Hundreds of Miyagi residents seek equal compensation as Fukushima

SENDAI -- Officials in Miyagi Prefecture announced on May 15 that they were temporarily abandoning plans to utilize the Global Positioning System (GPS) for the mandatory surveillance of former sex offenders. The measure -- which would have required ...

SENDAI A replacement Moai statue from Chile was installed Thursday in the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, as a gift to help the tsunami-hit residents recover. It took about two hours for a crane to lift the 2-ton, 3-meter-high replica of ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in the cockpit of a T-4 training jet at an airbase in Miyagi gives a thumbs up, Tuesday. The number on the fuselage of the aircraft — 731— has triggered protests from Korea, China and imperial Japan's other ...

MIYAGI Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Sunday visited Miyagi Prefecture to inspect the reconstruction effort and assure victims of the March 11, 2011 disaster that they haven't been forgotten by his government. It was Abe's third visit to the ...

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 ...

Kiyoaki Takahashi (left) and his wife Chiharu hold their daughter Yu's diploma at their home in Tome, Miyagi Prefecture. (Mainichi) ISHINOMAKI, Miyagi -- At what would have been their daughter Yu's elementary school graduation on March 16, Kiyoaki ...

Children look at a tea cup with a message on it from Lady Gaga at the Tohoku History Museum in Tagajo, Miyagi Prefecture, on May 1. (Mainichi) TAGAJO, Miyagi -- An exhibition featuring a tea cup with a kiss mark and message from popular U.S. singer ...

ISHINOMAKI, MIYAGI PREF. A Waseda University student has hiked about 400 km through Tohoku as part of a field survey to choose a path for a new national park to be established by rebuilding areas damaged by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. I ...

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, ...