Tokyo Electric Power Company plans to use new visa rules to add foreign staff to its 2011 earthquake/tsunami cleanup efforts.
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There’s no need to pay to use payphones to let your family know you’re OK or tell response teams that you need help.
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Even in a country that values following the rules, many say cutting off lines of communication following disaster is going too far.
The results of a recent survey come with Twitter horror stories about power-hungry superiors pushing their staff around, even mid-crisis.
Many in Osaka have learned that there’s nothing like having the planet attack your home to remind you about the importance of togetherness.
High schooler hopes the prefecture will shed its disaster zone image, and that the rest of Japan will start to see Fukushima as normal again.
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The Zettai Zetsumei Toshi disaster survival video game series has been revived, and will be more realistic than ever before.
High heels killing your feet? Perhaps some seismic shock absorbers designed for natural disasters might be the solution.
The Okada Theater was swept away in 2011, but Pokémon GO players are still visiting its location, and learning a little about this tsunami-ravaged city in the process.
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