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/ 26 September 2003
Two powerful earthquakes, one of them measuring 8,0 on the Richter scale, rocked northern Japan on Friday, injuring about 480 people and forcing thousands more to evacuate their homes. The bigger quake was the strongest to hit Japan in almost nine years.
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/ 5 February 2003
As the nuclear crisis on the Korean peninsula escalates, ethnic Koreans in Japan are increasingly rallying behind Kim Jong-Il — not Pyongyang’s enigmatic supreme leader, but his Japan-based namesake, a one-time supporter turned vocal critic.
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/ 23 September 2002
It will rank as a stunning confession to one of the most bizarre crimes ever committed by a state. This week North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-il said his country’s special forces abducted at least a dozen Japanese nationals during the 1970s and 1980s in a fit of patriotic overzealousness.
Conservationists have suffered a setback when two proposals for whale sanctuaries sank at the International Whaling Commission (IWC) annual meeting in Japan.
The International Whaling Commission’s week-long annual plenary ended with a ban on commercial hunting in place for another year.