Public hospital in tsunami-hit area reopens

Public hospital in tsunami-hit area reopens

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - An elderly patient receives an examination at a makeshift facility of Shizugawa public hospital, a central hospital in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, an area devastated by the March 11, 2011, tsunami, on April 18. The hospital, which lost 70 of its around 300 inpatients and workers in the disaster, fully reopened at prefab facilities the same day. The hospital is using the prefab units and equipment donated by an Israeli medical aid team that finished its operations in Minamisanriku on April 10.

Workers at Omron's China factory on strike

Workers at Omron's China factory on strike

GUANGZHOU, China - Photo taken on July 21, 2010, shows Omron Corp.'s factory in Guangzhou, China, where around 300 workers went on strike the same day, partially disrupting the facility's automotive electronics manufacturing operation. The workers are demanding a monthly salary increase of about 40 percent.

Father Gapon, the leader of the Red Sunday strike movement.

Father Gapon, the leader of the Red Sunday strike movement.

One of the first authentic photographs of Father Gapon with General Fullon, the Governor of St Petersburg, amid the strikers. With national pride already at a low ebb due to the disastrous war with Japan, Russian workers went on strike in protest about low wages in January 1905. Father Gapon led around 300 petitioners to the Winter Palace on January 17th to plead for improved working conditions, universal suffrage and an end to the war. Troops opened fire on the demonstrators resulting in over 100 deaths. The massacre, known as Red Sunday, was universally regarded by socialists as a precursor to the Russian Revolution of 1917. Date: 28th January 1905, p102

Workers at Omron's China factory on strike

Workers at Omron's China factory on strike

GUANGZHOU, China - Photo taken on July 21, 2010, shows Omron Corp.'s factory in Guangzhou, China, where around 300 workers went on strike the same day, partially disrupting the facility's automotive electronics manufacturing operation. The workers are demanding a monthly salary increase of about 40 percent. (Kyodo)

Public hospital in tsunami-hit area reopens

Public hospital in tsunami-hit area reopens

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - An elderly patient receives an examination at a makeshift facility of Shizugawa public hospital, a central hospital in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, an area devastated by the March 11, 2011, tsunami, on April 18. The hospital, which lost 70 of its around 300 inpatients and workers in the disaster, fully reopened at prefab facilities the same day. The hospital is using the prefab units and equipment donated by an Israeli medical aid team that finished its operations in Minamisanriku on April 10. (Kyodo)

Public hospital in tsunami-hit area reopens

Public hospital in tsunami-hit area reopens

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - An elderly patient receives an examination at a makeshift facility of Shizugawa public hospital, a central hospital in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, an area devastated by the March 11, 2011, tsunami, on April 18. The hospital, which lost 70 of its around 300 inpatients and workers in the disaster, fully reopened at prefab facilities the same day. The hospital is using the prefab units and equipment donated by an Israeli medical aid team that finished its operations in Minamisanriku on April 10. (Kyodo)