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The Asahi Shimbun AJW is the English-language digital version of The Asahi Shimbun, Japan’s leading daily newspaper. Founded in 1879, The Asahi Shimbun is the nation’s most respected daily Japanese-language newspaper. It has a circulation of nearly 8 million.
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Since the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami struck the Tohoku region in 2011, the government has encouraged people to evacuate with their pets to shelters.
Twenty men and women were bathing or relaxing in the sauna at a century-old public bathhouse here on a recent evening--until they suddenly found themselves in the pitch dark.
A powerful earthquake striking right under Tokyo could kill more than 6,000 people in the capital alone and result in some 194,000 houses and buildings being destroyed or burned down in the worst-case scenario.
The Japan Meteorological Agency will start releasing forecast information about linear rainbands, called “senjo kosuitai,” from June that could give the public major flooding warnings. “Once linear rainbands occur, they will likely lead to a disaster."
Many of the temporary storage sites for soil and waste contaminated by radiation are located in areas vulnerable to disasters.
a rash of disasters over the last decade gave birth to all sorts of life-saving refinements in methods and services using information and communication technology.
Fumihiko Imamura, one of the nation's leading tsunami experts pursue a line of research to see how lives could be saved if a similar disaster strikes.
The risk of PTSD increased by 75% for those who were dispatched for more than three months compared to those who only spent up to a month in the disaster-stricken areas.