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FG, Japan Sign N600 Million Aid for Physically Challenged Persons
AllAfrica.com
The donation was made in commemoration of the March 11, 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake which had caused tremendous damage to properties as well as loss of lives. ... Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. Ryuichi Shoji, who signed on behalf of his government ...

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Japan's new bullet train makes spring debut
AsiaOne
I hope this new train becomes a reason for many people to visit the earthquake-hit area." ... Meanwhile, the Hayabusa E5 Series on the Tohoku Shinkansen began operating at 320 kph Saturday, as the maximum operating speed of the series was raised.

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FG, Japan Sign N600m Aid for Physically Challenged Persons
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The donation was made in commemoration of the March 11, 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake which had caused tremendous damage to properties as well as loss of lives. ... Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. Ryuichi Shoji, who signed on behalf of his government ...

Japanese language class returns to Washougal High School after program was cut
The Columbian
Her mom originally hails from Yokohama, located near where the Tohoku earthquake hit in 2011. Following the earthquake and tsunami, when Russell was in the eighth grade, she started an ad hoc charity that sent 1,000 origami doves to Japan, along with ...

How an American collector brought Jakuchu to Tohoku
The Japan Times
In the two years since the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, many of Japan's visual artists and curators have cobbled together art-related events and projects with the aim of lending support to the people in the affected areas. Almost as many ...

Tohoku coast faces man-made perils in wake of tsunami
The Japan Times
In the two years since the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, many of Japan's visual artists and curators have cobbled together art-related events and projects with the aim of lending support to the people in the affected areas. Almost as many ...

Anti-Whaling Activists Hit a Nerve in Japan
Global Voices Online
Miyako Maekita (@maekitam), who heads green advertising agency Sustena, discussed [ja] on Twitter in October 2012 how the budget for reconstruction efforts in Ishinomaki, which suffered serious damage from the massive earthquake and resulting tsunami ...

LA Sends 'Love to Nippon'
The Rafu Shimpo
The second anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated northeastern Japan was observed Sunday at LAPD Headquarters near Little Tokyo with a ceremony and a discussion of lessons learned from the disaster. ... F. Deaton Civic Auditorium ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Fukushima isn't Chernobyl?
CounterPunch
The March 11, 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami caused the deaths of approximately 16,000 persons, left more than 6,000 injured and 2,713 missing, destroyed or partially damaged nearly one million buildings, and produced at least $14.5 billion in ...
Japan's Robot Renaissance (Fukushima's Silver Lining)AkihabaraNews
TOKYO ELECTRIC POWER CO INCORPORATED : (Mar 15,2013)Status of ...4-traders (press release)

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Tomodachi program lets youths dream anew
The Japan Times
Three young women had simple aspirations before the 2011 earthquake and tsunami and nuclear crisis altered the landscape of the northeast and their lives on March 11. “I lost everything I had and my life was ... The Tokyo-based fund, set up to help ...

Japan's Robot Renaissance (Fukushima's Silver Lining)
AkihabaraNews
All of Japan took a few moments Monday to pay respect to the losses suffered in the Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami Disaster of March 11, 2011. As human beings we move forward, and we work to find the good even in terrible situations. In that spirit ...

Energy agency experts advise Japan on 'smart communities'
eco-business.com
... Energy and Policy Technology Directorate recently visited Japan's Tohoku region to provide advice on rebuilding as energy self-sufficient “smart communities” many of the municipalities that were hit hardest by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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Japan targets 160000 Malaysian visitors this year
The Star Online
MATTA president Datuk Mohd Khalid Harun said he was impressed to see Japan recover from the earthquake and tsunami in 2011 and continue spurring on its tourism industry. “We declared Japan as our favourite destination partner because of JNTO's ... the ...

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Japan faces higher fuel bill as nuclear shutdown enters third year
Chicago Tribune
The Fukushima disaster, triggered by a huge earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan in March 2011, led to the shut down of the country's entire nuclear power industry, which was producing 30 percent of the country's electricity supply at the time ...

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Japan faces higher fuel bill as nuclear shutdown enters 3rd year
Reuters
The Fukushima disaster, triggered by a huge earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan in March 2011, led to the shut down of the country's entire nuclear power industry, which was producing 30 percent of the country's electricity supply at the time ...
TOKYO ELECTRIC POWER CO INCORPORATED : (Mar 12,2013)Status of ...4-traders (press release)

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Japan faces higher fuel bill as nuclear shutdown enters third year
Reuters
The Fukushima disaster, triggered by a huge earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan in March 2011, led to the shut down of the country's entire nuclear power industry, which was producing 30 percent of the country's electricity supply at the time ...

Japan successfully gets fuel from undersea 'flammable ice' deposits
The Verge
The achievement is a big deal for resource-poor Japan, whose energy needs are being satisfied in large part by expensive fossil fuel imports since the 2011 Tohoku earthquake stalled the country's nuclear energy production. But methane is a powerful ...

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Shorelines may help tsunami flood forecasters
NBCNews.com (blog)
After the Tohoku earthquake two years ago, alerts issued in advance of the monster waves saved thousands of people in Japan and other countries circling the Pacific Ocean. But for many in Japan, the forecasts failed. Models could not predict how far ...

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Japan after tsunami, Fukashima, fought through five stages of grief (Column)
York Daily Record
The second anniversary of Japan's monstrous earthquake has me thinking about Elisabeth Kuebler- Ross. The five stages ... The plight of hundreds of thousands in the northeast's Tohoku region enraged the nation as reconstruction unfolded at a glacial pace.

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Japan after tsunami, Fukashima, fought through five stages of grief (Column)
York Daily Record
The second anniversary of Japan's monstrous earthquake has me thinking about Elisabeth Kuebler- Ross. The five stages ... The plight of hundreds of thousands in the northeast's Tohoku region enraged the nation as reconstruction unfolded at a glacial pace.

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