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Yikes, I'm not really a geography buff or come from a place that has extreme weather, this sounds bad...is it?
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Damn... this just happened? I think they got hit last time too.
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6.8 is a pretty strong quake, but the damage depends on the distance to the quake epicentre, the infrastructure (in this regard, Japan is well-prepared), how many people live in the area (this is a remote area of Japan) and the geology of the area. In this case I assume the biggest risk is of a tsunami, since it hit off the coast, and the quake wasn't enormous (unlike the 2011 disaster, which started with a magnitude approx 9.1 earthquake.
The east coast of Japan was hit in 2011, yes. Japan is very prone to earthquakes.
But last year Indonesia was hit by an earthquake that was quite a bit bigger than the one that hit Japan today, so it's not just limited to them.