Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said Wednesday the government had confirmed that 13 people died after a magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck the southwestern prefecture of Kumamoto the previous day, with nearly 10,000 people staying in evacuation centers and shinkansen bullet train services remaining suspended.Around 4,600 members of the Self-Defense Forces had been dispatched in response to the earthquake, Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi said, with 170 involved in rescue operations at a collapsed shopping center."There are still people who are waiting to be rescued and it is a race aga…READ FULL ARTICLE
