News from Japan - February

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REVITALIZING JAPAN--Building a disaster-resistant nation / Discussions on relocating capital functions heat up again

Foreign bloggers take in disaster zone

Right after and one year later, tsunami area

Japan

1.3 mil. will have nowhere to go in major Tokyo quake

“Herbivore Men” Causing Japan’s Population to Shrink

Invisibility cloak to reduce earthquake effects  and Seismic Waveguide of Metamaterials

5% rubble cleaned

Tokyo earthquake might be shindou 7

Netherlands

Dutch mission for reconstruction tsunami area Japan

Translation: Minister Verhagen, head of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation spoke with Japanese ministers Kano and Edano about creating sustainable horticulture in the Tohoku area. Japanese companies generate a yearly turnover rate of 12 billion euro and create 34.000 jobs in the Netherlands.