379490 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.tribuneonlineng.com/154808/A residential area is seen on July 9 in Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture, submerged following torrential rains that hit a wide area of western Japan. LANDSLIDES and flooding caused by torrential rain in Japan have killed 200 people in what has become one of the deadliest natural disasters to hit the country since the earthquake and tsunami of 2011.Thu, 12 Jul 2018 19:44:00 +0200tribuneonlineng-910b8f5c53b62b8d2924763f5646026a20180712194400http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/sport/archives/2018/07/13/2003696595Tokyo Olympic organizers yesterday said that the torch relay for the 2020 Summer Games would begin in Fukushima Prefecture, a region devastated by a 2011 tsunami and resulting nuclear disaster. The route for the relay, scheduled to start on March 26, 2020, was approved by the Japanese organizing committee at a meeting with government officials.Thu, 12 Jul 2018 19:43:00 +0200taipeitimes-ea7331885aedbd7c9c5c46715257ed1520180712194300https://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/2020-tokyo-olympics-torch-relay-to-depart-from-fukushima-118071200725_1.htmlThe Olympic for the Tokyo 2020 Games will start from Fukushima, one of the areas hardest hit by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, a spokesperson of the Olympic organizing committee said on Thursday. Under the motto "Hope Lights Our Way", the Olympic flame relay will depart from Fukushima and travel....Thu, 12 Jul 2018 16:44:00 +0200business-standard-ac9798657eea568c9c44fc918851ac4b20180712164400http://www.thesundaily.my/news/2018/07/12/tokyo-olympic-relay-start-disaster-hit-fukushimaTOKYO : Tokyo Olympic organisers said Thursday that the torch relay for the 2020 Summer Games will begin in Fukushima, a region devastated by the 2011 tsunami and resulting nuclear disaster. The route for the relay, scheduled to start on March 26, 2020, was approved by the Japanese organising committee at a meeting with government officials.Thu, 12 Jul 2018 16:39:00 +0200kualalumpurtimes-c23861573b75d4ddc3d47631b002662120180712163900