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3.11: One year on

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Sunday, March 11, 2012

A year on, Tohoku stuck in limbo

By JUN HONGO

Located roughly 23 km from Fukushima's crippled nuclear plant, Hirono Station today is the northernmost stop on the JR Joban Line for passengers traveling up Tohoku's coast from Tokyo.

Saturday, March 10, 2012

Summer power crunch looms large

By KAZUAKI NAGATA and HIROKO NAKATA

As the closure of the nation's 54th and final reactor approaches, businesses and think tanks are starting to wonder whether Japan can survive next summer without atomic energy and a mandatory power-saving order.

Saturday, March 10, 2012

Pupils excelled on 3/11 but life since a struggle

By SETSUKO KAMIYA

Shin Saito, a junior high school teacher in Kamaishi, still has nightmares about the day he and his students had to desperately dash to higher ground as tsunami crashed into Iwate's coast, barely managing to escape the terrifying waves.

Friday, March 9, 2012

Noda's definition of 'safe' questioned

By KAZUAKI NAGATA

Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda assured the nation in December that the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant crisis had been reined in, but as the true extent of the damage inside the crippled reactors remains unknown a year on and with the complex still appearing vulnerable to another major quake, the government and Tepco's claims that the facility is secure are being questioned.

Thursday, March 8, 2012

Tohoku fears nuke crisis evacuees gone for good

By MIZUHO AOKI

During a visit in late February to Shidamyo, less than 30 km from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, a few elderly residents could be seen ambling around the tranquil rural district, but there were no signs of any children.

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Fisheries rebound at sporadic pace

By SETSUKO KAMIYA

On a late February afternoon, 66-year-old Masakazu Haga prepared mackerel at his new temporary fish processing compound, erected on elevated ground in the Akahama district facing Otsuchi Bay in Iwate Prefecture. The compound stands out because it's one of the few new structures in this town devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and a fire that followed.

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Fukushima farmers in two-front war

By MIZUHO AOKI

Radioactive realities and radioaction rumors continue to plague farmers in Fukushima Prefecture a year into the crisis that started last March 11 when a megaquake and monster tsunami put a local nuclear plant on a path to three reactor meltdowns.

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