Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Friday canceled his planned four-day trip to Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Mongolia, as Japan stepped up disaster preparedness amid increased risks of a massive earthquake in a vast area along the Pacific coast.The latest development came a day after the Japan Meteorological Agency issued its first-ever advisory on a higher-than-usual probability of a megaquake around the Nankai Trough, following a magnitude 7.1 temblor in the country's southwest.After attending a peace ceremony in Nagasaki marking the 79th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing, Kishida said at…READ FULL ARTICLE
