The America-Japan Society Inc. recognized on Thursday two people for their grassroots work to foster bilateral friendship between Japan and the United States, honoring the recipients — citizens from each of the two countries — with a new award launched this year. The honorees are ...
Parts of central and northern Japan received heavy rain Friday that was linked to the death of one person in Iwate Prefecture whose car was apparently swept away by a flooding river. The body of Yuki Ikeda, a 29-year-old construction worker from Miyako, was found ...
Shunichi Suzuki, the new minister in charge of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games, is optimistic that the quadrennial sporting events may help promote the reconstruction of areas damaged by the March 2011 disaster. "I'm from Iwate," Suzuki noted in a recent interview. Iwate ...
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government is trying to help parts of the country recovering from disasters by steering tourists who visit the capital toward those areas. The government has developed tourist routes linking Tokyo with 17 prefectures, including six in the Tohoku region still trying to ...
There were 3,866,537 companies in Japan as of June 2016, marking a 6.3 percent decrease from the previous survey released in February 2012, according to a government survey. Meanwhile, the number of business locations, including offices and branches, dropped 2.5 percent in the same period, ...
Masahiro Imamura, minister in charge of reconstruction of the disaster-hit Tohoku region, resigned Wednesday in the wake of controversial comments about the disaster. Imamura submitted a letter of resignation to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Wednesday morning. Masayoshi Yoshino, a former senior vice environment minister and native ...
The Meteorological Agency warned Wednesday that the Hokuriku and Tohoku regions may see storm winds and high waves, as a cold low-pressure system is expected to move over these areas toward the east. The maximum wind speed on Wednesday is estimated at 35 meters per ...
Former farm ministry officials were found to have landed jobs in firms suspected of involvement in bid-rigging cases connected to government soil cleaning projects in the disaster-hit Tohoku region, sources familiar with the matter say. The revelation came said Wednesday after the Fair Trade Commission ...
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 ...
Prime minister touts Tohoku region’s “steady” recovery in annual speech.
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 ...
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 ...
