The severe storms that carved a path of destruction across large swaths of the American South this week caused an estimated $2 billion to $5 billion in insured losses, catastrophe modeling firm Eqecat said Friday.
In her cramped downtown office where wedding dress displays fight for space with file cabinets, Miyuki Uekusa has been busy answering the phone for the past month.
Embassies from more than two dozen countries have either closed down or moved operations to cities south of Tokyo since the March 11 earthquake and the resulting nuclear crisis in northern Japan, the country's Foreign Ministry said Wednesday.
The scene might have been lifted from from one of those digital effect-laden Hollywood catastrophe movies -- except this time it was all too real.
Fortune: Tokyo in mourningupdated: Mon Mar 14 2011 15:43:00
Once you get off the plane in Tokyo and past customs and immigration, the wreckage is everywhere to be seen -- on television, at least. In the arrivals hall of Narita airport, on a huge flat screen high definition television, I watched scenes of the extraordinary devastation from coastal towns and villages as I waited for my bus ticket. My ordinary little TV screen in Shanghai, where I live, didn't do it justice. The stunning images from NHK, Japan's national broadcaster, of the northeastern coastal towns completely destroyed by the tsunami that devastated them, had everyone's attention. People -- Japanese and foreigners alike -- were quiet, watching.
While the full extent of the disaster's aftermath is not yet clear, the earthquake and tsunami that devastated parts of Japan could be the most expensive quake in history.
CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta explains how to protect yourself from the polluted air in your city.
For the last several days, I have been in beautiful Kobe, Japan, reporting about the World Health Organization forum on urbanization and health.
When I look back on the year 2010, I will remember spending so much of the year in disaster zones. Between Haiti and Pakistan alone, I spent months on the ground seeing firsthand the aftermath of an earthquake and floods.
Since the 1995 Kobe earthquake, the city has rebuilt itself as "disaster-proof." CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports.
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Japanese scientists have produced clones of mice that have been dead and frozen for 16 years -- a feat that could lead researchers to one day resurrect long-extinct species, such as the mammoth.
Japanese scientists have cloned healthy mice from bodies kept in a deep freeze for 16 years. ITN's Emily Reuben reports.
Fortune: Tuna Troubleupdated: Mon Mar 05 2007 00:01:00
THE CARPET OF SUSHI-GRADE TUNA lining the floor of Tokyo's Tsukiji fish market offers a tempting display of the day's catch for wholesalers willing to bid tens of thousands of dollars for a specime...
Kobe Steel Ltd. ranks no. 461 on FORTUNE's Global 500 this year, with $14.7 billion in revenues, up 9.6% from the previous year. The Kobe, Japan-based company was ranked no. 462 on the 2005 list. Its 2005 profits were $0.7 billion, up 56.5% from a year earlier.
The Daiei, Inc. ranks no. 452 on FORTUNE's Global 500 this year, with $14.9 billion in revenues, down 12.3% from the previous year. The Kobe, Japan-based company was ranked no. 353 on the 2005 list. Its 2005 profits were $3.7 billion.
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Government ministers from tsunami-ravaged Asian nations have failed to overcome their differences on which country should host a proposed early warning system in the Indian Ocean.
Government ministers from tsunami-ravaged Asian nations are gathering on the island of Phuket to plan for a proposed tsunami early warning system in the Indian Ocean.
In the wake of last month's tsunami disaster in the Indian Ocean, countries attending a United Nations conference on disaster reduction have agreed to pursue a plan aimed at reducing the risk posed by natural disasters.
I confess that there are moments when I berate myself for holding any conservative investments. Like many investors, I just can't help thinking of what might have been: "If only I'd bought Qualcomm...
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