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                                                    </description><item><title>Japan selects Chinese 'disaster' character as symbol for 2018</title><link>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6495315/Japan-selects-Chinese-disaster-character-symbol-2018-following-natural-disasters.html?ns_mchannel=rss&amp;ns_campaign=1490&amp;ito=1490</link><description>has selected the Chinese character for 'disaster' as its defining symbol for 2018, a year that saw the country hit by deadly floods, earthquakes and storms. Japanese TV stations broadcast the annual announcement, with Seihan Mori, master of the ancient Kiyomizu temple in Kyoto, writing the....</description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2018 14:54:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>dailymail-c93fa6b8e5eb22c4a0cce3d9f79ebb1c</guid><sortelement xmlns="emm">20181214145400</sortelement></item><item><title>Geosciences, Vol. 8, Pages 487: A Weighted Overlay Method for Liquefaction-Related Urban Damage Detection: A Case Study of the 6 September 2018 Hokkaido Eastern Iburi Earthquake, Japan</title><link>https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/8/12/487</link><description>Abstract We performed interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) analyses to observe ground displacements and assess damage after the M 6.6 Hokkaido Eastern Iburi earthquake in northern Japan on 6 September 2018. A multitemporal SAR coherence map is extracted from 3-m resolution ascending....</description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2018 12:35:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>mdpi-247dcd786ee1766b32d341e053b1a949</guid><sortelement xmlns="emm">20181214123500</sortelement></item><item><title>Japan selects Chinese 'disaster' character as symbol for 2018 following several natural disasters</title><link>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6495315/Japan-selects-Chinese-disaster-character-symbol-2018-following-natural-disasters.html?ns_mchannel=rss&amp;ns_campaign=1490&amp;ito=1490</link><description>selected the Chinese character for 'disaster' as its defining symbol for 2018, a year that saw the country hit by deadly floods, earthquakes and storms. Japanese TV stations broadcast the annual announcement live on Wednesday, with Seihan Mori, master of the ancient Kiyomizu temple in Kyoto, writing....</description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2018 09:45:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>dailymail-ec824536ad9fb7e95a4e536695231c8c</guid><sortelement xmlns="emm">20181214094500</sortelement></item><item><title>Japan’s year symbolized by ‘disaster’</title><link>https://chinapost.nownews.com/20181214-478440</link><description>KYOTO, Japan (The Japan News/ANN) – The Kanji character most symbolic of this year was “sai” (disaster), according to the Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation in Kyoto.

On Wednesday, Seihan Mori, the head priest of Kiyomizudera temple, wrote the kanji in calligraphy at the UNESCO World Heritage-designated temple in Kyoto.</description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2018 02:51:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>ChinaPost-f46c514201ba8d645c7eba6bcadeda34</guid><sortelement xmlns="emm">20181214025100</sortelement></item></channel></rss>