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Japan's Fruit-Shaped Bus Stops

Thursday, September 24, 2015

Bus stops come in all shapes and sizes. In the small Japanese town of Konagai, in the outskirts of Isahaya, in Nagasaki Prefecture, they come in five different flavors — watermelon, strawberry, orange, muskmelon and tomato. These quirky bus stops were originally built for the 1990 Travel Expo in order to attract visitors arriving from various location.

Lettuce See the Future: LED Lighting Helps Farming Go High-Tech In Japan

July 9, 2014

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More bodies found on Mount Ontake with the death toll from the eruption at the deadly Japanese volcano now standing at 48

Mail Online

• Nagano police said the death toll from Saturday's surprise eruption at Mount Ontake now stands at 48 
  
• It comes after the search for victims of the volcano was called off for a second day amid fears of another explosion
• Hundreds of rescuers from Japanese military had been preparing to scale Mount Ontake by foot and helicopter
• Scientists believe tremors suggest peak could spew out more rock or could even host another steam explosion
• Ash and stones continue to rain down days after Mount Ontake erupted without warning, killing dozens 

By John Hall and Richard Shears for MailOnline

Published: 03:31 GMT, 1 October 2014 | Updated: 11:26 GMT, 1 October 2014

36 now feared dead in Japanese volcano disaster

Mail Online

• Mount Ontake started erupting at lunchtime on Friday spewing out small rock and ash over a two-mile wide area
• Police confirm at least 36 hikers have been located in a state of 'cardiac arrest' and are feared dead
• They are Japan's first deaths from volcanic eruption since 1991, when 43 people died at Mount Unzen
• Rescue efforts with army helicopters were used to airlift survivors from the mountain side
• The volcano is 230km west of Tokyo but has not yet caused any disruption to flights in and out of the city
• Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has instructed the military to rescue the hikers from the area
• Rescue efforts have now been called off due to rising levels of toxic gas near summit and approaching nightfall 

By Darren Boyle for MailOnline and Corey Charlton for MailOnline

Published: 09:30 GMT, 28 September 2014 | Updated: 15:51 GMT, 29 September 2014

The Real Reason Japan is Building Roads in Poor Countries Everywhere

By Daniel Otis | Resilient Cities   |   June 24, 2014

 

Many roads in Cambodia have been upgraded thanks to JICA’s assistance. Photo credit: Allie Caulfield via Flickr

Japan marks three year anniversary of deadly earthquake and tsunami

DAILY NEWS  

It's been three years since a massive 9.0 magnitude earthquake and tsunami pummeled Japan on March 11, 2011, claiming more than 19,000 lives and sparking nuclear disaster at the Fukushima power plant.

Balloons in the shape of doves are released into the air during a memorial service for tsunami victims at the former Yuriage junior high school in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture on March 11, 2014 on the third anniversary of the massive earthquake and tsunami that hit northern Japan.

PHOTOS: THE JAPANESE TSUNAMI: THREE YEARS LATER

DAILY NEWS

Striking before & after shots show impact of Japanese tsunami three years later

Photo: Kyodo /Landov./ Published: 03/7/2014 11:48:41

 

Three years after the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami devastated the northeast coast of Honshu, Japan, see how the area rebuilt and recovered.

The Tohoku tsunami and earthquake: Three years later

Washed-up ships and debris littered an area straddling Higashimatsushima and Ishinomaki in the Miyagi Prefecture on March 14, 2011, three days after the earthquake and tsunami. By March 3, 2014, the area had been rebuilt.