News About Japan

Amount of people who want to get married in Japan is growing after earthquake and tsunami disasters which struck northeastern Japan on March 11, killing more than 14,000 people. Matchmaking agencies have 30 % more customers now than two months ago. Existing members of matchmaking agencies turn more serious about going on dates and new [...]

More than 250 thousands of people living in the provisional hostels. Emperor of Japan opened special imperial bath complex  for people who survived an earthquake and tsunami. Imperial bath complex is located in Tochigi ken, about 180km away from Tokyo. This is the first such a situation where place built for the Emperor has been [...]

Black smoke is gone, worker back to Fukushima plant to continue their mission. Works are carried out around all six reactors. Still, authorities say that better not too be too optimistic too early and stayed prepared. Water is pumped again into reactor 3. Also three workers were sent to hospital after they stepped into pool [...]

I mentioned in one of my articles that 25 people died in shelters in tsunami zone. These people were old and died because they had lost their medications, their relatives who could take care of them. I found out that is some regions of Northeast Japan amount of citizen older than 65 years is more [...]

Health experts in Japan are trying to stop the panic caused by radiation which may spread from damaged nuclear reactors of Fukushima. According to experts the risk of radiation contamination is minimal now. Still, hundreds of people, especially from Kanto area go to be checked for their radiation exposure and hundreds take iodine pills, which [...]

Yesterday I was writing about missing American woman, 24 years old Taylor Anderson, who had been missing since tsunami devastated northeast Japan. Today, US embassy informed that her body was found and identified. She was working as a teacher in Japan. She is the first American victim of tsunami.  

Miracles are still taking place. I’ve found the news about rescue of old woman and her grandson, who survived eating yogurt under rubbles of devastated building. Will of life and determination, not mention luck and some food supplies, let people survive the worst disasters. Old woman and young boy should have not a big chances [...]

It is hard for me  to stick out from screen of computer and do not check how is situation going in Japan. I have found very touching video- story of two dogs which were rescued by Japanese man in ruined Arahama city. http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2011/03/16/am.dog.stays.with.injured.dog.cnn?hpt=C2 One dog was injured and secoond dog tried to protect him, staying [...]

Over 1000 bodies were found scattered along coastline of Miyagi prefecture. Rescue teams were running out of bags to put bodies in, crematoriums worked with full power and still they were packed with bodies. Amount of victims is growing and it was easy to predict that amount of tsunami victims will be big…Miyagi prefecture was [...]

I received photos of supermarket interior in Azabu Juban, Minato-ku, Tokyo. Shelves  were actually empty.People bought all food they could, especially bread and bottled water were very much desired goods. I know this supermarkets, same like others in Azabu Juban. This is rich, posh area of Tokyo, shops were so well supplied in food there. [...]