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Japan orders people to evacuate after 7.6-magnitude quake hits west coast
Major tsunami warnings downgraded but residents in coastal areas told not to return to homesA powerful earthquake has struck central Japan’s western coastline, triggering waves over a metre high and prompting tsunami alerts and warnings for people to e…
Powerful Earthquake Hits Japan, Triggering Tsunami Warnings
Officials ordered residents of the Noto Peninsula to leave for higher ground immediately, warning that there could be waves as high as five meters.
Japan earthquake news – as it happened: highest-level tsunami warning dropped
Buildings collapse, trapping residents, and fires break out but tsunami warning lowered after series of major earthquakes in Japan Japan issues tsunami warnings for west coast after 7.6-magnitude earthquakeThe first reports of injuries are coming in fr…
Massive earthquake strikes Japan, triggering tsunami warning
TOKYO (Reuters) — A massive earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.6 hit central Japan on Monday, triggering a tsunami warning and advisories for residents to evacuate. A tsunami around 1 meter high struck parts of the coast along the Sea of Jap…
‘How can such a tiny woman drive a big truck?’ Japan’s labour shortage forces it to rethink gender stereotypes
Freight and logistics sector is turning to women to fill gap as demand for drivers grows alongside cap on overtimeWhen Mayumi Watanabe tells people what she does for a living, most struggle to hide their surprise, and not just because of her diminutive…
The big risks of 2024: Taiwan elections, Philippine shoals, AUKUS dough
Keep your eyes on the Second Scarborough Shoal and other atolls in the South China Sea, where China has pressed an increasingly aggressive and dangerous campaign.
Japan, UK, Italy sign joint fighter jet treaty
DefenceTalkJapan, Britain and Italy signed Thursday a treaty formalizing plans to jointly develop a next-generation fighter jet to pool resources and better face new threats. “This combat air aircraft, due to take to the skies by 2035, aims to ha…
Japanese Space Strategy: Deploying a Credible Deterrent
On August 31, 1998, North Korea fired a Taepodong 1 missile into Japanese airspace, taking allies and adversaries by surprise. Fifteen years later, China emerged as an even more ominous concern for Japan’s security. Following the summer 1998 incident, it took another quarter of a century for Japan to emancipate itself from pacifist policies, revamp […]
Japanese Space Strategy: Deploying a Credible Deterrent was originally published on Global Security Review.
US Maneuvering in the Yaeyama Islands and the Second Thomas Shoal to Counter China
China’s use of a salami-slicing strategy to gradually extend its influence in the South and East China Seas is proving challenging for the United States. One potential American countermeasure is to co-opt China’s strategy by “reversing the Salami.” With the dynamics of the East and South China Seas presenting a highly intricate geopolitical chessboard, fraught […]
US Maneuvering in the Yaeyama Islands and the Second Thomas Shoal to Counter China was originally published on Global Security Review.