The Japanese Red Cross Society’s Tokyo chapter has canceled an exhibition on the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake that featured survivors’ “testimonies” created using generative artificial intelligence, ... ( read original story ...)
Japan PM speaks to China’s Li about radioactive water release
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Wednesday he explained Japan's stance on the release of treated radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear plant to Chinese Premier Li Qiang on the ... ( read original story ...)
Video shows 2011 Japan earthquake, not ‘11.9 magnitude quake in California’
Footage of buildings jolted by tremors has been shared in social media posts in the Philippines that falsely claim it shows an "11.9 magnitude earthquake" in the US state of California in August 2023. ( read original story ...)
Kanto earthquake: Japan’s great calamity
September 5, 1923It is not possible for imagination to picture in all its terrors the calamity which has befallen Japan. Nothing in the recorded ... ( read original story ...)
Single Japan earthquake could cause insured losses of up to $150bn: Swiss Re
Despite significant improvements in the structural resilience of buildings since the Great Kanto earthquake, which took place 100 years ago in Japan, ... ( read original story ...)
Terrible earthquake in Japan
From The Times, September 2, 1923By an inscrutable decree of Providence a great and progressive nation has been visited with a calamity, the full extent of whic ( read original story ...)
Japan is preparing for a massive earthquake
Quakes of this size could “challenge the survival of Japan as a state” and send economic shock waves around the globe, says Fukuwa Nobuo of Nagoya University. After the next Tokyo quake, recovering ... ( read original story ...)
Japan holds major disaster drill on centenary of Great Kanto Earthquake
Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio has urged people to act to protect their lives in a mock news conference for a national disaster drill on the centenary of the Great Kanto Earthquake. ( read original story ...)
Japan marks centenary of Great Kanto Earthquake disaster
Japan on Friday marked the centenary of the Great Kanto Earthquake that devastated the capital and surrounding areas, killing an esti ... ( read original story ...)
Japan denies massacre of Koreans after 1923 earthquake
The Japanese government has risked a new row with South Korea after insisting there was no official evidence of a massacre of ethnic Koreans following a catastr ... ( read original story ...)
‘It hurts my heart’: Japan’s Kanto massacre, 100 years on
Japan marks 100 years since the Great Kanto Earthquake that killed 105,000 people. Less well known is the subsequent massacre of thousands of ethnic Koreans that haunts the community to this day.Over ... ( read original story ...)
Old graphic of tsunami wave forecast falsely linked to Japan nuclear wastewater release
As Japan prepared in July to release treated wastewater from its Fukushima nuclear plant into the ocean, social media users have shared an image alongside a false claim that it shows a forecast by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of how radioactive substances will spread in the Pacific Ocean. ( read original ...
Japan says brick thrown at Beijing embassy amid Fukushima spat
Tensions have soared since Japan began releasing Fukushima’s wastewater into the Pacific despite China’s opposition. ( read original story ...)
Japan says harassing calls from China over Fukushima water ‘extremely regrettable’
Japan started the water discharge on Thursday in a key step toward decommissioning the Fukushima plant, which suffered triple meltdowns after being hit by a tsunami in 2011 following a powerful ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s discharge of radioactive water from Fukushima is avoidable, risky and potentially illegal, say experts
The original announcement, made in 2021, came 10 years after a 9.0 earthquake and tsunami struck Japan's east coast, damaging the cooling mechanisms at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station ... ( read original story ...)
We unpacked Japan’s plan to release Fukushima wastewater
Workers in Japan started releasing treated radioactive water from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean on Thursday. In 2011, an earthquake and tsunami hit the Fukushima area and triggered reactor meltdowns at the plant. ( read original story ...)