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Still recovering, Japan marks 10 years since tsunami hit
March 18, 2021 by Nichi Bei News
TOKYO — Japan fell quiet at 2:46 p.m. March 11 to mark the minute that an earthquake began 10 years ago, setting off a tsunami and nuclear crisis that devastated […] READ MORE
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Ten years and still recovering
March 18, 2021 by Nichi Bei News
Ten years have passed since the March 11, 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. The coastal towns are almost unrecognizable with new buildings, roads and bridges. When I visit these towns, […] READ MORE
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EXPLAINER: How dangerous is the Fukushima nuke plant today?
March 18, 2021 by Nichi Bei News
OKUMA, Japan — A decade ago, a massive tsunami crashed into the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Three of its reactors melted down, leaving it looking like a bombed-out factory. […] READ MORE
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Many still struggling 6 years after quake, nuclear disaster
March 16, 2017 by Nichi Bei News
TOKYO — Survivors pledged to reconstruct their hometowns March 11 on the sixth anniversary of the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disasters in northeastern Japan, with many still struggling to […] READ MORE
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A journey to say goodbye in Tohoku
July 21, 2016 by Nichi Bei News
When the Dead Pause and the Japanese Say Goodbye By Marie Mutsuki Mocket (New York: W.W. Norton & Company Inc., 2016, 336 pp., $16.95, paperback) “Perhaps it is possible, then, […] READ MORE
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Half of 2011 quake, tsunami evacuees say local recovery lagging
March 3, 2016 by Nichi Bei News
SENDAI — More than a half of evacuees from the March 2011 quake and tsunami feel local recovery from the disaster has been insufficient, according to results of a Kyodo […] READ MORE
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Int’l friendship born out of tsunami tragedy
January 1, 2016 by Nichi Bei News
THE EXTRAORDINARY VOYAGE OF KAMOME: A TSUNAMI BOAT COMES HOME By Lori Dengler and Amya Miller; designed and illustrated by Amy Uyeki (Arcata, Calif.: Humboldt State University Press, 2015, 46 […] READ MORE
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THE HEART OF KANJI: Visiting Japan
December 3, 2015 by Nichi Bei News
Last October, Alice and I visited Japan. We left San Francisco on Oct. 21 via All Nippon Airways. An Australian stewardess who spoke fluent Japanese served us on the airplane. […] READ MORE
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Ishinomaki nonprofit visits San Francisco
April 30, 2015 by Nichi Bei News
The March 2011 earthquake and tsunami devastated Ishinomaki City in Miyagi Prefecture. More than 3,500 people are dead or missing in the city of 160,000. Rias No Mori (The Forest […] READ MORE
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Journalists use ‘restorative narrative’ to report on Fukushima
April 16, 2015 by Nichi Bei News
The San Francisco State University’s Dilena Takeyama Center for the Study of Japan and Japanese Culture presented April 4 on the state of Fukushima, Japan at the Japanese Cultural and […] READ MORE
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