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The 11 March 2011 earthquake off northeastern Honshu produced a 14-metre tsunami that overwhelmed the seawall of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant at 15:41 local time. Backup diesel generators flooded within minutes. Without cooling, three reactor cores went into meltdown over the substantial subsequent four days. The displaced population was about 154,000.
Read the story →Saigō Takamori was the senior military commander of the 1868 Meiji Restoration that overthrew the Tokugawa shogunate and dragged Japan into industrial modernity. He resigned in 1873 over the abolition of the samurai class, led the 1877 Satsuma Rebellion against the government he had built, and died at Shiroyama on 24 September 1877 with about 40 samurai facing 30,000 government troops.
Read the story →On the evening of 16 December 1997, approximately 685 Japanese children were hospitalised after watching an episode of the *Pokémon* television series. Most of them did not have photosensitive epilepsy. They had mass psychogenic illness propagated entirely through broadcast television — the first time the disease had ever spread that way.
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