Darfield earthquake: Lessons from the September 4, 2010 jolt that sparked Canterbury sequence

Thu, 03 Sep 2020 20:25:00 +0200nzherald (en)

The giant Darfield tremor that sparked the deadly Canterbury earthquake sequence 10 years ago today was a "wake-up call" for seismologists who have since discovered a 50 per cent chance the next big one could happen on an unknown fault line. The terrifying, rolling magnitude 7.

Typhoon injures 18 in Japan before moving to Korean Peninsula

Thu, 03 Sep 2020 10:24:00 +0200kyodonews (en)

At least 18 people have been injured on Japan 's southwestern main island of Kyushu as powerful Typhoon Maysak passed near the region before moving to the Korean Peninsula on Thursday, local authorities said. Another typhoon, Haishen, is expected to develop into a very powerful storm and reach waters....

Magnitude 5.5 earthquake jolts Japanese islands

Thu, 03 Sep 2020 09:08:00 +0200aa-en (en)

Quake occurs at depth of 10 kilometers; no tsunami alert issued. TOKYO, Japan . An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.5 struck off Japan’s Ogasawara Islands early Thursday, the country's meteorological agency reported. The agency said the quake occurred around 12:21 a.m. local time on Hahajima Island at a depth of 10 kilometers (6 miles).

Magnitude 5.5 earthquake jolts Japanese islands

Thu, 03 Sep 2020 04:22:00 +0200turkishpress (en)

TOKYO, Japan . An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.5 struck off Japan’s Ogasawara Islands early Thursday, the country’s meteorological agency reported. The agency said the quake occurred around 12:21 a.m. local time on Hahajima Island at a depth of 10 kilometers (6 miles).

Letter from mom’s pen pal delivers heartfelt lesson of family

Thu, 03 Sep 2020 01:57:00 +0200ajw (en)

When she was growing up in Wakayama Prefecture, Chiaki Hakamada would often find postcards and letters sent to her mother from an address in Miyagi Prefecture. “My mother simply told me that she had someone she was exchanging messages with,” said Hakamada, now 49.

M5.5 quake rattles southern Japanese islands

Wed, 02 Sep 2020 20:22:00 +0200kyodonews (en)

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.5 struck early Thursday off the Ogasawara Islands, about 1,000 kilometers south of Tokyo, the weather agency said. The 12:21 a.m. quake, which originated at a depth of about 10 kilometers, registered 4 on Japan 's seismic intensity scale of 7 in....

Unpacking the U.S.-Japan Alliance

Wed, 02 Sep 2020 17:23:00 +0200cfr (en)

Forged in the wake of World War II, the U.S.- Japan security alliance is as important as ever to both countries’ interests in Asia. In recent years, a more assertive China, a nuclear-armed North Korea, and other challenges have pushed the alliance to make historic adjustments, including crafting a larger role for Japan’s military.

National Front-runner to replace Abe says he'd meet North Korea's Kim

Wed, 02 Sep 2020 16:58:00 +0200japantimes (en)

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga expressed his eagerness on Wednesday to hold talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un if he becomes prime minister in a bid to resolve abductions of Japan ese nationals by Pyongyang. “I want to make a breakthrough” in the abduction issue by meeting Kim without....

Japan on alert as 2 powerful typhoons approach

Wed, 02 Sep 2020 14:09:00 +0200kyodonews (en)

Japan 's weather agency warned Wednesday of two powerful typhoons approaching, as one of them began to affect islands off Kyushu, while the other is expected to make landfall in a few days. A freighter with 43 foreign crew aboard sent a distress call while traveling about 185 kilometers west of....

Applied Sciences, Vol. 10, Pages 6071: Numerical and Probabilistic Study on the Optimal Region for Tsunami Detection Instrument Deployment in the Eastern Sea of Korea

Wed, 02 Sep 2020 08:29:00 +0200mdpi (en)

A tsunami is a significant coastal hazard that causes destructive damage to coastal cities in the world. Besides, tsunamis, generated on the west coast of Japan , damaged coastal cities on the east coast of Korea in 1983 and 1993. In recent years, there has been increasing interest in the potential tsunami zone near the west coast of Japan.

Visiting the hotel half-destroyed by the 3-11 tsunami is a powerful reminder of what was lost

Wed, 02 Sep 2020 05:29:00 +0200rocketnews24 (en)

This preserved Tohoku building goes from completely devastated to practically unharmed in just a few floors. While travelling in Japan ’s northeastern Tohoku region, our Japanese-language reporter Saya put the Taro Kanko Hotel on her itinerary. She wasn’t planning to spend the night, though, and even if she’d wanted to, that’s no longer an option.

Disaster-prone Japan doubles as real-world test lab for US startups

Tue, 01 Sep 2020 20:45:00 +0200nikkei-en (en)

TOKYO -- Ahmad Wani, the CEO of One Concern, a startup that uses artificial intelligence to gauge what kind of damage a disaster might leave behind, founded his company in California, no stranger to wildfires, earthquakes and other natural disasters. But One Concern now finds itself as part of a trend in which U.

La flamme des Jeux de Tokyo 2020 exposée au Japon

Tue, 01 Sep 2020 11:08:00 +0200french.china.org.cn (fr)

La flamme des Jeux de Tokyo 2020 a été exposée au musée Olympique du Japon le 1er septembre, et y restera pendant deux mois. Allumée en petit comité en mars dernier en Grèce, la flamme avait ensuite gagné le Japon pour être présentée et exposée à Fukushima, lieu choisi pour le départ du relais en....

VOX POPULI Japan’s embrace of public parks all started with the Kanto quake September 1, 2020 Public parks in Europe and the United States were places of special cultural interest to the Iwakura Mission of the early Meiji Era (1868-1912).

Tue, 01 Sep 2020 07:10:00 +0200ajw (en)

Public parks in Europe and the United States were places of special cultural interest to the Iwakura Mission of the early Meiji Era (1868-1912). A modern translation by Takaki Okubo of the delegation's official log, published in 1878 under the title of "Bei-O Kairan Jikki" (A true account of the....

Nomura : Business Continuity Management (PDF 95KB)

Mon, 31 Aug 2020 09:45:00 +02004-traders (en)

Business Continuity Management / Cyber Security. 001 Nomura About. BUSINESS CONTINUITY MANAGEMENT. 079 Data / Information Corporate 041 Creation Value Supporting Strengths 005 Creation Value for Strategies. Nomura Group regards natural disasters such as earthquakes and typhoons, man- made disasters....

Credit Abe with Japan's middle power evolution

Mon, 31 Aug 2020 07:49:00 +0200BangkokPost (en)

After a record stint at the helm, Shinzo Abe is resigning as prime minister because of health complications. His departure comes in the middle of an epic security dilemma with China and could signal the end of a long pursuit of constitutional changes that would normalise Japan .

Unplanned growth of urban sprawl puts lives and houses at risk in Valley

Sun, 30 Aug 2020 04:15:00 +0200kathmandupost (en)

It’s hard for 54-year-old Sher Bahadur Shrestha to come to terms with the loss of his home. The house he built atop a small hillside six years ago in Dhapakhel, of Lalitpur Metropolitan City tumbled down when the land where his house stood slid down following heavy rains last month.