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Japan marks 100 years since the devastating Great Kanto Quake, with disaster drills nationwide – Winnipeg Free Press
[ad_1] TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida staged a televised disaster drill Friday based on a fictional earthquake in the capital region, as his country marked the centennial of the real-life 1923 Great Kanto Quake that killed more than 100,000 people. The 7.9-magnitude earthquake that struck the Sagamihara area southwest of Tokyo on…