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EARTHQUAKE

JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Jul 19, 2011
Campaigns urge foreigners to pleeease visit Japan
The travel industry is doing its best to bring tourists back to Japan but is an Arashi promo video going to be able to do the job?
JAPAN / WEEK 3
Jul 17, 2011
Volunteering with three teens in Tohoku
Many people want to go to the Tohoku region to help in the colossal clean-up following the magnitude-9 Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11 and the resulting tsunami that hit some 400 km of the coastline.
LIFE / Lifestyle / Japan Pulse
Jun 24, 2011
Fashion goes sensible in postquake Japan
Memories of March 11 are inspiring women to favor sensible footwear, just to be safe.
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
May 24, 2011
Super cool biz and signs of a setsuden summer
Signs of energy conservation are in the air but will it be enough to weather the power demands of summer?
LIFE / Digital / Japan Pulse
May 2, 2011
Hacking for a safer world
The mother of invention is alive and well at Tokyo Hackerspace.
LIFE / Lifestyle / Japan Pulse
May 2, 2011
Disaster preparation with a difference
Stylish hard hat? Check. Hello Kitty disaster kit? Check. Koala biscuits for the kids? Check. Disaster jacket for the dog? Check. OK, you're set.
Japan Times
LIFE
Apr 10, 2011
Japan's seismic nerve center
The Earthquake Phenomena Observation System, located inside the Japan Meteorological Agency in Tokyo's central Otemachi district, is usually operated by five teams of seven who work in rotating shifts that span every minute of the year. But at 2:46 p.m. on March 11 this year, all that changed. In an...
Japan Times
LIFE
Apr 10, 2011
Awaji Island quake museum offers shocks and survivors
At age 79, Yoshiko Negita's mind is alert and her memory is laser-sharp. There is, too, a sense of urgency in her voice as this resident of Awaji Island in the Seto Inland Sea speaks to visitors at its Hokudan Earthquake Memorial Park. There, preserved at an experiential museum, is an exposed section...
LIFE / Digital / Japan Pulse
Apr 8, 2011
An early warning system in every pocket
Is your cell phone ready for the next quake? And do you want gentle prod or an air siren ringtone?
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Apr 2, 2011
Creative shelters bring privacy to Tohoku evacuees
Architects and designers are coming to the aid of homeless needing privacy and shelter in the wake of the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake.
CULTURE / Japan Pulse
Mar 31, 2011
Post-quake aid on a musical note
Music industries of the world — both mainstream and indie, both domestic and overseas — find different ways to get relief money into quake-hit Japan.
LIFE / Style & Design / Japan Pulse
Mar 29, 2011
Show your support with quake-aid T-shirts
Plenty of ways to show support for post-quake Japan and relief efforts, and wearing a special T-shirt is one of them.
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Mar 18, 2011
Power to the people: TEPCO at economic cross-purposes with blackout strategy
If the current energy crisis is not a more convincing argument for the development of the so-called smart-grid system, we don't know what is.
Trump pledges to save U.S. from 'decline,' vowing new 'golden age'
U.S. President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Monday.
Cedar pollen is already in the air in Tokyo
Climate change and urbanization are believed to have contributed to the earliest ever observation of cedar pollen in Tokyo, on Jan. 8, an expert says.
Large fire breaks out near Osaka's Tsutenkaku Tower
Smoke rises from a fire at a commercial building near Tsutenkaku Tower, in Osaka, on Tuesday.
U.S. Osprey accidentally drops cargo into sea in Okinawa
A V-22 Osprey
What went wrong at Fuji TV's news conference on allegations against Nakai?
Fuji TV President Koichi Minato speaks at a news conference on Friday in Tokyo.
'America first' returns as Trump ditches focus on allies and rules-based order
U.S. President Donald Trump reviews troops during his inauguration ceremony at the Capitol in Washington on Monday.
Japan looks to learn from the past with bid to build Australian warships
The Maritime Self-Defense Force's Mogami frigate, of the class of the same name, is anchored at the MSDF's naval base in the city of Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, in September 2022.
Amid rising world hunger, a Japan-inspired group in Kenya is making a big impact
Wawira Njiru, the founder of Food4Education, serves food during the opening of a new kitchen in Mombasa County, Kenya, in 2022. The organization started in 2012 by feeding 25 children out of a single kitchen. Now it feeds nearly half a million every day.
From Tokyo to Manhattan, Takuma Watanabe stirs up a stiff drink
It's taken Takuma Watanabe little time to establish himself as one of New York's hottest bartenders.
For tourists in search of seasonal sights, Yamagata makes its case
For some time away from Tokyo's suffocating urban sameness, Yamagata Prefecture is home to a soothing array of natural abundance.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

Atsuyoshi Koike, the president and CEO of Rapidus, says there is a “sense of urgency” when it comes to Japan’s efforts in manufacturing semiconductors. “We have to make sure we are successful,” he says.
Atsuyoshi Koike’s big game: Fourth down and 2 nanometers to go
By Kazuaki Nagata and Richard Meyer

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