The mayor of the isolated Japanese city of Minamisoma, Katsunobu Sakurai, speaks to DAVID McNEILL
LIKE MOST Japanese men, Katsunobu Sakurai read apocalyptic comic-book stories about the future when he was a boy. He never expected to live through one of those stories.
A common plot sees a...
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Earthquake in Japan, which became one of the most powerful in the history of the country, according to preliminary calculations, the reduced terrestrial days 1,6 microseconds.
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ONAGAWA, Japan – As a massive tsunami ravaged this Japanese fishing town, hundreds of residents fled for the safest place they knew: the local nuclear power plant.
Nearly three weeks later, 240 remain, watching TV or playing ball games with their children next...
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Japan may need five years to recover financially from the earthquake and tsunami, which have caused about £145billion of damage, the World Bank warned yesterday.
The disaster is likely to shave up to 0.5 per cent from the country’s economic growth this year.
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Back in the olden days, people would sit around their living rooms, light up fancy cigars and talk about the future.
They’d also try to guess what color looked like, given that everything was black and white, but I’m getting sidetracked now. Back to the future, people.If you were to somehow...