Two-time figure skating world champion and 2014 Sochi Olympic gold medalist Yuzuru Hanyu performed an exhibition program Wednesday at a rink where he has special memories. After skating to Japanese pop song "Hana ni Nare" at the Bank of Yokohama Ice Arena, Hanyu offered free ...
A project to restore a pine tree forest wiped out by the tsunami that destroyed Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, in March 2011 kicked off Saturday with the goal of having about 40,000 saplings planted on the city's coastline by March 2020. The replanting project has a ...
All Blacks legend Richie McCaw kicked off a four-day charity tour of Japan on Friday and vowed to bring a smile to the faces of children affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake. "Rugby throughout the world has a set of values no matter where ...
A campaign is underway to create emergency response teams across Japan to provide aid for pets and livestock during natural disasters, following the establishment of such services in a number of prefectures. Formed in the wake of failures following the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that ...
Masahiro Imamura, minister for disaster reconstruction, withdrew on Friday controversial remarks he made stating that the people who voluntarily evacuated from areas tainted by the March 2011 nuclear disaster should take responsibility for their own decisions. "I regret that I caused misunderstandings," Imamura told a ...
The 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake left 110,000 people in three prefectures without shelter. Most of these people moved into emergency evacuation centers while the authorities prepared temporary housing for them. About 53,000 prefabricated housing units, called kasetsu, were built in accordance with a national ...
Fukushima Gov. Masao Uchibori signaled his displeasure with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's failure to refer directly to the nuclear crisis during a speech at Saturday's government-sponsored memorial ceremony for the March 2011 disaster. "I felt at odds (with his speech) as a Fukushima resident," Uchibori ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe won't be holding a news conference on Saturday, putting an end to a regular media event on the anniversary of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, it was learned Friday. Six years after the disaster, the government decided that a turning ...
The government on Friday replaced a parliamentary vice minister who was warned last year after he was seen being carried across a puddle in a typhoon-hit area and then made light of the gaffe this week. The Cabinet of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe accepted the ...
March 1-April 30 In remembrance of the earthquakes that devastated Kumamoto Prefecture a year ago, The Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto looks back on the progress of reconstruction projects through art, architectural images, models and other designs, including works related to the reconstruction efforts after the ...
The Yokohama Board of Education has admitted that a 13-year-old boy's payments to classmates were the result of bullying when he was attending a local elementary school after evacuating from Fukushima Prefecture to escape the 2011 nuclear disaster. Yuko Okada, the board's chief, reversed her ...
In the Harry Potter films, Hogwarts headmaster Albus Dumbledore shows the young wizard memories that he keeps in glass vessels. The franchise portrays memories as things that possess a physical structure that can be moved around. Although they appear to look like wispy ...
