Monkey Majik promotes quake reconstruction

Monkey Majik promotes quake reconstruction

TOKYO, Japan - Members of the pop band Monkey Majik visit Parliamentary Vice Foreign Minister Kazuyuki Hamada (C) at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Jan. 31, 2012. The four-man band based in Sendai, a city in the Tohoku region in northeastern Japan, comprising two Japanese and two Canadians, said they will hold a concert free of charge in Canada in February 2012 to promote the reconstruction of Tohoku from the March 11 quake and tsunami.

LDP's Hamada joins Cabinet

LDP's Hamada joins Cabinet

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuyuki Hamada, an upper house lawmaker of the opposition Liberal Democratic Party, speaks with reporters in the Diet building in Tokyo on June 27, 2011. Prime Minister Naoto Kan recruited Hamada into his Cabinet as parliamentary secretary for reconstruction from the March 11 earthquake and tsunami the same day. Hamada told the LDP the same day that he wants to leave the main opposition party.

LDP's Hamada joins Cabinet

LDP's Hamada joins Cabinet

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuyuki Hamada, an upper house lawmaker of the opposition Liberal Democratic Party, speaks with reporters in the Diet building in Tokyo on June 27, 2011. Prime Minister Naoto Kan recruited Hamada into his Cabinet as parliamentary secretary for reconstruction from the March 11 earthquake and tsunami the same day. Hamada told the LDP the same day that he wants to leave the main opposition party. (Kyodo)

Monkey Majik promotes quake reconstruction

Monkey Majik promotes quake reconstruction

TOKYO, Japan - Members of the pop band Monkey Majik visit Parliamentary Vice Foreign Minister Kazuyuki Hamada (C) at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Jan. 31, 2012. The four-man band based in Sendai, a city in the Tohoku region in northeastern Japan, comprising two Japanese and two Canadians, said they will hold a concert free of charge in Canada in February 2012 to promote the reconstruction of Tohoku from the March 11 quake and tsunami. (Kyodo)