japan tsunami News

Vancouver - Although no one knows exactly when or where it will land, officials with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans in Victoria, BC know it's coming and they are expecting approximately 1.5 million tons of it.

Morioka - The town of Rikuzentakata in Japan started a Facebook campaign to save the only tree left standing after the tsunami that hit the coast of the country in March 2011.

Toxic substances from the March 2011 tsunami that roared across Japan are reaching U.S. states along the West Coast, and contamination is a risk, scientists said Monday.

If soccer balls could talk this one would tell a story about floating and floating and then floating. It is from a school in Japan and was swept out to sea in last year's Tsunami and, after a year of floating, it has turned up on an Alaskan shore.

Stone memorial built on city land in pine grove at beach of town hit by tsunami. First of 500 coastal monuments includes engraved advice in English.

Google publishes street-level photos of 82 cities and villages in northern Japan devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. Users can compare before-and-after images of the area.

Tokyo - News reports from Japan have revealed that car dealers in the country are selling automobiles that were contaminated by radiation following the Japanese earthquake and tsunami that resulted in a series of meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

Detroit - Lady Gaga finds herself in another controversy with the recent filing of a lawsuit that alleges Gaga improperly profited from the sale of her "We Pray for Japan" wristbands which were sold to raise money for Japanese earthquake and tsunami relief efforts.

Tokyo - Eight weeks after the deadly 9.0 earthquake and tsunami in Japan caused a meltdown at the Daiichi nuclear plant, Prime Minister Naoto Kan on Friday ordered a shutdown of the Hamaoka nuclear plant due to its location near a risky tectonic faultline.

For the first time since the devastating earthquake and ensuing tsunami hit the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant in northeastern Japan, workers were able to enter one of the reactor buildings of the disabled plant.