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MIYAGI

Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jan 13, 2015
Miyagi driving school ordered to pay damages over 3/11 tsunami deaths
The Sendai District Court orders a driving school in Miu00adyau00adgi Prefecture to pay u00a51.9 billion in damages to relatives of 25 students and a part-time employee who died in the March 11, 2011, tsunami.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Jan 1, 2015
Japan's artists aim to foster intra-Asia links
The subject of Japan's position in the world of Asian performing arts has been widely addressed over the past decade, and the new leadership of last year's Festival/Tokyo — its largest annual performing-arts event — vowed to step up efforts to develop collaborations and exchanges within Asia.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Dec 24, 2014
Miyagi town settles over toddler's tsunami death
The parents of a toddler killed in the 2011 tsunami while in the care of a municipal nursery reached a settlement with authorities on Wednesday in a damages suit heard at the Sendai High Court.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 19, 2014
Buildings wrecked on 3/11 proposed as disaster memorials
An advisory panel to the Miyagi Prefectural Government said Thursday it will recommend that four facilities wrecked in the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami be preserved as memorials of the tragedy.
JAPAN
Dec 7, 2014
Two killed, five injured in Tomei Expressway accident in Miyagi
Two people were killed and five injured in an expressway accident in Miyagi Prefecture on Saturday night, police and fire department officials said.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Nov 23, 2014
Once-stopgap market is much-loved symbol of recovery for Tohoku town
Initially a stopgap measure in the absence of local shops, the monthly morning market in Minamisanriku has become a cherished institution.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 25, 2014
Work begins on nuclear dump sites in Miyagi as residents protest
As the Environment Ministry on Friday geared up to take soil samples at two of the three locations selected to store radioactive waste, work at a third site was stalled by demonstrations.
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 27, 2014
Kirin provides ¥20 million to support tsunami-hit fishermen
A unit of Japanese beer brewer Kirin Co. said Wednesday it has provided ¥20 million to an association of young fishermen in Miyagi Prefecture to help expand a sales network for seafood from a region devastated by a massive earthquake and tsunami in 2011.
JAPAN
Jul 29, 2014
900 join Tohoku reconstruction gratitude relay
About 900 people are running or riding bicycles in a 1,000-km relay to show their support for reconstruction in the Tohoku region that was hit hard by the Great East Japan Earthquake and its monster tsunami in 2011.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 23, 2014
Emperor, Empress visit shopping center in disaster-hit Minamisanriku
Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko visited a makeshift shopping center in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, which was devastated in the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami that claimed more than 15,000 lives.
JAPAN
Jul 23, 2014
Miyagi city breaks ground on housing project for those displaced in 3/11 disaster
A groundbreaking ceremony for a public housing project was held on Wednesday in the city of Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, to accommodate local residents displaced by the March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 3, 2014
Largest LED veggie factory built in quake-hit city
The world's largest vegetable factory to make use of light-emitting diodes has been built in one of the cities damaged by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, the factory's operator said.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 27, 2014
Disaster-hit town gets Kuma plan
World-renowned architect Kengo Kuma has released his plan to revive the once prosperous Shizugawa district in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, which was ravaged by the March 2011 tsunami.
JAPAN
Mar 24, 2014
Father haunted by memories of son who perished
Ryo Shibuya, one of the plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the town of Yamamoto, Miyagi Prefecture, lost his 2-year-old son Ayumu in the 2011 tsunami.
JAPAN
Mar 14, 2014
Over 35% of displaced Miyagi residents may never return home, poll shows
More than 35 percent of people from Miyagi who relocated outside the prefecture after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami are reluctant to return home, according to a recent survey by the prefectural government.
JAPAN
Mar 13, 2014
Suicides tied to 2011 disaster continue, with rate in Fukushima rising
Police linked 37 suicides last year in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures to the March 2011 disaster, up 13 from a year earlier, with the tally rising progressively each year in Fukushima, the National Police Agency said Thursday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 10, 2014
[Photos] Tohoku three years after the 3/11 earthquake and tsunami
A selection of photos looking at how the landscape and life in Tohoku have changed, three years after the 3/11 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Mar 8, 2014
Still hunting shadows three years after 3/11
One of the great statistical mysteries that persist several years after a natural disaster is the figure that appears without fail each month in columns representing the number of people that are still missing.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Mar 8, 2014
Tsunami zone's village culture fades into fog of history
We can better appreciate what Tohoku's shoreline villages represented now that they have been washed away and former residents are marooned in soulless temporary housing ghettoes where the greatest risks are isolation and boredom.
Japan Times
JAPAN / THREE YEARS AFTER 3/11
Mar 5, 2014
Tohoku finding real recovery hard to come by
Yumiko Onodera is a survivor. She saw her town of Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, devastated by gigantic tsunami and ensuing fire from damaged heavy oil tanks at the major fishery port on March 11, 2011.
Japanese stripper bids to have her porn movies taken off internet
Plaintiff Miyuki Ariga (left) speaks at a news conference along with her lawyer, Yoshitomo Morohashi, after filing a lawsuit at the Tokyo District Court on Monday.
America wasn’t made for walking, and it’s killing them
A 2010 study found that U.S. adults averaged 5,117 steps daily and that this was lower than the averages found in similar studies in Switzerland, western Australia and Japan.
U.S. envoy to Japan makes landmark visit to front-line island near Taiwan
U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel meets with members of the Self-Defense Forces stationed on Yonaguni, Okinawa Prefecture, on Friday.
Japan passes bill to introduce 'blue ticket' fines for cyclists
A new system under which bicycle riders pay fines for minor traffic violations to escape criminal punishment is expected to be introduced in Japan no later than 2026.
Japan survey finds 30% of student interns experience sexual harassment
The proportion of recent graduates in Japan who have worked as interns have experienced sexual harassment during their internship was 30.1%, according to a labor ministry survey, up 4.6 percentage points from the previous survey in fiscal 2020.
New Taiwan president to set tone for ties with China at inauguration
Taiwan President-elect Lai Ching-te arrives at the CyberSec 2024 Exhibition in Taipei on Wednesday.
Local theater in Japan is more than a hobby — it’s a community
Japan Times contributor Laura Pollacco (front right) was offered the role of one of her all-time favorite heroines, Elizabeth “Lizzie” Bennet, in the Tokyo International Players’ production of “Pride and Prejudice.”
Can AI-generated inventions be patented? A Tokyo court says no.
The Tokyo court's ruling comes amid ongoing debates on how to regulate generative AI and is part of a transnational class action lawsuit.
Massimo Bottura: 'The Japanese let ingredients express themselves'
Italian chef and restaurateur Massimo Bottura is increasingly focusing on passing on his knowledge to chefs such as Antonio Iacoviello.
Unraveling the Japanese prose of Yukio Mishima
Author Yukio Mishima accepts the Arts Festival Award in the drama category at the 20th Arts Festival Award Ceremony on Jan. 22, 1966.

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