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Strong quake in southwestern Japan kills nine, topples homes

by Shingo Ito TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Nine people were killed after a powerful earthquake hit southern Japan, collapsing homes, sparking fires and injuring hundreds, officials said Friday as rescuers worked through the night to find residents feared trapped in rubble. Tens of thousands of people reportedly fled their homes and television footage showed damaged buildings, buckled roads and lumps of broken concrete in the streets after the 6.5-magnitude quake struck the southwestern island of Kyushu. […]

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No relief from grief in northern Japan, five years after the tsunami disaster

  (Reuters) — Time has done little to heal the pain of Masako Sugawara, 70, who lost three of her grandchildren and her husband to the tsunami disaster in northern Japan five years ago. When the magnitude-9.0 earthquake hit her hometown of Rikuzentakata in Iwate Prefecture, her husband Yoshikazu, then 68, rushed out to the nearby school to pick up 9-year-old Yue, 5-year-old Yui and 5-year-old Kazuki. They were taking care of their children’s kids […]

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Magnitude 5.6 quake shakes Tokyo; no damage reported so far

A MAGNITUDE 5.6 quake shook Tokyo on Monday, May 25, setting off alarms and temporarily bringing the subway system to a halt, a report from The Japan Times said. The report said the quake shook buildings in Tokyo but that there was no risk of a tsunami from the quake. It said that the quake was registered at magnitude 5.3 by the US Geological Survey, but the Meteorological Agency earlier put it at 5.6. The runways […]

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