News in Japan - July

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Floating Wind Turbine Arrives in Fukushima
Japanese 'miracle' pine returns to tsunami-hit town
Japan's tsunami debris litters Canadian shore
Regulators suspect toxic water at Fukushima plant contaminating sea
Steam seen coming out of Fukushima Daiichi No. 3 reactor building
Operator of crippled Japan nuke plant says likely that radioactive water leaking into sea
Fukushima reactor site engulfed by steam

Floods in Europe
Placing Flood Mitigation On Four Pillars: Conclusions from 2013 Central European Floods

Atmospheric Rivers Set to Increase UK Winter Flooding

Japan

Study finds massive earthquakes caused volcanoes to sink

SDF holds drill for Nankai Trough earthquake

Japan’s new direction on climate change

Japan braces for exceptionally hot summer

Major temblor could trigger Fuji eruption

Netherlands

Earthquake in Groningen (Dutch)

Concerns for shaking levees after earthquake (Dutch)

Social

Ethnic tension is an unresolved problem in Japan

Tokyo’s elderly account for more shoplifting than teens

Homeless Japanese citizens seen being denied the right to vote

OECD Urges Japan to Raise Female Employment

Other

Tips For Surviving A Mega-Disaster

Important New Science on Melting Glaciers

Thousands of Years of Rising Seas

Changes Proposed to New Orleans Area Levee Systems