13 Residents Evacuate Quake-Hit Remote Island in Japan
13 Residents Evacuate Quake-Hit Remote Island in Japan
Kagoshima, July 4 (Jiji Press)--The first group of evacuees from Akusekijima arrived at a port in Kagoshima, a city in southwestern Japan, on Friday following a series of earthquakes that have rattled their remote island in recent weeks. The 13 evacuees, aged 0 to 80, are set to stay at hotels in Kagoshima for about a week. Mika Arikawa, 50, one of the evacuees, said, "I couldn't sleep a...
Kagoshima, July 4 (Jiji Press)--The first group of evacuees from Akusekijima arrived at a port in Kagoshima, a city in southwestern Japan, on Friday following a series of earthquakes that have rattled their remote island in recent weeks. The 13 evacuees, aged 0 to 80, are set to stay at hotels in Kagoshima for about a week. Mika Arikawa, 50, one of the evacuees, said, "I couldn't sleep a...