eastern Japan News

Tornadoes tore through eastern Japan on Monday, injuring dozens of people, at least one seriously, and destroying some buildings. Police in Saitama prefecture, near Tokyo, said 63 people were reported injured. Details of their injuries were not immediately available. Kyodo …

A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.5 jolted eastern Japan on Saturday morning, but there were no immediate reports of injury or damage and no tsunami warning was issued. The focus of the tremor was 20 km (12 …