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13,000 fled to 768 evacuation centers in Hokkaido after powerful quake
About 13,000 people sought shelter at a total of 768 evacuation centers set up in Hokkaido following the powerful earthquake that hit the island on Sept. 6, according to the Hokkaido Prefectural Government. With the magnitude 6.7 quake triggering a prefecture-wide blackout and paralyzing traffic, ...
2019 debut eyed for Japan electronic map system for sharing disaster info
The Japanese government plans to fully launch in fiscal 2019 a system in which information on earthquakes, heavy rain and other disasters collected by government agencies and local authorities is displayed on electronic maps, informed sources have said. The system is intended to facilitate the ...
Ministry booklet gives advice to pet owners on what to do during natural disasters
The Environment Ministry plans to provide prefectural and major city governments with a booklet giving guidance to pet owners during times of disasters. The booklet, which will probably be distributed in October, gives municipalities tips about making routine preparations ahead of disasters and about the ...
How to sum up Japan's summer of disaster in Japanese?
The summer of 2018 was one for the books — busting meteorological records, wreaking havoc and devastating entire regions along the coast of western Japan.
Many cat owners in Hokkaido are desperately looking for their missing pets, fearing they have gotten lost after fleeing their homes in the turmoil created by the level 7 earthquake on Sept. 6. The animal management center in Sapporo, the capital, has been contacted about ...
Hokkaido's prefecture-wide blackout on Sept. 6 was caused by a failed emergency step that was designed to prevent exactly what it caused after the level 7 earthquake, a document has revealed. The reason it failed was because the temblor triggered a bigger initial power loss ...
Tokyo to subsidize hotel discounts in Hokkaido to help tourism recover from quake
Plan supported by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe follows similar moves following disasters in other parts of the country.
Insurance body says settlements over June's Osaka earthquake have topped ¥86 billion
Insurance payments to individuals affected by the powerful earthquake that hit northern Osaka Prefecture in June had reached ¥86.6 billion as of Sept. 12, the General Insurance Association of Japan said Thursday. The figure exceeded the ¥78.3 billion paid out after the 1995 Great Hanshin ...
Debts stemming from reconstruction and recovery piling up in disaster-prone Japan
Recovery and reconstruction efforts following major natural disasters take years and large sums of money to complete, and the magnitude 6.7 quake that rocked Hokkaido earlier this month is unlikely to be an exception. Shoichiro Miyasaka, mayor of Atsuma, where massive landslides engulfed homes following ...
Mexico marks anniversaries of two deadly earthquakes, then holds drill
Mexico held memorials and protests Wednesday in memory of the two earthquakes that devastated the country on Sept.19 — one that killed 369 people last year, and another in 1985 that killed more than 10,000. Raising their fists in the air — the symbol used ...
More than 350 schools and universities in Hokkaido damaged in quake
At least 354 schools, universities and other educational institutions in Hokkaido were damaged in the powerful earthquake that struck the prefecture Sept. 6, a tally by the central and local governments showed. In most cases, the deadly quake that occurred shortly after 3 a.m. caused ...
A year after deadly Mexican quakes, some still can't go home
A year after a devastating earthquake struck Mexico City and killed dozens of people, Guadalupe Padilla is still waiting to return to her home. The 60-year-old security guard has lived in a wooden shack in a park facing the now-empty apartment block where she spent ...
