High school students volunteer to sort waste in quake-hit Yamagata Prefecture
High school students from Sakata, Yamagata Prefecture, worked on sorting disaster waste Monday in the Koiwagawa district of Tsuruoka, Yamagata Prefecture, which was hit by a magnitude 6.7 earthquake last week. Nine first-year students at Sakata Minami High School, two of whom live in Tsuruoka, ...
Niigata and Yamagata schools reopen and trains resume operations two days after magnitude 6.7 quake
Most schools and trains in quake-hit areas on the Sea of Japan coast resumed operations on Thursday, the latest signs of recovery from the magnitude 6.7 earthquake Tuesday that caused landslides and power outages and left dozens of people injured. Children returned to elementary and ...
Kumiko Imai-Duxfield: From the pull of destiny to a sense of duty
Whether good or bad, propelled by fate or duty, the director of arts and culture for the New Zealand-Japan Society of Auckland believes no experience is a wasted one.
Powerful quake hits southern Philippines a day after deadly temblor in north of country
A new powerful earthquake hit the central Philippines on Tuesday, a day after a magnitude 6.1 quake rattled the country's north and left at least 16 people dead, including in a collapsed supermarket, where rescuers scrambled to find survivors. The U.S. Geological Survey put the ...
Mega-quake would likely flood more of Fukushima than 2011 tsunami
If a once-in-1,000-years earthquake occurs, the area of Fukushima Prefecture expected to be flooded by subsequent tsunami could be 1.3 times larger than at the time of the March 2011 disaster, the prefectural government said Wednesday. If such a powerful earthquake takes place, tsunami of ...
A rare earthquake in South Korea was triggered by the country's first experimental geothermal power plant, a team of government-commissioned experts said Wednesday. The southeastern port city of Pohang was rattled by a 5.4-magnitude earthquake in November 2017 — the second-most-powerful tremor ever in the ...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake jolted Kumamoto Prefecture on Saturday afternoon, but no tsunami warning was issued, the Meteorological Agency said. The temblor, which struck at 2:16 p.m., occurred at a depth of around 10 kilometers, with the town of Nagomi registering a lower 5 on ...
With the final countdown to this year's Rugby World Cup in Japan well under way, organizers are focusing their efforts on contingency planning in the notoriously earthquake and typhoon-prone country, tournament director Alan Gilpin told AFP. On the pitch, Gilpin predicted the 2019 edition of ...
Municipalities in quake-hit Kumamoto vie to host one of eight planned 'One Piece' statues
The Kumamoto Prefectural Government plans to set up more statues related to "One Piece," a hugely popular manga series, to cheer up local residents in the prefecture, which was hit by powerful earthquakes in 2016 and another one just last week. The venues for the ...
Death toll tops 370 in Indonesian tsunami disaster as search for at least 128 missing continues
Body bags were laid out along the shattered coastline as Indonesian authorities stepped up efforts to collect the dead and save the injured Monday in the aftermath of tsunami apparently triggered by a volcanic eruption. The death toll climbed to 373 and was certain ...
Iran quake injures more than 700; Rouhani orders relief effort
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said no effort should be spared to help victims of a 6.3 magnitude earthquake on Iran's western border with Iraq that injured more than 700 people, most suffering minor wounds, state television reported on Monday. The Sunday night earthquake was felt ...
Hokkaido industries still struggling following quake-triggered blackout
Key industries in Hokkaido are still struggling with secondary damage from the massive blackout triggered by the powerful earthquake a month ago. The power outage even forced factories far away from the seismic center of the 6.7 magnitude earthquake to suspend operations. Food and beverage factories ...
