National Aug 21, 2017
Miyagi to remove 'sexist' tourism video after a month of complaints
The Miyagi Prefectural Government says it will remove an online tourism promotional video that has been criticized as sexually suggestive.
National Jul 21, 2017
Miyagi lawmakers ask governor to take down suggestive tourism video featuring Dan Mitsu
Seven female members of the Miyagi Prefectural Assembly asked the governor on Friday to remove a tourism promotion video the prefecture is using on the internet, claiming it portrays women as sex objects. The video, featuring Dan Mitsu — a well-known model and actress — ...
Lifestyle Jul 15, 2017
Growing paper clothes in rural Japan
by Cameron Allan Mckean and Daphne Mohajer Va Pesaran
A small community in Miyagi Prefecture is struggling to continue making one of its most-famous craft exports — Shiroishi handmade paper and paper clothes
National / Crime & Legal Jul 5, 2017
Man arrested on arson charges in Miyagi fire that killed wife and two children
Police arrested a man on arson charges after the bodies of a woman and two toddlers believed to be his wife and children were found at the scene of a fire at a home in Miyagi Prefecture early Tuesday. The fire started at around 2:30 ...
National Jun 8, 2017
U.S. Osprey, F/A-18 make emergency landings in Okinawa and Miyagi; no injuries reported
Two emergency landings, one involving a U.S. Marine Corps Osprey and the other a fighter jet, took place Tuesday on an island in Okinawa and in northeast Japan, the Defense Ministry's regional bureaus said Wednesday, but no injuries were reported. According to the Okinawa defense ...
National / Crime & Legal Apr 27, 2017
City in Miyagi loses appeal of tsunami death suit involving girl at Nobiru Elementary
The damages ruling against the city of Higashimatsushima stands after the Sendai High Court rules that city-run Nobiru Elementary shares blame for a girl killed by tsunami in 2011.
National Mar 26, 2017
Bird flu toll in Miyagi, Chiba kept down to 270,000 chickens
The chicken cull sparked by the nation's latest bird flu outbreaks fell short of the originally planned goal of 300,000 Sunday as authorities in Miyagi and Chiba prefectures opted to settle for roughly 209,000 and 62,000 chickens, respectively. The two prefectures north of Tokyo were ...
National Mar 24, 2017
300,000 chickens doomed as bird flu spreads to Miyagi, Chiba
Authorities in Miyagi and Chiba prefectures began culling nearly 300,000 chickens Friday after the highly pathogenic H5 strain of bird flu was detected in dead chickens at local poultry farms. In Japan's latest bird flu outbreak, the Miyagi Prefectural Government plans to cull 220,000 chickens ...
National Mar 11, 2017
Abe hails 3/11 reconstruction progress on six-year anniversary of deadly disasters
by Tomohiro Osaki
Prime minister touts Tohoku region’s “steady” recovery in annual speech.
National Mar 11, 2017
Check finds Tepco has only paid 6% of disaster compensation to Fukushima municipalities
The operator of the crippled nuclear complex in Fukushima Prefecture has only paid 6 percent of the compensation sought by municipalities in connection with the 2011 nuclear crisis, according to a recent tally. The delay in payments to the 12 municipalities designated by the government ...
National Mar 11, 2017
Just 22% of new seawalls are finished in areas hit by 2011 tsunami
Only a fifth of the planned seawalls have been constructed in northeastern areas devastated by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, a Kyodo News survey has found. The survey, conducted in January and February, asked prefectural, municipal and central governments about the status of construction ...
National Mar 10, 2017
Miyagi tsunami survivor, 17, keeps memory alive via storytelling
About a month after the March 2011 disaster, an elementary school class in a tsunami-hit Tohoku region city was in uproar, with classmates taking out their nervous exhaustion on each other. After Honoka Tsuda threw a desk at a classmate, she and her classmates were ...