Sources: LA Times
Japan's economy shrinks by 0.3% in the April-June quarter confirming the country is in a recession caused in part by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami and subsequent Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. 2011-08-15
The Government of Japan publishes a reconstruction plan for areas devastated by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. 2011-07-21
Japanese automaker Toyota announces plans to fully restore production from the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami in October, one month earlier than previously announced. 2011-07-7
The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) claims that three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant suffered partial meltdowns following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami; it had previously announced that only one reactor had suffered a meltdown. 2011-05-24
Emperor of Japan Akihito and Empress Michiko visit areas worst-affected by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. 2011-04-27
Over 14,000 people are still missing in Japan, a month after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. 2011-04-11
After a series of four aftershocks above magnitude 6 east of Honshu, a magnitude 5.7 aftershock of the 2011 Japan earthquake hits Fukushima Prefecture near Iwaki, without immediate reports of damage or casualties. 2011-03-22
A senior adviser to the Prime Minister of Japan Naoto Kan says that a fire has broken out in a fourth reactor at the Fukushima I power plant but it is later extinguished, with the radiation reading at 0831 local time (2331 GMT) climbing to 8,217 microsieverts an hour. 2011-03-15
Yukiya Amano, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, states that the Fukushima crisis is unlikely to turn into another Chernobyl disaster. 2011-03-14
The United States Navy ships Ronald Reagan 6, Chancellorsville 6 and the destroyer Preble 6 arrive to assist with relief efforts. 2011-03-13