Tokyo The population losses in Ishinomaki and Onagawa were different than New Orleans. After Katrina, a city that had evacuated was (is!) unable to return with 80% of the housing flooded. The Great Eastern Japan Earthquake and the tsunami that followed virtually wiped out everything in its path, killed, destroyed, and returned to the sea. …
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The Face of Disaster Attack in Ishinomaki and Onagawa, Japan
Sendai We left Sendai at 7PM to visit with families and worker cooperatives along the coast in the wake of the earthquake and the path of the tsunami in Ishinomaki and Onagawa, and now more than 12 hours later on the Shinkansen train from Sendai to Tokyo, I can really only make note of what …
Japanese Workers’ Co-operative Union & Recovery Challenges of the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake
Sendai Sendai is the largest city in eastern Japan about 2-hours by Shinkansen (bullet train) from Tokyo central station. A lot of the recovery efforts from the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake, as it is called here, and the tsunami are centered here along with the recovery office of the Japanese Workers’ Co-operative Union (JWCU). Sendai …