The Daily Beast
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Japan Earthquake Damages Historic Castle for the Second Time
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Kumamoto Castle was damaged on Tuesday when an earthquake rocked southwestern Japan. The castle is one of the country’s oldest and most renowned fortresses in the country. Videos show one of the structure’s stone walls partially collapsed as rocks tumbled to the ground as a magnitude-7.1 earthquake rocked the southwest of Japan. This is the second time in a decade the castle has taken a beating from an earthquake. In 2016, when two powerful earthquakes…
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