The skid, which came on record trading volume, was its biggest since the decline in the wake of Japan's earthquake and tsunami disaster in March 2011.
In 2011, he has reported on breaking news stories, including the largest tornado outbreak in US history that moved through the Southeast, and the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster in Japan.
The nation has had revolving-door governments--another election may come in November--and a cynical population has responded to the Fukushima disaster that followed the terrible earthquake and tsunami with a blanket wish to shutter the nuclear industry.
The nation has had revolving-door governments another election may come in November and a cynical population has responded to the Fukushima disaster that followed the terrible earthquake and tsunami with a blanket wish to shutter the nuclear industry.
Yoshihiko Noda takes over a nation struggling to rebuild after a devastating earthquake and tsunami in March triggered a nuclear disaster.
To hear the bears tell it, the combination of the earthquake, the tsunami, and the potential nuclear disaster will undoubtedly slow the Japanese economy.
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Then, in March, Japan was hit by a devastating earthquake that triggered a tsunami and, ultimately, a nuclear disaster.
The disaster, caused by an earthquake and resulting tsunami in March, led many countries to postpone building nuclear power until new regulations on safety were put in place.
Several countries put on hold plans to build new reactors after the Fukushima Daiichi disaster, which occurred when a powerful earthquake and tsunami struck the plant.
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The future of nuclear as a power source for countries around the world was called into question after the Fukushima disaster in March, when a Japanese earthquake and tsunami damaged the nuclear reactors, leaving radioactivity leaking from the plant.
The three operating reactors at Fukushima Daiichi melted down after the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan in March 2011, creating the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986.
Driving this is the continued shutdown of all but two of Japan's nuclear reactors following the disaster at the Fukushima plant after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
The global future of nuclear as a power source was also called into question after the disaster which occurred in March 2011 when a Japanese earthquake and tsunami rocked the reactors at Fukushima, leaving radioactivity leaking from the plant.
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Gifts will support disaster relief efforts to help those affected by the earthquake in Japan and the tsunami throughout the Pacific.
In that year, Sian went to Sri Lanka and Thailand, to report live from the Asian tsunami and later that year, the Pakistan earthquake struck and she spent a week at the centre of the disaster, presenting for all the BBC's news programmes, from Breakfast, through to the Ten O'clock News.
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