Quake and Tsunami
October 17, 2011
SENDAI -- Only 13 percent of applications for recognizing deaths as caused indirectly by the Great East Japan Earthquake have been approved amid a lack of experts and an...
October 09, 2011
With the March 11 Great East Japan Earthquake as a wake-up call, the education ministry wants to ensure that all schools across the nation have an early earthquake alert system.
October 08, 2011
Some people are hitting the bottle heavily, while others are smoking more. What they all have in common is difficulty falling asleep.
October 05, 2011
Search efforts for people missing since the March 11 tsunami have shifted from the land to the sea in the hardest-hit prefectures of Iwate and Miyagi.
October 03, 2011
Although called public servants, many local government workers in the disaster-affected region, such as a 37-year-old town employee in Tomioka near the crippled Fukushima No. 1 ...
September 28, 2011
HIRATSUKA, Kanagawa Prefecture -- A tiny local factory here is attracting national attention with a spherical-shaped personal evacuation shelter for use in natural disasters.
September 20, 2011
SUAO, Taiwan--Six Japanese men swam 95 miles (150 kilometers) through heavy winds and rough seas to reach the Taiwanese coast on Sept. 19 in a show of gratitude to Taiwan for...
September 14, 2011
Giant tsunami may have repeatedly flooded the Sanriku coast of the Tohoku region about once a millennium, a possibility indicated by sand and stone deposits discovered by a...
September 10, 2011
Nearly 40 percent of the 56 elementary and junior high schools in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures, hardest hit by the March 11 disaster, did not specify evacuation...
September 10, 2011
Ten minutes after the March 11 earthquake, a Japan Meteorological Agency observatory accurately calculated the magnitude, but the figure was not used to revise early tsunami...
September 09, 2011
The shell of a gas station is one of the few indications that the Ogatsu district of Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, was once home to a bustling shopping district. Weeds are...
September 03, 2011
Mud containing arsenic is being washed ashore in coastal communities already struggling to come to terms with the enormity of the destruction wrought by the March 11...
September 02, 2011
NEW YORK--Eleven Japanese firefighters who pitched in at Ground Zero following the 9/11 terrorist attacks here were recently reunited with their American colleagues for the...
September 01, 2011
With a new sense of urgency, the central and local governments started holding upgraded and expanded disaster drills around Japan. But in the areas that prompted such alarm,...
August 29, 2011
Volunteerism has gained new impetus among companies in a ripple effect since the Great East Japan Earthquake.
August 26, 2011
A top executive of TEPCO, as far back as June 2008, was informed by its own employees that a raging tsunami more than 10 meters in height could swamp its Fukushima No. 1...
August 25, 2011
TEPCO told the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency four days before giant tsunami crippled the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant that the facility could be pounded by tidal...
August 23, 2011
Nippon Paper Group Inc., one of the world's leading paper and pulp industry companies, is doing its bit to help clean up the mess caused by the March 11 Great East Japan...
August 19, 2011
The Chokaimaru fishing boat towers over what remains of the houses of Higashi-Matsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, a surreal testament to the awesome power of the March 11 tsunami.
August 17, 2011
The Japanese Geotechnical Society has compiled recommendations calling on the government to implement measures to deal with liquefaction that damages single-family homes, in...