Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said the government set up an emergency task force to urgently assess the extent of damage.
A powerful 7.6-magnitude earthquake struck off northern Japan on Monday, triggering a tsunami of up to 15 inches in coastal communities in the region, the Japanese Meteorological Agency said.
The agency said the quake struck just east of Aomori, the northernmost prefecture of Japan’s main Honshu island, and just south of Hokkaido island.
