(30 Jul 2025)
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Tokyo – 30 July 2025
1. Rainbow bridge and Tokyo Tower seen from city waterfront
2. People on artificial beach in Tokyo
3. Various of closed ticket booth for boat rides following tsunami warning
4. People walking on Tokyo waterfront UPSOUND Announcement over speakers (Japanese): “Tsunami warning is in place. It’s very dangerous so please do not go near the beach.”
5. Pan of Tokyo waterfront UPSOUND Announcement over speakers (Japanese): “To those on the beach, please quickly get away.”
6. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Misachi Yoshino, local resident:
“I was very scared (when I heard the news). The warnings were for all over Japan so I was frankly scared.”
7. Various of artificial beach in Tokyo
8. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Misachi Yoshino, local resident:
“It happened in Russia, in the north. I was surprised how it travelled all the way down the Pacific Ocean.”
9. Sign for Tsunami Hazard Zone by the artificial beach
10. People walking along promenade
11. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Misachi Yoshino, local resident:
“Initially we stayed at home and monitored.”
Kenichiro Yoshino, local resident (Japanese): “We restrained ourselves a bit from going out.”
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Derek Shih, tourist from Taiwan:
“We were planning on going to Atami today but because it’s just close to the beach, yeah so we just decided to stay in the city centre today.”
13. Various of Tokyo waterfront
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Derek Shih, tourist from Taiwan:
(Responding to question on whether he planned for a tsunami ahead of traveling?)
“No, not all. It was actually not expected at all.”
15. Rainbow Bridge
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Derek Shih, tourist from Taiwan:
“I was a little bit shocked because I heard that they increased the magnitude scale of the earthquake from 8-point-something to like 8.8 eventually. So I was quite shocked.”
17. Various of people inside of train station, TV monitor showing news of tsunami warning
STORYLINE:
Locals and tourists in Tokyo expressed their shock on Wednesday after a powerful earthquake that struck off the coast of Russia generated tsunami warnings across Japan, causing transport disruptions.
The quake, one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded, struck off Russia’s sparsely populated Far East early Wednesday, sending tsunami waves into Japan, Hawaii and the U.S. West Coast.
Authorities warned the risk from the 8.8 magnitude quake could last for hours, and millions of people potentially in the path of the waves were initially told to move away from the shore or seek high ground.
A 1.3-meter (4.3-foot) -high tsunami was detected in the Kuji port in the northern prefecture of Iwate, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency, while smaller waves were recorded in several locations, including Tokyo, where its waterfront observed a 20-centimeters wave five hours after the quake.
Warnings about the tsunami were heard blaring on speakers along an artificial beach at the Tokyo waterfront.
Shops and boat ride ticket booths on the promenade remained closed.
“I was very scared (when I heard the news),” said Misachi Yoshino, who lives with her husband near the waterfront.
The couple spent most of the day at home monitoring news, until they judged it was safe enough to go outside for a walk.
Derek Shih, a tourist from Taiwan, cancelled his day out to a popular beach spot in Japan after hearing the tsunami warnings.
“I was shocked,” said Shih. “It was not expected.”
Only a few stronger earthquakes have ever been measured around the world.
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