Anxious Night Falls on Japan After Quake Kills 21
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OJIYA, Japan  - Thousands of weary and frightened  residents in northern Japan were spending a second night in  shelters, cars or in the open Sunday after Japan's deadliest  earthquake in nine years killed at least 21 people.
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OJIYA: Japan was on edge Sunday after powerful earthquakes left 17 people dead or missing, injured hundreds and derailed a bullet train for the first time in history, within days of the country&#39;s worst typhoon in a quarter century.
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Aftershocks shook central Japan Monday as the death toll from Saturday&#39;s earthquakes rose to 25, with more than 21,000 injured.
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Japan&#39;s northern prefecture of Niigata was rocked by aftershocks that swayed buildings more than a hundred miles away in Tokyo two days after being hit by the country&#39;s deadliest earthquake in a decade.
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Aftershocks shook northern Japan on Sunday, a day after a powerful earthquake killed at least 16 people and injured about 1,000 as houses collapsed and landslides
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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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Japan has resumed rescue efforts following the country&#39;s deadliest earthquake in nine years. Saturday&#39;s quake and its aftershocks left 24 people dead and over 2,000 injured.
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Thousands of people were spending the night in emergency shelters after the deadliest quakes to hit Japan in nearly a decade killed 23 people and injured more than 900, police and reports said.
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A strong earthquake tremor has shaken northern Japan days after several quakes killed at least 31 people.
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KASHIWAZAKI, Japan  - More than 12,000 people huddled in evacuation centers in northwest Japan on Tuesday after an earthquake flattened homes, killing nine elderly people, injuring around 1,000 and triggering a leak of contaminated water from a nuclear plant.
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TOKYO - Strong aftershocks rattled western Japan early Monday after two powerful earthquakes the evening before injured 38 people.    Meanwhile, a powerful typhoon hit Japan's southern islands, injuring 21 people, and the Meteorological Agency warned the storm could bring heavy rains and mudslides to areas hit by the temblors...
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Strong aftershocks continued to shake Niigata Prefecture and surrounding areas on Monday as the death toll from the series of quakes that struck the region along the Sea of Japan
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A strong earthquake shook the ground of northern Japan Wednesday, following a string of quakes and aftershocks that started over the weekend and killed 31 people.
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NAGAOKA, Japan -- Emergency workers struggled to rush food and blankets to crowded evacuation centers as strong aftershocks jolted an earthquake-shattered swath of northern Japan yesterday. The weekend quakes killed 26 people and drove about 100,000 from their homes.
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Rain has triggered fears of fresh landslides in the Niigata region hit by Japan's deadliest earthquake in nine years as exhaustion was wearing down tens of thousands in shelters.
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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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Thousands of weary survivors of Japan&#39;s deadliest earthquake in a decade prepared for a third tense night in makeshift shelters and outside as rain threatened