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ANNIVERSARY

Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 12, 2013
Work resumes on Aomori's new Oma nuclear plant
At the remote northwestern tip of a snowy peninsula, beyond a small road of fishing shacks and empty one-story homes, 600 construction workers and engineers are building a brand-new nuclear plant for a country still recovering from the most severe atomic disaster since Chernobyl.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 12, 2013
Orphans need special trauma care
Hundreds orphaned by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami remain vulnerable two years later because of insufficient government support.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 12, 2013
Hibiya rally tries to keep nuclear foes on message
Far away from disaster-hit Tohoku, people gathered Monday in Tokyo's Hibiya Park to offer silent prayers on the second anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake.
JAPAN
Mar 12, 2013
Key events in Fukushima crisis
The following are events related to the crisis at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s six-reactor Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, triggered by the March 11, 2011, megaquake and tsunami.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 12, 2013
NPO brought Tohoku's foreigners together
A teacher congratulates a Philippine student for acing a Japanese-language test at a local community hall. Her instructor, Kanae Sato, is from Taiwan, and like most of the residents of Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, both saw their homes destroyed by tsunami two years ago.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 12, 2013
Carpentry seminars help bring men out of isolation
One snowy Sunday morning in late February, elderly men were awkwardly driving nails into half-finished furniture under the instruction of skilled carpenters at a factory in Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Mar 12, 2013
Do dire predictions for Japan factor in a rush for the exits?
Within two hours of the massive earthquake that jolted Japan at 2:46 p.m. on March 11, 2011, the Japanese government received notice that an “Article 15 event” had occurred at the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Mar 12, 2013
Tokyo: Do you support Japan abandoning nuclear power even if it means increases in electricity prices?
Even if it's true that electricity bills will rise, I don't agree with using nuclear power due to the simple fact that it is not 100 percent safe. And, whilst I don't have kids yet, I hope to be a father one day, and I don't want them to grow up in a nuclear-dependent world.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 11, 2013
Nation marks second year since calamity
The nation marks the second anniversary of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that devastated Tohoku's coastline and left some 19,000 people dead or missing amid the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 11, 2013
Abe vows to speed up reconstruction from 3/11 disasters
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe stressed Monday his resolve to accelerate reconstruction work on the second anniversary of the March 2011 megaquake and tsunami disaster.
Japan Times
JAPAN / TOHOKU TRAPPED IN TIME
Mar 11, 2013
Residents failed by fitful rebuilding
Two years after thousands of Fukushima residents fled to escape the radiation from the No. 1 power plant meltdowns, many are gradually returning as more areas are deemed safe.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 11, 2013
Protesters rail against Abe, reactors
More than 10,000 demonstrators take to the streets of Tokyo, calling for an immediate phaseout of atomic energy and railing against Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's pronuclear stance.
EDITORIALS
Mar 11, 2013
Two years after the 3/11 disasters
Japan this week marks the second anniversary of the massive earthquake and tsunami that devastated Pacific coastal areas of the Tohoku region.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 11, 2013
Unable to return, Futaba residents fear becoming lost tribe
Makiyasu Matsumoto, 82, worries he may never be able to return to his hometown of Futaba, which was rendered uninhabitable by the wrecked Fukushima No. 1 power plant.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 11, 2013
Rikuzentakata, Okuma remember disaster victims
The municipal government of Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, held a memorial service Sunday for the more than 1,500 residents who died in the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
Japan Times
JAPAN / TOHOKU TRAPPED IN TIME
Mar 10, 2013
Plummeting debris estimates belie pleas for disposal aid
In the weeks after March 11, 2011, what to do with the mountains of debris that had once been people's homes and possessions before the quake and tsunami, and how to do it quickly, cheaply and safely, became the top priority of the cleanup effort in Tohoku.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Mar 10, 2013
Filmmaker captures the 3/11 stress of Tohoku's deaf
Nobuko Kikuchi, a 72-year-old resident of Iwanuma, Miyagi Prefecture, couldn't hear the emergency sirens that followed the 9.0-magnitude earthquake that struck on March 11, 2011.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives
Mar 10, 2013
Two years on, Fukushima evacuees seek justice and a normal life
Living in a tiny temporary house isn't all bad.
Japan Times
JAPAN / TOHOKU TRAPPED IN TIME
Mar 9, 2013
NRA gets strict, must prove credibility
Japan's nuclear regulator has had a major revamp in the two years since lax safety standards contributed to the catastrophic nuclear meltdowns at the Fukushima No. 1 plant, discrediting it in the eyes of the public.
Japan Times
JAPAN / TOHOKU TRAPPED IN TIME
Mar 9, 2013
Water is both the savior and the bane at Fukushima No. 1
Those who were at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant two years ago probably remember their fears after towering tsunami knocked out the reactor cooling systems, triggering three core meltdowns.

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