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Super-aged Japan now has 9 million vacant homes. And that’s a problem
CNN via Yahoo News· 5 days agoThe number of vacant houses in Japan has surged to a record high of nine million – more than enough...
Hard-up town in Japan fears nuclear waste dump will turn it into a ‘graveyard’
South China Morning Post· 10 hours agoIn March 2011, councillor Makise looked on in horror as television footage showed the tsunami...
Maui students reflect on Japan experience after educational trip | Honolulu Star-Advertiser
Honolulu Star-Advertiser· 6 days agoAfter returning from their weeklong stay in Higashimatsushima, Japan, in late March, the 11 Maui...
"The Contestant": The 9 wildest moments from Hulu's documentary about Japan's extreme reality show
Salon via Yahoo News· 4 days agoA "big black hole" is etched in Nasubi's heart as he suffers an existential crisis and grapples with...
Earthquake map shows biggest global tremors in 2024 so far
Newsweek· 6 days agoEarthquakes occur several hundred times a day, every day, all over the globe. It is only the notable earthquakes, usually of a magnitude 6 or higher, that become destructive to populated areas ...
America's population time bomb
Newsweek· 1 day agoExperts have warned of a "silver tsunami" as America's population undergoes a huge demographic shift in the near future. The population of the U.S. is ageing. Recent findings ...
Kim Kyung-Hoon Profile
Reuters· 3 days agoThe earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011 in Japan had the biggest impact on me of any assignment. It was a huge contrast to the safe, orderly and secure ...
Earthquake Information
U.S. Marine Corps· 5 days agoBig quakes can be devastating and deadly but thousands of earthquakes take place around the world every single day. The vast majority of all earthquakes are so weak that no one notices them-except ...
Athit Perawongmetha Profile
Reuters· 3 days agoThe assignment that left the biggest mark on me was covering Red Shirt protests and violence in Thailand in 2010. Covering the 2010 violence in Thailand was very important to me; I created a ...
Alaska has a 'first-rate' earthquake monitoring system. The hard part is defending it against...
Anchorage Daily News, Alaska via Yahoo News· 3 days agoMay 9—GLACIER VIEW — On a grassy schoolyard overlooking the Matanuska Glacier, a group of eminent seismologists from around the globe jumped up and down. They stamped their feet into the grass ...