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From Japan Friday
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The images from Japan Friday were as stunning as they were disturbing, reminding us of the frailty of man's creations and life itself. A wall of water forcefully pushing houses inland. An airport swamped with muddy water. Burning homes surrounded by the deluge. The 8.9 magnitude earthquake that rocked Japan was the strongest in the country's history and one of the largest recorded anywhere in the world in the last century. More devastating than the temblor, which was centered off Honshu, the most populous Japanese island, was the tsunami it spawned.
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Buffalo may be thousands of miles from Japan, but the impact of Friday's earthquake and tsunami is hitting home for some local businesses. While the dual disasters caused catastrophic damage, Buffalo- area companies with links to Japan said their facilities escaped largely unscathed. The Japanese operations to which they are connected are coping with disruptions in transportation, power and shipping.
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VIENNA - Diplomats and U.N. officials sought Friday to dispel fears of a wider danger from radioactivity spewing from Japan's crippled nuclear reactors, saying there were no hazards to health outside of the immediate vicinity. As emergency efforts to reduce the dangers of increased radiation from the crippled plant went into their eighth day, the U.N. nuclear agency described the situation for the second day in a row as worrying but stable.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- The United States will likely send less food to Japan in the coming weeks as damage from Friday's earthquake and tsunami makes shipping to some areas difficult and demand drops while people focus on burying the dead and other emergency work, agriculture experts said. It's unclear what Japan will need from America's bread basket in the longer term. The island nation with the world's third-largest economy is typically a top buyer of U.S. grains and meats. It buys more corn than any other country -- nearly 600 million bushels last year to process into livestock feed -- and is a top export market for soybeans, pork and California rice.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The yen fell on Friday [March 18] as Group of Seven rich nations carried out the first coordinated intervention since 2000, and traders braced for what could be weeks of official action to drive the currency lower. The Federal Reserve and Bank of Canada said it sold yen on Friday, adding to earlier efforts from European authorities and the Bank of Japan after the G7 agreed on the joint effort to reverse recent sharp yen gains and calm the near-panic selling sparked by a crisis at Japan's nuclear power plants.
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Aftershocks from Friday's earthquake and tsunami in Japan continued to be felt Monday in the Memphis business community. FedEx Express stopped taking shipments bound for Tokyo's Narita International Airport on Monday morning until further notice.
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Clark County businesses with parent companies in Japan received reassuring news Friday from corporate offices, with no reports of injuries and mostly minor damage to offices or production plants. They expected no disruptions to local business or manufacturing operations. Two local businesses, Sharp Microelectronics of the Americas in Camas and SEH America in Vancouver, reported that employees traveling in Japan were unharmed by the devastating earthquake and tsunami. Both companies had about a half-dozen employees in Japan at the time of the record-breaking quake north of Tokyo.
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SAN FRANCISCO - Federal and state officials sought Friday to dispel fears of a wider danger from radioactivity spewing from Japan's crippled nuclear reactors, saying testing indicated there were no health threats along the West Coast of the U.S. Driven by winds over the Pacific Ocean, a radioactive plume released from the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant reached California on Friday, heightening concerns that Japan's nuclear disaster was assuming international proportions.
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BLOOMINGTON - University High School senior Alejandro Montesdeoca's sister Lilyana received an e-mail early Friday morning from a friend alerting her to the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan. Her brother is an exchange student there.
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The tsunami surge from Friday's magnitude 8.9 earthquake in Japan suspended cleanup of the massive fish die-off at King Harbor, while scientists announced they had found naturally occurring toxic contaminants in dead sardines. The on-and-off strong current to and from the harbor entrance - causing a riverlike flow next to the Harbor Patrol building - stopped work until about 3 p.m. Dead fish were pushed about the harbor by the current.
