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FUKUSHIMA PREFECTURE

Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
May 30, 2022
Rebuilding a community starting from scratch
Moved by visits to the area, a pair of students wants visitors to know there is more to the town of Futaba, Fukushima Pref., than disaster.
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Jul 28, 2018
Fukushima ¡®ambassadors¡¯ visit Taiwan school to offer thanks for 3/11 aid
Three students from Fukushima Prefecture visited a junior high school in Taipei to offer thanks for Taiwan¡¯s reconstruction support after the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis.
51³Ô¹ÏÍø / Politics
May 6, 2018
Japan to emphasize maximum pressure, Indo-Pacific strategy at eighth summit with Pacific island nations
Japan will take steps to beef up collaboration with Pacific island nations at a summit next week to promote the Indo-Pacific strategy advocated by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
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Nov 9, 2016
Fukushima eyed for baseball, softball games in 2020 Olympics
Tokyo 2020 Olympic organizers on Wednesday gave the green light for disaster-affected Fukushima Prefecture to host baseball and softball games.
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Sep 9, 2016
Fund started to help Fukushima thyroid cancer patients cover expenses
The 3/11 Children¡¯s Fund for Thyroid Cancer will start accepting donations from Sept. 20, aiming to raise at least u00a520 million.
LIFE / Language / MORNING ENGLISH
Sep 14, 2015
Let¡¯s discuss the lifting of evacuation orders in Fukushima
This week¡¯s featured article
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Apr 18, 2015
¡®At Kasetsu¡¯ and the poetry of everyday life in temporary housing
Four years have passed since the evacuees displaced by the Fukushima nuclear disaster moved into kasetsu (temporary housing). Many are unable to return home as their houses are still contaminated.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / LEARNING CURVE
Mar 1, 2015
Four years on, Tohoku towns still waiting for schools, homes, answers
While cooped-up kids need places to play, exhausted residents could do with support from more teachers and caregivers.
51³Ô¹ÏÍø / Science & Health
Dec 20, 2014
Earthquake strikes off Fukushima Prefecture; no tsunami warning issued
An earthquake with an intensity of 4 on the Japanese scale to 7 rattled the Hamadori area of eastern Fukushima Prefecture at 6:31 p.m. Saturday, the Meteorological Agency said.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Dec 13, 2014
On the Brink: The Inside Story of Fukushima Daiichi
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Mar 10, 2014
[Photos] Tohoku three years after the 3/11 earthquake and tsunami
A selection of photos looking at how the landscape and life in Tohoku have changed, three years after the 3/11 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami.
51³Ô¹ÏÍø / Media / DARK SIDE OF THE RISING SUN
Jan 4, 2014
Here¡¯s eyeing Japan 2014 ¡ª warts an¡¯ all
¡°To know the future, look at the past,¡± is a familiar Buddhist aphorism. However, it¡¯s also said that a prophet isn¡¯t honored in his hometown ¡ª which is why I live in Tokyo. As we ride into the Year of the Horse, I thought I¡¯d canter awhile through times to come and report back on what I found. My...
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
May 28, 2013
281_Anti Nuke¡¯s anger at authority is at a critical mass
More than two years after the triple reactor meltdowns at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, hundreds of thousands of residents of the Tohoku region of northeastern Honshu remain displaced, the power station teeters on the brink of further disaster and large swaths of northern Japan are so irradiated...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Apr 12, 2013
¡®Sakura Namiki no Mankai no Shita ni (Cold Bloom)¡¯
Grief doesn¡¯t have a sell-by date, not really. Decades after a loss, the absence is still felt, the memories remain.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Jan 19, 2013
Fukushima¡¯s powder paradise
I seem to have the whole mountain to myself. The vast majesty of Fukushima Prefecture spreads out below me, all around. Up here, skiing on powdery snow, zigzagging through challenging moguls, it¡¯s easy to forget about the nuclear reactors 120 km away.
Japan weighs regulating Pokemon cards amid trading mania
A Pokemon event is held in Jakarta on July 11
Japan to set up expert working group on accepting foreign nationals
Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara (second from left) addresses a meeting of ministers responsible for policies concerning foreign residents, held at the Prime Minister's Office on Friday.
Head of Swiss euthanasia firm dies after collapsing while ascending Mount Fuji
Around 200,000 people typically scale the 3,776 meter Mount Fuji each year.
Indian brothers make manga debut in Japan
Two Indian brothers made their manga debut in Japan with "Kung Fu Kung Fool" ¡ª an action-comedy series that follows the adventures of a notorious thief and a young boy.
Japan scientists identify clusters of protein believed to trigger Alzheimer¡¯s disease
A team of researchers said they found a ¡°seed¡± that accelerates the amyloid beta accumulation process in the brain, naming it ¡°Peak 1 amyloid beta,¡± as seen in a mouse's brain.
Japan to set up expert working group on accepting foreign nationals
Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara (second from left) addresses a meeting of ministers responsible for policies concerning foreign residents, held at the Prime Minister's Office on Friday.
Inside Toho Archive¡¯s mission to save Japan¡¯s cinematic memory
The goal of restoration is not to artificially upscale but to return the film to the condition it was in ¡°the very first day it appeared in the world,¡± says Nobushige Toshima, president and sales division manager of Toho Archive.
The sci-fi sensibilities of electronic trio Black Boboi
Black Boboi was formed in 2018 when solo artists Julia Shortreed, Utena Kobayashi and Ermhoi came together under Kobayashi¡¯s newly founded label, Bindividual.
A perfect storm: Kaze Fujii fans flock to Fuji Rock
Okayama-born singer-songwriter Kaze Fujii has carved out a distinctive place in Japanese pop since his major-label debut in 2019.
Can Japanese comedy get laughs in English? Yoshimoto Kogyo lets the jokes rip
Wes-P has millions of followers and his viral clips made him recognizable out of Japan.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo¡¯s ¡®stadium of desire¡¯

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For many people, utility poles and power lines have become such a familiar part of Japan¡¯s landscape that they often go unnoticed.
Why Japan¡¯s utility poles won¡¯t be disappearing anytime soon
By Alex K.T. Martin

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