Daily Japan Headlines: Tuesday, Aug 16, 2011
Photo Source: Daily Mail.
Slowly, very slowly, life is getting back to normal in the towns and cities that were hit but it is expected that there will be many more years before the towns have been completely cleared.
By the end of the gruelling work, it is expected that the disaster will have cost Japan up to £185billion as the mountains of wood and concrete are cleared away.
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UPI: Cracks in seabed tied to Japan earthquake
A deep-sea submersible has found cracks in the seabed off the coast of Japan believed to be the result of the March 11 earthquake, officials said.
The Shinkai 6500 submersible surveyed three sites on the seabed in an area near the Japan Trench and found cracks of the coastline of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures
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UPI: Fukushima contaminating China’s seas?
Chinese sea waters are at risk of being contaminated by radioactive effluents from Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant, which was crippled by the March 11 earthquake, China’s ocean watchdog warned
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Fox News: Automakers rebound in July to lift factory output
Overall industrial production, which includes output by utilities, mines and factories, rose 0.9 percent last month, the Federal Reserve said Tuesday. That’s the largest gain this year.
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Sydney Morning Herald: Japan is squandering a chance for real reform
The hopes that the March catastrophes could become a turning point now look overly optimistic; and references to the arrival of Perry and defeat in the Second World War seem increasingly ill-fitting. While hardly a positive image, a much more appropriate historical comparison may be the Global Financial Crisis of 2008.
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BBC Video: Japan student swept over Niagara Falls
A student from Japan is presumed dead after being swept over Niagara Falls on Sunday night.
The woman, in her 20s, climbed on to a pillar overlooking the Canadian side of the falls and slipped, police have said.
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ABC Australia: Rotting body parts stuffed into tins in Japan
Japanese police say three containers filled with decomposing body parts have been found in the city of Osaka.
The 18-litre tin containers were packed with a human head, three feet, two hands, and bone fragments.
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ABC Australia: Jetstar Japan seen as Cairns tourism plus
Tourism Tropical North Queensland (TTNQ) says Qantas’s planned new airline, Jetstar Japan, will help attract more visitors to Cairns.
The airline is due to start domestic services in Japan by the end of 2012 and will fly from Tokyo and Osaka.
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