Meanwhile, many people in Miyagi and Iwate prefectures are still struggling with no lifelines at all.
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Many wonder how a man from Iwate, one of the poorest prefectures, became so rich.
It was centered on Aomori and Iwate prefectures on the northeast end of Honshu, Japan's main island.
Three thousand bodies have been found in Iwate prefecture, and 776 in Fukushima.
In Iwate prefecture, where my father is from, I recall how the entire township would get excited about a summer festival.
In the fourteenth or fifteenth century, when the people of Iwate Prefecture in the northern part of mainland Japan worshipped Mt.
More than 2, 000 people, or about 10% of the population, died in the 15-meter waves that swallowed the city in Iwate Prefecture.
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Five hundred kilometers to the south, Iwate prefecture's farmers are bringing in bundles of rice straw from the miniature fields nestling in valleys.
In the key aquatic products processing sector, recovery in Iwate prefecture stands at 76%, in Miyagi prefecture at 65%, and in Fukushima at 72%.
Rikuzentakata, in Iwate prefecture, was in trouble even before the tsunami.
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During the ceremony, Mrs Bokova gave the World Heritage site certificate to Mr Takuya Tasso, Governor of Iwate Prefecture and Mr Masayoshi Sugawara, Mayor of Hiraizumi.
Earlier he had admitted to the Iwate governor that being from the south-west he had little grasp of the geography of the north-east where the tsunami hit.
As for return of farmland to cultivation, the level stands at only 15% in Iwate (though 98% for rice cultivation), 47% in Miyagi (98%), and 8% in Fukushima (83%).
The embassy in Tokyo and the Chinese consulate in Niigata are sending buses to Miyagi, Fukushima, Ibaraki and Iwate prefectures to pick up Chinese nationals, according to the Embassy.
The 60-year-old made the offending remarks to regional governors at the weekend during his first tour of the tsunami-hit prefectures of Iwate and Miyagi since taking up his new role.
Further afield, Kenji World, (81-19) 695-3333, in northern Japan's Iwate prefecture, boasts a colossal onsen "beach" where warm water washes up on the shore (made of brownish soft board instead of sand).
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But Mr Ozawa's fortunes fell this week when it emerged that his wife had written to his closest supporters about his two mistresses and his illegitimate child but, more crucially, had berated her husband for taking months to visit the disaster-affected areas of Iwate, his home prefecture.
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