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With 12,000 Still Missing, Japan Keeps Searching
By not in system - AOL NewsSHICHIGAHAMAMACHI, Japan -- A line of somber soldiers walked methodically through a drained swamp Monday, with each step sinking their slender poles into the muck beneath. If one hit a body, he would know. "Bodies feel very distinctive," said Michihiro Ose, a spokesman for the Japanese army's 22nd infantry regiment. The men were among 25,000 troops given the morbid duty of searching the rubble, the seas and the swamps of northeastern Japan for the bodies of the nearly 12,000 people still missing in last month's earthquake and tsunami. The two-day operation was the biggest military search ...
Japan Plans Disaster Budget, Building 100K Homes
By not in system - AOL NewsTOKYO -- Japan's government proposed a special $50 billion (4 trillion yen) budget to help finance reconstruction efforts Friday and plans to build 100,000 temporary homes for survivors of last month's devastating earthquake and tsunami. The twin disasters destroyed roads, ports, farms and homes and crippled a nuclear power plant that forced tens of thousands of more people to evacuate their houses for at least several months. The government said the damage could cost $309 billion, making it the world's most expensive natural disaster. Prime Minister Naoto Kan said he was moved by his ...
Baby in Iconic Tsunami Photo Safe With Parents
By not in system - AOL NewsISHINOMAKI, Japan -- A Japanese soldier grins as he cradles a tiny baby in a fuzzy pink blanket, plucked from the second story of a wreckage-blocked house three days after a powerful earthquake and tsunami flattened much of the country's northeastern coastline. The moment -- captured by a photographer from leading Japanese newspaper Yomiuri and published by newspapers and websites worldwide -- evoked a rare glimmer of hope amid so much destruction and death from the March 11 disasters that killed an estimated 26,000 people. Yomiuri Shimbun / AP In March, a Japan Self-Defense Force ...
Radiation Surges in Japan as Police Search for Bodies
By not in system - AOL NewsTOKYO - A new glitch in the cooling of used fuel at Japan's crippled nuclear plant prompted a surge in radiation, but an overall decline in leaks allowed police Thursday to search for missing tsunami victims closer to the complex than ever before. Police in protective gear scoured a 6-mile radius around the Fukushima Dai-ichi for the first time Thursday as part of their search for thousands of victims still missing after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. "We need to work very carefully so as not to rip our radiation suits with the debris, metal and chunks of concrete scattered everywhere ...
Google Sends Messages of Support to Japan From Around the World
By Dave Thier - AOL News"Be strong and never give up." "Keep being the best country in the world." "Japón es una nación de gente valiente." On Google's new website, messagesforjapan.com, those words of encouragement are spread out over the globe like cherry blossoms, coming from computer users in hundreds of countries expressing solidarity with the victims of the earthquake and tsunami. Google employees in Japan and elsewhere had been hearing about people from all over sending their support, but they wanted a way to get all those messages to aid workers and victims in Japan, even those who didn't speak any ...
Giving by Americans for Japanese Disaster Tops $246 Million
By not in system - AOL NewsOne month after an earthquake and tsunami struck Japan, donors in the United States have contributed nearly a quarter of a billion dollars, according to the Chronicle of Philanthropy. A tally of dozens of nonprofits by the philanthropic journal shows Americans have contributed more than $246.9 million to relief and recovery efforts. The American Red Cross continues to account for roughly 69 percent of the total raised. Despite these impressive-sounding totals, fundraising in the wake of the twin Japanese disasters lags behind funds raised after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti and Hurricane ...
Debris, Challenges Pile Up in Japan 1 Month Later
By not in system - AOL NewsNATORI, Japan -- A month after Japan's earthquake and tsunami, the challenges seem as daunting as ever: Thousands are missing and feared dead, tens of thousands have fled their homes, a leaking nuclear plant remains crippled and powerful aftershocks keep coming. Vast tracts of the northeast are demolition sites: The stuff of entire cities is sorted into piles taller than three-story buildings around which dump trucks and earth-movers crawl. Ankle-deep water stagnates in streets, and massive fishing boats lie perched atop pancaked houses and cars. The occasional telephone poll or bulldozer is ...
Half a Million Homes Without Power After Latest Japan Quake
By not in system - AOL NewsICHINOSEKI, Japan -- Shoppers emptied store shelves, traffic snarled after stoplights lost power and drivers waited in long lines to buy gasoline in a new wave of anxiety Friday after a magnitude-7.1 aftershock struck disaster-weary northeastern Japan. Nearly a half-million homes were without electricity after the latest tremor, which dealt another setback for those struggling to recover from the earthquake-spawned tsunami that wiped out hundreds of miles of the northeastern coast last month and killed as many as 25,000 people. "I feel helpless. I am back to square one," said Ryoichi ...
Strongest Aftershock Since Japan Tsunami Kills 2
By not in system - AOL NewsSENDAI, Japan - A strong aftershock ripped through northeastern Japan, killing two people, knocking out power to vast areas Friday and piling misery on a region still buried under the rubble of last month's devastating tsunami. The 7.1-magnitude tremor late Thursday was the strongest since northeastern Japan's jumbo 9.0-magnitude quake March 11. The latest shattered windows, kicked items from shelves and collapsed some roofs that weren't already demolished, but generated no tsunami and largely spared the region's nuclear plants. Some slightly radioactive water spilled at one plant, but the ...
Kids Use Japanese Art of Origimi to Help in Their Own Way [VIDEO]
By not in system - AOL NewsTen-year-old Taylor Vaughn and her friends made 1,000 origami paper cranes as a gesture of compassion and hope to earthquake and tsunami victims in Japan. The cranes symbolize good fortune and longevity, "NBC Nightly News" reports. ...
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