An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.4 rocked central Japan injuring at least 11 people and damaging a 400-year-old castle’s stone wall in Kameyama which is in Mie Prefecture.
17 houses in the area and other structures including the castle wall suffered minor damage in the city. Chubu Electric Power Company which is in the area said some 4,300 households suffered a temporary blackout due to the quake, mainly in northern Mie Prefecture and electronic giant Sharp suspended operations at its liquid crystal display panel plant in Kameyama and evacuated its roughly 300 workers. No damage was reported at the plant either.
