage chair, ''Urban I,'' is 110 centimeters high and the base measures 74 cm by 107 cm. Matsushita puts the suggested retail of ''Urban I'' at 230,000 yen, about half the price of the ''Real Pro'' model. (Kyodo)

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Inedible pure gold soft-serve ice-cream

TOKYO, Japan - Convenience store operator Ministop Co. said May 11, 2010, it will give away ''soft-serve ice cream'' ornaments made of pure gold by lot to three applicants who send in pictures of themselves with soft-serve ice-cream by May 30. The prized ornament is 10 centimeters tall, 90 grams in weight and worth about 300,000 yen. (Kyodo)

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Large umbrella to enable users to keep social distancing

Photo taken in Toyokawa, Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, on June 24, 2020, shows a large umbrella developed by a local umbrella maker. The umbrella, 130 centimeters in diameter and about 30 centimeters longer than a regular-size umbrella, is meant to enable users to observe social distancing to prevent coronavirus infection.

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Large umbrella to enable users to keep social distancing

People stand under umbrellas in Toyokawa, Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, on June 24, 2020. A local umbrella maker developed the umbrella 130 centimeters in diameter -- about 30 centimeters longer than a regular-size umbrella -- to enable users to observe social distancing to prevent coronavirus infection.

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Seal in northeastern Japan

A seal lies on a rock in the Yoneshiro River in Noshiro, Akita Prefecture, northeastern Japan on Jan. 17, 2018. The seal, about 70 centimeters in size, was found alone about 30 kilometers upstream from the river mouth, according to the city. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan Dome House releases houses made of Styrofoam

KANAZAWA, Japan - Japan Dome House Co., based in Kaga, Ishikawa Prefecture, has released houses made of Styrofoam. The dome-shape, pillar-less house (photo) occupies some 36 square meters with a diameter of 7 meters and a height of 3 meters. It is covered with highly insulated polystyrene foam which is about 30 centimeters thick and is fire-resistant. It is highly earthquake-resistant and is designed to withstand winds of up to 45 meters per hour. (Kyodo)

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Rugby ball-shaped squashes harvested in Higashiosaka

OSAKA, Japan - Kosuke Matsubara holds up rugby ball-shaped squashes at his field in Higashiosaka, Osaka Prefecture. Matsubara started to cultivate the vegetables about 10 years ago as a way to help advertise his hometown, where the annual national high school rugby championship tournament is held. The squashes are around 20-30 centimeters high and weigh 2-3 kilograms. (Kyodo)

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Giant 370-kg pumpkin judged heaviest in Japan

TAKAMATSU, Japan - Takao Hoshijima shows off the 369.5-kilogram pumpkin, grown by him, which was judged Japan's heaviest in a 15th national weight competition in Shodoshima Island, Kagawa Prefecture, on Sept. 30. The pumpkin, which is about 398 centimeters around and 81 cm high, will be entered in an international weight competition to be held in San Francisco on Oct. 20.

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Train derails due to fallen concrete in Hokkaido

SAPPORO, Japan - A freight train partly derailed in Hokkaido on Nov. 28 after hitting a 2-ton block of concrete that had fallen off the wall of a tunnel. The photo shows the circular chunk of concrete, about 3 to 4 meters in diameter and 30 to 40 centimeters thick inside the Rebunhama Tunnel on the JR Muroran Line.