153120 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://turkishpress.com/magnitude-5-5-earthquake-jolts-japanese-islands/TOKYO, Japan. An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.5 struck off Japan’s Ogasawara Islands early Thursday, the country’s meteorological agency reported. The agency said the quake occurred around 12:21 a.m. local time on Hahajima Island at a depth of 10 kilometers (6 miles).Thu, 03 Sep 2020 04:22:00 +0200turkishpress-6250cb7c1147ad048c7ca4ff84d1c53320200903042200http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/13649394When she was growing up in Wakayama Prefecture, Chiaki Hakamada would often find postcards and letters sent to her mother from an address in Miyagi Prefecture. “My mother simply told me that she had someone she was exchanging messages with,” said Hakamada, now 49.Thu, 03 Sep 2020 01:57:00 +0200ajw-6b29671cec51d8e1cd89e7155a2dc66320200903015700https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2020/09/e6ba33755c1f-m55-quake-rattles-southern-japanese-islands.htmlAn earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.5 struck early Thursday off the Ogasawara Islands, about 1,000 kilometers south of Tokyo, the weather agency said. The 12:21 a.m. quake, which originated at a depth of about 10 kilometers, registered 4 on Japan's seismic intensity scale of 7 in....Wed, 02 Sep 2020 20:22:00 +0200kyodonews-9609f9296fc79e7bbf6c9f8b3e9bf18120200902202200https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/us-japan-security-allianceForged in the wake of World War II, the U.S.-Japan security alliance is as important as ever to both countries’ interests in Asia. In recent years, a more assertive China, a nuclear-armed North Korea, and other challenges have pushed the alliance to make historic adjustments, including crafting a larger role for Japan’s military.Wed, 02 Sep 2020 17:23:00 +0200cfr-77d3d5e552ef639e03c480da9256d41420200902172300