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Earthquake hits Tohoku
The world's fourth largest earthquake since 1900 strikes near Japan's northeast coast at a magnitude of 9.0. This earthquake triggered a massive tsunami that destroyed towns and cities, around 20,000 people were killed. -
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Tohoku
Tohoku was hit with an earthquake of 9 magnitude and that caused a tsunami wave to it japan as well. -
Explosion at plant
The Japanese government is ordering an evacuation of people living near the plant, where an explosion rips through a reactor building. -
Rehabilitation and Reconstruction
Japan announced that they were netering the rebuilding stage from the disasters that struck them. -
Aftershocks
In this one of more than 500 strong aftershocks that took place after the first earthquake and tsunami , four people are killed and there are 140 injured. This afershock earthquake was a magnitude of 7.1. -
As bad as Chernobyl
Japan re-assesed its earlier assesment of the severity of the nuclear emergency to being a maximum level seven on an international scale , equal with Chernobyl -
Recession
Data was collected and it showed that Japan's economywent back into a recession because of the disaster impact. -
Green Energy
In order to avoid another accident wit nuclear reactors Prime Minister Naoto Kan says that by 2020 Japan will have boosedt its share of green energy to 20 percent of their total power supply. -
Cattle Ban
Japan banned all the shipments of cattle from Fukushima for fear of radiation in the meat. -
Radioactive Tests
Japan tested childrean and found traces of radioactive elements in the thyroid glands of 45% of the children from the region around they nucler plant explosion. -
Effects
Prime Minister Kan resigned after only 15 months in office, he resigned because of the criticism of his leadership in the aftermath og these disasters. His resignation made him the 5th minister in 5 years. -
Fission Fears
Tokyo Electric Power, plant operator, says that it fears nuclear fission has restarted inside one of the reactors in Fukushima. -
Recovery Budget
Parliment passes its third extra recivery budget of 12.1 trillion yen (157 billion dollars) to help the rebuilding process. -
Reactors Tamed
Japan sets to announce that it has tamed the leaking nuclear reactors caused by explosions set off by the earthquake and tsunami.
