KAWASAKI Fujitsu Ltd. is using the Fugaku supercomputer and artificial intelligence (AI) technology to develop a smartphone app that can provide real-time countdowns on when quake-triggered tsunami will flood specific areas.
ISHINOMAKI, Miyagi Prefecture Yuto Naganuma has long felt uncomfortable with how he is described in the media.
The 26-year-old serves as a storyteller to talk about his community and his former school, Okawa Elementary School, where 84 pupils and staff members were killed or went missing in the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami.
But every time he is interviewed, Naganuma says, he is introduced as “a former Okawa Elementary School pupil” or as “a bereaved family member.”
He developed a sense of awkwardness toward this description when he was a senior high school student.
In one interview back then, he thought the media outlet wanted to do a sports-related story. As the captain of the school’s baseball club, he was prepared to discuss the team and the games.
Construction work continues in the Arahama area of Sendai. (Ryo Kato)
The Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami not only sped the population decline in many municipalities in the northwestern prefectures of Miyagi and Iwate, it sparked population growth in Sendai, a core city in the Tohoku region.
The tsunami, on top of leading to scores of fatalities along the Pacific coast, also forced many survivors to move elsewhere in search of homes and work.
“Municipalities where population decreases are accelerating need to create jobs that will attract workers to their area, and the central government should provide support for such measures, said Hiroshi Kito, president of the University of Shizuoka, an expert on population issues.
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