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And yet, when Tohoku Electric officials said that the gym was safe from radiation, evacuees believed them.

Tohoku is now cited as the likely focus of a national drive to develop renewable energy.

The coveted catch in the waters along the Tohoku coastline accounted for about 25% of the total, before the natural disaster hit.

IN A foyer of the engineering department of Tohoku University in Sendai stands a handsome yellow robot with claws and caterpillar tracks.

Some rebuilding can be financed by redirecting spending from useless white-elephant projects to the higher priority of remaking Tohoku.

Not least, the fortitude and determination shown by the people of Tohoku have offered an inspirational model for a discouraged nation.

Toyota also has announced plans to open a new factory in Tohoku, the region hit by the tsunami.

IN YESTERDAY'S daily chart we looked at the possible cost to Japan's economy of this month's Tohoku earthquake.

According to Bishop Seraphim, most of the church buildings in Tohoku parish along the Pacific coast are severely damaged.

The tsunami and earthquake have done terrible damage to Tohoku.

At Sendai's 77 Bank, the largest in the Tohoku region, loans were less than 60 per cent of assets at the end of September.

To do so, Mr Kan needs to craft a message as substantial as the challenges Tohoku faces.

In Tohoku the outflow of young people has been accelerated by the disaster, which destroyed local industries.

Before the March tsunami, even most Japanese were unaware that the Tohoku region produced anything other than rice and fish.

People of the Tohoku region are stoic, compassionate, calm and humble.

The starkest example of this concerns the poverty of the northern Tohoku region, which was devastated by the earthquake and tsunami.

A handwritten message had been left with the cash and read: "I am all alone. Please let the people of Tohoku use it. "

Tohoku, the north-east region of Honshu island where today's quake struck hardest, accounts for 8% of the country's GDP.

Tohoku is the northern region of Japan hit by the earthquake and tsunami in March.

The damage in the Tohoku region, by contrast, is spread out across a long coastline and the tsunami was especially destructive.

Monday's tremor caused some injuries and damage to many homes exactly one month after March 11 quake that decimated the Tohoku region.

No candidate has yet explained how to rebuild Tohoku, devastated by the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident in March.

Once the immediate disaster relief is over, the first thing Tohoku will need is more young people.

Tohoku, the region of which the devastated coast is part, would certainly be a good place to start.

He has yet to spell out deregulatory proposals that would encourage private companies to invest, in Tohoku and elsewhere.

On that fateful day over 7000 schools were destroyed or damaged by the Tsunami, mostly in the coastline area of Tohoku region.

One factor is the physical differences between Kobe and Tohoku.

Miyagi Prefecture in the Tohoku region where the main magnitude 8. 8 earthquake and tsunami.

In 2005, Tohoku University's Kazuhiro Kosuge debuted a series of ballroom dancing androids, complete with fancy dresses.

In addition, a report on the performance of concrete dams subjected to the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake is presented.

More broadly, Mr Kan should seize the national mood of solidarity with Tohoku to persuade people to accept difficult reforms.

Sendai, after all, is home to Tohoku University, one of the nation's top science and technology schools.

Recovery in stricken Tohoku has been quicker than many had expected.

Around 480, 000 volunteers from non-profit organisations (NPOs as they are known) streamed into the Tohoku region.

Mw 9. 0 Off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake, Japan.

If people stop buying rice from Tohoku . . . we'll have a tricky problem. '

Given Tohoku's devastation, it is worth a try there.

The number of homes without electricity has dropped to about 247, 000 from 4. 7 million on March 12, according to Tohoku Electric Power Co.

The most exposed Japanese companies, naturally, are those closest to the epicenter of the earthquake in Japan's northeastern Tohoku region.

Reported that the earthquake in Japan's Tohoku Electric Power Company will take the same measures to limit power.

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