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v. t. e. In Japan, suicide (自殺, jisatsu) is considered a major social issue. [2] [3] In 2017, the country had the seventh highest suicide rate in the OECD, at 14.9 per 100,000 persons, [4] and in 2019 the country had the second highest suicide rate among the G7 developed nations. [5]
The Great Hanshin Earthquake occurred on January 17, 1995, at 05:46:53 JST (January 16 at 20:46:53 UTC) in the southern part of Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, including the region known as Hanshin. It measured 6.9 on the moment magnitude scale and had a maximum intensity of 7 on the JMA Seismic Intensity Scale (XI–XII on the Modified Mercalli ...
Year Location Main Article Primary Cause Description ≈3,260 Ma: South Africa: S2 impact: Impact event: An astronomical object between 37 and 58 kilometres (23 and 36 mi) wide traveling at 20 kilometres (12.4 mi) per second struck the Earth east of what is now Johannesburg, South Africa, near South Africa's border with Eswatini, in what was then an Archean ocean that covered most of the ...
105,385[ 1] 1923 Great Kantō earthquake. Earthquake and Tsunami. 1 Sep 1923. Kantō Plains, Honshu. Deadliest disaster in Japanese history. The Japanese government report in 1927 put the number of victims at 140,000; this was adjusted downwards to 105,385 deaths in 2006. 21,959 (Official) 1896 Sanriku earthquake.
The Fukushima nuclear accident was a major nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Ōkuma, Fukushima, Japan which began on 11 March 2011. The proximate cause of the accident was the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, which resulted in electrical grid failure and damaged nearly all of the power plant's backup energy ...
List of earthquakes in Japan. Earthquakes M5.5+ around Japan (1900–2016) M7.0–7.9=163 EQs, M8.0+=14 EQs. [ 1] This is a list of earthquakes in Japan with either a magnitude greater than or equal to 7.0 or which caused significant damage or casualties. As indicated below, magnitude is measured on the Richter magnitude scale ( ML) or the ...
Kotobuki San'in incident. 5–84. Tokyo. Miyuki Ishikawa, midwife and director of maternity home, fatally neglected 85 babies, along with several accomplices. 1945–1946. Yoshio Kodaira. 7–10. Tokyo, Tochigi. Former soldier Yoshio Kodaira raped and murdered ten women.
Japan suffered at least seven major outbreaks of cholera between 1858 and 1902. The Ansei outbreak of 1858–60, for example, is believed to have killed between 100,000 and 200,000 people in Tokyo alone. [31] An outbreak of cholera in Chicago in 1854 took the lives of 5.5% of the population (about 3,500 people).