25700 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://english.kyodonews.net/news/2021/05/1757553c0423-japan-and-beyond-week-in-photos---may-1521.htmlA giant puppet nicknamed MOCCO appears during a Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics cultural event in Rikuzentakata, an Iwate Prefecture city severely hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami , on May 15, 2021. The 10-meter puppet will tour the two other disaster-affected northeastern Japan....Fri, 21 May 2021 08:52:00 +0200kyodonews-f01fd5d8070e8cfd37c6ced115716fd420210521085200https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/articles/z0508_00133.htmlRemote sensing is an essential component in the study of seismic phenomena, including earthquakes and tsunamis. Existing seismic-sensing apparatus around certain parts of Japan present some bottlenecks to the collection of better and more frequent data.Fri, 21 May 2021 04:55:00 +0200u-tokyo-dabfa32d8cbde63e85918897dc3b4ab120210521045500https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/6251672/quake-felt-May-20-2021-Near-Hitachi-Ibaraki-Japan.htmlJust 11 minutes ago, a 4.3-magnitude earthquake struck near Kuroiso, Nasushiobara-shi, Tochigi, Japan. The tremor was recorded in the morning on Friday 21 May 2021 at 7:16 am local time, at a shallow depth of 10.7 km below the surface. The event was filed by Japan's National Research Institute for....Fri, 21 May 2021 00:44:00 +0200volcanodiscovery-b6cbaf707a8ba7090b353bba0ec3c6e320210521004400https://www.iflscience.com/environment/scientists-break-depth-record-for-hole-drilled-off-japan-8-kilometers-below-sea-level/A crew in Japan has set the record for the deepest sea drilling and the deepest sub-sea level sample after recovering a 37-meter-long (121 feet) sediment core from a site on the seabed just over 8 kilometers (5 miles) below sea level. The research vessel KAIMEI set the record on the morning of May....Thu, 20 May 2021 18:53:00 +0200iflscience-2681b6768cbc92b7395050ccc3dae9a220210520185300