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- Many foreign embassies in Tokyo close or move elsewhere after quake
- March 24th, 2011Category: Uncategorized
- Many foreign embassies in Tokyo have temporarily closed or relocated their functions to elsewhere in Japan following the recent earthquake and amid the ongoing crisis at the nuclear power station in Fukushima Prefecture. By Wednesday, about 15 African and other count ... » Continue Reading
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- Radioactive iodine exceeding limits found in Tokyo tap water
- March 23rd, 2011Category: Uncategorized
- The Tokyo metropolitan government warned Wednesday that infants should not drink tap water as radioactive iodine exceeding the limit for them were detected in water at a purification plant. According to the metropolitan government, 210 becquerels of radioactive iodin ... » Continue Reading
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- Hot curry dishes by Muslim group warm evacuees in Iwate
- March 23rd, 2011Category: Uncategorized
- Warm dishes filled with a scent of curry spices cheered up exhausted evacuees at a shelter in Otsuchi in Iwate Prefecture, one of the areas most severely hit by the March 11 catastrophic earthquake. A group of 17 Muslims from an Islamic center in Kasugai, Aichi Prefe ... » Continue Reading
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- Amazing Pet Survival Stories
- March 23rd, 2011Category: Uncategorized
- As we were all witness to, the tsunami in Tohoku has ripped through the region with such force that cars were smashed into houses, debris was swept for miles through rice fields, and entire families drowned in their homes. Travel was extremely difficult because of miles ... » Continue Reading
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- Cabbages, broccoli added to list of 11 tainted vegetables
- March 23rd, 2011Category: Uncategorized
- Radioactive materials drastically exceeding legal limits set under the food sanitation law have been found in 11 types of vegetable grown in Fukushima Prefecture, including broccoli and cabbages, the health ministry said Wednesday. The Health, Labor and Welfare Minis ... » Continue Reading
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- Managing companies through a crisis
- March 23rd, 2011Category: Uncategorized
- While Tokyo has so far escaped relatively unharmed from the triple blow of the 9.0 mega-quake, devastating tsunami and ongoing Fukushima nuclear saga, for anyone involved in business here in the capital, events have brought a different kind of challenge. With the wor ... » Continue Reading
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- Over 300 interpreters ready to help quake-affected foreigners
- March 23rd, 2011Category: Uncategorized
- A volunteer group is set to send more than 300 Japanese-speaking interpreters to help foreigners in the areas of northeastern and eastern Japan that were stricken by the devastating earthquake, among other movements aimed at providing linguistic support there. The Ja ... » Continue Reading
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- Missing U.S. teacher’s body located in Ishinomaki
- March 22nd, 2011Category: Uncategorized
- A Virginia couple is mourning the death of their daughter after learning that her body was found in disaster-ravaged Japan, where she had been teaching English. Taylor Anderson, 24, could be the first known American victim in the Japan disaster as authorities continu ... » Continue Reading
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- No. of dead or missing tops 21,000; bodies buried in rare measure
- March 22nd, 2011Category: Uncategorized
- The number of people killed or reported missing as a result of the March 11 devastating earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan topped 21,000 on Tuesday, the National Police Agency said. Some identified bodies in a rare move were buried in parts of the quake-str ... » Continue Reading
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- Online tools to navigate the next few weeks
- March 22nd, 2011Category: Uncategorized
- During the earthquake and the immediate aftermath, social media sites, whether it was Twitter, Google's crisis response page or other sources, were invaluable tools, both for discovering what was going on (especially in light of the international press reaction) or si ... » Continue Reading