The Ishinomaki Municipal Assembly in Miyagi Prefecture has voted to appeal a court ruling that held a local public elementary school liable for the deaths of children killed in the March 2011 tsunami. The assembly voted 16-10 on Sunday to approve a proposal for appealing ...
The case shouldn't be closed on the tsunami disaster at Okawa Elementary School until all testimony is heard and all evidence weighed.
The city’s mayor says it will appeal a court ruling ordering it to pay, together with Miyagi Prefecture, ¥1.4 billion in damages.
The city of Ishinomaki in Miyagi Prefecture has decided to preserve the building in an elementary school where 74 children and 10 staff died in the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster, sources close to the matter said Friday. Despite opposition from some bereaved families, Ishinomaki ...
Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko on Thursday offered prayers to fishermen and others in the fishing industry who lost their lives during the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami during a visit to a monument in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture. The Imperial Couple were on the second ...
A Tohoku fishing boat that washed up in Hawaii after being pulled out to sea by the March 2011 tsunami was headed back home Wednesday. Loaded onto a larger vessel that came to Hawaii to collect it, the Katsu Maru No. 2 left Honolulu with ...
Twenty-something Satoshi Okuno thought he had finally found the answer to his question — what can he do for society — when he saw children studying in a corner of a gymnasium being used as a shelter following the March 2011 disaster in Tohoku. "I ...
As the fifth anniversary of the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami approaches, the tragic story of 74 schoolchildren and 10 teachers who drowned near Okawa Elementary School in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, continues to resonate painfully. On a cold day last month, I prayed at ...
The caldron that flamed for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics was removed from the National Stadium in Tokyo on Friday, the 50th anniversary of the opening of the games, and will go on show in the area devastated by the March 2011 tsunami. It will be ...
Starting up a business never occurred to Sachiko Setsuda, a 50-year-old housewife, until her community in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, was devastated by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. But Setsuda is now busy preparing to open a cake shop in a temporary shopping area run ...
A campaign in which knitters far and wide were petitioned to send a small sample of their work for tsunami survivors may have produced the world's largest patchwork blanket. In April 2012, Bernd Kestler, a German national living in Yokohama, launched an online campaign soliciting ...
A British man has reached the finish line for his epic motorcycle trip from Britain to Japan to raise money for orphans from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, arriving Monday at an elementary school hit by the disaster in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture. Dominic Farwell-Cooke, ...
