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AP PHOTOS: Devastation lingers in Japan
Sacramento Bee
TOHOKU, Japan -- Two years after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that killed nearly 19,000 in Japan, residents of coastal towns flattened by the wall of water are still trying to recover. The slow pace of reconstruction is taking a psychological toll ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Worth much more than a thousand words
Sydney Morning Herald
He thought it was ''just another earthquake'' and eventually the plane took off. In fact it was the 9.0-magnitude Tohoku quake and tsunami which two years ago tomorrow claimed 16,000 lives and devastated the country. ''When we landed it was just chaos.

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Eye Opener
Journal & Topics Newspapers Online
Fremd junior Keigo O'Haru of Palatine traveled to Japan in 2012 to take part in supporting those in the Tohoku region of Japan, the area hit hardest by the earthquake and tsunami. They traveled to Japan with the Japanese Chamber of Commerce in Chicago ...

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Stress emerges as major health issue in Fukushima
Laramie Boomerang
Laundry hangs inside so it won't absorb the radiation that remains in the ground, two years after an earthquake and tsunami caused meltdowns and explosions at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, about 30 kilometers (18 miles) to the south. To ...

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AP PHOTOS: 2 years after tsunami, devastation lingers in Japan
Washington Post
TOHOKU, Japan — Two years after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that killed nearly 19,000 in Japan, residents of coastal towns flattened by the wall of water are still trying to recover. The slow pace of reconstruction is taking a psychological toll ...
Japanese students share earthquake experiencesColumbia Basin Herald
US mourns second anniversary of Japan tsunamiGlobalPost
Fukushima residents hold anti-nuclear demonstrationAsahi Shimbun

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San Francisco Chronicle
Sunday Conversation with … Carolina Montes Student learns life lessons ...
Atlanta Journal Constitution
Carolina Montes vividly remembers where she was when the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami hit Japan and killed more than 19,000 people. She was learning Japanese in her class at Roswell High School. “We all wanted to help because we care about the ...
AP PHOTOS: 2 years after tsunami, devastation lingers in JapanWashington Post
Japanese students share earthquake experiencesColumbia Basin Herald
US mourns second anniversary of Japan tsunamiGlobalPost

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Japanese students share earthquake experiences
Columbia Basin Herald
MOSES LAKE - Almost two years have passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake. But many who live in the earthquake's epicenter in the Tohoku region continue rebuilding efforts today. About 150 high school students from the earthquake and tsunami ...
US mourns second anniversary of Japan tsunamiGlobalPost

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Oman Daily Observer
Hope and despair on anniversary
Oman Daily Observer
Monday marks the second anniversary of the 9.0 magnitude earthquake that sent a huge wall of water into the coast of the Tohoku region, splintering whole communities and ruining swathes of prime farmland. Waves battered the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear ...
TOKYO ELECTRIC POWER CO INCORPORATED : (Mar 8,2013)Status of ...4-traders (press release)

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Fukushima Stress: Mental Distress Emerges As Major Health Issue
Huffington Post
Laundry hangs inside so it won't absorb the radiation that remains in the ground, two years after an earthquake and tsunami caused meltdowns and explosions at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, about 30 kilometers (18 miles) to the south. To ...

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Two Years After Devastating Earthquake In Japan, Displaced Animals Still Need ...
Sacramento Bee
In advance of the second anniversary of the March 11, 2011 Tohoku earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster, American Humane Association is releasing an Impact Report Update on the ongoing need and the intervention efforts for the animals and families ...

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Power of poetry penned by survivors of 3/11 is showcased by ASIJ project
The Japan Times
That all changed when Krauth sat in a classroom at the University of Colorado, Boulder, last July, inspired by the power of poetry penned by survivors of the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011. Krauth and three colleagues, Kyoko Inahara (teacher of ...

3/11 disaster-linked failures reach 1139 in two years
The Japan Times
Nationwide, 1,139 companies have gone bust in the two-year aftermath of the Great East Japan Earthquake and continuing nuclear disaster, with liabilities totaling ¥1.31 trillion, according to a private credit research company. The business failures ...

Stress emerges as major health issue in Fukushima
The Seattle Times
Laundry hangs inside so it won't absorb the radiation that remains in the ground, two years after an earthquake and tsunami caused meltdowns and explosions at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, about 30 kilometers (18 miles) to the south. To ...

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TG Daily
Tsunamis can be much bigger than thought
TG Daily
"Our results show that some shorelines with huge earthquake zones just offshore face a double whammy: not only they are exposed to the tsunamis, but under certain conditions, focusing amplifies these tsunamis far more than shoaling and produces ...

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“The first thing people need to restart their lives is a home”
Reuters AlertNet
Bangkok, 8 March 2013 – “The first thing people need to restart their lives is a home”, declares Saya Komatsu, a Habitat for Humanity Japan volunteer that has repeatedly visited the devastated Tohoku region of northern Japan to help affected families ...

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Stress emerges as major health issue in Fukushima
Huffington Post
Laundry hangs inside so it won't absorb the radiation that remains in the ground, two years after an earthquake and tsunami caused meltdowns and explosions at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, about 30 kilometers (18 miles) to the south. To ...

Tsunami-hit towns still barren as rebuilding lags
WBTV
24, 2013 photo, flowers and a bottle of water are placed to pay tribune to the victims of the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami near a fishing boat washed ashore in Kesennuma, Japan. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa). .... Norio Akasaka, a professor at ...

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Tsunami-hit towns still barren as rebuilding lags
The Seattle Times
Reconstruction has lagged behind recoveries from earlier disasters, such as the 1995 earthquake that killed more than 6,400 people in western Japan's Kobe-Osaka region, because it is complicated by the imperative to move residents out of areas prone to ...

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Survivors long for homes, jobs as red tape, slack economy slow rebuilding from ...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Reconstruction has lagged behind recoveries from earlier disasters, such as the 1995 earthquake that killed more than 6,400 people in western Japan's Kobe-Osaka region, because it is complicated by the imperative to move residents out of areas prone to ...

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Google Public Alerts Expands Into Japan
Motley Fool
This includes seven regions in the Tohoku region, which was left devastated after the Tohoku Earthquake struck Japan only two years ago. Google Public Alerts now looks to expand into more to more countries. More Expert Advice from The Motley Fool ...