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The owner of a shop specializing in products made from sharkskin hopes it will help revitalize a northeastern Japanese city devastated by tsunami and fire in March 2011 following a powerful earthquake. Makiko Kumagai, 58, opened the store...
Dec. 24 2018 02:38 pm JST
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A five-year jail term was sought for three former executives at the company operating the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, media reported Wednesday, the only people to face criminal charges over the 2011 meltdowns. Former chairman of Tokyo Electric...
Dec. 27, 2018 06:29 am JST
A record 3,451 mudslide disasters occurred in Japan in 2018 due to torrential rain in the west and a powerful earthquake in Hokkaido, land ministry data showed Wednesday. The preliminary figure, covering all prefectures apart from Ibaraki, Tochigi...
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KUMAMOTO (Jiji Press) — The Kumamoto prefectural government plans to set up more statues related to “One Piece,” a hugely popular manga series, to cheer up local people after the prefecture was hit by powerful earthquakes about three years ago.
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January 14, 2019 at 13:45 JST
An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.9 hit parts of eastern Japan on Monday afternoon. However, there were no reports of injury or damage to any buildings. There was no tsunami alert following the quake which struck at 1:23 p.m., the Japan...
Jan. 14, 2019 02:31 pm JST / Japan Today
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January 15, 2019 at 16:35 JST
OTSUCHI, Iwate — A clock frozen at the time the Great East Japan Earthquake struck was removed Tuesday morning from the former town hall of Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, a town hit hard by the tsunami following the quake.
4:09 pm, January 15, 2019
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April 20, 2019 / SoraNews24
Tokyo Electric Power Company plans to use new visa rules to add foreign staff to its 2011 earthquake/tsunami cleanup efforts.
posted on 2019-05-21 14:45 EDT by Lynzee Loveridge
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An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.5 hit eastern Japan on Monday morning, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. The epicenter of the earthquake was off the coast of Chiba Prefecture, adjacent to Tokyo, the agency said, adding that a...
June 24, 2019 / 09:26 am JST / Japan Today
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July 10, 2019 9:37am CDT
Manga artist Naoki Urasawa and actor Toshiaki Karasawa lead a charity event for Miyagi Prefecture
Oct. 7, 2019 12:40 pm JST / Japan Today