Life and Death
February 22, 2013
Relatives of seven patients who died in the course of evacuating a hospital near the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear disaster site are planning to sue the plant operator for...
February 19, 2013
An upcoming documentary film depicts the ongoing burden for evacuees from a village situated close to the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant.
February 18, 2013
SOMA, Fukushima Prefecture—Vanessa Kanno started sobbing when she looked at the messages scrawled in chalk by the man who had provided her with a quiet but happy life.
February 10, 2013
HANOI--In a rehabilitation center at Bach Mai Hospital here, Do Thi Cuong did rehabilitation exercises for 20 minutes, using the new pedal-driven wheelchair sent from a company ...
January 28, 2013
FUKUSHIMA--Masahiko Nakamura quickly grasped that dosimeters with displays were of virtually no use to visually impaired residents of Fukushima Prefecture after the nuclear...
January 14, 2013
RIKUZENTAKATA, Iwate Prefecture--Coming-of-Age Day events, for young people who have turned or will turn 20 years old by the end of March, were scheduled throughout Japan on...
December 31, 2012
ISHINOMAKI, Miyagi Prefecture—Days before last year's devastating earthquake and tsunami, Chisato Shito gave her mother a final gift.
December 29, 2012
Takayuki Tamura has always loved baseball. He played the game as a boy and young man, and eventually got some experience as an umpire. He knew that if he ever had a son, the...
December 11, 2012
MINAMI-SOMA, Fukushima Prefecture--Abandoned platforms lined with rows of weeds instead of passengers are waiting for trains that will never arrive.
December 10, 2012
MINAMI-SOMA, Fukushima Prefecture--Under the hazy rays of an early winter sun, 2,400 running buffs from around the country gathered at a track in the Haramachi district of...
December 06, 2012
Excruciating deaths awaited many household pets abandoned in the forced evacuation from Fukushima Prefecture following last year's nuclear emergency.
December 04, 2012
Natsumi Takakura cannot cast her vote in the Dec. 16 Lower House election in her hometown. Nor can she find a polling station near her new home--her family’s seventh in less...
December 04, 2012
FUKUOKA--A new photo book contains pictures of women in beautiful poses, including some featuring half-nude models. But the purpose of the images is not to titillate. Instead,...
December 01, 2012
Dozens of workers received potentially cancerous doses of radiation to their thyroid glands during recovery work at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, according to data...
November 11, 2012
SUKAGAWA, Fukushima Prefecture--As the night sky erupted in a sea of flames, festival-goers at one of Japan’s three major fire festivals here on Nov. 10 mourned the victims...
November 10, 2012
YATOMI, Aichi Prefecture--If there is a reason why a "miracle" lone pine tree withstood a towering tsunami on March 11, 2011, to become a symbol of hope and fortitude, it...
October 30, 2012
NARAHA, Fukushima Prefecture--A popular hot spring facility in Naraha, Fukushima Prefecture, that was forced to close after last year's nuclear disaster has reopened for...
October 27, 2012
AIZUWAKAMATSU, Fukushima Prefecture—Production of knapsacks for young schoolkids is at its peak in a factory here, in preparation for the new intake at elementary schools in...
September 26, 2012
OSAKA--Although news broadcasters first, reporters at Mainichi Broadcasting System Inc. knew that the footage they shot of people impacted by the Great East Japan Earthquake...
September 20, 2012
NARAHA, Fukushima Prefecture--Whereas last year's devastating earthquake and tsunami turned rice fields here into swamps and destroyed vegetation, it did miraculously bring to...