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At least nine people died when an earthquake shook the Kyushu island in southwestern Japan late Thursday, the Kumamoto Prefecture disaster management office said. Investigation crews scrambled to dig through rubble trying to find people.

Dozens of smaller aftershocks followed.”The earth shook for about 20 seconds before the 6.2-magnitude quake ceased,” witness Lim Ting Jie said.

Two deaths happened in Mashiki, the Kumamoto Prefecture office said. One person died in a house that was collapsed, and also the other perished in a fire resulting from the quake. Journalist Mike Fern told CNN that fire had been either failed or caught by scores of buildings, while the tremors in one case, derailed a bullet train, tore up roads and triggered landslides.

Almost 800 people were injured, 50 gravely. The prefecture office said 44,449 individuals had evacuated. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told parliament that he’d marshalled of Japan’s Self Defense Force, police members 3,000 and fire service to join the rescue effort overnight .

He said the government is “rushing against the clock and will supply more staff if needed.”

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A volcano has erupted in southern Japan, sending an orange burst into lava and the skies rolling down the mountain.

The nation’s meteorological bureau said Sakurajima erupted at about 7pm local time (10am GMT). The public broadcaster NHK showed dark grey smoke billowing into the sky and lightning. There were no immediate reports of injuries.

The meteorological agency however prohibited entry to the region, expanding an existing no go zone around the crater to some 1.2-mile radius.

The eruption, while dramatic, was typical compared to the previous eruptions in Sakurajima, Kyoto University volcanologist Kazuhiro Ishihara told NHK. “But of course we have to keep monitoring the volcanic process.”

The Japanese archipelago sits atop the Pacific “Ring of fire” and has more than 100 volcanoes. 57 people were killed by the 2014 eruption of Mount Ontake in central Japan.

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The oldest man in the world’s has died in his native Japan in the age of 112 two months short. Yasutaro Koide was born on March 13, 1903, and said his secret to get a very long life was not to ‘overdo it, or drink or smoke’.

Mr Koide, who lived in Nagoya in Japan’s Aichi Prefecture, died early on Tuesday at a nursing home, the ministry of health, labour and welfare said.

He became the planet ‘s oldest guy in August.His death comes just two days after Britain’s oldest individual Gladys Hooper observed her 113th birthday.

In Japan, 111-year old Tokyo native Masamitsu Yoshida, produced on May 30, 1904, succeeds Mr Koide as the earliest guy.

It wasn’t immediately known whether Mr Yoshida is in addition the planet ‘s oldest guy.

The oldest individual in the world is an American girl, 116-year-old Susannah Mushatt Jones of Brooklyn, Nyc.

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At least 14 individuals are killed and 27 injured when a bus carrying passengers to a ski resort veered off a mountain road in rural Japan.The vehicle had 41 people on board and was going from Tokyo to some ski resort in Nagano state when it skidded off the street near town of Karuizawa at around 2am Friday morning.

Japan’s transport ministry has already started an investigation looking into the reason behind the crash as the road was clear of snow and ice at the time. Tiredness is considered a variable that was potential, although there were two drivers on board the bus at that time, working in shifts behind the wheel. Although first reports in the Japanese media suggested 19 or the 27 people hurt were in a serious illness, as stated by the Guardian, the essence of the injuries was not immediately clear.

Japanese TV networks showed a white bus lying on its side in a ditch by the right or left side of the road. The front of the car, using its smashed windscreen, seemed to have suffered the worst damage.

Winter sports like snowboarding and skiing are very popular in Japan. With many mountain resorts easily accessible from cities including Tokyo, tourist buses are the most typical approach to reach the slopes.

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The statement on North Korean state television followed the detection of a 5.1 magnitude quake at the Punggye-ri site in the north of the isolated nation. It is where nuclear tests have been conducted by Pyongyang previously. Several international monitoring agencies recorded seismic action in the region such as the United States Geological Survey.

Sanctions because of its nuclear and missile programmes has so far conducted three tests. The last was in 2013 raising concerns that the greatest aim will be to create a device small enough to fit on a long range missile.

In response to the suspected nuclear activity that is latest while Japan says it WOn’t take North Korea’s nuclear testing South Korean ministers are to hold an emergency meeting. The UN Security Council is anticipated to meet to discuss North Korea’s test after today ( Wednesday Jan 6).

North Korea nuclear tests

  • 2006 First test based on plutonium.
  • 2009 Second test said to have been more powerful than the first. Also carried out underground although no details of location.
  • 2013 Third underground test – seismic activity detected near Punggze-ri test site.

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Lines formed in the capital Bangui as well as in the predominantly Muslim PK- 5. We should put a stop to the battle,” said businessman Gradias Vara.

Predominantly Muslim rebels from a group known as the Seleka captured power in the bulk Christian country in early 2013, triggering reprisals in the Christian anti-balaka militias that activated a cycle of spiritual and inter-communal killings.

Thirty candidates are competing for the presidency however in the lack of an incumbent or opinion polls, it’s difficult to call a winner. Top nominees include former prime ministers Anicet- Martin Ziguele and Georges Dologuele.

Ziguele received a boost when anti-balaka militias that have formed the Central African Party of Development and Unity said they’d support his candidacy. Other nominees include Bilal Desire Nzanga, and former Foreign Minister Karim Meckassoua – the son of a former president, Kolingba.

Violence in Bangui in September, and the chaos, have pressured authorities to delay the surveys. Some have cast doubt on if the election might be organised.

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