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Early quake relief project 'Nihon Kizuna' to hold two-year anniversary event
The Japan Times
“While some may think those in and around Tohoku don't necessarily still need help, I feel that there is some value in bringing people together again two years later,” Fintoni says. “It's only natural for people to move on, and perhaps forget, but I'm ...

Japan raises specter of more devastating quake
Deutsche Welle
An earthquake in the Nankai Trough could be on a scale 10 times that of the disaster that befell Tohoku in March 2011. More worryingly, experts warn that a mega-quake is overdue. A little over two years after vast stretches of northeastern Japan were ...

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Japan raises specter of more devastating natural disaster
Deutsche Welle
An earthquake in the Nankai Trough could be on a scale 10 times that of the disaster that befell Tohoku in March 2011. More worryingly, experts warn that a mega-quake is overdue. A little over two years after vast stretches of northeastern Japan were ...

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Quake expert pulls Tokyo fault claim
The Japan Times
The leader of a team of earthquake researchers admitted Thursday that they made an erroneous announcement confirming the presence of an active fault near Tokyo after mistaking what appears to be a concrete column buried in the ground as natural stone ...

Tohoku Electric drops plan to build nuclear plant in Fukushima Prefecture
Asahi Shimbun
The two municipalities had endorsed the project to build the Namie-Odaka plant, but they changed their stances after the nuclear disaster unfolded following the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami in March 2011. In December 2011, the Namie town ...

Japan utility scraps plan for new nuke plant
Boston.com
Tohoku Electric Power Co. said Thursday that strong protests from local communities as well as radiation leaks at the proposed site of the new power station make the project unworkable. The company wanted to build a plant north of the Fukushima Dai ...

Washington Post
Japanese utility scraps plan to build new nuke plant in Fukushima due to ...
Washington Post
Mar 28, 2013 07:01 AM EDT. AP. TOKYO — A Japanese utility has scrapped plans to build a nuclear plant near the site of a nuclear disaster two years ago. Tohoku Electric Power Co. said Thursday that strong protests from local communities as well as ...
Nuclear Shutdowns Force Japan's Dependence on Fossil Fuels after FukushimaEcology Global Network

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Japanese utility scraps plan to build new nuke plant in Fukushima due to ...
Fox News
Tohoku Electric Power Co. said Thursday that strong protests from local communities as well as radiation leaks at the proposed site of the new power station make the project unworkable. The company wanted to build a plant north of the Fukushima Dai ...

Japan utility scraps plan for new nuke plant
MiamiHerald.com
Tohoku Electric Power Co. said Thursday that strong protests from local communities as well as radiation leaks at the proposed site of the new power station make the project unworkable. The company wanted to build a plant north of the Fukushima Dai ...

Japan utility scraps plan for new nuke plant
Huffington Post
Tohoku Electric Power Co. said Thursday that strong protests from local communities as well as radiation leaks at the proposed site of the new power station make the project unworkable. The company wanted to build a plant north of the Fukushima Dai ...

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Japan's Tohoku Electric abandons plan for new nuclear plant
Reuters
The Fukushima disaster, triggered by a huge earthquake and tsunami in March 2011, led to the shutdown of Japan's entire nuclear power industry, which was producing 30 percent of the country's electricity supply at the time. Two reactors have since ...
Tohoku Electric to abandon planned nuclear plant in FukushimaThe Japan Times
TEPCO may skip summer power targetsThe Daily Yomiuri

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Tohoku Electric to abandon planned nuclear plant in Fukushima
The Japan Times
Namie is presently deserted, its residents forced to evacuate due to radioactive fallout from Fukushima No. 1. The planned construction site was flooded with tsunami after the Great East Japan Earthquake, and the area was designated an evacuation zone.

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Google Street View provides glimpse inside Japan's nuclear no-go zone
The Japan Times
Starting Thursday, Google Street View is giving the world a rare glimpse into one of Tohoku's eerie ghost towns, created when the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami sparked a nuclear disaster that has left the area uninhabitable. The technology pieces ...

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Sharp change in attitude drives green energy interest
Financial Times
Today, while the government has expressed its determination to restart most of the reactors that have sat idle since the earthquake and tsunami crippled the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, there is also growing support for alternatives. ... “We have ...

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Tohoku high schoolers serve as ambassadors at foreign schools
Asahi Shimbun
In her speech, Arimoto thanked the U.S. military for its support in relief efforts for the Tohoku region, which was devastated by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami. She also said, "My dream is to become a diplomat and return some of what ...

200-mph red bullet trains thrill rail-mad Japan
CNET
JR East hopes it will inspire more people to visit northern Japan, parts of which are still recovering from the devastation of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. Rail remains one of the most popular means of short- and long-distance travel in ...

Japanese students discuss 2011 earthquake during visit to Middletown
Middletown Transcript
"At first, I thought it was me shaking, but then everyone started screaming," the 16-year-old girl from Sendai, Japan said, recalling her initial reaction to the 2011 Tohoku earthquake – the most powerful quake to hit the island nation in nearly 12 ...

Quake insurance premiums to increase by average 15%
The Daily Yomiuri
The Japanese nonlife insurance industry has filed for regulatory approval to increase earthquake insurance premiums by an average of 15.5 percent. If the application by the Non-Life Insurance Rating Organization of Japan is ... The move came after the ...

Elderly 3/11 nuke evacuee deaths spiked
The Japan Times
The study, conducted by University of Tokyo researchers and released Wednesday, found some nursing home residents had to travel more than 300 km after enduring the Tohoku region's biting cold without heat or lunches for about a week. Researchers ...

Colorado Springs Independent
I.D.E.A. Space showcases the creative response of Japanese survivors to the ...
Colorado Springs Independent
Following the earthquake and tsunami that ravaged the Tohoku region of Japan in 2011, Joan Ericson of Colorado College found the survivors of the disaster doing something extraordinary: writing poems. Ericson, a professor of Japanese literature ...