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The Mainichi
April 27, 2018
SENDAI (Kyodo) -- A high court upheld a lower court ruling Thursday ordering the city of Ishinomaki and Miyagi Prefecture to pay around 1.4 billion yen ($13 million) in damages to the families of 23 elementary school pupils killed by tsunami following the March 2011 earthquake in northeastern Japan.
Food Safety News
April 27, 2018
The Hong Kong Center for Food Safety, which is a unit of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department of Hong Kong's city government, daily tests of Japanese imports for radiation ... FDA added venison to Miyagi and Nagano Prefectures to the alert and removed chestnuts from Tochigi Prefecture.
Syfy Wire
April 26, 2018
Morita (and Mister Miyagi with him) may be gone, but his guidance hasn't departed the franchise. As YouTube Red prepares to reboot The Karate Kid with next week's debut of Cobra Kai, Daniel himself (Ralph Macchio) says the show has found subtle ways not only to commemorate what Morita meant toÃâà...
Renewables Now
April 25, 2018
April 24 (Renewables Now) - Green infrastructure company Japan Asia Group Ltd (TYO:3751), or JAG, announced today it has completed work on a 26.3-MW solar power plant in Miyagi prefecture. Located in the town of Natori, the Natori Solar Way was developed by the firm's energy arm JAG InternationalÃâà...
The Japan Times
April 19, 2018
Last month, Satoshi Miyagi, artistic director of the Shizuoka Performing Arts Center, which runs World Theatre Festival Shizuoka, joined that chorus of ... It's also growing; in addition to being staged at SPAC's three indoor theaters in and around the city, and its outdoor space in the nearby hills, “The onlyÃâà...
Mountain Xpress (blog)
April 18, 2018
Reiko Miyagi was raised in Japan and received a B.A. from Tama Art University in Tokyo. She studied ceramic making at Bunka Gakuin Art Institute, completed an apprenticeship at Tsukamoto Ceramic Company, and worked as a studio potter in the Mashiko area, a renown folk pottery town. After relocatingÃâà...
Irish Examiner
April 18, 2018
Last weekend, however, the East Cork facility was devoid of the families who usually fill it, as the inaugural It Takes A Village festival took over. ... They were preceded by Brighton band Fujiya & Miyagi, another intriguing prospect that hit a strange intersection between introspective indie sounds and 1980sÃâà...
The Japan Times
April 12, 2018
The Irakawas have made it relevant for the 21st century by adding touches of artistry that feel distinctive to the Tohoku region; last year, when Miyagi ... culinary development for Union Square Hospitality Group, says his visit to the Tohoku town of Kamaishi was “one of the most memorable events of my life.”.
Kyodo News Plus
April 11, 2018
But Miyagi persisted and today her school is located in a mountainous area in central Japan within what is called "the village of Nemunoki," where 73 people ... She searched for land and raised the funds, building the first incarnation of the school in a city, known as Omaezaki today, in Shizuoka Prefecture.
The Japan Times
April 9, 2018
But Miyagi persisted, and today her school — located in a mountainous area in Shizuoka Prefecture within what is called “the village of Nemunoki” — is home to 73 ... While the institution in the city of Kakegawa offers math and Japanese classes, it's focus is on nurturing artistic and musical sensibilities.
Fantha Tracks (blog)
March 21, 2018
Japanese Garrison will be in Miyagi Prefecture Sendai City for the Smile for Japan Charity Festival 2018, and in Miyagi Prefecture Watari-machi for Home ... Alpine Garrison will be in Orem, UT for the Village Run for Foster Care Utah at Lakeridge Jr. High from 9:00 AM to noon, and in Kaysville, UT forÃâà...
The Japan Times
March 18, 2018
“Magenedo, Miyagi!” (“Miyagi won't give up!”) was a slogan used to inspire downcast residents in Miyagi Prefecture, while the town of Otsuchi in Iwate ... families and destroyed communities,” said dialect researcher Hatsuo Kobayashi, who teaches at an elementary school in the city of Fukushima where heÃâà...
Kansas City Star
March 17, 2018
Hawaii on Friday appointed a retired Navy captain to lead an overhaul of the state Emergency Management Agency two months after an employee mistakenly sent an alert warning of a ballistic missile attack. Thomas Travis has commanded a submarine squadron and was deputy commander of an aircraftÃâà...
The Japan Times
March 17, 2018
Iwanuma, a coastal city in southern Miyagi Prefecture, put priority on the speed of its reconstruction efforts and preserving the community ties of residents ... In the Iwate town of Otsuchi, which lost more than 1,200 residents in the tsunami, construction of the public houses and apartments for survivors is onlyÃâà...
The Japan Times
March 8, 2018
Sato, 67, resumed operations at his company less than a month after the calamity by renting an office in a neighboring city. At the time he was living in a crowded evacuation center in the tsunami-hit town where electricity had not yet been restored and gas was in short supply. “I never thought about closingÃâà...
The Mainichi
March 8, 2018
Fourteen municipalities out of 42 in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures hit hard by the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami in 2011 are ... However, the percentage of interested local bodies is only about 30 percent of the total, implying that many cities, towns and villages in the region are stillÃâà...
The Japan Times
March 7, 2018
Starting as a student at Tohoku Gakuin University in 2005, Agatsuma had traveled regularly to Hadenya, a tiny fishing port in Miyagi Prefecture, to study the O-sususama, a festival held annually on the second ... From a macro perspective, the film over-dramatizes the politics of holding a small village festival.
CNN
March 6, 2018
It's easy to see why he deemed this little fishing town in Japan's Miyagi prefecture as worthy of inclusion. More than 260 tiny, pine tree-covered islands ... "In the sea off Miyagi prefecture, a warm current travels north from Taiwan along the east coast of Japan," Shimbo explains. "A cold current that containsÃâà...
Nippon.com
February 25, 2018
Ishinomaki, Miyagi Pref., Feb. 24 (Jiji Press)—A ceremony was held on Saturday to mark the closure of the Ōkawa elementary school in northeastern Japan, which lost 74 of its 108 students in the March 2011 earthquake-triggered massive tsunami. The closure of the municipal school in the city ofÃâà...
What's On
December 31, 1999
We love everything about Mr Miyagi's. Whether it's the lively post-brunch crowd that gathers or a business lunch bento box filled with one of the best Chicken Katsu curry's in the city, it's one of those places we're still not bored of. But now there's even more reason to head to the Media City hotspot, as MrÃâà...
The Mainichi
December 31, 1999
TOKYO -- Populations in a total of 1,505 former cities, towns and villages whose municipal government headquarters were abolished due to the ... 17 of those areas even saw their populations more than halved, such as the former Miyagi Prefecture town of Ogatsu (the present-day city of Ishinomaki), whoseÃâà...
Valley News
December 31, 1999
Hemet City Council recognizes seven visiting students and their adult chaperones from Hemet's sister city, Miyagi, Japan, at the March 27 council meeting. The Japanese students are spending two weeks at Dartmouth Middle School, while their American counterparts are visiting their middle school inÃâà...
CityLab
December 31, 1999
First, the sheep of the Faroe Islands took the world on a virtual gallop of their picturesque archipelago. Then felines gave us a cat's eye view of the Japanese city of Onomichi. But perhaps no creature is more constitutionally fit for the job of tour-group leader than the domestic dog: Man's (actual) best friendÃâà...
Eureka Times Standard
December 31, 1999
Sunday marked seven years since a magnitude 9.1 earthquake spawned a tsunami that devastated the Tohoku region of Japan. It's an in-between remembering, halfway between the major memorial activities of five years and the decade one. The date was recognized by a smattering of articles, mainly inÃâà...
NHK WORLD
December 31, 1999
Colorful carp streamers have been raised over a river in a city in northeastern Japan as part of an annual celebration of youth. Residents and volunteers fixed about 800 carp streamers onto 8 wires and hoisted them over a river in Shiroishi City in Miyagi Prefecture on Saturday. The streamers were sentÃâà...
NHK WORLD
December 31, 1999
More than a hundred thousand people have lined the route of a parade honoring Olympic figure skating champion Yuzuru Hanyu. The parade took place Sunday afternoon on the main street of Sendai in northeastern Japan's Miyagi Prefecture. The city is Hanyu's birthplace. Hanyu won a gold medal at theÃâà...
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