Anne Kaneko's Fukushima Blog

Hi It's 3 years since that fateful day, 11th March 2011, 2:46 in the afternoon. The day everything changed and time stood still. It...

Hi All eyes are on the village of Miyakoji (都路) where the ban is to be lifted - the first ban to be lifted in what used to be the exclusio...

Hi I had lunch last week with a couple of guys I got to know from the Kasetsu (temporary shelter) in Koriyama for evacuees from Tomioka. I...

Hi A week since the Big Snow. We've been treated to the unusual sight of trucks taking the snow away and there are diggers knawing at ...

Photo from TV programme 'Interim Storage Facilities Go Off Course' (TV Asahi, 11 February 2014) Hi There’s been some progress...

Outside the station yesterday Hi Extreme weather in the UK, in the US and here in Japan. Another weekend of record-breaking snow, not...

Hi It started snowing on Friday night and didn't stop until Sunday morning. There's about 6 inches in Koriyama and about the same ...

Opening of new Hohacho store of York Benimaru, Saturday 1 February 2014  Hi, Those of you who have been following this blog from the b...

Hi folks There's no snow in Koriyama at the moment though it's cold. Very cold. The upside is that on fine days, like yesterday, w...

Hi The new year is a time for resolutions and plans for the future. But Toden's new business plan has not got down well here. Buoyed b...