15270 Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/2140774/japans-much-vaunted-j-alert-warning-system-running-against-itsOn January 5, as Tokyo’s commuters were struggling back to work after their long New Year break, blaring sirens from every phone pierced the sleepy atmosphere: “strong” earthquake coming. The message delivered via the country’s alert system, part of its much-hyped J-Alert mechanism, warned of a big....Sun, 08 Apr 2018 10:15:00 +0200scmp-0c46b13108ad145865004def0887383b20180408101500http://www.themalaymailonline.com/features/article/japans-vaunted-alert-system-runs-up-against-limitsResidents, office and shop workers at and around the Roppongi Hills shopping complex taking part in a disaster drill in Tokyo March 9, 2018. — AFP pic TOKYO, April 8 — On January 5, as Tokyo's commuters were struggling back to work after their long New Year break, blaring sirens from every phone....Sun, 08 Apr 2018 06:32:00 +0200themalaymailonline-6eb7786a986c348275de8ec9cf2e01e720180408063200http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/japans-vaunted-disaster-alert-system-runs-up-against-limitsTOKYO (AFP) - On Jan 5, as Tokyo's commuters were struggling back to work after their long New Year break, blaring sirens from every phone pierced the sleepy atmosphere: "strong" earthquake coming. The message delivered via the country's alert system, part of its much-hyped J-Alert mechanism, warned....Sun, 08 Apr 2018 06:26:00 +0200straitstimesSG-8828614165728db45e6663c9149d53e820180408062600http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/980914/news-japan-alert-system-earthquake-glitch-j-alert-false-alarm-north-korea-missile-attackTwo minor tremors struck at almost exactly the same time in separate locations, making the alert system mistakenly believe a massive jolt was on its way, the meteorological agency admitted. Even Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was caught off-guard — with TV footage showing him checking his phone as alarms echoed in his office ahead of a cabinet meeting.Sun, 08 Apr 2018 06:15:00 +0200inquirer-7604f0c9107e9d34783ae735f3ecdc0220180408061500