2011/05/19
Workers of Fukushima nuclear plant have entered the No. 3 reactor building for the first time since a hydrogen explosion. TEPCO says that two specially equiped workers carrying air tanks went inside the building for about 10 minutes on Wednesday, to check radiation levels. TEPCO says the radiation was 160 to 170 millisieverts per hour [...]
Continuation is read. »2011/05/07
Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko met yesterday survivors of the March 11th earthquake and tsunami in Iwate Prefecture. The imperial couple visited shelters in town Kamaishi, where 800 people were killed by tsunami, and Miyako, where about 400 citizens lost their lives. At a junior high school, the Emperor and Empress knelt down to chat [...]
Continuation is read. »2011/05/03
Unlike other royals of the World going to participate in wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton in United Kingdom, Japan’s Imperial family will be staying away entirely. Instead, Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko went from the first time to the northeastern parts of Japan devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. Last Wednesday [...]
Continuation is read. »2011/04/30
After tsunami in Northeast Japan, life of people from this area will never be the same again. So many people were killed, so many lost their houses and belongings, relatives and friends. People searching debris, are still looking for bodies of victims, but also try to rescue the memories of previous life. For me, one [...]
Continuation is read. »2011/04/27
In Japan the amount of suicides among people affected by earthquake and tsunami is growing. Among those who took their own life is a farmer whose harvest have been destroyed by radioactive fallout from damaged power plants Fukushima Daiichi and father, which could not find son after tsunami wave passage. Japan even before earthquake was [...]
Continuation is read. »2011/04/22
The Government of Japan has approved on Friday plans of special budget, by which -after approval by Parliament- it will be able to begin financing reconstruction of the country after the earthquake and tsunami. The plan extols at about 49 billion USD. It is expected that the Prime Minister Naoto Kan shall submit a special [...]
Continuation is read. »2011/04/22
The employment offices in Miyagi prefecture in the north east Japan,one month after earthquake, received more than 17 thousand of applications for unemployment benefits, three times more than one year ago. Japanese government created around 20 thousands of jobs in the emergency measures to combat the effects of disaster. But the estimates number of applicants [...]
Continuation is read. »2011/04/21
Japan’s authorities say there is a plan to collect debris created by earthquake and tsunami and burn it to produce electricity for the Tohoku and Tokyo. Power stations can use the wooden debris from devastated towns and villages to help maintain electricity production during summer power shortfalls. Six electricity providers already declared they will take part [...]
Continuation is read. »2011/04/08
Strong aftershock has hit north-east Japan, almost month after a big quake led to a devastating tsunami. Officials ordered evacuations and workers at the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant took shelter after the quake triggered a tsunami warning. Emergency crews said two old people died as an indirect result of the quake and about 100 [...]
Continuation is read. »2011/04/02
Japanese & USA military personnel are taking part in a three-day search of north-east Japan for the bodies of people missing since the tsunami. There are over 16.000 of missing people still not found. Many of them might been swept to see, but there are many bodies which are not discovered. Helicopters and ships are [...]
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