provinceorstate:miyagi prefecture

JR East, JR West develop E7 bullet train - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

▻http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/social_affairs/AJ201311290010

RIFU, Miyagi Prefecture—East Japan Railway Co. and West Japan Railway Co. on Nov. 28 unveiled their first jointly developed high-speed train, describing it as a combination of Japanese tradition and state-of-the-art technology.

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The new E7 series, shown to the media at a rail yard in Rifu, Miyagi Prefecture, will debut in March 2015, when the Nagano-Kanazawa route of the Hokuriku Shinkansen Line is expected to start services. The new bullet train can cover the Tokyo-Kanazawa section in two hours and a half at the fastest, the companies said.

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When a Tsunami Comes, Tweet | Inter Press Service
▻http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/04/when-a-tsunami-comes-tweet

Soon after the deadly tsunami struck Kesennuma city in the Miyagi Prefecture in Northern Japan on Mar. 11, 2011, 59-year-old Naoko Utsumi found herself on the rooftop of a community centre with only one line of communication to the outside world – the email option on her mobile phone.

Utsumi emailed her husband who in turn emailed their son in London, more than 9,500 km away. From London, the youth sent a direct message via the micro-blogging site Twitter to the deputy governor of Tokyo who initiated an air rescue not only of his mother but of more than 400 others who had sought refuge on the rooftop, according to a new report titled Connecting the Last Mile, The Role of Communications in the Great East Japan Earthquake from Internews, an international non-governmental organisation that works on issues related to media and information dissemination.

The report examines the role of new media, especially Internet-based formats like Twitter and Facebook, in communicating effectively in the aftermath of the tsunami.

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Tsunami-related standing water bodies, Sendai, Miyagi prefecture, Japan | UNITAR-UNOSAT

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This map illustrates satellite-detected standing bodies of water remaining after the tsunami event over the city of Sendai and affected areas south in Miyagi Prefecture. Flood waters were identified through an analysis of Radarsat-2 satellite data recorded 12 March 2011 with a medium degree of confidence. This is a preliminary analysis & has not yet been validated in the field. It is possible that tsunami-related water bodies areas have been underestimated in areas with high debris levels.

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