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Great Tohoku Revival: Miyagi and Iwate recovery commissions - radically different planning models
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Miyagi and Iwate recovery commissions - radically different planning models. Miyagi and Iwate Prefectures are next door neighbors in Tohoku and were both severely damaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. Including Fukushima Prefecture to the south, the coastline of the three hardest hit prefectures is home to 270 fishing harbors. All were devastated by the tsunami. To rebuild their coastlines, both prefectures created recovery commissions, but of radically different nature and operation. Kahoku On...
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Great Tohoku Revival: 3rd Supplementary Budget Measures for SMEs
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3rd Supplementary Budget Measures for SMEs. 2011 December 26, Tsukuba Center Inc., Tsukuba. This post contains notes of a briefing seminar held for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) regarding measures contained in Japan's 3rd supplementary budget for recovery from the 3/11 Tohoku earthquake. The National Federation of Small Business Associations ( http:/ www.chuokai.or.jp/. Is administering the programs described below. The deadline for applying for all programs is 20 January 2012. Assistance for devel...
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Great Tohoku Revival: Reconstruction Minister Blasts Tohoku Official — for ‘Bad Manners’
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Reconstruction Minister Blasts Tohoku Official — for ‘Bad Manners’. Update: 2011-7-6: Matsumoto resigned. New Reconstruction Minister Ryu Matsumoto lost his temper when Miyagi Governor Murai kept him waiting for a meeting, then blasted the Governor for his lack of manners and failing to remember his military training, and finally threatened to destroy any media company that reported his outburst. This incident is symptomatic of the Tokyo establishment's attitude toward both the regions and the news media.
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Great Tohoku Revival: 2011.06
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Fukushima's Choice] 1873: Asaka Irrigation Project - an early Meiji national project. This post was moved to http:/ futaba-nuke-park.blogspot.com/2011/07/fukushima-history-1873-asaka-irrigation.html. Naming disasters and emotional ownership. In an earlier post, Whose disaster is it, anyway? Translator: In our translations we use the 3/11 disaster, etc. Me: Okay globally. Emotional ownership first to Tohoku, second to Japan, third to globe. Me: The Kan administrations first and most lasting contribution?
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Great Tohoku Revival: 2011.11
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Railway tracks may become exclusive bus lanes. Http:/ www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T111120003930.htm. The East Japan Railway Co. is considering building highways exclusively for buses on out-of-use sections of three railway lines in the Tohoku region where tracks and stations were washed away in the March 11 tsunami, it has been learned. Ibaraki Interactive English Forum 茨城県英語インタラクティブ フォーラム. Nuclear Power and Fukushima Finances 4. Whose disaster is it. Whose disaster is it anyway? 65306;: ...