Yokosuka’s Emergency Management
Living in Japan has its risk of natural disaster. Residents of Yokosuka stay prepared with the help of a highly recognized team.
Emergency Management has many more scheduled drills for Yokosuka throughout the year.
U.S. Ambassador to Japan John Roos: 3/22/2011 message for American citizens
John V. Roos, United States Ambassador to Japan, delivers a message to the community of U.S. citizens in Japan on March 22, 2011, to update Americans on the situation in Japan following the devastating earthquake and tsunami of March 11.
Fukushima News 2/14/16: Turning Off Radiation Monitors While Testing Contaminated Waste Incinerators
“Mass death” of species found around Fukushima nuclear plant — Gov’t: They “seem to have disappeared… Little or no reproductive success… It is evident biota around the power plant has been affected since the nuclear accident”
TEPCO begins testing waste incinerator
Nuclear & Energy Feb. 9, 2016 - Updated 23:43 UTC-5
The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is beginning tests of an incinerator that will burn contaminated waste produced in work to decommission the crippled reactors.
About 7,000 workers are engaged in the decommissioning effort each day.
As of the end of 2015, about 66,000 cubic meters of waste had accumulated at the plant. That's enough to fill more than 100 25-meter swimming pools. The waste includes protective suits, metal sheets, and lumber.
Tokyo Electric Power Company has built an incinerator to burn the waste, and will begin testing it on Thursday or later.
The incinerator is designed to reduce the volume of waste by about 90 percent.
TEPCO officials say it can operate around the clock and dispose about 14 tons of waste per day.
Experts say the ash that results will have a higher concentration of radioactive materials than the original waste.
TEPCO says it will store the ash in drums inside a radiation-proof building. The utility also says it will install filters on the incinerator's exhaust ducts to prevent the release of radioactive substances.
The test run will continue until February 18th. TEPCO says it will then check radioactivity levels in the exhaust fumes and hopes to launch full-scale operations by the end of March.
NRA decided to reduce 70 percent of radiation monitoring posts in Fukushima
Fukushima disaster plaintiffs form association
Nuclear & Energy Feb. 13, 2016 - Updated 08:25 UTC-5
Nearly 10,000 people suing the central government and an electric power firm in connection with the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster have formed their first national association.
Representatives of 21 plaintiff groups joined a rally in Tokyo on Saturday to launch the association representing more than 9,600 members. Next month marks 5 years since the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
The groups are in class-action lawsuits to demand compensation from the state and Tokyo Electric Power Company over the accident.
The association plans to share information on the lawsuits.
It also intends to seek an extension of a free housing provision for voluntary disaster evacuees beyond March next year.
A co-representative of the association, Tokuo Hayakawa, said the accident deprived survivors of the right to live in their hometowns. He said he will join with the association members and fight until they win a victory.
Another co-representative Akiko Morimatsu said 5 years have passed since the accident, but that problems have yet to be solved. She added that the plaintiff groups will unite to claim that there will be no restoration without support for survivors.
Yokosuka nuclear drill focuses on navy ship
Japan Feb. 10, 2016 - Updated 00:28 UTC-5
A city near Tokyo has held a drill to prepare for a possible radiation leak from a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.
Officials from Yokosuka city were among the organizers of the drill on Wednesday. The scenario was that an aircraft carrier stationed at a US naval base in the city began emitting radioactive substances at levels exceeding the government safety limit.
About 50 people, including police officers, city officials and residents, took part in the exercise.
Fire engines were deployed and personnel urged residents to stay inside and seal off their windows and doors. Police and firefighters helped people evacuate to a prefectural office.
City officials at the entrance of the building screened evacuees for possible radiation contamination.
Officials in charge of the exercise addressed participants after the drill. They said that, in case of a nuclear disaster, it would be crucial to travel as far away from the contaminated areas as possible, or quickly find shelter indoors.
A participant in his 70s said it took quite some time to finish the screening, so he is a bit worried about whether he would be able to evacuate in time.
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USS Fitzgerald and USS John S. McCain Commentary
Preliminary inquiry findings for USS Fitzgerald after the collision.
The McCain suffered a steering failure as the warship was beginning its approach into the Strait of Malacca, causing it to collide with a commercial tanker, a Navy official told CNN.
The official said it was unclear why the crew couldn't use the ship's backup steering systems to maintain control.
Earlier, another US Navy official told CNN there were indications the destroyer experienced a loss of steering right before the collision, but steering had been regained afterward. -CNN
Nuclear power in Japan
As of November 2015, Japan has one nuclear power plant in operation.
Prior to the earthquake and tsunami of March 2011, and the nuclear disasters that resulted from it, Japan had generated 30% of its electrical power from nuclear reactors and planned to increase that share to 40%. Nuclear energy was a national strategic priority in Japan, but there had been concern about the ability of Japan's nuclear plants to withstand seismic activity. The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant was completely shut down for 21 months following an earthquake in 2007.
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Secretary of the Navy Live Global All Hands Call
Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) Ray Mabus addressed Sailors and Marines during a live, global all hands call April 29th, 2014. The 60-minute broadcast allowed the SECNAV to talk with and answer questions from a world-wide Navy and Marine Corps audience via satellite, social media, Skype, in-studio participation and telephone.
Tohoku earthquake | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:06:13 1 Earthquake
00:09:21 1.1 Geology
00:14:50 1.2 Energy
00:16:24 1.3 Geophysical effects
00:21:38 1.4 Aftershocks
00:24:34 1.5 Earthquake Warning System
00:26:46 2 Tsunami
00:28:17 2.1 Japan
00:44:32 2.2 Elsewhere across the Pacific
00:50:27 3 Land subsidence
00:52:42 4 Casualties
00:52:51 4.1 Japan
00:59:44 4.2 Overseas
01:00:33 5 Damage and effects
01:03:11 5.1 Ports
01:04:48 5.2 Dams and water problems
01:06:13 5.3 Electricity
01:12:06 5.4 Oil, gas and coal
01:14:02 5.5 Nuclear power plants
01:18:21 5.5.1 Fukushima meltdowns
01:20:35 5.5.2 Incidents elsewhere
01:22:20 5.6 Wind power
01:22:48 5.7 Transport
01:28:10 5.8 Telecommunications
01:29:35 5.9 Defense
01:30:17 5.10 Space center
01:31:00 5.11 Cultural properties
01:32:42 6 Aftermath
01:35:16 7 Humanitarian response
01:35:48 8 Media coverage
01:39:22 9 Scientific and research response
01:44:57 10 See also
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The 2011 earthquake off the Pacific coast of Tōhoku (東北地方太平洋沖地震, Tōhoku-chihō Taiheiyō Oki Jishin) was a magnitude 9.0–9.1 (Mw) undersea megathrust earthquake off the coast of Japan that occurred at 14:46 JST (05:46 UTC) on Friday 11 March 2011, with the epicentre approximately 70 kilometres (43 mi) east of the Oshika Peninsula of Tōhoku and the hypocenter at an underwater depth of approximately 29 km (18 mi).
The earthquake is often referred to in Japan as the Great East Japan Earthquake (東日本大震災, Higashi nihon daishinsai) and is also known as the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake, the Great Sendai Earthquake, the Great Tōhoku Earthquake, and the 3.11 earthquake.
It was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in Japan, and the fourth most powerful earthquake in the world since modern record-keeping began in 1900.
The earthquake triggered powerful tsunami waves that may have reached heights of up to 40.5 metres (133 ft) in Miyako in Tōhoku's Iwate Prefecture, and which, in the Sendai area, traveled at 435 mph for up to 10 km (6 mi) inland. Residents of Sendai had only eight to ten minutes warning, and more than 19,000 were killed, many at the more than a hundred evacuation sites that washed away.The earthquake moved Honshu (the main island of Japan) 2.4 m (8 ft) east, shifted the Earth on its axis by estimates of between 10 cm (4 in) and 25 cm (10 in), increased earth's rotational speed by 1.8 µs per day, and generated infrasound waves detected in perturbations of the low-orbiting GOCE satellite.
Initially, the earthquake caused sinking of part of Honshu's Pacific coast by up to roughly a metre, but after about three years, the coast rose back and kept on rising to exceed its original height.The tsunami swept the Japanese mainland and killed over ten thousand people, mainly through drowning, though blunt trauma also caused many deaths. The latest report from the Japanese National Police Agency report confirms 15,897 deaths, 6,157 injured, and 2,533 people missing across twenty prefectures, and a report from 2015 indicated 228,863 people were still living away from their home in either temporary housing or due to permanent relocation.A report by the National Police Agency of Japan on 10 September 2018 listed 121,778 buildings as total collapsed, with a further 280,926 buildings half collapsed, and another 699,180 buildings partially damaged. The earthquake and tsunami also caused extensive and severe structural damage in north-eastern Japan, including heavy damage to roads and railways as well as fires in many areas, and a dam collapse. Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan said, In the 65 years after the end of World War II, this is the toughest and the most difficult crisis for Japan. Around 4.4 million households in northeastern Japan were left ...
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Japan hit by 7.3-magnitude earthquake
A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.3 has struck southern Japan barely 24 hours after a smaller quake hit the same region and killed nine people.
Police on Saturday were reported as saying that at least six people had been killed. Authorities said hundreds of calls had come in from residents reporting people trapped inside houses and buildings on the island of Kyushu.
The fire and disaster management agency said 66 people were trapped inside a nursing home in Mashiki, the town hit hardest, and rescue efforts were under way.
The latest quake also appeared to have triggered a small eruption of the Mt Aso volcano on Kyushu. Public broadcaster NHK said smoke rose about 100 metres in the air. The Japanese Meteorological Agency kept its alert level at 2 on a scale of 5 for the volcano
More than 400 people were treated at hospitals after the quake, which shook the Kumamoto region at 1.25am local time on Saturday, followed by several aftershocks.
Japan’s meteorological agency issued but later lifted a temporary advisory for a tsunami of up to one metre high along the coast west of the epicentre.Chief cabinet secretary Yoshihide Suga, in an emergency news conference early on Saturday, said more than 300 calls came in to the Kumamoto police and another 100 to police in nearby Oita, seeking help and reporting people trapped or buried underneath debris.
Prime minister Shinzo Abe said damage from the quake could be extensive and urged rescue workers to do their utmost to help those trapped in the rubble.
Sirens of patrol vehicles could be heard in the background as NHK reported from Mashiki. The tarmac outside the town hall had a new crack, apparently made by the latest earthquake.
In the nearby city of Uto, police reported that the city hall appeared to be unsafe because of damage.
The Nuclear Regulation Authority said no abnormalities had been found at the Sendai nuclear plant, where the only two of Japan’s 43 operable reactors are online.
2011 Tōhoku earthquake | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:06:39 1 Earthquake
00:09:55 1.1 Geology
00:15:54 1.2 Energy
00:17:35 1.3 Geophysical effects
00:23:20 1.4 Aftershocks
00:26:23 1.5 Earthquake Warning System
00:28:44 2 Tsunami
00:30:24 2.1 Japan
00:48:06 2.2 Elsewhere across the Pacific
00:54:35 3 Land subsidence
00:56:56 4 Casualties
00:57:06 4.1 Japan
01:04:41 4.2 Overseas
01:05:35 5 Damage and effects
01:08:25 5.1 Ports
01:10:09 5.2 Dams and water problems
01:11:41 5.3 Electricity
01:18:00 5.4 Oil, gas and coal
01:20:04 5.5 Nuclear power plants
01:24:39 5.5.1 Fukushima meltdowns
01:27:03 5.5.2 Incidents elsewhere
01:28:58 5.6 Wind power
01:29:28 5.7 Transport
01:35:20 5.8 Telecommunications
01:36:54 5.9 Defense
01:37:39 5.10 Space center
01:38:27 5.11 Cultural properties
01:40:16 6 Aftermath
01:43:00 7 Humanitarian response
01:43:34 8 Media coverage
01:47:23 9 Scientific and research response
01:53:22 10 See also
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Speaking Rate: 0.7056265830443723
Voice name: en-GB-Wavenet-D
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
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The 2011 earthquake off the Pacific coast of Tōhoku (東北地方太平洋沖地震, Tōhoku-chihō Taiheiyō Oki Jishin) was a magnitude 9.0–9.1 (Mw) undersea megathrust earthquake off the coast of Japan that occurred at 14:46 JST (05:46 UTC) on Friday 11 March 2011, with the epicentre approximately 70 kilometres (43 mi) east of the Oshika Peninsula of Tōhoku and the hypocenter at an underwater depth of approximately 29 km (18 mi).
The earthquake is often referred to in Japan as the Great East Japan Earthquake (東日本大震災, Higashi nihon daishinsai) and is also known as the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake, the Great Sendai Earthquake, the Great Tōhoku Earthquake, and the 3.11 earthquake.
It was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in Japan, and the fourth most powerful earthquake in the world since modern record-keeping began in 1900.
The earthquake triggered powerful tsunami waves that may have reached heights of up to 40.5 metres (133 ft) in Miyako in Tōhoku's Iwate Prefecture, and which, in the Sendai area, traveled at 435 mph for up to 10 km (6 mi) inland. Residents of Sendai had only eight to ten minutes warning, and more than 19,000 were killed, many at the more than a hundred evacuation sites that washed away.The earthquake moved Honshu (the main island of Japan) 2.4 m (8 ft) east, shifted the Earth on its axis by estimates of between 10 cm (4 in) and 25 cm (10 in), increased earth's rotational speed by 1.8 µs per day, and generated infrasound waves detected in perturbations of the low-orbiting GOCE satellite.
Initially, the earthquake caused sinking of part of Honshu's Pacific coast by up to roughly a metre, but after about three years, the coast rose back and kept on rising to exceed its original height.The tsunami swept the Japanese mainland and killed over ten thousand people, mainly through drowning, though blunt trauma also caused many deaths. The latest report from the Japanese National Police Agency report confirms 15,897 deaths, 6,157 injured, and 2,533 people missing across twenty prefectures, and a report from 2015 indicated 228,863 people were still living away from their home in either temporary housing or due to permanent relocation.A report by the National Police Agency of Japan on 10 September 2018 listed 121,778 buildings as total collapsed, with a further 280,926 buildings half collapsed, and another 699,180 buildings partially damaged. The earthquake and tsunami also caused extensive and severe structural damage in north-eastern Japan, including heavy damage to roads and railways as well as fires in many areas, and a dam collapse. Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan said, In the 65 years after the end of World War II, this is the toughest and the most difficult crisis for Japan. Around 4.4 million households in northeastern Japan were left ...
2011 Japan earthquake | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:05:12 1 Earthquake
00:07:49 1.1 Geology
00:12:28 1.2 Energy
00:13:47 1.3 Geophysical effects
00:18:13 1.4 Aftershocks
00:20:40 1.5 Earthquake Warning System
00:22:30 2 Tsunami
00:23:48 2.1 Japan
00:37:20 2.2 Elsewhere across the Pacific
00:42:26 3 Land subsidence
00:44:18 4 Casualties
00:44:27 4.1 Japan
00:50:17 4.2 Overseas
00:50:59 5 Damage and effects
00:53:11 5.1 Ports
00:54:33 5.2 Dams and water problems
00:55:45 5.3 Electricity
01:00:40 5.4 Oil, gas and coal
01:02:17 5.5 Nuclear power plants
01:05:52 5.5.1 Fukushima meltdowns
01:07:44 5.5.2 Incidents elsewhere
01:09:14 5.6 Wind power
01:09:39 5.7 Transport
01:14:09 5.8 Telecommunications
01:15:21 5.9 Defense
01:15:58 5.10 Space center
01:16:35 5.11 Cultural properties
01:18:02 6 Aftermath
01:20:11 7 Humanitarian response
01:20:40 8 Media coverage
01:23:39 9 Scientific and research response
01:28:17 10 See also
Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.
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- improves your listening skills
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- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain
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Speaking Rate: 0.8806638741601678
Voice name: en-US-Wavenet-D
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
=======
The 2011 earthquake off the Pacific coast of Tōhoku (東北地方太平洋沖地震, Tōhoku-chihō Taiheiyō Oki Jishin) was a magnitude 9.0–9.1 (Mw) undersea megathrust earthquake off the coast of Japan that occurred at 14:46 JST (05:46 UTC) on Friday 11 March 2011, with the epicentre approximately 70 kilometres (43 mi) east of the Oshika Peninsula of Tōhoku and the hypocenter at an underwater depth of approximately 29 km (18 mi).
The earthquake is often referred to in Japan as the Great East Japan Earthquake (東日本大震災, Higashi nihon daishinsai) and is also known as the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake, the Great Sendai Earthquake, the Great Tōhoku Earthquake, and the 3.11 earthquake.
It was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in Japan, and the fourth most powerful earthquake in the world since modern record-keeping began in 1900.
The earthquake triggered powerful tsunami waves that may have reached heights of up to 40.5 metres (133 ft) in Miyako in Tōhoku's Iwate Prefecture, and which, in the Sendai area, traveled at 435 mph for up to 10 km (6 mi) inland. Residents of Sendai had only eight to ten minutes warning, and more than 19,000 were killed, many at the more than a hundred evacuation sites that washed away.The earthquake moved Honshu (the main island of Japan) 2.4 m (8 ft) east, shifted the Earth on its axis by estimates of between 10 cm (4 in) and 25 cm (10 in), increased earth's rotational speed by 1.8 µs per day, and generated infrasound waves detected in perturbations of the low-orbiting GOCE satellite.
Initially, the earthquake caused sinking of part of Honshu's Pacific coast by up to roughly a metre, but after about three years, the coast rose back and kept on rising to exceed its original height.The tsunami swept the Japanese mainland and killed over ten thousand people, mainly through drowning, though blunt trauma also caused many deaths. The latest report from the Japanese National Police Agency report confirms 15,897 deaths, 6,157 injured, and 2,533 people missing across twenty prefectures, and a report from 2015 indicated 228,863 people were still living away from their home in either temporary housing or due to permanent relocation.A report by the National Police Agency of Japan on 10 September 2018 listed 121,778 buildings as total collapsed, with a further 280,926 buildings half collapsed, and another 699,180 buildings partially damaged. The earthquake and tsunami also caused extensive and severe structural damage in north-eastern Japan, including heavy damage to roads and railways as well as fires in many areas, and a dam collapse. Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan said, In the 65 years after the end of World War II, this is the toughest and the most difficult crisis for Japan. Around 4.4 million households in northeastern Japan were left ...
Pearl Harbor advance-knowledge conspiracy theory | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:01:23 1 Ten official U.S. inquiries
00:04:07 2 Diplomatic situation
00:04:36 2.1 Statements by high-ranking officials
00:17:55 2.2 McCollum memo
00:19:03 2.3 Roosevelt's desire for war with Germany
00:21:43 3 Assertions that Japanese codes had already been broken
00:25:54 3.1 Purple
00:29:21 3.2 JN-25
00:37:48 4 Japanese intelligence
00:41:04 5 Detection of Japanese radio transmissions en route
00:41:16 5.1 Alleged detection by iSS Lurline/i
00:46:14 5.2 Other alleged detections
00:48:24 5.3 Japanese radio silence
00:52:36 6 Radio deception measures
00:54:56 7 U.S. contact with Japanese submarines
00:55:56 8 Allied intelligence
01:01:21 8.1 British advance knowledge and withholding claims
01:03:06 9 Official U.S. war warnings
01:09:43 10 Role of American carriers
01:12:17 11 Lack of court-martial
01:13:20 12 Unreleased classified information
01:17:02 12.1 Forgeries
01:17:40 13 See also
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The Pearl Harbor advance-knowledge conspiracy theory is the argument that U.S. Government officials had advance knowledge of Japan's December 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor. Ever since the Japanese attack, there has been debate as to how and why the United States had been caught off guard, and how much and when American officials knew of Japanese plans for an attack. In September 1944, John T. Flynn, a co-founder of the non-interventionist America First Committee, launched a Pearl Harbor counter-narrative when he published a forty-six page booklet entitled The Truth about Pearl Harbor.Several writers, including journalist Robert Stinnett, retired U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Robert Alfred Theobald, and Harry Elmer Barnes have argued various parties high in the U.S. and British governments knew of the attack in advance and may even have let it happen or encouraged it in order to force America into the European theatre of World War II via a Japanese–American war started at the back door. Evidence supporting this view is taken from quotations and source documents from the time and the release of newer materials. However, the Pearl Harbor advance-knowledge conspiracy is considered a fringe theory and is rejected by historians.
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TEPCO starts removing cover for Fukushima reactor
Nuclear & Energy May 14, 2015 - Updated 20:13 UTC-4
The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant began work on Firday morning to dismantle the cover of the No.1 reactor building.
The cover was installed after the March 2011 nuclear accident to prevent radioactive dust from dispersing. The reactor experienced a hydrogen explosion at the time of accident.
Tokyo Electric Power Company plans to remove the cover in order to clear away radioactive debris on the upper part of the building and remove spent nuclear fuel still stored inside. It is part of an effort to decommission the reactor.
For about one week, workers will spray chemicals over the debris inside the cover by using a remote-controlled crane to prevent radioactive dust from spreading.
They will proceed with the work to remove the cover over the period of about one year. Company officials say they will enhance monitoring of radiation levels during the procedure.
TEPCO says a preliminary test last year showed no scattering of radioactive materials when dismantling the cover.
The utility initially planned to start dismantling the cover on the No.1 reactor building in July of last year. But the work was delayed after the removal of debris from the No. 3 reactor in 2013 caused radioactive dust to spread, sparking fear among local residents. The death of workers at the plant also affected the plan.
IAEA urges better communication at Daiichi plant
Nuclear & Energy May 14, 2015 - Updated 22:55 UTC-4
The International Atomic Energy Agency has stressed the importance of continued dialogue with local residents and other stakeholders over the decommissioning of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
The IAEA released on Thursday its final report of the findings of a team of experts. The experts visited Japan in February and again in April to review the decommissioning process.
The report acknowledges good progress in the strategy toward decommissioning the crippled reactors, but it pointed out that the plant's circumstances remain complex and leave many challenges.
The report offers 15 points of advice, including studying the possibility of managing treated radioactive water and releasing the water into the ocean. It also stresses the importance of continuing dialogue with stakeholders and strengthening trust.
Criticism has been mounting about the delayed disclosure of information on a leak of radioactive rainwater into the ocean. The water that accumulated on the roof of the plant's No. 2 reactor building leaked through a drainage channel.
Taiwan tightening rules on food imports from Japan
Nuclear & Energy May 14, 2015 - Updated 18:45 UTC-4
Taiwan is tightening restrictions on food imports from Japan. It created the rules in response to the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident.
Taiwan has banned food imports from Fukushima and 4 other Japanese prefectures since the nuclear accident.
But it emerged in March that food from the prefectures was imported to Taiwan. The news prompted consumer groups to call for stricter regulations.
Starting on Friday, Taiwan is requiring all food imported from Japan to carry certificates proving the prefecture of origin. Some food from certain Japanese areas must also pass radiation inspection.
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I monitored radiation around the HANAMIYAMA park of Fukushima city, Fukushima prefecture, Japan
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2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
The 2011 earthquake off the Pacific coast of Tōhoku (東北地方太平洋沖地震, Tōhoku-chihō Taiheiyō Oki Jishin) was a magnitude 9.0 (Mw) undersea megathrust earthquake off the coast of Japan that occurred at 14:46 JST (05:46 UTC) on Friday 11 March 2011, with the epicentre approximately 70 kilometres (43 mi) east of the Oshika Peninsula of Tōhoku and the hypocenter at an underwater depth of approximately 30 km (19 mi). The earthquake is also often referred to in Japan as the Great East Japan Earthquake (東日本大震災, Higashi nihon daishinsai) and also known as the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, and the 3.11 Earthquake. It was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded to have hit Japan, and the fifth most powerful earthquake in the world since modern record-keeping began in 1900. The earthquake triggered powerful tsunami waves that reached heights of up to 40.5 metres (133 ft) in Miyako in Tōhoku's Iwate Prefecture, and which, in the Sendai area, travelled up to 10 km (6 mi) inland. The earthquake moved Honshu (the main island of Japan) 2.4 m (8 ft) east and shifted the Earth on its axis by estimates of between 10 cm (4 in) and 25 cm (10 in), and generated sound waves detected by the low orbiting GOCE satellite.
On 10 February 2014, a Japanese National Police Agency report confirmed 15,887 deaths, 6,150 injured, and 2,612 people missing across twenty prefectures, as well as 127,290 buildings totally collapsed, with a further 272,788 buildings 'half collapsed', and another 747,989 buildings partially damaged. The earthquake and tsunami also caused extensive and severe structural damage in north-eastern Japan, including heavy damage to roads and railways as well as fires in many areas, and a dam collapse. Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan said, In the 65 years after the end of World War II, this is the toughest and the most difficult crisis for Japan. Around 4.4 million households in northeastern Japan were left without electricity and 1.5 million without water.
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2012 Far East Film and Entertainment Arts Festival (Full Show)
The 2012 Far East Film and Entertainment Arts Festival held in Seoul, South Korea brought over 100 students together for an immersive four days of filmmaking, dance, glee, vocals, garage band, poetry slam, stand-up comedy, magic, and much more. This is the culminating performance featuring the talented, courageous and highly creative students of DoDEA Pacific high schools. This is the only Far East event of its kind where students can truly explore their interests in art and entertainment using a process model thoughtfully designed by master educators. During the event, students lead their learning. Educators and industry professionals provide coaching and mentoring but the students are in charge of their own personal, academic and creative growth over the course of the event.
For each area of entertainment arts, students were mixed into teams by interests, not high schools. They had to form teams quickly in order to create original works or make existing songs their own through their unique interpretation. Each performance represents the sweat, anguish, laughter, friendship, heartbreak, and breakthrough that each student experiences during one of the most challenging experiences of their lives.
For the film academy, the students had to conceptualize, write, storyboard, recruit actors, film, edit and screen their student films before a live audience in less than four days. Student teams were mixed across DoDEA Pacific high schools. Each set of students had to pitch their ideas to a production company before they were funded and allowed to proceed.
Selection for Far East events is a competitive process. To attend the Far East Film and Entertainment Arts Festival next school year, contact your local school activities coordinator. Selected students must come ready to learn, ready to lead, but most of all, ready to put aside their fears and explore their most creative and inspired gifts.
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80th episodes of Fraternity Channel with Yukio Hatoyama & Hajime Takano that author, Koji Yabe talked on. (Niconico Channel) ・・・December 8, 2015.
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Yokota Air Base , is a United States Air Force base in the city of Fussa, one of 26 cities in the Tama Area, or Western Tokyo.The base houses 14,000 personnel.The base occupies a total area of 136,413 m2 and has a 3,353 m × 61 m runway.Among its facilities are the broadcast center for the American Forces Network Tokyo radio service and a detachment of Pacific Air Forces' Band of the Pacific and the headquarters of United States Forces Japan.
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00:04:45 1 Earthquake
00:07:11 1.1 Geology
00:11:31 1.2 Energy
00:12:46 1.3 Geophysical effects
00:16:51 1.4 Aftershocks
00:19:04 1.5 Earthquake Warning System
00:20:46 2 Tsunami
00:22:00 2.1 Japan
00:34:40 2.2 Elsewhere across the Pacific
00:39:16 3 Land subsidence
00:41:02 4 Casualties
00:41:11 4.1 Japan
00:46:37 4.2 Overseas
00:47:17 5 Damage and effects
00:49:21 5.1 Ports
00:50:39 5.2 Dams and water problems
00:51:45 5.3 Electricity
00:56:15 5.4 Oil, gas and coal
00:57:43 5.5 Nuclear power plants
01:01:02 5.5.1 Fukushima meltdowns
01:02:47 5.5.2 Incidents elsewhere
01:04:11 5.6 Wind power
01:04:35 5.7 Transport
01:08:50 5.8 Telecommunications
01:09:56 5.9 Defense
01:10:30 5.10 Space center
01:11:07 5.11 Cultural properties
01:12:28 6 Aftermath
01:14:29 7 Humanitarian response
01:14:57 8 Media coverage
01:17:42 9 Scientific and research response
01:21:56 10 See also
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The 2011 earthquake off the Pacific coast of Tōhoku (東北地方太平洋沖地震, Tōhoku-chihō Taiheiyō Oki Jishin) was a magnitude 9.0–9.1 (Mw) undersea megathrust earthquake off the coast of Japan that occurred at 14:46 JST (05:46 UTC) on Friday 11 March 2011, with the epicentre approximately 70 kilometres (43 mi) east of the Oshika Peninsula of Tōhoku and the hypocenter at an underwater depth of approximately 29 km (18 mi).
The earthquake is often referred to in Japan as the Great East Japan Earthquake (東日本大震災, Higashi nihon daishinsai) and is also known as the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake, the Great Sendai Earthquake, the Great Tōhoku Earthquake, and the 3.11 earthquake.
It was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in Japan, and the fourth most powerful earthquake in the world since modern record-keeping began in 1900.
The earthquake triggered powerful tsunami waves that may have reached heights of up to 40.5 metres (133 ft) in Miyako in Tōhoku's Iwate Prefecture, and which, in the Sendai area, traveled at 435 mph for up to 10 km (6 mi) inland. Residents of Sendai had only eight to ten minutes warning, and more than 19,000 were killed, many at the more than a hundred evacuation sites that washed away.The earthquake moved Honshu (the main island of Japan) 2.4 m (8 ft) east, shifted the Earth on its axis by estimates of between 10 cm (4 in) and 25 cm (10 in), increased earth's rotational speed by 1.8 µs per day, and generated infrasound waves detected in perturbations of the low-orbiting GOCE satellite.
Initially, the earthquake caused sinking of part of Honshu's Pacific coast by up to roughly a metre, but after about three years, the coast rose back and kept on rising to exceed its original height.The tsunami swept the Japanese mainland and killed over ten thousand people, mainly through drowning, though blunt trauma also caused many deaths. The latest report from the Japanese National Police Agency report confirms 15,897 deaths, 6,157 injured, and 2,533 people missing across twenty prefectures, and a report from 2015 indicated 228,863 people were still living away from their home in either temporary housing or due to permanent relocation.A report by the National Police Agency of Japan on 10 September 2018 listed 121,778 buildings as total collapsed, with a further 280,926 buildings half collapsed, and another 699,180 buildings partially damaged. The earthquake and tsunami also caused extensive and severe structural damage in north-eastern Japan, including heavy damage to roads and railways as well as fires in many areas, and a dam collapse. Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan said, In the 65 years after the end of World War II, this is the toughest and the most difficult crisis for Japan. Around 4.4 million households in northeastern Japan were left ...
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The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN; Kyūjitai: 大日本帝國海軍 Shinjitai: 大日本帝国海軍 Dai-Nippon Teikoku Kaigun Navy of the Greater Japanese Empire, or 日本海軍 Nippon Kaigun, Japanese Navy) was the navy of the Empire of Japan from 1868 until 1945, when it was dissolved following Japan's defeat and surrender in World War II. The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) was formed after the dissolution of the IJN.The Imperial Japanese Navy was the third largest navy in the world by 1920, behind the Royal Navy and the United States Navy (USN). It was supported by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service for aircraft and airstrike operation from the fleet. It was the primary opponent of the Western Allies in the Pacific War.
The origins of the Imperial Japanese Navy go back to early interactions with nations on the Asian continent, beginning in the early medieval period and reaching a peak of activity during the 16th and 17th centuries at a time of cultural exchange with European powers during the Age of Discovery. After two centuries of stagnation during the country's ensuing seclusion policy under the shōguns of the Edo period, Japan's navy was comparatively backward when the country was forced open to trade by American intervention in 1854. This eventually led to the Meiji Restoration. Accompanying the re-ascendance of the Emperor came a period of frantic modernization and industrialization. The navy's history of successes, sometimes against much more powerful enemies as in the Sino-Japanese war and the Russo-Japanese War. The Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force was founded as a replacement two years after the end of the occupation of Japan.