Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi

An aerial view shows a collapsed chimney at Nippon Paper Industries' Yatsushiro Mill after an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.1 struck Japan's southern Kumamoto prefecture, in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan, July 28, 2026.

Major 7.1 quake hits southern Japan, workers missing after mall blast

Around 300,000 people have been instructed to go to evacuation centres, and hundreds of soldiers have been ​deployed to help with rescue operations as aftershocks continued to rumble in the area,...