ISHINOMAKI, Miyagi Prefecture--This coastal city has been transformed, courtesy of a massive injection in government reconstruction spending following the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster that ...

The towering tsunami reached the fourth floor of the ... The town of Minami-Sanriku in Miyagi Prefecture faced the same dilemma. The municipal government decided to tear down the damaged building ...

At Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, the late composer’s sound installations commingle with restagings and responses ...

Ken Martin, the head of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, was decisively elected chair of the Democratic National Committee on Saturday, beating a crowded field in the first round of ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 1 (Reuters) - Looking to rebuild after the party's election loss to Donald Trump in November, the Democratic National Committee on Saturday elected Ken Martin, the leader of the ...

OXON HILL, Md. — Democrats on Saturday elected Ken Martin, the party leader in Minnesota, as the national chair, turning to a low-profile Midwestern political operative to coordinate their ...

Similar requests have been made across the country too. For instance, a resident in Miyagi Prefecture had appealed to Governor Yoshihiro Murai for a burial plot, saying that living in Japan “is very ...

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