Life and Death
April 13, 2011
Before he turned over his bathhouse in Tokyo's Ota Ward to a group of musicians on Tuesday night for a charity performance, proprietor Kazuyuki Kondo gave a brief and somber...
April 13, 2011
Government authorities offered reassuring words after raising the severity rating of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant crisis to the maximum level. But the continued leak ...
April 13, 2011
Renowned Japanese architects have gone back to their drawing boards to help quake survivors enjoy some comfort and privacy in evacuation centers and find a sense of community...
April 12, 2011
A month has passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake struck, leaving more than 13,000 people dead and nearly 14,000 missing. In disaster-hit regions and across Japan,...
April 11, 2011
As in many natural disasters, the old were especially vulnerable in the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11, with more than half of those who died in the earthquake and...
April 09, 2011
Replete after drinking her mother's milk, 2-month-old Meika slept soundly on a futon at an evacuation center in Shichigahama, Miyagi Prefecture, as her mother gazed at her in...
April 09, 2011
Immediately after the Great East Japan Earthquake, 9-year-old Toshihito Aisawa's father, Kazuyuki, jumped in the car and raced to pick him up at his school in Ishinomaki,...
April 09, 2011
The government Friday lifted restrictions for shipments of spinach and "kakina," a leafy vegetable, grown in Gunma Prefecture and milk produced in the Aizu region of Fukushima...
April 09, 2011
The government plans to prohibit rice planting in fields where the concentration of radioactive cesium exceeds 5,000 becquerels per kilogram of soil.
April 09, 2011
KORIYAMA, Fukushima Prefecture--Bourgogne-style stew and pudding were on the menu for some lucky evacuees at makeshift shelters in this city these past few days, as a team of...
April 09, 2011
Framed in a window, flooded with Parisian sunlight, her hands clasped, Jane Birkin sends her love to Japan.
April 07, 2011
Japanese rock stars Keisuke Kuwata and Masaharu Fukuyama and about 50 other musicians and performing artists will release a song for the region devastated by the March 11 Great ...
April 06, 2011
SHENYANG, China--Like many Chinese, Zhang Di had a less-than-favorable image of Japan. But all that changed after the kindness that was extended to her by Japanese people...
April 05, 2011
Cheerleaders for a professional basketball team are doing their part in the aftermath of the Great East Japan Earthquake by organizing exercise sessions at evacuation centers.
April 05, 2011
How's this for the butterfly effect? A man steps in the shower seeking respite from the horrifying footage of carnage and destruction on television. Feeling helpless, he has a...
April 05, 2011
SENDAI--A dog was reunited with its owner after it was found adrift at sea three weeks after the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11.
April 05, 2011
MINAMI-SOMA, Fukushima Prefecture--Though a week has passed since the government instructed people living in the 20-30 kilometer zone from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power...
April 04, 2011
In the wreckage of the tsunami, two monks taking snapshots. It sounds like a koan Buddhist poem, yet it was one of the scenes Sunday in the Iwate Prefecture town of Ofunato,...
April 01, 2011
U.S. President Barack Obama sent a letter to Emperor Akihito, extending his sympathy to victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11 and expressing admiration for the ...
April 01, 2011
OFUNATO, Iwate Prefecture-- From time to time, Yoshinori Murakami puts down his shovel to retrieve a photo album or stray picture from the detritus covering the roads.