Learn how our writer fared after eating emergency rations, as well as her suggestions for anyone who’s making their own disaster food prep pack.
earthquake
Go Nagai isn’t worried about his artwork and museum that were destroyed in the Ishikawa earthquake, he’s worried about the people who live there.
Japanese bread company goes above and beyond during the disaster, feeding people and keeping their spirits up at the same time.
Voice actress from Ghibli’s My Neighbour Totoro plays a schoolboy dealing with disaster in Japan.
People are checking their emergency bags in fear that a big quake will arrive in the coming days.
Sensors were installed last spring at Reactor 3 building, registered no shaking in this month’s 7.1-magnitude quake.
Earthquakes don’t exist in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, but we can use it to explain how to keep safe in real life!
Tokyo Electric Power Company plans to use new visa rules to add foreign staff to its 2011 earthquake/tsunami cleanup efforts.
Japanese net users upset over the power company’s use of a slang term commonly found in anime.
Shows up exactly seven and a half years after the tragic earthquake and tsunami in a town half-way across the country.
Modern conveniences are returning to parts of Hokkaido, but there’s still much to be done.
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