TOKYO â?? Reports Wednesday that North Korea may have conducted a second nuclear test stirred new anxieties in Japan, but Japanese officials said a review of data gave no indication that such a test had taken place.

North Korea on Monday announced that it had tested its first nuclear bomb, drawing global condemnation and leading to a U.S.-backed push to have the U.N. Security Council sanction the reclusive communist state.

Some say the regime may conduct more tests amid suspicions the first, relatively small explosion might have partially failed.

Early Wednesday, Japanese public broadcaster NHK, citing unidentified government sources, reported that "tremors" had been detected that morning in North Korea, leading the government to begin investigating whether a second blast had taken place.

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