Quake is deadliest in Japan since 1995
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Rescue workers airlifted residents out of isolated villages and sifted through wreckage for earthquake survivors yesterday, a day after a series
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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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OJIYA, Japan : Strong aftershocks rocked central Japan as exhaustion took its toll on thousands spending a third night in shelters after the country&#39;s worst earthquake in nearly a decade left 25 people dead.
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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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Japan resumed 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 at the weekend.
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: A magnitude 5.8 earthquake rocked northern Japan today near the area where the country&#39;s deadliest earthquake in years struck last month.
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NAGAOKA, Japan  - A strong earthquake with a  magnitude of 6.1 jolted northern Japan on Wednesday in the same  region where the country's deadliest quake in a decade killed  at least 31 people and injured more than 3,400 five days ago.
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Japan's deadliest typhoon in more than  two decades killed at least 62 people, media said on Thursday  as rescuers searched frantically for 27 still missing in floods  and landslides.
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OJIYA, Japan  - A powerful earthquake and strong  aftershocks rocked northern Japan, killing at least 14 people,  injuring more than 700 and knocking out power and phone  services to at least 278,000 homes, media said.
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TOKYO : Rescuers declared a three-year-old girl dead Thursday after an all-night battle to recover her from a crushed car where her brother miraculously survived after Japan&#39;s deadliest earthquake in a decade.
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A series of powerful earthquakes and aftershocks rattled northern Japan on Saturday, killing at least seven people and injuring more than 700 as buildings crumbled, a
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The death toll from a series of powerful earthquakes in central Japan has reached 18, with more than 800 injured. The biggest quake measured 6.8 on the Richter scale.
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KASHIWAZAKI, Japan - A series of earthquakes and aftershocks rattled northern Japan yesterday, killing at least 13 people. More than 700 were injured as buildings crumbled, a bullet train derailed and roadways were torn apart.
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NAGAOKA, Japan  - In a drama that gripped Japanese  watching on live television, a two-year-old toddler was pulled  alive from a car that had been buried under tons of rock and  mud for nearly four days after a deadly earthquake.
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AFTERSHOCKS were felt in Japan last night, two days after the countryâs deadliest earthquake for nearly a decade claimed at least 23 lives.
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An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.6 shook northern Japan on Monday in the same area where the country&#39;s deadliest quake in nine years killed at least 23 people two days ago and injured more than 2,000.
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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.