Sendai, Japan News

The second of three tiger cubs born at the Honolulu Zoo in 2009 is scheduled to leave Honolulu to be bred with a female Sumatran tiger in Tacoma, Washington.

The newly inaugurated Reconstruction Agency, which the government considers the "command tower" for recovery from the Great East Japan Earthquake, faces monumental challenges that need to be urgently addressed.

What a comeback! Eleven months after the tsunami ravaged Japan a collection of pictures reveal the incredible progress being made in the huge multi-billion pound clear up When Japan was hit with both an earthquake and tsunami in quick succession in March last year the images of devastation gripped the world.

Chocolates with positive messages have emerged as big sellers in Sendai for the first Valentine's Day since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

Introduction of the Nikon D4 digital SLR in the US market has been delayed slightly, the company confirmed for us today.

The government's new Reconstruction Agency, tasked with rebuilding the area devastated by last year's March 11 earthquake, begins work on Friday.

The Reconstruction Agency finally made its official debut Friday, 11 months since the devastating Great East Japan Earthquake, and its mission is to speed up the process of rebuilding the Tohoku region.

A little less than a year ago, Sum 41 released "Screaming Bloody Murder," a self-produced, years-in-the-making album that was intended to subtly indicate a new direction for the erstwhile pop-punkers. But just when all the attention was supposed to be on the Ajax, Ont., band's new disc, it was instead focused on a disc of a different kind - the ... (more)

Japanese utility Tohoku Electric Power Co said its 446-megawatt gas-fired No.4 unit at its Sendai plant had resumed normal operations from 3 p.m. on Wednesday, earlier than its original plan for March.

Is the black float found on a Neah Bay area beach really from the Japan tsunami? Last Thursday, Tomoko Dodo, senior consul from the Consulate General of Japan in Seattle, visited the home of Arnold Schouten, a member of Surfrider Foundation, to see the float for herself.

A charity established by a talent agency to support reconstruction in the northeast expects to shoulder several billion yen of the cost of leasing giant pandas from China for a zoo in Sendai.

Correspondence to: Atsushi Takeda, Department of Neurology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, 1-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8574, Japan E-mail: Dementia is one of the most debilitating symptoms of Parkinson's disease.

The LNG will help offset lost output from two nuclear plants and fossil fuel plants damaged in the massive earthquake and tsunami last March.

No contracts have been awarded in about 400 construction projects up for bid in the Tohoku region, as construction companies are shunning small-scale jobs amid a shortage of manpower in areas hard-hit by the Great East Japan Earthquake, it has been learned.

Tohoku Electric Power Co. delayed the start of operations of its Sendai solar power plant in Japan's northern Miyagi prefecture to May.

From the Department of Geriatrics and Gerontology, Division of Brain Sciences, Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University ; Department of Medicine , Shinshu University School of Medicine ; Department of Pharmacology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine ; Division of Cyclotron Nuclear Medicine, Cyclotron and Radioisotope ... (more)

The foundations of houses destroyed by the March 11 tsunami are seen beside undamaged houses, near Sendai, northeast Japan, Friday, Nov.

"There are 500 refugees at Otsuchi High School, but there is no water or food," a man from Kamaishi City said as he rushed into Tono City Hall in Iwate Prefecture at 1:40 a.m. on March 12, the day after the Great East Japan Earthquake.

From the Heart Disease Prevention Program , Division of Cardiology, School of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, CA; Studies Coordinating Centre , Division of Hypertension and Cardiovascular Rehabilitation, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; Department of Clinical Physiology , Nuclear Medicine and ... (more)

MANILA, Philippines - It's only been a month since the devastation caused by tropical storm Sendong in Northern Mindanao, and already the news of the tragedy has all but disappeared from the national discussion.