FILE PHOTO: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends the 8th Plenary Meeting of the 8th Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, at the party’s headquarters, in Pyongyang, North Korea, in this picture released by the Korean Central News Agency on December 31, 2023. KCNA via REUTERS Reuters
Toyota Motor: to restart vehicle plants in Japan from Monday
Toyota Motor said it would restart its Japanese vehicle plants on Monday but, given the impact of the New Year’s Day earthquake, would decide separately about operations from Jan. 15.
Powerful earthquake off Japan’s coast prompts tsunami warning
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.5 on the Richter scale prompted a tsunami warning on New Year’s Day.
A woman in her 90s is rescued alive 5 days after Japan’s deadly earthquake
A woman in her 90s has been pulled alive from a collapsed house in western Japan, 124 hours after a major quake slammed the region, killing at least 126 people, toppling buildings and setting off landslides.
Economists expect Japan GDP to drop by up to $350 mil. in 2024 due to Noto quake
Economists at major securities firms estimate that Japan’s nominal gross domestic product (GDP) will drop by several tens of billions of yen ･･･ …
A timeline of key moments leading to Japan planes colliding. Human error is seen as a possible cause
It only took 18 minutes to evacuate the 379 passengers of Japan Airlines Flight 516 after their plane burst into flames just after touchdown at Tokyo’s Haneda airport Tuesday evening. A smaller coast guard Bombardier Dash-8 aircraft,
Watch live: Crews continue clearing Japan Airlines wreck from Tokyo runway crash
Watch live as crews at Haneda Airport, Tokyo, continue to clear the wreckage of the Japan Airlines plane that crashed on 2 January. All 379 people on the JAL aircraft were able to be evacuated before flames engulfed the plane,
1 Big Lesson Every CEO Should Learn From the Plane Crash and ‘Miraculous’ Evacuation in Japan
There’s a lot every entrepreneur or business leader can learn from understanding how that miracle happened, and how you can and should create similar miracles in your own business. If you watch the video of that plane rolling quickly down the runway,
Japan Airlines: How the Japan passenger plane burst into flames
A professor in investigating accidents told the BBC about what might have caused the plane to burst into flames.
Deaths from western Japan earthquakes surpass 100; rain and snow imperil already shaky ground
Aftershocks threatened to bury more homes and block roads crucial for relief shipments, as the death toll from the earthquakes that rattled Japan’s western coastline last week surpassed 100 people on Saturday.