Fourteen years after the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami, communities in the Tohoku region grappling with declining populations are focusing on young people and women to aid recovery. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/11/japan/japan-311-area-population-falls/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #311 #iwate #miyagi #fukushima #population #earthquakes
Former students of a school in Miyagi Prefecture where 84 children and staff lost their lives in the tsunami triggered by the March 11, 2011, earthquake are working to turn the site into a community hub. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/11/japan/okawa-elementary-school-community/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #miyagi #earthquakes #311 #tsunami #tohoku
Experts are emphasizing the importance of sustained mental health support to address lingering emotional and psychological challenges facing families living in the aftermath of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/11/japan/mental-health-studies-disaster/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #fukushima #iwate #miyagi #311 #earthquakes #mentalhealth
Despite heightened interest in the 3/11 disaster around the time of the anniversary, memorial facilities are struggling to keep attention high all year round. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/03/10/japan/3-11-disaster-memory-challenges/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #japan #311 #fukushima #miyagi #tohoku #earthquake #tsunami
A monument was erected at the municipal office of Minamisanriku, a town in Miyagi Prefecture, to commemorate officials who lost their lives in the massive tsunami 14 years ago. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/10/japan/tsunami-monument-minamisanriku/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #miyagi #311 #earthquakes
The governments of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures, which were hit hardest by the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake, face the challenge of passing on the lessons of the disaster to younger workers. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/10/japan/passing-on-lessons-2011-earthqukes-tsunami/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #311 #miyagi #iwate #fukushima #earthquakes #tsunami #localgovernment
Residents in public housing in Sendai are aging, leaving residents’ associations struggling to find people who can help maintain the communities. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/10/japan/society/sendai-public-housing-residents-aging/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #311 #miyagi #sendai #elderly #earthquakes
Some municipalities in northeastern Japan are ending the storage of personal items — like photos, school bags, and cell phones — collected after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and never returned. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/09/japan/municipalities-ending-storage/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #greateastjapanearthquake #iwate #miyagi #fukushima
An amateur craftsman began making "kokeshi" dolls in 2014 to promote his hometown of Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, in the wake of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. Ten years later, he gets orders from abroad, too. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/03/japan/society/japan-311-quake-craftsman/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #311 #earthquakes #tsunami #ishinomaki #miyagi #japanesecrafts
Buildings left destroyed in the wake of the March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami are continuing to deteriorate, scuttling local governments' aims of using them to show the aftermath of the disaster. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/02/25/japan/society/japan-311-quake-ruins/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #earthquakes #311 #tsunami #tohoku #miyagi #iwate #fukushima
Driven by blue carbon hopes, work is spreading in Miyagi Prefecture to bring back seagrass beds damaged in the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/12/25/japan/seagrass-bed-restoration-miyagi/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #miyagi #oceans #environment #climatechange #carbon #311 #tsunami
The Sendai High Court has upheld a lower court ruling rejecting a request to halt the No. 2 reactor at Tohoku Electric Power's Onagawa nuclear power plant in Miyagi Prefecture. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/11/28/japan/onagawa-court-reject/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #japanesecourts #onagawa #miyagi #nuclearenergy #restarts #energy #tohokuelectric
Tohoku Electric Power has restarted the No. 2 reactor at its Onagawa nuclear power plant in Miyagi Prefecture after it was taken offline following the discovery of an issue with a measurement device. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/11/13/japan/onagawa-nuclear-reactor-restart/ #japan #nuclearenergy #onagawa #miyagi #restarts #tohokuelectric #energy #ishinomaki
Tohoku Electric Power said Monday that the halt to operations at a reactor at its Onagawa nuclear power plant in Miyagi Prefecture earlier this month came after part of a guide tube connecting a measuring instrument with the reactor came off. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/11/12/japan/japan-onagawa-nuclear-plant-glitch/ #japan #nuclearenergy #miyagi #onagawa