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Kumamoto's Nightmare Repeats: Mall Collapse, Missing Workers as Kyushu Earthquake Claims First Lives

People wait in a park after evacuating buildings following a strong earthquake in Kumamoto City, Chuo Ward on July 28, 2026. A major earthquake collapsed buildings and sparked fires in Japan's southwest, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said, with broadcaster NHK saying that at least 50 people were taken to hospital. (Credit: Photo by JIJI Press / AFP via Getty Images / Japan OUT)

Tuesday afternoon brought Japan's southern Kyushu island its most violent shaking in a decade: a quake centered near Uto, in Kumamoto Prefecture, splitting pavement, snapping a highway bridge, and reducing sections of centuries-old Kumamoto Castle to rubble. A tsunami advisory came and went within hours, but a shopping mall collapse in nearby Kashima Town has left rescue crews digging through the night.

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