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Hundreds of thousands of people in northeast Japan remain without power more than 10 hours after a powerful earthquake that killed at least four people.
A powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 7.3 jolted Japan's northeast coast on Wednesday, shaking buildings as far away as Tokyo where it left hundreds of thousands without power, and reviving memories of a devastating quake 11 years earlier.
The Japan's military says North Korea has fired an apparent ballistic missile in its first test since launching a raft of projectiles in January.
Iran's President Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi hoped for the expansion of cooperation between Tehran and Tokyo, whose historical relations, he said, have been founded upon mutual trust and respect.
The top crude oil refiner in Japan has declared it has plans to resume oil imports from Iran amid growing interest among Asian peers to follow the suit.
President Ebrahim Raeisi says the current US administration’s adherence to the failed policies of its predecessor with regard to Iran is the main obstacle to making “acceptable progress” in the Vienna negotiations which aim at bringing the 2015 Iran deal back to life.
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has reiterated Tehran’s readiness to reach a “lasting, reliable” agreement with the P4+1 group of countries during the negotiations in the Austrian capital of Vienna aimed at securing the revival of the 2015 deal.
Tokyo’s new COVID-19 cases exceeded 20,000 for the first time on Wednesday, dimming hopes that an omicron-fueled wave of infections is peaking out in Japan.
North Korea has reportedly carried out a new weapons test, firing two "unidentified projectiles," which could be ballistic missiles, into the sea off its eastern coast, Japan's coast guard and South Korea's military say.
Japan's southern Okinawa prefecture has reported record daily coronavirus infections fueled by the spread of the highly contagious Omicron variant largely blamed on US forces stationed there.