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A Kona fisherman has retrieved what could be the sixth confirmed item of Japan tsunami marine debris in Hawaii.

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A 7.3 magnitude (prelimintary) earthquake has occured off the coast of Japan Thursday (Dec 6). The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center reports that no destructive widespread tsunami is forecast. However earthquakes of this size could generate a tsunami for the Japanese coastline. Areas of Japan are under either a tsunami warning or advisory near the epicenter.

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Hawaii 24/7 Staff According to Ann Botticelli, senior vice president of Corporate Communications and Public Affairs, Hawaiian Airlines has lost its bid to offer daily service between between Tokyo’s Haneda International Airport and Kona International Airport. The airline received the news Thursday morning that the application was denied. The U.S. Department of Transportation issued a […]

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Contingency plans being prepared to intercept floating dock and handle before it reaches land

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Lt. Governor Brian Schatz began his work in Japan and Korea by meeting with 2011 APEC Ambassador Kurt Tong, now Deputy Chief of Mission for the U.S. Embassy. During the Monday meeting (Sunday, Hawaii time), the two discussed strategies to strengthen U.S-Japan relationships, building new clean energy partnerships in Hawai‘i , and ways of ensuring […]

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No destructive widespread tsunami threat exists based on historical earthquake and tsunami data. However – earthquakes of this size sometimes generate local tsunamis that can be destructive along coasts located within a hundred kilometers of the earthquake epicenter. The Japan Meteorological Agency has cancelled the tsunami advisory for Japan.

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MEDIA RELEASE Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda welcomed the 2012 Japanese American Leadership Delegation (JALD) in a rare meeting between the country’s highest ranking government official and a select group of Japanese American leaders March 7. Noda expressed his deep appreciation for the delegates’ contributions to U.S.-Japan relations, including their various assistances in the restoration […]

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Ten Japanese American leaders from across the country will travel to Japan March 3rd-10th to meet with top officials to further develop the U.S.-Japan relationship and establish a meaningful role for Japanese Americans. Barry Taniguchi will represent Hawaii in the 2012 Japanese American Leadership Delegation Program (JALD).

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MEDIA RELEASE The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced that on Dec. 1, the government of Japan approved Rainbow papaya for commercial shipment to Japan. The Rainbow papaya is genetically engineered to be resistant to the papaya ringspot virus. “The market opening in Japan is great news for Hawaii’s papaya producers and even better news […]

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A destructive tsunami was not generated based on earthquake and historical tsunami data. The Japan Meteorological Agency may also issue tsunami messages for this event to countries in the Northwest Pacific and South China Sea region.

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MEDIA RELEASE NASA and Ohio State University researchers have discovered the major tsunami generated by the March 2011 Tohoku-Oki quake centered off northeastern Japan was a long-hypothesized “merging tsunami.” The tsunami doubled in intensity over rugged ocean ridges, amplifying its destructive power at landfall. Data from NASA and European radar satellites captured at least two […]

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Masanori Iye, the director of the TMT project office at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), has been awarded the prestigious 2010 Toray Science and Technology Prize.

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No destructive widespread tsunami threat exists based on historical earthquake and tsunami data. However – earthquakes of this size sometimes generate local tsunamis that can be destructive along coasts located within a hundred kilometers of the earthquake epicenter. authorities in the region of the epicenter should be aware of this possibility and take appropriate action.

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NO DESTRUCTIVE WIDESPREAD TSUNAMI THREAT EXISTS BASED ON HISTORICAL EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI DATA. HOWEVER – EARTHQUAKES OF THIS SIZE SOMETIMES GENERATE LOCAL TSUNAMIS THAT CAN BE DESTRUCTIVE ALONG COASTS LOCATED WITHIN A HUNDRED KILOMETERS OF THE EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER.

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