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Call it the brotherhood of the travelling bike.

For many Canadian bikers the storied journey of the Harley-Davidson bike from Japan to B.C.'s rocky shores after last years' tsunami will not be complete until it is reunited with its original owner.

Since it was pulled from a remote beach on Haida Gwaii, volunteers have looked after the bike every ( Read more... )

Japan Finds Story of Hope in Undertaker Who Offered Calm Amid DisasterAmid the grief of finding her mother’s body at a makeshift morgue in this tsunami-ravaged city last March, Fumie Arai took comfort in a small but surprising discovery. Unlike the rest of the muddied body, her mother’s face had been carefully wiped clean ( Read more... )

Cherry trees to mark tsunami line
Volunteers in Rikuzentakata plant a living warning for future generations

Residents of the tsunami-ravaged coastal city of Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, have launched a project to plant cherry trees marking the points where the waves reached March 11 to warn future generations about a repeat of the catastrophe. ( Read more... )

When you know a natural disaster is coming, is it rude, or good manners, to tell people to get ready ( Read more... )

ME: COME ON!! ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?!!

UK soldiers targeted in Murdoch phone-hacking scandal-media

* Outrage as list of phone-hack victims grows

* Mother of soldier killed in Iraq says "totally disgusted"

* Murdoch keeps low profile at Sun Valley

LONDON, July 7 (Reuters) - A phone-hacking scandal engulfing Rupert Murdoch's media empire grew on ( Read more... )

How Fudai, Japan Defied The Tsunami Devastation

In the rubble of Japan's northeast coast, one small village stands as tall as ever after the tsunami. No homes were swept away. In fact, they barely got wet.

Fudai is the village that survived - thanks to a huge wall once deemed a mayor's expensive folly and now vindicated as the community's salvation.

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City, Destroyed and Yet Hopeful, Begins to Move On

MINAMISOMA, Japan - After nearly four weeks of living in distant refugee shelters, or huddling indoors at home for fear of nuclear fallout, Toshie Nagasawa finally came here to say goodbye.Minamisoma is in the voluntary evacuation zone near the Daiichi nuclear power plant ( Read more... )

Fuck History and Geology, Lets Just Make Tons of Money!

Nuclear Plant and Tsunami Risk: 3,000 Years of Geological History Disregarded

In planning their defense against a killer tsunami, the people running Japan’s now-hobbled nuclear power plant dismissed important scientific evidence and all but disregarded 3,000 years of geological history, an ( Read more... )