Miyazaki visited the tsunami-hit area of northeast Japan four months after the disaster to screen his films to local children.
Yet in tsunami-hit Sri Lanka, where there was a large existing microcredit network, it has played a big if controversial role.
But on Tuesday, India joined the frey and banned food imports over fears they may be contaminated by radiation from tsunami-hit reactors.
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Power has been restored to part of the cooling system at Japan's tsunami-hit Fukushima nuclear plant, after it failed for the second time in a month.
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.
' And then a message crawled across the bottom of the screen with times the tsunami might hit--9:15, 9:30, 10:00--as the wave could roll north or south toward LA. It was already 8:30 and this didn't seem like much of a head start.
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 the reactors at Fukushima-Daiichi cooled down, the tsunami hit.
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Other offers of aid and assistance have come in from countries around the world -- including from India, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Indonesia, the four countries hardest-hit by the December 26 Asian tsunami.
The overall picture of the destruction remains patchy, with rescue workers unable to reach some of the worst-hit areas due to wrecked roads and tsunami warnings.
Also, the region hit by the earthquake and tsunami tend to have below-average holdings of Brazilian debt.
When the tsunami hit, he was near the swimming pool when he saw a 40-foot wave coming towards him.
The 9.0-magnitude earthquake which hit Japan on 11 March 2011 and the massive tsunami it generated killed almost 19, 000 people and triggered a major nuclear accident.
Lana, who just finished a five-year forensic science degree, had been backpacking around the world when the tsunami hit.
Minutes after the earthquake and tsunami hit the coast of Japan March 11, Tony Prophet, chief of supply chain operations at Hewlett-Packard (HP), was up and out of bed to see what could be done.
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