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Tsunami warning issued after earthquake of 7.0 preliminary magnitude hits Japan A tsunami warning has been issued following an earthquake off the east coast of Japan, the US National Tsunami Warning Center reported on Saturday. According to the National Tsunami Warning Center, the tsunami warning is for Hachinohe, Japan and Niigata, Japan. Continue Reading . . . https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/20/asia/japan-earthquake-intl/index.html

Powerful Earthquake Strikes Japan The epicenter of the quake was off the coast of Fukushima Prefecture, the site of a massive earthquake and tsunami in 2011 that killed thousands and caused meltdowns at a nuclear plant. The Japanese weather service reported the quake’s preliminary magnitude as 7.1. Continue Reading . . . https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/13/world/asia/earthquake-japan-fukushima.html

Japan's Hayabusa2 probe returns its asteroid sample to Earth Japan’s Hayabusa2 probe has successfully returned an asteroid sample to Earth more than a year after first touching down on Ryugu. JAXA has confirmed that the sample capsule touched down in Australia in the early morning of December 6th local time. Continue Reading . . . https://www.engadget.com/japan-hayabusa2-asteroid-ryugu-sample-earth-return-194316087.html

If you've ever wanted to play around on a claw machine without all the hassle of leaving your house -- or even standing up -- technology has come through for you. from https://www.engadget.com/2020/01/24/sega-app-remote-win-prizes-claw-machine-japan/ https://o.aolcdn.com/images/dims?quality=85&image_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fo.aolcdn.com%2Fimages%2Fdims%3Fcrop%3D1046%252C563%252C0%252C0%26quality%3D85%26format%3Djpg%26resize%3D1600%252C861%26image_uri%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fs.yimg.com%252Fos%252Fcreatr-uploaded-images%252F2020-01%252Ff40bd2d0-3e9b-11ea-9f7e-7f660319cf34%26client%3Da1acac3e1b3290917d92%26signature%3D0bf24681ea27d21d8444d746e21e5dfb4858de5b&client=amp-blogside-v2&signature=d42a5414dd808eca72afadcc282e0f9bef792e5f

http://ift.tt/2hi79d3 The ISS crew won’t have to worry about running out of supplies this holiday season. Japan’s space agency loaded its ship called Kounotori 6 with 4.5 tons of food, water, spare parts and experimental hardware before sending it off to the ISS on top of an H-IIB rocket. Over a week ago, the Russian spacecraft that was supposed to ferry everything astronauts need to the orbiting lab burned up a few minutes into its journey. It’s still unclear why the spacecraft disintegrated, but it apparently has something to do with the Soyuz rocket’s third stage……