Japan has been hit by a series of earthquakes, prompting evacuation orders and tsunami warnings. These videos from Kanazawa, Ishikawa prefecture, show the scenes as the city was shaken.

A polar opposite of this may be the shriek of an earthquake or tsunami alarm. A recent spate of ballistic missile launches by North Korea caused the Japanese ... the sound was ominously jarring.

Japan has earmarked the next three years as the last chance to reverse the falling birthrate and halt an irreversible decline in the nation’s population. The government, in calling for urgent ...