News About Japan

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 [...]

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 [...]

Companies from Tokyo and other areas of Japan are preparing work places for people coming to take up new jobs offered to tsunami survivors from Tohoku. According to Japanese labor ministry, more than 6.000 of new jobs have been created,  more than 1,000 of them in Tokyo. Most new working positions are at small- to [...]

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 [...]

Bodies of unidentified victims of tsunami are coming to crematoriums in Tokyo. In Northeast Japan, in area devastated by tsunami there is no chance to organize proper burial ceremonies for victims. People are buried in mass graves and for Japanese this is shocking picture. Japanese say, it is not the way people shall be treated [...]

There are around thousand bodies of tsunami victims scattered around damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant. Bodies are highly radioactive and it is dangerous to come closer to them. Because of high radiation level, bodies can not be buried. If bodies were buried, soil could be contaminated and cremation will not make ashes less radioactive than [...]