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JAPAN
Tsunami Brings Sea Change to Tohoku
By Suvendrini Kakuchi
MINAMI-SANRIKU, Japan - Yumi Goto, 60, lives with her husband in a temporary shelter on a windy hill that overlooks vast stretches of tsunami-devastated seacoast where her home was once located.
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JAPAN
Pushing Nuclear Exports After Fukushima
By Suvendrini Kakuchi
TOKYO - Japan plans to boost civilian nuclear exports even as it tries to appease its population angered at radiation leaks from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, crippled by an earthquake and tsunami on Mar. 11, last year.
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JAPAN
New Year Brings Economic Aftershocks
By Suvendrini Kakuchi
AIZUWAKAMASTU, Japan - Hideo Sato, 47, and his family escaped to this snowy city 200 km from the radiation emitting Fuksuhima power plant that was struck by a massive earthquake-driven tsunami on Mar. 11.
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SRI LANKA
Tsunami Demons Haunt the Coast
By Amantha Perera
COLOMBO - Seven years after monster waves crashed into homes, hotels and vehicles on Sri Lanka’s coast, people in this island nation continue to be haunted by demons from the sea.
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JAPAN
Mothers Rise Against Nuclear Power
By Suvendrini Kakuchi
TOKYO - Japan’s nuclear power industry, which once ignored opposition, now finds its existence threatened by women angered by official opaqueness on radiation from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant after it was struck by an earthquake- driven tsunami on Mar. 11.
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Floods Leave Thai Economy Gasping
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK - No guns are needed in this battle. Only the muscle of Thai soldiers defending a sprawling industrial estate on the eastern end of this city from an advancing enemy - flood waters.
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JAPAN
Training Volunteers to Deal With Disasters
By Dennis Engbarth
TOKYO - Seven months after a massive earthquake and tsunami devastated northeastern Japan, Japanese citizens and relief organisations are working to learn from the tragedy in order to mitigate the fatal impact of future natural calamities at home and abroad.
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JAPAN
Women Fight to Save Fukushima's Children
By Suvendrini Kakuchi
TOKYO - Hundreds of Japanese women have been converging on the Japanese capital demanding better relief for some 30,000 children exposed to nuclear radiation by the Fukushima meltdown.
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ENVIRONMENT-THAILAND
'Bangkok Ignored Warnings'
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK - This sinking mega-city’s eight million people are paying the price of ignoring warnings over many years concerning its climate vulnerability and the incapacity of its soggy foundations to handle flooding.
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THAILAND
Bangkok Braces for Month of Floods
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK - As the Thai Airways flight descends into Suvarnabhumi International Airport, passengers pull out cameras to snap pictures of flood waters rising inexorably and predicted to inundate the capital city by the end of the week.
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JAPAN
Forests Provide Cover for Recovery
By Suvendrini Kakuchi
TOKYO - In the wake of the massive tsunami that devastated the Tohoku region in March, Japan has witnessed a sharp rise in wood imports for temporary housing units and other recovery projects.
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NEPAL
Quake Strategy Needs a Jolt
By Sudeshna Sarkar
KATHMANDU - Though Nepal was relatively unscathed by the earthquake that wreaked havoc in the adjacent areas of India this week, it showed up this Himalayan country’s inadequate disaster preparedness.
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PAKISTAN
Flood Relief by Caste, Creed
By Zofeen Ebrahim
BADIN, Sindh - With just the clothes on their backs, Moora Sanafdhano, 68, and his family of nine waded through waist-deep flood waters swirling through their village of Allah Ditto Leghari, saving themselves in the nick of time.
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Fukushima Clouds Hiroshima Anniversary
By Suvendrini Kakuchi
TOKYO - Matashichi Oishi, 78, a radiation victim from Bikini Atoll, the site of a U.S. hydrogen bomb test in 1954, will make his annual lone visit this week to commemorate the Aug. 6 anniversary of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima 66 years ago.
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PAKISTAN
After the Flood, Green Homes
By Zofeen Ebrahim
KARACHI - Subhan Khatoon’s brand new home is nothing like the one that got washed away, along with all her worldly goods, in the 2010 monsoon floods that submerged a fifth of Pakistan and left 2,000 people dead.
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As time passes since Asia's killer tsunami wiped out close to 290,000 people from Sumatra to Somalia, communities continue their efforts to rebuild their lives. The tsunami struck on Dec. 26, 2004, the day after Christmas. U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, said it was an ''unprecedented global catastrophe'' that required an ''unprecedented global response''. And the world responded.

Some aspects of the relief effort have gone well, some have not. IPS stands committed to our journalistic duty to provide our readers with insight into how communities are piecing themselves back together after the horror.