400 hurt in Japan quakes

Three powerful earthquakes injured 421 people, knocked out power grids and set off mudslides across rain-soaked northern Japan on Saturday.

“I just grabbed my kids and held on tight,” said Yoshiko Takaki, a young mother taking refuge with her two toddlers in a school gymnasium in Yamoto, a small town near the epicentre. “I thought the whole house was going to fall apart.”