13 Residents Evacuate Quake&Hit Remote Island in Japan

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Kagoshima, July 4 (Jiji Press)–The first group of evacuees from Akusekijima arrived at a port in Kagoshima, a city in southwestern Japan, on Friday following a series of earthquakes that have rattled their remote island in recent weeks. The 13 evacuees, aged 0 to 80, are set to stay at hotels in Kagoshima for about a week. Mika Arikawa, 50, one of the evacuees, said, “I couldn’t sleep a…

Kagoshima, July 4 (Jiji Press)–The first group of evacuees from Akusekijima arrived at a port in Kagoshima, a city in southwestern Japan, on Friday following a series of earthquakes that have rattled their remote island in recent weeks. The 13 evacuees, aged 0 to 80, are set to stay at hotels in Kagoshima for about a week. Mika Arikawa, 50, one of the evacuees, said, “I couldn’t sleep a…