Life and Death
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.
March 31, 2011
Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko on Wednesday visited evacuees from the March 11 Great East Japan Earthquake at a temporary shelter at Tokyo Budoh-kan in Adachi Ward.
March 31, 2011
MIYAKO, Iwate Prefecture--When Mamoru Sakamoto went back to see where his home used to stand, he was speechless.
March 30, 2011
MINAMI-SANRIKU, Miyagi Prefecture--Ryusei Murata waved farewell to his brother Tensho on Sunday as he left for Tottori, western Japan, to search for their parents in their...
March 30, 2011
Fishing and farming families who chose to remain behind in their tsunami-devastated communities are slowly moving forward.
March 30, 2011
Dick Bruna, the creator of the Miffy rabbit children's book character that has many fans in Japan, has drawn a special illustration especially to comfort children who have been ...
March 29, 2011
NEW YORK--The first in a series of concerts to support relief efforts in disaster-stricken Japan kicked off Sunday at Columbia University, with Yoko Ono, John Zorn and other...
March 29, 2011
YAMADA, Iwate Prefecture--After the water rose above her head, Tomomi Odajima could feel her young daughters kicking their feet desperately.
March 29, 2011
As workers attempt to clear away tons of debris, survivors of the twin disasters of March 11 are combing the wreckage for photos and other mementos of their lost loved ones.
March 29, 2011
OFUNATO, Iwate Prefecture--When the Great East Japan Earthquake hit, 71 children at Okirai Elementary School here quickly escaped the oncoming tsunami by taking a shortcut made ...
March 28, 2011
RIKUZENTAKATA, Iwate Prefecture--Once a famous scenic spot, all the pine trees of Takata Matsubara were flattened by the March 11 tsunami--except for one.
March 28, 2011
KAMAISHI, Iwate Prefecture--Efforts to relocate elderly and other vulnerable people away from areas hit by the Great East Japan Earthquake are being met with anger and...
March 28, 2011
Clutching posters with their photos, Norio Kimura tirelessly searches for his wife Miyuki, daughter Yuna and father Wataro, but he is barred from searching their quake-hit...
March 28, 2011
KESENNUMA, Miyagi Prefecture--A small boat built to carry 12 people is the only ferry service still available for the 3,200 or so residents of Oshima island wanting to reach...
March 28, 2011
KESENNUMA, Miyagi Prefecture--Despite losing their homes and loved ones in the devastating tsunami on March 11, residents in the Osawa district of Kesennuma are holding onto...
March 28, 2011
SAITAMA--With access to quake-hit areas in northeastern Japan still limited, volunteers and relief supplies are pouring in to a mammoth event hall here that has become a...
March 28, 2011
KESENNUMA, Miyagi Prefecture--For about 20 years, oyster cultivator Shigeatsu Hatakeyama has tried to give back to the sea.
March 27, 2011
Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko visited Miyagi Prefecture on April 27, marking the first time the imperial couple has visited the Tohoku region following the devastation...
March 27, 2011
Corpses of cattle, hogs and chickens have been left rotting in barns within the 20-kilometer evacuation zone of the hobbled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, a veterinarian...
March 26, 2011
ISHINOMAKI, Miyagi Prefecture--Only 31 of the 108 students at Okawa Elementary School are known to have survived the towering tsunami that engulfed it after the Great East...