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MIYAGI

JAPAN
Mar 13, 2014
Suicides tied to 2011 disaster continue, with rate in Fukushima rising
Police linked 37 suicides last year in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures to the March 2011 disaster, up 13 from a year earlier, with the tally rising progressively each year in Fukushima, the National Police Agency said Thursday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
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.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Mar 8, 2014
Still hunting shadows three years after 3/11
One of the great statistical mysteries that persist several years after a natural disaster is the figure that appears without fail each month in columns representing the number of people that are still missing.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Mar 8, 2014
Tsunami zone's village culture fades into fog of history
We can better appreciate what Tohoku's shoreline villages represented now that they have been washed away and former residents are marooned in soulless temporary housing ghettoes where the greatest risks are isolation and boredom.
Japan Times
JAPAN / THREE YEARS AFTER 3/11
Mar 5, 2014
Tohoku finding real recovery hard to come by
Yumiko Onodera is a survivor. She saw her town of Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, devastated by gigantic tsunami and ensuing fire from damaged heavy oil tanks at the major fishery port on March 11, 2011.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 5, 2014
'Takoyaki' buff revives stall in tsunami-hit town
A local shop selling "takoyaki" octopus dumplings that was wiped out in the deadly tsunami of March 2011 has reopened in the port town of Yuriage in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Feb 10, 2014
Tokyo model community melds fashion and compassion
Male model Dean Newcombe runs what surely must be the most photogenic all-volunteer organization around. And although some of the volunteers are indeed fashion models, the 'model' in Intrepid Model Adventures refers to role models as well as the catwalk variety.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 10, 2014
Tsunami-hit shop has salty sweets
A confectioner whose shop was destroyed by tsunami from the March 2011 mega-quake off Tohoku is targeting the Valentine's Day market with a chocolate flavored by sea salt from the damaged area.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Jan 29, 2014
What's the worth of words?
By popular demand, Shizuoka Performing Arts Center is set to stage a revival of "A Midsummer Night's Dream," its sell-out 2011 production adapted by contemporary theater paragon Hideki Noda and directed by its own artistic diector, Satoshi Miyagi.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 29, 2013
Miyagi patissier uses local fruit to help hometown
A month after the March 2011 earthquake, Kazunori Ikeda, 36, decided to leave Paris to open a store in Sendai and sell sweets made with local strawberries to promote the rebuilding of his hometown.
JAPAN
Dec 27, 2013
Safety check of Rokkasho nuke facility sought
Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. plans to have its troubled fuel reprocessing plant in the village of Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture, undergo a state safety assessment Jan. 7 so it can be brought online.
JAPAN
Dec 27, 2013
16 Japanese reactors up for restart safety checks
Tohoku Electric Power Co. applied Friday for a safety assessment of its No. 2 reactor at the Onagawa power plant in Miyagi Prefecture, making it the 16th unit that will be checked before a possible restart.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Dec 9, 2013
Korean volunteers put the K into kizuna
One volunteer group, based at Tokyo's Meiji University, is called Kizuna International; the other, at Kyoto University, is Kizuna From Kyoto. The coincidences do not end there: Both groups' leaders share the same surname and both are ethnic Koreans.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 25, 2013
Kennedy makes first visit to Tohoku
New U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy visited Miyagi Prefecture on Monday for the first time since assuming her post and was briefed on the devastation wrought by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in the Tohoku region.
EDITORIALS
Nov 23, 2013
Tohoku's Great Forest Wall Project
A project to plant nearly 300 km of trees along the northeast coast from Iwate to Miyagi to Fukushima will help to protect people and their way of life.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
Oct 30, 2013
Volunteers staying the course in Tohoku
Upstart NGOs It's Not Just Mud and OGA for Aid continue to punch above their weight in public conversations about the future of Tohoku.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 27, 2013
Miyagi Gov. Murai returned for third term
Miyagi Gov. Yoshihiro Murai won a third term Sunday in the prefecture's first gubernatorial election since the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 17, 2013
Mom hopes daughter's tragic death boosts schools' duty for child safety
Clutching a handkerchief tightly in her hand, Mika Sato nodded silently and tearfully to the others who lost their children in the 2011 tsunami when the Sendai District Court handed down its ruling Tuesday holding a kindergarten responsible for the deaths.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 9, 2013
Work starts to scrap beached ship
A nonprofit organization on Monday began dismantling a 330-ton fishing vessel washed ashore by the March 2011 tsunami that has become a landmark in one of the hardest-hit cities in the Tohoku region.
JAPAN
Sep 6, 2013
Minamisanriku's eateries mapped
Restaurants and food shops in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, which was ravaged by the 2011 tsunami, have issued a full-color map featuring their establishments in hopes of attracting more tourists and local residents alike.

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