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Japan fell quiet at 2:46 p.m. to mark the minute that an earthquake began 10 years ago, before setting off a tsunami and nuclear crisis that devastated the country’s northeast coast.
Laura Imai Messina’s poetic novel explores a magical place that not only connects the living to the dead but also the living to the living.
news 76% of municipalities in 3 hard-hit Japan quake areas not completed reconstruction work The Mainichi © The Mainichi The city center of Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, is seen with lights shining on land that was raised, on March 9, 2021. The commercial complex Abasse Takata is seen in the foreground, while in the background center is the former roadside rest station Tapic45, which has been designated as a relic of the disaster, and in the back right is the Takatamatsubara Memorial Park. Some vacant lots are also seen. (Mainichi/Kaho Kitayama) TOKYO -- Of the 42 munici...
news Editorial: 10 years after Japan's 3.11 disasters, flaws in restoration policies apparent The Mainichi Japan is preparing to mark 10 years since the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami disaster. The number of fatalities from the disaster, including related deaths, has topped 22,000. Housing and infrastructure development and other such concrete measures have practically been completed, but restoration of the affected areas is only halfway along the road to recovery. In the decade since the disasters, the government has injected 32 trillion yen (roughly $294.11 billion)...
On this episode of The Drop-In, after an tip from an anonymous artist about a new addition to Aspen’s “shrines,“ Drop-In hosts Rose and Kelsey along with The Aspen Times Arts and Entertainment Editor Andrew Travers search for the Wind Phone on Aspen Mountain. According to a sign posted with the instillation in the woods, “The Phone of the Winds is physically connected to nowhere. It is a portal where you can speak privately to whomever you wish, alive or deceased. … The project was inspired by the Phone of the Wind in Otsuchi, Japan, built in a hilltop garden above the sea by Itaru ...