Emergency workers are continuing their search for survivors in southern Japan after yesterday’s powerful earthquake ‘Race against time’: Japan earthquake death toll rises as rescue teams search for missing As we wait for updates on the explosion at Aeon shopping centre in Kumamoto, earlier the chief government spokesperson Minoru Kihara said a gas smell was detected inside the building during yesterday’s search by firefighters and police, local media have reported. Kihara stressed that the cause of the explosion, which happened about an hour after the earthquake struck, is still under investigation. Continue reading...