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Ruling LDP member quits as upper house panel chief over gaffe
A senior ruling Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker resigned Monday as head of the House of Councillors' powerful Budget ...
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Japan rocked by 2,000-quake swarm as tropical cyclone threat intensifies
Japan’s Tokara Islands in Kagoshima Prefecture have been rattled by more than 2,000 earthquakes since June 21, marking the ...
LDP committee chair to resign over ‘fortunate’ quake remark
Criticized from all sides, the chair of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s Upper House Budget Committee decided to resign from the post for a remark that angered survivors of the deadly Noto ...
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Japan Becomes First Country to Install an Advanced Undersea Sensor to Make More Accurate Tsunami Warnings
The “megathrust” earthquake’s undersea magnitude was 9.0, recorded as one of the worst in Japan’s history. It began on the Pacific seabed 45 miles away from the eastern coast of Japan, as reported by ...
6.7 magnitude earthquake hits offshore eastern Indonesia
JAKARTA: A magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck Monday off eastern Indonesia, the US Geological Survey said, but a monitor said there was no tsunami threat. The quake struck at 12:49 pm Western Indonesia ...