At least 13 people have died and many more are missing or injured after a powerful earthquake struck southwestern Japan on Wednesday. Soldiers and emergency workers searched a heavily damaged shopping centre and collapsed homes for trapped survivors. Bullet train services and some airport operations remained suspended as authorities continued to assess the damage a day after the magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck the Kumamoto region on Japan’s southern main island of Kyushu. / Credit: APAt the Nippon Paper Industries factory in Yatsushiro, a collapsed chimney trapped several people under rubble, according to the Kumamoto emergency team. Stone walls at Kumamoto Castle, one of the region’s main tourist attractions, were damaged in the earthquake.