Yuzuru Hanyu driven to greatness by 2011 disaster experience Sorry, but your browser needs Javascript to use this site. If you re not sure how to activate it, please refer to this site: https://www.enable-javascript.com/
Yuzuru Hanyu performs during the men s free skate at the ISU World Figure Skating Championships in Nice, France, on March 31, 2012. | REUTERS
Kyodo Mar 11, 2021
For Yuzuru Hanyu, memories of the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami and the clear, star-filled night sky in the dark hours afterward are an ever-present reminder of the despair and hope the disaster brought.
The Japanese figure skating icon, aiming for a third straight men’s Olympic gold medal next year, was a 16-year-old high school student on March 11, 2011. He was practicing in his hometown of Sendai when the ice beneath his skates was moved violently by the magnitude-9.0 quake.
Mar 10, 2021
It’s likely many who were in Japan on March 11, 2011, can recall exactly where they were when the Great East Japan Earthquake struck.
Japan’s pro baseball players were in the midst of spring training, and pitcher Darrell Rasner was gearing up for his third season with the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles. On that particular day, while the Eagles played in Hyogo Prefecture, Rasner was on a shinkansen with Masahiro Tanaka and a few other pitchers who were traveling to Rakuten’s next stop ahead of the rest of the team.
They were somewhere south of Nagoya when the quake hit.
Mar 10, 2021
In the decade since the Great East Japan Earthquake, the solidarity between J. League fans and the Tohoku region has been expressed in countless ways from banners stretched across stands to charity auctions and donation drives.
On Saturday, it came in the form of 5,000 servings of cup noodles delivered to Yurtec Stadium in Sendai each accompanied by a handwritten message from a Kawasaki Frontale fan or player to fans of Vegalta Sendai.
Such a gesture would have been unimaginable 10 years earlier. After all, even though their supporters were generally on friendly terms, the two teams had only contested the same division four times since joining the J. League in 1999.
Isolation linked to mental health issues in disaster-hit areas Sorry, but your browser needs Javascript to use this site. If you re not sure how to activate it, please refer to this site: https://www.enable-javascript.com/
A man reads newspapers at a shelter in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 19. 2011. The disasters of March 11 led to numerous mental health issues among Tohoku residents. | REUTERS
Jiji Mar 9, 2021
Sendai – Local governments and experts are tackling the issue of isolation, which lies behind many mental health problems afflicting people in areas of northeastern Japan damaged by the earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011.
The message is clear: Those who look well may not be. Attention needs to be paid to any sign of mental disorder to prevent the condition from worsening.
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It will soon mark ten years since the Great East Japan Earthquake. Various regions in the Japanese islands are fraught with the risk of major earthquakes.
The government periodically announces predictions of earthquake probabilities, and if we are able to understand the system and utilize the information, it can contribute to disaster mitigation.
Impact of Megaquake of the Coast of Northern Japan was quantified in recent Cabinet Office study
The earth’s surface is covered with dozens of huge bedrock plates. Because the mantle beneath them is convected by the high heat of the planetary body’s interior, the plates move in all directions as they push and pull at each other.