Japan Train Operator Comes Under Fire in Accident
Source: Fox
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2012-11-02 01:30:26 -0700 | technology-news
An emergency member carries an injured person into an ambulance after Japan Railway's express train made an emergency stop in a tunnel, seen in the background, in Shimukappu village, northern Japan, Saturday, May 28, 2011. The operator of the train...
Head of Japanese Utility Steps Down After Nuclear Crisis
Source: Newyork Times
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2011-07-21 00:08:59 -0700 | green-news
The president of Japan's troubled power company, Tokyo Electric Power, resigned Friday, shouldering responsibility for the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant as the utility booked one of the largest yearly losses in Japanese corporate history.
Japanese Insurers' Profits Plunge on Quake Claims
Source: Asian Wall Street Journal
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2011-07-25 13:39:12 -0700 | business-news
The burdens for payouts from the quake topped what nonlife insurers booked for the fiscal year of the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake. Japan's largest nonlife insurer by market capitalization, Tokio Marine Holdings Inc. posted a 44% drop in net profit...
Faltering economy puts Japan in recession
Source: CNN
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2011-07-20 14:46:19 -0700 | technology-news
Japan's economy, sputtering since the March 11 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster, has fallen into recession, according to government figures released Thursday. The country's gross domestic product fell by an annualized rate of 3.7% in the first quarter of the...
U.S. Lifted Travel Alert for Tohoku Expressway & Shinkansen in Japan!
Posted by: HideoSuzuki
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2012-11-02 01:28:01 -0700 | travel-news
According to the U.S. Department of State site, U.S. government has lifted the alert for the Americans to travel in the north-east areas expressway and shinkansen of Japan. I quote the update: This Travel Alert replaces the Travel Alert for...
Japanese Officials Ignored or Concealed Dangers
Source: Newyork Times
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2011-07-19 05:33:27 -0700 | green-news
Ko Sasaki for The New York Times Eiichi Nagano, 90, an activist who protested the dangers of the Hamaoka plant, stood near the plant on Friday. If such a quake struck, electrical power could fail, along with backup generators, crippling...
What Ann Curry Will Bring to ‘Today’
Source: ThecounT.com
Upi :: Philippines | updated 2012-11-01 23:53:11 -0700 | entertainment-news
What Ann Curry Will Bring to Today' by Edwin Daniels on May 11, 2011 It was recently announced that Ann Curry will replace Meredith Vieira as the co-host of the Today' show in early June. The transition, anticipated for months...
Politics › Diet OKs Y4 tril extra budget for quake reconstruction
Source: Japan Today
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2011-07-02 19:50:08 -0700 | business-news
The Diet enacted a 4.02 trillion yen extra budget Monday for fiscal 2011, the first step in a series of large emergency spending packages to fund reconstruction after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. The House of Councillors gave the...
Japan: The road to recovery & rebirth
Source: The Economic Times
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2011-06-29 13:59:40 -0700 | political-news
At 14.46 on March 11, Japan was hit by one of the most powerful earthquakes in recorded history. We are now making all-out efforts to restore livelihoods and recover from the series of tragedies that followed the Great East Japan...
Earthquake Clouds Japan's Profit Recovery
Source: Asian Wall Street Journal
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2011-06-29 03:51:41 -0700 | business-news
Japan's biggest companies made clear the fragility of the country's business recovery as Panasonic Corp., Honda Motor Co., All Nippon Airways Co., and Nippon Steel Corp. refrained from making their customary full-year profit forecasts when they reported earnings.
S&P cuts Japan sovereign rating outlook to negative
Source: International Business Times
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2011-06-29 22:34:46 -0700 | business-news
Standard and Poor's expects costs related to the March 11, 2011, earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear power plant disaster will increase Japan's fiscal deficits above prior estimates by a cumulative 3.7% of GDP through 2013," the rating agency said in a...
Anzac service remembers disaster victims
Source: The Age
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2011-06-30 23:33:59 -0700 | political-news
At least 3000 people braved the cold and gathered at the Cenotaph in Hobart's Domain for the annual commemoration of the Anzac landing at Gallipoli in 1915. Among the crowd of serving soldiers, veterans and families paying their respects was...
Japan to launch massive search for quake bodies
Source: Taiwan News
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2011-06-29 15:23:11 -0700 | green-news
Japan plans to send more than 20,000 soldiers into its northern disaster zone Monday in an intensive mission to recover the bodies of those killed in last month's earthquake and tsunami. More than 12,000 people are missing and presumed dead...
Real Estate Weekly: Insurance for earthquakes, disasters
Source: MarketWatch
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2011-06-23 05:21:27 -0700 | business-news
With a standard homeowner policy, you're not covered for damage to your home or possessions in the event of an earthquake, meaning the damage occurring from the shaking and cracking associated with such events. Although many standard policies cover wind...
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