Census used to improve disaster mitigation
Local governments across China have improved how they assess the impact of natural disasters on their regions and their ability to bear them, based on the results of a national census, officials said.
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Local governments across China have improved how they assess the impact of natural disasters on their regions and their ability to bear them, based on the results of a national census, officials said.
Pieces of Yayoi Kusama’s popular “Yellow Pumpkin,” long-installed on a pier until it was washed out to sea on by a typhoon on Monday, have been recovered on the coast of Japan. Located in Naoshima, an island town in Kagawa Prefecture, the work has been a tourist magnet since 1994. Over six feet tall and eight feet wide, the hollow polka-dotted sculpture came ashore in 3 pieces after rough weather from Typhoon Lupit toppled it from a bolted base on an ocean pier. Footage of the pumpkin ...
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On Sunday night, Typhoon Lupit made landfall on Japan’s southwestern island of Kyushu, moving in a northeasterly direction over the Seto Inland Sea, bringing strong winds and heavy downpours to the region that lasted through to Monday evening. One of the small islands in the Seto Inland Sea, Naoshima, suffered particularly extreme ...
Typhoon Lupit, which was active in the Pacific region from August 2 to August 9, made landfall twice in China before forcing the evacuation of more than