A strong earthquake has struck eastern Japan. The Japan Meteorological Agency says a magnitude 5 quake struck north of Tokyo. In Tochigi Prefecture, it had an intensity of lower 5 on the Japanese scale of 0 to 7. The shaking was felt across the capital. There is no tsunami risk.
The operator of the Tohoku Shinkansen bullet train says the service has been resumed. It had temporarily halted operation between Tokyo and Shin-Aomori stations because of the earthquake.
The operator of Haneda Airport says there are no reports of flight delays or cancellations due to the quake.
And the operators of subways and railways in Metropolitan Tokyo say their services have not been affected.
The operators of the two nuclear power plants in northern Japan say there have been no reports of abnormalities at their facilities so far.
One of them is Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, and the other is Tokai No.2 nuclear power plant in Ibaraki Prefecture. They say radiation levels around the plants remain unchanged.
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