Overview
- After inspectors found detached connection bolts on a rooftop communications tower at NTT’s Hachinohe building, the city ordered 48 nearby households to evacuate due to collapse risk.
- Roughly 9,000 people have used evacuation centers since the Dec. 8 quake registered a seismic intensity of 6 upper in the Hachinohe area, with authorities continuing structural checks and support.
- Shiga Prefectural Police arrested a 50-year-old Otsu man on suspicion of abandoning two bodies at his home, and investigators are examining whether the victims are his parents.
- All Nippon Airways canceled 12 services linked to New Chitose and other routes after forecasters warned of heavy snowfall in Hokkaido.
- In Stockholm on Dec. 10, Japanese laureates Shibun Sakaguchi and Susumu Kitagawa received their Nobel medals, and a projection mapping at City Hall featuring Hiroshima’s A-bomb Dome runs through Dec. 14.