ABC News reported last Friday on a Japanese company that is building small yellow ‘escape capsules’ which it says could allow a family of four to survive a tsunami. The ‘Noah’ capsules are yellow balls which are made of enhanced fiberglass and float in water. Apparently the company has put them through a [...]

I’ve wanted to post these here for a while, as a record of what happened, but didn’t have the time before now. 40 days have passed since the earthquake and tsunami hit North Eastern Japan on 3/11, but these videos and photos are still amazing. After the jump are about 20 videos, and links to [...]

According to a new NTV poll, conducted between the 15th and 17th of April, 17.2% of respondents approved of the Prime Minister Kan’s handling of the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Accident. 68.5% answered that they didn’t approve, and a further 14.3% were unsure. Kan has been taking a battering in the media and from the [...]

The Japanese government’s nuclear safety agency has rated the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant in the aftermath of the 3/11 earthquake and tsunami as a level 7 nuclear event, the highest rating for such an event. It had previously been rated by the government as a level 5 event, despite several international experts [...]

According to Yomiuri, The Japanese Red Cross and 3 other organizations will begin distributing money that has been received as donations after the North-East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami. The initial payouts will be made through April, and set amounts will be paid to people depending on the degree of damage suffered.

It has been determined [...]

I’ve seen this story all over the place over the last few days, and given the fact that I’ve been trying to focus on some of the more positive acts in the aftermath of the devastating North East Japan Earthquake, I thought I would post this here too.

“Safe and Hound” was the headline at [...]

A follow up from last week’s story about SMAP’s big donation. According to Softbank, Japan’s richest man, CEO Masayoshi Son has offered to donate 10 billion yen, or about USD$120 million, to the Japan Red Cross, and other organizations that are working to provide support for those devastated by the recent earthquake and tsunami.

Son [...]

It has been reported that the popular 5 man marketing machine SMAP have made individual personal donations totalling about 400 million yen, or close to USD$5 million, to the Japanese Red Cross Society to help with the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami that swept through North Eastern Japan. The donations were not made [...]

I haven’t seen any figures in the last few days, but up until earlier in the week there were an estimated 350,000 people in North-East Japan who have been evacuated to shelters. Some of these are people in Fukushima prefecture that have been evacuated from their homes due to radiation from the Fukushim Dai-ichi nuclear [...]

It has been just on a week now since the massive M9.0 earthquake and companion tsunami thrashed the north-east coast of Japan. It’s taken this long for me to be able to sit down and write some of my own feelings about what happened. I wasn’t in the middle of the destruction by any extent, [...]