Fault shifted nearly two meters horizontally causing saturdays magnitude 7. 3 quake in southwestern japan. Tokyo stocks fall as earthquake affects sway on investor sentiment. Rescucrews in southwestern japan are racing against the clock after two powerful earthquakes. They are up against a critical 72hour mark since the most recent. And theyve been combing through mud and rubble, racing against more tremors. Thousands of rescuers are in the village of minamiaso on the island of kyushu. Nine people remain unaccounted for and two of them may be trapped under a collapsed building. Authorities say 42 people have been confirmed dead since thursday. Many were found in collapsed houses. More than 1,000 others were injured. Thousands of houses and buildings are damaged or destroyed. But officials believe all those numbers could rise. They havent been able to assess the situation in some areas. Survivors are taking refuge at city offices, schools and parking lots. Now, over 100,000 people are temporarily homeless. The overcrowded facilities take a toll on the elderly. A woman in her 70s was found collapsed sunday in a makeshift rest room. She was later confirmed dead. Officials say fatigue and stress may have been causes. Thousands of people have been sleeping in their cars over fears of more buildings collapsing. Nurses volunteer to check on them. Many homes are without power, water or gas. People lined up for emergency meals and drinking water. Translator i can get food here, but its hard to sleep well, so i feel really tired. Officials have confirmed more than 50 landslides in the area and theres been more than 500 tremors since thursday with still more possible. Getting around is difficult. Sections of highways are destroyed. Shinkansen bullet Train Service is suspended, and all flights in and out of kumamoto airport are grounded. Some it flights will resume starting tuesday. Stories of survival are emerging. One man used his smart phone to save his life and those of his family. The University Student was trapped under debris with four family members when his house collapsed in a tremor. He used social networks to call for help. His friends responded with encouraging words and came to the rescue with firefighters. Translator i was unable to move, but my mobile phone was close at hand. We are fortunate it gave me access to social networks. There are stories of challenges. Some people are having difficulty finding places to hold funerals for loved ones. This man says he had to have his fathers body cremated without a ceremony as it was difficult for the relatives and neighbors to get together. Translator all i can manage is to deal with today. I cant think about tomorrow. People are trying to move forward. Workers are setting up cranes to lift a derailed bullet train. There are other signs of damage. Rareway o Railway Officials cant tell when they will resume operations. One section of another railway line was reopened monday. Translator im glad we will be able to get around again. A seismology expert says large horizontal shifts along a major fault in kumamoto caused saturdays quake. Yuji yagi assesses the movements of the futagawa fault. He used data observed at various locations around the globe. The governments Earthquake Research committee believes that fault likely caused saturdays quake. It is 50 kilometers long, and 20 kilometers wide. This is a result of yagis analysis. The area marked in red indicates the location where the biggest horizontal shifts were made, up to 1. 8 meters in some sections. But he says his assessment shows the futagawa fault could extend ten kilometers further northeast than the government panels estimation. Yagi says the quake caused damage in a northeastward direction toward minamiaso village. He says seismic waves can overlap in the direction of horizontal shifts and increase the strength of quakes. He says that could be responsible for the major damage in the village. The powerful quakes are impacting the lives of both local people and Foreign Residents and visitors. Nhk worlds takafumi terui reports from the International Center where some people are taking shelter. Reporter this International Center has opened two floors as a temporary shelter. Anyone who needs a place to stay can come in, about 50 people have taken shelter here. Normally the center runs many Cultural Exchange programs. Many of its staff can speak english and other languages. And thats why there are many nonjapanese evacuees. Let me ask one of them. Hi, excuse me. Tell us where youre from. Im from tanzania. Youre in japan for im a ph. D. Student at Kumamoto University and im researching on hiv. Can you describe your experience of the quake for us . Well, it was such a terrifying moment. Very terrible experience. Just glad me and my family, we are safe, that is all. Thank you. Thank you very much. The center has been busy answering questions from people in the area. This man is from egypt and lives in kumamoto. He says he wont leave the city but he was asking staff how his friend could get to fukuoka, the neighboring prefecture. The Staff Members are also getting many phone calls when people are too afraid to stay in their homes or visitors cant find hotels. The staff let them know they can stay at the center. It also gives out information about what foreign embassies are doing to help their citizens if they want to leave japan. For instance the south korean government arranged a bus service to transport a group of students studying at the local university to fukuoka airport. Translator the second major quake was especially scary. I was on the fourth floor and we lost power. So, i was very frightened. Reporter the Center Provides food for evacuees. Todays lunch was rice bowls and miso soup. The ration is limited because there are tens of thousands of people taking temporary shelter all over kumamoto. The food is amazing. This is my first meal but im very impressed with it. Reporter there are people who have food allergies. Or follow religious regulations. The center says theyre trying to cater to everyones needs. The centers representative says he ask every evacuee to please help each other. Help each other, the foreign citizens and the japanese resides. And we can save our service. Reporter local cities in japan like kumamoto are becoming more and more international, the disaster has hit everyone in the region and people are doing their best to overcome the situation together. Takafumi terui, nhk world, kumamoto. The quakes are having a major affect on the manufacturing sector. Managers at major japanese firms are trying to minimize the impact of the quakes. Many companies have been forced to suspend manufacturing. Quake damage is hurting many automakers. Toyota says its forcing them to suspend operations at most of the Groups Assembly plants across the country through saturday. Honda says it will suspend production in its motorcycle factory through friday. Officials from Mitsubishi Motors will suspend production until tuesday. Sony closed its image sensor factory after thursdays quake. They supply a lot of smart phone senators. Mitsubishi electric stops producing. Major Oil Producing nations have been meeting to discuss how to control crude output. They havent been able to agree. Oil ministers from 18 states, including saudi arabia and russia, gathered. They were aiming to agree to a freeze on current production levels due to concerns about an oversupply. Talks fell apart. They will need more time. Discussions will continue until the next opec meeting in june. Irans oil minister did not attend. Countries continue to boost production after western nations lifted economic sanctions. Irans moves are key to future negotiations. A freeze can only be effective if opec members opec member iran as well as nonopec members join the deal. Oil prices fell after the earth wakes dampen investor sentiment. Tokyo stocks plunged more than 500 points. Tokyo shares tumbled as investors worried about the impact on business as well as the failed talks to limit oil production. The nikkei lost 3. 4 to close at 16,275. The broader topics also fell by more than 3 . As we have been reporting, operations of several major parts makers in the region are disrupted. Toyota shares were down nearly 4. 8 as the shortage of auto parts rippled through the supply chain in the rest of the country. Renesas electronics shares tumbled. Sony was down 6. 8 . An analyst warned that if production doesnt resume soon, apples iphone 7 may be delayed. Sony makes image sensors for ta down. Oil prices tumbled after producers failed to agree to an output freeze. Thanks very much for that report. Many investors across the Asia Pacific Region lost their appetite for stocks after the fall in oil prices. Lets look at china. Shanghai composite down. Energy related shares led the losses. Taiwan down. Analysts say investors are concerned that supply chain disruptions may affect local semiconductor makers. Looking at hong kong. Most sectors ended in the negative. Indonesia, kind of like the exclusion. A gain there as banking shares rebounded. They were sold friday after the central bank said it will adopt a new benchmark rate. Japan is trying to get ahead in the asia of Artificial Intelligence and 3d mapping. The government has draft aid plan to support r d in the field as part of its growth strategy. The aim is to advance Artificial Intelligence through studies of the brain. Ethical issues will be carefully discussed. Another pillar of the research is the development of 3d maps needed for the expansion of selfdriving cars. The aim is to create a mapping database by 2020 that tracks people, goods and vehicles and collects data from security cameras. The government hopes to see development of new medicine uses ips cells. Their ability to reproduce holds great promise in the field of regenerative medicine. Here is a look at some of the other business stories were following. New home prices in china rose last month nearly 90 of cities surveyed. Officials say march new home prices rose for the previous month in 62 of the 70 cities. Prices fell in the other eight. Demand rose as the Central Government cut Interest Rates and eased regulations on housing loans. Purchases for investment increased. Major companies in japan have agreed to raise monthly races. Officials say the average pay raise is about 66, thats nearly 10 less than last year. Wage negotiations this year took place amid falling stock prices and a strengthen yen. The lower increase reflects managers concerns about the business outlook. Japan airlines and microsoft have developed a Virtual Reality software for training pilots and mechanics. The goggle display images of the boeing 737 and the boeing 878. A Voice Recognition program recreates transmissions. They are planning improvements to the software. They will use it in Training Programs in about a year. A look at our business calendar for the week. On tuesday, policy makers at south koreas central bank hold a board meeting. They are dealing with a slowing economy. Japans trade balance comes out midweek. The balance turned positive in february partly due to the lower price of oil imports. On thursday, officials at Bank Indonesia will hold a two day policy meeting. The same day government officials announce their monthly assessment of the japanese economy. Every monday we ask special i haves to share their view on the week. In this edition of expert view, we hear from an economist. Shes up with of the experts tracking south koreas economy. She believes the bank of korea will cut key Interest Rates this week. It will quite likely to be lower its policy late. Since the bank might also at the same time acknowledge the state of the economy is really weak. They are recovering but still its very weak. And also they might at the same time, the lower projection of this year to lower than 3. 4 they expected beforehand. The slowdown is putting more pressure on the central bank to ease Monetary Policy she says. Last year, the bank lowered Interest Rate by a quarter in june to the 1. 5 . Since then, they remain unchanged for nine consecutive months. But then they the economy is very fragile due to this sluggishness of the export. The sluggishness in export is there mainly due to weakening of slowing in the chinese economy. China is largest export market for the economy. They actually export almost a quarter of the export growth to china. The slowdown in chinas economy has really affected the current economy. Thats it for business. Im going to leave you with the markets. It wasnt the result the president of brazil hoped for. Reporter waiting for word on the Impeachment Vote on the president. This protest are a familiar sight. Around 3 Million Students gathered in march demanding for her to step down. Translator this country needs to change right now. Translator i pay my taxes. And im fed up with this situation. Translator i have not committed any crime under the constitution and law. Reporter rousseff is now facing impeachment over her alleged involvement in manipulating government accounts for political gains. But shes essentially been criticized for her lack of ability in dealing with a variety of issues the nation has been facing. Brazil posted a Gross Domestic Product of minus 3. 8 in 2015. Not too long ago, it was heralded as one of the fast growing brick nations. Brazil is a major exporter of iron ore and there is a stop on growth. Then a zika Virus Outbreak they are trying to deal with. To make matters worse on the political side of things, more than 100 politicians and Business People are under investigation and have been arrested for corruption involving a staterun oil company. On sunday, lawmakers held plaques saying farewell president as they called for rousseffs impeachment. The ruling camp denies any wrongdoing and says political opponents are doing this. Both sides entered the louer house chambermid shou and shuffles. More than 500 lawmakers gather to announce if they were for or against the president s impeachment. Five hours later, twothirds of lawmakers expressed their approval. The impeachment proceedings will transfer over to the upper house. If it decides by a simple majority to put rousseff on trial, she will be suspended from office during this period. The Vice President will perform duties on her behalf. She could be suspended as early as may, leading the country into further political chaos. Not something the country needs as it battles a zika virus and prepares to hold the world when the olympics start this summer. Pack is ready to put her energy into creating jobs for young people. She reiterated her call to reform labor laws despite objections from opposition parties. Results of an opinion poll show support rate at 31. 5 . The lowest since she took office in 2013. Rescue operations are under way in kumamoto prefecture. What is the forecast like for the next few days in the effected areas. It was bad. Heavy rain fell in kumamoto prefecture. At least for the next couple of days it should stay dry. Thats good news. However, i have to mention, starting thursday, another area of low pressure will move into the area. So its going to be a wet day on thursday once again. Temperatures are going to be quite low. We have frost advisory in kumamoto prefecture. Tomorrows low is going to be very low for this time of year, only 7 degrees. Its going to be a tough condition for People Living there. Then as we go into wednesday, things will look up. Its going to be warming up. Thursday, its going to be a wet day. As for the rest of japan, it was a stormy day on sunday. Many areas, including tokyo and hokkaido. We have video coming out of two areas to show you how windy it was during the weekend. This video shows sk s scaffoldi collapses. The same system that brought heavy rains in western japan caused typhoon winds. Hokkaido was hit by fierce winds. About 150 Kilometers Per Hour wind gusts were reported. Thousands of people were without power at that moment. Windy weather will likely continue. Take a look at this. Strong winds of 100 kilometer r hour was recorded in tokyo on sunday. The next 2 hours, strg wds will remain across northern areas. Watch out. You may not be able to stand without support under this conditions. Across southeastern china, its dry at this moment. It was severe across the area during the weekend. Several tornadoes were reported. No casualties reported, but many houses were severely damaged. Rain is going to develop once again for the next three days or so. So that could raise the potential for flooding as well as landslides. Rain will move into south korea and western japan into thursday. Temperatures are going to be high once again. Cool and rainy rather in beijing with a high of 16 on your tuesday. Tokyo up to 23 degrees with sunny weather tomorrow. Lets go to ecuador. Its a rainy seon. Th is raising the potential for ldslides areas where massive earthquake hit during the weekend. Rainy weather should continue for the next three days. Temperatures are going to be quite high. High temperatures and also a high humidity could result in heatstroke. Then across north america, theres a slow moving low pressure system in fronts located over the middle portions of the country. That has caused heavy rainfall in nebraska and more heavy rain anticipated for the southern areas. Texas may see 250 millimeters of rainfall. Theres a chance for tornadoes as well. Theres a High Pressure system which is a very stubborn one. This doesnt want to move. Thats why this system has to stay here that has to drop more heavy rainfall. Due to heavy rainfall, theres a concern for flash floods in many places from texas up into the north plains. Then back behind it heavy snow is expected. Temperatures are going to be high across the west. Here is your extended forecast. For your thoughts and comments lognnncocobq live from paris. Live from paris, your rendezvous with the world. It is 1 00 in paris, france 24, bringing you the latest international news. Araujo in delmer brazil, she lost an Impeachment Vote in the lower house of congress that will now pass to the senate which could vote her permanently removed from office. To earthquakeaid hit ecuador