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On 27 March 2011, Japan's National Police Agency reported that 14 of its officers had died in the line of duty in the disaster and a further 16 were missing. [69] The government in Japan committed to cleaning up the damage from the disaster, an effort forecast to cost a total of ¥1 trillion (US$8 billion). [70]
3.11 Surviving Japan was immediately picked up by Yoko Ono's Imagine Peace Website, [15] won the Indiewire project of the week, [16] and Noland won the YouTube Nextup Contest in 2011 using clips from the film. CBC Radio's The Current CBC Television interviewed Yumie Keller, an evacuee from Minamisōma who appeared in the film. [17] [6]
A seismogram recorded in Massachusetts, United States. The magnitude 9.1 (M w) undersea megathrust earthquake occurred on 11 March 2011 at 14:46 JST (05:46 UTC) in the north-western Pacific Ocean at a relatively shallow depth of 32 km (20 mi), [9] [56] with its epicenter approximately 72 km (45 mi) east of the Oshika Peninsula of Tōhoku, Japan, lasting approximately six minutes.
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Kan said Japan should abandon plans to build 14 new reactors by 2030. He wants to "pass a bill to promote renewable energy and questioned whether private companies should be running atomic plants". [42] In August, Kan removed three of Japan's top nuclear energy officials in effort to break ties between government and the atomic industry. [43]
Events in the year 1991 in Japan. It corresponds to Heisei 3 (平成3年) in the Japanese calendar. Incumbents. Emperor: Akihito [1]
According to Japan National Institute of Advanced Industrial and Science general manager Kazuhiro Ishimura said on 23 October, the volcano ash height estimate on 16,000 to 19,000 meters (52,493 to 62,335 foot) and 100 million cubic square meters ash volume, second largest volume ash eruption in territory of Japan's history. [citation needed]
The 3 November 1945 declaration was made in Indonesia, encouraging the formation of political parties as part of democracy.; Irvin Charles Mollison was sworn in as a U.S. Customs Court judge in New York City, becoming the first African-American to serve on the federal bench within the continental United States.