When tens of thousands of people fled after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, tsunami and ensuing Fukushima nuclear accident, their cultural traditions left with them.
NAMIE, Japan — A quarter-mile inland from the eastern Japanese coastline, a sprawling complex of solar panels, robotic lawnmowers and the world’s largest hydrogen power plant stands as a monument to ...
On March 11, 2011, a powerful 9.0 magnitude earthquake triggered a deadly tsunami that struck Japan’s northeastern region of Tohoku. The tsunami killed nearly 19,000 people and smashed into the ...
The economic cost of disasters in 2011 was the highest in history — with a pricetag of at least $380 billion, mainly due to earthquakes in Japan and New Zealand, a U.N. envoy said Monday. Margareta ...
More than a decade after one of the worst natural disasters of our time, people in Japan are still living under the threat of another disaster of this kind occurring in their country. A recent survey ...
El Segundo, Calif., February 1, 2012—In an ironic twist, the terrible disasters that struck Japan and Thailand in 2011 actually helped to expand the market for automotive microelectromechanical (MEMS) ...