Instruments crafted from homes, trees washed away by tsunami at center of musical relay project

By MAYU YOSHIDA
Kyoto
Rikuzentakata, Iwate Pref. - When a violin's melody wafted through the air in a tsunami-devastated area of Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on the first anniversary of the March 2011 disasters, what astonished people was not just its ( Read more... )

Very strong aftershock out of the Honshu coast, Japan - tsunami advisory in place ( Read more... )

Residents' urine now radioactive Fukushima
More than 3 millisieverts of radiation has been measured in the urine of 15 Fukushima residents of the village of Iitate and the town of Kawamata, confirming internal radiation exposure, it was learned Sunday. Both are about 30 to 40 km from the Fukushima No. 1 power plant, which has been releasing ( Read more... )

BUSINESS

Jun 25 Internet marketplace giant Rakuten pulls out of Japan Business Fed.  
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Japan’s suicide rates soar by up to 39 per cent in areas hit by the earthquake...

The March 11 earthquake in Japan wreaked immediate devastation, but now there are concerns about the mental health of those that survived it, with suicide rates rapidly increasing in areas hit by the disaster.

One of the areas most affected by the 9.0-magnitude ( Read more... )

The earthquake of March 11, 2011, changed the geography of Japan - literally.

March 11 - Japan's Zero Hour
Yoichi Funabashi
FORMER EDITOR IN CHIEF OF THE ASAHI SHIMBUN

The earthquake of March 11, 2011, changed the geography of Japan - literally. Digital maps and GPS devices are likely to deviate by more than 5 m as a result. Beyond this ( Read more... )

BUSINESS

Apr 14 Tokyo Bay home demand to drop as quake turned land to mud, shattered pipes   Developers in Tokyo's bayside neighborhoods, where apartments were built on reclaimed land, are halting sales after Japan's earthquake turned some of the landfill into mud, shattered pipes and severed water supplies. While most of ( Read more... )

Spent fuel rods add to trouble at Japan nuke plant

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Fresh nuke plant woes, as police search for bodies.


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Japan equates nuclear crisis severity to Chernobyl.

TOKYO - Japan ranked its nuclear crisis at the highest possible severity on an international scale - the same level as the 1986 Chernobyl disaster - even as it insisted Tuesday that radiation leaks are declining at its tsunami-crippled nuclear plant.
The higher rating is an open ( Read more... )