Panelists included Mr Shigeru Kikukawa, Vice Minister of Land, infrastructure, transport and tourism of Japan, Mr Thomas P Bostick, Chief of US Army Corps of Engineers, Mr Bai-mass Taal, Executive Secretary of AMCOW, Mr Rae-kwon Chung, from UNESCAP, and Dr Florika Fink-Hooijer, from the European Commission, as well as a representative of the Ministry of Water Resources of the People's Republic of China.

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Japan's defense ministry said a submarine was spotted by a P-3C Maritime Self-Defense Force patrol aircraft Sunday night passing near Kume Island in Japan's Okinawa Prefecture in the East China Sea.

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Tokyo Electric Power began imposing rolling blackouts at 5:00 p.m. on Monday in Japan, darkening 330, 000 households in Yokohama, Kawasaki and elsewhere in the Kanto region.

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All across Japan, people stopped and stood in silence at 2:46 p.m.

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Japan's Meteorological Agency is currently testing a prototype system which detects the oh-so-subtle "P Waves" that precede the destructive "S Waves, " and alerts major operations to halt their hustle and take cover.

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