Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike fearlessly tucked into a lunch of raw fish to show her support for fishermen worried about their livelihoods following the release into the ocean of treated radioactive water from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.
SENDAI Miyagi Prefecture is moving to blaze a trail with a leave system that will allow staff members with grandchildren to take days off to care for the offspring of their sons and daughters.
Foreign technical trainees work to process wakame seaweed in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on Jan. 18. (Shigetaka Kodama)
KESENNUMA, Miyagi Prefecture Wataru Sugawara has done his part to make this city attractive to technical trainees from Indonesia, a population segment deemed vital for Kesennuma’s continuing efforts to revive from the 2011 tsunami disaster.
Sugawara, the 46-year-old president of civil engineering company Sugawara Kogyo, opened an Islamic house of worship in summer 2019 and established a next-door restaurant that does not serve pork.
Local residents are also hosting Japanese language classes twice a month.
But the number of trainees is still falling short of levels needed to prop up the depleted work forces in the city’s fishery and seafood processing industries.
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Miyagi Prefecture to Install Pokémon Manholes
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Asahi Shimbun reported that the Miyagi Prefecture will install Pokémon-themed manholes across 20 inland cities and towns. Many of the covers depict Lapras, which was appointed as Miyagi s Pokémon Support Ambassador in 2019.
The initiative is part of the “PokeLids” project, which aims to install manhole covers across all 47 prefectures in Japan. Decorated manholes have already been installed across various towns and prefectures, including Iwate and Hokkaido. Each manhole doubles as a PokéStop for
Pokémon GO players.