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We have started to collect the most important news related to Japan in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.
Japan footage will help predict future tsunamis, experts say
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Japanese police say 15,000 people may have died in one prefecture alone, as efforts to tackle the Fukushima nuclear crisis go on.
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United KingdomThe nuclear crisis unfolding in Japan will not affect EDF's plans to build new reactors in the UK, the firm's boss tells the BBC.
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Hundreds of thousands of people in Japan remain homeless after the 11 March tsunami and earthquake, with many said to be living in "inadequate" shelters.
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Engineers are close to restoring power at a stricken Japanese nuclear plant, officials say, as the death toll from the tsunami and quake reaches 8,000.
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New footage of the Japanese tsunami's swelling waves has been released by the country's coast guard.
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Officials are distributing iodine tablets to Britons in parts of Japan in case radiation levels increase after a quake damaged a nuclear power plant.
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Japan raises the alert level at its stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, one week after the quake and tsunami which triggered the atomic crisis.
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Japan has raised the alert level at its quake-damaged nuclear plant from four to five on a seven-point international scale of atomic incidents.
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A week after the earthquake and tsunami struck Japan, Damian Grammaticas has visited the coastal town of Miyako where more than a 1000 people are believed to have been killed.
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Leading central banks carry out the first co-ordinated currency intervention for a decade, to try to help the yen and the Japanese economy.
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Shortages of key components from Japan could hit major technology companies in the three months, analysts suggest.
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Kesennuma on the north-east coast of Japan has begun the long process of rebuilding following the devastating earthquake and tsunami.
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Japan has paused for a minute silence one week on from the earthquake and tsunami which devastated the country.
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New ZealandPrince William has offered condolences to the people of Japan, while paying tribute to the victims of last month's earthquake in New Zealand.
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Japanese shares rise sharply and the yen weakens after G7 finance ministers agree on joint intervention to stabilise Japan's currency.
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Emergency workers in Japan struggle to stabilise reactors at the Fukushima nuclear plant, as a minute's silence is held one week after the quake.
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New ZealandPrince William offers condolences to the people of Japan, while paying tribute to victims of last month's earthquake in New Zealand.
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ChinaChina, along with other countries, has advised its nationals in Japan to leave the country following the devastating earthquake and tsunami.
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The Bank of Japan pumps another 3 trillion yen into the country's financial markets in a bid to ensure calm.
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Residents and foreign nationals are evacuating Tokyo as concern over food and fuel supplies, as well as a damaged nuclear plant continue.
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Engineers lay a cable to Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear plant that should allow pumps to be restarted.
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United StatesThe first US government-chartered evacuation flight takes off from quake-hit Japan, amid global concern about the growing nuclear disaster.
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United StatesUS carmaker General Motors temporarily closes a pick-up truck factory due to a parts shortage caused by the crisis in Japan.
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United KingdomUK rescuers are to begin withdrawing from Japan after extensive searches of rubble following last Friday's earthquake did not lead them to any survivors.
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United StatesJapan is stepping up efforts to cool overheating fuel at the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, as helicopters dump tonnes of sea water.
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A local Japanese news team have filmed the moment they attempted to run for safety as the tsunami hit Sendai.
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New footage has been released of the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan.
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Nissan resumes some of its car production in Japan, less than a week after an earthquake and a tsunami severely damaged the country.
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Nearly a week on from the devastating earthquake and tsunami which has destroyed entire communities, half a million people have been left homeless in northern Japan. Clyde Myrie reports from a refugee centre in Yamagata.
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BahrainThe oil price rebounds as markets refocus on events in the Middle East and Japan's need to substitute lost nuclear power.
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Hong Kong, United KingdomThe government is to charter planes so that Britons who want to leave Japan can fly from Tokyo to Hong Kong.
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Residents and foreign nationals are evacuating Tokyo as concern over food and fuel supplies, as well as a damaged nuclear plant continue.
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GermanyGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel announces a "measured exit" from nuclear power in response to the Japanese crisis.
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Japan's nuclear crisis is sparking fears of radiation poisoning and many people are deciding whether to stay in the country.
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United StatesThe Japanese yen hits a post-WWII record against the US dollar as stocks slide amid radiation and earnings concerns.
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ChinaChina suspends approval for new nuclear power stations following the accident at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi plant.
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Chile, 
VenezuelaVenezuela halts plans to develop nuclear power in the light of the crisis in Japan, but Chile says it will keep the nuclear energy option open.
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United StatesThe Bank of Japan pumps an extra $76bn into the country's financial markets as the yen hits a record-high against the US dollar.
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United StatesJapan is stepping up efforts to cool reactors at the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, amid increasing US alarm at radiation leaks.
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United StatesIncreasing alarm is expressed in the US about the crisis at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, with warnings of "potentially lethal" radiation doses at the facility.
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The Foreign Office advises Britons to consider leaving Tokyo and northern Japan over radiation fears and concerns about food and fuel shortages.
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The governor of the region at the centre of Japan's nuclear crisis criticises the handling of the evacuation, as engineers race to avert a catastrophe.
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United StatesFears of radiation sickness stemming from the unfolding nuclear crisis in Japan prompt a surge in US sales of potassium iodide, a preventative drug.
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The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Yukiya Amano, has said that the nuclear situation in Japan is "very serious".
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A massive relief operation is under way in Japan after Friday's devastating earthquake and subsequent tsunami.
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United KingdomA team of UK rescuers say they had to leave quake-hit Japan because they could not secure the proper paperwork from the British embassy in Tokyo.
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Oil prices rise on worries about the continuing unrest in the Arab world and concerns over the Japan nuclear crisis.
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Japan's stock market rises 5.7% as shares recover after two days of heavy losses following Friday's earthquake and tsunami.
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The Japanese tsunami killed thousands of albatrosses and other species when it struck a nature sanctuary on Midway atoll, northwest of Hawaii.
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Efforts to cool nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant in Japan using helicopter water drops have been abandoned
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Japan's Emperor Akihito says in a highly unusual TV address he is "deeply worried" about the nuclear crisis his country is facing following last Friday's quake and tsunami.
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Foreign firms are evacuating staff from Japan, after fears of a radiation leak from the Fukushima Daiichi plant escalate.
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