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Illustration - Loire Valley

FRANCE - LOIRE VALLEY - LOIR ET CHER (41) - CASTLE OF CHAMBORD : LIVING ROOM OF THE APARTMENT OF CHARLES V (XVITH CENTURY). IN 1539, FRANCIS I RECEIVED HIS GREAT RIVAL, THE EMPEROR CHARLES V (PHOTO). FOR THIS EVENT, ALL THE SPLENDOR AVAILABLE IS DEPLOYED TO IMPRESS THE ROYAL GUEST (IT SEEMS ON THIS OCCASION OF THIS STAY THAT THE LANTERNS OF THE TOWERS WERE GILDED). FRANCIS I LODGES THE EMPEROR IN THIS HOUSE, WHOSE WALLS ARE COVERED WITH EMBROIDERED BLACK VELVET. Photo by Stephane Compoint/Only France/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Mt. Fuji

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Aug. 10, 2024, shows climbers flocking around mountain lodges on the summit of the Yoshida trail of Mt. Fuji, Japan's highest mountain, as its climbing season peaks. The 3,776-meter mountain in central Japan straddles Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures.

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Mt. Fuji

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Aug. 10, 2024, shows climbers flocking around mountain lodges on the summit of the Yoshida trail of Mt. Fuji, Japan's highest mountain, as its climbing season peaks. The 3,776-meter mountain in central Japan straddles Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures.

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U.S. tariff hikes on China's clean energy goods draws backlash

STORY: U.S. tariff hikes on China's clean energy goods draws backlash SHOOTING TIME: File DATELINE: May 15, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:20 LOCATION: Beijing CATEGORY: POLITICS/ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the White House 2. various of China's EV industry 3. photo of U.S. President Joe Biden during an event in Washington, D.C. on May 14 4. various of screenshots of media reports STORYLINE: The United States announced on Tuesday new tariffs on an array of clean energy products from China, including electric vehicles (EVs), with EV tariffs jumping from 25 percent to 100 percent. Shortly after the announcement, China's commerce ministry said Tuesday that China firmly opposes and lodges solemn representations over U.S. further increase of additional tariffs on some Chinese goods, and will take resolute measures to safeguard its own rights and interests. The newly announced tariff hike is mostly a symbolic gesture as the Biden administration is trying to look tough on China amid the increasingly fierce presidential

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Beavers in the city

18.03.2024, Pärnu. Beavers in the city. Traces of beaver activity can be seen as trees have been chopped down and there are also beaver lodges. Photo: Urmas Luik/Pärnnu PM

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Beavers in the city

18.03.2024, Pärnu. Beavers in the city. Traces of beaver activity can be seen as trees have been chopped down and there are also beaver lodges. Photo: Urmas Luik/Pärnnu PM

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United Nations lodges concern over reported U.S. eavesdropping on UN chief

STORY: United Nations lodges concern over reported U.S. eavesdropping on UN chief DATELINE: April 19, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:13 LOCATION: UN Headquarters CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. wide shot of press briefing room 2. wide shot of spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Stephane Dujarric walking to podium 3. SOUNDBITE (English): STEPHANE DUJARRIC, Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General 4. various of journalists 5. wide shot of press briefing room STORYLINE: The United Nations has officially expressed to the United States the world body's concern over reported surveillance on UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, a UN spokesman said on Tuesday. Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for Guterres made the remarks at the daily press briefing. SOUNDBITE (English): STEPHANE DUJARRIC, Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General "We have now officially expressed to the host country our concern regarding the recent reports that communications of the secretary-general and other senior UN officials have been the subject of surveill

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Most victims on Mt. Ontake hit by falling rocks

OSAKA, Japan - The roofs of mountain lodges near the top of Mt. Ontake in central Japan are covered in thick volcanic ash on Oct. 2, 2014. Autopsies have determined that 46 of the 47 people confirmed to have died in the Sept. 27 eruption of the 3,067-meter volcano, straddling Nagano and Gifu prefectures, were hit by flying rocks.

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Photos from Mt. Ontake eruption

TOKYO, Japan - Mountain lodges near the top of Mt. Ontake are covered in ash from the 3,067-meter volcano on Sept. 28, 2014, as it continues spewing smoke. The volcano straddling Nagano and Gifu prefectures in central Japan erupted before noon the previous day.

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Photos from Mt. Ontake eruption

OSAKA, Japan - Firefighters and members of Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force engage in rescue operations around mountain lodges near the top of Mt. Ontake on Sept. 28, 2014, after the 3,067-meter volcano straddling Nagano and Gifu prefectures in central Japan erupted before noon the previous day.

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Photos from Mt. Ontake eruption

OSAKA, Japan - Firefighters and members of Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force engage in rescue operations around mountain lodges near the top of Mt. Ontake on Sept. 28, 2014, after the 3,067-meter volcano straddling Nagano and Gifu prefectures in central Japan erupted before noon the previous day.

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Photos from Mt. Ontake eruption

OSAKA, Japan - Firefighters and members of Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force engage in rescue operations around mountain lodges near the top of Mt. Ontake on Sept. 28, 2014, after the 3,067-meter volcano straddling Nagano and Gifu prefectures in central Japan erupted before noon the previous day.

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Central Japan volcano Mt. Ontake erupts

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News airplane shows mountain lodges covered in ash near a crater of Mt. Ontake, a volcano straddling Nagano and Gifu prefectures in central Japan, at 2:21 p.m. on Sept. 27, 2014. The volcano erupted shortly before noon the same day, with about 10 hikers injured.

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S. Korea lodges protest over Japanese textbooks

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean Vice Foreign Minister Cho Tae Yong (R) conveys a protest to Japanese Ambassador to South Korea Koro Bessho (L) at the South Korean Foreign Ministry in Seoul on April 4, 2014, over Japan's move to include its territorial claim to a pair of South Korean-held islets in elementary school textbooks.

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S. Korea lodges protest with Japan over Takeshima Day ceremony

SEOUL, South Korea - Hisashi Michigami, minister at the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, arrives at the South Korean Foreign Ministry in Seoul on Feb. 23, 2014. The Foreign Ministry lodged a protest with Michigami over a ceremony held Feb. 22 in Matsue, the capital of the western Japan prefecture of Shimane, to commemorate the Japanese "incorporation" in 1905 of islets known as Takeshima in Japan and Dokdo in South Korea. The local government designated Feb. 22 as Takeshima Day in 2005.

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Fishermen's group lodges protest with TEPCO

TOKYO, Japan - Representatives (R side) of the National Federation of Fisheries Co-operative Associations hand Naomi Hirose, president of Tokyo Electric Power Co., a protest letter over the leakage of contaminated water from its crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean, at the company's headquarters in Tokyo on July 25, 2013. The fishermen's group also urged TEPCO to take drastic measures to prevent further leakage and enhance monitoring of the ocean off the nuclear complex.

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S. Korea lodges protest with Japan

SEOUL, South Korea - Takashi Kurai, deputy chief of mission at the Japanese Embassy in South Korea, arrives at the Foreign Ministry in Seoul on July 9, 2013. The ministry called in Kurai to deliver a protest against Japan for describing South Korea-controlled islets in the Sea of Japan, known as Dokdo in Korean and Takeshima in Japanese, as Japanese territory in the Defense White Paper for 2013 released earlier in the day.

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S. Korea lodges protest with Japan

SEOUL, South Korea - Takashi Kurai (C), deputy chief of mission at the Japanese Embassy in South Korea, leaves the Foreign Ministry in Seoul on July 9, 2013. The ministry called in Kurai to deliver a protest against Japan for describing South Korea-controlled islets in the Sea of Japan, known as Dokdo in Korean and Takeshima in Japanese, as Japanese territory in the Defense White Paper for 2013 released earlier in the day.

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Acquitted man lodges damages suit

TOKYO, Japan - Shoji Sakurai, one of two men acquitted in a 1967 robbery and murder case, holds a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 12, 2012, after lodging a suit seeking 190 million yen in damages over allegedly illegal acts by law enforcement authorities that led to false accusations against him.

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Climbers die in Japan's Northern Alps

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on May 5, 2012, shows mountain lodges in the village of Otari, Nagano Prefecture. A group of six men, from Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, in southwestern Japan, were found collapsed near 2,932-meter Mt. Shiroumadake in the prefecture by another climber the same day and later confirmed dead due to hypothermia. They had gone missing after leaving Tsugaike Huette (L) in the morning the previous day.

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Group lodges protest over Nagoya mayor's remarks

NAGOYA, Japan - Kensaku Ishikawa (L), head of the Aichi prefectural chapter of the Japan-China Friendship Association, hands a letter of protest against Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura to an official at the Nagoya city government office on Feb. 24, 2012. Kawamura earlier in the week expressed doubt about the massacre of civilians by the Imperial Japanese Army in Nanjing in 1937.

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Japan lodges protest over Korean geographical names in WSJ ad

NEW YORK, United States - Photo shows a part of an advertisement of Korea Cup International Yacht Race, which was printed in the April 26, 2011, issue of the Wall Street Journal. Japan protested against the paper's publisher Dow Jones & Co., as the advertisement refers to a group of islets claimed by both Japan and South Korea as ''Dokdo'' and ''Sea of Japan'' as the ''East Sea,'' both in the Korean manners.

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Japan lodges protest over Korean geographical names in WSJ ad

NEW YORK, United States - Photo shows an advertisement for the Korea Cup International Yacht Race that appeared in The Wall Street Journal on April 26, 2011. Japan lodged a protest with the paper's publisher, Dow Jones & Co., as the advertisement uses the South Korean name of ''Dokdo'' to refer to a group of islets disputed by the two countries and refers to the ''Sea of Japan'' as the ''East Sea.''

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Japan lodges protest, condemns N. Korea rocket launch

TOKYO, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Takeo Kawamura speaks at a news conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on April 5 after the end of a meeting of Japan's Security Council.

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Japan lodges protest with N. Korea: Nakasone

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone speaks to reporters at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on April 5 after a meeting there following North Korea's rocket launch. Nakasone said Japan lodged a protest with North Korea through diplomatic channels in Beijing.

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Nagasaki mayor lodges protest with Kyuma over A-bomb remarks

TOKYO, Japan - Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue (C) hands a protest note to Defense Minister Fumio Kyuma (R) at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on July 3 over Kyuma's comments on June 30 that the atomic bombing of Nagasaki was ''something that couldn't be helped.'

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China lashes out at Koizumi's shrine visit

BEIJING, China - Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing (R) summons Japanese Ambassador to China Yuji Miyamoto (L) to his ministry and lodges a protest over Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visit to Yasukuni Shrine on Aug. 15.

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(1)Abductee's father lodges protest 'with anger,' calls for sanctions

TOKYO, Japan - Shigeru Yokota, whose daughter Megumi Yokota was abducted to North Korea in 1977, accompanied by his wife Sakie, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 8. The Yokotas issued a statement lodging a protest ''with anger'' over North Korea presenting fake remains as those of his daughter, and strongly urged the Japanese government to immediately impose economic sanctions against the North.

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(2)Abductee's father lodges protest 'with anger,' calls for sanctions

TOKYO, Japan - Shigeru Yokota, whose daughter Megumi Yokota was abducted to North Korea in 1977, and his wife Sakie come out of the Cabinet Office on Dec. 8 following a government announcement that DNA analysis showed the remains handed by the North are not those of Megumi.

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China lodges complaint as rightists' crash into consulate

OSAKA, Japan - A Japanese rightist group crashes a sound truck into the Chinese consulate in Osaka on April 23, damaging the building and causing a fire. China later lodged a formal complaint with Japan.

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(2)S. Korea lodges protest over Koizumi's Yasukuni visit

SEOUL, South Korea - Members of a civic group rally in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on Jan. 2 to protest Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visit on Jan. 1 to Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, where Japan's war dead, including Class-A war criminals, are enshrined.

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(1)S. Korea lodges protest over Koizumi's Yasukuni visit

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Yoon Young Kwan (background) meets with Japanese Ambassador Toshiyuki Takano (foreground) at his ministry on Jan. 2 to protest Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visit on Jan. 1 to Tokyo's war-related Yasukuni Shrine.

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S. Korea lodges formal protest over Japan's fishing ban

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Han Seung Soo (R) summons Japanese Ambassador Terusuke Terada (L) to his ministry in Seoul on June 25. Han lodged his country's formal protest against Japan for barring its fishing boats from operating in waters off the Sanriku region of northeastern Japan.

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Chinese envoy lodges complaint over textbook approval

TOKYO, Japan - Chinese Ambassador to Japan Chen Jian (R) shakes hands with Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Yutaka Kawashima at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on April 4 prior to their meeting. Chen lodged a complaint over Japan's approval of a controversial junior high school history textbook that critics say glosses over Japan's wartime aggression against its Asian neighbors.

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S. Korea lodges protest over new Japanese textbook

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Han Seung Soo (R) summons Japanese Ambassador to South Korea Terusuke Terada (L) to his ministry in Seoul on April 4. Han lodged a formal protest against Japan's approval of a junior high school history textbook that Seoul says justifies Japan's wartime military aggression against Asian countries.

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China lashes out at Koizumi's shrine visit

BEIJING, China - Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing (R) summons Japanese Ambassador to China Yuji Miyamoto (L) to his ministry and lodges a protest over Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visit to Yasukuni Shrine on Aug. 15. (Kyodo)

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Nagasaki mayor lodges protest with Kyuma over A-bomb remarks

TOKYO, Japan - Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue (C) hands a protest note to Defense Minister Fumio Kyuma (R) at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on July 3 over Kyuma's comments on June 30 that the atomic bombing of Nagasaki was ''something that couldn't be helped.' (Kyodo)

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Nagasaki mayor lodges protest with Kyuma over A-bomb remarks

TOKYO, Japan - Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue (C) hands a protest note to Defense Minister Fumio Kyuma (R) at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on July 3 over Kyuma's comments on June 30 that the atomic bombing of Nagasaki was ''something that couldn't be helped.' (Kyodo)

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Japan lodges protest with N. Korea: Nakasone

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone speaks to reporters at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on April 5 after a meeting there following North Korea's rocket launch. Nakasone said Japan lodged a protest with North Korea through diplomatic channels in Beijing. (Kyodo)

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Japan lodges protest, condemns N. Korea rocket launch

TOKYO, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Takeo Kawamura speaks at a news conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on April 5 after the end of a meeting of Japan's Security Council. (Kyodo)

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HOT TUB TIME MACHINE

HOT TUB TIME MACHINE [US 2010] [L-R] JOHN CUSACK, LYNDSY FONSECA, ROB CORDDRY, CLARK DUKE Date: 2010

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HOT TUB TIME MACHINE

HOT TUB TIME MACHINE [US 2010] [L-R] CHARLIE MCDERMOTT, SEBASTIAN STAN, ROB CORDDRY Date: 2010

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HOT TUB TIME MACHINE

HOT TUB TIME MACHINE [US 2010] [L-R] JOHN CUSACK, CLARK DUKE, ROB CORDDRY, CRAIG ROBINSON Date: 2010

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HOT TUB TIME MACHINE

HOT TUB TIME MACHINE [US 2010] [L-R] CLARK DUKE, ROB CORDDRY, COLLETTE WOLFE, JOHN CUSACK, CRAIG ROBINSON Date: 2010

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Japan lodges protest with N. Korea over ballistic missile launch

Japanese Defense Minister Gen Nakatani speaks to reporters on July 19, 2016, in Tokyo. Regarding North Korea's launch of ballistic missiles into the sea off its east coast earlier that day, the Japanese government issued a statement calling the latest launch "a clear violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions." (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Okinawa prefectural assembly lodges protest over woman's death

Okinawa prefectural assembly members hold a moment of silence on May 26, 2016, for the death of a local woman, whose body was found one week ago. A former U.S. Marine was arrested for dumping her body, and the assembly adopted a resolution by majority vote to lodge a protest over the incident. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Abe lodges "firm protest" to Obama over Okinawa incident

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks in a joint press conference with U.S. President Barack Obama in Shima, Mie Prefecture on May 25, 2016. Abe said he lodged a "firm protest" with Washington over the arrest of a former U.S. Marine, who has admitted to killing a local woman in Okinawa. (Pool photo)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Abe lodges "firm protest" to Obama over Okinawa incident

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks in a joint press conference with U.S. President Barack Obama in Shima, Mie Prefecture on May 25, 2016. Abe said he lodged a "firm protest" with Washington over the arrest of a former U.S. Marine, who has admitted to killing a local woman in Okinawa. (Pool photo)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan lodges protest against U.S. military after ex-Marine nabbed

Japanese Defense Minister Gen Nakatani (L) lodges protest with the commander of U.S. military forces in Okinawa, Lt. Gen. Lawrence Nicholson (R), on May 21, 2016, in the town of Kadena following the arrest of a civilian base worker over the death of a local woman. The suspect, a former Marine, has reportedly admitted to killing the 20-year-old woman. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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S. Korea lodges protest against Japan's authorized textbooks

South Koreans protest in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on March 18, 2016, against authorized Japanese high school textbooks which reflect state guidelines stipulating that Seoul-controlled islets known as Dokdo in South Korea and Takeshima in Japan are Japanese territory. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo