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Month: July 2023

Heavy rains cause flooding and mudslides in southwest Japan, leaving 2 dead and at least 6 missing

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Torrential rain has pounded southwestern Japan, triggering floods and mudslides and leaving two people dead and at least six others missing. Rain falling in Kyushu and Chugoku since the weekend has caused flooding along many rivers, triggered mudslides, closed roads, disrupted trains and cut the water supply

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EU lifts curbs on food imports from Fukushima area as Japan set to release nuclear water into sea

CNN By Olesya Dmitracova and Alex Stambaugh, CNN London/Hong Kong (CNN) — The European Union has lifted all import restrictions on food, including fish, produced near the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan just as Tokyo prepares to release treated radioactive wastewater into the ocean. The bloc’s move follows positive results from tests carried out on

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