Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government was preparing late Tuesday to replace the minister for disaster reconstruction, Masahiro Imamura, hours after Mr. Imamura suggested he was glad a devastating 2011 earthquake happened in northeastern Japan because it is less densely populated than Tokyo. The minister told a gathering of ruling-party supporters, “It was better at least that it happened over there in Tohoku,” or northeastern Japan,...

Source: Wall Street Journal April 25, 2017 14:03 UTC