A hefty book containing some 750 letters from Japanese students expressing gratitude for support they received from the United States after the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake has been preserved by a descendant of then U.S. President Calvin Coolidge, a Japanese research team has learned.
SENDAI An international conference on disaster preparedness will be held for the first time in three years and four months in this city that suffered damage in the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami.