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Japan: Over 100 aftershocks after earthquakes in Hokkaido
In total, there have been more than 100 aftershocks since the strong earthquake in the middle of the week, shaking the northern Japanese province of Hokkaido.
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Household items made from food waste of Japanese designers
Designer Kosuke Araki in Tokyo has created a series of tableware from recycled food waste.
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Rain has never been seen in Japan, hundreds of thousands of people evacuated
Japan Meteorological Agency said the country is suffering from rainfall
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Heavy flooding has never been seen, causing at least 85 deaths in Japan
According to the Daily Mail, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has warned of the need to
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Strong earthquakes in Osaka, at least 3 people were killed
The US Geological Survey (USGS) said the 5.3-magnitude earthquake occurred at 7:58 am on June 18 in the northern province of Osaka with an epicenter at a depth of 15.4km.
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Japan wants the Olympic 2020 to use full renewable energy
The Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Organizing Committee set a goal for all of the electricity used at the two sporting events to be derived from renewable energy sources i…
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Japan: Shimmoe volcano erupts, column of ashes 5,000m high
According to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), Mount Shimmoe started erupting at dawn and this was the most intense eruption since March 25th.
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Lightning flashed on the erupting crater in Japan
Shinmoedake volcano in Kyushu, Japan, erupting into hot rocks, dust and ash rose thousands of meters and volcanic lightning appeared, Newsweek reported on April 6.
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Super volcano about to wake up, threatening 100 million people
Scientists believe that this amount of magma is up to 32km and is increasingly tending to spray upwards.
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Japan warned that the risk of super-earthquakes could kill 18,000 people
The Earthquake Research Commission in Tokyo predicted that it is likely that 70% of the magnitude 8 to 8.6 earthquake will occur in the Nemuro region in eastern Hokkaido…
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Japanese volcanoes wake up after years of sleep
Shinmoe volcano in the Kirishima Mountains lies on the border of Kagoshima and Miyazaki provinces, Japan, erupting violently after 6 years of decommissioning on October…
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Japan - the land of big landslides
Historically geologically, Japan is an archipelago within the Pacific volcanic belt, so the geological structure is unstable.
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Explore the world-like sand hill in Thousand and One Nights in Japan
Located along the Japanese coast region in the city of Tottori, sand dunes have amazing beauty.
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Volcanic islands in Japan can help preserve coral reefs
Scientists say the key to the survival of the world's threatened coral reefs could be in the waters surrounding Shikine, a small volcanic island off the coast of Japan.
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The 7.3-magnitude earthquake caused a small tsunami in Japan
An early earthquake shook the region of northern Japan and resulted in small tsunamis.