inothernews: MAKESHIFT HIGH   Schoolchildren attended lessons Tuesday in temporary classrooms in a gymnasium in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. About 200 students displaced by the country’s quake, tsunami and nuclear disaster have been studying in the temporary classrooms for about a week. (Photo: Kyodo News / Reuters via the Wall St. Journal)

inothernews:

MAKESHIFT HIGH   Schoolchildren attended lessons Tuesday in temporary classrooms in a gymnasium in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. About 200 students displaced by the country’s quake, tsunami and nuclear disaster have been studying in the temporary classrooms for about a week. (Photo: Kyodo News / Reuters via the Wall St. Journal)


suzukilla16: this touches my heart. “Stand-up Japan!” on the side of the building Kobe, Japan

suzukilla16:

this touches my heart.

“Stand-up Japan!” on the side of the building

Kobe, Japan


theatlantic: Japan Earthquake: Two Months Later Two months ago this week, on March 11, the 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami struck northeastern Japan. As of today, nearly 15,000 deaths have been confirmed, and more than 10,000 remain listed as missing. In some coastal communities, where the ground has sunk lower than the high tide mark, residents are still adjusting to twice-daily flooding. Many thousands still reside in temporary shelters because their homes were either destroyed or lie within the exclusion zone around the damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant. Now that tourism season has arrived, Japan — especially Fukushima prefecture — is finding itself hit by yet another disaster: visits to the country have dropped by 50 percent. See more images at In Focus [Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images]

theatlantic:

Japan Earthquake: Two Months Later

Two months ago this week, on March 11, the 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami struck northeastern Japan. As of today, nearly 15,000 deaths have been confirmed, and more than 10,000 remain listed as missing. In some coastal communities, where the ground has sunk lower than the high tide mark, residents are still adjusting to twice-daily flooding. Many thousands still reside in temporary shelters because their homes were either destroyed or lie within the exclusion zone around the damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant. Now that tourism season has arrived, Japan — especially Fukushima prefecture — is finding itself hit by yet another disaster: visits to the country have dropped by 50 percent.

See more images at In Focus

[Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images]


melmyfinger: Old People Line Up To Clean Radiation in Japan Mr. Yamada: “I am 72 and on average I probably have 13 to 15 years left to live. Even if I were exposed to radiation, cancer could take 20 or 30 years or longer to develop. Therefore us older ones have less chance of getting cancer.” Basically a group of 200+ retirees are volunteering to expose themselves to high levels of radiation so the younger men and women don’t have to. Making the ultimate sacrifice to protect the lives of their children, and their children’s children. <3 (Source: BBC via Gizmodo)

melmyfinger:

Old People Line Up To Clean Radiation in Japan

Mr. Yamada:

“I am 72 and on average I probably have 13 to 15 years left to live. Even if I were exposed to radiation, cancer could take 20 or 30 years or longer to develop. Therefore us older ones have less chance of getting cancer.”

Basically a group of 200+ retirees are volunteering to expose themselves to high levels of radiation so the younger men and women don’t have to.

Making the ultimate sacrifice to protect the lives of their children, and their children’s children. <3

(Source: BBC via Gizmodo)


futurejournalismproject: Before, meet After The Daily Mail is running a series of before and after pictures of Japan’s cleanup efforts three months post-tsunami. Above: A ship swept away by the raging torrents lies among other debris on March 12, left, while a man on a bicycle pedals past a pedestrian on the same road June 4, 2011 in Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, north-eastern Japan.

futurejournalismproject:

Before, meet After

The Daily Mail is running a series of before and after pictures of Japan’s cleanup efforts three months post-tsunami.

Above: A ship swept away by the raging torrents lies among other debris on March 12, left, while a man on a bicycle pedals past a pedestrian on the same road June 4, 2011 in Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, north-eastern Japan.