
Tokyo faces a 75% chance of a magnitude 7 quake in the next 4 years, say researchers, a figure much higher than the government’s previous estimate of 70% in the next 30 years.
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Japanese police have started a major manhunt after a Chinese gangster convicted of attempted cop killing escaped from prison by clambering over the prison’s perimeter fence, which they had conveniently left covered in scaffolding.
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China’s latest boast is a 30 floor hotel built in only 15 days and supposedly able to withstand “magnitude 9″ earthquakes.
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A new skyscraper planned to grace the skyline of Seoul has been accused of resembling the spectacle of the World Trade Center under terrorist attack.
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Even the Chinese may by now be wondering what it is the people designing and building their cities have against blind people, as the “tactile paving” they provide at times looks more like it is intended to kill off the blind than lead them safely to their destination…
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Japanese have been pondering the proposition that a person’s room is a window onto their soul – something which certainly seems to be true of otaku rooms, at any rate.
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A China quality apartment building is currently being hailed as an inadvertent copy of Pisa’s famous architectural blunder, thanks to its increasingly pronounced lean – and as an added bonus, the tilting tower looks as though it may be about to create the world’s largest domino set.
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China’s manhole covers have lately been scything through the air as a result of mysterious underground explosions.
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The better part of a Chinese apartment complex has been menaced by explosions, after a power surge caused most of the electronics at the site to explode at once.
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Chinese Internet users are furious at pictures showing the palatial luxury of the Harbin Pharmaceutical Group’s main offices.
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A Chinese property developer which secretly copied a famously picturesque Austrian village and then began rebuilding it in China is under criticism.
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So much does Studio Ghibli want no part in the unnatural evils of nuclear power that it has proclaimed it wants to produce anime using non-nuclear electricity.
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