Great East Japan Earthquake
October 09, 2011
In the wake of the Great East Japan Earthquake, about 10 vessels operated by a German shipping company in an alliance with NYK Group canceled port calls at Tokyo and Yokohama...
October 09, 2011
Since the Great East Japan Earthquake struck, research projects adopting long-term perspectives on various topics have been gaining prominence among Japan specialists in the...
October 08, 2011
ONAGAWA, Miyagi Prefecture--Two-storied and three-storied temporary apartment houses are being built with freight containers on a baseball field in this tsunami-devastated town,...
October 08, 2011
MINAMI-SOMA, Fukushima Prefecture -- Before the roar of engines fills the air at the Suzuka Circuit on Oct. 9, a more tranquil sound will be prevalent when a chorus of teenage...
October 08, 2011
SENDAI -- Hoping to provide inspiration -- and perhaps a bit of distraction -- a professional basketball team from Sendai has managed to bounce back after the devastation of...
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 07, 2011
MINAMI-SOMA, Fukushima Prefecture -- Tohoku Electric Power Co. says there is no room for error in meeting electricity demand this winter, as the utility continues to rebuild a...
October 07, 2011
Automakers are starting to put the brakes on domestic car production after months of accelerating output.
October 07, 2011
The Cabinet of Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda on Oct. 7 approved a third supplementary budget that includes 9.1 trillion yen ($119 billion) to go toward rebuilding efforts...
October 07, 2011
Entering the second round of the Emperor's Cup, two quake-hit club teams will be challenging elite J.League outfits, the potential giant killers looking to provide some...
October 06, 2011
Levels of radioactive cesium 137 in waters off Fukushima Prefecture are 58 times higher than before the March 11 quake that crippled a nuclear power plant there, a government...
October 06, 2011
A new Internet-based service that its designers hope will stop medical records being lost in major disasters will be introduced by a hospital in Nagasaki Prefecture in November.
October 06, 2011
It has been nearly 50 years, but a former Czech gymnastics star is determined to locate a Japanese man who gave her a ceremonial sword during the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.
October 05, 2011
An institute in Tokyo is displaying more than a dozen illustrations from among 3,000 collected from around the world to help victims of the March 11 disaster in northeastern...
October 05, 2011
As a tourist destination, Japan plummeted in the rankings following the March 11 disaster that triggered a partial meltdown of nuclear reactors northeast of Tokyo.
October 04, 2011
This is the second installment of a two-part series on the current situation at J-Village, a soccer training facility that has been used as a staging base for the containment...
October 04, 2011
Voice actors from famous anime series will perform at the Tokyo Dome City Hall on Nov. 20 to raise money for visually impaired people and increase awareness of the issues they...
October 04, 2011
FUKUSHIMA -- A private senior high school here damaged by the Great East Japan Earthquake has completed the installation of an observatory, which students hope will help heal...
October 03, 2011
The percentage of seniors at universities and graduate schools in the Tohoku region who have received tentative job offers has surged to nearly match the national average, a...
October 03, 2011
Business confidence among Japanese companies has improved sharply, mainly because production facilities damaged by the Great East Japan Earthquake recovered earlier than...