March 28th, 2011By Earthquake2011Category: Uncategorized
Highly radioactive iodine seeping from Japan’s damaged nuclear complex may be making its way into seawater further north of the plant than previously thought, officials said Monday, adding to radiation concerns as the crisis stretches into a third week.
Mounting problems, including badly miscalculated radiation figures and no place to store dangerously contaminated water, have stymied emergency workers struggling to cool down the overheating p ...
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March 25th, 2011By Earthquake2011Category: Uncategorized
To try and help you better sift through the news and understand what is going on and where in Japan as we approach the second week since the earthquake first struck off the coast of Miyagi ken, we have gathered together a collection of stories from the English-language press.
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A high-level radiation leak detected Thursday at one of six troubled reactors at the crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant indicates possible damage to ...
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March 25th, 2011By Earthquake2011Category: Uncategorized
It has been two weeks since the devastating earthquake and ensuing tsunamis hit Japan, but around 250,000 people are still taking shelter across some 1,900 evacuation centers, while a nuclear emergency has yet to be resolved.
More than 27,000 people have been confirmed dead or remain unaccounted for so far—9,811 deaths and 17,541 missing—while damage to houses and roads is estimated at least at 16 trillion to 25 trillion yen, according to the ...
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March 24th, 2011By Earthquake2011Category: Uncategorized
As part of our roundup of ongoing events, we are pulling together news and information from across the web. Here we gathering some of the most relevant economic news.
Japan's economy was hit hard in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake. The Nikkei stock index dropped to its lowest level since the war and there was a mass flight of capital out of the country. That forced the government to step in and inject a huge amount of cash to keep ...
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March 24th, 2011By Earthquake2011Category: Uncategorized
The response amongst all levels of society to the Japan earthquake has been astounding with seemingly anybody who had the means to help out, doing so.
Almost immediately after the magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck some of the biggest corporate organizations in the world sprung to help. We had the Crisis Response Page from Google, which contained its person finder, earthquake map, donation tools and other resources. Also online we had Yahoo! Ja ...
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March 24th, 2011By Earthquake2011Category: Uncategorized
To try and help you better sift through the news and understand what is going on and where in Japan as we approach the second week since the earthquake first struck off the coast of Miyagi ken, we have gathered together a collection of stories from the English-language press.
As we reported last night, radioactive iodine was found in the water. However, today Naoki Inose, Deputy Governor of Tokyo, has tweeted that the level of iodine measured ...
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March 24th, 2011By Earthquake2011Category: Uncategorized
More than 50% of foreigners living in Tokyo said they would stay in the city no matter what happens during the current crisis, according to a poll this week by our sister-site, online newspaper Japan Today (www.japantoday.com).
Last week, after a number of embassies advised their nationals to leave the Tokyo area due to a perceived threat of radiation, the immigration bureau was swamped with foreigners seeking re-entry visas so they could leav ...
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March 24th, 2011By Earthquake2011Category: Uncategorized
More than 1,000 volunteers gathered Monday at Saitama Super Arena, usually a venue for big concerts and other events, but now an emergency shelter to help 2,300 evacuees from residential areas near Fukushima Daiichi power plant.
However, the overwhelming number of volunteers and boxes of emergency aid took Saitama prefectural officials by surprise, because they did not officially call for donations. Applications for volunteers and emergency ai ...
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March 24th, 2011By Earthquake2011Category: 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 countries have shuttered their offices in Tokyo while another 10 or so nations including those from Europe moved their embassies outside the capital, according to the Japanese Foreign M ...
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March 23rd, 2011By Earthquake2011Category: 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 iodine were detected per 1 kilogram of water against the limit of 100 becquerels. Officials said the limit for consumption of iodine 131 for infants is 100 becquerels per liter. They re ...
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March 23rd, 2011By Earthquake2011Category: 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 Prefecture, central Japan, traveled to the northeastern town, more than 600 kilometers away, to prepare dishes of curry, rice and nan in hope that the evacuees ‘‘eat plentifully and get ...
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March 23rd, 2011By Earthquake2011Category: 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-long lines at gas stations and the rationing of gas. There were few signs of life in the hardest-hit areas, but amongst those that were, some citizens refused to leave their badly ...
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