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Japan Issues Tsunami Advisory After 6.8 Magnitude Earthquake

January 13, 2025 admin

The earthquake struck off Miyazaki prefecture in the Kyushu region. (File) Tokyo: A 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck southwestern Japan late on Monday, the US Geological Survey said, prompting authorities to issue a tsunami advisory. The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) issued the advisory for tsunami waves of up to one metre (three feet) after the quake off…

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Japan To Use AI Detection System To Tackle Online Manga, Anime Piracy

December 3, 2024 admin

Tokyo: Japan is planning to use AI to police anime and manga pirating websites that the pop-culture powerhouse accuses of costing it billions of dollars in lost revenue every year. There are at least 1,000 websites illegally offering free downloads of Japanese content, mostly its globally-renowned manga graphic novels, a group of domestic publishers claimed…

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Russia bans entry of 13 Japanese executives in response to Japan’s ongoing sanctions

July 24, 2024 admin

Toyota president Akio Toyoda was one of the executives banned from entering Russia. File. | Photo Credit: AFP Russia has banned the head of Toyota and 12 other senior Japanese business figures from entering the country, prompting a protest by Tokyo on July 24. The list published by Russia’s foreign ministry on Tuesday includes Toyota…

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Japan’s Military Needs More Women, But Harassment Cases Stand In Way

May 13, 2024 admin

The defence ministry offers an annual online module on general harassment. Tokyo: As Japan embarks on a major military build-up, it’s struggling to fill its ranks with the women that its forces need and its policymakers have pledged to recruit. Following a wave of sexual harassment cases, the number of women applying to join the…

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Bread Packets Recalled After Rat Body Parts Found Inside Packs In Japan

May 8, 2024 admin

“We would like to apologise deeply for causing trouble”, the company said. (Representational) Tokyo: More than 100,000 packets of sliced bread have been recalled in Japan after parts of a black rat’s body were discovered inside two of them, the manufacturer said Wednesday. Food recalls are rare in Japan, a country with famously high standards…

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Two Japanese navy helicopters crash during training; one dead, seven missing

April 21, 2024 admin

This undated photo released by and taken from the official website of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, shows a SH-60K chopper. File | Photo Credit: AP Two Japanese navy helicopters carrying eight crew members crashed in the Pacific Ocean south of Tokyo during a nighttime training flight after possibly colliding with each other, the country’s…

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Magnitude-6.0 quake shakes northeast Japan, no tsunami alert

April 4, 2024 admin

Representational image of a seismograph recording an earthquake. | Photo Credit: via Reuters A magnitude-6.0 earthquake struck off northeastern Japan’s Fukushima region on Thursday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said, but no tsunami warning was issued. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries after the earthquake, whose epicentre had a depth of 40 kilometres…

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Japan records lowest births in 2023; govt says declining birth rate at ‘critical state’

February 28, 2024 admin

Representational image of a mother and child in Tokyo, Japan. The number of babies born in Japan last year fell for an eighth straight year to a new low in 2023 | Photo Credit: AP The number of babies born in Japan last year fell for an eighth straight year to a new low, government…

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Taking away Fukushima’s melted nuclear gas will likely be tougher than the reduce of plant’s wastewater

August 28, 2023 admin

A member of group of workers walks related a blue pipeline to move seawater, a part of the ability for liberating handled radioactive H2O to sea from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear energy plant, operated via Tokyo Electrical Energy Corporate Holdings, often referred to as TEPCO, right through a handled H2O dilution and discharge facility excursion…

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