reconstruction
April 07, 2013
More than two years after the 3/11 disaster, a tremendous amount of tsunami debris remains uncollected throughout Japan’s Tohoku region. In municipalties like Rikuzentakata,...
March 11, 2013
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe vowed on March 11 to speed up rebuilding from the huge earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis that struck Japan's northeast two years ago, promising...
February 14, 2013
ISHINOMAKI, Miyagi Prefecture--Two 1-kilogram gold bars worth 10 million yen ($107,000) were sent anonymously to the operator of a fish market here that was destroyed in the...
November 02, 2012
I'm not saying this because I work for The Asahi Shimbun, but I enjoy reading Asahi Shogakusei Shimbun, a daily newspaper tailored for kids in elementary school.
October 31, 2012
SENDAI—About a quarter of the $148 billion budget for reconstruction after Japan’s March 2011 tsunami and nuclear disaster has been spent on unrelated projects, including...
October 06, 2012
The government is renovating its buildings using at least 12 billion yen ($150 million) in funds initially intended to reconstruct areas devastated by last year’s earthquake...
September 02, 2012
Tokyo's iconic Shibuya Station, a major rail hub that is home to the famous Hachiko dog statue, is set to get a radical makeover.
July 26, 2012
FUKUSHIMA--About 750 children and adults cheered as the steam train "Fukushima Fukkogo" chugged between Koriyama and Fukushima on the JR Tohoku Line on July 25.
July 06, 2012
Business conditions picked up from three months ago in all nine regions of Japan, according to a Regional Economic Report released July 5 by the Bank of Japan, marking the...
June 30, 2012
SHIOGAMA, Miyagi Prefecture--Once training for Olympic glory, Miyuki Hatanaka now starts her days in the early morning picking seaweed by hand on Katsurashima island, off...
June 29, 2012
Forty percent of the reconstruction budget of about 15 trillion yen ($189 billion) remains unused, despite the continuing suffering of disaster victims and companies in the...
March 27, 2012
IWAKI, Fukushima Prefecture--Nissan Motor Co. will ask subcontractors to build up their stocks of key parts or diversify production to ensure supplies will not be cut by a...
March 13, 2012
ISHINOMAKI, Miyagi Prefecture—After their percussion instruments were destroyed in last year’s tsunami, students at Ogatsu Junior High School here replaced them using old...
March 10, 2012
A year after the Great East Japan Earthquake, it behooves us to reflect on measures to rebuild devastated areas in the Tohoku region.
March 01, 2012
Reconstruction work this fiscal year is expected to start on only 18 kilometers of the 190 km of levees destroyed by last year’s tsunami in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima...
February 29, 2012
Fast Retailing Co., operator of the Uniqlo casual clothing chain, said it will invest 300 million yen ($3.7 million) in economic recovery efforts in disaster-stricken areas of...
February 11, 2012
The Reconstruction Agency began operations Feb. 10 as a new government entity responsible for assisting areas devastated by the Great East Japan Earthquake.
December 12, 2011
RIKUZENTAKATA, Iwate Prefecture--A memorial flame dubbed the "Light of Hope" arrived in this quake-hit city on Dec. 10.
December 06, 2011
BONN - Foreign governments pledged on Dec. 5 to support Afghanistan long after allied troops go home, with or without a political settlement with insurgents once seen as the...
November 13, 2011
KESENNUMA, Miyagi Prefecture--Under the motto "starting from a prefab," operators and city officials have created a village of temporary restaurants in this tsunami-devastated...