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TOKYO, Jun 21, 2017 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- An evacuation advisory has been issued for around 300,000 residents of Japan's Hamamatsu City in Shizuoka Prefecture, in the Chubu region of [...]

Byline: ELIZABETH SHIM Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Japan is to soon conduct another evacuation drill, this time to prepare residents of Nagasaki for North Korea provocations. This is the second [...]

TOKYO, Apr 06, 2017 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday rejected calls for the reconstruction minister to step down following remarks he made disparaging Fukushima [...]

Tokyo, Mar 31, 2017 (EFE via COMTEX) -- (Amends headline, lead, and details in fourth and penultimate paragraph) ).- The Japanese government will lift, between Friday and Saturday, the evacuation [...]

Tokyo, Mar 31, 2017 (EFE via COMTEX) -- The Japanese government will lift, between Friday and Saturday, the evacuation orders from four more localities apart from Fukushima prefecture. These areas [...]

The town of Tomioka in Japan's Fukushima prefecture has been barren for the last six years. The symbolic cherry trees there have been some of the only signs of life [...]

MISAWA AIR BASE, Japan -- The following information was released by the Pacific Air Forces: By Senior Airman Brittany A. Chase, 35th Fighter Wing Public Affairs Airmen, Soldiers and U.S. [...]

Tokyo, Mar 17, 2017 (EFE via COMTEX) -- A court in Japan on Friday found the Japanese government and the operator of Fukushima nuclear power plant guilty of negligence, requesting [...]

Tokyo, Mar 17, 2017 (EFE via COMTEX) -- Japan Friday conducted its first evacuation drill in case of a possible future North Korean missile attack at a time of growing [...]

Fukushima Gov. Masao Uchibori criticized Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Monday after the leader failed to directly mention the radioactive disaster that befell the region in an annual speech on the 2011 deadly tsunami [...]

Summary: Japan orders more than 100,000 people to evacuate their homes after torrential rains caused flash floods across the country. Authorities in the central Tochigi Prefectureordered more than 90,000 residents [...]

Byline: Karen Rockett Japan has lifted a four-and-a-half year evacuation order that had sent all of the town's 7,400 residents of the town of Naraha away following the disaster at [...]

Byline: Sam Adams Thousands of people are being evacuated after Japan warned a massive volcano close to a nuclear power plant is threatening to erupt. Japan warned Sakurajima volcano, which [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDIITATE, Japan -- For four years, an eerie quiet has pervaded the clusters of farmhouses and terraced rice paddies of this mountainous village, emptied of people after the disaster [...]

Summary: Authorities in Japan have urged more than 360,000 residents to evacuate their homes as Typhoon Nangka is barreling towards the country's main island. Local authorities urged at least 367,800 [...]

Japan has urged residents of Fukushima to return to the nuclear disaster site despite 'unacceptable radiation risk,' according to the Japanese arm of the non-governmental environmental organization Greenpeace. The Japanese [...]

Survivors leave Tohoku a day after the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Warren Antiola/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND Standard advice about preparing for disasters focuses on building shelters and stockpiling things [...]

IN 2011, two things happened. First, a tsunami knocked out the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, forcing a mass evacuation and costing Japan vast sums of money. Second, I learned [...]

Tokyo, Jan 26, 2017 (EFE via COMTEX) -- The Japanese government will conduct a citizen evacuation drill for the first time in preparation for the possible launch of a missile [...]

TOKYO, Jan 22, 2017 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- A fire broke out at an oil refinery in western Japan on Sunday, forcing nearly 3,000 local residents to evacuate, local media [...]

TOKYO, Dec 22, 2016 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- A fire broke out and spread quickly due to a strong wind in a downtown area of central Japan's Niigata Prefecture on [...]

Byline: ELIZABETH SHIM TOKYO, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- Japan is to carry out an evacuation drill to prepare for future North Korea provocations. Tokyo is planning the unprecedented exercise for [...]

Tweet A magnitude 7.4 earthquake hit the northeastern coast of Japan on Tuesday at 6 A.M. local time, affecting the cooling functions at a power plant and causing a small [...]

Byline: Anna Fifield NAHA, Japan -- Japan's Fukushima region was struck by a powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake Tuesday morning, triggering tsunami warnings and fears of another disaster in the same area [...]

Kochi, Japan, Nov 18, 2016 (EFE via COMTEX) -- Marta O. Craviotto ).- Japan expects a gigantic 30-meter (over 98 ft.) tsunami wave to lash the country's southern coast in [...]

TOKYO, Oct 05, 2016 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Typhoon Chaba has caused advisories for more than 30,000 people on the island of Tsushima in Nagasaki Prefecture to evacuate their homes [...]

Tokyo, Sep 4, 2016 (EFE via COMTEX) -- The Tokyo metropolitan government on Sunday carried out an evacuation drill in case of high intensity earthquakes for foreign tourists, with an [...]

TOKYO, Aug 30, 2016 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Typhoon Lionrock, the 10th of the season to hit Japan, made landfall in the northeast of the country on Tuesday evening, causing [...]

The governor of Kagoshima Prefecture has asked Kyushu Electric Power to halt operations at a nuclear power plant for a fresh safety inspection, potentially posing another hurdle for a nationwide [...]

TOKYO, Aug 17, 2016 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Typhoon Chanthu made landfall on Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido on Wednesday, triggering evacuation orders and advisories, with the weather agency here [...]

Fukushima, Japan - This week, authorities lifted an evacuation order for nearly all parts of Minamisoma city, Fukushima prefecture, allowing more than 10,000 people to return to their homes for [...]

]]> Japan's Minamisoma City became the 5th and largest-ever municipality to have its evacuation order lifted since the disaster, according to Japan's (NHK WORLD) radio. The evacuation order for the [...]

Tokyo, Jul 12, 2016 (EFE via COMTEX) -- The Japanese government Tuesday lifted an evacuation order for two areas in Fukushima, affected by radiation from the 2011 nuclear accident, allowing [...]

TOKYO, Jul 11, 2016 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The Japanese government on Monday deployed three Self-Defense Forces aircraft to evacuate aid workers from South Sudan who have been trapped due [...]

TOKYO, Jun 23, 2016 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Torrential rain triggered by a seasonal rain front continued to storm southwestern Japan Thursday, causing multiple land collapses and mudslides in the [...]

Tokyo, Jun 12, 2016 (EFE via COMTEX) -- The Japanese government on Sunday lifted an evacuation order for one of the villages near the Fukushima nuclear plant, five years after [...]

The nations electronics makers are developing sensors that use the so-called Internet of things to give municipalities early warning of landslides and floods. The central and regional governments have faced [...]

Tokyo, Apr 21, 2016 (EFE via COMTEX) -- Heavy rains stalled post-earthquake rescue operations in southwestern Japan Thursday, which also marks one week since the first earthquake, in a series [...]

Mashiki, Japan, Apr 18, 2016 (EFE via COMTEX) -- People in the city of Mashiki in Kumamoto Prefecture of southwestern Japan are Monday trying to carry on as normal, even [...]

TOKYO, Apr 18, 2016 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The Chinese Consulate in Japan's Fukuoka confirmed Monday that it had evacuated five foreigners among other about a hundred Chinese nationals from [...]

2017 SEP 28 (VerticalNews) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Computer Technology Journal -- Current study results on Technology - Information Technology have been published. According to news [...]

2017 AUG 23 (VerticalNews) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Computer Weekly News -- A patent by the inventors Ikeda, Hajimu (Kanagawa, JP); Nakamura, Yasuyuki (Tochigi, JP), filed [...]

The Cabinet Office and three western prefectures finalized an evacuation plan Wednesday for residents living within 30 kilometers of Kansai Electric Power Co.s idled Takahama nuclear plant. The proposal is [...]

TOKYO, Oct 26, 2015 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The Japanese government on Monday said 38 percent of evacuation-related first responders and those involved in decontamination and clean-up operations in the [...]

Nuclear power in Japan: Back to the nuclear zone A lack of trust in the authorities is hindering resettlement near Fukushima THE stench of rot and rat excrement fills the [...]

TOKYO, Sep 13, 2015 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Visitors around Mount Aso, a volcano and a tourist spot located in Kumamoto Prefecture in southwest Japan, have been ordered to evacuate [...]

Byline: Iris Lai TOKYO, Sep 11, 2015, (A. M. Best via COMTEX) -- Torrential rainfall exacerbated by Typhoon Etau has resulted in significant flooding in areas north and east of [...]

TOKYO, Sep 11, 2015 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- At least 25 people were unaccounted for on Friday after a river burst its banks near the city of Joso in Ibaraki [...]

Tokyo, Sept. 10 -- Typhoon Etau on Thursday caused heavy rainfall, severe flooding and the evacuation of nearly 100,00 people in central and eastern Japan, where it also left at [...]