Japan starts clear-up after 21 die in quake
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Japan yesterday began the task of clearing up after the biggest earthquake in almost a decade left 21 people dead and more than 2,000 injured.
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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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At least four people were killed andmore than 200 others injured in a series of powerful earthquakes in northwestern Japan, mainly in the Niigata Prefecture, on Saturday evening.
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A strong aftershock measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale jolted north Japan&#39;s Niigata Prefecture Monday morning, leading the death toll from the three major quakes that hit the prefecture Saturday to reach 24, with more than 2,000 injured.
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TOKYO -- Rescue workers airlifted residents out of isolated villages and sifted through wreckage for earthquake survivors yesterday, a day after a series of strong temblors hit northwest Japan, killing at least 21 people and injuring more than 1,500.
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KASHIWAZAKI, Japan  - A strong earthquake killed at least three people in Japan on Monday, injured more than 500, flattened houses and started a small fire at the world's largest nuclear power plant.
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A SERIES of powerful earthquakes in central Japan, including an initial tremor measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale, have left 20 people dead or missing and injured 1000 others, officials and news reports said.
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KASHIWAZAKI, Japan  - More than 10,000 people huddled in evacuation centers in northwest Japan on Tuesday after an earthquake flattened homes, killing nine people, injuring more than 900 and triggering a leak of contaminated water from a nuclear plant.
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A car is overturned in a damaged Route 117 in Ojiya, northwest of Tokyo, Sunday, Oct. 24, 2004. A barrage of powerful quakes jolted the region Saturday evening, killing at least 16 people, toppling buildings and injuring more than 900 others.
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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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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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Dozens of aftershocks shook northern Japan after a powerful earthquake killed at least 17 people and injured nearly 1,000 as houses collapsed and landslides devastated a village, stranding hundreds.
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Five people were dead and four still missing on Sunday as Japan began a clean up after the most powerful typhoon in a decade hit the Tokyo region.
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KASHIWAZAKI, Japan  - A strong earthquake killed at least four people in Japan on Monday, injured more than 400, flattened houses and started a small fire at the world's largest nuclear power plant, Japanese media and officials said.
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KASHIWAZAKI, Japan  - A strong earthquake flattened houses in northwestern Japan on Monday, killing at least seven people, and sparking a small radiation leak and fire at the world's biggest nuclear power plant.
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OJIYA, Japan  - 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 devastated a village, stranding hundreds of people.
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A powerful typhoon in southern Japan caused landslides and floods, left tens of thousands without power, and injured at least 23 people. In the western part of the country, a strong aftershock stuck Tuesday, hours after two major quakes injured 43 people.