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An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.0 jolted the west Kanto region of Japan at 13:24 local time on Sunday, but no tsunami warning was issued, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.
Six people in the quake-hit Kumamoto Prefecture in southwestern Japan were dead as torrential rain continued storming the region since late Monday, said local authorities on Tuesday, with weather agency warning of the risk on landslides and swollen rivers in the following days.
The impact of the magnitude-7.3 temblor that hit Kumamoto Prefecture on April 16 was compounded by a small earthquake that struck shortly after in neighboring Oita Prefecture, seismologists say.
Toyota Motor Corp. stopped on Tuesday operations of its four finished-car factories in Aichi Prefecture and their related factories as they could not procure auto parts due to a series of earthquakes that hit Kumamoto Prefecture and its surroundings.
Japan's cold snap continued to see heavy amounts of snow dumped Monday across swathes of central and western Japan, particularly affecting coastal regions on the Sea of Japan, the weather agency said.
A 6.9-magnitude earthquake hit off northeastern Japan on Tuesday, triggering a 1-meter tsunami warning for Iwate Prefecture, Japan's Meteorological Agency (JMA) said.
The education office of the Chinese Consulate-General in Osaka and the Osaka Prefectural Board of Education signed an agreement on Wednesday to strengthen educational communication between students in Osaka Prefecture and students in China.
Three people died and 47 others were injured across Japan as a powerful typhoon moved through the country's southernmost main island of Kyushu on Thursday morning after lashing the islands of Okinawa, local press reported.
The season's eighth typhoon Neoguri made landfall near Akune city in Kagoshima Prefecture in Japan's southwest Kyushu area early Thursday, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.
No casualties have been reported from Tibet after it was hit by an earthquake Monday morning, although houses were toppled and roads damaged, according to local government.
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