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China: Typhoon Bavi Rips Metal Roof Off Residential Building in Shanghai

Typhoon Bavi tore the metal roof off a residential building in Chongming District, Shanghai on July 12, 2026, with footage showing the structure shaking violently before being ripped apart and blown to the ground by powerful gusts.

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4th anniversary of arson attack on Kyoto Animation studio

KYOTO, Japan, July 18 Kyodo - Kyoto Animation Co. President Hideaki Hatta meets the press on July 18, 2023, after attending a memorial ceremony at the site of an arson attack four years earlier on an animation studio in Kyoto, western Japan, that killed 36 people. (Kyodo)

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Benchmark bond yield hits 26-year high

A financial monitor in Tokyo shows the yield on the newly issued benchmark 10-year government bond rising to 2.015 percent, its highest in about 26 years and four months, on Dec. 19, 2025, following a Bank of Japan raise earlier in the day in its key interest rate to a 30-year high of around 0.75 percent.

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Benchmark bond yield hits 26-year high

A financial monitor in Tokyo shows the yield on the newly issued benchmark 10-year government bond rising to 2.015 percent, its highest in about 26 years and four months, on Dec. 19, 2025, following a Bank of Japan raise earlier in the day in its key interest rate to a 30-year high of around 0.75 percent.

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Benchmark bond yield hits 26-year high

A financial monitor in Tokyo shows the yield on the newly issued benchmark 10-year government bond rising to 2.015 percent, its highest in about 26 years and four months, on Dec. 19, 2025, following a Bank of Japan raise earlier in the day in its key interest rate to a 30-year high of around 0.75 percent.

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Benchmark bond yield hits 26-year high

A financial monitor in Tokyo shows the yield on the newly issued benchmark 10-year government bond rising to 2.015 percent, its highest in about 26 years and four months, on Dec. 19, 2025, following a Bank of Japan raise earlier in the day in its key interest rate to a 30-year high of around 0.75 percent.

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Benchmark bond yield hits 26-year high

A financial monitor in Tokyo shows the yield on the newly issued benchmark 10-year government bond rising to 2.015 percent, its highest in about 26 years and four months, on Dec. 19, 2025, following a Bank of Japan raise earlier in the day in its key interest rate to a 30-year high of around 0.75 percent.

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24th anniversary of Ehime Maru collision off Hawaii

Photo taken on Feb. 9, 2025, shows a cenotaph built in Hawaii's Honolulu in memory of those killed in a fatal collision between the Ehime Maru training boat of Uwajima Fisheries High School in Japan's Ehime Prefecture and a U.S. nuclear submarine off Hawaii in 2001. The collision claimed the lives of four students, two teachers and three crew members exactly 24 years earlier.

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Tomb excavation in China's Anhui yields major discoveries

STORY: Tomb excavation in China's Anhui yields major discoveries SHOOTING TIME: April 17, 2024 DATELINE: May 19, 2024 LENGTH: 00:00:31 LOCATION: HUAINAN, China CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of the Wuwangdun tomb excavation site 2. various of the relics STORYLINE: The archaeological excavation at the Wuwangdun tomb in east China's Anhui Province has yielded major findings, unearthing over 3,000 cultural relics, according to China's cultural heritage administration. Earlier this year, the National Cultural Heritage Administration (NCHA) confirmed the Wuwangdun tomb as the largest and highest-level tomb of the ancient Chu state, which existed more than 2,200 years ago during the Warring States Period (475 BC-221 BC). According to the administration, the excavation of four side chambers to the north and west of the central burial chamber has been completed, while work on two additional chambers to the south and east is currently underway. Relics recovered from the northern chambers mostly consisted

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Italy's major banks report record profits in 2023

STORY: Italy's major banks report record profits in 2023 SHOOTING TIME: Feb. 7, 2024 DATELINE: Feb. 8, 2024 LENGTH: 0:00:39 LOCATION: Rome CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Italy STORYLINE: Italy's two major banks have reported record profits in 2023, signaling the recovery of the country's banking sector from recent difficulties. On Tuesday, Banca Intesa Sanpaolo, Italy's largest bank by total assets, reported a net profit of 7.7 billion euros (8.3 billion U.S. dollars) for 2023, a year-on-year increase of 76.4 percent. A day earlier, Unicredit revealed a record net profit of 8.6 billion euros for last year, 51 percent higher than in 2022. Both exceeded market expectations. The two banks rank among the world's 50 largest banks, according to Standard & Poor's ratings. Over the past three years, Italy's banking sector faced multiple challenges due to the financial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and the energy crisis stemming from the Ukraine crisis. Additionally, four months ago, the Italian p

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Javier Milei sworn in as Argentine president

STORY: Javier Milei sworn in as Argentine president SHOOTING TIME: Dec. 10, 2023 DATELINE: Dec. 11, 2023 LENGTH: 0:00:55 LOCATION: Buenos Aires CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the sworn-in ceremony STORYLINE: STANDUP (English): WANG ZHONGYI, Xinhua Correspondent "This is the Casa Rosada, the official workplace of the Argentine president, where Javier Milei, the newly inaugurated Argentine president just delivered a speech to the public. The inauguration ceremony was held earlier today (Sunday) at the Argentine Congress, officially commencing his four-year term as Argentine president." Javier Milei, a liberal politician and economist, assumed the Argentine presidency Sunday in a ceremony held at the National Congress in Buenos Aires, the country's capital. The outgoing head of state, Alberto Fernandez, placed the presidential sash and handed the baton of command to Milei, whose term will last for four years, until Dec. 10, 2027. Victoria Villarruel was sworn in as vice president. Aft

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Dance festival in Tottori

Dancers holding colorful umbrellas with bells attached perform during the Shan-Shan festival in Tottori, western Japan, on Aug. 14, 2023. The annual summer festival was held on a public road for the first time in four years as COVID-related restrictions were fully lifted earlier in the year.

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Dance festival in Tottori

Dancers holding colorful umbrellas with bells attached perform during the Shan-Shan festival in Tottori, western Japan, on Aug. 14, 2023. The annual summer festival was held on a public road for the first time in four years as COVID-related restrictions were fully lifted earlier in the year.

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Dance festival in Tottori

Dancers holding colorful umbrellas with bells attached perform during the Shan-Shan festival in Tottori, western Japan, on Aug. 14, 2023. The annual summer festival was held on a public road for the first time in four years as COVID-related restrictions were fully lifted earlier in the year.

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4th anniversary of arson attack on Kyoto Animation studio

Kyoto Animation Co. President Hideaki Hatta (L) meets the press on July 18, 2023, after attending a memorial ceremony at the site of an arson attack four years earlier on an animation studio in Kyoto, western Japan, that killed 36 people.

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4th anniversary of arson attack on Kyoto Animation studio

Kyoto Animation Co. President Hideaki Hatta (R) bows on July 18, 2023, before attending a memorial ceremony at the site of an arson attack four years earlier on an animation studio in Kyoto, western Japan, that killed 36 people.

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5 polio cases detected in Afghanistan: UNICEF

STORY: 5 polio cases detected in Afghanistan: UNICEF DATELINE: June 20, 2023 LENGTH: 00:00:39 LOCATION: JALALABAD, Afghanistan CATEGORY: HEALTH SHOTLIST: 1. various of a child being diagnosed with polio STORYLINE: Afghanistan has reported five polio cases after a child under five years old was diagnosed with the crippling disease in the country's eastern Nangarhar province, United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Afghanistan has confirmed. The case has been registered in Dur Baba district of Nangarhar province, Kamal Shah Sayed, head of the communications department of UNICEF Polio Eradication Program in Afghanistan, told media. "The disease is feared to spread to other parts of the province and efforts were underway to check it," the official said. Four cases of the crippling virus have earlier been recorded in Kot, Bati Kot, Nazian and Behsud districts of the province. Afghanistan and Pakistan are the only countries in the world where wild polio is still endemic. According to reports,

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Japan begins construction of new SDF base for U.S. fighter drills

Japan started construction work Thursday for a Self-Defense Forces base on an uninhabited island in a southwestern prefecture, the Defense Ministry said, under a plan to relocate military drills using U.S. carrier-borne fighter jets. In the work expected to last four years on Mage Island in Kagoshima, the ministry will first build runways and ammunition storage facilities, according to an environmental assessment report made public earlier in the day. The project will pave the way for the relocation of the practice site for U.S. fighter jets from Iwoto Island in the Pacific, about 1,250 kilometers south of Tokyo, following the construction work on the 8 square km island.

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Man reads pen pal's letter from Russian-held island

KUSHIRO, Japan - Tadaaki Iwasaki, a former resident of Etorofu, one of the four Russian-held islands off Hokkaido, northern Japan, reads a letter in this file photo taken on Sept. 20, 2014, from his Russian pen pal Galina Burisovna Danilinichuk whom he met around 10 years earlier during her visa-free visit to Sapporo. She attends the Iwasaki family's grave on the island.

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Nintendo sees 1st April-Sept. black ink in 4 yrs

OSAKA, Japan - Nintendo Co. President Satoru Iwata holds a press conference on the company's business performance in Osaka on Oct. 30, 2013. The Japanese game giant said it returned to the black for the first time in four years on a first-half basis with a group net profit of 600 million yen, a turnaround from a net loss of 28.00 billion yen a year earlier, aided by exchange rate gains stemming from a weaker yen.

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Shinto ritual on Lake Suwa

NAGANO, Japan - A Shinto ritual is held on the surface of the frozen Lake Suwa in Nagano Prefecture on Feb. 6, 2012 to predict the year's social situations and the prospects for crop harvests and weather from a streak of elevated ice cracks, a natural phenomenon observed two days earlier on the Nagano Prefecture lake for the first time in four years.

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Shinto ritual on Lake Suwa

NAGANO, Japan - A Shinto ritual is held on the surface of the frozen Lake Suwa in Nagano Prefecture on Feb. 6, 2012 to predict the year's social situations and the prospects for crop harvests and weather from a streak of elevated ice cracks, a natural phenomenon observed two days earlier on the Nagano Prefecture lake for the first time in four years.

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(1)Court awards damages to Chinese in wartime forced-labor case

HIROSHIMA, Japan - A supporter of a group of Chinese plaintiffs holds a banner reading ''suit won'' after the Hiroshima High Court awarded damages in full on July 9 to the group who said they were forced to work in severe conditions at a construction site in Hiroshima Prefecture during World War II. The high court overturned a July 2002 lower court ruling that rejected the lawsuit brought by Shao Yicheng, 78, and four other plaintiffs four years earlier against Nishimatsu Construction Co., a construction firm based in Tokyo.

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(2)Court awards damages to Chinese in wartime forced-labor case

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Plaintiffs, accompanied by their lawyers and supporters, walk into the Hiroshima High Court on July 9 to hear a ruling on their damages suit. The high court awarded damages in full by overturning a July 2002 lower court ruling that rejected the lawsuit brought by Shao Yicheng, 78, and four other plaintiffs four years earlier against Nishimatsu Construction Co., a construction firm based in Tokyo.

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This holiday season, U.S. poor buckle under inflation: NYT

STORY: This holiday season, U.S. poor buckle under inflation: NYT DATELINE: Nov. 26, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:37 LOCATION: NEW YORK, U.S. CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. STANDUP (English): PAN LIJUN, Xinhua correspondent 2. various of screenshots of New York Times report 3. various of street views in Manhattan during holiday season STORYLINE: STANDUP (English): PAN LIJUN, Xinhua correspondent "In Boston, Massachusetts, wealthy people check in at the Langham Hotel, and the 135-U.S. dollar Thanksgiving brunch per adult at its in-house restaurant sold out weeks ago. Meanwhile, many families line up in front of a local charity around 4:30 a.m. for its free pantry and turkeys. This is four hours earlier than its opening time. 'The contrast illustrates a divide that is rippling through America's topsy-turvy economy nearly three years into the pandemic,' said The New York Times on Nov. 25. Many well-off consumers are still flush with savings and faring well financially, bolstering luxury brands and keeping some high-e

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Israel begins vaccinating children under 5 against COVID-19

STORY: Israel begins vaccinating children under 5 against COVID-19 DATELINE: Aug. 3, 2022 LENGTH: 0:01:26 LOCATION: Jerusalem CATEGORY: HEALTH SHOTLIST: 1. various of a four-year old before and after receiving COVID-19 vaccine STORYLINE: A nationwide vaccination campaign against COVID-19 for children aged six months to five years was launched in Israel on Sunday. The vaccination will provide children "with an important protection layer against serious illness and post-COVID symptoms," said a statement issued by the Israeli Ministry of Health on Sunday evening. The vaccine is especially recommended for children at risk of severe COVID-19 illness due to underlying health conditions that impair the immune system, the ministry noted. The shots will either be three doses of the Pfizer vaccine or two doses of the Moderna vaccine, said the ministry. Vaccination for children under the age of five was approved by the ministry's Director General Nachman Ash earlier this month, following a recommendation by a pan

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4th anniversary of western Japan rain disaster

Photo taken on July 6, 2022, in the Okayama Prefecture city of Kurashiki, western Japan, shows temporary housing for people displaced by torrential rain exactly four years earlier that caused flooding and mudslides, claiming the lives of 304 people in 14 prefectures.

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Hungary's new government sworn in

STORY: Hungary's new government sworn in DATELINE: May 25, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:33 LOCATION: Budapest CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. Hungarian Parliament exterior 2. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban delivers his speech 3. SOUNDBITE (Hungarian): VIKTOR ORBAN, Hungarian Prime Minister 4. Ministers take oath of office 5. MPs sing national anthem together 6. Soldiers march out with historic flags STORYLINE: The members of Hungary's new government led by Prime Minister Viktor Orban took their oath of office in Parliament in Budapest on Tuesday. Earlier Tuesday, President Katalin Novak appointed the ministers of the fifth Orban government. Addressing the deputies, Orban said that never before in Hungary's democratic history has a government had such a strong democratic mandate as this one. Orban said he selected the members of his new government with the aim of finding the best solutions for the challenges Hungary will face over the next four years. "The new government is facing a particularly hard task,

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Grand Canal gets refilled with water in all dried-out sections

STORY: Grand Canal gets refilled with water in all dried-out sections DATELINE: April 28, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:12 LOCATION: DEZHOU, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the Grand Canal STORYLINE: The Grand Canal, a vast waterway connecting the northern and southern parts of China, has seen all of its dried-out sections refilled with water on Thursday after a 14-day water-supply project. Launched by Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei and Shandong -- four of the regions the canal flows through, this project injected about 515 million cubic meters of water into the northern part of the canal. This project is expected to increase the water surface of the Grand Canal by 9.5 square km from a year earlier and will also help improve the ecosystems along the canal. With a history of more than 2,500 years, the Grand Canal connects Beijing and Hangzhou in east China's Zhejiang Province, which served as a significant transportation artery in ancient China. The longest and oldest artificial waterway in the world, the

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Italy ends two-year COVID-19 state of emergency

STORY: Italy ends two-year COVID-19 state of emergency DATELINE: April 1, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:06 LOCATION: Rome CATEGORY: HEALTH SHOTLIST: 1. various of street view in Italy STORYLINE: More than two years after its announcement, and following several extensions, Italy on Thursday officially ended the COVID-19 pandemic state of emergency. The end date -- March 31 -- was originally announced by Prime Minister Mario Draghi in February. The country can now gradually phase out the remaining COVID measures between April 1 and Dec. 31, 2022. From Friday on, the four-tier system based on a color code -- white, yellow, orange and red zones for no, low, medium and high pandemic risk, respectively -- will no longer apply, according to the new rules. This means that the remaining measures will apply nationwide, regardless of the local or regional epidemiological situation. Several rules will change starting on Friday, according to a cabinet decree passed earlier in March. Among the changes tha

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Ex-Japanese baseball star Kiyohara given suspended term for drug use

A camera crew waits for former Japanese baseball star Kazuhiro Kiyohara to come out in front of the Tokyo District Court on May 31, 2016. The court earlier sentenced the 48-year-old to two years and six months in prison, suspended for four years, for possessing, using and purchasing illegal drugs. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan, S. Korea foreign ministers meet amid rows over WWII issues

Riot police officers stand guard near the Iikura Guest House in Tokyo on June 21, 2015, where Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida and South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung Se held talks. Yun arrived in Tokyo earlier in the day for a two-day stay in Japan, making the first visit by a South Korean foreign minister in four years. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan, S. Korea foreign ministers meet amid rows over WWII issues

South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung Se (L) and Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida shake hands at the outset of their talks at the Iikura Guest House in Tokyo on June 21, 2015. Yun arrived in Tokyo earlier in the day for a two-day stay in Japan, making the first visit by a South Korean foreign minister in four years. (Pool photo)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan, S. Korea foreign ministers meet amid rows over WWII issues

South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung Se (L) and Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida shake hands at the Iikura Guest House in Tokyo on June 21, 2015, prior to their talks. Yun arrived in Tokyo earlier in the day for a two-day stay in Japan, making the first visit by a South Korean foreign minister in four years. (Pool photo)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan, Pacific island nations meet, eye disaster management

Leaders of Japan and Pacific island nations pray on May 22, 2015, in an area in Iwaki, northeastern Japan that was hit by tsunami four years earlier. They gathered for a two-day meeting in Fukushima Prefecture, focusing on measures to deal with disasters, climate change and maritime issues. (Pool photo)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Searching for remains of people who went missing in tsunami

Police officers and firefighters line up in Namie, Fukushima Prefecture on March 11, 2015, ahead of their joint operation to search for the remains of people who remain unaccounted for in the wake of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami that hit the area four years earlier. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Memorial service held in Rome to mourn Japanese tsunami victims

People offer flowers during a ceremony at Rome's Campidoglio square on March 11, 2015, to mourn the lives lost in the killer earthquake and tsunami that hit northeastern Japan four years earlier. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Memorial service held in Sydney to mourn Japanese tsunami victims

Japanese and Australian participants observe a moment of silence during a memorial service at a Japanese-style inn in Sydney on March 11, 2015, to mourn the lives lost in the killer earthquake and tsunami that hit northeastern Japan four years earlier. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Memorial service held in Rome to mourn Japanese tsunami victims

People offer flowers during a ceremony at Rome's Campidoglio square on March 11, 2015, to mourn the lives lost in the killer earthquake and tsunami that hit northeastern Japan four years earlier. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Memorial service held in Rome to mourn Japanese tsunami victims

(From L) Rome Mayor Ignazio Marino, Japanese Ambassador to Italy Kazuyoshi Umemoto, and Japanese fashion designer Kenzo Takada offer flowers during a ceremony in Rome's Campidoglio square on March 11, 2015, to mourn the lives lost in the killer earthquake and tsunami that hit northeastern Japan four years earlier. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan marks 4th anniv. of deadly disaster

A girl in the northeastern Japan city of Ishinomaki prays on March 11, 2015, for her friends killed in the deadly earthquake and tsunami that struck on the same day four years earlier. The disaster left more than 18,000 people dead or missing and triggered the continuing Fukushima nuclear crisis. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-Wakayama governor convicted of bribery, bid rigging

OSAKA, Japan - Former Wakayama Gov. Yoshiki Kimura was sentenced to three years in prison on Sept. 10, suspended for four years, for taking 10 million yen in bribes and rigging bids for three prefectural public works projects in 2004. The photo shows the 55-year-old Kimura entering the Osaka District Court earlier in the day for the verdict-delivering session. (Kyodo)

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Jinrikisha,a man-pulled cart,decorated with chicken scuplture

Carried on page 235 of the February 8, 1873 edition of The Far East. The article states that four years earlier there were no cars such as these but only palanquins for the nobility and commoners. Foreigners brought these types of vehicles into Japan, and entrepreneurs manufactured these boat-shaped baby car-type rickshaws.==Date:First year of Meiji, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number17‐41‐0]

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Shinto ritual on Lake Suwa

NAGANO, Japan - A Shinto ritual is held on the surface of the frozen Lake Suwa in Nagano Prefecture on Feb. 6, 2012 to predict the year's social situations and the prospects for crop harvests and weather from a streak of elevated ice cracks, a natural phenomenon observed two days earlier on the Nagano Prefecture lake for the first time in four years. (Kyodo)

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Shinto ritual on Lake Suwa

NAGANO, Japan - A Shinto ritual is held on the surface of the frozen Lake Suwa in Nagano Prefecture on Feb. 6, 2012 to predict the year's social situations and the prospects for crop harvests and weather from a streak of elevated ice cracks, a natural phenomenon observed two days earlier on the Nagano Prefecture lake for the first time in four years. (Kyodo)

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Shooting death of Japanese doctor in Afghanistan

Naoko Nakamura, wife of slain Japanese physician Tetsu Nakamura, and their daughter Akiko offer flowers as his coffin is unloaded at Narita airport. The physician, known for his years of aid work, was killed in a shooting in eastern Afghanistan four days earlier. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Shooting death of Japanese doctor in Afghanistan

Naoko Nakamura (2nd from R), wife of Japanese physician Tetsu Nakamura, and their daughter Akiko (3rd from R) arrive at Narita airport near Tokyo on Dec. 8, 2019. The physician, known for his years of aid work, was killed in a shooting in eastern Afghanistan four days earlier. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Shooting death of Japanese doctor in Afghanistan

Naoko Nakamura (L), wife of Japanese physician Tetsu Nakamura, arrives at Narita airport near Tokyo on Dec. 8, 2019. The physician, known for his years of aid work, was killed in a shooting in eastern Afghanistan four days earlier. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Shooting death of Japanese doctor in Afghanistan

The coffin of Japanese physician Tetsu Nakamura is unloaded at Narita airport near Tokyo on Dec. 8, 2019. Nakamura, known for his years of aid work, was killed in a shooting in eastern Afghanistan four days earlier. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Shooting death of Japanese doctor in Afghanistan

The coffin of Japanese physician Tetsu Nakamura is unloaded at Narita airport near Tokyo on Dec. 8, 2019. Nakamura, known for his years of aid work, was killed in a shooting in eastern Afghanistan four days earlier. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo