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The Great East Japan Earthquake

On 11 March 2011, in the early afternoon (14:46:23 local time), Japan was rocked by 9.0-magnitude earthquake that caused widespread damage to the country’s eastern coastal region. It lasted approximately six minutes, occurred at a relatively shallow depth of 24.4 kilometres (km), or 15.2 miles, with an epicentre of approximately 130 km (80 miles) east of Sendai City, Tohoku region. The earthquake was so powerful it moved Honshu, Japan’s largest island, 2.4 metres east and shifted the Earth on its axis by an estimated 10 to 25 centimetres.

The Regional Strategy for Traditional Medicine in the Western Pacific Region (2011-2020)

The Regional Strategy for Traditional Medicine in the Western Pacific (2011–2020) provides guidance for countries and areas, WHO, development partners and other stakeholders on how to maximize the health potential of traditional medicine, and advance the cause of primary health care and universal access to health services for the people of the Region.

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