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Tohoku-Kanto earthquake news and resources | The Japan Times Online

this website gives news about the after effects and progress?

25th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster

Japan drawing on Chernobyl lesson in dealing with Fukushima: Edano

TOKYO, April 26, Kyodo

Faced with the ongoing nuclear crisis in Fukushima, Japan is drawing on lessons learnt in the aftermath of the 1986 Chernobyl blast, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said Tuesday, on the 25th anniversary of the incident.

''The studies and research on what kind of health problems could emerge based on Chernobyl have become an asset and knowledge shared by all humanity,'' the top government spokesman told a press conference.

''Those things served as an indirect factor'' in determining the evacuation and no-entry orders the government issued to residents near the Fukushima Daiichi plant since it was crippled shortly after the devastating March 11 earthquake and tsunami, he said.

Kyodo News

A part of international help to Japan

The World figure-skating championships opened in Russia on Monday. Single figure-skaters were the first to go onto the ice of the MegaSport Palace where qualifying events began................
Originally the Championships were to be held in Tokyo on the 21st to the 27th of March but due to the devastating earthquake in Japan they were moved to Moscow.

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The name Odaiba comes from a series of six island fortresses constructed in 1853 by Egawa Hidetatsu for the Tokugawa shogunate in order to protect Edo from attack by sea, the primary threat being Commodore Matthew Perry's Black Ships which had arrived in the same year.[1] Daiba in Japanese refers to the cannon batteries placed on the islands. In 1928, the Dai-San Daiba (第三台場) or "No. 3 Battery" was refurbished and opened to the public as the Metropolitan Daiba Park, which remains open to this day.

Dai-Roku Daiba (第六台場) or "No. 6 Battery", one of the original Edo-era battery islands, as viewed from the Rainbow Bridge. The developed area of Odaiba is in the background.
One of the cannons of Odaiba, now at the Yasukuni Shrine. 80-pound bronze, bore: 250mm, length: 3830mm.From the originally planned 11 batteries, only five were ever finished. The modern island of Odaiba began to take shape when the Port of Tokyo opened in 1941. Until the mid 1960s all except two batteries were either removed for unhindered passage of ships or incorporated into the Shinagawa port facilities and Tennozu island. In 1979 the then called landfill no. 13 (now Minato-ku Daiba, Shinagawa-ku Higashi-Yashio and Kōtō-ku Aomi districts), was finished directly connecting with the old "No. 3 Battery". "No. 6 Battery" was left to nature (landing prohibited).

Tokyo governor Shunichi Suzuki began a major development plan in the early 1990s to redevelop Odaiba as Tokyo Teleport Town, a showcase for futuristic living, with new residential and commercial development housing a population of over 100,000. The redevelopment was scheduled to be complete in time for a planned "International Urban Exposition" in spring 1996.

Suzuki's successor Yukio Aoshima halted the plan in 1995, by which point over JPY 1 trillion had been spent on the project, and Odaiba was still underpopulated and full of vacant lots. Many of the special companies set up to develop the island became practically bankrupt. The collapse of the Japanese asset price bubble was a major factor, as it frustrated commercial development in Tokyo generally. The area was also viewed as inconvenient for business, as its physical connections to Tokyo—the Rainbow Bridge and the Yurikamome rapid transit line—made travel to and from central Tokyo relatively time-consuming.

The area started coming back to life in the late 1990s as a tourist and leisure zone, with several large hotels and shopping malls. Several large companies including Fuji Television moved their headquarters to the island, and transportation links improved with the connection of the Rinkai Line into the JR East railway network in 2002 and the eastward extension of the Yurikamome to Toyosu in 2006. Tokyo Big Sight, the convention center originally built to house Governor Suzuki's planned intercity convention, also became a major venue for international expositions.

Japan should build a Deltaworks type of project like in the Netherlands.

The Sri Lanka Sunday Observor reported that Japan got a 23 foot Tsunami wave then.

From a Civil Engineering perspective to stop a 23 foot wave the water restraining system must be higher, higher than 23 feet, so that means high and wide water restraining systems on the scale of the Netherlands.

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The name Odaiba comes from a series of six island fortresses constructed in 1853 by Egawa Hidetatsu for the Tokugawa shogunate in order to protect Edo from attack by sea, the primary threat being Commodore Matthew Perry's Black Ships which had arrived in the same year.[1] Daiba in Japanese refers to the cannon batteries placed on the islands. In 1928, the Dai-San Daiba (第三台場) or "No. 3 Battery" was refurbished and opened to the public as the Metropolitan Daiba Park, which remains open to this day.



 

Dai-Roku Daiba (第六台場) or "No. 6 Battery", one of the original Edo-era battery islands, as viewed from the Rainbow Bridge. The developed area of Odaiba is in the background. 

One of the cannons of Odaiba, now at the Yasukuni Shrine. 80-pound bronze, bore: 250mm, length: 3830mm.From the originally planned 11 batteries, only five were ever finished. The modern island of Odaiba began to take shape when the Port of Tokyo opened in 1941. Until the mid 1960s all except two batteries were either removed for unhindered passage of ships or incorporated into the Shinagawa port facilities and Tennozu island. In 1979 the then called landfill no. 13 (now Minato-ku Daiba, Shinagawa-ku Higashi-Yashio and Kōtō-ku Aomi districts), was finished directly connecting with the old "No. 3 Battery". "No. 6 Battery" was left to nature (landing prohibited).



Tokyo governor Shunichi Suzuki began a major development plan in the early 1990s to redevelop Odaiba as Tokyo Teleport Town, a showcase for futuristic living, with new residential and commercial development housing a population of over 100,000. The redevelopment was scheduled to be complete in time for a planned "International Urban Exposition" in spring 1996.



Suzuki's successor Yukio Aoshima halted the plan in 1995, by which point over JPY 1 trillion had been spent on the project, and Odaiba was still underpopulated and full of vacant lots. Many of the special companies set up to develop the island became practically bankrupt. The collapse of the Japanese asset price bubble was a major factor, as it frustrated commercial development in Tokyo generally. The area was also viewed as inconvenient for business, as its physical connections to Tokyo—the Rainbow Bridge and the Yurikamome rapid transit line—made travel to and from central Tokyo relatively time-consuming.



The area started coming back to life in the late 1990s as a tourist and leisure zone, with several large hotels and shopping malls. Several large companies including Fuji Television moved their headquarters to the island, and transportation links improved with the connection of the Rinkai Line into the JR East railway network in 2002 and the eastward extension of the Yurikamome to Toyosu in 2006. Tokyo Big Sight, the convention center originally built to house Governor Suzukis planned intercity convention, also became a major venue for international expositions.

Japan should build a Deltaworks type of project like in the Netherlands.

The Sri Lanka Sunday Observor reported a 23 foot Tsunami wave.

From a Civil Engineering perspective to stop a 23 foot wave the water restraining system must be higher, higher than 23 feet, so that means high and wide water restraining systems on the scale of the Netherland's Deltaworks Project.

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So Panga...... what do you think Japan shoud do? :rolleyes:

Volunteers rush to help Tohoku | The Japan Times Online

Saturday, April 30, 2011

Volunteers rush to help Tohoku
Holidaymakers head in groups to disaster zone

By TOMOKO HOSAKA
AP
ISHINOMAKI, Miyagi Pref. — Dozens of volunteers donned white disposable jumpsuits, rubber boots and hard hats at the 370-year-old Jionin Temple cemetery Friday, sacrificing holiday time to help shovel away layers of tsunami mud and debris.

Others did more intricate work, tenderly wiping dirt off Buddhist statues and stone carvings.

It's not the way out-of-towners normally spend the start of the Golden Week holiday, when people commonly leave big cities to visit their hometowns, take hot springs vacations or travel abroad. But after last month's earthquake and tsunami decimated northeastern coastal towns and left an estimated 26,000 people dead or missing, these are not normal times.

"I saw the devastation on TV and felt I had to do something," said Junko Sugino, 49, as she dragged a crate of mud through the narrow lanes between the tombstones.

"This is hard work, but it's something that has to be done by people. Machines can't fit into these tiny spaces," she said.

Sugino, from the city of Nara, is among tens of thousands of helpers expected to converge on the Tohoku region in the coming days.

At hard-hit Ishinomaki's Senshu University, which has become one of the region's largest volunteer centers, administrators have been so deluged by inquiries they've started telling applicants to stay home or postpone their trip until after Golden Week.

Some 1,500 volunteers already are camped on the university's sports fields, Ishinomaki welfare department manager Katsuhito Ito said.

Farther north, in Iwate Prefecture, officials are bracing for an influx of volunteers on four-day tours organized by travel agencies through May 8.

They're paying ¥19,000 for bus fare, accommodations and the opportunity to remove rubble from homes in the cities of Yamada, Otsuchi and Noda, said Iwate official Susumu Sugawara.

Noriyuki Owaki, 37, another of the workers at the Jionin Temple cemetery, said he's never volunteered for anything before, but decided almost immediately after the March 11 disaster that he would help out during Golden Week.

"It's meaningful work, because you're dealing with so many families' memories," Oikawa said of his cemetery toils.

While communities have long had a tradition of looking out for one another, organized nonprofit-backed volunteer groups who parachute into trouble spots are relatively new.

The 1995 Kobe earthquake was a watershed moment for volunteerism in Japan, said Charles McJilton, founder the Second Harvest Japan national food bank.

Many people wanted to help Kobe victims, but the government was unable to handle the influx of volunteers. That experience led to a new law on nonprofit organizations in 1998 that allowed citizens to incorporate as legal entities, McJilton said.

"There hadn't been a history of volunteerism, but there's a tremendous surge of interest in volunteering right now," said David Campbell, who directs the U.S.-based nonprofit All Hands Volunteers.

If there's a downside to the Golden Week volunteer boom, it's being felt by the traditional tourism industry, which usually cashes in on holiday business.

JTB Corp., the country's largest travel agency, forecast that people traveling domestically between April 24 and May 5 would drop some 28 percent from the previous year, while travelers abroad would sink nearly 17 percent.

One tourism industry advertising campaign is urging people to visit the damaged Tohuku region, saying their spending will help with the area's recovery, saying "Tohoku's path to recovery may be long and difficult, but we want tourism, one of the region's main industries, to be a bright spot along the way."

Prime Minister Naoto Kan has even urged people to open their wallets during the holiday to help prod the postdisaster economy.

But Toshinobu Muto, director of the Tokyo-based Fareast Inc. travel agency, said those pleas will likely fall on deaf ears.

"The Japanese have a custom where if their neighbors have it really bad, they try to be quiet, so that kind of mind set makes a lot of people really not want to travel," Muto said.

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So Panga...... what do you think Japan shoud do? :rolleyes:

The Sunday Observor in Sril Lanka reported that Japan got a 23 foot Tsunami on March 11, 2011.

From a Civil Engineering perspective, to stop a 23 foot Tsunami wave, the water restraining system must be higher, higher than 23 feet.

Previous study about the Netherlands systems showed section where the height was more than 30 feet and an area where the height was so high it was approaching 40 feet.

It needs to be high to stop such a Tsunami wave and it also needs to be wide so that is not breached and the choice of materials has to be strong so that the water restraining system is not breached.

For example reinforced cement has been used to construct caissons with water restraining systems.

I read online that Fukui is also having problems with its nuclear plant, suspected radiations leak, anyone has other sources around that? Mine is from here:

Japan suspects radiation leak from fuel rods at plant in Fukui prefecture - People's Daily Online