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During the first year after the greatest earthquake and tsunami ever recorded, Japanese people's sense of value seemed changing, while the strong wish for the reconstruction of the afflicted areas, in fact, are gradually faded away from their minds.  Without having any directions to lead the so-called world's third economic power, the government and even opposing parties, who were able to do nothing other than claiming against the governing party's proposals, haven't done anything. Meanwhile, people in the greater Tokyo region, who live under the fear of the next possible huge earthquake to hit the capital, still keep living in the same place as they did before the catastrophe.  Not only in home but also in abroad, Japan is differently viewed today. Although the country had enjoyed high-reputation in the world with the myth of security, which is broken into pieces by the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear accident, foreigners tried to avoid living in t...

Even though the large-sized Japan's earthquack and tsunami and the succeeding nuclear-power plant crush happened almost a year ago, only 5% of the rubble has been disposed for now. The rest still remain in the afflicted areas.  Harmful rumors about Fukushima has been damaging the region's reputation, and people there are leaving their home prefecture one after another. Domestic animals, pets and even camel birds settle in the off-limits areas of Fukushima, creating an apocalyptic world, which reminds me of a 1997 American film, The Post Man . This is not a joke. Via: http://blog.livedoor.jp/nwknews/archives/4119080.html

Last year, the eastern-half of Japan experienced the record earthquake, and large number of people residing in the afflicted area is suffering from the after effect of the disaster even today. The visualized map uploaded on YouTube allow you to know more about the fatality. Source(s): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKp5cA2sM28&lc=Ipt4wPzN3vnvJUhz3iKH4I16Bt0UN6fRz6HFlGAkn0w&context=G28d0809FAAAAAAAABAA&feature=g-all-c

For the victims who still suffer from the massive damages of the last year's Japan earthquake and Tsunami, great 30 Japanese musical artists performed a joint session under a rehabilitation project run by those relevant to the country's music industries. Even though their choice, All You Need Is Love , is relatively old-fashioned and is not even a Japanese song, they have chosen it because the song still has a great power to attract people around the world; and so they thought that it is possible to benefit form the West as well as the legendary band.  Source(s): http://www.youtube.com/user/JAPANUNITEDwithMUSIC?feature=watch http://rocketnews24.com/2012/01/27/176498/ http://www.youtube.com/user/RiseAgainProject?feature=watch

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As 2011 will end in four days, the year would be unforgettable one for years to come, especially for those in Japan. A documentary movie uploaded on YouTube bears an attention on the Internet as well as allow us to know more about the earthquake and tsumani occurred on March 11th.

Hurricane/the States Wall Street/ NY Anti-EU demo/ Belgium  Flower Tributes to Steve Jobs/ NY Jasmine Revolution/ Egypt bin Laden's gun-down/ NY Tsunami/ Japan bin-Laden's Gun-down/ Washington Tsunami/ Japan Deprived Child/ Kenya London Riots/ the U.K. 10th Anniversary of 9/11 terror attacks/ NY Tsunami/ Japan Devastating Flood/ Thailand Tsunami/ Japan Earthquake/ Japan Amy Winehouse/ London Source(s): http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/the-most-powerful-photos-of-2011

More than five months down the line, thousands of videos about the disasters were uploaded on YouTube. In common with those uploaded previously, the latest one recently uploaded bears attention on the Internet. For the first-half, the people taking the video are chatting jokingly as well as don't know what would happen a few minutes later. By the time the video reached six minutes or so, the situation turned disastrous; the whole city was covered by the sea.

A few days ago, Kiyoshi Yoneda , a self-claimed doctor, was arrested for counterfeiting of his status. Claiming that he had volunteered in Rwanda as well as worked as a NGO member in Iwaki city, a Japan's afflicted area, he practiced paid-medical-acts there despite the fact that he has been working for the victims under the pretense of volunteer. Few day later than the news was reported widely across the nation, a newspaper article bears an attention on the Internet. Asahi-Simbun (朝日新聞), one of the major Japanese news-agencies, had mistakenly run an article about him with words extolling the virtues of him way before he was arrested without any specific research. Source(s): http://blog.livedoor.jp/christmas1224/archives/5659721.html http://www.nikkansports.com/general/news/f-gn-tp0-20110819-822015.html

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On March 18, 2011, Kremlin claimed that Russia, which has set up Japan as a potential enemy since before the postwar period has begun, have enough accommodations for those who victimized in the quake in Japan as well as can take them up as labor powers in Sybilla - it is colder than the quake-hit areas. For this offer, the majority of Net-users in japan responded that it is nothing other than ridiculous. At the same time another news was brought to Japan; a Russian newspaper applied an essay in its paper that Russia should give back the Japan's Northern territories to Japan - the bilateral dispute over the four islands situating on northern part of Japan has ruined the relationship between the two since the end of the World-War II - to cure off the Japanese sorrow caused by the series of havoc. The most of readers of the paper responded negative perspective for the essay though. Does disaster have power to change such bilateral relationship? On the other hand, from this havoc, Jap...

One week from the last major earthquake in Tohoku, people in Japan gave silent prayers to those who lost their lives in the catastrophe on 14:36, which none of Japanese has experienced ever until then. "We are in the greatest postwar crisis ever," said Naoto Kan in his speech performed in the office of Prime Minister on March 18th, 2011. Once his speech was finished, a number of questions swirled around the office from Japanese media participating his speech, and the majority of such questions were about if the government has disclosed whole pieces of information about the Fukushima nuclear-power-plant to people in general. Prime Minister Kan answered right back without any specific example that they've discovered every piece of information to the public. All the way through the days in which people in East-Japan suffer from the after-effects of the quake, the Diet failed in cleaning down the impression of skepticism about the transparency of information among the publ...

A couple of drops of tear flowing down her cheeks, an old lady who survived the M9.0-earthquake in Tohoku, Japan second-guessed herself whether she should get alive or not in the situation in which she has nowhere to home, according to Nihon Television. Four days later, aftershocks of the major quake are still going on, making those who live in shelters nervous all the time. Not only did the quakes and tsunamis kill thousands of people, but want of medical sustenances have caused hundreds of death in shelters, especially those who need dialysis. For the quake-hit areas situates on northern-half of the planet, the cold temperature with snowing jeopardize the survives' lives as if to add insult to their injuries. Even worse, people in and around Tokyo - those who didn't get as worse damages as in Tohoku - tend to stock up a number of foods as emptying store-shelfs, leading the Japanese government to practice an announcement that not to stock them up in oder to save enough foo...

Just after the earthquake centered in North-East part of Japan, tsunamis became the biggest threat to destroy not only maritime areas, but also inland areas. A whole village was sweat away by a tsunami, and hundreds of bodies were cast ashore on a riverbank. Not only are natural disasters capable enough to destroy people's everyday lives, man-made disasters applied destructive damage on especially those live in urban areas; soon after the first-shock stopped, people rushed to convenience-stores, super-markets and the like to get foods as much as possible. It had not taken much time until all food to be disappeared from those stores. Since Japanese self-sufficient ratio is less than forty-percent, it will need time to import another set of food from foreign countries. What if such powerful earthquake strike Tokyo? Above anything else, we need to eat, and such essential part is the Japan's failure. At least, Japanese government must make ready for the potential food shortage.