Japanese prime minister tours disaster zone for first time

Japan’s leader, Prime Minister Naoto Kan, has toured the country’s disaster-ravaged north-eastern coast for the first time since the earthquake and tsunami struck, making a promise to beleaguered survivors. “The government fully supports you until the end,” Prime Minister Kan told 250 evacuees at an elementary school in Rikuzentakata, a town of 20,000 that was […]