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"We heard a series of loud bangs, about four," he said. "My partner and I looked up and saw a flash of smoke. We figured out it was probably gunshots."

Before he was shot, the gunman said, "I am the emperor and I'm here to take over state government," Dreyer said.

Authorities roped off the area where the man was shot, and an ambulance and eight police cars converged on the building's north entrance.

Authorities roped off the area where the man was shot, and an ambulance and eight police cars converged on the building's north entrance.

The earthquake, which left fissures 3 feet wide in the ground along the coast, hit shortly after 10 a.m. local time and was centered off Niigata state. Buildings swayed 160 miles away in Tokyo. Sirens wailed in Kashiwazaki, a city of about 90,000, which appeared to be hardest hit.

In October 2004, a magnitude-6.8 earthquake hit Niigata, killing 40 people and damaging more than 6,000 homes. It was the deadliest to hit Japan since 1995, when a magnitude-7.2 quake killed 6,433 people in the western city of Kobe