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Show llarh Shaken Japan. In 1S9 the Japanese government appointed ap-pointed an Investigating committee on earthiiiakes This committee, which has now- nearly completed It labors, reports, among other things, that It seems llekly that one part or another ot Japin will bo visited by n destructive destruc-tive earthquake nnee In every two and a half year That portion ot tho land bordering the Japan Sen Is seldom disturbed dis-turbed by other llian loeat earthquakes, earth-quakes, whllo the Pacific coist ot the country frequently suffers from great shocks originating tinder tho oiean V hen a region Is shaken by constantly recurring small earthquakrlt appears to bo rendered safo against tho occurrence occur-rence nf destructive shoeks.becauao tho accumulation of sires In the earth's crust at that point Is prevented |