Astronomer Yoshio Kushida believes he will receive forewarning should a major earthquake hit.
"I am absolutely confident," he said when asked about predicting a major quake in the Tokyo metropolitan area.
"(The signs of) all major earthquakes that have occurred could have been observed," Kushida said in a recent interview at his private observatory in Yamanashi Prefecture.
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