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Construction work began Tuesday on a 2.4-kilometer-long X-shaped seawall in Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, which was hit hard by the March 11, 2011 tsunami. Built of concrete with reinforced steel rods, it will be Japan's longest seawall when it is ...

Kanon Kumagai, in the front left, talks in a meeting after practicing the song in the city of Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture. (Mainichi) RIKUZENTAKATA, Iwate -- In anticipation of Mother's Day, 9-year-old Kanon Kumagai placed a potted carnation ...

Yusaku Yoshida, a 16-year-old high school student in Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, has put up a wooden monument on a hill in the town on March 11 so the memory will forever remain of the tsunami that devastated the Tohoku region exactly two years ago.

The Environment Ministry said Tuesday that the disposal of tsunami debris from Miyagi and Iwate prefectures is on schedule to be completed by the end of March 2014, but is not proceeding on schedule in Fukushima Prefecture. Of the estimated total ...

The Shimane Susanoo Magic won a playoff series for the first time in franchise history, defeating the Hamamatsu Higashimikawa Phoenix. The Iwate Big Bulls were victorious in their first-ever playoff contest. And the Toyama Grouses, who were 0-4 in ...

Niigata (35-16) is one game ahead of the Iwate Big Bulls, Yokohama B-Corsairs and Toyama Grouses, all of whom have 34-17 records, with one day remaining in the regular season. Playoff positions wil be finalized on Sunday. Shuhei Komatsu led the ...

Passengers alight from a Minami Riasu line train in Ofunato City, Iwate Prefecture, on Wednesday as service resumed for the first time since the line was badly damaged by the tsunami on March 11, 2011. Large crowds which included actress Norika ...

The number of small- and medium-sized businesses in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures, the three hit hardest by the earthquake and tsunami in March 2011, decreased 10.6 percent in 2012 from 2009, the government said Friday. By prefecture, ...

Bank Of Iwate Ltd announced that it as raised the consolidated outlook for ordinary profit from JPY 8,100 million to JPY 11,500 million, net profit from JPY 5,000 million to JPY 6,400 million and earning per share from JPY 272.33 to JPY 348.59 for ...