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Media training specialist and public relations industry veteran David Wagner shares his insights on the outcome of the Tokyo Olympics and expectations on whether PM Suga can continue to lead the nation amid waning popularity. Aaron and Parker discuss a Japanese mayor under fire for biting Olympian's gold medal, Sony's profits from the Demon Slayer cash cow, and a Central Japan doctor criticized after delivering a baby under the influence of alcohol.

Media training specialist and public relations industry veteran David Wagner explains how he played a role in the Japanese government's global communications in the aftermath of the March 11, 2011 triple disaster. Aaron and Parker discuss the upcoming Suga-Biden summit and the Tokyo Electric Power Company chief's decision to skip visiting Fukushima on the 3/11 anniversary.

Hear about travel to the Tohoku Region of Japan as the Amateur Traveler talks to Sandra Thomas-Comenole from the Behavior Economics in Marketing Podcast about her travels in the region.

On this episode of Ichimon Japan we ask: What was it like in Fukushima during the Tohoku earthquake?

Note: This is part one of a two part series.

Topics Discussed

• A firsthand account of what the 2011 Tohoku earthquake felt like in Iwaki City, Fukushima Prefecture
• The 2011 tsunami
• The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster and concerns over radiation
• What some English teachers in Iwaki City in Fukushima Prefecture did after the earthquake
• What it was like being in Osaka and Kobe during the 2011 Tohoku earthquake
• The lack of commercials on Japanese TV in the days following the 2011 Tohoku earthquake
• And more!

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If you would like to learn more about the effects of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, you should check out episode nine of the Japan Station podcast. This episode features an interview with Richard Lloyd Parry, author of Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone.

• Japan Station 09: Ghosts of the Tsunami (Richard Lloyd Parry)

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• Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone

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Episode nine of the Japan Station podcast is here and this time we're talking about the devastating 9.0-magnitude earthquake that struck off the coast of Japan's Tohoku region on March 11, 2011.

Richard Lloyd Parry is an award-winning foreign correspondent, the Asia Editor at The Times of London in Tokyo, and author of the book Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone. In this episode we talk about the experiences of people that lived through the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, the tragedy at Okawa Elementary School where 74 of the 78 students present when the tsunami struck died, the reports of possessions and ghosts that arose in the months after the tsunami, whether Japanese society has learned anything from this tragedy, and more.

Note: In the episode Richard states that Okawa Elementary School is four miles away from the coast. It appears he mistakenly said miles instead of kilometers because all information found online indicates that Okawa Elementary School, which is now a memorial, is roughly 4-5 kilometers from the coast.