Miyagi gov't wants Tohoku region to carry out capital's crisis management functions (by Mainichi Shimbun)

SENDAI -- The Miyagi Prefectural Government is set to urge the national government to relocate some of Japan's capital functions to the quake- and tsunami-hit Tohoku region in northeastern Honshu as part of its restoration plan, local government sources said.

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20110525p2a00m0na005000c.html

EDITORIAL: Independent panel needed to investigate Fukushima nuclear crisis (by Asahi Shimbun)

Few days pass without news that makes us wonder if the government is telling the truth about the disastrous nuclear accident triggered by the Great East Japan Earthquake.


http://www.asahi.com/english/TKY201105240193.html

Elderly volunteers seek to stabilize nuclear plant (by Asahi Shimbun)

More than 160 elderly people have volunteered to brave high radioactivity and help stabilize the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in response to a call from a former engineer in an effort a government official calls a "suicide corps."


http://www.asahi.com/english/TKY201105240134.html

Tokyo urges APEC economies to buy Japan products despite disaster (by Mainichi Shimbun)

BIG SKY, Montana (Kyodo) -- Japan urged fellow Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum members to trade with it as usual despite its prolonged nuclear crisis, as their trade ministers began a two-day meeting Thursday in Montana.

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20110520p2g00m0in011000c.html

Gov't attempt to promote clean energy a test of electric power policy reform (by Mainichi Shimbun)

The government's attempt to promote clean energy to replace nuclear power following the crisis at the tsunami-hit Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant is widely viewed as a litmus test of electric power policy reform.

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/perspectives/news/20110519p2a00m0na001000c.html

How one village defied the tsunami (by Japan Times)

Well prepared: Players and their coach at Fudai Junior High School clean a tennis court against the backdrop of the floodgate in the village of Fudai, Iwate Prefecture, on April 26. AP

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110518f1.html

Quake seen as 'teachable moment' in U.S. (by Yomiuri Shimbun)

Earthquakes, tsunami and nuclear power technology have become trending topics in middle and high school classrooms in the United States in the wake of the March 11 disaster in Japan.


http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/world/T110419004251.htm