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US: North Dakota Sees Powerful Winds Amid Tornado-Producing Storm

Severe weather swept across the upper Midwest on Friday, June 20, bringing powerful winds and leaving at least 3 dead in North Dakota as a tornado ripped through the area.

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CORRECTED: Cherry blossoms in nuclear disaster-hit Fukushima town

Cherry trees in full bloom are pictured in early morning light at Yonomori area in the Fukushima prefectural town of Tomioka, northeastern Japan, on April 1, 2023. An evacuation order for the district that had been in place since the March 2011 accident at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was lifted the same day.

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CORRECTED: Cherry blossoms in nuclear disaster-hit Fukushima town

Cherry trees in full bloom are pictured in early morning light at Yonomori area in the Fukushima prefectural town of Tomioka, northeastern Japan, on April 1, 2023. An evacuation order for the district that had been in place since the March 2011 accident at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was lifted the same day.

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Transport ministry mulling random body search of airport passengers

NARITA, Japan - Photo shows a security check area in the international departure lobby at Narita airport near Tokyo on Dec. 22, 2011. The transport ministry is considering strengthening antiterrorism measures at international airports in Japan from as early as April by conducting body searches on randomly selected passengers, according to airport sources.

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TEPCO to raise electricity bills

TOKYO, Japan - Toshio Nishizawa, president of Tokyo Electric Power Co., speaks during a news conference at the company's head office in Tokyo on Dec. 22, 2011. Nishizawa said the company has decided to raise electricity charges for corporate users from next April and will also seek household electricity bill hikes at an early date in the face of its increasingly tough business environment.

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Return rush by holidaymakers peaks in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - JR Tokyo Station is crowded with travelers on May 5, 2011, many of whom are on the way home after spending their ''Golden Week'' holidays away. The annual major spring holidays are from late April to early May.

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Return rush by holidaymakers peaks in Japan

KANSAI AIRPORT, Japan - Kansai international airport in Osaka Prefecture is crowded with travelers on May 5, 2011, who are on the way home after spending their ''Golden Week'' holidays away. The annual major spring holidays are from late April to early May.

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Ishikawa settles for 3rd in season opener

KUWANA, Japan - Ryo Ishikawa hits a recovery shot on the eighth hole of the final round of the season-opening Token Homemate Cup at Token Tado Country Club in Mie Prefecture on April 17, 2011. Ishikawa failed to mount a final-round charge, an early stumble proving costly as he settled for third place.

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Miyagi's largest aftershock

SENDAI, Japan - A man holds his head in his hands shortly after northeastern Japan was struck by a magnitude 7.4 earthquake, the strongest aftershock since the March 11, 2011 magnitude 9.0 quake, at a lobby of the Miyagi prefectural government office building in Sendai in the early hours of April 8, 2011.

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Smartphone with 'fastest' Internet access

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows KDDI Corp.'s smartphone featuring WiMAX wireless broadband data communication capability, which the company claims provides Japan's fastest mobile Internet access. KDDI said on Feb. 28, 2011, it plans to launch the model in early April 2011.

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Mitarai calls for medium-term plan on consumption tax hike

ROME, Italy - Fujio Mitarai, chairman of the Japan Business Federation, speaks in an interview in Rome with Kyodo News on April 25. He called on the Japanese government to work out a medium-term plan on tax and fiscal reforms including a consumption tax increase as early as in 2011.

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Survivor Hopes To Bring Smiles For Children With Maze

FUKUSHIMA, JAPAN - APR. 25: A survivor of 2011 mega earthquake and tsunami in Fukushima Prefecture has turned his fields of rape flowers into a maze, wishing to bring back smile and laughter to children in the disaster-hit areas. Takayuki Ueno made the two-hector large maze with fellow volunteers who are searching for those still missing in tsunami just in a few days ahead of Japans spring holiday season between late April and early May. Ueno lost his parents and two children in the disaster that killed tens of thousands in Japan but started growing sunflower one year after the tragedy.

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NASA Delays The James Webb Space Telescope Launch Again

Handout photo dated April 15, 2011 of NASA engineer Ernie Wright looks on as the first six flight ready James Webb Space Telescope's primary mirror segments are prepped to begin final cryogenic testing at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. Last summer, NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) set an October 31, 2021, launch date for the $ 10 billion James Webb Space Telescope, but it's having to delay the science observatory's trip into space once again. Thankfully, the launch might take place just a few weeks later, in November or early December. A rescheduled date is unlikely to be confirmed until later this summer or perhaps in the fall. The instrument, successor to NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, which is the largest science observatory ever placed into space, will launch on a European Ariane 5 rocket from a spaceport in French Guiana. Photo by NASA via ABACAPRESS.COM

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Mitarai calls for medium-term plan on consumption tax hike

ROME, Italy - Fujio Mitarai, chairman of the Japan Business Federation, speaks in an interview in Rome with Kyodo News on April 25. He called on the Japanese government to work out a medium-term plan on tax and fiscal reforms including a consumption tax increase as early as in 2011. (Kyodo)

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Return rush by holidaymakers peaks in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - JR Tokyo Station is crowded with travelers on May 5, 2011, many of whom are on the way home after spending their ''Golden Week'' holidays away. The annual major spring holidays are from late April to early May. (Kyodo)

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Return rush by holidaymakers peaks in Japan

KANSAI AIRPORT, Japan - Kansai international airport in Osaka Prefecture is crowded with travelers on May 5, 2011, who are on the way home after spending their ''Golden Week'' holidays away. The annual major spring holidays are from late April to early May. (Kyodo)

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Miyagi's largest aftershock

SENDAI, Japan - A man holds his head in his hands shortly after northeastern Japan was struck by a magnitude 7.4 earthquake, the strongest aftershock since the March 11, 2011 magnitude 9.0 quake, at a lobby of the Miyagi prefectural government office building in Sendai in the early hours of April 8, 2011. (Kyodo)

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Strong quake jolts Miyagi Pref., vicinity

SENDAI, Japan - People squat on a street in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, in the early hours of April 8, 2011, after a strong quake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.4 jolted Japan's Miyagi Prefecture and its vicinity around 11:30 p.m. April 7. (Kyodo)

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Can't wait to enter elementary school

IWAKI, Japan - A girl, who will enter elementary school at the start of the new academic year in early April 2011, wears the backpack she will use for school on April 1 in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, an area devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that has been heavily affected by radiation leaks from a local nuclear power plant. According to the Iwaki municipal board of education, it is receiving nearly 100 inquiries each day from worried parents asking if it is safe for their children to go to school and be exposed to the air. (Kyodo)

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Ishikawa settles for 3rd in season opener

KUWANA, Japan - Ryo Ishikawa hits a recovery shot on the eighth hole of the final round of the season-opening Token Homemate Cup at Token Tado Country Club in Mie Prefecture on April 17, 2011. Ishikawa failed to mount a final-round charge, an early stumble proving costly as he settled for third place. (Kyodo)

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Smartphone with 'fastest' Internet access

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows KDDI Corp.'s smartphone featuring WiMAX wireless broadband data communication capability, which the company claims provides Japan's fastest mobile Internet access. KDDI said on Feb. 28, 2011, it plans to launch the model in early April 2011. (Kyodo)

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Transport ministry mulling random body search of airport passenge

NARITA, Japan - Photo shows a security check area in the international departure lobby at Narita airport near Tokyo on Dec. 22, 2011. The transport ministry is considering strengthening antiterrorism measures at international airports in Japan from as early as April by conducting body searches on randomly selected passengers, according to airport sources. (Kyodo)

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TEPCO to raise electricity bills

TOKYO, Japan - Toshio Nishizawa, president of Tokyo Electric Power Co., speaks during a news conference at the company's head office in Tokyo on Dec. 22, 2011. Nishizawa said the company has decided to raise electricity charges for corporate users from next April and will also seek household electricity bill hikes at an early date in the face of its increasingly tough business environment. (Kyodo)