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In Tokyo, Goods Return To Shelves As Nuclear Worries Remain
A Gas station reopened Friday in the Tokyo suburb of Kichijoji. One week after the March 11 Kanto-Tohoku earthquake struck, the after-effects continue to play out in Tokyo, some 300 kilometers from the...
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Tokyo Streets Quiet As Foreigners Flee, Locals Hunker Down
At 4:30 p.m. Friday, Ginza, Tokyo’s equivalent of Fifth Avenue, was as empty as New Year’s Day, when Japanese stay at home with families. Most luxury brand shops, including Gucci, Dior and Armani, are...
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Fukushima Nuclear Worker’s Arduous Family Exodus
At 5 p.m. Saturday afternoon (3 a.m. EST) I met with Koji and Yukie, a married couple that had just arrived in Tokyo from Fukushima with their three children. Worker measuring radiation on Fukushima...
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Fukushima Visit Reveals Empty Cities, Abandoned Elderly
At 5:30 p.m. on Sunday evening (3:30 a.m. EST), I pulled off an expressway and eased into Tamura, a city in Fukushima Prefecture. It had taken me four hours to reach Tamura by car from Tokyo. The small...
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Fukushima Resident Faces Grim Task Of Seeking Relatives
On Tuesday, Japan’s Nikkei Stock Market Average rebounded more than 400 points to 9,608. It was a sign that 11 days after a massive earthquake struck, things are getting back to normal in the nation’s...
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In Japan, Farmers Suffering From Nuclear And Financial Fallout
At 3 p.m. Wednesday afternoon, Katsuyuki Kuchiki, a 63 year-old farmer, was trimming peach trees in an orchard tucked into a valley in Kunimi-cho, the northernmost town in Fukushima Prefecture....
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Japanese Leaders Shun Earthquake, Tsunami Victims
Driving around the Tohoku region of Japan, amid the devastation left by a massive earthquake and tsunami, I’ve come to recognize more each day how frustrated local people are with their government....
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In Japan’s Nuclear Evacuation Zone Residents Struggle On
In a move that underscores its inept response to the nuclear crisis currently unfolding in Fukushima Prefecture, the Japanese government altered its policy on Friday and began encouraging residents who...
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New Japan Quake Cuts Power To Nuclear Plants
Image via Wikipedia At 11:30 p.m. Thursday evening (9:30 a.m. EST) I was at home in Tokyo talking to a friend, Kazuhito Yanome, whose mom had put me up recently on a reporting trip to Sendai, near the...
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Japanese Politician Recounts Losing Family To Tsunami
If the most painful experience in life is the loss of one’s own family, then Toru Kikawada has been through hell recently. The 57 year-old Diet (Parliament) member for the ruling Democratic Party of...
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