The Hit Farm

Earthquake hits near Japan's Fukushima. August 19th, 2011 Japan Earthquake. A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.8 has hit northeastern Japan off Fukushima prefecture. Read more.. Posted in Top News Stories Even though the Japanese economy is recovering rapidly from the earthquake/tsunami, exporters, confronted by slowing world trade and yen strength, have difficult [...]

Further out, CEO Suzuki said the Hamamatsu-based automaker would need to spend to spread out its domestic facilities, all concentrated in the central Tokai region of Japan long seen at high risk of being hit by a massive earthquake. A 9.0-magnitude earthquake that rocked Japan in March could delay the start of U.S. production of [...]