10 years after Kumamoto earthquakes, 278 victims remembered ⁠0%

By JIJI⁠0%

4/16/2026, 12:19:00 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 10 faulty reasoning types, including Availability Heuristic, Negativity Bias, and Primacy Effect, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 56% saturation with 51 hits. Analysis detected 247 faulty-reasoning hits from 91 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 0% and a BS Rank of ⁠0% (0 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 100.00% of the article peer group.

Kumamoto – A memorial ceremony was held in Kumamoto Prefecture on Thursday for people who died when huge earthquakes hit the prefecture particularly hard 10 years ago. 
The April 2016 earthquakes claimed the lives of a total of 278 people in Kumamoto and neighboring Oita Prefecture, including deaths from indirect causes. 
Thursday marked exactly 10 years since the main quake occurred. 
The memorial was held at Kumamoto-Jo Hall in Kumamoto and was cosponsored by the prefectural government and all municipalities in the prefecture. 
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