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Iran War Blanche Dispute World Politics HealthWatch MoneyWatch Entertainment Crime Sports The Free Press Watch CBS News Updated on: July 30, 2026 / 9:37 AM EDT / CBS/AP The death toll has grown to at least 34 people in southwestern Japan after a powerful earthquake on Tuesday, according to the prefectural government of Kumamoto, on Japan's southern main island of Kyushu, where the quake struck. In the Yatsushiro area, where a chimney collapsed at a Nippon Paper Industries factory, 10 people were rescued, but eight others died, and one remained missing, according to the Kumamoto prefectural government disaster team. Thousands of people spent another night at evacuation centers set up throughout the area in gymnasiums and other big spaces.
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