Japanese government plans fresh help for quake-affected areas
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Japanese government set out Tuesday fresh steps, including a revision to a disaster relief law, to help survivors hit by a series of deadly earthquakes in Niigata Prefecture as
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By Kozo Mizoguchi Associated Press  TOKYO -- Japan has launched a satellite-based alert system that will instantly send warnings of tsunamis and updates on volcanic activity to help speed evacuations, an emergency official said.
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Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and his Bulgarian counterpart agreed Wednesday to help rebuild Iraq by continuing to provide humanitarian aid.
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Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi surveyed the earthquake damage in northern Japan on Tuesday, meeting people camped out in a high-school gymnasium after the nation&#39;s deadliest earthquakes in nearly a decade killed 31 people and injured as many as 2,900.
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The government announced Friday plans to conduct a sweeping overhaul of its defense policy, adjusting Japan&#39;s armed forces to better handle new threats such as terrorism and giving them a greater global role.
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Thousands spend a second night in shelters as rescue efforts continue after a series of earthquakes in northern Japan.
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KASHIWAZAKI, Japan  - More than 12,000 people prepared for a second night in evacuation centers in northwest Japan on Tuesday after an earthquake the previous day killed nine people, injured more than 1,000 and triggered radioactive leaks from a nuclear plant.
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Thousands of people in northern Japan are spending a second night in emergency shelters or out in the open after a series of earthquakes.
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Japanese authorities look into a possible second radioactive leak at nuclear plant following an earthquake.
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Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi headed to northern Japan to survey the damage wrought by the deadliest earthquakes to hit the country in nearly a decade as the death toll jumped to 31.
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Japan was hit by strong aftershocks after 21 people died and more than 900 were injured in powerful earthquakes that struck within days of the country's worst typhoon in a quarter-century.
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The U.S. government is offering to help Asian nations struck by a massive earthquake and devastating tsunamis. At least three Americans were among the more than 13,000 people killed.
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Japanese authorities and residents of Tokyo should bolster preparations for a major earthquake that could hit the capital and kill thousands of people, the head of a government earthquake panel said on Wednesday.
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TOKYO - The Foreign Ministry has set up an ad hoc office in the wake of Sunday&#39;s tsunamis triggered by a big earthquake that left nearly 10,000 people dead throughout Sri Lanka, India, Thailand and Indonesia, ministry officials said Monday.
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OJIYA, Japan  - Rescuers who saved a toddler  buried for four days by Japan's deadliest earthquake in a  decade were unable to pull off a second miracle for his sister  on Thursday, but some small signs of normal life returned to  the quake-hit region.
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Japan&#39;s prefecture of Niigata, struck on Saturday by the country&#39;s deadliest earthquake since 1995, was rocked by fresh tremors strong enough to sway buildings in Tokyo, more than 100 miles away.
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Japan resumed rescue efforts at first light on Monday as aftershocks rattled the area where the country&#39;s deadliest earthquake in nine years killed at least 23