Japanese PM to view earthquake damage; death toll rises to 27
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Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi headed to northern Japan on Tuesday to survey the damage wrought by the deadliest earthquakes to hit the country in nearly a decade, as the death toll rose to 27.
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The death toll from a tropical storm buffeting Japan rose today to 14 after searchers found more victims, including two men buried inside their homes beneath mud and debris that had barreled down a mountainside.
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A strong earthquake shut down a nuclear reactor Thursday in central Japan, where the toll from an earthquake last month rose to 39, officials said.
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An earthquake with a preliminary  magnitude of 6.8 and a series of big aftershocks rocked  northern Japan on Saturday, killing at least one person and  injuring dozens while triggering landslides and knocking out  power.
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A 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck off the Japanese coast on Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported, hours after another quake of similar strength killed at least seven people in Japan and triggered a small leak of radioactive materials from a nuclear plant.
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A series of powerful earthquakes has killed at least 18 people and injured more than 800 people in northern Japan. The first quake struck on Saturday in Niigata prefecture, 200km north of Tokyo, followed by strong aftershocks.
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A powerful earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale injured 17 people in northern Japan in a new sign of seismic activity a month after the country's deadliest tremor in a decade.
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A powerful earthquake in Japan has struck the exact same region where at least 31 people were killed and more than 3400 injured five days ago.
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THERE WERE NO IMMEDIATE REPORTS OF CASUALTIES OR DAMAGE FROM THE 2.53 AM (LOCAL TIME) QUAKE. THE QUAKE OCCURRED AS EMPEROR AKIHITO AND EMPRESS MICHIKO WERE PREPARED TO CONDUCT IN THE MORNING AN AERIAL SURVEY
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Strong aftershocks have continued to hit Japan two days after 24 people died in the country&#39;s deadliest earthquake in almost a decade.
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A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude 5.8 jolted northern Japan on Monday, public broadcaster NHK said. The quake, at 11:16 a.m. (9:16 p.m. EST), was also felt in Tokyo.
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TOKYO, Japan -- The death toll from a powerful typhoon that struck Japan stands at 14 on Wednesday, with another 20 people missing.
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OJIYA, Japan  - Japan resumed full-scale rescue  efforts at first light on Monday as aftershocks rattled the  area where the country's deadliest earthquake in nine years  killed at least 23 people and injured more than 2,000.
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The death toll from a tropical storm buffeting Japan rose Thursday to 14 after searchers found more victims, including two men buried inside their homes beneath mud and debris that had barreled down a mountainside.
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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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At least four people were injured, news reports said, but no damage was immediately reported. A quake measuring 6.8 on the Richter Scale hit western Japan shortly after 7pm (2000 AEST), followed five hours
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A SERIES of powerful earthquakes, including an initial tremor measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale, has killed 15 people and injured more than 700 people in central Japan.