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Unnamed woman pulled from home in Suzu city which has been at the epicentre

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It has only taken 18 minutes to evacuate the 379 passengers of Japan Airlines Flight 516 after their plane burst into flames just after touchdown at Tokyo’s Haneda airport Tuesday evening

Twenty-five minutes after the New Year's Day earthquake, a tsunami several metres high barrelled into Shiromaru, leaving a trail of destruction for the Japanese coastal community's mostly elderly residents.

Aftershocks are threatening to bury more homes and block roads crucial for relief shipments, as the death toll from the earthquakes that rattled Japan’s western coastline last week reached 100

Rescuers sifted through rubble Saturday as focus turned to recovering bodies rather than finding survivors five days after a huge earthquake struck central Japan, with 98 people now confirmed killed.

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In light of the recent earthquake, the buyer had mixed emotions about participating in the auction, a popular tourist attraction in Japan.

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PM Modi wrote to his Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida expressing India’s solidarity with Japan and its people affected by the devastating earthquake on January 1

Salah is away with Egypt in the African Nations Cup, while Japan captain Endo is at the Asian Cup.