Scenes of devastation from the Tohoku region stunned the world after the tsunami generated by the Great East Japan Earthquake slammed into the northeastern coast on March 11, 2011.
In February 1999, the Environment Agency (the present-day Environment Ministry) shocked the nation by designating the all-too-familiar “medaka” killifish as an endangered species.
A wild boar that ran riot in a school in northern Japan on Thursday, smashing windows and frightening students and parents, is still on the loose in a residential area in Sendai, with local police receiving about 20 reports.
SENDAI The Tohoku Shinkansen’s Yamabiko 340, bound for Tokyo, approached the platform at JR Sendai Station shortly before 6 a.m. on April 14 for the first time in nearly a month.