It said the temblor, which hit at 10:22 a.m., was centered 31 miles underground in the Pacific Ocean about 8 miles off the east coast of Chiba state, or about 29 miles east of Tokyo.
Genya Chiba, a manager at the government's Research Development Corp. of Japan, says Japanese companies have mastered research aimed at creating commercial products, and now "discover they are at the end of the road."
Jiro Kohara, a professor of human engineering at Chiba Institute of Technology and a specialist in chairs, says the government can no longer ignore the growing number of students who are pushing six feet.
Kawasaki, meanwhile, plans to close its thick-steel-plate and hot-strip mills, as well as five other production operations, at its Chiba works east of Tokyo.
"From a historical point of view, traditional Japanese and European-style painting are no longer significant," says Shigeo Chiba, curator at the Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo.
It lasted about 20 seconds, but there haven't been any reports of injuries," said a police officer in Choshi in Tokyo's neighboring Chiba prefecture.
The National Police Agency said three people were still missing _ one in Saitama, just north of Tokyo, and two in Chiba, to the south.
'In general our respect from VW and its employees is unchanged.' People's car overload, Page 6 Some residents were urged to evacuate their homes in Chiba, east of Tokyo, yesterday, as rivers swelled in the wake of Typhoon Vernon.
A suspect, 27-year-old Minoru Uzawa, was arrested at the scene in Chiba Prefecture, 20 miles east of Tokyo.
But Minoru Chiba, assistant general manager for Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank in Los Angeles, said that the Marine product is much less complex, particularly since "no principal amounts" are exchanged.
But a government agency ordered the removal of a small amount of U.S. rice displayed at an international food exhibition in Chiba, southwest of Tokyo.
Local press reports said the Chiba University professor, Sadao Uematsu, took trips to the U.S. and Europe paid for by Yokogawa Medical shortly before Chiba University bought a Yokogawa Medical CT scanner for 230 million yen.
Local press reports said the Chiba University professor, Sadao Uematsu, took trips to the U.S. and Europe paid for by Yokogawa Medical shortly before Chiba University bought a Yokogawa Medical CT scanner for 230 million yen.