The World - News from Feb. 20, 1989

A strong earthquake rocked Tokyo and much of northern Japan, killing one person and injuring another, shaking buildings and briefly halting some train and airline service, officials said. The quake, registering a magnitude of 5.6, hit at 9:27 p.m., a spokesman for the Meteorological Agency said. The agency placed the epicenter near Utsunomiya, 60 miles north of Tokyo. In Matsudo, east of Tokyo, Shigeo Ohikawa, 78, died of a heart attack after being taken to a local hospital suffering from shock. A 61-year-old man was injured when he was hit on the head by a falling vase at his home in Ibaraki, 63 miles northeast of Tokyo.