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A tsunami warning was initially issued, but later lifted. There are no reports of major damage or casualties.

The Japan Meteorological Agency gave the strength as 6.9 while the US Geological Survey put it at 7.3.

Japan is often hit by earthquakes. In 1995, a magnitude-7.2 quake in the port city of Kobe killed 6,400 people.

The latest tremor occurred at 0531 on Saturday (2031 GMT on Friday).

BBC News website reader Ivan Brackin, who lives on Yoron Island, said it was the biggest quake he had felt in his 40 years in Japan but there had been no visible effects in his area.

“We’re 30 yards [metres] from the sea and no sign of a tsunami,” he said.

“I woke up to violent shudders that lasted about six seconds then a pause followed by a couple of sharp jumps. Jumpers are the most dangerous so that sent me under the desk.”

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Henry Waxman, chairman of the House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee, told a hearing on Toyota that highway safety regulators do not have the expertise to properly evaluate sophisticated engineering systems in today’s vehicles.

“Ultimately, I believe addressing this problem will require legislation,” Waxman said. “Carmakers have entered the electronics era but the (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) seems stuck in a mechanical mind-set.”

Automakers are watching the Toyota developments very closely to see if the saga prompts new congressional or regulatory action.

Waxman’s committee on Monday sharply criticized NHTSA’s handling of consumer complaints about unintended acceleration in Toyota and Lexus models, particularly persistent reports over the years alleging problems with software-driven electronic throttles.

Toyota says its throttles are sound and no NHTSA review has found any problems with them. Jim Lentz, the company’s U.S. sales chief, said at the hearing that Toyota is in the midst of an outside review of those systems.

But Waxman said regulators have lacked the necessary resources to “critically assess Toyota’s insistence that its vehicles could not fail.”

The panel’s investigation found that NHTSA’s staff does not include electrical or software engineers, Waxman said in a letter to Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood.

“We need to make sure the federal safety agency has the tools and resources it needs to ensure the safety of the electronic controls and onboard computers that run today’s automobiles,” Waxman told witnesses at the hearing.

LaHood said NHTSA is adding staff and disputed the committee’s finding that the agency did not have electrical engineering expertise. However, he told Waxman that the Transportation Department may be “asking for some legislative remedies.”

He was not specific but did say it would help NHTSA if automakers were required to report to U.S. regulators their safety problems in other countries.

LaHood also said the government should consider a potential industry mandate for systems that would allow brakes to override the throttle in cases of runaway acceleration.

NHTSA is reviewing electronics in Toyota vehicles as well as those made by other manufacturers. It is consulting outside experts and Toyota.

“We’re going to do a complete review of electronics,” LaHood told lawmakers at the hearing. “We’re going to get into the weeds on the electronics. We feel an obligation to do that.”

NHTSA is a relatively small agency that oversees auto safety and fuel efficiency standards.

It opens about 100 safety investigations annually and has broad powers that critics say are not always used fully. NHTSA receives about 30,000 complaints a year.

The agency relies on nudging industry into “voluntary” recalls rather than forcing action. It’s tougher stance with Toyota in 2009 and this year prompted big recalls for unintended acceleration related to floor mats that can be trapped by the accelerator and gas pedals that do not spring back as designed.

LaHood said he did not believe NHTSA needed expanded authority from Congress to force recalls.

The last major auto safety legislation authorized by Congress toughened industry defect reporting requirements following the 2001 Firestone tire debacle associated with deadly rollovers of Ford Motor Co SUVs.

Over the past three years, NHTSA’s defect and compliance investigations have led to 524 recalls involving 23.5 million vehicles, transportation officials said.

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(CNN) — The junta leading Niger following last week’s coup and suspension of the constitution is working to return the country to democratic rule, a United Nations official said Sunday.

“The political party is very keen to return power to civilians and transition to an all-inclusive democracy,” U.N. Special Representative for West Africa Said Djinnit told CNN. “This transition began with the occurrence of the coup and the expiration of the constitution and implementation of a new constitution.”

The new constitution already is in the works, said Djinnit, who along with representatives from the African Union and the Economic Community of West African States met with junta leaders in Niamey, Niger, on Sunday to push for a quick resolution to the conflict.

“The mission of this meeting is to assure this coup is the last,” Djinnit said. “No coup can be tolerated.”

President Mamadou Tandja is said to be detained in a military camp following Thursday’s coup. Soldiers reportedly stormed the presidential palace, according to the United Nations, and the French Embassy reported hearing intermittent gunfire less than a mile from the palace.

A military official announced the suspension of the constitution later that day and attributed the order to the Superior Council for the Restoration of Democracy.

The violence may have been prompted by a collapse of talks between the government and the opposition over a recent referendum allowing the president to hold power indefinitely, according to the United Nations. Tandja had been in office since 1999, but Niger’s previous constitution mandated only two, five-year terms for president, according to the CIA World Fact Book.

General public sentiment in the west African nation of 15 million appeared to favor the coup, according to Djinnit, who said life had returned to normal for civilians and many had gathered in rallies of support. Djinnit’s observations back earlier reports that the situation was calm in Niger, with children returning to school and shops open for business.

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PARIS — If Greece needs a bailout, it would be far better for it to seek one from the International Monetary Fund than from other euro-zone countries, Otmar Issing, a former top official of the German and European central banks, said Friday.

“I don’t think that the E.U. can impose the kind of sanctions that would be needed, and it would make Brussels too unpopular,” Mr. Issing said during an interview by telephone from his office near Frankfurt. “A better way is for Greece to approach the I.M.F. It is the only institution that can impose strict enough conditions.”

Mr. Issing was chief economist of the European Central Bank from 1998 to 2006 and one of its most influential executive board members. Previously he spent eight years as a board member of the Bundesbank, an institution that expressed doubts about the wisdom of expanding the euro zone beyond core West European economies.

Bailing out Greece would involve “a more or less disguised transfer of taxpayer money,” he said, “and I don’t see any support for that from the people in Germany or elsewhere.”

Athens has presented a plan to rein in its budget deficit, currently at 12.7 percent of gross domestic product. The plan, which has won the qualified backing of the European Commission, includes public wage freezes and spending cuts. But investors have been selling securities of Greece and other euro-zone countries like Portugal amid worries about default.

“The rules of the game are very hard,” Mr. Issing said. “The only viable strategy is that the Greek government says to the people: ‘We are in the euro, we have had the benefits, and now we must do everything to stay in.’ It has to offer a much more convincing program.”

For Mr. Issing, a test of European monetary union — with one central bank but loose rules on fiscal discipline — was inevitable. But he said the system had survived worse periods, including its inception.

“Leaving the euro zone would be economic suicide and would have serious political consequences for Greece,” he said. “But the idea that it would weaken the euro area is misguided.”

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Shaun Woodward said in an interview the DUP leader had no questions to answer.

Mr Robinson resumed his role as First Minister on Wednesday after stepping aside temporarily earlier this month.

The BBC claimed that in not reporting his wife’s financial dealings to the authorities, he had broken the code which governs Stormont politicians.

Speaking on the BBC Radio Four’s Today programme, Mr Woodward described Mr Robinson as “an outstanding politician”.

He said: “I think he has cleared his name. I think he has justifiably done so, everyone is entitled to do that.

“He is an outstanding politician, just as Martin McGuinness and Gerry Adams and Nigel Dodds have been throughout this process and I’m looking forward to seeing the first minister and deputy first minister moving forward and ensuring that people get what they need in Northern Ireland, which is good government.”

Formal investigations

Mr Robinson stepped aside from his role as Northern Ireland First Minister on 11 January, saying he needed to clear his name in light of the allegation made by the programme.

He said he did not have the months or years it would take for the matter to be decided through court action or official inquiries and so quickly sought a barrister’s opinion on whether he had broken assembly rules regarding his knowledge of his wife’s involvement in the cafe deal.

The government’s legal service, the Departmental Solicitor’s Office, appointed Paul Maguire QC to look at the issue.

Two days ago, the DUP leader said Mr Maguire had formed the opinion, going on the information provided to him, that he had not breached the Ministerial Code.

The BBC said it was standing by the allegations made in the programme.

Separate investigations are being carried out in Mr Robinson’s conduct by the Northern Ireland Assembly’s Standards and Privileges Committee and the Westminster Standards Committee.

However, the Assembly inquiry was later suspended after the police said they had launched a criminal investigation into Mrs Robinson’s financial dealings.

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