The Great East Japan Earthquake hit Japan on 11 March 2011 became the worst disaster causing the tsunami, aftershock and Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.
The tsunami created over 300,000 refugees in the Tohoku region of Japan and resulted in shortages of food, water, shelter, medicine and fuel for survivors. The death toll is 15,891 (19,225 in total including related death of the disaster), and 2,584 people are missing. (Source:Wikipedia)
However, in response to the crisis, many countries sent search and rescue teams to help search for survivors. As Japanese, I never forget all over the world encourage Japan and be with us. Not to fade our memories, I would like to share the information how Tohoku region has revived from the disaster. On the other hands, I would like you to know many people are still struggling on the way to far recovery.
Overnight visitors from Hong Kong to Fukushima Prefecture reached 2,670 in the January-October period of 2018, about 2.5 times more than the previous year’s same period, Fukushima Gov. Masao Ushibori […]
International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach visited Fukushima Prefecture for the first time on Nov. 24. Accompanied by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, he inspected the prefectural-run Fukushima A […]
The Fukushima prefectural government has decided to promote some locally produced farm, forestry and fisheries products, including rice, cucumbers, tomatoes and peaches, as priority items with the Goo […]
A total of 26 fishing boats returned to their home port in Namie town, Fukushima Prefecture, on Feb. 25 from Manogawa fishing port in Minamisoma city where they had been moored since the Great […]
Of residents evacuated elsewhere in or outside Fukushima Prefecture after the 2011 earthquake and ensuing nuclear accident at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima Daiichi plant, a total of 12,381 peop […]
17 June 2016 Samples of all 2,669 school meals served for lunch in Fukushima Prefecture in fiscal 2015 cleared the highest allowable level of 100 becquerels per kilogram for radioactive cesium specifi […]
6 June 2016 According to the Environment Ministry and the Fukushima prefectural government, the tsunami-related debris included vehicles, logs and concrete fragments left in the evacuated areas — […]
17 April 2016 To attract more foreign visitors to Tohoku, governors from the six prefectures in the region have agreed to establish a comprehensive sightseeing route and develop other promotional meas […]
12 April 2016 The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is poised to lay down new international standards regarding concentration of radioacti […]
20 March 2016 The central government is covering the demolition costs for disaster-hit homes in Fukushima Prefecture, but 70 percent of the razing requests have not been completed. The Environment Min […]
3 February 2016 The central government’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) published on Feb. 2 a map depicting the distribution of radiation dosages as of last September in a region within an 8 […]
31 January 2016 The Fisheries Agency will continue to subsidize efforts by Fukushima Prefecture to remove tsunami-related debris from the ocean floor. The newest tranche of cash will be used to lift v […]
11 December 2015 Even though the tens of thousands of evacuees from the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami and ensuing Fukushima nuclear disaster are still living in temporary housing, many others have mo […]
18 November 2015 In a survey of business establishments in 12 municipalities with government-designated evacuation zones in the wake of Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant disas […]
6 November 2015 Tokyo Electric Power Co. said on Nov. 5. that the concentration of radioactive substances in seawater near the shore of its crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant appears to be decli […]
– 4 years have passed since the disaster. As time passes, many people were able to come back to normal life, but still many people are struggling on the way to far recovery in the strict situati […]
26 February 2015 Highly radioactive rainwater that accumulated on the rooftop of the No. 2 reactor building at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was found to have leaked into the Paci […]
13 February 2015 The number of Fukushima residents who remain evacuated as a result of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster, including those who […]
Local residents in Fukushima Prefecture saw the return of public transportation on Jan. 31 after East Japan Railway Co. began a bus service that passes through the exclusion zone around the Fukushima […]
For the first time since the triple meltdown at the Fukushima No. 1 plant throttled the agriculture-reliant prefecture, all rice produced there last year cleared the required radiation tests. The Fuku […]
A project began on Nov. 10 to revive a scenic coastal pine tree forest in the Matsukawa-ura lagoon area in Soma city that was washed away by tsunami in the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. This was t […]
The government has reopened a section of National Route 6 running through part of the Hamadori region of Fukushima Prefecture, where residency is restricted due to radioactive contamination from the c […]
The National Federation of Agricultural Cooperative Associations (Zen-Noh) announced on Aug. 18 that it will resume exports of rice grown in Fukushima Prefecture, starting with the “Koshihikari& […]
All vegetables and fruits tested for radioactive cesium by the Fukushima prefectural government in fiscal 2013 showed measurements below the current maximum allowable limit of 100 becquerels per kilog […]
According to a nationwide population survey for 2013 reported by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare on June 4, the total fertility rate — the average number of children born to a woman &# […]
Many residents haven’t returned yet because of lingering concerns about radiation. They are also worried about the lack of jobs, shops and medical services. The area was the first in the 20-km-radius […]
The Fukushima Renewable Energy Institute, AIST (FREA), a unit of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), was inaugurated on April 1 at an industrial park in Koriya […]
The Japanese government set up a task force on Sept. 10 to strengthen measures to prevent problems linked to the leakage of contaminated water at the disaster-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant […]
The central government on March 10 unveiled a plan to build temporary storage sites for soil and debris contaminated with radioactive materials from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Statio […]
