Posts Tagged With: Earthquake

US Military Spent $35 Million To Evacuate Families from Japan

» by GI Korea October 4th, 2011 at 9:37 am » Comments (2)

I wonder where the money came from to fund this evacuation?: The Department of Defense paid nearly $35 million for U.S. military families who chose to flee Japan amid the Fukushima ...more »

Kevin Maher Comments On Japanese Response To Nuclear Crisis

» by GI Korea August 18th, 2011 at 5:25 pm » Comments (3)

Kevin Maher is in the Japanese news again this week. ROK Heads may remember that Maher was the State Department official in Okinawa that was sacked when Japanese students conspiring ...more »

Picture of the Day: Japanese Villages Thank US Military

» by GI Korea August 1st, 2011 at 1:00 pm » Comments (8)

Via Japan Probe comes news of how a number of Japanese villages are thanking the US military for their disaster relief response: Many of the places where U.S. personnel worked were ...more »

Picture of the Day: Before & After of the Japanese Tsunami Recovery

» by GI Korea June 16th, 2011 at 12:51 pm » Comments (0)

Here are some pictures from the Daily Mail via the Marmot's Hole of the progress made in recovering from the Japanese tsunami 3 months ago: There is a whole lot more ...more »

US Soldiers Help Clean Up Japanese Train Station

» by GI Korea April 26th, 2011 at 3:37 am » Comments (1)

Here is another story about how the US military is assisting with the relief effort in Japan: The stretch at Nobiru, about halfway down the line, was one of the ...more »

US Troops Help Remove Debris In Tsunami Ravaged Areas In Japan

» by GI Korea April 25th, 2011 at 3:36 am » Comments (0)

US troops continue to help in the relief effort in Japan. It’s everywhere. In all shapes and sizes. And it will take years to dispose of it all. Despite a unified ...more »

Historical Tsunami Markers Ignored In Northern Japan

» by GI Korea April 8th, 2011 at 6:50 pm » Comments (53)

I thought this was a pretty interesting article about how Japanese from centuries past had developed a system of markers to warn people where not to build due to tsunamis, ...more »

Picture of the Day: American & Japanese Tsunami Relief Cooperation

» by GI Korea April 5th, 2011 at 1:02 pm » Comments (4)

The Japanese media has not been ignoring the relief work that thousands of American military personnel have been performing since the March 11th earthquake and tsunami. I’ve seen ...more »

Details Emerge About the Fukushima 50

» by GI Korea April 5th, 2011 at 6:00 am » Comments (1)

When the Fukushima nuclear disaster is finally resolved the people of Japan are going to owe quite a debt of gratitude to the 50 TEPCO workers who have worked non-stop ...more »

Some USFJ Families Use Japanese Disaster for All Expenses Paid Government Vacation

» by GI Korea March 31st, 2011 at 7:47 am » Comments (15)

Remember when the voluntary evacuation of US military families from Japan was supposed to just be a plane ticket to Korea and that was it? Well now it is has ...more »