‘Life is a Miracle,’ but learning from disasters isn’t: Lessons from Japan’s 2011 earthquake and tsunami

In April 2012, a Harley-Davidson motorcycle was found on Graham Island in the Haida Gwaii archipelago off the coast of British Columbia. It belonged to Ikuo Yokoyama, a survivor of the earthquake and ...

Japan still haunted: 80% fear another disaster 15 years after the deadly 2011 earthquake

More than a decade after one of the worst natural disasters of our time, people in Japan are still living under the threat of ...
Arizona Daily Star

At $380B, 2011 disasters were the costliest ever

UNITED NATIONS - The economic cost of disasters in 2011 was the highest in history - with a price tag of at least $380 billion, mainly due to earthquakes in Japan and New Zealand, a U.N. envoy said ...
Japan Today

790,000 mementos from 2011 Tohoku disaster still stored in hard-hit areas

Some 790,000 items discovered in the aftermath of a devastating earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan in March 2011 remain stored across three prefectures in the hopes that their owners will ...
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70 Pct in Japan Underprepared for Future Disasters

Tokyo, March 10 (Jiji Press)--A recent survey found that 69.2 pct of the respondents have taken no or only insufficient measures to prepare for possible future disasters similar to the March 2011 ...