TSUNAMI

Google has a crisis response team working round the clock monitoring the emergencies and coming out with unique applications to cater the affected people anywhere in the world. Person finder was launched within 72 hours of earthquake hitting Haiti. For New Zealand it didn’t take more than three hours, and for Japan, it was just two hours.

The Tokyo Electric Power Co.(TEPCO) said on Sunday the bodies of two workers at the damaged Fukushia nuclear plant have been found. The bodies of the two young workers, Kazuhiko Kokubo and Yoshiki Terashima, were found a week ago, but they had to be decontaminated before being handed over to the relatives.

A 6.7 magnitude earthquake struck off the the Southern coast of Indonesia's Java island on Monday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

Sony hinted in a recent interview that the Japanese giant would supply its 8-megapixel camera sensor to Apple, most likely for the upcoming iPhone 5. But just how did this consumer-electronics rival end up supplying parts to power its most formidable opponent?

In a recent interview, Sony CEO Howard Stringer said that his company was gearing up to supply Apple with a powerful 8 megapixel camera, most likely for use in its forthcoming iPhone 5.

For the first time since the north-eastern zone of Japan was devastated by earthquake and tsunami, the country's prime minister Naoto Kan visited the area and met the employees working to control the overheated reactors in the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex.

The grim search for bodies in the quake-and-tsunami devastated region of northeastern Japan has so far yielded 18 corpses, as Japanese Self-Defense Forces (SDF) and U.S. military personnel embark on a three-day intensive search for missing people, according to Japan’s Defense Ministry.

Japanese manufacturers' business sentiment improved slightly in the three months to March, the Bank of Japan's closely watched tankan survey showed, but analysts anticipate a downturn in confidence this quarter following last month's devastating earthquake and tsunami and subsequent nuclear crisis.

Investors are putting their faith in Japan's ability to recover from its major disasters, barely changing their equity exposure to the stricken country despite earthquake, tsunami and nuclear breakdown.

The Japanese government said it has no plans currently to widen the evacuation zone outside the damaged nuclear power plant at Fukushima, despite warnings from the UN nuclear watchdog that high radiation levels have been detected beyond the current no-go zone.

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Swiss jeweler and creator of the crown of Miss Japan 2011, Louis Golay International, has handed to the brand's Japanese ambassadress Marie Yanaka, the original drawing of the crown.

Apple will deliver its iPhone 5 in its late fourth quarter ending Sept. 2011, according to an analyst from BMO Capital Markets.

Celebrities such as Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus and Natalie Portman have all been victims of online death rumors. The last victim was actor Jackie Chan

ThinkEquity lowered its profit estimate of Nvidia Corp. citing lower PC graphics growth.

Dramatic rooftop video from Japan's Kesennuma port shows a close-up view of powerful tsunami floods which completely devastated the town on March 11.

On Monday, Lady Gaga celebrated her 25th birthday. Like most people her age, the pop star decided to celebrate her birthday with a nice dinner with friends.

About 4,000 bodies remain unidentified in the three prefectures at the very center of the March 11 earthquake-tsunami catastrophe, according to Japan’s National Police Agency (NPA).

The much-criticized operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant, Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), may become nationalized when the government completes its review of the utility’s handling of the ongoing crisis.

Japan has gone into a state of maximum alert after plutonium was found in the soil around the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant and radioactive water leaked from a reactor in the plant.

Japanese auto major Nissan Motors is committed to making all efforts to support the restoration of the areas impacted by the earthquake, with sincere hopes that relief and recovery progresses as quickly as possible, the carmaker said in a statement.