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Teacher learns how tsunami damaged young Chinese trainees
A woman’s research into the word “kizuna” (bonds) led to an extensive survey on how foreign technical intern trainees were ...
The body of a truck driver whose vehicle fell into a sinkhole in Japan is recovered after 3 months
The body of a truck driver has been recovered, three months after his vehicle fell into a sinkhole that suddenly appeared ...
Exclusive: QatarEnergy in talks with Japan on long-term LNG supply deal
One of the world's biggest liquefied natural gas suppliers, QatarEnergy [RIC:RIC:QATPE.UL], is in talks with Japanese firms ...
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Could a Monster Earthquake Actually Sink Parts of the Pacific Northwest?
A new study is fueling speculation and fear about the risks of a major earthquake in the Cascadia subduction zone, including ...
Monster quake could sink swath of California, dramatically heightening flood risk, study says
A long-feared monster earthquake off the coast of California, Oregon and Washington could cause some areas to sink by more ...
Food Safety News4d
Historic earthquake in Japan still sending flood of food safety concerns
It was history. On March 11, 2011, the Great East Japan Earthquake, magnitude 9.0, struck 80 miles off the Northeast Coast of Japan, generating a series ...
Man airlifted from Japan's Mount Fuji returns to slope days later and rescued again
Police in Japan say that climber who was airlifted with altitude sickness from near the peak of Japan’s Mount Fuji last week ...
Climber rescued from Mount Fuji twice in one week
Authorities in Japan have rescued the same climber from the slopes of Mount Fuji twice in the space of a week.
Pacific Daily News5d
No tsunami threat to Marianas after earthqauke in Papua New Guinea
Guam Homeland Security and Office of Civil Defense said there is no tsunami threat from an earthquake in Papua New Guinea Saturday morning. The U.S. Geological Survey recorded an earthquake with a ...