Employees of the Kamaishi city government in Iwate Prefecture secretly collected personal information on residents, including 2011 disaster survivors, and mocked their real or perceived situations in life, The Asahi Shimbun has found.
More than 60 percent of municipalities in the northeastern prefectures of Iwate and Miyagi do not plan to relocate their city or town halls despite being designated as areas at risk of flooding in the event of a large-scale tsunami, a Kyodo News survey showed. Eleven out of 18 municipalities,…
More than 60 percent of municipalities in the northeastern prefectures of Iwate and Miyagi do not plan to relocate their city or town halls despite being designated as areas at risk of flooding in the event of a large-scale tsunami, a Kyodo News survey shows.
Nearly 30 percent of residential districts developed in three northeastern Japan prefectures by relocating coastal households affected by a massive 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster have been determined to be at risk of flooding, a survey by Kyodo News showed Thursday. The findings are based on a new tsunami estimate…