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Time-lapse footage shows just how fast rebuilding in Kumamoto can go

• Master Blaster
  Aug 17, 2026
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All in a day’s work.

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• Japan
• (2026 Kumamoto earthquake • Construction • disasters • earthquakes • highways • Kumamoto • Kyushu • moving • NEXCO • recovery • touching)

Kumamoto earthquake may have created Japan’s newest hot spring inside flooded restaurant [Video]

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 10, 2026

Kumamoto City izakaya began flooding with hot, sulfur-smelling water immediately after quake.

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• Japan
• (2026 Kumamoto earthquake • COK • crazy • disaster • earthquakes • hot springs • izakaya • Kumamoto • Kumamoto City • kumamoto earthquake • onsen • pubs • restaurants)

15 years after Tohoku tsunami, Japan’s free disaster phone message number is important to remember

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 12, 2026

Free-to-use system helps disaster victims connect with loved ones in times of crisis, and is worth remembering for anyone traveling or living in Japan.

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• Japan
• (3.11 • disaster preparedness • disasters • earthquakes • Japan travel • Tohoku Earthquake • Tohoku earthquake and tsunami • Tohoku tsunami • tourism • travel • tsunami)

Tokyo government planning to ban overhead power lines in new housing developments

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 27, 2025

Tokyo will look different when people look up under proposed ordinance.

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• Japan
• (COK • earthquakes • power lines • society • Tokyo)

Manga predicting a major disaster this July affecting summer tourism numbers

• Master Blaster
  Apr 30, 2025

Flights to/from Hong Kong affected by predictions on both ends of the routes.

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• Japan
• (books • COK • earthquakes • Great East Japan Earthquake • Hong Kong • manga • predictions • Ryo Tatsuki • The Future I Saw • travel • Watashi ga Mita Mirai • weird)

What should you do if you get stuck in an elevator in an earthquake? Japan’s NHK offers five tips

• Casey Baseel
  May 15, 2023

And we add one of our own.

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• Japan
• (COK • disaster • earthquakes • life hacks • Lifehacks • safety)

Japanese company develops a door within a door, and it’s a great idea

• Master Blaster
  Apr 2, 2022

When is a door not a door?

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• Japan
• (disaster preparedness • doors • earthquakes • Natural disasters • safety • seismic door • Shin Nihon Entrance • Tasukaru Door)

Japanese home center emergency evacuation set could save your life, make you look like a goldfish

• Krista Rogers
  Sep 21, 2021

How does this one stack up against Muji’s recent disaster preparedness kit?

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• Japan
• (Cainz Home • COK • disaster prevention • disasters • earthquakes • emergency preparedness • fire • safety • SNJO)

National Film Archive of Japan releases shocking historical videos of 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake

• Krista Rogers
  Sep 7, 2021

A new publicly accessible website compiles contemporary footage of the deadliest natural disaster in Japanese history into a 64-minute film.

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• Japan
• (disasters • earthquakes • Great Kanto Earthquake • history • National Film Archive of Japan • natural disaster • rare • Taisho Era)

Town destroyed by 2011 earthquake and tsunami creates anime based on stories of residents

• Oona McGee
  Mar 11, 2021

Voice actress from Ghibli’s My Neighbour Totoro plays a schoolboy dealing with disaster in Japan.

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• Japan
• (2011 Tohoku Earthquake • anime • earthquake • earthquakes • Great East Japan Earthquake • Noriko Hidaka • voice actors • voice actresses)

Is Japan about to be rocked by a big earthquake?

• SoraNews24
  Mar 9, 2021

People are checking their emergency bags in fear that a big quake will arrive in the coming days.

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• (2011 Tohoku Earthquake • earthquake • earthquakes • Great East Japan Earthquake • news • twitter)

Women speak out about sexual violence after Great East Japan Earthquake

• SoraNews24
  Mar 5, 2021

“Buried voices” get the attention they deserve, and bring about positive change. 

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• (2011 Tohoku Earthquake • crime • earthquake • earthquakes • Great East Japan Earthquake • news • sexual assault • violence)

Fukushima supermarket sells earthquake-damaged beers as “heroes”

• Master Blaster
  Feb 17, 2021

A good beer has character.

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• Japan
• (alcohol • beer • cans • damaged goods • date • earthquakes • Fukushima • RE Fanz • supermarkets)

How was last week’s earthquake judged to be an aftershock of the 2011 Tohoku disaster?

• Master Blaster
  Feb 17, 2021

Earthquakes have always been largely a guessing game, and this one is no different.

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• Japan
• (2011 Tohoku Earthquake • aftershocks • earthquakes • Japan Meteorological Agency • Natural disasters • science • tectonic plates)

Modern Japanese kokeshi dolls are both beautiful interior items and useful emergency tools

• Dale Roll
  Feb 16, 2021

Let these traditional Japanese dolls light the way in an emergency!

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• Japan
• (disaster preparedness • earthquakes • emergency preparedness • emergency supplies • flashlight • kokeshi • Natural disasters • typhoons)

Strong earthquake hits Japan as anniversary of Fukushima disaster approaches【Photos, Videos】

• SoraNews24
  Feb 15, 2021

Footage shows the strength of the tremor as it hit and the aftermath it left behind.

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• (2011 Tohoku Earthquake • earthquake • earthquakes • Great East Japan Earthquake • news • photos • trains • twitter • videos)

Tokyo Fire Department uses Animal Crossing to demonstrate disaster-proof home decorating【Video】

• Katy Kelly
  Aug 16, 2020

Earthquakes don’t exist in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, but we can use it to explain how to keep safe in real life!

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• Japan
• (Animal Crossing • Animal Crossing: New Horizons • clever • cool • cute • earthquake • earthquakes • interior • nintendo • safety • Tokyo Fire Department • video)

Simulation and helpful illustrations show the terrifying power of a one-meter tsunami 【Video】

• Shannon McNaught
  Jun 28, 2019

Anything less than your height might not seem like a big deal, but trust us, it is.

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• Japan
• (crazy • earthquakes • nature • scary • science • tidal waves • tsunami • video)

Japan makes card game to help kids raise disaster prevention awareness

• Shannon McNaught
  Feb 10, 2019

How do you get kids interested in natural disaster preparedness? With a game, of course.

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• Japan
• (biohazard • blizzards • card game • earthquakes • Japanese Self-Defense Force • Natural disasters • Okayama • typhoons)

Japanese man gets caught cheating on his girlfriend because of an earthquake

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 6, 2018

Sudden confrontation leaves him trembling, but not from the ground shaking.

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• Japan
• (cheating • COK • crazy • earthquakes • relationships • Smartphones • trains • weird)

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