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9/11 survivor finds strength in helping 3/11 victims in Japan
An American survivor of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack in New York who reached out to the Tohoku region following the triple disaster in 2011 has for years fostered a unique bond with its people, finding the connection mutually beneficial in coping with ...
University student cycles from Aichi to Miyagi to spread messages of hope from disaster victims
Kenshi Yamamoto, a 20-year-old university student from Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture, made a 1,746 kilometer round-trip bicycle journey earlier this month to Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, to challenge post-disaster media coverage that he believes focuses excessively on depressing news. Yamamoto visited the Tohoku region three times while ...
Tepco to move up measures against tsunami from Kuril Trench quake
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. (Tepco) has decided to move up ongoing work on protective measures at its crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power station, as a precaution against major tsunami from potentially huge earthquakes that could occur along the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench in ...
Extreme makeover: Tepco attempts image overhaul at Fukushima nuclear plant
Call it an extreme makeover: In Fukushima, officials are attempting what might seem impossible, an image overhaul of the site of the worst nuclear meltdown in decades. At the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, there's a flashy new administrative building, debris has been moved and ...
Japanese government aims to have all evacuees in Miyagi and Iwate secure new homes by 2021
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Thursday that by March 2021 the government will aim to complete the building and securing of houses for those forced to evacuate due to the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in two of the three hardest-hit prefectures in Tohoku. The government ...
Made in Fukushima: Aided by rigorous radiation checks, farmers and fishermen struggle to win trust
The pumpkin is diced, the chicken carved and the eggs beaten into an omelet, but the people preparing the food are not chefs — they are scientists testing produce from the Fukushima region. Seven years after the March 2011 nuclear crisis caused by devastating tsunami, ...
Fukushima 'ambassadors' visit Taiwan school to offer thanks for 3/11 aid
Three students from Fukushima Prefecture visited a junior high school in Taipei to offer thanks for Taiwan's reconstruction support after the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis. The three junior high and high school students, acting as "reconstruction ambassadors," called on the Taiwanese students ...
Tepco to check for faults under site of new atomic plant eyed in Aomori
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. will start a geological survey by next April for a new nuclear power plant in Higashidori, Aomori Prefecture. The survey through fiscal 2020 will use a 2-km tunnel to check a fault structure under the site, which is next ...
Quartet performs in Vienna with violins crafted from 3/11 tsunami debris
A string quartet performed at Minoriten Church in Vienna on Saturday with instruments made from debris from the March 2011 quake and tsunami that devastated parts of the Tohoku region. The ensemble of musicians, from Japan and Austria, played works by Mozart and other composers ...
Emperor and Empress attend last national tree-planting event during visit to Tohoku
Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko attended an annual national tree-planting festival, the last such event for the couple, in the tsunami-hit city of Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, on Sunday. The ceremony was held at a site in Shidoke, a coastal district where trees are being planted ...
Top court upholds tsunami death ruling against city of Higashimatsushima
The Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling that found the city of Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, responsible for the death of an elementary school student swept away by the March 2011 tsunami. Effective Wednesday, the Supreme Court's Second Petty Bench turned down the city's appeal ...
Municipality in Miyagi Prefecture to appeal ruling over students' tsunami deaths
The municipal assembly of Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, decided Tuesday to appeal a high court ruling that ordered local authorities to pay around ¥1.4 billion in damages to the families of elementary school students killed by the March 2011 tsunami. The court said the city and ...
