Kyushu Island

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  Japan Urges Small Island Residents To Evacuate As 1,000 Quakes Hit Area

  Japanese authorities urged the 89 residents of a small southern island to evacuate after a strong earthquake on Thursday, the latest of more than 1,000 recent jolts to hit the area.

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  Typhoon Makes Landfall On Japanese Island Of Kyushu: Weather Office

  A major typhoon made landfall on Japan's main southern island of Kyushu on Thursday morning, the weather office said.

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  Thousands Urged to Evacuate Amid Fears of "Violent" Typhoon in Japan

  Japan braced Wednesday for its strongest typhoon of the year, with authorities advising tens of thousands of people to evacuate and issuing the highest warning level for wind and storm surges on the main southern island of Kyushu.

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  6 Dead, 3 Missing Due To Heavy Rain In Japan

  Torrential rain over Japan's southwestern island of Kyushu triggered floods and landslides that left up to six people dead and rescuers searching for three missing, officials said on Tuesday.

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  Denso Bullish On Business Prospects As It Tackles Chip Shortages

  The plant on Kyushu island, which Japan's government is helping build as part of a strategy to avoid component shortages that could hurt economic growth, will also make chips for a nearby Sony image sensor factory.

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  Watch: Japan's Mount Aso Volcano Erupts, Shoots Ash 11,500 Feet Into Sky

  Mount Aso, a volcano in the tourist destination on the main southern island of Kyushu in Japan, sent plumes of ash 3.5 km high when it erupted on Wednesday, prompting warnings of lava flows and falling rocks.

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  Japan Court Clears Way For Nuclear Reactor Restarts

  Withstanding heavy public opposition against restarting nuclear reactors, the project was given a green light by the Japanese court today.

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  Japan's Mount Aso Volcano Erupts, No Injuries Reported

  Mount Aso, a volcano on Japan's main southern island of Kyushu, erupted early on Saturday, Japan's Meteorological Agency said, spewing volcanic ash 11,000 metres (7 miles) into the sky.

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  Japan Quake Breaches Historic Walls Of 400-Year-Old Kumamoto Castle

  The deadly earthquakes that struck the southern Japanese island of Kyushu on Thursday and Saturday breached the walls of Kumamoto Castle which had previously withstood bombardment and fire in its four centuries of existence.

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  Strong 6.4-Magnitude Earthquake Hits Southwestern Japan

  A strong 6.4-magnitude earthquake hit Japan's southwestern island of Kyushu today, but there was no danger of a tsunami, local authorities said.

• Typhoon Vongfong Slams into Japan

  Powerful typhoon Vongfong slammed into Japan on Monday morning, with at least one person missing and dozens injured while more than 300 flights were grounded, officials and local media said.

• Typhoon Washes Three US Airmen out to Sea in Japan

  A powerful typhoon lashed southern Japan on Sunday, churning up high waves that washed three American airmen out to sea and killed at least one before taking aim at Tokyo.

• Japan scrambles jets after Russian bombers allegedly intrudes air space

  Two Russian bombers briefly entered Japan's air space near its major southern island of Kyushu today, prompting Japan to scramble its fighter jets and lodge a protest, the Japanese government said, but Russia denied any intrusion.

• Japan on alert as typhoons loom

  A very strong typhoon was near Taiwan, about 120 kilometres (75 miles) south of the southern Japanese island of Ishigaki as of 2:00 pm (0500 GMT), packing winds of 180 kilometres (110 miles) per hour near its centre, the weather agency said.

• 50,000 flee as record rain in Japan kills 17

  At least 17 people died, 20 were missing and 50,000 were ordered to evacuate as the heaviest rainfall on record pounded the southwestern Japanese island of Kyushu, officials and reports said on Thursday.