19920 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://nypost.com/2019/02/01/sightings-of-rare-fish-in-japan-spark-fears-of-natural-disasters/Recent sightings of a rare, serpent-like sea creature — which in Japanese lore, is thought to be a harbinger of natural disasters — have sent Japan’s social media into a frenzy. “This is no doubt evidence of a precursor to an earthquake,” wrote one Twitter user following two separate discoveries of....Sat, 02 Feb 2019 02:37:00 +0100nypost-20a7c70806b0fc27dff205837113238220190202023700https://asia.nikkei.com/Economy/Foreign-students-grow-in-universities-outside-Japan-s-big-citiesTOKYO -- Study-abroad students made up more than 5% of those enrolled in Japanese higher-education institutions in rural areas for the first time last year, Nikkei has learned. The 39 prefectures outside of the three major urban areas of Tokyo, Osaka and Aichi hosted a total of 73,320 foreign students in 2018, or 5.Sat, 02 Feb 2019 02:29:00 +0100nikkei-en-d107e2b495985f813463a13cfe6b587f20190202022900https://diario.mx/internacional/extranos-peces-despiertan-temor-por-terremoto-en-japon-20190201-1472614/Japón .- Los temores de un desastre natural en Japón aumentan después de avistamientos de un pez de aguas profundas que se cree que es un presagio de terremotos y tsunamis. El viernes, dos peces remo fueron descubiertos después de ser atrapados en las redes de pesca en la prefectura norteña de....Fri, 01 Feb 2019 22:45:00 +0100elpaso-116f12d67722f481be9d7a1818cb73ef20190201224500https://www.cadena3.com/noticias/sociedad/temor-japon-por-aparicion-peces-remo_132812Luego de la aparición de un pez remo en las costas de Japón, los temores sobre un posible terremoto o tsunami no paran. Según una leyenda, la presencia de este pez de aguas profundas es un presagio de este tipo de desastres naturales. Tradicionalmente conocido como “Ryugu no tsukai” en japonés, o el....Fri, 01 Feb 2019 19:06:00 +0100cadena3-b7d6f01bb11cd01ff3f29095a1a8e5b320190201190600