Kesennuma (Japan)

Type: City

Name: Kesennuma (Japan)

Country: Japan

Latitude: 38.810001

Longitude: 141.570007

population: 59,117

First reported Apr 15 2013 - Updated Apr 15 2013 - 1 reports

Picking up the pieces in Japan

In Japan, where tsunamis are as ubiquitous in historic paintings as Mount Fujiyama, the 2011 tsunami and earthquake that wrecked havoc on the country's east coast was a lesson in remembering the past.Now a town's efforts to rebuild its economy is intended ... [Published Abu Dhabi National - Apr 15 2013]

Entities: Kesennuma (Japan), Japan Earthquake & Tsunami, Takamatsu, Japan

First reported Mar 13 2013 - Updated Mar 13 2013 - 1 reports

Loss and healing in post-tsunami Japan

When I was in Japan early this year, I expressed a wish to visit the community on the eastern coast of Japan that my daughter Kara had featured in one of her “I-Witness” documentaries. This was the town of Ofunato in the Iwate Prefecture, which was washed ... [Published Philippine Daily Inquirer - Mar 13 2013]

Entities: Ofunato (Japan), Japan Earthquake & Tsunami, Japan

First reported Mar 12 2013 - Updated Mar 12 2013 - 1 reports

Playground of Hope installs 10th playground in Tohoku

The Playground of Hope Project (PoH), a group that installs wooden playgrounds, as a way of re-building communities, has completed the installation of its 10th playground. The playground was donated and installed by volunteer efforts at Takami Park in ... [Published Japan Today - Mar 12 2013]

Entities: Otsuchi (Japan), Kamaishi (Japan), Kesennuma (Japan)

First reported Mar 12 2013 - Updated Mar 12 2013 - 1 reports

The Tsunami Anniversary (and What Commemoration Looks Like)

Looking at the photos from the second anniversary of the Japanese quake and tsunami yesterday, I couldn’t help think about the visual politics of commemoration. What jumped out at me is how iconic this visual territory has become and the extent (or, ... [Published BAGnewsNotes - Mar 12 2013]

Entities: Japan Earthquake & Tsunami, Kesennuma (Japan), Sendai (Miyagi, Japan), Japan

First reported Mar 11 2013 - Updated Mar 11 2013 - 1 reports

Japan marks second anniversary of deadly tsunami amid frustration with slow pace of recovery

TOKYO — Amid growing dissatisfaction with the slow pace of recovery, Japan marked the second anniversary Monday of the devastating earthquake and tsunami that left nearly 19,000 people dead or missing and has displaced more than 300,000. Japanese Prime ... [Published National Post - Top Stories - Mar 11 2013]

Entities: Japan Earthquake & Tsunami, Japan, Disaster, Radiation, Kesennuma (Japan)

First reported Mar 11 2013 - Updated Mar 11 2013 - 1 reports

Japan marks tsunami anniversary

Memorial services held to remember 19,000 who lost their lives in disaster as prime minister vows to speed up reconstructionExactly two years after its north-east coast was wrecked by a deadly tsunami, Japan marked the moment that the most powerful earthquake ... [Published Guardian.co.uk - Mar 11 2013]

Entities: Japan Earthquake & Tsunami, Japan, Radiation, Fukushima (Japan), Disaster

First reported Mar 04 2013 - Updated Mar 05 2013 - 2 reports

Japan: AFP pictures show then and now of tsunami

Source: Agence France-PresseCountry: Japan 03/04/2013 08:51 GMT by Toshifumi Kitamura Kesennuma, Japan, March 4, 2013 (AFP) - The piles of rubble left behind by the receding tsunami have largely gone, but two years after nature visited its fury, some ... [Published ReliefWeb - Latest Updates - Mar 04 2013]

Entities: Japan Earthquake & Tsunami, Japan, Kesennuma (Japan)

Quotes

"Every 30 to 40 years they had a tsunami, but this one was the largest in history" says Masato Takamatsu, the chief research officer at Japan Tourism Marketing in Tokyo

Picking up the pieces in Japan [Published Abu Dhabi National - Apr 15 2013]

“What I really want is to once again have a ` "my home,’ ” said Migaku Suzuki, a 69-year-old farm worker in Rikuzentakata, who lost the house he had just finished building in the disaster. Suzuki also lost a son in the tsunami, which obliterated much of the city. "

Japan marks second anniversary of deadly tsunami amid frustration with slow pace of recovery [Published National Post - Top Stories - Mar 11 2013]

...a moment's silence, while the emperor, Abe and relatives of the dead were among 1,200 who attended a ceremony at the capital's national theatre. "I pray that the peaceful lives of those affected can resume as soon as possible" Emperor Akihito said

Japan marks tsunami anniversary [Published Guardian.co.uk - Mar 11 2013]

""When the person was transported to hospital, a fire department official recognised him as an evacuee who had been in a centre for a week and who had tried to return to his home,""

Japan’s ''''miracle survivor'''' story turns out to be fake [Published Topnews.in - Mar 20 2011]

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PHOTOS: Guerrilla Art Project Captures Japan's ... [Published Global Voices Online - May 16 2013] In November 2012, a truck departed from the northeast Japanese city of Kesennuma on a journey to Fukushima. Its sides were pasted over with pictures of a giant eye, and at the back of the truck was an opening like a mailbox slot. The truck was equipped ...
The Tsunami Anniversary (and What Commemoration... [Published BAGnewsNotes - Mar 12 2013] Looking at the photos from the second anniversary of the Japanese quake and tsunami yesterday, I couldn’t help think about the visual politics of commemoration. What jumped out at me is how iconic this visual territory has become and the extent (or, ...