Economy | ANALYSIS
Households to take hit from tax hike
by Tomoko Otake
The consumption tax increase will hit every household in Japan hard, with many people’s financial future hanging on whether their wages rise enough to offset the hike's impact.
Politics & Diplomacy Sep 29, 2013
'Convincing' search needed: Ishiba
Liberal Democratic Party Secretary-General Shigeru Ishiba said Sunday that a “convincing” effort must be made to find funds for disaster-hit Tohoku if it agrees to end the special corporate tax for reconstruction a year early. “The LDP is worried about whether it will be ...
National Sep 3, 2013
Mayor gets disaster response award
The mayor of the village of Katsurao, Fukushima Prefecture, won a U.N.-sponsored award Monday for his prompt response to the March 2011 disaster at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, when he worked to save 1,600 people from high-level radiation. ...
National Aug 4, 2013
Tohoku boat found in Sea of Japan
A fishing boat from tsunami-ravaged Kesennuma is found on the other side of Honshu in the Sea of Japan after apparently circulating across the Pacific and back.
Book Jul 27, 2013
Incredible stories that should not be forgotten
by Anthony Fensom
Foreign journalists charged with covering Japan’s devastating March 2011 disasters faced an enormous challenge: sensitively expressing the human tragedy while accurately assessing the vast amount of real-time data on the crisis.
Review Jul 6, 2013
Letting opportunity slip away
by Jeff Kingston
So why hasn't March 11, 2011, been the game-changer that many anticipated? Richard Samuels' masterful account of Japan's policy responses to its greatest crisis since World War II explains why continuity has trumped change. But maybe, just maybe, it hasn't, as he also reminds ...
National Jun 27, 2013
JAEA map shows early iodine fallout
by Kazuaki Nagata
The Japan Atomic Energy Agency discloses a radiation map showing how iodine-131 likely spread in the early stages of the Fukushima meltdowns, a development that could help doctors locate unsuspecting cancer victims.
National Jun 14, 2013
Reconstruction official hit for 'offensive' tweets
The Reconstruction Agency may punish its senior bureaucrat responsible for providing support to people affected by the Fukushima nuclear disaster, for allegedly posting disparaging tweets against Diet lawmakers and civic groups.
National Jun 13, 2013
Japanese media open photo exhibit charting Tohoku's disaster recovery
Kyodo News and four newspapers in the Tohoku region, whose coast was ravaged by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, opened an exhibition in Madrid on Tuesday for photos depicting citizens’ disaster recovery efforts. An opening ceremony took place in the presence of Spanish ...
National Jun 4, 2013
Tokyo-area frequency of quakes still high
The frequency of quakes measuring magnitude 3 or stronger in the Tokyo area at the end of last year remained higher than before the massive Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, 2011.
Lifestyle May 28, 2013
281_Anti Nuke's anger at authority is at a critical mass
by Jon Mitchell
More than two years after the triple reactor meltdowns at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, hundreds of thousands of residents of the Tohoku region of northeastern Honshu remain displaced, the power station teeters on the brink of further disaster and large swaths ...
National May 7, 2013
Fukushima debris disposal falling short
by Jun Hongo
The Environment Ministry admits that disposing of disaster debris in Fukushima Prefecture will not be completed by the April 2014 target.
Community Mar 9, 2013
Power of poetry penned by survivors of 3/11 is showcased by ASIJ project
by Kris Kosaka
Kathy Krauth, a social studies teacher at the American School in Japan, admits she was never a huge fan of tanka, traditional Japanese poetry. “Tanka never really spoke to me. I dismissed it as early Japanese history with cherry blossoms.” That all changed when ...