Tokai

Japan has been expecting an even bigger quake near Tokyo, something the Japanese call the "Tokai" earthquake, for the central Japanese region, Tierney said.

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"Shareholders wouldn't like the idea of taking out loans to invest in a new project that may not be profitable," said a Tokai Tokyo Research Center analyst, Yusuke Tsunoda .

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Up to this point, the Tokai tale is more a forecast than a prediction.

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The Japanese government passed a law in 1978 mandating that preparations begin for the Tokai earthquake.

Japan earthquake is a seismic curveball 2011

But the section along Tokai hasn't generated a major quake since 1854, right about the time Commodore Perry sailed his warships into Tokyo Bay.

Japan earthquake is a seismic curveball 2011

Given that the nuclear plants at Onagawa and Tokai have also been taken off line as a result of the quake and tsunami, and that the combined generating capability of the three idled plants is a total of 12,000Mw 12 gigawatts, up to 24% of the country's total installed nuclear generating capacity will be temporarily, and possibly permanently, removed from the grid.

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Over the whole length of Japan, some thirty observatories, university telescopes, and amateur sky watchers were set to turn on their machines, having set them to the precise coordinates Narusawa had ordered: a star system in the constellation Cassiopeia, just where Horowitz and Sagan had proposed years before, and where a Japanese radio astronomy colleague, Mitsumi Fujishita of Tokai University, had detected an unusual and unexplained blip in his monitoring four years before.

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"Apple's products fueled Softbank's growth in recent years and personal ties between Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son and Steve Jobs may have played a major role in shaping the relationship between the two companies," said Yusuke Tsunoda , an analyst for Tokai Tokyo Research Center.

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JR Tokai will finance the entire cost of construction, over 5 trillion yen $64 billion, to cover the initial route between Tokyo and Nagoya with the goal of inaugurating service in 2027.

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For Mr. Tada, a 29-year-old employee in the Fukushima branch of Tokyo-based Tokai Toso Co., the first hint of the quake was a gentle rocking.

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