21630 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.financialgazette.co.zw/japan-gdp-natural-disasters-hit-economic-growth/Japan’s economy shrank in the third quarter as natural disasters hit spending and disrupted exports. The economy contracted by an annualised 1.2% between July and September, preliminary figures showed. A devastating earthquake and typhoon were among the disasters to hit Japan this year, and prompted the bigger than expected contraction.Thu, 15 Nov 2018 04:31:00 +0100financialgazette-b8c16b6fedd06697c31d9e95db242d1a20181115043100https://www.thedailystar.net/business/news/japan-economy-shrinks-q3-natural-disasters-hit-1660768Japan's economy shrank in the three months to September, official data showed Wednesday, after a string of natural disasters hit consumer spending and exports, and China's slowing economy cast a shadow. Gross domestic product for the July-September period contracted 0.3 percent from the previous quarter, reversing growth of 0.Wed, 14 Nov 2018 22:30:00 +0100thedailystarBD-16cfb02eabe0b728e53ea4953343fa8c20181114223000https://www.plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id=35890&SEO=govt-reports-on-japanese-economy-contractionTokyo, Nov 14 (PL) Government data reported on Wednesday that the Japanese economy contracted in the third quarter of the year due to effects on consumer spending and exports of a series of natural disasters. The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for the period between July and September fell 0.Wed, 14 Nov 2018 19:48:00 +0100plenglish-6d19378d4f91cb0eb1f9038d18d679fd20181114194800https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/10/11/1804Abstract Combining pre-disaster optical and post-disaster synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite data is essential for the timely damage investigation because the availability of data in a disaster area is usually limited. This article proposes a novel method to assess damage in urban areas by....Wed, 14 Nov 2018 12:59:00 +0100mdpi-ff64b663a1f312914728630bc81b0fe020181114125900