Four years on from the Tsunami
Rebuilding trust after the Fukushima disaster
Transfer of tainted Fukushima soil starts
Aftershocks continue 4 years after giant quake There were more than 8,100 aftershocks in the first year after the quake. This fell to about 1,600 by the second year, and about 1,000 by the third.
Japan marks 4th anniversary of 3/11 disaster The government says nearly 230,000 people were still living in temporary housing as of February. It plans to build about 30,000 public housing units, but only 19 percent of them have been completed so far.
Public housing for Fukushima facing delays Fukushima Prefecture plans to build around 2,700 units for people affected by the earthquake and tsunami. 4,900 are planned for those affected by the nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant. But only 44 percent of the units for quake and tsunami victims were ready for occupancy at the end of February. Only 5 percent has been completed for the nuclear evacuees. Prefectural officials say they are having difficulty securing land to build the housing. They say there is also a shortage of construction workers amid the growth in reconstruction-related demands. The officials say it will take until 2018 or later to finish building all the units for the nuclear accident refugees.
The ongoing fallout from Japan’s nuclear meltdown Scientists are saying there is a 70 per cent chance that a magnitude 7.0 or higher quake will hit Tokyo by 2016 and a 98 per cent chance it will hit in the next 30 years. As reminder: Tokyo 'has 70% chance of powerful earthquake within four years' The earthquake research institute at Tokyo University said that in the worst case, a quake of magnitude 7 would hit the southern part of metropolitan Tokyo by 2016, while the chances of a similar disaster occurring within 30 years are as high as 98%. The government, by contrast, estimates the possibility of an earthquake that size striking the capital at 70% in the next three decades.
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Japanese women at a crossroads The number of married women in their 20s who think women should stay at home and focus on housework has risen from 35.7% in 2003 to 41.6% in 2013 Two thirds of them think mothers shouldn't be back at work until the children are three years old, and about the same percentage of women give up their jobs after having their first child.
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