Mie
(2001 est. pop. 1.9 million). Mie Prefecture is situated in the central region of Japan's island of Honshu, where it occupies an area of 5,778 square kilometers. Its primary geographical fe...
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A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.4 jolted
wide areas of central and western Japan on Sunday, injuring at least
11 people and damagi...
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METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY)
A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.4 jolted
wide areas in central Japan on Sunday, injuring a...
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A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.4 jolted
wide areas of central Japan on Sunday, injuring at least two people
and damaging houses and a ...
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A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.4 jolted
wide areas of central and western Japan on Sunday, injuring at least
five peo...
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(EDS: UPDATING INFO, CHANGING DATELINE)
A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.4 jolted
wide areas of central and western Japan on Sunday, injuring at least
five people and da...
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The Tsu District Court on Monday fined chemical maker Ishihara
Sangyo Kaisha Ltd. 50 million yen and convicted two of its former
officials for illegally dumping industrial waste as a recycled...
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A moderate earthquake jolted central Japan on Sunday, injuring at least five people, damaging houses and a 400-year-old castle, police and officials said.The 5.4-magnitude quake hit at 12:19 p.m. l...
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