Rare tsunami tides hit north-east Pacific coasts Tuesday, affecting more than 400 people in Japan.
It was the largest earthquake in Japan since the magnitude 7.1 temblor that killed more than 300 people in April 2011.
The tremors rocked coastal areas in central and northern Japan and caused widespread damage.
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said residents who could not get to shelters were being told to leave.
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There was heavy traffic on highways, and people had fled to their houses, as panicked residents huddled under car bonnets.
Abe vowed to work with the public to solve the problem.
‘The ocean feels like heaven’
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is pictured arriving in Kyushu on November 27, 2014.
Nohiro Sugiura, who had been staying at a hotel near Kanagawa, said: “I know a few people. All have been warned that no more sleeping can take place. It’s very difficult.”
Kyoto Electric Co said about 60 percent of power in all of Fukushima prefecture had been restored. A large area of the Fukushima region, where some of the plant’s nuclear reactors exploded, had also been restarted.
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Abe had said late Saturday there was only a 20 percent chance of any further accidents.
“We are in a position to prevent accidents,” Abe told reporters, adding that those who left before Sunday’s evacuation deadline could return.
“We are going to maintain the current situation in the event of another large earthquake, even a giant one like the one that caused the tsunami earlier this year,” he said. “We will deal with such cases as we can. What I can’t predict is whether they will return to their homes as the sea of people from Fukushima is too thick to walk through…. Our resolve is strong for the safety of all people living, working or visiting Fukushima prefecture.”
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