Workers remove a damaged car from the debris at an area devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, Monday, April 4, 2011. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man )
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Mainichi Shimbun, May 1, 2011
Sunday, May 1, 2011
Gov't assumes 3 yrs for removal of debris from disaster areas (by Mainichi Shimbun)
Workers remove a damaged car from the debris at an area devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, Monday, April 4, 2011. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man )
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Love blooms at shelter as evacuee and volunteer set to marry (by Mainichi Shimbun)
From right, Nozomi Murakami, her son Yunosuke, and Seiki Abe are pictured at Shizugawa Elementary School in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 22. (Mainichi)
Mainichi Shimbun, May 1, 2011
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Life in Limbo for Japanese Near Nuclear Plant (by NYT)
National Police Agency chief Takaharu Ando, center, in protective gear in Futaba, a town now almost deserted after a 12-mile evacuation zone was declared in northeastern Japan.
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"Why the kids in Japan have to go through this hardship?"--A girl's question to Pope
Pope Benedict XVI responded to a question from a girl living in Japan,"Why do the kids in Japan have to go through such a terrifying and sad thing," through a TV program by RAI, Italian national TV network.
The girl is 7-year-old Elena Matsuki, living in Chiba Prefecture. She asked Pope a question through a video letter recorded at the balcony of her apartment.
Pope responded by saying, "I myself have been asking that question and there might not be an answer. Jesus Christ suffered from being falsely charged with the crime he did not commit and he would always be with you."
According to Elena's 63-year-old grandma, when the earthquake hit, Elena was at her home, an apartment on the10th floor with her mother and experienced strong shaking many times. Elena later learned that many children died from the quake, the question she asked Pope occurred to her.
Pope also said, "Your sorrow never goes away. However, people around the world are thinking about the Japanese people and I pray for all the suffering children in Japan."
Asahi Shimbun, April 23, 2011
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Translated by Yuka Yamashita
The girl is 7-year-old Elena Matsuki, living in Chiba Prefecture. She asked Pope a question through a video letter recorded at the balcony of her apartment.
Pope responded by saying, "I myself have been asking that question and there might not be an answer. Jesus Christ suffered from being falsely charged with the crime he did not commit and he would always be with you."
According to Elena's 63-year-old grandma, when the earthquake hit, Elena was at her home, an apartment on the10th floor with her mother and experienced strong shaking many times. Elena later learned that many children died from the quake, the question she asked Pope occurred to her.
Pope also said, "Your sorrow never goes away. However, people around the world are thinking about the Japanese people and I pray for all the suffering children in Japan."
Asahi Shimbun, April 23, 2011
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Translated by Yuka Yamashita
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Dalai Lama held a memorial service in Tokyo for quake and tsunami victims: “I have felt deep sorrow”
Dalai Lama XIV, the supreme leader of Tibetan Buddhism, held a memorial service on the 29th, at Gokokuji Temple in Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo. He did so for the forty-ninth day after a person’s death (in Buddhism, on the 49th day after a person's death, judgement on where the person be sent after death is handed down). He gave a lecture and said “I have felt deep sorrow for the terrible thing that had happened. What I could do is only to pray.”
Originally, he just planned to stop over at Japan to transfer his flight back to the States. But he extended his stay in Japan in response to the mega quake and tsunami that followed to hold a memorial service.
At the service, Dalai Lama chanted the sutra along with another 70 Tibetan and Japanese monks from various sects. The sutra, hannya shingyo, echoed throughout the main hall of the temple.
Dalai Lama encouraged the disaster victims by saying, "Since we lost our country, we have enhanced our own inner strength. Japan has lost lots of its people in the Second World War, but it did not discourage the country from rising again. I would like Japan to remember its ability to mover forward."
Yomiuri Shimbun, April 29, 2011
Translated by Yuka Yamashita
Originally, he just planned to stop over at Japan to transfer his flight back to the States. But he extended his stay in Japan in response to the mega quake and tsunami that followed to hold a memorial service.
At the service, Dalai Lama chanted the sutra along with another 70 Tibetan and Japanese monks from various sects. The sutra, hannya shingyo, echoed throughout the main hall of the temple.
Dalai Lama encouraged the disaster victims by saying, "Since we lost our country, we have enhanced our own inner strength. Japan has lost lots of its people in the Second World War, but it did not discourage the country from rising again. I would like Japan to remember its ability to mover forward."
Yomiuri Shimbun, April 29, 2011
Translated by Yuka Yamashita
Friday, April 29, 2011
A couple of years to resume fishery, and also worries about the accidents at the nuclear power plant
Mr. Takayuki Ishimori (54) at Nonohama Fishing Port in Onagawa-cho, Miyagi Prefecture
I am a chairman of Nonohama Branch of Miyagi Prefectural Fishermen’s Association. The ship departed to the sea, but not for the fishing. There are divers to check the condition of the seabed. This area is for the oyster farming. If the seabed was damaged by debris, we cannot carry out the business. I think it would take a couple of years to resume the fishery.
We hold the meeting of the Association every Sunday, and we want the government to provide the equal opportunity for fishery to each fisherman.
I also work as an electrician at the Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant nearby. My job is to maintain the generator and other things. When you work inside the plant, you will understand that it is safe. But the accidents at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant have made us uneasy. (photo by Mr. Hiroto Shibata)
Daily Sports Newspaper, April 26, 2011
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Translated by Makiko Tajima Asano
I am a chairman of Nonohama Branch of Miyagi Prefectural Fishermen’s Association. The ship departed to the sea, but not for the fishing. There are divers to check the condition of the seabed. This area is for the oyster farming. If the seabed was damaged by debris, we cannot carry out the business. I think it would take a couple of years to resume the fishery.
We hold the meeting of the Association every Sunday, and we want the government to provide the equal opportunity for fishery to each fisherman.
I also work as an electrician at the Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant nearby. My job is to maintain the generator and other things. When you work inside the plant, you will understand that it is safe. But the accidents at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant have made us uneasy. (photo by Mr. Hiroto Shibata)
Daily Sports Newspaper, April 26, 2011
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Translated by Makiko Tajima Asano
Government’s aid should be focused on providing the housing for victims as soon as possible
(by Ms. Yoko Honma (56), Housewife, Ofunato-cho, Ofunato City, Iwate Prefecture, at the rent house in Ofunato City where she has taken shelter)
I saw a man counting coins in his hand at the grocery store the other day. He was trying to make sure if he had enough money for the items that he needed to buy. When I felt his desperation, I just could not help wishing that the donated money would be delivered to the victims as soon as possible. I am in the same boat. The longer the lives at the shelter, the more discouraged we would become. Food only is not enough for us to live in positive attitude. I was lucky to move into a rent house. I wish the government provide the aid to the victims as soon as possible so that the people can move out of the evacuation center and make living on their own.
Asahi Newspaper, April 29, 2011
Translated by Makiko Tajima Asano
I saw a man counting coins in his hand at the grocery store the other day. He was trying to make sure if he had enough money for the items that he needed to buy. When I felt his desperation, I just could not help wishing that the donated money would be delivered to the victims as soon as possible. I am in the same boat. The longer the lives at the shelter, the more discouraged we would become. Food only is not enough for us to live in positive attitude. I was lucky to move into a rent house. I wish the government provide the aid to the victims as soon as possible so that the people can move out of the evacuation center and make living on their own.
Asahi Newspaper, April 29, 2011
Translated by Makiko Tajima Asano
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