ON MARCH 11th, the first anniversary of the day that turned her world upside down, 13-year-old Wakana Yokoyama will be performing a rice-planting dance for her fellow villagers. It will be a happy occasion, because she will be with old school friends she rarely sees any more. But it will be tinged with sadness, too; because although there are still villagers, there is no longer a village.
With moments of silence and prayers, Japan has begun marking one year since the massive earthquake and tsunami struck the nation, killing just over 19,000 people and unleashing the world's worst nuclear crisis in a quarter century. At dawn in the devastated northeastern coastal town of Rikuzentakata, dozens of people from across Japan gathered to offer prayers in front of a solitary pine tree that
Japan is marking the first anniversary of the devastating earthquake and tsunami which struck the north-eastern coast, leaving 20,000 dead or missing. The magnitude 9.0 quake, Japan's most powerful since records began, also triggered a serious nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Thousands of people were evacuated as radiation leaked from the plant. There were memorial services
Fukushima: Inside the Exclusion Zone Alan Taylor December 5, 2011 20 Photos In Focus In June, National Geographic sent AP photographer David Guttenfelder into the exclusion zone around the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power station, which was badly damaged in the earthquake and tsunami earlier this year. He captured images of communities that had become ghost towns, with pets and farm animals roamin
As with the previous deadly earthquakes in Turkey, within hours of the 7.2 magnitude tremor which destroyed dozens of buildings in the east of the country on Sunday came complaints that not enough was being done to help the victims. This time, however, the anguished onlookers could do more about it – through social media. At the heart of these efforts was Erhan Çelik, a journalist for Turkey's Kan
Google Official Blog に仙台七夕祭り(地方によっては七夕は7月ではなく8月)に寄せたメッセージが投稿されています。 お盆休みということもあってか、Google Japan Blog に翻訳記事があがらないので、下手訳ですが、紹介します。 Official Google Blog: Messages for Japan at Tanabata in Sendai http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/messages-for-japan-at-tanabata-in.html A month after this spring’s devastating earthquake in Japan, we created a site where people from around the world could submit mes
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