Japan earthquake: race to prevent a humanitarian disaster
Telegraph.co.uk - - 34 minutes ago
Japan was in a race to prevent a humanitarian disaster as rescuers struggled to reach tens of thousands of people left homeless by the tsunami. A woman surveys the devastation in Ishimaki City, Miyagi prefecture. Photo: AFP/GETTY Satellite images taken ...
Video: Japan PM: Quake, Tsunami Worst Crisis Since WWII
The Associated Press
The Associated Press
Japan quake toll could number in tens of thousands Los Angeles Times
In Deadly Earthquake, Echoes of 1923 New York Times (blog)
Japan nuclear woes cast shadow over U.S. energy policy
Reuters - - 48 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States should "put the brakes on" new nuclear power plants until fully understanding what happened to the earthquake-crippled nuclear reactors in Japan, the chairman of the US Senate's homeland security panel said on ...
Japan battles nuclear meltdown Financial Times
Japan's nuclear crisis turns spotlight on US plants
CNNMoney - 1 hour ago
Stricter safety measures sought as Japanese officials try to avert a total meltdown. By Steve Hargreaves, senior writerMarch 13, 2011: 6:11 PM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- The safety of America's nuclear reactors is being questioned as Japanese engineers ...
US Nuclear Industry Faces New Uncertainty New York Times
Nuclear Renaissance Threatened as Japan's Reactor Struggles San Francisco Chronicle
Satellite photos of Japan, before and after the earthquake and tsunami
Washington Post - 31 minutes ago
This one-meter resolution satellite image of Fukushima Daiichii Nuclear Power Plant in Japan, right, was taken one day after an 8.9-magnitude earthquake struck the Oshika Peninsula on March 11, 2011. According to news reports, this is the largest ...
Cosmic Log: How the quake shifted Japan msnbc.com (blog)
Japan's Auto Plants Closed as Companies Take Stock
New York Times - - 1 hour ago
Most Japanese auto assembly plants will remain closed Monday, even though the factories are outside the hardest-hit regions and did not experience significant damage. Automakers scrambled on Sunday to determine whether they will be able ...
Japan Earthquake Hobbles Car Makers Wall Street Journal (blog)
Japan begins to tally up the cost The National
Japan's major car makers halt production Radio New Zealand
A Festival of Japan's Culture Proceeds
New York Times - - 24 minutes ago
When Carnegie Hall announced Japan as the focus of this season's big festival, it did not seem a particularly pathbreaking subject. Now it seems prescient. Seiji Ozawa in December at Carnegie Hall during the first phrase of JapanNYC. ...
Japan Radiation Risk Seen as Low so Far
New York Times - - 10 minutes ago
Although several plant workers are ill from radioactive exposure in Japan, the radiation risk to the public appears low so far, experts said. “At least as of now, what we're looking at is rather more like Three Mile Island than ...
Japan Does Not Face Another Chernobyl Wall Street Journal
Harmful Nuclear Radiation From Japan Not Expected To Reach US - NRC
Wall Street Journal - 1 hour ago
NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Sunday that no harmful radiation is expected to reach US shores from the damaged nuclear plants in Japan. A number of nuclear power plants in Japan went into emergency shutdown because of ...
Japan disaster may mean setback for U.S. nuclear industry Washington Post
How people can help Japanese earthquake recovery The Associated Press
Takashi Saito Japanese earthquake Brewers
USA Today - - 54 minutes ago
One day after canceling his start because of worry about his family in Japan, Milwaukee reliever Takashi Saito returned to work Sunday. Saito is from Sendai, Japan, the city that suffered the most damage in the 8.9 earthquake ...
MLB players deal with impact of earthquake in Japan Los Angeles Times
Gaga launches bracelet campaign to help Japan victims
Daily Times - 7 minutes ago
Pop star Lady Gaga has topped the celebrities again in launching relief measures to help aid Japanese victims of the earthquake, tsunami and the latest nuclear meltdown, reported USA Today. She has posted on her website asking her fans to spend $5 on ...
Japan earthquake: I looked up and saw the whole town being pushed up the ...
Telegraph.co.uk - 1 hour ago
Japan was in a race to prevent a humanitarian disaster as rescuers struggled to reach tens of thousands of people left homeless by the tsunami. The ocean is blue and calm under bright sunny skies but by horrible irony there is only matchwood and mud ...
Canada's assistance teams idly wait Japan deployment
National Post - 1 hour ago
A woman searches for supplies amid piles of debris in Ofunato City, Iwate Prefecture in northern Japan, March 13, 2011. Amy Minsky, Postmedia News · Mar. 13, 2011 | Last Updated: Mar. 13, 2011 5:33 PM ET OTTAWA — Canada has two Disaster Assistance ...
Fareed's Take: What the devastation in Japan teaches us
CNN (blog) - 18 minutes ago
If you take the earthquake that hit New Zealand a few weeks ago and multiplied it by 1000, you would get the one that hit Japan last week. Or if you remember the one that devastated Haiti last year, this one is several hundred times more powerful. ...
Haiti Stands With Japan Huffington Post (blog)
Japan brings money home to rebuild
Reuters - - 2 hours ago
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Shaken by the prospect of nuclear meltdown after a devastating earthquake and tsunami, Japanese investors will dump overseas assets on Monday and bring their money home to help finance reconstruction. ...
How To Teach About The Earthquake, Tsunami In Japan
Huffington Post - 1 hour ago
An 8.9-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Japan on Friday, the strongest ever recorded in the country and one of the largest anywhere in the last century. The quake churned up a devastating tsunami that swept over cities and farmland in the ...
US Airlines Resume Japan Flights
Wall Street Journal - - 2 hours ago
s American Airlines said Sunday they have resumed their normal flight schedules in Japan after Friday's earthquake, while United Continental Holdings Inc. said it was operating its full schedule to Tokyo's Narita International Airport. ...
Earthquake survivors marvel at Japan's calm JoongAng Daily
Potty Break Puts Airline Passengers on the Ground During Quake Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
Yen gains as investors look to Bank of Japan's meeting
The Australian - - 16 minutes ago
THE Japanese yen was sharply stronger against the US dollar early today as investors embraced the idea that repatriation by Japanese insurance firms after Friday's massive earthquake and tsunami will be substantial. Some estimates of the insurance bill ...
BoJ to move decisively against speculation: WSJ MarketWatch
Japanese tsunami impacts California coastal town
Wikinews - 53 minutes ago
The tsunami caused by Japan's 8.9 quake on Friday destroyed the commercial fishing harbor of Crescent City, California, a coastal town still recovering from a devastating tsunami in 1964. Although most of the fishing boats were removed in advance, ...
Video: First Person: California Harbor Hit by Tsunami The Associated Press
The Associated Press
Crescent City comes to grips with tsunami's devastation Los Angeles Times
Editorial: Yet again, nature trumps technology Detroit Free Press
Boats damaged by tsunami foul California harbors San Francisco Chronicle
Foundation will donate $200k to Japan quake rescue if enough "Like" dogs
USA Today - - 25 minutes ago
The money will be used toward sending rescue dogs to aid in the Japan response efforts. Dog Bless You is a project of the Annenberg Foundation, a private family foundation over which filmmaker and philanthropist Charles Weingarten serves as director, ...
Japan earthquake: Survivor was swept 10 miles into the ocean
Telegraph.co.uk - - 1 hour ago
Hiromitsu Shinkawa, 60, was plucked to safety after being noticed in the open ocean by the crew on a Japanese destroyer. For two days he had been drifting on the remains of his home after ...
Man found alive two days after being swept 15km out to sea Sydney Morning Herald
Japan man saved from rooftop that floated to sea The Associated Press
Millions face worsening crisis in earthquake-hit Japan
Reuters AlertNet - - 4 minutes ago
Japan confronted devastation along its northeastern coast on Saturday, with fires raging and parts of some cities under water after a massive earthquake and tsunami that likely killed at least 1000 people. REUTERS/Yomiuri By Chris Meyers SENDAI, Japan, ...
Japan Quake Damage Mounts; Reactor Watched Wall Street Journal
In their words: Japan's twin disasters ABC Online
Japan death toll reportedly exceeds 680 Los Angeles Times
Death toll likely to top 10000 in Japan
USA Today - - 2 hours ago
RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan — In three neat rows, under individual white plastic sheets, dozens of corpses lay Sunday on the basketball courts of Shimo Yahagi elementary school in northeast Japan. A poster taped to the gym wall ...
Millions face worsening crisis in quake-hit Japan Reuters Africa
Scenes of devastation at center of disaster Inquirer.net
More than 1300 could be dead in Japan Slate Magazine (blog)
Futures hit as Japan situation worsens
Reuters - - 31 minutes ago
NEW YORK (Reuters) - US stocks index futures fell on Sunday as investors reacted to the worsening situation in Japan. S&P 500 futures were down 7 points to 1292.80. Dow Jones industrial average futures fell 51 points, and Nasdaq 100 ...
Japan earthquake: Tokyo turns off the lights to save power
Telegraph.co.uk - - 56 minutes ago
Japan's government warned of a long road to recovery as it prepared to shut down the famous neon lights of Tokyo to save power. By Nick Allen, Tokyo 10:18PM GMT 13 Mar 2011 In a first for modern Japan, rolling blackouts were scheduled to begin and ...
In Japan, Tokyo's lights voluntarily dimmed after quake Los Angeles Times
Japan battles nuclear crisis
Daily Times - 4 minutes ago
FUKUSHIMA: Japan battled a feared meltdown of two reactors at a quake-hit nuclear plant Sunday, as the full horror began emerging of the disaster on the ravaged northeast coast where more than 10000 were feared dead. An explosion at the ageing ...
Hundreds flee in Japan after Shinmoedake volcano begins spewing ash, boulders
New York Daily News - - 2 hours ago
AP Earthquake, tsunami, nuclear plant meltdowns -- as if the people of Japan didn't have enough to cope with, a volcano began erupting Sunday. Hundreds of people were forced to flee when the Shinmoedake volcano on the southern island ...
Volcano in southern Japan erupts Los Angeles Times
Fears of nuclear meltdown in wake of Japan quake
ABC Online - - 10 minutes ago
TONY EASTLEY: As Japan struggles to feed and shelter its homeless, aid the injured and recover its dead, there is a fear that another disaster is in the making. One of the nation's nuclear power plants, Fukushima No. 1 is in serious trouble. ...
Safety of Japan-based Aussies still being verified
International Business Times - - 6 minutes ago
Japan-based Australians numbering 1825 were attested to be safe by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Nevertheless, some 900 Australian citizens are still being sought in the ...
Stocks set to start flat despite Japan disaster Sydney Morning Herald
Search for Aussies missing in Japan Herald Sun
Japan moves to head off catastrophe The Australian
Australia's QBE sees Japan insurance exposure at $125 mln
Reuters - - 21 minutes ago
SYDNEY, March 14 (Reuters) - QBE Insurance Group , Australia's top insurer and reinsurer, said its preliminary estimate of net claims from the earthquake and tsunami in Japan is seen at about $125 million but indicated this was unlikely to hurt profit ...
Factbox: US military ramps up Japan relief effort
Reuters - 4 hours ago
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More US warships arrived off Japan's coast on Sunday, ramping up relief efforts after a massive earthquake and tsunami killed an estimated 10000 people or more and threatened to trigger a nuclear disaster. ...
Japan tsunami: Here's how you can help Christian Science Monitor
US Navy steps up earthquake relief efforts in Japan Stars and Stripes
Quake's Insurance Tab Could Run $35 Billion
Wall Street Journal - - 1 hour ago
The earthquake that devastated Japan caused as much as $35 billion in insured property losses, a figure that would make Friday's quake the costliest ever for the insurance industry, even before the effects of the tsunami ...
Japan quake damage up to $US34 billion Sydney Morning Herald
Quake moved Japan by 8 ft
Daily Times - 9 minutes ago
Japan's recent massive earthquake, one of the largest ever recorded, appears to have moved the island by about eight feet (2.4 meters), the US Geological Survey said. “That's a reasonable number,” USGS seismologist Paul Earle told AFP. ...
Primer: Japan's Nuclear Crisis
NPR - 7 minutes ago
Japanese officials are struggling to contain a nuclear crisis triggered by the massive earthquake and tsunami that struck the island nation Friday. Several nuclear reactors lost power after the magnitude 8.9 quake and tsunami – and electricity is ...
Nuclear plant worker worries about colleagues, future Washington Post
Quake moves Japan closer to the US
TODAYonline - 2 hours ago
Apart from shifting the Earth on its axis and briefly speeding up its rotation, the massive earthquake that struck off the coast of Japan has moved parts of eastern Japan as much as 3.65m closer to North America, said US Geological Survey scientists. ...
9.0 Japan earthquake shifted Earth on its axis Los Angeles Times
Japan Earthquake Alters Coast Line, Changes Earth's Axis Voice of America
Japan rescuers struggle to reach survivors as aftershocks continue
The Guardian - 1 hour ago
Rubble has been scattered across wide areas of the town of Minami Sanriku, northeastern Japan. Photograph: AP The Japanese government has dispatched 100000 troops, 190 planes and 45 boats to search for survivors amid fears that the death toll from the ...
Video: Thousands missing in Japanese city Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
World shares Japan's agony Herald Sun
Workers face daunting rescue effort in Japan Los Angeles Times
Japan to play soccer friendlies to 'rally nation'
Daily Times - 9 minutes ago
TOKYO: Japan plan to host two scheduled international soccer friendlies later this month despite the devastation caused by the biggest earthquake on record, which triggered a 10-metre tsunami that submerged the country's northeast coast. ...
Soccer: Japan match still on for All Whites New Zealand Herald
50 Cent mocks Japan, offends world on Twitter
Ninemsn - 48 minutes ago
50 Cent has disgusted and outraged the world once again with comments on Twitter about the Japanese... earthquake and tsunami. Of the threat to the US west coast, he wrote: "Wave will hit 8am them crazy white boys gonna try to go surfing.
State Department Says Avoid Travel To Japan
MyFox Memphis - 1 hour ago
(NewsCore) - WASHINGTON -- The US State Department Sunday urged Americans to avoid traveling to Japan in the wake of Friday's monstrous earthquake and tsunami. It said it requested "all non-emergency official US government personnel defer travel to ...
State Dept. urges Americans not to go to Japan Washington Post
US issues travel alert for Japan Baltimore Sun (blog)
Worried Japanese expats trawl web for news after quake
Reuters - - 4 hours ago
Japan's ski jumper Noriaki Kasai shows his gloves to the television camera at the ski jumping World Cup event in Lahti March 13, 2011. Kasai has a message written in Japanese to his compatriots suffering from the Friday's earthquake: 'Hang in there ...
Japan earthquake aftershocks threaten survivors
The Guardian - 3 hours ago
Aftershocks from the Japan earthquake are set to continue, with seismologists fearing that one of 7 magnitude or higher may strike. Photograph: Itsuo Inouye/AP Hundreds of aftershocks have continued to batter the coast of Japan more than two days after ...
Trying to Get to an Earthquake: Travels in Japan TIME (blog)
6-magnitude quake off Japan's Honshu island Hindustan Times
Quebec priest killed in Japanese tsunami
Montreal Gazette - 1 hour ago
André Lachapelle, a 76-year-old priest from Quebec, had been ministering in Japan since 1961. Lachapelle was en route to his parish when his car was swallowed by a tsunami wave. MONTREAL - André Lachapelle, 76, a Roman Catholic priest working as a ...
Quebec missionary killed in Japanese tsunami Globe and Mail
Canadian missionary killed in Japan Toronto Sun
Japan Deaths Will Rise Quickly, Kan Aide Tells ABC
Bloomberg - - 3 hours ago
Japan's death toll from last week's 8.9-magnitude earthquake and ensuing tsunami will rise from the current count of about 1000, a spokesman for Prime Minister Naoto Kan said. ...
Russia Reaches Out to Japan With LNG, Humanitarian Aid
The Moscow Times - - 1 hour ago
Two tankers with liquefied natural gas and a planeload of blankets may be what it takes to start easing Russian-Japanese hostilities over a 65-year island dispute. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin ordered extra energy shipments for ...
Japan requests extra energy from Russia Herald Sun
Russia sends rescue teams Bangkok Post
The Lede: Japan Earthquake and Tsunami: How to Help
New York Times (blog) - 4 hours ago
By THE NEW YORK TIMES Updated March 12 | For readers interested in contributing to help victims of the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan and the Pacific region, here is a list of contact information and links for some agencies that plan to ...
Japan's Nuclear Crisis Threatens Next Week's Skating World Championships
Bloomberg - - 4 hours ago
Figure skating's world championships may be canceled because of the threat of a meltdown at a Japanese... nuclear power plant that was crippled by the country's biggest earthquake.
Fate of figure skating worlds to be decided by Monday Detroit Free Press
Japan earthquake: Fears grow for Britons caught up in tsunami
Telegraph.co.uk - 56 minutes ago
Fears were growing for Britons caught up in the devastating Japanese earthquake and tsunami as diplomatic officials searched hospital wards in the worst hit areas. Satellite images taken before and after the earthquake and subsequent tsunami show how ...
Family concern after Japan quake BBC News
Satellite images show Japan before and after quake
CNET (blog) - - 4 hours ago
The quake, which has upgraded to a magnitude 9.0 by the Japan Meteorological Agency, may have shifted the position of Earth's axis about 6.5 inches, Richard Gross, a geophysicist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, told the Los Angeles ...
Japan earthquake: before and after the tsunami Telegraph.co.uk
Google releases first satellite images of Japan after quake Los Angeles Times
McConnell Defends Nuclear Power Amid Japan Fears
Wall Street Journal (blog) - - 7 hours ago
By Patrick O'Connor Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said Sunday that he doesn't believe the US should back away from nuclear energy in the wake of potential reactor meltdowns in Japan. “This discussion reminds me, somewhat, ...
Japan earthquake: how Twitter and Facebook helped
Telegraph.co.uk - - 6 hours ago
Twitter, Facebook and other social networking sites became an invaluable tool for millions of people caught up in the aftermath of the Japan earthquake. By Harry Wallop, Consumer Affairs Editor 4:15PM GMT 13 Mar 2011 Websites, powered by broadband ...
Roubini Earthquake Gloom Meets 'Shock Doctrine': William Pesek
Bloomberg - - 3 hours ago
An 1855 earthquake that destroyed much of modern-day Tokyo bookmarked the twilight of the Tokugawa period, during which Japan was isolated for two centuries. Rebuilding efforts after the devastation of 1923 coincided with the rise of Japanese ...
More ways to help tsunami and earthquake victims in Japan
Greenfudge.org - 1 hour ago
In addition to Google Person Finder's 2011 Japan Earthquake service and ShelterBox's aid program for victims, several other organizations are mobilizing to help those affected by the recent tsunami and earthquake in northern Japan. ...
Report: High chance of magnitude 7 or higher quake in Japan in coming days
USA Today - - 1 hour ago
By Melanie Eversley, USA TODAY As Japan scrambles to pick up the pieces from Friday's magnitude 9 earthquake and tsunami, the Kyodo news agency is reporting that there is a 70% chance of a magnitude 7 or greater quake ...
Japan quake prompts pity, angst in Asia
GlobalPost - 2 hours ago
(Yomiuri Shimbun/AFP/Getty Images) BANGKOK, Thailand — In the wake of Japan's tsunami horrors, even rival China had to suspend its simmering diplomatic feud with Japan. “From just across a narrow strip of water,” China's state-run Xinhua media outlet ...
Japan quake: China sets aside disputes, offers help Washington Post
China sends rescue team to Japan Financial Times
Sheen show profits donated to Japan
Digital Spy - - 3 hours ago
Charlie Sheen has announced that he will donate a portion of the profits from his live stage shows to victims of the natural disasters in Japan. The former Two and a Half Men star confirmed on his official ...
Sheen pledges show profits to Japan Toronto Sun
The aftermath in Japan, Gov. Mitch Daniels on 2012 and the budget battle in ...
Washington Post (blog) - - 1 hour ago
The aftermath of the earthquake in Japan dominated Sunday talk. Other topics included the continuing battle over the federal budget on Capitol Hill, and the victory scored by Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R). Americans for Tax Reform ...
Investors Survey a Damaged Economy
Wall Street Journal - - 3 hours ago
In the background of this tragedy are memories of the last monster tremor to strike Japan: In 1995, the port city of Kobe was hit by a quake that measured magnitude 6.8, much weaker than the 8.9 giant that struck Japan's northeast Friday. ...
Global insurance industry expected to cope with Japan New Zealand Herald
Earthquake, tsunami hit Japan Business Insurance
Insurance stocks take a battering Sydney Morning Herald
Missing Melbourne teacher 'on list of survivors'
The Age - - 42 minutes ago
Prime Minister Naoto Kan says he is confident Japan will overcome the earthquake-tsunami crisis. The mother of a young Melbourne man missing in the tsunami-stricken Japanese city of Sendai is clinging to hope that her son is alive after hearing through ...
Online post gives hope to missing man's family Sydney Morning Herald
Mother hopeful for son missing in Japan Herald Sun
Seiyu Grocery Store, Yokosuka, Japan
CNN - 7 hours ago
A Japanese man shopping for meat. No beef, pork, or chicken was to be found. 6. Few vegetables remained in the store and those that were left, were of poorer quality. 7. Japanese man walking away from the meat section as there was none to be found. 9. ...
Normalcy and nervousness on bases in Tokyo area Stars and Stripes
Japan Struggles With Post-Quake Crises
NPR - - 2 hours ago
Japan grapples with the mounting humanitarian crisis that has followed from the massive earthquake and tsumani. Thousands are dead and displaced in the northeastern part of the country. Please Note: Community managers review some ...
Aid offers pour in to Japan as nuclear concerns mount
Reuters - - 5 hours ago
GENEVA, March 13 (Reuters) - With foreign teams helping local rescuers to seek survivors from Japan's... quake and tsunami, countries offered further aid from field hospitals to atomic physicists to address an unfolding nuclear crisis
Nuclear fears grow amid “unprecedented” disaster swissinfo.ch
Heartbreak in Japan
Washington Post - 4 hours ago
TWO DAYS AFTER the strongest earthquake Japan has ever recorded, the extent of damage and loss was far from clear. The quake and subsequent tsunami exposed once again the vulnerability of even the most advanced communications, energy and transportation ...
Prophecy sites blame Japan disasters on all our sins
USA Today - - 1 hour ago
The earthquake, tsunami and impending threat of melt-down at nuclear plants have catapulted Japan to the top of prophecy web sites. Like every natural disaster, it's being re-construed to fit pre-ordained scenarios for ...
Joe Cirincione, Sen. Mitch McConnell on Crisis in Japan; Sens. Mark Warner ...
Fox News - 4 hours ago
Japan is rocked by a huge earthquake, and then a devastating tsunami that killed hundreds and damaged two nuclear plants. We'll have the latest from Japan and talk with a nuclear safety expert. Then, Congress deadlocks over the budget as gas prices ...
Expert: Nuclear Radiation Could Spread Far Beyond Japan Voice of America
Japan draws rescue teams from around the world
USA Today - - 7 hours ago
Narita Tokyo airport was a staging area Sunday for search and rescue teams from around the world who flew in to help with the rescue efforts after Japan's historic earthquake, our Elizabeth Weise reports. ...
India sends planeload of blankets to Japan
Times of India - 4 hours ago
NEW DELHI: India sent a planeload of blankets to Japan on Sunday, to help tsunami-stricken people in the cold north-east of the country cope with weather, foreign ministry officials said. The government has asked Haryana and Punjab to procure large ...
India to send woollen blankets to Japan The Hindu
India sends woollens and blankets Deccan Herald
Japan earthquake: Record-shattering breakwater can't hold back tsunami
Los Angeles Times - 3 hours ago
The Kamaishi, Japan, breakwater was in the Guinness World Records as the deepest on the planet. It was a product of decades of research on wave dynamics and dissipation. But the tsunami made short work of it. By Kenji Hall Los Angeles Times The ...
Team to check Filipinos' condition in Japan
Inquirer.net - 2 hours ago
MANILA, Philippines—The Philippine Embassy in Tokyo Sunday sent a team to northeastern Japan to check on the condition of some 4500 Filipinos based in the prefectures of Iwate, Fukushima and Miyagi that were hit hard by Friday's earthquake. ...
Phl safe from Japan nuclear radiation - scientists Philippine Star
Japan Quake May Weigh On Philippine Nuclear Plans -Official Wall Street Journal
Enrile fears negative impact of Japan disaster to local economy Manila Bulletin
AERB to check safety of Indian nuclear plants
Times of India - - 1 hour ago
MUMBAI: Following the nuclear emergency in Japan, the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) on Sunday decided to launch an exercise to check if India's atomic plants can survive a severe natural calamity. Japan's crisis has left India's top nuclear ...
Japan's N-hazard due to rare mix of events: Scientists Economic Times
Japan leak may hamper India's power plans, says Nuclear Corp Business Standard
US STOCKS SNAPSHOT-S&P futures fall in reaction to Japan
Reuters - - 57 minutes ago
NEW YORK, March 13 (Reuters) - S&P stock index futures fell in premarket trading as investors reacted to the worsening situation in earthquake-hit Japan. June S&P 500 futures SPc2 fell 5 points, or 0.4 percent, to 1295.90, as markets anticipate a fall ...
B.C. teens contact family from worst-hit area of Japan
Vancouver Sun - - 3 hours ago
VANCOUVER — The parents of two BC children stranded in one of the worst-hit areas of earthquake-ravaged Japan were overjoyed Sunday when they received early-morning text messages from both of them ...
Aussies flee Japan amid nuclear fears
The Age - 32 minutes ago
Websites in the Fairfax Digital Network offer streaming video and audio in the Flash format. Streaming media allows you to watch video on a website as a continuous feed, as opposed to waiting for an entire audio or video file to download to your ...
Dollar higher after EU deal, Japan
Sydney Morning Herald - 2 hours ago
Most of the weekend session was quiet for the local dollar, however, with the after-effects of Japan's... earthquake dominating market focus. At 7am eastern daylight time, the local unit was trading at 101.6 US cents, up from Friday's local close of
Britain sends rescue team to Japan
AFP - 4 hours ago
LONDON — A British team arrived in Japan Sunday to assist local rescuers in their search for survivors from Friday's devastating earthquake and tsunami, the Foreign Office (FCO) confirmed. Fifty-nine search and rescue experts, four medics, ...
Fears for Britons after Japan quake The Press Association
The rise of the man-on-the-street report
Jerusalem Post - - 2 hours ago
The tsunami in Japan is an utter catastrophe, being brought to TVs and computers around the world in almost real time. A mere two and a half months into 2011 and this year has already brought us images many of us never thought possible ...
Moody's: Japan quake to add temporary fiscal pressure
Reuters - - 4 hours ago
NEW YORK, March 13 (Reuters) - Moody's suggested on Sunday that a "temporary" fiscal impact of Japan's devastating earthquake will have limited weight on its decision on whether to downgrade the country's credit ratings. ...
United States Sends Rescue Teams to Japan
Yahoo! News - 1 hour ago
The first of the two American rescue teams sent in response to Japan's request for international aid following the 8.9 earthquake the nation experienced Friday reportedly landed at an airport near Tokyo on Sunday. The Los Angeles County Urban Search ...
NZ team to stay in Japan for several weeks - Key National Business Review
Search and rescue teams rush to Japan New Zealand Herald
Three-year bonds firmer after Japan quake
Sydney Morning Herald - 42 minutes ago
Shorter dated Australian bonds opened firmer as investors bank on global interest rates staying on hold following the devastating earthquake in Japan. But longer dated bonds were flat on fears Japan, the second biggest buyer of debt after China, ...
Metals Demand in Japan May Tumble as Quake Damage, Power Cuts Halt Plants
Bloomberg - - 11 hours ago
Demand for industrial metals in Japan, Asia's biggest importer of aluminum, may decline as factories shut because of damage or power shortages after the country's strongest earthquake on record, analysts said. ...
Japan quake: Your pictures
BBC News - 3 hours ago
Japan is experiencing its greatest hardship since World War II in the aftermath of an earthquake and tsunami. Here is a selection of photos taken by BBC News website readers in Japan. Yuka Miyoshi: "I live in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. ...
Florida business students trying to leave Japan
MiamiHerald.com - 6 hours ago
A group of business students from a Florida university are among those trying to leave Japan in the wake of a devastating earthquake there. Stetson University professors Rebecca and Gary Oliphant led the weeklong study-abroad trip that was supposed to ...
Nanaimo father uses Facebook, ham radio to find son in Japan
Victoria Times Colonist - - 2 hours ago
He was listed as missing after an earthquake rocked Japan last week. Jonathon had been teaching English in Japan for the past four years and was living in Sendai City when the disaster occurred. His family in Nanaimo was distraught when they were ...
Nanaimo dad desperate to hear son's voice from Japan Vancouver Sun
State Dept. urges Americans not to go to Japan
Atlanta Journal Constitution - 10 hours ago
AP WASHINGTON — The State Department is advising US citizens to avoid traveling to Japan at this time. Thick smoke billows from an industrial facility in Kamaishi, northeastern Japan, on Sunday March 13, 2011, two days after giant quake and tsunami ...
In Tsunami, Japan's Seawalls Were No Security
New York Times - - 4 hours ago
JAKARTA, Indonesia — At least 40 percent of Japan's 22000-mile coastline is lined with concrete seawalls, breakwaters or other structures meant to protect the country against high waves, typhoons or even tsunamis. ...
Fed steady as trouble zones multiply
Chicago Tribune - - 3 hours ago
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Earthquake in Japan. Unrest in the oil-producing Arab world. Sovereign-debt strains in Europe. Inflation in China. The expanding list of global economic troublespots will give the US Federal Reserve even more ...
Refinery Margins Poised to Surge After Japan Quake Cuts Power Capacity 9%
Bloomberg - - 7 hours ago
Japan's biggest earthquake, which cut at least 9 percent of power capacity, may boost oil-refining profits in Asia as the world's third-largest economy seeks to replace lost nuclear ...
Yuma Marines to provide disaster relief in Japan
Boston Herald - 12 hours ago
A squadron from Marine Corps Air Station Yuma is among the US military forces that will be bring disaster relief aid to earthquake-and-tsunami stricken Japan. The Yuma Sun says local Marines from Marine Attack Squadron 211 are currently attached to the ...
Marines Headed To Help in Japan KKTV 11 News
Raw wafers and NAND could be hardest hit by Japan disaster
ElectronicsWeekly.com - - 4 hours ago
The two most pressing problems for the semiconductor industry in the wake of the Japan disasters, are the state of Toshiba's NAND flash fabs, which supply over 40% of world supply, and the state of Japan's... makers of raw silicon wafer manufacturers
13/03/2011Germany seeking 50 nationals after Japan quake
Expatica Germany - 5 hours ago
Germany said Sunday that about 50 of its nationals were unaccounted for in areas of Japan hit by the massive earthquake and tsunami. "We have been able to establish contact with about half" of the 100 Germans listed as living in the area, ...
German nuclear dispute fueled by Japan mishap BusinessWeek
Nuclear safety worries spread to Europe The Guardian
Germans Protest Nuclear Power Voice of America
Japan non-life insurer quake exposure at 3 pct -Goldman
Reuters - - 10 hours ago
TOKYO, March 13 (Reuters) - The exposure of Japan's three largest non-life insurers to earthquake premiums is around 3 percent of each of their total premiums, suggesting a limited impact on them from the massive quake that hit Japan on Friday, ...
Pope prays for Japan quake victims, encourages aid workers
The Canadian Press - 11 hours ago
VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI is praying for the victims of Japan's earthquake and tsunami and has praised the "dignity and courage" with which the Japanese are coping with the tragedy. Benedict also encouraged aid workers who are bringing comfort ...
Japan's quake 'pure panic,' Islander says
CBC.ca - 6 hours ago
Islander Ron Kennedy was in Tokyo when the earthquake and tsunami hit Japan on Friday. (Facebook) A man from Prince Edward Island says he feared for his life after experiencing the biggest earthquake in Japanese history on Friday. ...
Thousands in metro Detroit with ties to Japan worry about friends, family
Detroit Free Press - 14 hours ago
Spectators watch Friday as debris hits the shore in the aftermath of the tsunami that struck Kesennuma in Miyagi Prefecture in northern Japan. Michiganders with relatives in Japan and Japanese nationals living and working in metro Detroit. were ...
Monster aftershock could strike in days
Sydney Morning Herald - - 3 hours ago
Prime Minister Naoto Kan says he is confident Japan will overcome the earthquake-tsunami crisis. NORTH-EASTERN Japan can expect another monster earthquake large enough to trigger a tsunami within days, the head of the Australian Seismological Centre ...
MONDAY VIEW: Global economies will be rocked by Japan aftershock
Daily Mail - - 1 hour ago
The unfolding disaster and human tragedy in Japan looks to be more serious than any event to devastate a developed economy in modern times, including the Kobe earthquake of 1995. Aside from the potential impact of the ...
Japan desperate for leadership
DAWN.com - - 13 minutes ago
NAOTO Kan, Japan's prime minister, faced a mountain of problems before the earthquake. Hours before disaster struck, Kan was insisting he would not resign over the latest party funding scandal. ...
S. Korea to send 102-member team of rescue workers to Japan
istockAnalyst.com (press release) - 3 hours ago
13, 2011 (Kyodo News International) -- South Korea on Sunday prepared to fly a 102-member rescue team to Japan to help its neighbor cope with the earthquake and tsunami disaster, Yonhap News Agency reported. South Korea has also redirected to Japan ...
South Korea Plans To Supply LNG To Japan To Provide Support Wall Street Journal
Key parts, tourism at risk in quake fallout JoongAng Daily
South Korea to send LNG to quake-stricken Japan Reuters Africa
Grains Week Ahead - Risk aversion to grow after Japan quake
Reuters Africa - - 7 hours ago
CHICAGO, March 13 (Reuters) - Grain markets are getting less crowded as investors bail out and this phase of long liquidation is expected to continue in the coming week, with the massive earthquake in Japan... further reducing any appetite for
After Earthquake, Sony Temporarily Shuts Down Final Fantasy MMOs
PC Magazine - - 3 hours ago
The move comes as a result of Japan's Friday earthquake—and the temporary loss of massively multiplayer online gaming is just one of the fallouts. "Due to the continuous earthquakes occurring in the eastern regions of Japan since Mar. ...
Treasury Investors Focus on Fed, BOJ
Wall Street Journal - - 4 hours ago
NEW YORK—Treasury investors will focus on monetary-policy meetings at the Bank of Japan and the Federal Reserve as they assess the impact on markets and the global economy of Japan's earthquake and the resulting threats to ...
Energy price surge set to leave Fed unruffled Financial Times
Qld team likely to head to Japan soon
Ninemsn - 11 minutes ago
Premier Anna Bligh expects Queensland's specialist search and rescue team to head to devastated JapanJapan after the devastating earthquake and tsunami were utterly shocking, and the country will need ... soon. Ms Bligh says the images coming out of
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