News in Japan - June

USA

New FEMA Flood Maps Needed, but Funding Is Slashed

Bloomberg Outlines $20 Billion Storm Protection Plan

Sea Level Along Maryland's Shorelines Could Rise Two Feet by 2050`

By century's end, rising sea levels will turn the nation's urban fantasyland into an American Atlantis. But long before the city is completely underwater, chaos will begin

Floods in Europe

Evacuaties om overstromingen in Centraal-Europa (Dutch)

Central Europe on alert for flooding

In pictures: Central European floods

Flood Disaster: Merkel Pledges Immediate Aid to Victims

Photo Gallery: Europe Hit By Severe Flooding

Online tool for ongoing floods in Europe

Floods in Europe

Flood waters threaten cities in Czech Republic, Germany, Slovakia

GEJET

Fukushima to pay bereaved after suicide

Over 10,000 People Have Yet to Apply for Compensation from TEPCO

Official Removed from Fukushima Support Work for Improper Tweets

Japanese student tells U.N. how youth are reshaping tsunami-hit areas

Morning Session, High Level Session on Water and Disasters (see 1:20 for Ms. Honoka Miura)

Japan finds highly toxic strontium in Fukushima groundwater

Roadmap revised for scrapping Fukushima reactors

Post-Fukushima radioactive iodine spread shown in map

Netherlands

Consumer not helped by mandatory flood insurance (Dutch) Consument niet geholpen door verplichte overstromingsverzekering

Cabinet not favorably disposed to disaster insurance (Dutch)

Coastal improvement ruins our view (Dutch) Noordwijkers: ’Kustversterking verpest ons uitzicht’

Typhoon

Tropical Storm Leepi a Flood Risk to Philippines, Japan

FNN Typhoon Leepi #4 predictions for Japan

Social

Typhoon inspired tourist attraction

Recharging Japan / Population pyramid a thing of the past

Japan’s ‘Science Women’ Seek an Identity

Key to Japan’s Recovery? Hire More Non-Japanese Workers

Other

Tangible Earth tool

Two dead in calamitous Alberta flooding

Civil Defence issues warning ahead of big freeze (New Zealand)

Uttarakhand’s dam dilemma