Tokyo residents woke up Thursday to the first November snowfall in more than 50 years. And the Japan Meteorological Agency said it was the first time fallen snow on the ground was observed in November since such records started to be taken in 1875. An ... ( read original story ...)
Earthquake, tsunamis… and even a METEORITE! Video footage captures powerful 7.4-magnitude tremor near Fukushima and flaming objects in the sky above Japan
Dramatic video has captured a meteorite burning across the sky just hours after a huge 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck Japan sending a tsunami cascading inland and up a river. The footage shows a flaming object trailing across the evening sky while the ... ( read original story ...)
Where will the next mega earthquake hit? Curvy faults may be key
Embed Feed 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami: Time-lapse aerial footage shows rebuilding efforts five years on from disaster IBTimes UK Mega earthquakes have been linked to how curvy the fault is, with a flatter fault more likely to produce magnitude 9 or ... ( read original story ...)
Major B.C. earthquake could put ‘national economy in jeopardy’
The report comes a day after a large earthquake with an initial magnitude measured at 6.9 struck off the coast of Fukushima, Japan. It’s near where a 2011 earthquake and resulting tsunami killed thousands and led to a nuclear disaster. The Conference ... ( read original story ...)
Is an earthquake early-warning system possible for New Zealand?
Japan's arrangement, which cost more than $1 billion to build, includes an automatic earthquake location system based on hundreds of seismographs, along with pre-existing models of what tsunamis could be caused by 100,000 different earthquakes at 10,000 ... ( read original story ...)
Japan earthquakes and the Ring of Fire
The 6.9-magnitude earthquake last week off the coast of Fukushima, Japan, probably happened along the same fault that ruptured in 2011, unleashing a massive 9.0-magnitude temblor and resulting tsunami that caused widespread destruction. What makes this ... ( read original story ...)
Looking to Japan: The warning to Kiwis of an incoming tsunami threat could come via text or app
Why is our Civil Defence still not up to scratch? * As it happened: Japan's 7.4 quake If you live near the sea and you feel a long strong earthquake, you should head for the hills immediately. Not many people did this. The warnings about tsunamis after ... ( read original story ...)
Freak weather hits Japan after monster earthquake and tsunami
SNOW is falling in Tokyo for the first November in 54 years after Japan suffered a shock earthquake and tsunami. Astonishing video shows heaps of snow falling from the sky in Tokyo and settling on the city's streets. The Japanese capital usually sees a ... ( read original story ...)
Fukushima residents urged to flee as 7.4 magnitude quake hits Japan – video
An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.4 has hit northern Japan, the Japan Meteorological Agency says, in televised tsunami advisories issued for much of the nation’s northern Pacific coast. The epicentre of the earthquake, which was felt in Tokyo ... ( read original story ...)
An Identity Lost in Post-War Japan Took 67 Years to Reclaim
At a public bath in a Yokohama slum in the 1950s, a red-haired girl scrubs her skin with a pumice stone, hard, to try to get the white out. Other kids sometimes taunt her. "American, American." She yells back, "I'm Japanese!" She is told she was abandoned. ( read original story ...)
Japan October consumer prices continue slide, yen falls may help BOJ
TOKYO Japan's core consumer prices marked their eighth straight month of annual declines in October, illustrating the sheer scale of the central bank's struggle to beat deflation and stagnant growth with diminishing policy options. The data will keep ... ( read original story ...)
BANK OF JAPAN : Japanese Prices Continue to Fall
TOKYO-Japanese consumer prices fell again in October, but deflationary pressure showed some signs of softening-a positive development for beleaguered central bankers. The core consumer price index slipped 0.4% from a year earlier in October, adjusted for ... ( read original story ...)
Japan Oct consumer prices continue slide, yen falls may help BOJ
The data will keep policymakers under pressure to do more to stimulate the economy, with fiscal spending likely the more preferred option as three years of aggressive easing by the Bank of Japan failed to accelerate inflation to its 2 percent target. ( read original story ...)
Japan Display Said Close to a Bailout
Nov.24 -- Japan Display is said to be close to winning a bailout from INCJ worth nearly $900M. Bloomberg's Yuji Nakamura reports on "Bloomberg Daybreak: Asia." ( read original story ...)
Hanyu dominates men's short program at NHK Trophy
SAPPORO, Japan - Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu recorded a season-best score to dominate the men's short program at the NHK Trophy on Friday. Skating to Prince's "Let's Go Crazy," the defending champion from Japan stumbled on the landing of his opening quad ... ( read original story ...)
Common Asian Tree Frog Found in Japan May Be 2 Seperate Species, Genetic Data Shows
Japanese scientists have discovered that a common species of Asian tree frog may actually be two separate species based on their genetic data. The ongoing research project led by Ikuo Miura, PhD, an Associate Professor in Amphibian Research Center at ... ( read original story ...)