147330 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/news/2020/05/18/national/social-issues/covid-19-childrens-cafeterias/Families gather at a community hall where volunteers serve meals for the disadvantaged. Here and there laughter can be heard, the smiles of diners proving contagious — a scene typical at Japan’s many children’s cafeterias. But with the outbreak of the new coronavirus, previously unimaginable social....Tue, 28 Jul 2020 05:26:00 +0200japantimes-5b195f4cf35c8bf7cf54d3dbf5977c4920200728052600https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-07/uot-po072720.phpCredit: University of Tsukuba. Tsukuba, Japan - Earthquakes are often imagined as originating from a single point where the seismic waves are strongest, the hypocenter underground or the epicenter at the Earth's surface, with seismic energy radiating outward in a circular pattern.Mon, 27 Jul 2020 15:51:00 +0200eurekalert-7f433589fa173c3ec1f8cfd2ea1fff3620200727155100http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/13581931Subcontractors hired to rebuild the disaster-stricken Tohoku region created slush funds with taxpayer money to wine and dine and give cash to senior officials of four major construction companies, The Asahi Shimbun has learned. The combined sum of the slush funds reached at least 160 million yen ($1.Mon, 27 Jul 2020 12:47:00 +0200ajw-4f47423520060df4fc8c90ca3b086afb20200727124700https://www.alphagalileo.org/en-gb/Item-Display/ItemId/195613?returnurl=https://www.alphagalileo.org/en-gb/Item-Display/ItemId/195613University of Tsukuba researchers report “inchworm-like” slip evolution of supershear rupture along the Palu-Koro fault during the 2018 Palu earthquake in Indonesia, showing the effect of complex fault geometry on rupture propagation Tsukuba, Japan – Earthquakes are often imagined as originating....Mon, 27 Jul 2020 06:39:00 +0200alphagalileo-a43494eca0d787e1c250799140388c4920200727063900