309170 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 https://www.japantimes.co.jp/?post_type=opinion&p=1462513&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+japantimes+%28The+Japan+Times%3A+All+Stories%29The heavy rains in western Japan a month ago, which left more than 230 residents dead or missing in landslides and floods in a broad range of areas, highlighted various challenges faced by the nation’s disaster response system. Despite the early warnings of torrential rains that could cause....Tue, 07 Aug 2018 13:15:00 +0200japantimes-652cd424af2858ff926a12ecf29c046220180807131500https://www.yahoo.com/news/73-years-later-apos-bomb-214600415.htmlOn August 6, 1945, an Allied plane dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, creating a fireball 1,200 feet in diameter. Disaster rained down upon the city, killing an estimated 150,000 people and leveling both the biological and man-made landscape. Little was left standing, but somehow six gingko....Tue, 07 Aug 2018 06:38:00 +0200news-yahoo-d66f37ac793f39f3cfe3bdc7f693f91520180807063800https://reliefweb.int/report/indonesia/indonesia-pwj-dispatches-staff-earthquake-emergency-relief-lombok-islandA 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Lombok island, Indonesia, which destroyed more than 1,000 houses and buildings, and over 10,000 people to evacuate and claimed dozens of lives. Peace Winds Japan (PWJ) has formed a emergency response team with its partner organizations, Asia Pacific Alliance (A-PAD)....Tue, 07 Aug 2018 06:28:00 +0200reliefWeb-131c9a3020726324f7d8d239ce8d1e2e20180807062800https://www.unmultimedia.org/avlibrary/asset/2213/2213277/The Secretary-General will depart for Japan this evening. He will meet with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and with Foreign Minister Taro Kono. The Secretary-General will also take part in the 73rd Nagasaki Peace Ceremony on Thursday. The High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Izumi Nakamitsu, is....Tue, 07 Aug 2018 05:04:00 +0200unmultimedia-en-a7e309a24070454b485809b3afbaa55e20180807050400