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Japan Times
| 2 years ago
Staff writers About 400 foreigners remained unaccounted for as of noon Wednesday, several dozen embassies told the Foreign Ministry in the wake of Friday's historic earthquake and tsunami in the Tohoku region. A ministry official said the missing may...
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Japan Times
| 2 years ago
The National Police Agency said it has confirmed 4,255 deaths in 12 prefectures, while 8,194 people remained unaccounted for in six prefectures as of 8 p.m. The death toll, however, will inevitably climb as the recovery of bodies, mainly in the...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 2 years ago
Naoki Tsunoda said today that officials were planning to test out the line "as soon as possible", but gave no specific time...Workers at the plant have been manually feeding seawater into the reactors to prevent the fuel rods from heating up and...
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Channel NewsAsia
| 2 years ago
This loss estimate encompasses the effects of earthquake shaking, ensuing tsunami and fires, and losses to automobiles, marine, life, and personal accident insurance lines," it said. But the loss estimates did not include the developing nuclear...
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Bermuda Sun
| 2 years ago
An undersea earthquake with a magnitude initially put at 8.9, one of the most powerful ever recorded, strikes off Japan's northeastern coast just before 3:00 pm local time. A 10-metre (33-foot) tsunami smashes over the northeastern Japanese coast,...
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United Press International
| 2 years ago
The confirmed death toll from Japan's strongest-ever earthquake and the accompanying tsunami stood at 3,676 Wednesday, the National Police Agency said. The toll was expected to increase substantially once all bodies wash ashore in the disaster-hit...
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Voice of America
| 2 years ago
Articles International rescue teams are poring through the rubble of a coastal city in northeastern Japan as time runs out for finding survivors of last week's record earthquake and tsunami. Teams from the United States, Britain and China were among...
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Japan Today
| 2 years ago
Rescue operations continued Wednesday following the catastrophic earthquake in Japan, with 80,000 Self-Defense Forces personnel and police officers mobilized in the devastated areas, where temperatures have dropped to midwinter levels. The National...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 2 years ago
Story continues below ... to an extent, anyway. See, the thing that people don't realize is that Honshu is massive...Miyagi is the prefecture hardest hit by the tsunami, and Japanese TV is reporting that they expect fatalities in the prefecture to...
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The Age
| 2 years ago
Story continues below ... to an extent, anyway. See, the thing that people don't realize is that Honshu is massive...Miyagi is the prefecture hardest hit by the tsunami, and Japanese TV is reporting that they expect fatalities in the prefecture to...
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Asian Wall Street Journal
| 2 years ago
Japan from the International Red Cross to evaluate Japan's assistance needs. The team's assessment on the radiation risks could influence the decision by other countries to send rescue teams to Japan. The Tokyo Fire Department, which currently has...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 2 years ago
A 70-year-old woman was found alive in the quake-hit town of Otsuchi in Iwate prefecture, public broadcaster NHK said. She was suffering from hypothermia but was not in a life-threatening condition, it said, adding that she had been hospitalised. AFP...
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San Diego Union-Tribune
| 2 years ago
Japan Rescuers have found a 70-year-old woman alive four days after the disaster struck. Osaka fire department spokesman Yuko Kotani says the woman was found inside her house that was washed away by the tsunami in northeastern Japan's Iwate...
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Big News Network
| 2 years ago
As most of the world now knows, a terrifying earthquake that measured 8.9 on the Richter scale was followed by a deadly tsunami on Friday, March 11, 2011 at approximately 2:45 pm (Japan time). As of press time, nearly 2, 000 people living in the...
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Washington Post
| 2 years ago
As bodies washed ashore by the hundreds and an emergency deepened at a coastal nuclear plant, millions in Japan on Tuesday faced an unabating sense of apprehension, mourning and astonishment over the emerging scope of this nation-changing catastrophe.
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Japan Times
| 2 years ago
More than 5,000 people are confirmed dead or missing, and the death toll is expected to reach into the tens of thousands. In the Miyagi Prefecture town of Minami Sanriku alone, around 10,000 people are unaccounted for. The quake, whose magnitude was...
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The independent
| 2 years ago
Japan was overwhelmed today by the vast numbers of tsunami victims. A tide of bodies washed up along the coastline, crematoriums were overflowing with the dead and rescue workers ran out of body bags as the nation faced the reality of its mounting...
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Taiwan News
| 2 years ago
Japan's quake-hit area Associated Press 2011-03-14 03:21 PM Japan ese police say another 1,000 bodies have been found in quake-hit coastal areas. A police official in Miyagi said Monday that around 1,000 washed up bodies were scattered across Miyagi...
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Moreover Silicon Valley
| 2 years ago
Tokyo , March 14 (DPA) Tens of thousands of people were feared dead Monday after last week's earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan as Prime Minister Naoto Kan said 15,000 people had been rescued so far. Alone in the town of Onagawa in Miyagi...
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National Public Radio
| 2 years ago
NPR Stories The police chief of Miyagi prefecture, or state, told a gathering of disaster relief officials that his estimate for deaths was more than 10,000, police spokesman Go Sugawara said. Miyagi has a population of 2.3 million and is one of the...
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The independent
| 2 years ago
The estimated death toll from Japan's devastating earthquake and tsunami leapt tenfold yesterday as the world's third-largest economy struggled to deal with the crippling aftermath of what Prime Minister Naoto Kan has described as the worst crisis to...
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Japan Today
| 2 years ago
The devastating earthquake that struck northeastern and eastern Japan on Friday is certain to have dealt a serious blow to the Japanese economy, possibly leading financial and capital markets to experience turbulence Monday. The effects of the...
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Japan Times
| 2 years ago
Edano Compiled from Kyodo, AP Authorities scrambled Sunday to control an overheating reactor at the problem-prone Fukushima No...Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano denied it led to a meltdown of the critical fuel rods. At a news conference, Edano...
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Financial Times
| 2 years ago
Telephone networks remained severely disrupted, hampering efforts to account for more than 90,000 people.
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KSAZ
| 2 years ago
At least 3,000 people were dead or missing Monday amid the devastation wrought by Japan's 8.9-magnitude quake and subsequent tsunami, according to Kyodo News. Although the infrastructure destruction and lack of communications throughout the country...
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Eitb24
| 2 years ago
Japan's Prime Minister said on Sunday that the earthquake and tsunami that hit the country on Friday is the worst crisis it has had to face since the end of the second world war. "In the 65 years after the end of World War II this is the toughest,...
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Sofia Echo
| 2 years ago
This is where authorities were fighting to control overheated reactors, injecting sea water into them to reduce internal pressure. Japan is experiencing its greatest hardships since World War 2 as it tackled the aftermath of an earthquake, tsunami...
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Moreover Silicon Valley
| 2 years ago
Hiromitsu Shinkawa, 60, was found by a Japanese destroyer and taken by helicopter to hospital where he was in surprisingly good health. Others were still fighting for survival amid fuel, food, power and water shortages after Friday's disaster brought...
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Novinite
| 2 years ago
Onagawa has thus become the second nuclear power plant in Japan to have been affected by the consequences of the 9.0-magnitude earthquake that hit the country on Friday followed by a horrific tsunami ...The news about the emergency at Onagawa came as...
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The Guardian
| 2 years ago
Japan tsunami and earthquake Three days after a devastating earthquake unleashed a tsunami in which at least 10,000 people are feared dead, Japan on Sunday faced a deepening nuclear crisis and the prospect of another quake as powerful as the one that...
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B92
| 2 years ago
The death toll from a devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit northeastern Japan may climb to over 10,000 people in the Miyagi prefecture alone. The tremor was the most powerful ever recorded in Japan, registering nine points on the Richter scale...
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Ynet News
| 2 years ago
Natural Disaster Kids checked for radiation Photo: Reuters Inspector at Fukushima plant Photo: Reuters 'First I was worried about quake, now I'm worried about radiation,' construction worker from town near Fukushima reactor says amid radiation...
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Rediff
| 2 years ago
Nuclear radiation threatens devastated Japan Nuclear radiation threatens devastated Japan Last updated on: March 13, 2011 15:10 IST Share this Ask Users Write a Comment J apan's second nuclear reactor in the quake-stricken north experienced serious...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 2 years ago
The death toll from Japan's devastating earthquake and tsunami is likely to exceed 10,000 in Miyagi Prefecture alone, its police chief says. Naoto Takeuchi, quoted by state broadcaster NHK, says he has "no doubt" of that number of fatalities just in...
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The Guardian
| 2 years ago
astonishingly, a 63-year-old man was rescued after his home was swept 15km out to sea by the tsunami, Japanese media are reporting. Rescuers in a helicopter spotted him waving from the rooftop near Futabacho, Fukushima prefecture.
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The Age
| 2 years ago
Story continues below Radiation levels around the Tokyo Electric Power station in Fukushima rose after cooling systems at a second reactor failed, heightening concerns about a possible meltdown following an explosion there yesterday. Tokyo Electric...
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Jerusalem Post
| 2 years ago
Japan faced the theart of new radiation leaks at an earthquake-crippled nuclear plant on Sunday after the cooling system failed at a second reactor in what could be the world's worst nuclear disaster in 25 years. Strong aftershocks continued to shake...
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Taiwan News
| 2 years ago
Although the government doubled the number of soldiers deployed in the aid effort to 100,000, it seemed overwhelmed by what's turning out to be a triple disaster. Friday's quake and tsunami damaged two nuclear reactors at a power plant on the coast,...
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Courier & Press
| 2 years ago
Japan sent thousands of rescue workers to the northeastern coastal area devastated by the country's strongest earthquake on record as officials at a nuclear power station battled to prevent a meltdown after an explosion near a reactor. The confirmed...
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7days
| 2 years ago
The earthquake that sparked a massive tsunami is the worst in Japan since records began, and has left survivors huddling in shelters surrounded by a battered landscape of submerged homes, cars and stranded boats. Aerial footage showed buildings and...
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The Star
| 2 years ago
Radiation leaked from a damaged Japanese nuclear reactor after an explosion blew the roof off in the wake of a massive earthquake, but the government insisted that radiation levels were low. The blast raised fears of a meltdown at the facility north...
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The Guardian
| 2 years ago
A day of high tension saw workers battle to save a nuclear plant from meltdown and 50,000 rescuers fight their way to victims in the midst of mud, flood waters, collapsed buildings and continuing blazes. At least 1,700 people were reported dead or...
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Wellington Dominion
| 2 years ago
Authorities in Japan have evacuated 140,000 people from areas around two nuclear power plants as attempts are made to cool one down. The country is battling twin disasters, trying to stop a radiation leak from the crippled plant while rescue teams...
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Time of India
| 2 years ago
Japan battled twin disasters on Sunday, trying to stop a radiation leak at a crippled nuclear plant while rescue teams searched desperately for survivors from a massive earthquake and tsunami. Thousands huddled over heaters in emergency shelters...
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San Diego Union-Tribune
| 2 years ago
AP In this photo released by Tokyo Power Electric Co., the Fukushima Daiichi power plant's Unit 1 is seen after an explosion in Okumamachi, Fukushima prefecture, Japan, Saturday, March 12, 2011. Fukushima Daiichi power plant's Unit 1 in Okumamachi,...
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Voice of America
| 2 years ago
Articles The latest reports available in Japan late Saturday night indicate that more than 1,300 people are either dead or missing following the earthquake and tsunami disaster. And police say more than 215,000 people have been forced to seek...
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Macleans
| 2 years ago
An explosion at a nuclear power station Saturday destroyed a building housing the reactor, but a radiation leak was decreasing despite fears of a meltdown from damage caused by a powerful earthquake and tsunami, officials said. Government spokesman...
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KSBY
| 2 years ago
An explosion at a nuclear power station Saturday destroyed a building housing the reactor, but a radiation leak was decreasing despite fears of a meltdown from damage caused by a powerful earthquake and tsunami, officials said. Government spokesman...
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KSBY
| 2 years ago
Associated Press (DS) Japan's government spokesman says there's been no increase in radiation around a nuclear power plant after a building housing a reactor was destroyed by an explosion. The official says the metal container sheltering the reactor...
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Jerusalem Post
| 2 years ago
More than 1,700 people are likely dead or missing following a massive earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan, Kyodo news agency reported on Saturday. Later it said 9,500 people in one town were unreachable, but gave no other details. About 300,000...
