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[ad_1] A hefty book containing some 750 letters from Japanese students expressing gratitude for support they received from the United States after the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake has been preserved by a descendant of then-U.S. President Calvin Coolidge, a Japanese research team has learned.Researchers from Tohoku University and other institutions were shown the letters, written in English by students from disaster-affected areas and elsewhere in Japan. With the discovery coinciding […]

[ad_1] Japan's Reconstruction Agency is sharing insights garnered from the aftermath of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami with nations facing similar challenges.In the current fiscal year, which ends in March, the agency has drawn up a document titled "Great East Japan Earthquake Lessons Learned & Know-How Gained." The document is an English version of an original Japanese text that compiles from many regions examples of rebuilding infrastructure and the […]

[ad_1] Taipei – The head of China's Taiwan Affairs Office on Tuesday called on Taiwan's people to promote the process of "peaceful reunification," saying it was the common desire of people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. Song Tao's message, which comes less than two week's before Taiwan holds presidential and parliamentary elections on Jan. 13, follows President Xi Jinping's remarks in his New Year Eve's address that China's […]