Razing of wrecked homes lagging badly as Fukushima residents ponder return
The central government is covering the demolition costs for disaster-hit homes in Fukushima Prefecture, but 70 percent of the razing requests have not been completed. The Environment Ministry plans to revise the procedures for handling demolition requests because the situation could further prevent residents from ...
Study finds 138 preventable hospital deaths following 2011 tsunami
At least 138 patients at major hospitals in Iwate and Miyagi prefectures who died in the aftermath of the 2011 quake and tsunami could have been saved under normal medical conditions, health ministry researchers have said. The team attributed the deaths of 13 percent of ...
The Fukushima crisis should have been a catalyst for change; instead it sustained policy inertia.
We must be prepared for the unthinkable
The Fukushima and Chernobyl nuclear catastrophes offer many lessons that if heeded will ensure we are better prepared for future disasters.
Saga of lost Rikuzentakata tsunami boat forges pan-Pacific friendship
A new children's book recounts events following the 3/11 disasters that have led to a forging of bonds and cross-cultural exchange between young people in Tohoku and the U.S. West Coast.
Tour guide Tsuyoshi Sawaguchi recently took an 11-member group from Kyushu University around the Taro district in Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, to explain the impact of the tsunami that wrecked much of Japan's northeastern coastline in March 2011. "What is important is protecting your life by ...
The dramatic imagery that emerged from the disasters of the March 11 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, documented so extensively by mainstream and social media, is hard to forget. However, there were and still are many stories to be told about the people who were ...
Down but not out: Japan's anti-nuclear movement fights to regain momentum
Japan’s once highly motivated anti-nuclear movement struggles to maintain momentum amid a government push toward plant restarts.
NRA chairman urges caution in plant decommissioning amid residents' radiation fears
As five years have now passed since the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant meltdowns began, the chairman of the Nuclear Regulation Authority on Friday stressed that regulators must firmly monitor the decommissioning of the crippled plant to ease concerns of residents affected by ...
Five years after the Great East Japan Earthquake, police in Fukushima, Miyagi and Iwate prefectures are still searching for and identifying the bodies of those who went missing on March 11, 2011, though as time goes on they have fewer clues to work with. The ...
Japan marks fifth anniversary of devastating 3/11 disasters
Millions observe a moment of silence across the nation to mark the fifth anniversary of the March 2011 quake and tsunami.
Grief still raw five years after Japan's quake, tsunami disaster
As the sun rose Friday on areas of northeastern Japan still struggling from the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit on March 11, 2011, people gathered to remember their lost loved ones and reflect on their grief five years after the disaster. The magnitude-9 quake, ...
