Japan Prime Minister to View Quake Zone
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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, while the death toll from the quakes rose to 31.
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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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that have hit the Niigata region, the Meteorological Agency said. A series of smaller quakes followed. No tsunami. hospital after being buried in a landslide and six people who were hurt slightly by parts of a wall that collapsed.
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North Korea should immediately provide information on Japanese citizens it kidnapped in the 1970s and '80s, rather than waiting for Tokyo to set a deadline, the prime minister said Tuesday.
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A summit between the two nations' leaders is a sign of how Japan's new prime minister is looking beyond the U.S. and embracing its Asian partners
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World leaders including the prime ministers of Australia and Japan are heading to Jakarta for an emergency summit on the tsumami catastrophe, an event sure to pose huge security headaches in a country where ...
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KASHIWAZAKI, Japan, July 17 -- Officials said Tuesday that the previous day's powerful earthquake tipped over barrels of nuclear waste at a power plant, and they were investigating whether there were any radioactive leaks.
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Will Japanese PM stir controversy with his New Year's day visit to a shrine honoring war criminals?
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A strong quake, with a magnitude of 5.5 on the Richter scale, jolted northern Japan, near an area that was recently hit by tsunamis, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.
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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&#39;s armed forces must contribute to global peace to secure safety at home, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said Sunday amid signs his government will extend an unpopular military deployment in Iraq.
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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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A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.1 hit a wide area of Japan&#39;s northernmost main island of Hokkaido early Monday, Japanese media said, quoting the Japan Meteorological Agency.
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Japan is preparing a set of high-level   alert procedures to follow in the event of a nuclear power   plant accident abroad, out of concern that North Korea may   carry out an underground nuclear test, Kyodo News said on   Saturday, citing government sources.
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TOKYO - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said Monday he is considering visiting areas in Niigata Prefecture hit Saturday by powerful earthquakes that killed at least 25 people and injured over 2,100.
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Wearing a white windbreaker to protect him from the Siberian wind, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi stood on the bridge of a Japanese Coast Guard patrol boat on Thursday
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KARIWA, Japan  - A quake-hit Japanese city called in the head of Asia's biggest utility on Wednesday and ordered him to keep a nuclear plant closed until safety could be ensured after the tremor caused minor radiation leaks.