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千葉県では、開催まで１年を切った東京2020大会に向け、国内外から訪れる競技の観戦客や観光客等に向けたプロモーション動画を制作しました。
本動画では、千葉県内で開催されるサーフィンやパラテコンドーをはじめとする８つの競技に加え、大会の開催時期である夏に楽しめる観光や自然、伝統行事等の魅力を紹介しています。
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以下、動画の中で紹介している千葉県各所の魅力です。
00:15:00 幕張メッセ
幕張メッセは、千葉市幕張新都心に立つ、日本有数のコンベンション施設です。毎年数々の展示会、コンサート等が開催されており、東京2020大会ではテコンドーやフェンシングをはじめ７競技が開催されます。
00:22:00 太巻き寿司
太巻き寿司は、古くから冠婚葬祭や集まりの時のごちそうとして受け継がれ、千葉県の郷土料理を代表するものです。切り口に富士山や花、蝶等の美しい絵が出るように考えて作られています。
00:34:00 ふなばしアンデルセン公園
ふなばしアンデルセン公園は、「トリップアドバイザー」が選ぶ“日本のテーマパーク部門”で3位、“アジアのテーマパーク部門”で10位にランクインした船橋市の公園です。東京2020大会の開催時期には園内のヒマワリが咲き誇ります。
00:44:00 成田空港
成田市にある成田空港は、首都圏における国際線基幹空港であり、千葉県はもとより、首都圏及び我が国における経済発展の核となる国際的な戦略拠点となっています。
00:54:00 釣ヶ崎海岸サーフィンビーチ
釣ヶ崎海岸サーフィンビーチは、九十九里浜の最南端に位置し、「世界最高レベル」ともいわれる良質な波を求めて多くのサーファーが訪れる海岸です。長生郡一宮町にあります。東京2020大会では、オリンピック競技として初めてサーフィンが開催されます。
01:02:00 房州うちわ作り体験
千葉県南房総市や館山市で古くから作られてきた千葉県指定伝統的工芸品であり、日本三大うちわの一つです。地域に自生する竹を原料にし、すべての製作工程が手作業で行われています。
01:14:00 ブルーベリー狩り
千葉県におけるブルーベリーの主な産地は、木更津市、富津市、千葉市、睦沢町、いすみ市です。特に木更津市は、京浜市場に全国でも早期に出荷されるハイブッシュ・ブルーベリーの産地として高い評価を得ています。
01:25:00 清水渓流広場（濃溝の滝・亀岩の洞窟）
君津市にある清水渓流広場（濃溝の滝・亀岩の洞窟）は、Instagram等のSNS映えする撮影ポイントして有名です。運が良い時には、ハート型に光る洞窟を撮影することができます。
01:29:00 ダイヤモンド富士
千葉県では南房総市や館山市等で一年に数回、富士山の山頂部と太陽が重なって生じる光学現象「ダイヤモンド富士」を見ることができます。特に、南房総市にある原岡海岸は、木製の桟橋が海へと伸び、夕暮れ時には幻想的な景色が広がります。
01:37:00 佐原の大祭
香取市で7月に夏祭りが、10月には秋祭りが開催されます。千葉県で初めてユネスコ無形文化遺産に登録された伝統行事です。
01:43:00 幕張ビーチ花火フェスタ
幕張ビーチ花火フェスタは幕張メッセからほど近い、千葉市の幕張海浜公園で毎年8月頃に行われる花火大会です。打上予定数は国内最大級を誇ります。
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Clats 20140126 Funabashi 3 (Disney Medley)
クラリネットアンサンブル「ブレスクラッツ」2014年1月26日船橋キララホールコンサートの動画です。2部前半はディズニー映画から「スモールワールド、ミッキーマーチ、アラジン、パイレーツ」4曲をお送りします。
Japanese Man Convicted of Raping & Killing 22-year-old British Female Teacher
Lindsay Ann Hawker was 22 years old and eager to see the world. She’d just graduated from the University of Leeds in the UK and next her spirit of adventure was taking her to the Land of the Rising Sun. When she arrived in Japan in October 2006, she got a job teaching English with the Nova language school in Koiwa, Tokyo.
Life in a fast-paced foreign city was a far cry from her cosy existence back home where, before university, she’d been living in a village with her very close knit family – parents, Julia and Bill, and her sisters, Lisa and Louise.
But after a few months in her new home, she was settling in. She was excelling in her job and making plans for the future. Her boyfriend of four years, Ryan Garside, had booked a flight and was going to join her soon. They wanted to save some money, travel the globe, then who knows. Maybe marriage, kids. A long life together.
But a devastating chain of events would mean those plans would never come to fruition. On 20 March, a 28-year-old man named Tatsuya Ichihashi spotted Lindsay on a Tozai Line train. He ran after her as she cycled home from Nishi-Funabashi Station to her apartment talking to her about biology (which she’d studied at uni) and begging her for a private English lesson, the Japan Times reported. Ichihashi was insistent.
When Lindsay arrived home, knowing her two room mates were present, she allowed Ichihashi to come inside briefly for a glass of water. It was then he drew a sketch of her on a scrap of paper and scribbled out his address and phone number. That night, Lindsay referred to the incident in a message to her friends and family on her Facebook page.
According to The Telegraph, she wrote: “Love u lots dont worry abt the gut [guy] who chased me home, its jus crazy Japan. miss u xxx.” It was the last thing she’d ever post on the social network.
It seems in the days that followed Lindsay’s helpful nature (or her desire to save as much money as possible for her round the world trip) got the better of her. On 24 March – she agreed to give Ichibashi an English lesson at 10am at a local coffee shop. An email she sent to her boyfriend about her plans confirmed this detail.
After the lesson, Ichibashi told her the money he needed to pay for the lesson was at his apartment. They travelled there together in a taxi but before she popped inside, Lindsay asked the driver to wait.
He did, for seven minutes, he later testified, before driving off. He assumed she'd changed her mind about an ongoing journey.
The next day, Lindsay did not turn up for work. The day after that, staff at the language school called Lindsay's dad. Police began to investigate, quickly finding Ichibashi's note in Lindsay's apartment.
But by the time they got there, it was far too late. As officers tried to apprehend Ichibashi at the front door, he fled in his socks, dropping a rucksack full of cash on his way out.
They searched his apartment and found Lindsay's naked body in a bathtub full of sand on the balcony. A post mortem showed she had been sadistically beaten, raped and strangled. The next day, he'd dragged his bathtub on to the balcony before going out to buy garden soil, a shovel, deodorants and a substance to decompose waste.
He'd buried the body and had been planning his escape when officers arrived at the house, The Guardian reported. A nationwide manhunt was launched but months passed and there was no sign of Ichibashi. Lindsay's family made repeated visits to Japan and requested help from the general public.
At a press conference in March 2008, Bill Hawker said: He murdered my daughter and he might murder again. Breaking down in tears, he added: I have a dreadful feeling of helplessness, a horrible feeling of not being able to do anything.
Last time I was here, I banged on the apartment door where she was murdered and promised Lindsay I'd find her killer. I haven't found him yet but we won't give up.
All up, Ichihashi spent two and half years on the run. During this time, he wrote a book called Until The Arrest, in which he detailed his attempts to change his appearance, including scissoring off his lower lip, digging two moles out of his cheek with a box cutter and giving himself a nose job in an attempt to obscure his identity.
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Tokyo Japan Night Drive - 9/2019 4K 60fps UHD - Ikejiri Machida - 夜の首都高ドライブ - 池尻 町田
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Tokyo, Japan night highway drive.
Time is midnight.
The route is from Ikejiri to Machida.
kejiri is located next to Shibuya and has many luxury apartments.
There are Sangenjaya next to Ikejiri, and many young people live there.
Machida City is a city in the southwestern part of Tokyo, with a population of 430,000.
The area around Machida Station is called “West Shibuya” or “West Akihabara”, where you can feel and enjoy the culture of Shibuya, Harajuku, and Akihabara. In addition, there are many clothing stores, restaurants, game centers, animation / manga / game specialty stores for young people, and there are few maid cafes nearby.
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夜の首都高ドライブ。
時間は深夜。
ルートは池尻から町田。
池尻は渋谷の隣に位置し、多くの高級マンションがあります。
また池尻の隣には三軒茶屋があるため、多くの若者が住んでいます。
町田市は東京の南西部にある都市で、人口43万人が暮らす都市です。
町田駅周辺は渋谷や原宿、秋葉原などの文化を感じ、楽しむことができる場所として、「西の渋谷」「西の秋葉原」などと呼ばれます。
また若者向けの衣料品店や飲食店、ゲームセンター、アニメ・漫画・ゲーム専門店などが多く、近隣では少ないメイド喫茶も出店されています。
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BRAND NEW Mitsubishi elevator - Kadoya Ebihashi Building, Osaka. JP
Filming date: 09.06.2019
Brand new Mitsubishi without LCD. This elevator has 4 car stations and HOLD button. Typical fixtures, which are common in many Asian countries and typical new Mitsubishi's design. The indicator is intended to new Mitsubishi's elevators.
Intro music: TWICE - “Heart Shaker“
Outro music: K-391 - Summertime [Sunshine]
Location: Osaka, JP
All information about elevator is in the video!
Вся информация о лифте в видео!
Съемка лифтов - не преступление
Elevator filming is not a crime.
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Don't Follow the Wind - A Walk in Fukushima
‘What can art do in an ongoing catastrophe, when contamination has made living impossible? The 360 degree video explores ‘Don’t Follow the Wind’ an ongoing exhibition taking place inside the restricted Fukushima Exclusion Zone, the radioactive evacuated area surrounding the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant - owned by TEPCO - established in the wake of the 2011 nuclear disaster separating residents from their homes, land, and community.
12 participating artists, Ai Weiwei, Aiko Miyanaga, Chim↑Pom, Grand Guignol Mirai, Nikolaus Hirsch and Jorge Otero-Pailos, Kota Takeuchi, Eva and Franco Mattes, Meiro Koizumi, Nobuaki Takekawa, Ahmet Öğüt, Trevor Paglen and Taryn Simon, have made new works installed in vacant buildings and homes lent by former residents.
As the Fukushima exclusion zone remains inaccessible to the public, the exhibition will be ongoing but largely invisible – a condition akin to radiation itself – only to be viewed in the future, if and when it becomes safe once again for the residents to return. The exhibition opened on 11 March 2015 but there is no clear timeline for public access to the sites, perhaps 3 years, 10 years, or decades - a period of time that could stretch beyond our lifetime.
The video has been made by the project curators Chim↑Pom (initiators), Kenji Kubota, Eva and Franco Mattes, and Jason Waite. A Walk in Fukushima was commissioned by the 20th Biennale of Sydney and supported by the Google Cultural Institute.
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【Drone aerial photography】Nordic Bicycle City, Danish Capital, Copenhagen
Copenhagen[a] (Danish: København [kʰøpm̩ˈhaʊ̯ˀn] (About this soundlisten)) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark. As of July 2018, the city has a population of 777,218 (616,098 in Copenhagen Municipality, 103,914 in Frederiksberg Municipality, 43,005 in Tårnby Municipality, and 14,201 in Dragør Municipality). It forms the core of the wider urban area of Copenhagen (population 1,320,629) and the Copenhagen metropolitan area (population 2,057,737). Copenhagen is situated on the eastern coast of the island of Zealand; another small portion of the city is located on Amager, and it is separated from Malmö, Sweden, by the strait of Øresund. The Øresund Bridge connects the two cities by rail and road.
Originally a Viking fishing village established in the 10th century in the vicinity of what is now Gammel Strand, Copenhagen became the capital of Denmark in the early 15th century. Beginning in the 17th century it consolidated its position as a regional centre of power with its institutions, defences and armed forces. After a plague outbreak and fire in the 18th century, the city underwent a period of redevelopment. This included construction of the prestigious district of Frederiksstaden and founding of such cultural institutions as the Royal Theatre and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts. After further disasters in the early 19th century when Horatio Nelson attacked the Dano-Norwegian fleet and bombarded the city, rebuilding during the Danish Golden Age brought a Neoclassical look to Copenhagen's architecture. Later, following the Second World War, the Finger Plan fostered the development of housing and businesses along the five urban railway routes stretching out from the city centre.
Since the turn of the 21st century, Copenhagen has seen strong urban and cultural development, facilitated by investment in its institutions and infrastructure. The city is the cultural, economic and governmental centre of Denmark; it is one of the major financial centres of Northern Europe with the Copenhagen Stock Exchange. Copenhagen's economy has seen rapid developments in the service sector, especially through initiatives in information technology, pharmaceuticals and clean technology. Since the completion of the Øresund Bridge, Copenhagen has become increasingly integrated with the Swedish province of Scania and its largest city, Malmö, forming the Øresund Region. With a number of bridges connecting the various districts, the cityscape is characterised by parks, promenades and waterfronts. Copenhagen's landmarks such as Tivoli Gardens, The Little Mermaid statue, the Amalienborg and Christiansborg palaces, Rosenborg Castle Gardens, Frederik's Church, and many museums, restaurants and nightclubs are significant tourist attractions. The largest lake of Denmark, Arresø, lies around 27 miles (43 kilometers) northwest of the City Hall Square.
Copenhagen is home to the University of Copenhagen, the Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen Business School and the IT University of Copenhagen. The University of Copenhagen, founded in 1479, is the oldest university in Denmark. Copenhagen is home to the FC København and Brøndby football clubs. The annual Copenhagen Marathon was established in 1980. Copenhagen is one of the most bicycle-friendly cities in the world.
The Copenhagen Metro launched in 2002 serves central Copenhagen. The Copenhagen Metro is scheduled to expand radically with the opening of the City-ring line during fall 2019, the new line will connect all inner boroughs of the city by metro, including The Central Station, and will open up 17 new stations[9] for Copenhageners. The new metro line is a part of the city's strategy to transform mobility towards sustainable modes of transport such as public transport and cycling as opposed to automobility.[10] Additionally the Copenhagen S-train, the Lokaltog (private railway) and the Coast Line network serves and connects central Copenhagen to outlying boroughs. To relieve traffic congestion, the Fehmarn Belt Fixed Link road and rail construction is planned, because the narrow 9-9.5 mile isthmus between Roskilde Fjord and Køge Bugt (Køge Bay) forms a traffic bottleneck. The Copenhagen-Ringsted Line will relieve traffic congestion in the corridor between Roskilde and Copenhagen.
Serving roughly two million passengers a month, Copenhagen Airport, Kastrup, is the busiest airport in the Nordic countries.
2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
The 2011 earthquake off the Pacific coast of Tōhoku (東北地方太平洋沖地震, Tōhoku-chihō Taiheiyō Oki Jishin) was a magnitude 9.0 (Mw) undersea megathrust earthquake off the coast of Japan that occurred at 14:46 JST (05:46 UTC) on Friday 11 March 2011, with the epicentre approximately 70 kilometres (43 mi) east of the Oshika Peninsula of Tōhoku and the hypocenter at an underwater depth of approximately 30 km (19 mi). The earthquake is also often referred to in Japan as the Great East Japan Earthquake (東日本大震災, Higashi nihon daishinsai) and also known as the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, and the 3.11 Earthquake. It was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded to have hit Japan, and the fifth most powerful earthquake in the world since modern record-keeping began in 1900. The earthquake triggered powerful tsunami waves that reached heights of up to 40.5 metres (133 ft) in Miyako in Tōhoku's Iwate Prefecture, and which, in the Sendai area, travelled up to 10 km (6 mi) inland. The earthquake moved Honshu (the main island of Japan) 2.4 m (8 ft) east and shifted the Earth on its axis by estimates of between 10 cm (4 in) and 25 cm (10 in), and generated sound waves detected by the low orbiting GOCE satellite.
On 10 February 2014, a Japanese National Police Agency report confirmed 15,887 deaths, 6,150 injured, and 2,612 people missing across twenty prefectures, as well as 127,290 buildings totally collapsed, with a further 272,788 buildings 'half collapsed', and another 747,989 buildings partially damaged. The earthquake and tsunami also caused extensive and severe structural damage in north-eastern Japan, including heavy damage to roads and railways as well as fires in many areas, and a dam collapse. Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan said, In the 65 years after the end of World War II, this is the toughest and the most difficult crisis for Japan. Around 4.4 million households in northeastern Japan were left without electricity and 1.5 million without water.
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Japan Expo 15e Impact : Funassyi's Show
Pendant le 15e Impact, la mascotte non officielle de Funabashi, Funassyi, nous a régalés ! Voici donc son show sur la scène anniversaire.
2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:04:45 1 Earthquake
00:07:11 1.1 Geology
00:11:31 1.2 Energy
00:12:46 1.3 Geophysical effects
00:16:51 1.4 Aftershocks
00:19:04 1.5 Earthquake Warning System
00:20:46 2 Tsunami
00:22:00 2.1 Japan
00:34:40 2.2 Elsewhere across the Pacific
00:39:16 3 Land subsidence
00:41:02 4 Casualties
00:41:11 4.1 Japan
00:46:37 4.2 Overseas
00:47:17 5 Damage and effects
00:49:21 5.1 Ports
00:50:39 5.2 Dams and water problems
00:51:45 5.3 Electricity
00:56:15 5.4 Oil, gas and coal
00:57:43 5.5 Nuclear power plants
01:01:02 5.5.1 Fukushima meltdowns
01:02:47 5.5.2 Incidents elsewhere
01:04:11 5.6 Wind power
01:04:35 5.7 Transport
01:08:50 5.8 Telecommunications
01:09:56 5.9 Defense
01:10:30 5.10 Space center
01:11:07 5.11 Cultural properties
01:12:28 6 Aftermath
01:14:29 7 Humanitarian response
01:14:57 8 Media coverage
01:17:42 9 Scientific and research response
01:21:56 10 See also
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The 2011 earthquake off the Pacific coast of Tōhoku (東北地方太平洋沖地震, Tōhoku-chihō Taiheiyō Oki Jishin) was a magnitude 9.0–9.1 (Mw) undersea megathrust earthquake off the coast of Japan that occurred at 14:46 JST (05:46 UTC) on Friday 11 March 2011, with the epicentre approximately 70 kilometres (43 mi) east of the Oshika Peninsula of Tōhoku and the hypocenter at an underwater depth of approximately 29 km (18 mi).
The earthquake is often referred to in Japan as the Great East Japan Earthquake (東日本大震災, Higashi nihon daishinsai) and is also known as the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake, the Great Sendai Earthquake, the Great Tōhoku Earthquake, and the 3.11 earthquake.
It was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in Japan, and the fourth most powerful earthquake in the world since modern record-keeping began in 1900.
The earthquake triggered powerful tsunami waves that may have reached heights of up to 40.5 metres (133 ft) in Miyako in Tōhoku's Iwate Prefecture, and which, in the Sendai area, traveled at 435 mph for up to 10 km (6 mi) inland. Residents of Sendai had only eight to ten minutes warning, and more than 19,000 were killed, many at the more than a hundred evacuation sites that washed away.The earthquake moved Honshu (the main island of Japan) 2.4 m (8 ft) east, shifted the Earth on its axis by estimates of between 10 cm (4 in) and 25 cm (10 in), increased earth's rotational speed by 1.8 µs per day, and generated infrasound waves detected in perturbations of the low-orbiting GOCE satellite.
Initially, the earthquake caused sinking of part of Honshu's Pacific coast by up to roughly a metre, but after about three years, the coast rose back and kept on rising to exceed its original height.The tsunami swept the Japanese mainland and killed over ten thousand people, mainly through drowning, though blunt trauma also caused many deaths. The latest report from the Japanese National Police Agency report confirms 15,897 deaths, 6,157 injured, and 2,533 people missing across twenty prefectures, and a report from 2015 indicated 228,863 people were still living away from their home in either temporary housing or due to permanent relocation.A report by the National Police Agency of Japan on 10 September 2018 listed 121,778 buildings as total collapsed, with a further 280,926 buildings half collapsed, and another 699,180 buildings partially damaged. The earthquake and tsunami also caused extensive and severe structural damage in north-eastern Japan, including heavy damage to roads and railways as well as fires in many areas, and a dam collapse. Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan said, In the 65 years after the end of World War II, this is the toughest and the most difficult crisis for Japan. Around 4.4 million households in northeastern Japan were left ...
Storytelling at the Statue of Hans Christian Andersen: 2012 Promo
A special first video promo for the Hans Christian Andersen Storytelling Center and the 2012 storytelling season in New York's Central Park.
This promo features excerpts from performances by Diane Wolkstein, Ellen Shapiro, Roslyn-Bresnick Perry, Peninnah Schram, and Gerald Fierst.
Recorded and assembled by Philip David Morgan at Rosegarden Television
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Copenhagen, Denmark - Hans Christian Andersen Statue (2018)
Copenhagen is the capital and most populous city of Denmark. The city has a population of 775,033 (as of January 2018), of whom 613,288 live in the Municipality of Copenhagen and the Copenhagen urban area has a population of 1,308,893 (as of January 2018). Copenhagen is situated on the eastern coast of the island of Zealand; another small portion of the city is located on Amager, and is separated from Malmö, Sweden, by the strait of Øresund. The Øresund Bridge connects the two cities by rail and road.
Originally a Viking fishing village founded in the 10th century, Copenhagen became the capital of Denmark in the early 15th century. Beginning in the 17th century it consolidated its position as a regional centre of power with its institutions, defences and armed forces. After suffering from the effects of plague and fire in the 18th century, the city underwent a period of redevelopment. This included construction of the prestigious district of Frederiksstaden and founding of such cultural institutions as the Royal Theatre and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts. After further disasters in the early 19th century when Horatio Nelson attacked the Dano-Norwegian fleet and bombarded the city, rebuilding during the Danish Golden Age brought a Neoclassical look to Copenhagen's architecture. Later, following the Second World War, the Finger Plan fostered the development of housing and businesses along the five urban railway routes stretching out from the city centre.
Since the turn of the 21st century, Copenhagen has seen strong urban and cultural development, facilitated by investment in its institutions and infrastructure. The city is the cultural, economic and governmental centre of Denmark; it is one of the major financial centres of Northern Europe with the Copenhagen Stock Exchange. Copenhagen's economy has seen rapid developments in the service sector, especially through initiatives in information technology, pharmaceuticals and clean technology. Since the completion of the Øresund Bridge, Copenhagen has become increasingly integrated with the Swedish province of Scania and its largest city, Malmö, forming the Øresund Region. With a number of bridges connecting the various districts, the cityscape is characterised by parks, promenades and waterfronts. Copenhagen's landmarks such as Tivoli Gardens, The Little Mermaid statue, the Amalienborg and Christiansborg palaces, Rosenborg Castle Gardens, Frederik's Church, and many museums, restaurants and nightclubs are significant tourist attractions. The largest lake of Denmark, Arresø, lies around 27 miles (43 kilometers) northwest of the City Hall Square.
Copenhagen is home to the University of Copenhagen, the Technical University of Denmark and Copenhagen Business School. The University of Copenhagen, founded in 1479, is the oldest university in Denmark. Copenhagen is home to the FC København and Brøndby football clubs. The annual Copenhagen Marathon was established in 1980. Copenhagen is one of the most bicycle-friendly cities in the world.
The Copenhagen Metro launched in 2002 serves central Copenhagen while the Copenhagen S-train and Lokaltog (private railway) and the Coast Line network serves and connects central Copenhagen to outlying boroughs. To relieve traffic congestion, which is partly the result of increased traffic because of the Fehmarn Belt Fixed Link road and rail construction is planned because the narrow 9-9.5 mile isthmus between Roskilde Fjord and Køge Bugt (Køge Bay) forms a traffic bottleneck. The Copenhagen-Ringsted Line will relieve traffic congestion in the corridor between Roskilde and Copenhagen.
Serving roughly two million passengers a month, Copenhagen Airport, Kastrup, is the busiest airport in the Nordic countries.
2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami | Wikipedia audio article
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00:04:42 1 Earthquake
00:07:11 1.1 Geology
00:11:35 1.2 Energy
00:12:51 1.3 Geophysical effects
00:17:03 1.4 Aftershocks
00:19:21 1.5 Earthquake Warning System
00:21:06 2 Tsunami
00:22:20 2.1 Japan
00:35:28 2.2 Elsewhere across the Pacific
00:40:11 3 Land subsidence
00:41:59 4 Casualties
00:42:08 4.1 Japan
00:47:41 4.2 Overseas
00:48:21 5 Damage and effects
00:50:26 5.1 Ports
00:51:44 5.2 Dams and water problems
00:52:52 5.3 Electricity
00:57:32 5.4 Oil, gas and coal
00:59:04 5.5 Nuclear power plants
01:02:36 5.5.1 Fukushima meltdowns
01:04:23 5.5.2 Incidents elsewhere
01:05:49 5.6 Wind power
01:06:13 5.7 Transport
01:10:31 5.8 Telecommunications
01:11:39 5.9 Defense
01:12:13 5.10 Space center
01:12:50 5.11 Cultural properties
01:14:12 6 Aftermath
01:16:14 7 Humanitarian response
01:16:42 8 Media coverage
01:19:32 9 Scientific and research response
01:24:03 10 See also
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The 2011 earthquake off the Pacific coast of Tōhoku (東北地方太平洋沖地震, Tōhoku-chihō Taiheiyō Oki Jishin) was a magnitude 9.0–9.1 (Mw) undersea megathrust earthquake off the coast of Japan that occurred at 14:46 JST (05:46 UTC) on Friday 11 March 2011, with the epicentre approximately 70 kilometres (43 mi) east of the Oshika Peninsula of Tōhoku and the hypocenter at an underwater depth of approximately 29 km (18 mi).
The earthquake is often referred to in Japan as the Great East Japan Earthquake (東日本大震災, Higashi nihon daishinsai) and is also known as the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake, the Great Sendai Earthquake, the Great Tōhoku Earthquake, and the 3.11 earthquake.
It was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in Japan, and the fourth most powerful earthquake in the world since modern record-keeping began in 1900.
The earthquake triggered powerful tsunami waves that may have reached heights of up to 40.5 metres (133 ft) in Miyako in Tōhoku's Iwate Prefecture, and which, in the Sendai area, traveled up to 10 km (6 mi) inland.The earthquake moved Honshu (the main island of Japan) 2.4 m (8 ft) east, shifted the Earth on its axis by estimates of between 10 cm (4 in) and 25 cm (10 in), increased earth's rotational speed by 1.8 µs per day, and generated infrasound waves detected in perturbations of the low-orbiting GOCE satellite.
Initially, the earthquake caused sinking of part of Honshu's Pacific coast by up to roughly a metre, but after about three years, the coast rose back and kept on rising to exceed its original height.The tsunami swept the Japanese mainland and killed over ten thousand people, mainly through drowning, though blunt trauma also caused many deaths. The latest report from the Japanese National Police Agency report confirms 15,897 deaths, 6,157 injured, and 2,533 people missing across twenty prefectures, and a report from 2015 indicated 228,863 people were still living away from their home in either temporary housing or due to permanent relocation.A report by the National Police Agency of Japan on 10 September 2018 listed 121,778 buildings as total collapsed, with a further 280,926 buildings half collapsed, and another 699,180 buildings partially damaged. The earthquake and tsunami also caused extensive and severe structural damage in north-eastern Japan, including heavy damage to roads and railways as well as fires in many areas, and a dam collapse. Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan said, In the 65 years after the end of World War II, this is the toughest and the most difficult crisis for Japan. Around 4.4 million households in northeastern Japan were left without electricity and 1.5 million without water.The tsunami caused nuclear accidents, primarily the level 7 meltdowns at three reactors in the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Pow ...
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