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Just before the six-year anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake,the FPCJ held a press tour to the prefectures of Fukushima and Miyagi. The tour covered three themes:

1. Food, tourism, and renewable energy: Fukushima’s challenge

2. Passing on the lessons of the disaster: Disaster-prevention tourism in Minamisanriku

3. Aiming for sustainable development amidst population decline: Rebuilding Onagawa.

  A total of 13 journalists participated in the tour, from France, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Switzerland, Taiwan, and the UAE.

 

Click here for further details on the tour

Click here for further details on the tour

Click here for a log of real-time Twitter updates from during the tour

 

Below are some of the articles and programs produced by the journalists based on this press tour.

 

 

Channel News Asia (Singapore/TV）

(1) Video & Article: March 11, 2017

Japan's Quake & Tsunami, Progress of Reconstruction in Onagawa

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/6-years-on-towns-affected-by-japan-s-mar-11-tsunami-continue-on/3587412.html　

 

(2) Video: March 11, 2017

Fukushima finds other ways to survive as tourists slowly return

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/videos/fukushima-finds-other-ways-to-survive-as-tourists-slowly-return-8551342

 

(3) Video: March 12, 2017

Tsunami Anniversary: Returning to devastated Minamisanriku, 6 years later

https://twitter.com/ChristineMCNA/status/840839895048372224

 

 

The Central News Agency (Taiwan/News Agency)

(1) Article: March 10, 2017

311防災觀光巴士 旅客想像海嘯威力

http://www.cna.com.tw/news/ahel/201703100487-1.aspx

 

(2) Article: March 10, 2017

走出311強震陰霾 日女川町長重建築夢

http://www.cna.com.tw/news/ahel/201703100479-1.aspx

 

(3) Article: March 11, 2017

避難夫妻種蘆筍 相信福島產品最安全

http://www.cna.com.tw/news/ahel/201703100483-1.aspx

 

 

United Daily News (Taiwan/Newspaper)

(1) Article: March 11, 2017

日擬砸13億 掃福島汙名秀「食」力

https://udn.com/news/story/6809/2336904　

 

(2) Video & Article: March 11, 2017

福島農夫栽蘆筍 自賣自誇通過檢驗

https://video.udn.com/news/655173　           

 

(3) Article: March 11, 2017

從311海嘯中復興 日本溫泉鄉學台灣釣蝦場

https://udn.com/news/story/6809/2335349

 

 

YTN（South Korea/TV）

Video: March 11, 2017

"첫째도 둘째도 안전"...안전에 목숨 건 후쿠시마

http://www.ytn.co.kr/_ln/0104_201703110943372631

 

 

ITAR-TASS (Russia/News Agency)

Article: March 11, 2017

"Нам пришлось отмывать каждое дерево": шесть лет после аварии на АЭС "Фукусима-1"

http://tass.ru/mezhdunarodnaya-panorama/4080732